• Genome-wide meta-analysis of iron status biomarkers and the effect of iron on all-cause mortality in HUNT 

      Moksnes, Marta Riise; Graham, Sarah E.; Wu, Kuan-Han; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Gagliano Taliun, Sarah A.; Zhou, Wei; Thorstensen, Ketil; Fritsche, Lars; Gill, Dipender; Mason, Amy; Cucca, Francesco; Schlessinger, David; Abecasis, Gonçalo R.; Burgess, Stephen; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J.; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Iron is essential for many biological processes, but iron levels must be tightly regulated to avoid harmful effects of both iron deficiency and overload. Here, we perform genome-wide association studies on four iron-related ...
    • Global Biobank analyses provide lessons for developing polygenic risk scores across diverse cohorts 

      Wang, Ying; Lopera, Esteban; Namba, Shinichi; Kerminen, Sini; Tsuo, Kristin; Läll, Kristi; Kanai, Masahiro; Zhou, Wei; Wu, Kuan-Han; Favé, Marie-Julie; Bhatta, Laxmi; Awadalla, Philip; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Deelen, Patrick; Hveem, Kristian; Faro, Valeria Lo; Mägi, Reedik; Murakami, Yoshinori; Sanna, Serena; Smoller, Jordan W.; Uzunovic, Jasmina; Wolford, Brooke N.; GBMI, .; Willer, Cristen; Gamazon, Eric R.; Cox, Nancy J.; Surakka, Ida; Okada, Yukinori; Martin, Alicia R.; Hirbo, Jibril B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been widely explored in precision medicine. However, few studies have thoroughly investigated their best practices in global populations across different diseases. We here utilized data ...
    • Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease 

      Zhou, Wei; Kanai, Masahiro; Wu, Kuan-Han H.; Rasheed, Humaira; Tsuo, Kristin; Hirbo, Jibril B.; Wang, Ying; Bhattacharya, Arjun; Zhao, Huiling; Namba, Shinichi; Surakka, Ida; Wolford, Brooke; Lo Faro, Valeria; Lopera-Maya, Esteban A.; Läll, Kristi; Favé, Marie-Julie; Partanen, Juulia J.; Chapman, Sinéad B.; Karjalainen, Juha; Kurki, Mitja; Maasha, Mutaamba; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Chavan, Sameer; Chen, Tzu-Ting; Daya, Michelle; Ding, Yi; Feng, Yen-Chen A.; Guare, Lindsay A.; Gignoux, Christopher R.; Graham, Sarah E.; Hornsby, Whitney E.; Ingold, Nathan; Ismail, Said I.; Johnson, Ruth; Laisk, Triin; Lin, Kuang; Lv, Jun; Millwood, Iona Y.; Moreno-Grau, Sonia; Nam, Kisung; Palta, Priit; Pandit, Anita; Preuss, Michael H.; Saad, Chadi; Setia-Verma, Shefali; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Uzunovic, Jasmina; Verma, Anurag; Zawistowski, Matthew; Zhong, Xue; Afifi, Nahla; Al-Dabhani, Kawthar M.; Al Thani, Asma; Bradford, Yuki; Campbell, Archie; Crooks, Kristy; de Bock, Geertruida H.; Damrauer, Scott M.; Douville, Nicholas J.; Finer, Sarah; Fritsche, Lars; Fthenou, Eleni; Gonzalez-Arroyo, Gilberto; Griffiths, Christopher J.; Guo, Yu; Hunt, Karen A.; Ioannidis, Alexander; Jansonius, Nomdo M.; Konuma, Takahiro; Lee, Ming Ta Michael; Lopez-Pineda, Arturo; Matsuda, Yuta; Marioni, Riccardo E.; Moatamed, Babak; Nava-Aguilar, Marco A.; Numakura, Kensuke; Patil, Snehal; Rafaels, Nicholas; Richmond, Anne; Rojas-Muñoz, Agustin; Shortt, Jonathan A.; Straub, Peter; Tao, Ran; Vanderwerff, Brett; Vernekar, Manvi; Veturi, Yogasudha; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Boezen, Marike; Chen, Zhengming; Chen, Chia-Yen; Cho, Judy; Smith, George Davey; Finucane, Hilary K.; Franke, Lude; Gamazon, Eric R.; Ganna, Andrea; Gaunt, Tom R.; Ge, Tian; Huang, Hailiang; Huffman, Jennifer; Katsanis, Nicholas; Koskela, Jukka T.; Lajonchere, Clara; Law, Matthew H.; Li, Liming; Lindgren, Cecilia M.; Loos, Ruth J.F.; MacGregor, Stuart; Matsuda, Koichi; Olsen, Catherine M.; Porteous, David J.; Shavit, Jordan A.; Snieder, Harold; Takano, Tomohiro; Trembath, Richard C.; Vonk, Judith M.; Whiteman, David C.; Wicks, Stephen J.; Wijmenga, Tjitske Nienke; Wright, John; Zheng, Jie; Zhou, Xiang; Awadalla, Philip; Boehnke, Michael; Bustamante, Carlos D.; Cox, Nancy J.; Fatumo, Segun; Geschwind, Daniel H.; Hayward, Caroline; Hveem, Kristian; Kenny, Eimear E.; Lee, Seunggeun; Lin, Yen-Feng; Mbarek, Hamdi; Mägi, Reedik; Martin, Hilary C.; Medland, Sarah E.; Okada, Yukinori; Palotie, Aarno V.; Pasaniuc, Bogdan; Rader, Daniel J.; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Sanna, Serena; Smoller, Jordan W.; Stefansson, Kari; van Heel, David A.; Walters, Robin G.; Zöllner, Sebastian; Martin, Alicia R.; Willer, Cristen J.; Daly, Mark J.; Neale, Benjamin M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
    • GOLD Classifications, COPD Hospitalization, and All-Cause Mortality in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The HUNT Study 

      Bhatta, Laxmi; Leivseth, Linda; Mai, Xiao-Mei; Henriksen, Anne Hildur; Carslake, David; Chen, Yue; Langhammer, Arnulf; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Purpose: The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published three classifications of COPD from 2007 to 2017. No studies have investigated the ability of these classifications to predict ...
    • GWAS of thyroid stimulating hormone highlights pleiotropic effects and inverse association with thyroid cancer 

      Zhou, Wei; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Kabil, Omer; Gudmundsson, Julius; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Weinstock, Joshua; Zawistowski, Matthew; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Chaker, Layal; Medici, Marco; Teumer, Alexander; Naitza, Silvia; Sanna, Serena; Schultheiss, Ulla T.; Cappola, Anne R.; Karjalainen, Juha; Kurki, Mitja I.; Oneka, Morgan; Taylor, Peter; Fritsche, Lars; Graham, Sarah E.; Wolford, Brooke N.; Overton, William; Rasheed, Humaira; Bordal, Eirin Haug; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Surakka, Ida; Davey Smith, George; Pandit, Anita; Roychowdhury, Tanmoy; Hornsby, Whitney; Jonasson, Jon G.; Senter, Leigha; Liyanarachchi, Sandya; Ringel, Matthew D.; Xu, Li; Kiemeney, Lambertus A.; He, Huiling; Netea-Maier, Romana; Mayordomo, Jose; Plantinga, Theo S.; Hrafnkelsson, Jon; Hjartarson, Hannes; Sturgis, Erich M.; Palotie, Aarno; Daly, Mark J.; Citterio, Cintia E.; Arvan, Peter; Brummett, Chad M.; Boehnke, Michael; de la Chapelle, Albert; Stefansson, Kari; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is critical for normal development and metabolism. To better understand the genetic contribution to TSH levels, we conduct a GWAS meta-analysis at 22.4 million genetic markers in up to ...
    • The HUNT study: A population-based cohort for genetic research 

      Brumpton, Ben Michael; Graham, Sarah; Surakka, Ida; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Løset, Mari; Fritsche, Lars G.; Wolford, Brooke; Zhou, Wei; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Holmen, Oddgeir Lingaas; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Thomas, Laurent; Bhatta, Laxmi; Rasheed, Humaira; Zhang, He; Kang, Hyun Min; Hornsby, Whitney; Moksnes, Marta Riise; Coward, Eivind; Melbye, Mads; Giskeødegård, Guro F.; Fenstad, Jørn; Krokstad, Steinar; Næss, Marit; Langhammer, Arnulf; Boehnke, Michael; Abecasis, Gonçalo R.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) is a population-based cohort of ∼229,000 individuals recruited in four waves beginning in 1984 in Trøndelag County, Norway. Approximately 88,000 of these individuals have available genetic ...
    • Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis 

      Kanoni, Stavroula; Graham, Sarah E.; Wang, Yuxuan; Surakka, Ida; Ramdas, Shweta; Zhu, Xiang; Clarke, Shoa L.; Bhatti, Konain Fatima; Vedantam, Sailaja; Winkler, Thomas W.; Locke, Adam E.; Marouli, Eirini; Zajac, Greg J M; Wu, Kuan-Han H; Ntalla, Ioanna; Hui, Qin; Klarin, Derek; Hilliard, Austin T.; Wang, Zeyuan; Xue, Chao; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Helgadottir, Anna; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Holm, Hilma; Olafsson, Isleifur; Hwang, Mi Yeong; Han, Sohee; Akiyama, Masato; Sakaue, Saori; Terao, Chikashi; Kanai, Masahiro; Zhou, Wei; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Rasheed, Humaira; Havulinna, Aki S.; Veturi, Yogasudha; Pacheco, Jennifer Allen; Rosenthal, Elisabeth A.; Lingren, Todd; Feng, QiPing; Kullo, Iftikhar J.; Narita, Akira; Takayama, Jun; Martin, Hilary C.; Hunt, Karen A.; Trivedi, Bhavi; Haessler, Jeffrey; Giulianini, Franco; Bradford, Yuki; Miller, Jason E.; Campbell, Archie; Lin, Kuang; Millwood, Iona Y.; Rasheed, Asif; Hindy, George; Faul, Jessica D.; Zhao, Wei; Weir, David R.; Turman, Constance; Huang, Hongyan; Graff, Mariaelisa; Choudhury, Ananyo; Sengupta, Dhriti; Mahajan, Anubha; Brown, Michael R.; Zhang, Weihua; Yu, Ketian; Schmidt, Ellen M.; Pandit, Anita; Gustafsson, Stefan; Yin, Xianyong; Luan, Jian'an; Zhao, Jing-Hua; Matsuda, Fumihiko; Jang, Hye-Mi; Yoon, Kyungheon; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Pitsillides, Achilleas; Hottenga, Jouke Jan; Wood, Andrew R.; Ji, Yingji; Gao, Zishan; Haworth, Simon; Yousri, Noha A.; Mitchell, Ruth E.; Chai, Jin Fang; Aadahl, Mette; Bjerregaard, Anne A.; Yao, Jie; Manichaikul, Ani; Hwu, Chii-Min; Hung, Yi-Jen; Warren, Helen R.; Ramirez, Julia; Bork-Jensen, Jette; Kårhus, Line L.; Goel, Anuj; Sabater-Lleal, Maria; Noordam, Raymond; Mauro, Pala; Matteo, Floris; McDaid, Aaron F.; Marques-Vidal, Pedro; Wielscher, Matthias; Trompet, Stella; Sattar, Naveed; Møllehave, Line T.; Munz, Matthias; Zeng, Lingyao; Huang, Jianfeng; Yang, Bin; Poveda, Alaitz; Kurbasic, Azra; Lamina, Claudia; Forer, Lukas; Scholz, Markus; Galesloot, Tessel E.; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Ruotsalainen, Sanni E.; Daw, EWarwick; Zmuda, Joseph M.; Mitchell, Jonathan S.; Fuchsberger, Christian; Christensen, Henry; Brody, Jennifer A.; Vazquez-Moreno, Miguel; Feitosa, Mary F.; Wojczynski, Mary K.; Wang, Zhe; Preuss, Michael H.; Mangino, Massimo; Christofidou, Paraskevi; Verweij, Niek; Benjamins, Jan W.; Engmann, Jorgen; Tsao, Noah L.; Verma, Anurag; Slieker, Roderick C.; Lo, Ken Sin; Zilhao, Nuno R.; Le, Phuong; Kleber, Marcus E.; Delgado, Graciela E.; Huo, Shaofeng; Ikeda, Daisuke D.; Iha, Hiroyuki; Yang, Jian; Liu, Jun; Demirkan, Ayşe; Leonard, Hampton L.; Marten, Jonathan; Frank, Mirjam; Schmidt, Börge; Smyth, Laura J.; Cañadas-Garre, Marisa; Wang, Chaolong; Nakatochi, Masahiro; Wong, Andrew; Hutri-Kähönen, Nina; Sim, Xueling; Xia, Rui; Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia; Fernandez-Lopez, Juan Carlos; Lyssenko, Valeriya; Nongmaithem, Suraj S.; Bayyana, Swati; Stringham, Heather M.; Irvin, Marguerite R.; Oldmeadow, Christopher; Kim, Han-Na; Ryu, Seungho; Timmers, Paul R H J; Arbeeva, Liubov; Dorajoo, Rajkumar; Lange, Leslie A.; Prasad, Gauri; Lorés-Motta, Laura; Pauper, Marc; Long, Jirong; Li, Xiaohui; Theusch, Elizabeth; Takeuchi, Fumihiko; Spracklen, Cassandra N.; Loukola, Anu; Bollepalli, Sailalitha; Warner, Sophie C.; Wang, Ya Xing; Wei, Wen B.; Nutile, Teresa; Ruggiero, Daniela; Sung, Yun Ju; Chen, Shufeng; Liu, Fangchao; Yang, Jingyun; Kentistou, Katherine A.; Banas, Bernhard; Nardone, Giuseppe Giovanni; Meidtner, Karina; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Hebbar, Prashantha; Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni; Hofer, Edith; Lin, Maoxuan; Concas, Maria Pina; Vaccargiu, Simona; van der Most, Peter J.; Pitkänen, Niina; Cade, Brian E.; van der Laan, Sander W.; Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu; Weiss, Stefan; Bentley, Amy R.; Doumatey, Ayo P.; Adeyemo, Adebowale A.; Lee, Jong Young; Petersen, Eva R B; Nielsen, Aneta A.; Choi, Hyeok Sun; Nethander, Maria; Freitag-Wolf, Sandra; Southam, Lorraine; Rayner, Nigel W.; Wang, Carol A.; Lin, Shih-Yi; Wang, Jun-Sing; Couture, Christian; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Nikus, Kjell; Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel; Vestergaard, Henrik; Hidalgo, Bertha; Giannakopoulou, Olga; Cai, Qiuyin; Obura, Morgan O.; van Setten, Jessica; Li, Xiaoyin; Liang, Jingjing; Tang, Hua; Terzikhan, Natalie; Shin, Jae Hun; Jackson, Rebecca D.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Martin, Lisa Warsinger; Chen, Zhengming; Li, Liming; Kawaguchi, Takahisa; Thiery, Joachim; Bis, Joshua C.; Launer, Lenore J.; Li, Huaixing; Nalls, Mike A.; Raitakari, Olli T.; Ichihara, Sahoko; Wild, Sarah H.; Nelson, Christopher P.; Campbell, Harry; Jäger, Susanne; Nabika, Toru; Al-Mulla, Fahd; Niinikoski, Harri; Braund, Peter S.; Kolcic, Ivana; Kovacs, Peter; Giardoglou, Tota; Katsuya, Tomohiro; de Kleijn, Dominique; de Borst, Gert J.; Kim, Eung Kweon; Adams, Hieab H H; Ikram, M Arfan; Zhu, Xiaofeng; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Kraaijeveld, Adriaan O.; Beulens, Joline W J; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Rallidis, Loukianos S.; Pedersen, Oluf; Hansen, Torben; Mitchell, Paul; Hewitt, Alex W.; Kähönen, Mika; Pérusse, Louis; Bouchard, Claude; Tönjes, Anke; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Pennell, Craig E.; Mori, Trevor A.; Lieb, Wolfgang; Franke, Andre; Ohlsson, Claes; Mellström, Dan; Cho, Yoon Shin; Lee, Hyejin; Yuan, Jian-Min; Koh, Woon-Puay; Rhee, Sang Youl; Woo, Jeong-Taek; Heid, Iris M.; Stark, Klaus J.; Zimmermann, Martina E.; Völzke, Henry; Homuth, Georg; Evans, Michele K.; Zonderman, Alan B.; Polasek, Ozren; Pasterkamp, Gerard; Hoefer, Imo E.; Redline, Susan; Pahkala, Katja; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Snieder, Harold; Biino, Ginevra; Schmidt, Reinhold; Schmidt, Helena; Bandinelli, Stefania; Dedoussis, George; Thanaraj, Thangavel Alphonse; Kardia, Sharon L R; Peyser, Patricia A.; Kato, Norihiro; Schulze, Matthias B.; Girotto, Giorgia; Böger, Carsten A.; Jung, Bettina; Joshi, Peter K.; Bennett, David A.; De Jager, Philip L.; Lu, Xiangfeng; Mamakou, Vasiliki; Brown, Morris; Caulfield, Mark J.; Munroe, Patricia B.; Guo, Xiuqing; Ciullo, Marina; Jonas, Jost B.; Samani, Nilesh J.; Kaprio, Jaakko; Pajukanta, Päivi; Tusié-Luna, Teresa; Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.; Adair, Linda S.; Bechayda, Sonny Augustin; de Silva, H Janaka; Wickremasinghe, Ananda R.; Krauss, Ronald M.; Wu, Jer-Yuarn; Zheng, Wei; Hollander, Anneke Iden; Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan; Correa, Adolfo; Wilson, James G.; Lind, Lars; Heng, Chew-Kiat; Nelson, Amanda E.; Golightly, Yvonne M.; Wilson, James F.; Penninx, Brenda; Kim, Hyung-Lae; Attia, John; Scott, Rodney J.; Rao, D.C.; Arnett, Donna K.; Hunt, Steven C.; Walker, Mark; Koistinen, Heikki A.; Chandak, Giriraj R.; Mercader, Josep M.; Costanzo, Maria C.; Jang, Dongkeun; Burtt, Noël P; Villalpando, Clicerio Gonzalez; Orozco, Lorena; Fornage, Myriam; Tai, EShyong; van Dam, Rob M.; Lehtimäki, Terho; Chaturvedi, Nish; Yokota, Mitsuhiro; Liu, Jianjun; Reilly, Dermot F.; McKnight, Amy Jayne; Kee, Frank; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; McCarthy, Mark I.; Palmer, Colin N A; Vitart, Veronique; Hayward, Caroline; Simonsick, Eleanor; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Jin, Zi-Bing; Qu, Jia; Hishigaki, Haretsugu; Lin, Xu; März, Winfried; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Tardif, Jean-Claude; Lettre, Guillaume; Hart, Leen M 't; Elders, Petra J M; Damrauer, Scott M.; Kumari, Meena; Kivimaki, Mika; van der Harst, Pim; Spector, Tim D.; Loos, Ruth J F; Province, Michael A.; Parra, Esteban J.; Cruz, Miguel; Psaty, Bruce M.; Brandslund, Ivan; Pramstaller, Peter P.; Rotimi, Charles N.; Christensen, Kaare; Ripatti, Samuli; Widén, Elisabeth; Hakonarson, Hakon; Grant, Struan F A; Kiemeney, Lambertus A L M; de Graaf, Jacqueline; Loeffler, Markus; Kronenberg, Florian; Gu, Dongfeng; Erdmann, Jeanette; Schunkert, Heribert; Franks, Paul W.; Linneberg, Allan; Jukema, J Wouter; Khera, Amit V.; Männikkö, Minna; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Kutalik, Zoltan; Francesco, Cucca; Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O.; van Dijk, Ko Willems; Watkins, Hugh; Strachan, David P.; Grarup, Niels; Sever, Peter; Poulter, Neil; Chuang, Lee-Ming; Rotter, Jerome I.; Dantoft, Thomas M.; Karpe, Fredrik; Neville, Matt J.; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Wong, Tien-Yin; Khor, Chiea Chuen; Li, Hengtong; Sabanayagam, Charumathi; Peters, Annette; Gieger, Christian; Hattersley, Andrew T.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Magnusson, Patrik K E; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Willemsen, Allegonda H M; Cupples, LAdrienne; van Meurs, Joyce B J; Ghanbari, Mohsen; Gordon-Larsen, Penny; Huang, Wei; Kim, Young Jin; Tabara, Yasuharu; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Langenberg, Claudia; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Kuusisto, Johanna; Laakso, Markku; Ingelsson, Erik; Abecasis, Goncalo; Chambers, John C.; Kooner, Jaspal S.; de Vries, Paul S.; Morrison, Alanna C.; Hazelhurst, Scott; Ramsay, Michèle; North, Kari E.; Daviglus, Martha; Kraft, Peter; Martin, Nicholas G.; Whitfield, John B.; Abbas, Shahid; Saleheen, Danish; Walters, Robin G.; Holmes, Michael V.; Black, Corri; Smith, Blair H.; Baras, Aris; Justice, Anne E.; Buring, Julie E.; Ridker, Paul M.; Chasman, Daniel I.; Kooperberg, Charles; Tamiya, Gen; Yamamoto, Masayuki; van Heel, David A.; Trembath, Richard C.; Wei, Wei-Qi; Jarvik, Gail P.; Namjou, Bahram; Hayes, M Geoffrey; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Jousilahti, Pekka; Salomaa, Veikko; Hveem, Kristian; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Kubo, Michiaki; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Okada, Yukinori; Murakami, Yoshinori; Kim, Bong-Jo; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Stefansson, Kari; Zhang, Jifeng; Chen, YEugene; Ho, Yuk-Lam; Lynch, Julie A.; Rader, Daniel J.; Tsao, Philip S.; Chang, Kyong-Mi; Cho, Kelly; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Gaziano, John M.; Wilson, Peter W F; Frayling, Timothy M.; Hirschhorn, Joel N.; Kathiresan, Sekar; Mohlke, Karen L.; Sun, Yan V.; Morris, Andrew P.; Boehnke, Michael; Brown, Christopher D.; Natarajan, Pradeep; Deloukas, Panos; Willer, Cristen J.; Assimes, Themistocles L.; Peloso, Gina M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are frequently unknown, limiting understanding ...
    • Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis 

      Kanoni, Stavroula; Graham, Sarah E.; Wang, Yuxuan; Surakka, Ida; Ramdas, Shweta; Zhu, Xiang; Clarke, Shoa L.; Bhatti, Konain Fatima; Vedantam, Sailaja; Winkler, Thomas W.; Locke, Adam E.; Marouli, Eirini; Zajac, Greg J M; Wu, Kuan-Han H; Ntalla, Ioanna; Hui, Qin; Klarin, Derek; Hilliard, Austin T.; Wang, Zeyuan; Xue, Chao; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Helgadottir, Anna; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Holm, Hilma; Olafsson, Isleifur; Hwang, Mi Yeong; Han, Sohee; Akiyama, Masato; Sakaue, Saori; Terao, Chikashi; Kanai, Masahiro; Zhou, Wei; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Rasheed, Humaira; Havulinna, Aki S.; Veturi, Yogasudha; Pacheco, Jennifer Allen; Rosenthal, Elisabeth A.; Lingren, Todd; Feng, QiPing; Kullo, Iftikhar J.; Narita, Akira; Takayama, Jun; Martin, Hilary C.; Hunt, Karen A.; Trivedi, Bhavi; Haessler, Jeffrey; Giulianini, Franco; Bradford, Yuki; Miller, Jason E.; Campbell, Archie; Lin, Kuang; Millwood, Iona Y.; Rasheed, Asif; Hindy, George; Faul, Jessica D.; Zhao, Wei; Weir, David R.; Turman, Constance; Huang, Hongyan; Graff, Mariaelisa; Choudhury, Ananyo; Sengupta, Dhriti; Mahajan, Anubha; Brown, Michael R.; Zhang, Weihua; Yu, Ketian; Schmidt, Ellen M.; Pandit, Anita; Gustafsson, Stefan; Yin, Xianyong; Luan, Jian'an; Zhao, Jing-Hua; Matsuda, Fumihiko; Jang, Hye-Mi; Yoon, Kyungheon; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Pitsillides, Achilleas; Hottenga, Jouke Jan; Wood, Andrew R.; Ji, Yingji; Gao, Zishan; Haworth, Simon; Yousri, Noha A.; Mitchell, Ruth E.; Chai, Jin Fang; Aadahl, Mette; Bjerregaard, Anne A.; Yao, Jie; Manichaikul, Ani; Hwu, Chii-Min; Hung, Yi-Jen; Warren, Helen R.; Ramirez, Julia; Bork-Jensen, Jette; Kårhus, Line L.; Goel, Anuj; Sabater-Lleal, Maria; Noordam, Raymond; Mauro, Pala; Matteo, Floris; McDaid, Aaron F.; Marques-Vidal, Pedro; Wielscher, Matthias; Trompet, Stella; Sattar, Naveed; Møllehave, Line T.; Munz, Matthias; Zeng, Lingyao; Huang, Jianfeng; Yang, Bin; Poveda, Alaitz; Kurbasic, Azra; Lamina, Claudia; Forer, Lukas; Scholz, Markus; Galesloot, Tessel E.; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Ruotsalainen, Sanni E.; Daw, EWarwick; Zmuda, Joseph M.; Mitchell, Jonathan S.; Fuchsberger, Christian; Christensen, Henry; Brody, Jennifer A.; Vazquez-Moreno, Miguel; Feitosa, Mary F.; Wojczynski, Mary K.; Wang, Zhe; Preuss, Michael H.; Mangino, Massimo; Christofidou, Paraskevi; Verweij, Niek; Benjamins, Jan W.; Engmann, Jorgen; Tsao, Noah L.; Verma, Anurag; Slieker, Roderick C.; Lo, Ken Sin; Zilhao, Nuno R.; Le, Phuong; Kleber, Marcus E.; Delgado, Graciela E.; Huo, Shaofeng; Ikeda, Daisuke D.; Iha, Hiroyuki; Yang, Jian; Liu, Jun; Demirkan, Ayşe; Leonard, Hampton L.; Marten, Jonathan; Frank, Mirjam; Schmidt, Börge; Smyth, Laura J.; Cañadas-Garre, Marisa; Wang, Chaolong; Nakatochi, Masahiro; Wong, Andrew; Hutri-Kähönen, Nina; Sim, Xueling; Xia, Rui; Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia; Fernandez-Lopez, Juan Carlos; Lyssenko, Valeriya; Nongmaithem, Suraj S.; Bayyana, Swati; Stringham, Heather M.; Irvin, Marguerite R.; Oldmeadow, Christopher; Kim, Han-Na; Ryu, Seungho; Timmers, Paul R H J; Arbeeva, Liubov; Dorajoo, Rajkumar; Lange, Leslie A.; Prasad, Gauri; Lorés-Motta, Laura; Pauper, Marc; Long, Jirong; Li, Xiaohui; Theusch, Elizabeth; Takeuchi, Fumihiko; Spracklen, Cassandra N.; Loukola, Anu; Bollepalli, Sailalitha; Warner, Sophie C.; Wang, Ya Xing; Wei, Wen B.; Nutile, Teresa; Ruggiero, Daniela; Sung, Yun Ju; Chen, Shufeng; Liu, Fangchao; Yang, Jingyun; Kentistou, Katherine A.; Banas, Bernhard; Nardone, Giuseppe Giovanni; Meidtner, Karina; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Hebbar, Prashantha; Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni; Hofer, Edith; Lin, Maoxuan; Concas, Maria Pina; Vaccargiu, Simona; van der Most, Peter J.; Pitkänen, Niina; Cade, Brian E.; van der Laan, Sander W.; Chitrala, Kumaraswamy Naidu; Weiss, Stefan; Bentley, Amy R.; Doumatey, Ayo P.; Adeyemo, Adebowale A.; Lee, Jong Young; Petersen, Eva R B; Nielsen, Aneta A.; Choi, Hyeok Sun; Nethander, Maria; Freitag-Wolf, Sandra; Southam, Lorraine; Rayner, Nigel W.; Wang, Carol A.; Lin, Shih-Yi; Wang, Jun-Sing; Couture, Christian; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; 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Adair, Linda S.; Bechayda, Sonny Augustin; de Silva, H Janaka; Wickremasinghe, Ananda R.; Krauss, Ronald M.; Wu, Jer-Yuarn; Zheng, Wei; Hollander, Anneke Iden; Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan; Correa, Adolfo; Wilson, James G.; Lind, Lars; Heng, Chew-Kiat; Nelson, Amanda E.; Golightly, Yvonne M.; Wilson, James F.; Penninx, Brenda; Kim, Hyung-Lae; Attia, John; Scott, Rodney J.; Rao, D.C.; Arnett, Donna K.; Hunt, Steven C.; Walker, Mark; Koistinen, Heikki A.; Chandak, Giriraj R.; Mercader, Josep M.; Costanzo, Maria C.; Jang, Dongkeun; Burtt, Noël P; Villalpando, Clicerio Gonzalez; Orozco, Lorena; Fornage, Myriam; Tai, EShyong; van Dam, Rob M.; Lehtimäki, Terho; Chaturvedi, Nish; Yokota, Mitsuhiro; Liu, Jianjun; Reilly, Dermot F.; McKnight, Amy Jayne; Kee, Frank; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; McCarthy, Mark I.; Palmer, Colin N A; Vitart, Veronique; Hayward, Caroline; Simonsick, Eleanor; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Jin, Zi-Bing; Qu, Jia; Hishigaki, Haretsugu; Lin, Xu; März, Winfried; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Tardif, Jean-Claude; 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Salomaa, Veikko; Hveem, Kristian; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Kubo, Michiaki; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Okada, Yukinori; Murakami, Yoshinori; Kim, Bong-Jo; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Stefansson, Kari; Zhang, Jifeng; Chen, YEugene; Ho, Yuk-Lam; Lynch, Julie A.; Rader, Daniel J.; Tsao, Philip S.; Chang, Kyong-Mi; Cho, Kelly; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Gaziano, John M.; Wilson, Peter W F; Frayling, Timothy M.; Hirschhorn, Joel N.; Kathiresan, Sekar; Mohlke, Karen L.; Sun, Yan V.; Morris, Andrew P.; Boehnke, Michael; Brown, Christopher D.; Natarajan, Pradeep; Deloukas, Panos; Willer, Cristen J.; Assimes, Themistocles L.; Peloso, Gina M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are frequently unknown, limiting understanding ...
    • Insight into the relationship between resting heart rate and atrial fibrillation: a Mendelian randomization study 

      Klevjer, Marie; Rasheed, Humaira; Romundstad, Pål Richard; Madssen, Erik; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Bye, Anja (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Aims A low resting heart rate (RHR) implies a more efficient heart function and a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. However, observational studies have reported a U-shaped association between RHR and atrial fibrillation ...
    • Intake of multivitamin supplements and incident asthma in Norwegian adults: the HUNT study 

      Jiang, Lin; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Langhammer, Arnulf; Chen, Yue; Mai, Xiao-Mei (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Although intake of multivitamin supplements is becoming increasingly popular, the relationship between intake of multivitamin supplements and incident asthma remains unclear. Prospective studies in adults with long-term ...
    • Investigating a Potential Causal Relationship Between Maternal Blood Pressure During Pregnancy and Future Offspring Cardiometabolic Health 

      Wang, Geng; Bhatta, Laxmi; Moen, Gunn-Helen; Hwang, Liang-Dar; Kemp, John P.; Bond, Tom A.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Evans, David M.; Warrington, Nicole M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Observational epidemiological studies have reported that higher maternal blood pressure (BP) during pregnancy is associated with increased future risk of offspring cardiometabolic disease. However, it is unclear whether ...
    • Investigating causal relations between sleep traits and risk of breast cancer in women: Mendelian randomisation study 

      Richmond, Rebecca C.; Anderson, Emma L.; Dashti, Hassan S.; Jones, Samuel E.; Lane, Jacqueline M.; Strand, Linn B; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Rutter, Martin K.; Wood, Andrew R.; Straif, Kurt; Relton, Caroline L.; Munafò, Marcus; Frayling, Timothy M.; Martin, Richard M.; Saxena, Richa; Weedon, Michael N.; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Smith, George Davey (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Objective To examine whether sleep traits have a causal effect on risk of breast cancer. Design Mendelian randomisation study. Setting UK Biobank prospective cohort study and Breast Cancer Association Consortium ...
    • Investigating the causal interplay between sleep traits and risk of acute myocardial infarction: a Mendelian randomization study 

      Arora, Nikhil; Bhatta, Laxmi; Skarpsno, Eivind Schjelderup; Dalen, Håvard; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Strand, Linn Beate (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background Few studies have investigated the joint effects of sleep traits on the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). No previous study has used factorial Mendelian randomization (MR) which may reduce confounding, ...
    • Is disrupted sleep a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease? Evidence from a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis 

      Anderson, Emma L.; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Jones, Samuel E.; Hemani, Gibran; Wade, Kaitlin H; Dashti, Hassan S.; Lane, Jaqueline; Wang, Heming; Saxena, Richa; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Korologou-Linden, Roxanna; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Abecasis, Goncalo; Coulthard, Elizabeth; Kyle, Simon D.; Beaumont, Robin N.; Tyrell, Jessica; Frayling, Timothy M; Munafo, Marcus R; Wood, Andrew R; Ben-Shlomo, Yoav; Howe, Laura D; Lawlor, Deborah A.; Weedon, Michael N; Smith, George Davey (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background It is established that Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients experience sleep disruption. However, it remains unknown whether disruption in the quantity, quality or timing of sleep is a risk factor for the onset ...
    • Is having asthma associated with an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease? A prospective cohort study of 446 346 Taiwanese adults 

      Strand, Linn B; Tsai, Min Kuang; Wen, Chi Pang; Chang, Shu-Sen; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Objectives A significant proportion of cardiovascular disease (CVD) cannot be explained by well-known risk factors such as high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. One potential novel risk factor for CVD is asthma. We ...
    • Joint Effect of Multiple Prothrombotic Genotypes and Obesity on the Risk of Incident Venous Thromboembolism 

      Frischmuth, Tobias; Hindberg, Kristian; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Hveem, Kristian; Brækkan, Sigrid Kufaas; Hansen, John-Bjarne; Morelli, Vania Maris (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background The impact of the combination of obesity and multiple prothrombotic genotypes on venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk remains unclear. Objective To investigate the joint effect of obesity and a genetic risk score ...
    • Loss-of-function genomic variants highlight potential therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease 

      Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Rom, Oren; Surakka, Ida; Graham, Sarah E.; Zhou, Wei; Roychowdhury, Tanmoy; Fritsche, Lars; Gagliano Taliun, Sarah; Sidore, Carlo; Liu, Yuhao; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Wolford, Brooke; Overton, William; Zhao, Ying; Chen, Jin; Zhang, He; Hornsby, Whitney E.; Acheampong, Akua; Grooms, Austen; Schaefer, Amanda; Zajac, Gregory J.M.; Villacorta, Luis; Zhang, Jifeng; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Løset, Mari; Rai, Vivek; Lundegaard, Pia R.; Olesen, Morten S.; Taylor, Kent D.; Palmer, Nicholette D.; Chen, Yii-Der; Choi, Seung Hoan; Lubitz, Steven A.; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Daya, Michelle; Rafaels, Nicholas; Weiss, Scott T.; Lasky-Su, Jessica; Tracy, Russell P.; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Mathias, Rasika A.; Yanek, Lisa R.; Becker, Lewis; Holmen, Oddgeir Lingaas; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Willer, Christen; Hveem, Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Pharmaceutical drugs targeting dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease (CVD) may increase the risk of fatty liver disease and other metabolic disorders. To identify potential novel CVD drug targets without these adverse ...
    • Lowering of Circulating Sclerostin May Increase Risk of Atherosclerosis and its Risk Factors: Evidence From a Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis Followed by Mendelian Randomization 

      Zheng, Jie; Wheeler, Eleanor; Pietzner, Maik; Andlauer, Till F.M.; Yau, Michelle S.; Hartley, April E.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Rasheed, Humaira; Kemp, John P.; Frysz, Monika; Robinson, Jamie; Reppe, Sjur; Prijatelj, Vid; Gautvik, Kaare M; Falk, Louise; Maerz, Winfried; Gergei, Ingrid; Peyser, Patricia A; Kavousi, Maryam; de Vries, Paul S.; Miller, Clint L.; Bos, Maxime; Van Der Laan, Sander W.; Malhotra, Rajeev; Herrmann, Markus; Scharnagl, Hubert; Kleber, Marcus; Dedoussis, George; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Nethander, Maria; Ohlsson, Claes; Lorentzon, Mattias; Wareham, Nick; Langenberg, Claudia; Holmes, Michael V.; Smith, George Davey; Tobias, Jonathan H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objective In this study, we aimed to establish the causal effects of lowering sclerostin, target of the antiosteoporosis drug romosozumab, on atherosclerosis and its risk factors. Methods A genome-wide association ...
    • Lung function and peak oxygen uptake in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes with and without emphysema 

      Rasch-Halvorsen, Øystein; Steinshamn, Sigurd Loe; Langhammer, Arnulf; Hassel, Erlend; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Jenssen, Haldor; Spruit, Martijn A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Previous studies of associations of forced expiratory lung volume in one second (FEV1) with peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have not taken sex, age and height related variance ...
    • Mendelian randomization study of maternal influences on birthweight and future cardiometabolic risk in the HUNT cohort 

      Moen, Gunn-Helen; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Willer, Cristen J.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Birkeland, Kåre I.; Wang, Geng; Neale, Michael C.; Freathy, Rachel M.; Smith, George Davey; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Kirkpatrick, Robert M.; Warrington, Nicole Maree; Evans, David M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      There is a robust observational relationship between lower birthweight and higher risk of cardiometabolic disease in later life. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis posits that adverse ...