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A common variant associated with prostate cancer in European and African populations

scientific article published on 7 May 2006

A common variant at 8q24.21 is associated with renal cell cancer.

scientific article

A direct characterization of human mutation based on microsatellites

scientific article (publication date: October 2012)

A frameshift deletion in the sarcomere gene MYL4 causes early-onset familial atrial fibrillation

scientific article

A genetic risk factor for periodic limb movements in sleep

scientific article

A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

A germline variant in the TP53 polyadenylation signal confers cancer susceptibility

scientific article published on 25 September 2011

A major susceptibility gene for asthma maps to chromosome 14q24

scientific article

A mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer’s disease and age-related cognitive decline

scientific article

A novel TEAD1 mutation is the causative allele in Sveinsson's chorioretinal atrophy (helicoid peripapillary chorioretinal degeneration)

scientific article (publication date: May 2004)

A rare nonsynonymous sequence variant in C3 is associated with high risk of age-related macular degeneration

article by Hannes Helgason et al published 15 September 2013 in Nature Genetics

A rare variant in MYH6 is associated with high risk of sick sinus syndrome

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A sequence variant associating with educational attainment also affects childhood cognition

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A sequence variant at 4p16.3 confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer

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A sequence variant in ZFHX3 on 16q22 associates with atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke

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A sequence variant on 17q21 is associated with age at onset and severity of asthma

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A study based on whole-genome sequencing yields a rare variant at 8q24 associated with prostate cancer

scientific article published on 28 October 2012

A theory of statistical models for Monte Carlo integration

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A variant associated with nicotine dependence, lung cancer and peripheral arterial disease

scientific article (publication date: 3 April 2008)

ASIP and TYR pigmentation variants associate with cutaneous melanoma and basal cell carcinoma

scientific article

Allegro version 2

Allegro, a new computer program for multipoint linkage analysis

scientific article (publication date: May 2000)

Allele-sharing models: LOD scores and accurate linkage tests

scientific article

An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

scientific article published on 31 May 2017

Association of neuregulin 1 with schizophrenia confirmed in a Scottish population

scientific article

Association of variants at UMOD with chronic kidney disease and kidney stones-role of age and comorbid diseases

scientific journal article

Asymptotic theory for gene mapping

scientific article published on October 1994

Blocking Gibbs sampling for linkage analysis in large pedigrees with many loops.

scientific article

CDKN2A mutations and melanoma risk in the Icelandic population

scientific article published on 4 January 2008

CFH Y402H confers similar risk of soft drusen and both forms of advanced AMD

scientific article

Cancer as a complex phenotype: pattern of cancer distribution within and beyond the nuclear family

scientific article

Clonal hematopoiesis, with and without candidate driver mutations, is common in the elderly

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Collaborative meta-analysis: associations of 150 candidate genes with osteoporosis and osteoporotic fracture

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Common and low-frequency variants associated with genome-wide recombination rate

scientific article published on 24 November 2013

Common sequence variants in the LOXL1 gene confer susceptibility to exfoliation glaucoma

scientific article

Common sequence variants on 2p15 and Xp11.22 confer susceptibility to prostate cancer

scientific journal article

Common variant at 16p11.2 conferring risk of psychosis.

scientific article

Common variants at 10 genomic loci influence hemoglobin A₁(C) levels via glycemic and nonglycemic pathways ⬇️

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Common variants at VRK2 and TCF4 conferring risk of schizophrenia

scientific article published on 26 July 2011

Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

scientific article

Common variants near CAV1 and CAV2 are associated with primary open-angle glaucoma

scientific article published on 12 September 2010

Common variants on 1p36 and 1q42 are associated with cutaneous basal cell carcinoma but not with melanoma or pigmentation traits

scientific article published on 12 October 2008

Common variants on 9q22.33 and 14q13.3 predispose to thyroid cancer in European populations

scientific article published on 6 February 2009

Common variants on chromosome 5p12 confer susceptibility to estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer

Common variants on chromosomes 2q35 and 16q12 confer susceptibility to estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer

scientific article

Correction: Genome-Wide Association Scan Meta-Analysis Identifies Three Loci Influencing Adiposity and Fat Distribution.

scientific article published on 27 July 2009

Corrigendum: Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Corrigendum: Whole-genome sequencing identifies rare genotypes in COMP and CHADL associated with high risk of hip osteoarthritis.

scientific article published in July 2017

Covariance Structure and Convergence Rate of the Gibbs Sampler with Various Scans

Deconstructing the sources of genotype-phenotype associations in humans

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Detection of sharing by descent, long-range phasing and haplotype imputation

scientific article

Diabetes, dependence, asymptotics, selection and significance

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Discovery of common variants associated with low TSH levels and thyroid cancer risk

scientific journal article

Epigenetic and genetic components of height regulation

scientific article

Erratum: Corrigendum: Variant in the sequence of the LINGO1 gene confers risk of essential tremor

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Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

scientific article published in May 2010

European bone mineral density loci are also associated with BMD in East-Asian populations

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2010)

European genome-wide association study identifies SLC14A1 as a new urinary bladder cancer susceptibility gene

scientific article

Expanding the range of ZNF804A variants conferring risk of psychosis

scientific article published on 5 January 2010

Familial Aggregation of Parkinson's Disease in Iceland

scholarly article by Sigurlaug Sveinbjörnsdóttir et al published 14 December 2000 in The New England Journal of Medicine

Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

scientific article

Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals

scientific article published in October 2010

Genetic architecture of vitamin B12 and folate levels uncovered applying deeply sequenced large datasets

scientific article

Genetic correction of PSA values using sequence variants associated with PSA levels

scientific article published on December 2010

Genetic fine mapping and genomic annotation defines causal mechanisms at type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci

scientific article

Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2008)

Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior

scientific article

Genome-wide association and replication studies identify four variants associated with prostate cancer susceptibility

scientific article published on 20 September 2009

Genome-wide association scan meta-analysis identifies three Loci influencing adiposity and fat distribution

scientific article published in June 2009

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Genome-wide association study identifies a second prostate cancer susceptibility variant at 8q24.

scientific article published in April 2007

Genome-wide association study identifies a sequence variant within the DAB2IP gene conferring susceptibility to abdominal aortic aneurysm

scientific journal article

Genome-wide association study identifies sequence variants on 6q21 associated with age at menarche

scientific article

Genome-wide association study yields variants at 20p12.2 that associate with urinary bladder cancer

scientific article published on 26 May 2014

Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity

scientific article

Genome-wide significant association between a sequence variant at 15q15.2 and lung cancer risk

scientific article

Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

scientific article

Genomewide Scan for Hand Osteoarthritis: A Novel Mutation in Matrilin-3 ⬇️

scientific article published on May 7, 2003

Germline sequence variants in TGM3 and RGS22 confer risk of basal cell carcinoma

scientific journal article

Graphical templates for model registration

HLA class II sequence variants influence tuberculosis risk in populations of European ancestry

scientific article published on February 2016

How medical professionals evaluate expressions of probability.

scientific article published on September 1986

Identification of a large set of rare complete human knockouts

scientific article

Identification of an imprinted master trans regulator at the KLF14 locus related to multiple metabolic phenotypes

scientific article

Identification of low-frequency and rare sequence variants associated with elevated or reduced risk of type 2 diabetes

scientific article

Identification of low-frequency variants associated with gout and serum uric acid levels

scientific article published on 9 October 2011

Insertion of an SVA-E retrotransposon into the CASP8 gene is associated with protection against prostate cancer

scientific article published on 5 January 2016

Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

scientific article

Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

scientific article

Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

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Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

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Large-scale whole-genome sequencing of the Icelandic population

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Linkage analysis with adjustment for covariates: a method combining peeling with Gibbs sampling

scientific article published in January 1992

Linkage of osteoporosis to chromosome 20p12 and association to BMP2

scientific article

Localization of a susceptibility gene for common forms of stroke to 5q12

scientific article

Loss-of-function mutations in SLC30A8 protect against type 2 diabetes

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Loss-of-function variants in ABCA7 confer risk of Alzheimer's disease

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Male-pattern baldness susceptibility locus at 20p11.

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Many sequence variants affecting diversity of adult human height

scientific article published in May 2008

Measuring the relative information in allele-sharing linkage studies

scientific article published on June 2004

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

scientific article

Multi-nucleotide de novo Mutations in Humans

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Multiple genetic loci for bone mineral density and fractures

scientific article published on 29 April 2008

Multiple transmissions of de novo mutations in families

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Mutations in BRIP1 confer high risk of ovarian cancer

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Neuregulin 1 and susceptibility to schizophrenia

scientific article

New basal cell carcinoma susceptibility loci

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New common variants affecting susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma

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New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

scientific article

New sequence variants associated with bone mineral density

scientific article

Nonsense mutation in the LGR4 gene is associated with several human diseases and other traits

scientific article

Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals

scientific article

On a randomization procedure.

scientific article published in November 2000

Parental influence on human germline de novo mutations in 1,548 trios from Iceland

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseases

scientific article published on December 2009

Physical and neurobehavioral determinants of reproductive onset and success

scientific article

Polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder predict creativity

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father's age to disease risk

scientific article

Recombination rate and reproductive success in humans

scientific article

Reconstructing an African haploid genome from the 18th century.

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Refining the impact of TCF7L2 gene variants on type 2 diabetes and adaptive evolution

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Relatedness disequilibrium regression estimates heritability without environmental bias

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Reproductive fitness and genetic risk of psychiatric disorders in the general population

scientific article

Risk variants for atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25 associate with ischemic stroke

scientific article published in October 2008

Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Sequence variant at 8q24.21 associates with sciatica caused by lumbar disc herniation

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

Sequence variant on 8q24 confers susceptibility to urinary bladder cancer

scientific article

Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction

scientific article

Sequence variants at CYP1A1-CYP1A2 and AHR associate with coffee consumption

scientific article

Sequence variants at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus associate with many cancer types

scientific article (publication date: February 2009)

Sequence variants from whole genome sequencing a large group of Icelanders

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Sequence variants in the CLDN14 gene associate with kidney stones and bone mineral density

scientific journal article

Sequence variants in the RNF212 gene associate with genome-wide recombination rate

scientific article

Sequential Imputations and Bayesian Missing Data Problems

article by Augustine Kong et al published March 1994 in Journal of the American Statistical Association

Sequential imputation for multilocus linkage analysis

scientific article published in November 1994

Several common variants modulate heart rate, PR interval and QRS duration

article by Hilma Holm et al published 10 January 2010 in Nature Genetics

Severe osteoarthritis of the hand associates with common variants within the ALDH1A2 gene and with rare variants at 1p31.

scientific article published on 13 April 2014

Single-tissue and cross-tissue heritability of gene expression via identity-by-descent in related or unrelated individuals

scientific article

Support for involvement of the AHI1 locus in schizophrenia

The BARD1 Cys557Ser variant and breast cancer risk in Iceland

scientific article published in July 2006

The Y-chromosome point mutation rate in humans.

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

The association of a SNP upstream of INSIG2 with body mass index is reproduced in several but not all cohorts

scientific article

The germline sequence variant rs2736100_C in TERT associates with myeloproliferative neoplasms

scientific article published on 30 January 2014

The impact of divergence time on the nature of population structure: an example from Iceland

scientific article published in June 2009

The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes

scientific article

The properties of the cross-match estimate and split sampling

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The rate of meiotic gene conversion varies by sex and age.

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

The same sequence variant on 9p21 associates with myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm and intracranial aneurysm

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Truncating mutations in RBM12 are associated with psychosis

scientific article

Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

scientific article

Twenty bone-mineral-density loci identified by large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

scientific article

Two newly identified genetic determinants of pigmentation in Europeans

scientific article

Two variants on chromosome 17 confer prostate cancer risk and the one in TCF2 protects against type 2 diabetes

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Variant in the sequence of the LINGO1 gene confers risk of essential tremor

scientific journal article

Variant of TREM2 Associated with the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

scientific article

Variant of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene confers risk of type 2 diabetes

scientific article (publication date: March 2006)

Variants conferring risk of atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25.

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Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels

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Weighting sequence variants based on their annotation increases power of whole-genome association studies

scientific article published on 8 February 2016

Whole genome characterization of sequence diversity of 15,220 Icelanders

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Whole-genome sequencing identifies rare genotypes in COMP and CHADL associated with high risk of hip osteoarthritis

scientific article published on 20 March 2017

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