• Age-of-onset information helps identify 76 genetic variants associated with allergic disease 

      Ferreira, Manuel A R; Vonk, Judith M.; Baurecht, Hansjörg; Marenholz, Ingo; Tian, Chao; Hoffman, Joshua D.; Helmer, Quinta; Tillander, Annika; Ullemar, Vilhelmina; Lu, Yi; Grosche, Sarah; Ruschendorf, Franz; Granell, Raquel; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Fritsche, Lars; Bhatta, Laxmi; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Nielsen, Jonas Bille; Zhou, Wei; Hveem, Kristian; Langhammer, Arnulf; Holmen, Oddgeir; Løset, Mari; Abecasis, Goncalo; Willer, Cristen J.; Emami, Nima C.; Cavazos, Taylor B.; Witte, John S.; Szwajda, Agnieszka; 23andMe Research Team, ,; collaborators of SHARE study, ,; Hinds, David A.; Hubner, Norbert; Weidinger, Stephan; Magnusson, Patrik KE; Jorgenson, Eric; Karlsson, Robert; Paternoster, Lavinia; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Almqvist, Catarina; Lee, Young-Ae; Koppelman, Gerard H.; Esparza-Gordillo, Jorge; Hummel, Oliver; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Willemsen, Gonneke; Rodríguez, Elke; Hotze, Melanie; Franke, Andre; Matheson, Melanie C.; Dharmage, Shyamali Chandrika; Arnold, Andreas; Homuth, Georg; Schmidt, Carsten O; Thompson, Philip J.; Martin, Nicholas G; Duffy, David L.; Novak, Natalija; Schulz, Holger; Karrasch, Stefan; Gieger, Christian; Strauch, Konstantin; Melles, Ronald B (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Risk factors that contribute to inter-individual differences in the age-of-onset of allergic diseases are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to identify genetic risk variants associated with the age at which ...
    • BMI, physical activity and the risk of periodontitis - The Trøndelag Health Study 

      Reda, Mariam (Master thesis, 2022)
      Abstract Background: Being physically active and maintaining normal weight contribute to better general health, but there is a paucity of knowledge on their impact on oral diseases mainly periodontitis. Therefore, this ...
    • The causes and consequences of Alzheimer’s disease: phenome-wide evidence from Mendelian randomization 

      Korologou-Linden, Roxanna; Bhatta, Laxmi; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Howe, Laura D.; Millard, Louise A. C.; Kolaric, Katarina; Ben-Shlomo, Yoav; Williams, Dylan M.; Smith, George Davey; Anderson, Emma L.; Stergiakouli, Evie; Davies, Neil Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has no proven causal and modifiable risk factors, or effective interventions. We report a phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) of genetic liability for AD in 334,968 participants of the UK Biobank ...
    • Comparison of pre‐ and post‐bronchodilator lung function as predictors of mortality: The HUNT Study 

      Bhatta, Laxmi; Leivseth, Linda; Carslake, David; Langhammer, Arnulf; Mai, Xiao-Mei; Chen, Yue; Henriksen, Anne Hildur; Brumpton, Ben Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Background and objective Post‐bronchodilator (BD) lung function is recommended for the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, often only pre‐BD lung function is used in clinical practice or ...
    • Genome-wide association study of placental weight identifies distinct and shared genetic influences between placental and fetal growth 

      Beaumont, Robin N.; Flatley, Christopher; Vaudel, Marc; Wu, Xiaoping; Chen, Jing; Moen, Gunn-Helen Øiseth; Skotte, Line; Helgeland, Øyvind; Solé-Navais, Pol; Banasik, Karina; Albiñana, Clara; Ronkainen, Justiina; Fadista, João; Stinson, Sara Elizabeth; Trajanoska, Katerina; Wang, Carol A.; Westergaard, David; Srinivasan, Sundararajan; Sánchez-Soriano, Carlos; Bilbao, Jose Ramon; Allard, Catherine; Groleau, Marika; Kuulasmaa, Teemu; Leirer, Daniel J.; White, Frédérique; Jacques, Pierre-Étienne; Cheng, Haoxiang; Hao, Ke; Andreassen, Ole; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Atalay, Mustafa; Bhatta, Laxmi; Bouchard, Luigi; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Brunak, Søren; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Ebbing, Cathrine; Elliott, Paul; Engelbrechtsen, Line; Erikstrup, Christian; Estarlich, Marisa; Franks, Stephen; Gaillard, Romy; Geller, Frank; Grove, Jakob; Hougaard, David M.; Kajantie, Eero Olavi; Morgen, Camilla S.; Nøhr, Ellen Aagaard; Nyegaard, Mette; Palmer, Colin N. A.; Pedersen, Ole Birger; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Sebert, Sylvain; Shields, Beverley M.; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Surakka, Ida; Thørner, Lise Wegner; Ullum, Henrik; Vaarasmaki, Marja; Vilhjalmsson, Bjarni J.; Willer, Cristen J.; Lakka, Timo A.; Gybel-Brask, Dorte; Bustamante, Mariona; Hansen, Torben; Pearson, Ewan R.; Reynolds, Rebecca M.; Ostrowski, Sisse R.; Pennell, Craig E.; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Felix, Janine F.; Hattersley, Andrew T.; Melbye, Mads; Lawlor, Deborah A.; Hveem, Kristian; Werge, Thomas; Nielsen, Henriette Svarre; Magnus, Per Minor; Evans, David M.; Jacobsson, Bo; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Zhang, Ge; Hivert, Marie-France; Johansson, Stefan; Freathy, Rachel M.; Feenstra, Bjarke; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A well-functioning placenta is essential for fetal and maternal health throughout pregnancy. Using placental weight as a proxy for placental growth, we report genome-wide association analyses in the fetal (n = 65,405), ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 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, ...
    • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk 

      Shrine, Nick; Izquierdo, Abril G.; Chen, Jing; Packer, Richard; Hall, Robert J.; Guyatt, Anna L.; Batini, Chiara; Thompson, Rebecca J.; Pavuluri, Chandan; Malik, Vidhi; Hobbs, Brian D.; Moll, Matthew; Kim, Wonji; Tal-Singer, Ruth; Bakke, Per S.; Fawcett, Katherine A.; John, Catherine; Coley, Kayesha; Piga, Noemi Nicole; Pozarickij, Alfred; Lin, Kuang; Millwood, Iona Y.; Chen, Zhengming; Li, Liming; Wijnant, Sara R A; Lahousse, Lies; Brusselle, Guy; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; Manichaikul, Ani; Oelsner, Elizabeth C.; Rich, Stephen S.; Barr, R Graham; Kerr, Shona M.; Vitart, Veronique; Brown, Michael R.; Wielscher, Matthias; Imboden, Medea; Jeong, Ayoung; Bartz, Traci M.; Gharib, Sina A.; Flexeder, Claudia; Karrasch, Stefan; Gieger, Christian; Peters, Annette; Stubbe, Beate; Hu, Xiaowei; Ortega, Victor E.; Meyers, Deborah A.; Bleecker, Eugene R.; Gabriel, Stacey B.; Gupta, Namrata; Smith, Albert Vernon; Luan, Jian'an; Zhao, Jing-Hua; Hansen, Ailin Falkmo; Langhammer, Arnulf; Willer, Cristen; Bhatta, Laxmi; Porteous, David; Smith, Blair H.; Campbell, Archie; Sofer, Tamar; Lee, Jiwon; Daviglus, Martha L.; Yu, Bing; Lim, Elise; Xu, Hanfei; O'Connor, George T.; Thareja, Gaurav; Albagha, Omar M E; Suhre, Karsten; Granell, Raquel; Faquih, Tariq O.; Hiemstra, Pieter S.; Slats, Annelies M.; Mullin, Benjamin H.; Hui, Jennie; James, Alan; Beilby, John; Patasova, Karina; Hysi, Pirro; Koskela, Jukka T.; Wyss, Annah B.; Jin, Jianping; Sikdar, Sinjini; Lee, Mikyeong; May-Wilson, Sebastian; Pirastu, Nicola; Kentistou, Katherine A.; Joshi, Peter K.; Timmers, Paul R H J; Williams, Alexander T.; Free, Robert C.; Wang, Xueyang; Morrison, John L.; Gilliland, Frank D.; Chen, Zhanghua; Wang, Carol A.; Foong, Rachel E.; Harris, Sarah E.; Taylor, Adele; Redmond, Paul; Cook, James P.; Mahajan, Anubha; Lind, Lars; Palviainen, Teemu; Lehtimäki, Terho; Raitakari, Olli T.; Kaprio, Jaakko; Rantanen, Taina; Pietiläinen, Kirsi H.; Cox, Simon R.; Pennell, Craig E.; Hall, Graham L.; Gauderman, W James; Brightling, Chris; Wilson, James F.; Vasankari, Tuula; Laitinen, Tarja; Salomaa, Veikko; Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O.; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Dupuis, Josée; Hayward, Caroline; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Langenberg, Claudia; Weiss, Stefan; Homuth, Georg; Schmidt, Carsten Oliver; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Morrison, Alanna C.; Polasek, Ozren; Rudan, Igor; Lee, Joo-Hyeon; Sayers, Ian; Rawlins, Emma L.; Dudbridge, Frank; Silverman, Edwin K.; Strachan, David P.; Walters, Robin G.; Morris, Andrew P.; London, Stephanie J.; Cho, Michael H.; Wain, Louise V.; Hall, Ian P.; Tobin, Martin D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Lung-function impairment underlies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and predicts mortality. In the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of lung function to date, comprising 580,869 ...
    • Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization in global biobank meta-analysis reveals multi-ancestry drug targets for common diseases 

      Zhao, Huiling; Rasheed, Humaria; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Cho, Yoonsu; Liu, Yi; Bhatta, Laxmi; Bhattacharya, Arjun; Hemani, Gibran; Davey Smith, George; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Zhou, Wei; Neale, Benjamin M.; Gaunt, Tom R.; Zheng, Jie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization (MR) shows value in prioritizing drug targets in Europeans but with limited evidence in other ancestries. Here, we present a multi-ancestry proteome-wide MR analysis based on ...
    • Sleep traits, their interplay and the risks of acute myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation: Prospective cohort and Mendelian randomization studies using UK Biobank and the HUNT Study 

      Arora, Nikhil (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:394, Doctoral thesis, 2023)
      Poor sleep is a major public health concern, with an estimated 30% of the general population reportedly experiencing one or more insomnia symptoms at any given point in time. Good sleep entails more than the mere absence ...
    • The Association of Bone Mineral Density with Mortality in a COPD Cohort. The HUNT Study, Norway 

      Vikjord, Sigrid Anna; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Mai, Xiao-Mei; Bhatta, Laxmi; Vanfleteren, Lowie E.G.W.; Langhammer, Arnulf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      In individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the presence of comorbidities is associated with increased mortality risk. We wanted to study the association between bone mineral density (BMD) and mortality ...
    • Using Genomic Structural Equation Modeling to Partition the Genetic Covariance Between Birthweight and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors into Maternal and Offspring Components in the Norwegian HUNT Study 

      Moen, Gunn-Helen Øiseth; Nivard, Michel; Bhatta, Laxmi; Warrington, Nicole Maree; Willer, Cristen; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Evans, David M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The Barker Hypothesis posits that adverse intrauterine environments result in fetal growth restriction and increased risk of cardiometabolic disease through developmental compensations. Here we introduce a new statistical ...