• 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 ...
    • Airway Symptoms among Farmers in Central Norway. A Comparative Study of Risks. The HUNT Study 

      Slåstad, Siri; Svendsen, Kristin V Hirsch; Langhammer, Arnulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objectives The objective of this study was to compare the risk of developing respiratory symptoms in farmers and other occupational groups over a period of 11 to 23 years. Methods The study includes data from ...
    • Assessing the role of genome-wide DNA methylation between smoking and risk of lung cancer using repeated measurements: the HUNT Study 

      Sun, Yi-Qian; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Suderman, Matthew; Min, Josine L; Battram, Thomas; Flatberg, Arnar; Beisvag, Vidar; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Guida, Florence; Jiang, Lin; Wahl, Sissel Gyrid Freim; Langhammer, Arnulf; Skorpen, Frank; Walker, Rosie M; Bretherick, Andrew D; Zeng, Yanni; Chen, Yue; Johansson, Mattias; Sandanger, Torkjel M; Relton, Caroline L; Mai, Xiao-Mei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Background: It is unclear if smoking-related DNA methylation represents a causal pathway between smoking and risk of lung cancer. We sought to identify novel smoking-related DNA methylation sites in blood, with repeated ...
    • Association between pulmonary function and peak oxygen uptake in elderly: the Generation 100 study 

      Hassel, Erlend; Stensvold, Dorthe; Halvorsen, Thomas; Wisløff, Ulrik; Langhammer, Arnulf; Steinshamn, Sigurd Loe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)
      Background Although reduced function of the respiratory system limits peak oxygen uptake in diseases affecting the lungs or airways, the healthy respiratory system is thought to have a spare capacity for oxygen transport ...
    • Asthma and asthma symptom control in relation to incidence of lung cancer in the HUNT study 

      Jiang, Lin; Sun, Yi-Qian; Langhammer, Arnulf; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Chen, Yu; Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund; Leivseth, Linda; Wahl, Sissel Gyrid Freim; Mai, Xiao-Mei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Large prospective studies on asthma, especially asthma symptom control, as a potential risk factor for lung cancer are limited. We followed up 62,791 cancer-free Norwegian adults from 1995–1997 to 2017. Self-reported ...
    • Asthma, asthma control and risk of ischemic stroke: The HUNT study 

      Cepelis, Aivaras; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Laugsand, Lars Erik; Langhammer, Arnulf; Janszky, Imre; Strand, Linn B (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Background: Asthma, a chronic inflammatory airway disease, shares common pathophysiological mechanisms with ischemic stroke. The aim of the study is to assess the association between asthma, levels of asthma control and ...
    • Body mass index and incidence of lung cancer in the HUNT study: using observational and Mendelian randomization approaches 

      Jiang, Lin; Sun, Yi-Qian; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Langhammer, Arnulf; Chen, Yue; Mai, Xiao-Mei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background Traditional observational studies have shown an inverse association between body mass index (BMI) and lung cancer risk. Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis using genetic variants as instruments for BMI may ...
    • 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 ...
    • A cross-sectional study of inflammatory markers as determinants of circulating kynurenines in the Lung Cancer Cohort Consortium 

      Midttun, Øivind; Ulvik, Arve; Meyer, Klaus; Zahed, Hana; Giles, Graham G.; Manjer, Jonas; Sandsveden, Malte; Langhammer, Arnulf; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Behndig, Annelie F.; Johansson, Mikael; Freedman, Neal D.; Huang, Wen-Yi; Chen, Chu; Prentice, Ross; Stevens, Victoria L.; Wang, Ying; Le Marchand, Loïc; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Cai, Qiuyin; Arslan, Alan A.; Chen, Yu; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Zheng, Wei; Yuan, Jian-Min; Koh, Woon-Puay; Visvanathan, Kala; Sesso, Howard D.; Zhang, Xuehong; Gaziano, J. Michael; Fanidi, Anouar; Robbins, Hilary A.; Brennan, Paul; Johansson, Mattias; Ueland, Per Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Circulating concentrations of metabolites (collectively called kynurenines) in the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan metabolism increase during inflammation, particularly in response to interferon-gamma (IFN-γ). Neopterin ...
    • Does treatment with bisphosphonates protect against fractures in real life? The HUNT study, Norway 

      Hoff, Mari; Skovlund, Eva; Meyer, Haakon E; Langhammer, Arnulf; Søgaard, Anne-Johanne; Syversen, Unni; Holvik, Kristin; Abrahamsen, Bo; Schei, Berit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Summary Bisphosphonates reduce fractures in randomized controlled trials (RCT); however, there is less information from real life. In our population including 14,990 women and 13,239 men, use of bisphosphonates reduced ...
    • Epidemiology of 40 blood biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin status, inflammation, and renal and endothelial function among cancer-free older adults 

      Zahed, Hana; Johansson, Mattias; Ueland, Per Magne; Midttun, Øivind; Milne, Roger L.; Giles, Graham G.; Manjer, Jonas; Sandsveden, Malte; Langhammer, Arnulf; Sørgjerd, Elin Pettersen; Grankvist, Kjell; Johansson, Mikael; Freedman, Neal D.; Huang, Wen-Yi; Chen, Chu; Prentice, Ross; Stevens, Victoria L.; Wang, Ying; Le Marchand, Loic; Wilkens, Lynne R.; Weinstein, Stephanie J.; Albanes, Demetrius; Cai, Qiuyin; Blot, William J.; Arslan, Alan A.; Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, Anne; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Zheng, Wei; Yuan, Jian-Min; Koh, Woon-Puay; Visvanathan, Kala; Sesso, Howard D.; Zhang, Xuehong; Gaziano, J. Michael; Fanidi, Anouar; Muller, David; Brennan, Paul; Guida, Florence; Robbins, Hilary A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Imbalances of blood biomarkers are associated with disease, and biomarkers may also vary non-pathologically across population groups. We described variation in concentrations of biomarkers of one-carbon metabolism, vitamin ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Potential causal associations of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D with lipids: a Mendelian randomization approach of the HUNT study 

      Mai, Xiao-Mei; Videm, Vibeke; Sheehan, Nuala A.; Chen, Yue; Langhammer, Arnulf; Sun, Yi-Qian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Background: Observational studies have shown consistent associations between higher circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels and favorable serum lipids. We sought to investigate if such associations were causal. ...
    • Proton pump inhibitors and fracture risk. The HUNT study, Norway. 

      Hoff, Mari; Skovlund, Eva; Skurtveit, Svetlana; Meyer, Haakon E; Langhammer, Arnulf; Søgaard, Anne-Johanne; Syversen, Unni; Forsmo, Siri; Abrahamsen, Bo; Schei, Berit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Summary Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have been linked to increased risk of fracture; the data have, however, been diverging. We did not find any increased risk of fractures among users of PPIs in a Norwegian population ...
    • Reproductive factors in relation to incidence of lung and colorectal cancers in a Norwegian women cohort: the HUNT Study 

      Denos, Marion; Sun, Yi-Qian; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Langhammer, Arnulf; Chen, Yue; Mai, Xiao-Mei (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Context: The roles of reproductive factors in the etiology of lung and colorectal cancers, among the most common cancers in women, are unclear. Objective: We aimed to explore whether female reproductive factors were ...
    • Rheumatoid arthritis, disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and risk of major osteoporotic fracture: prospective data from the HUNT Study, Norway 

      Tronstad, Ingebjørg; Hoff, Mari; Horn, Julie; Vikjord, Sigrid Anna Aalberg; Videm, Vibeke; Johansson, Jonas; Nilsen, Tom Ivar Lund; Langhammer, Arnulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objectives Rheumatoid arthritis has been associated with increased fracture risk. New treatments have improved the course of the disease substantially, but it is not clear if this influences fracture risk. We examined if ...
    • Smoking related lung cancer mortality by education and sex in Norway 

      Hansen, Merethe Selnes; Licaj, Idlir; Braaten, Tonje; Langhammer, Arnulf; Marchand, Loic Le; Gram, Inger Torhild (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Lung cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer and the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, with tobacco smoking as the main cause [1]. In Norway, as in other western countries, smoking was more prevalent among ...