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Adding to the evidence for the eye as an indicator of brain and heart health, a new study published in Nature Portfolio takes a multi-omics approach, assessing links between ophthalmic imaging features and neurological and cardiovascular anatomy and function, lipid metabolism and genetics. The work was led by our colleague Thomas Julian of The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, with Haoran D., Jinming Duan, @Jinghan Huang, Esther Yoo, David J. Green, Andrew Strange, Elham Alhathli, Matthew Sperrin, Pearse Keane, Emily Y. Chew, Bernard Keavney, Tomas W. Fitzgerald, Johnathan Cooper-Knock, Ewan Birney, Prof Alejandro Frangi FREng, Panagiotis Sergouniotis on behalf of UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium. Read the paper: https://lnkd.in/eKxmE2dQ Read a plain English summary https://lnkd.in/eqwGKqdQ Figure reproduced under Creative Commons licence 4.0; created by Thomas Julian in BioRender.