dr. EAW (Eric) Slob, MSc

Biography

I develop methods and techniques for big (genetic) datasets. In my work, I use genetic evidence to answer research questions in social science and medicine. I am funded by the sectorplan SSH-Breed.

Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Assistant professor | Methods & Skills

Email: e.slob@essb.eur.nl

Pure profile

Work

Ang Zhou, Ville Karhunen, Haodong Tian, Janne Pott, Ashish Patel, Eric A.W. Slob & Stephen Burgess (2026) - Variant selection to maximize variance explained in cis-Mendelian randomization - Human Genetics and Genomics Advances - doi: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2026.100573
Eric A. W. Slob, Dilnoza Muslimova & Cornelius A. Rietveld (2026) - Assessing Orthogonality in Gene-Environment Interaction Studies Using Polygenic Indices - Behavior Genetics, 56 (1), 39-47 - doi: 10.1007/s10519-025-10248-8
Mirthe C. Verbeek, Daphne van de Bongardt, Maartje P. C. M. Luijk, Elizabeth Miller, Eric A. W. Slob & Joyce Weeland (2025) - Make a Move+: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of a Program Targeting Psychosexual Health and Sexual and Dating Violence for Dutch Male Youth with Mild Intellectual Disabilities - Youth, 5 (2) - doi: 10.3390/youth5020042 - [link]
Baoting He, Hugh Simon Lam, Xiu Qiu, Songying Shen, Shan Luo, Eric A. W. Slob & Shiu Lun Au Yeung (2024) - Association and mediation pathways of maternal hyperglycaemia and liability to gestational diabetes with neonatal outcomes: A two‐sample Mendelian randomization study - Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 27 (2), 529-538 - doi: 10.1111/dom.16045
Maddalena Ardissino, Buu Truong, Eric A.W. Slob, Art Schuermans, Satoshi Yoshiji, Alec P. Morley, Stephen Burgess, Fu Siong Ng, Antonio De Marvao, Pradeep Natarajan, Kypros Nicolaides, Liam Gaziano, Adam Butterworth & Michael C. Honigberg (2024) - Proteome- and Transcriptome-Wide Genetic Analysis Identifies Biological Pathways and Candidate Drug Targets for Preeclampsia - Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine, 17 (5), e004755 - doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.124.004755 - [link]
Alisha Aman, Eric A.W. Slob, Joey Ward, Naveed Sattar & Rona J. Strawbridge (2024) - Investigating the association of the effect of genetically proxied PCSK9i with mood disorders using cis-pQTLs: A drug-target Mendelian randomization study - PLoS ONE, 19 (9) - doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310396 - [link]
Maddalena Ardissino, Eric A W Slob, Rohin K Reddy, Alec P Morley, Art Schuermans, Phoebe Hill, Catherine Williamson, Michael C Honigberg, Antonio de Marvao & Fu Siong Ng (2024) - Genetically proxied low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering via PCSK9-inhibitor drug targets and risk of congenital malformations - European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 31 (8), 955-965 - doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwad402 - [link]
Maddalena Ardissino, Alec P Morley, Eric A W Slob, Art Schuermans, Bilal Rayes, Zahra Raisi-Estabragh, Antonio de Marvao, Stephen Burgess, Tormod Rogne, Michael C Honigberg & Fu Siong Ng (2024) - Birth weight influences cardiac structure, function, and disease risk: evidence of a causal association - European Heart Journal, 45 (6), 443-454 - doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad631 - [link]
Art Schuermans, Buu Truong, Maddalena Ardissino, Rohan Bhukar, Eric A.W. Slob, Tetsushi Nakao, Jacqueline S. Dron, Aeron M. Small, So Mi Jemma Cho, Zhi Yu, Whitney Hornsby, Tajmara Antoine, Kim Lannery, Darina Postupaka, Kathryn J. Gray, Qi Yan, Adam S. Butterworth, Stephen Burgess, Malissa J. Wood, Nandita S. Scott, Colleen M. Harrington, Amy A. Sarma, Emily S. Lau, Jason D. Roh, James L. Januzzi, Pradeep Natarajan & Michael C. Honigberg (2024) - Genetic Associations of Circulating Cardiovascular Proteins With Gestational Hypertension and Preeclampsia - JAMA Cardiology, 9 (3), 209-220 - doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2023.4994 - [link]
Hans van Kippersluis, Pietro Biroli, Rita Dias Pereira, Titus J. Galama, Stephanie von Hinke, S. Fleur W. Meddens, Dilnoza Muslimova, Eric A.W. Slob, Ronald de Vlaming & Cornelius A. Rietveld (2023) - Overcoming attenuation bias in regressions using polygenic indices - Nature Communications, 14 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40069-4 - [link]