• 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 ...
    • MEPE loss-of-function variant associates with decreased bone mineral density and increased fracture risk 

      Surakka, Ida; Fritsche, Lars; Zhou, Wei; Backman, Joshua; Kosmicki, Jack A.; Lu, Haocheng; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Nielsen, Jonas B.; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Wolford, Brooke N.; Graham, Sarah E.; Chen, Y. Eugene; Lee, Seunggeun; Kang, Hyun Min; Langhammer, Arnulf; Forsmo, Siri; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Styrkarsdottir, Unnur; Holm, Hilma; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Stefansson, Kari; Baras, Aris; Bai, Xiaodong; Balasubramanian, Suganthi; Barnard, Leland; Blumenfeld, Andrew; Cantor, Michael; Coppola, Giovanni; Economides, Aris; Eom, Gisu; Habegger, Lukas; Hahn, Young; Hawes, Alicia; Jones, Marcus B.; Khalid, Shareef; Lotta, Luca A.; Maxwell, Evan K.; Mitnaul, Lyndon J.; Overton, John D.; Reid, Jeffrey G.; Ferreira, Manuel Allen Revez; Salerno, William; Sharma, Deepika; Shuldiner, Alan R.; Staples, Jeffrey C.; Yadav, Ashish; Abecasis, Goncalo R.; Hveem, Kristian; Willer, Cristen J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      A major challenge in genetic association studies is that most associated variants fall in the non-coding part of the human genome. We searched for variants associated with bone mineral density (BMD) after enriching the ...
    • A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids 

      Ramdas, Shweta; Judd, Jonathan; Graham, Sarah E.; Kanoni, Stavroula; Wang, Yuxuan; Surakka, Ida; Wenz, Brandon; Clarke, Shoa L.; Chesi, Alessandra; Wells, Andrew; 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; Mitchell, Ruth E.; Chai, Jin Fang; Aadahl, Mette; Bjerregaard, Anne A.; Yao, Jie; Manichaikul, Ani; Lee, Wen-Jane; Hsiung, Chao Agnes; 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; Schönherr, Sebastian; Forer, Lukas; Scholz, Markus; Galesloot, Tessel E.; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Ruotsalainen, Sanni E.; Daw, E. Warwick; Zmuda, Joseph M.; Mitchell, Jonathan S.; Fuchsberger, Christian; Christensen, Henry; Brody, Jennifer A.; Le, Phuong; Feitosa, Mary F.; Wojczynski, Mary K.; Hemerich, Daiane; Preuss, Michael; Mangino, Massimo; Christofidou, Paraskevi; Verweij, Niek; Benjamins, Jan W.; Engmann, Jorgen; Noah, Tsao L.; Verma, Anurag; Slieker, Roderick C.; Lo, Ken Sin; Zilhao, Nuno R.; Kleber, Marcus E.; Delgado, Graciela E.; Huo, Shaofeng; Ikeda, Daisuke D.; Iha, Hiroyuki; Yang, Jian; Liu, Jun; Demirkan, Ayşe; Leonard, Hampton L.; Marten, Jonathan; Emmel, Carina; 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.; Sankareswaran, Alagu; 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; Morgan, Anna; 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; He, Karen Y.; 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; Ida Chen, Yii-Der; 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; 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; den Hollander, Anneke I.; 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.; Walker, Mark; Scott, Laura J.; Koistinen, Heikki A.; Chandak, Giriraj R.; Mercader, Josep M.; Villalpando, Clicerio Gonzalez; Orozco, Lorena; Fornage, Myriam; Tai, E. Shyong; 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; Lu, Fan; Hishigaki, Haretsugu; Lin, Xu; März, Winfried; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Tardif, Jean-Claude; Lettre, Guillaume; t Hart, Leen M.; Elders, Petra J.M.; Rader, Daniel J.; 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; 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.; Willems van Dijk, Ko; Watkins, Hugh; Strachan, David P.; Grarup, Niels; Sever, Peter; Poulter, Neil; Huey-Herng Sheu, Wayne; 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.; de Geus, Eco J.C.; Cupples, L. Adrienne; van Meurs, Joyce B.J.; Ikram, Arfan; Ghanbari, Mohsen; Gordon-Larsen, Penny; Huang, Wei; Kim, Young Jin; Tabara, Yasuharu; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Langenberg, Claudia; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Tuomilehto, Jaakko; 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, Y. Eugene; Ho, Yuk-Lam; Lynch, Julie A.; Tsao, Philip S.; Chang, Kyong-Mi; Cho, Kelly; O'Donnell, Christopher J.; Gaziano, John M.; Wilson, Peter; Mohlke, Karen L.; Frayling, Timothy M.; Hirschhorn, Joel N.; Kathiresan, Sekar; Boehnke, Michael; Struan Grant, Grant; Natarajan, Pradeep; Sun, Yan V.; Morris, Andrew P.; Deloukas, Panos; Peloso, Gina; Assimes, Themistocles L.; Willer, Cristen J.; Zhu, Xiang; Brown, Christopher D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A major challenge of genome-wide association studies (GWASs) is to translate phenotypic associations into biological insights. Here, we integrate a large GWAS on blood lipids involving 1.6 million individuals from five ...
    • Nye diabetesmidler – til nytte for mange, til skade for noen 

      Åsvold, Bjørn Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    • Physical Activity, Genetic Susceptibility, and the Risk of Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults and Type 2 Diabetes 

      Hjort, Rebecka; Ahlqvist, Emma; Andersson, Tomas; Alfredsson, Lars; Carlsson, Per-Ola; Grill, Valdemar Erik Robert; Groop, Leif; Martinell, Mats; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Tuomi, Tiinamaija; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Carlsson, Sofia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Purpose Physical activity (PA) has been linked to a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes by reducing weight and improving insulin sensitivity. We investigated whether PA is associated with a lower incidence of latent autoimmune ...
    • Quantifying the impact of genes on body mass index during the obesity epidemic: Longitudinal findings from the HUNT Study 

      Brandkvist, Maria Charlotta; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Ødegård, Rønnaug; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Sund, Erik; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Objectives: To study the trajectories of body mass index (BMI) in Norway over five decades and to assess the differential influence of the obesogenic environment on BMI according to genetic predisposition. Design: ...
    • Relationship between Blood Pressure and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: Linear and Nonlinear Mendelian Randomization Analyses 

      Malik, Rainer; Georgakis, Marios K.; Vujkovic, Marijana; Damrauer, Scott M.; Elliott, Paul; Karhunen, Ville; Giontella, Alice; Fava, Cristiano; Hellwege, Jacklyn N.; Shuey, Megan M.; Edwards, Todd L.; Rogne, Tormod; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Burgess, Stephen; Dichgans, Martin; Gill, Dipender (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Observational studies exploring whether there is a nonlinear effect of blood pressure on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk are hindered by confounding. This limitation can be overcome by leveraging randomly allocated genetic ...
    • Risk of cardiovascular disease in women and men with subfertility: the Trøndelag Health Study 

      Skåra, Karoline Hansen; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Hernaez Camba, Alvaro; Fraser, Abigail; Rich-Edwards, Janet Wilson; Farland, Leslie V.; Næss, Øyvind Erik; Lawlor, Deborah A.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Magnus, Maria Christine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objective To investigate the association between subfertility and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes. Design Prospective study. Setting Population-based cohort. Patient(s) We studied 31,629 women ...
    • Risk of hip and forearm fracture in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus and latent autoimmune diabetes of adults. The HUNT Study, Norway 

      Dahl, Jesper; Gulseth, Hanne Løvdal; Forsén, Lisa; Hoff, Mari; Forsmo, Siri; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Schei, Berit; Midthjell, Kristian; Meyer, Haakon Eduard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus incur an increased risk of fracture, with a generally higher risk among individuals with type 1 diabetes. The fracture risk among individuals with latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood ...
    • Risk of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy After Fresh and Frozen Embryo Transfer in Assisted Reproduction: A Population-Based Cohort Study With Within-Sibship Analysis 

      Petersen, Sindre Hoff; Westvik-Johari, Kjersti; Spangmose, Anne Lærke; Pinborg, Anja Bisgaard; Romundstad, Liv Bente Bergem; Bergh, Christina; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Gissler, Mika; Tiitinen, Aila; Wennerholm, Ulla-Britt; Opdahl, Signe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Frozen embryo transfer (frozen-ET) is increasingly common because of improved cryopreservation methods and elective freezing of all embryos. Frozen-ET is associated with higher risk of hypertensive disorders ...
    • The role of cardiovascular risk factors in maternal cardiovascular disease according to offspring birth characteristics in the HUNT study 

      Haug, Eirin Beate; Amanda, Markovitz; Abigail, Fraser; Dalen, Håvard; Romundstad, Pål Richard; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Rich-Edwards, Janet W.; Horn, Julie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A history of preterm or small (SGA) or large (LGA) for gestational age offspring is associated with smoking and unfavorable levels of BMI, blood pressure, glucose and lipids. Whether and to what extent the excess cardiovascular ...
    • Role of fungal burden in risk stratification of HIV-negative patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia: A 12-year, retrospective, observational, multicenter cohort 

      Grønseth, Stine; Rogne, Tormod; Heggelund, Lars; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Afset, Jan Egil; Damås, Jan Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objectives This study aimed to explore the role of fungal burden in risk stratification of patients without HIV-negative patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP). Methods This was a retrospective analysis of the ...
    • A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height 

      Yengo, Loïc; Vedantam, Sailaja; Marouli, Eirini; Sidorenko, Julia; Bartell, Eric; Sakaue, Saori; Graff, Marielisa; Eliasen, Anders U.; Jiang, Yunxuan; Raghavan, Sridharan; Miao, Jenkai; Arias, Joshua D.; Graham, Sarah E.; Mukamel, Ronen E.; Spracklen, Cassandra N.; Yin, Xianyong; Chen, Shyh-Huei; Ferreira, Teresa; Highland, Heather H.; Ji, Yingjie; Karaderi, Tugce; Lin, Kuang; Lüll, Kreete; Malden, Deborah E.; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Machado, Moara; Moore, Amy; Rüeger, Sina; Sim, Xueling; Vrieze, Scott; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Akiyama, Masato; Allison, Matthew A.; Alvarez, Marcus; Andersen, Mette K.; Ani, Alireza; Appadurai, Vivek; Arbeeva, Liubov; Bhaskar, Seema; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Bollepalli, Sailalitha; Bonnycastle, Lori L.; Bork-Jensen, Jette; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Bradford, Yuki; Braund, Peter S.; Brody, Jennifer A.; Burgdorf, Kristoffer S.; Cade, Brian E.; Cai, Hui; Cai, Qiuyin; Campbell, Archie; Cañadas-Garre, Marisa; Catamo, Eulalia; Chai, Jin-Fang; Chai, Xiaoran; Chang, Li-Ching; Chang, Yi-Cheng; Chen, Chien-Hsiun; Chesi, Alessandra; Choi, Seung Hoan; Chung, Ren-Hua; Cocca, Massimiliano; Concas, Maria Pina; Couture, Christian; Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel; Danning, Rebecca; Daw, E. Warwick; Degenhard, Frauke; Delgado, Graciela E.; Delitala, Alessandro; Demirkan, Ayse; Deng, Xuan; Devineni, Poornima; Dietl, Alexander; Dimitriou, Maria; Dimitrov, Latchezar; Dorajoo, Rajkumar; Ekici, Arif B.; Engmann, Jorgen E.; Fairhurst-Hunter, Zammy; Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni; Faul, Jessica D.; Fernandez-Lopez, Juan-Carlos; Forer, Lukas; Francescatto, Margherita; Freitag-Wolf, Sandra; Fuchsberger, Christian; Galesloot, Tessel E.; Gao, Yan; Gao, Zishan; Geller, Frank; Giannakopoulou, Olga; Giulianini, Franco; Gjesing, Anette P.; Goel, Anuj; Gordon, Scott D.; Gorski, Mathias; Grove, Jakob; Guo, Xiuqing; Gustafsson, Stefan; Haessler, Jeffrey; Hansen, Thomas; Havulinna, Aki S.; Haworth, Simon J.; He, Jing; Heard-Costa, Nancy; Hebbar, Prashantha; Hindy, George; Ho, Yuk-Lam A.; Hofer, Edith; Holliday, Elizabeth; Horn, Katrin; Hornsby, Whitney E.; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Huang, Hongyan; Huang, Jie; Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia; Huffman, Jennifer E.; Hung, Yi-Jen; Huo, Shaofeng; Hwang, Mi Yeong; Iha, Hiroyuki; Ikeda, Daisuke D.; Isono, Masato; Jackson, Anne U.; Jäger, Susanne; Jansen, Iris E.; Johansson, Ingegerd; Jonas, Jost B.; Jonsson, Anna; Jørgensen, Torben; Kalafati, Ioanna-Panagiota; Kanai, Masahiro; Kanoni, Stavroula; Kårhus, Line L.; Kasturiratne, Anuradhani; Katsuya, Tomohiro; Kawaguchi, Takahisa; Kember, Rachel L.; Kentistou, Katherine A.; Kim, Han-Na; Kim, Young Jin; Kleber, Marcus E.; Knol, Maria J.; Kurbasic, Azra; Lauzon, Marie; Le, Phuong; Lea, Rodney; Lee, Jong-Young; Leonard, Hampton L.; Li, Shengchao A.; Li, Xiaohui; Li, Xiaoyin; Liang, Jingjing; Lin, Honghuang; Lin, Shih-Yi; Liu, Jun; Liu, Xueping; Lo, Ken Sin; Long, Jirong; Lores-Motta, Laura; Luan, Jian’an; Lyssenko, Valeriya; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Mahajan, Anubha; Mamakou, Vasiliki; Mangino, Massimo; Manichaikul, Ani; Marten, Jonathan; Mattheisen, Manuel; Mavarani, Laven; McDaid, Aaron F.; Meidtner, Karina; Melendez, Tori L.; Mercader, Josep M.; Milaneschi, Yuri; Miller, Jason E.; Millwood, Iona Y.; Mishra, Pashupati P.; Mitchell, Ruth E.; Møllehave, Line T.; Morgan, Anna; Mucha, Soeren; Munz, Matthias; Nakatochi, Masahiro; Nelson, Christopher P.; Nethander, Maria; Nho, Chu Won; Nielsen, Aneta A.; Nolte, Ilja M.; Nongmaithem, Suraj S.; Noordam, Raymond; Ntalla, Ioanna; Nutile, Teresa; Pandit, Anita; Christofidou, Paraskevi; Pärna, Katri; Pauper, Marc; Petersen, Eva R. B.; Petersen, Liselotte V.; Pitkänen, Niina; Polašek, Ozren; Poveda, Alaitz; Preuss, Michael H.; Pyarajan, Saiju; Raffield, Laura M.; Rakugi, Hiromi; Ramirez, Julia; Rasheed, Asif; Raven, Dennis; Rayner, Nigel W.; Riveros, Carlos; Rohde, Rebecca; Ruggiero, Daniela; Ruotsalainen, Sanni E.; Ryan, Kathleen A.; Sabater-Lleal, Maria; Saxena, Richa; Scholz, Markus; Sendamarai, Anoop; Shen, Botong; Shi, Jingchunzi; Shin, Jae Hun; Sidore, Carlo; Sitlani, Colleen M.; Slieker, Roderick C.; Smit, Roelof A. J.; Smith, Albert V.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Smyth, Laura J.; Southam, Lorraine; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Sun, Liang; Takeuchi, Fumihiko; Tallapragada, Divya Sri Priyanka; Taylor, Kent D.; Tayo, Bamidele O.; Tcheandjieu, Catherine; Terzikhan, Natalie; Tesolin, Paola; Teumer, Alexander; Theusch, Elizabeth; Thompson, Deborah J.; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Timmers, Paul R. H. J.; Trompet, Stella; Turman, Constance; Vaccargiu, Simona; van der Laan, Sander W.; van der Most, Peter J.; van Klinken, Jan B.; van Setten, Jessica; Verma, Shefali S.; Verweij, Niek; Veturi, Yogasudha; Wang, Carol A.; Wang, Chaolong; Wang, Lihua; Wang, Zhe; Warren, Helen R.; Bin Wei, Wen; Wickremasinghe, Ananda R.; Wielscher, Matthias; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Winsvold, Bendik K S; Wong, Andrew; Wu, Yang; Wuttke, Matthias; Xia, Rui; Xie, Tian; Yamamoto, Ken; Yang, Jingyun; Yao, Jie; Young, Hannah; Yousri, Noha A.; Yu, Lei; Zeng, Lingyao; Zhang, Weihua; Zhang, Xinyuan; Zhao, Jing-Hua; Zhao, Wei; Zhou, Wei; Zimmermann, Martina E.; Zoledziewska, Magdalena; Adair, Linda S.; Adams, Hieab H. H.; Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.; Al-Mulla, Fahd; Arnett, Donna K.; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Attia, John; Banas, Bernhard; Bandinelli, Stefania; Bennett, David A.; Bergler, Tobias; Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan; Biino, Ginevra; Bisgaard, Hans; Boerwinkle, Eric; Böger, Carsten A.; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Børglum, Anders D.; Borja, Judith B.; Bouchard, Claude; Bowden, Donald W.; Brandslund, Ivan; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Buring, Julie E.; Caulfield, Mark J.; Chambers, John C.; Chandak, Giriraj R.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Chaturvedi, Nish; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Chen, Zhengming; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Christophersen, Ingrid E.; Ciullo, Marina; Cole, John W.; Collins, Francis S.; Cooper, Richard S.; Cruz, Miguel; Cucca, Francesco; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Cutler, Michael J.; Damrauer, Scott M.; Dantoft, Thomas M.; de Borst, Gert J.; de Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M.; De Jager, Philip L.; de Kleijn, Dominique P. 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Y.; O’Donnell, Christopher J.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Sun, Yan V.; Tai, E. Shyong; Boehnke, Michael; Deloukas, Panos; Justice, Anne E.; Lindgren, Cecilia M.; Loos, Ruth J. F.; Mohlke, Karen L.; North, Kari E.; Stefansson, Kari; Walters, Robin G.; Winkler, Thomas W.; Young, Kristin L.; Loh, Po-Ru; Yang, Jian; Esko, Tõnu; Assimes, Themistocles L.; Auton, Adam; Abecasis, Goncalo R.; Willer, Cristen J.; Locke, Adam E.; Berndt, Sonja I.; Lettre, Guillaume; Frayling, Timothy M.; Okada, Yukinori; Wood, Andrew R.; Visscher, Peter M.; Hirschhorn, Joel N. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1. ...
    • Self-reported insomnia symptoms, sleep duration, chronotype and the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI): a prospective study in the UK Biobank and the HUNT Study 

      Arora, Nikhil; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Dalen, Håvard; Skarpsno, Eivind Schjelderup; Strand, Linn B (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Insomnia and short/long sleep duration increase the risk of AMI, but their interaction with each other or with chronotype is not well known. We investigated the prospective joint associations of any two of these sleep ...
    • Semiquantitative Real-Time PCR to Distinguish Pneumocystis Pneumonia from Colonization in a Heterogeneous Population of HIV-Negative Immunocompromised Patients 

      Grønseth, Stine; Rogne, Tormod; Hannula, Raisa; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Afset, Jan Egil; Damås, Jan Kristian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Pneumocystis jirovecii is a threat to iatrogenically immunosuppressed individuals, a heterogeneous population at rapid growth. We assessed the ability of an in-house semiquantitative real-time PCR assay to discriminate ...
    • Separating the genetics of childhood and adult obesity: a validation study of genetic scores for body mass index in adolescence and adulthood in the HUNT Study 

      Brandkvist, Maria Charlotta; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Ødegård, Rønnaug; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Smith, George Davey; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Hveem, Kristian; Richardson, Tom G.; Vie, Gunnhild Åberge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      From a life-course perspective, genetic and environmental factors driving childhood obesity may have a lasting inf luence on health later in life. However, how obesity trajectories vary throughout the life-course remains ...
    • Small RNAs are differentially expressed in autoimmune and non-autoimmune diabetes and controls 

      Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Mjelle, Robin; Beisvag, Vidar; Flatberg, Arnar; Grill, Valdemar Erik Robert; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objective Diabetes is a heterogeneous disease and a precise diagnosis of diabetes subgroups is necessary to initiate proper early treatment and clinical management of the disease. Circulating small RNAs (sRNAs) are ...
    • Smoking, use of smokeless tobacco, HLA genotypes and incidence of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults 

      Edstorp, Jessica; Wei, Yuxia; Ahlqvist, Emma; Alfredsson, Lars; Grill, Valdemar Erik Robert; Groop, Leif; Rasouli, Bahareh; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Thorsby, Per Medbøe; Tuomi, Tiinamaija; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Carlsson, Sofia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Aims/hypotheses Smoking and use of smokeless tobacco (snus) are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. We investigated whether smoking and snus use increase the risk of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults ...
    • Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and depressive symptoms: protocol for a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies 

      Wildisen, Lea; Moutzouri, Elisavet; Beglinger, Shanthi; Syrogiannouli, Lamprini; Cappola, Anne R.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Bakker, Stephan JL; Ceresini, Graziano; Dullaart, Robin P.F.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Grabe, Hans; Jukema, J Wouter; Nauck, Matthias; Trompet, Stella; Völzke, Henry; Westendorp, Rudi G.J.; Gussekloo, Jacobijn; Peeters, Robin P.; Kloppel, Stefan; Aujesky, Drahomir; Bauer, Douglas C.; Rodondi, Nicolas; Del Giovane, Cinzia; Feller, Martin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      IntroductionProspective cohort studies on the association between subclinical thyroid dysfunction and depressive symptoms have yielded conflicting findings, possibly because of differences in age, sex, thyroid-stimulating ...
    • Taller height and risk of coronary heart disease and cancer: A within-sibship Mendelian randomization study 

      Howe, Laurence J.; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Rasheed, Humaira; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Davey Smith, George; Davies, Neil Martin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Taller people have a lower risk of coronary heart disease but a higher risk of many cancers. Mendelian randomization (MR) studies in unrelated individuals (population MR) have suggested that these relationships ...