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List of works by Alena Stančáková

A Genome-Wide Association Study of IVGTT-Based Measures of First-Phase Insulin Secretion Refines the Underlying Physiology of Type 2 Diabetes Variants

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

A Large-Scale Multi-ancestry Genome-wide Study Accounting for Smoking Behavior Identifies Multiple Significant Loci for Blood Pressure

scientific article

A Partial Loss-of-Function Variant in AKT2 Is Associated With Reduced Insulin-Mediated Glucose Uptake in Multiple Insulin-Sensitive Tissues: A Genotype-Based Callback Positron Emission Tomography Study

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

A candidate type 2 diabetes polymorphism near the HHEX locus affects acute glucose-stimulated insulin release in European populations: results from the EUGENE2 study

scientific article published on 26 November 2007

A common variant in TFB1M is associated with reduced insulin secretion and increased future risk of type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on January 2011

A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance

scientific article published on 13 May 2012

A genomic approach to therapeutic target validation identifies a glucose-lowering GLP1R variant protective for coronary heart disease

scientific article published on June 2016

A multi-ancestry genome-wide study incorporating gene-smoking interactions identifies multiple new loci for pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape

scientific article published on 23 November 2016

Association analysis of 29,956 individuals confirms that a low-frequency variant at CCND2 halves the risk of type 2 diabetes by enhancing insulin secretion

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Association of 18 confirmed susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes with indices of insulin release, proinsulin conversion, and insulin sensitivity in 5,327 nondiabetic Finnish men.

scientific article published on 05 June 2009

Association of Common Genetic Variation in The FOXO1 Gene with β-Cell Dysfunction, Impaired Glucose Tolerance, And Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published in February 2009

Association of common genetic variation in the FOXO1 gene with beta-cell dysfunction, impaired glucose tolerance, and type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Association of erythrocyte membrane fatty acids with changes in glycemia and risk of type 2 diabetes.

scientific article

Association of ketone body levels with hyperglycemia and type 2 diabetes in 9,398 Finnish men.

scientific article published on 04 April 2013

Association of the FTO gene variant (rs9939609) with cardiovascular disease in men with abnormal glucose metabolism – The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study

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Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Associations of multiple lipoprotein and apolipoprotein measures with worsening of glycemia and incident type 2 diabetes in 6607 non-diabetic Finnish men.

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Beneficial effect of simvastatin treatment on LDL oxidation and antioxidant protection is more pronounced in combined hyperlipidemia than in hypercholesterolemia

scientific article published on 04 May 2006

Both fasting and glucose-stimulated proinsulin levels predict hyperglycemia and incident type 2 diabetes: a population-based study of 9,396 Finnish men

scientific article

Changes in cytokine levels during acute hyperinsulinemia in offspring of type 2 diabetic subjects

scientific article published on 2 December 2009

Changes in insulin sensitivity and insulin release in relation to glycemia and glucose tolerance in 6,414 Finnish men

scientific article published on 17 February 2009

Clinical, Genetic, and Biochemical Characteristics of Early-Onset Diabetes in the Finnish Population

scientific article

Common polymorphisms within the NR4A3 locus, encoding the orphan nuclear receptor Nor-1, are associated with enhanced beta-cell function in non-diabetic subjects

scientific article published on 14 August 2009

Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

scientific article

Correction: Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity - A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

scientific article

Decreased plasma C-reactive protein levels in 4 allele carriers

Decreased plasma β-amyloid in the Alzheimer's disease APP A673T variant carriers

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

scientific article

Differential Associations of Inflammatory Markers With Insulin Sensitivity and Secretion: The Prospective METSIM Study

scientific article published on September 2017

Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations

scientific article published in July 2015

Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

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Disentangling the genetics of lean mass

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Effects of 34 risk loci for type 2 diabetes or hyperglycemia on lipoprotein subclasses and their composition in 6,580 nondiabetic Finnish men.

scientific article published on 18 March 2011

Elevated Plasma Levels of 3-Hydroxyisobutyric Acid Are Associated With Incident Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article

Erratum: Large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies five loci for lean body mass

scientific article

Erratum: Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

Evidence of how rs7575840 influences apolipoprotein B-containing lipid particles

scientific article

Exome array analysis identifies new loci and low-frequency variants influencing insulin processing and secretion

scientific article

Exome sequencing-driven discovery of coding polymorphisms associated with common metabolic phenotypes.

scientific article published on 19 November 2012

Fasting and OGTT-derived measures of insulin resistance as compared with the euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp in nondiabetic Finnish offspring of type 2 diabetic individuals

scientific article published on 11 November 2014

Fine-mapping of an expanded set of type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps

Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Finnish Diabetes Risk Score Is Associated with Impaired Insulin Secretion and Insulin Sensitivity, Drug-Treated Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: A Follow-Up Study of the METSIM Cohort

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Gene × physical activity interactions in obesity: combined analysis of 111,421 individuals of European ancestry

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Genetic Regulation of Adipose Gene Expression and Cardio-Metabolic Traits

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Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

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

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Genetic risk scores in the prediction of plasma glucose, impaired insulin secretion, insulin resistance and incident type 2 diabetes in the METSIM study

scientific article published in June 2017

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

scientific article

Genetic variants associated with glycaemic response to treatment with dipeptidylpeptidase 4 inhibitors

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

scientific article published on 6 October 2011

Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Genetics of metabolic syndrome

scientific article

Genome-Wide Association Study of the Modified Stumvoll Insulin Sensitivity Index Identifies BCL2 and FAM19A2 as Novel Insulin Sensitivity Loci

scientific article published on 14 July 2016

Genome-wide association and functional studies identify 46 novel loci for alcohol consumption and suggest common genetic mechanisms with neuropsychiatric disorders

Genome-wide association identifies nine common variants associated with fasting proinsulin levels and provides new insights into the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

scientific article

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

scientific journal article

Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits.

scientific article

Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity - A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults

scientific article published on 27 April 2017

Genome-wide screen for metabolic syndrome susceptibility Loci reveals strong lipid gene contribution but no evidence for common genetic basis for clustering of metabolic syndrome traits

scientific journal article

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

scientific article

Glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity and insulin release in European non-diabetic carriers of a polymorphism upstream of CDKN2A and CDKN2B.

scientific article published on 14 January 2011

Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Stimulates Osteopontin Expression in the Vasculature via Endothelin-1 and CREB.

scientific article published on 22 September 2015

Glycated hemoglobin levels are mostly dependent on nonglycemic parameters in 9398 Finnish men without diabetes

scientific article published on 3 March 2015

Heterozygous RFX6 protein truncating variants are associated with MODY with reduced penetrance

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Heterozygous RFX6 protein truncating variants cause Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) with reduced penetrance

Hyperglycemia and a common variant of GCKR are associated with the levels of eight amino acids in 9,369 Finnish men

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Identification of seven novel loci associated with amino acid levels using single-variant and gene-based tests in 8545 Finnish men from the METSIM study

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Identification of undiagnosed type 2 diabetic individuals by the finnish diabetes risk score and biochemical and genetic markers: a population-based study of 7232 Finnish men.

scientific article published on 12 May 2010

Impact of positive family history and genetic risk variants on the incidence of diabetes: the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study

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Impact of type 2 diabetes susceptibility variants on quantitative glycemic traits reveals mechanistic heterogeneity

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Increased risk of diabetes with statin treatment is associated with impaired insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion: a 6 year follow-up study of the METSIM cohort

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies five loci for lean body mass

scientific article

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

scientific article

Link between GIP and osteopontin in adipose tissue and insulin resistance

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility

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Markers of tissue-specific insulin resistance predict the worsening of hyperglycemia, incident type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease

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Multi-Ancestry Genome-Wide Association Study of Lipid Levels Incorporating Gene-Alcohol Interactions

Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids

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New Blood Pressure-Associated Loci Identified in Meta-Analyses of 475 000 Individuals

scientific article published in October 2017

New alcohol-related genes suggest shared genetic mechanisms with neuropsychiatric disorders

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

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New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk

scientific article published on February 2016

Nine Amino Acids Are Associated With Decreased Insulin Secretion and Elevated Glucose Levels in a 7.4-Year Follow-up Study of 5,181 Finnish Men

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

No interactions between previously associated 2-hour glucose gene variants and physical activity or BMI on 2-hour glucose levels

scientific article published on 13 March 2012

Non-cholesterol sterol levels predict hyperglycemia and conversion to type 2 diabetes in Finnish men

scientific article published in 2013

Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries.

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: a meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children

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Plasma Mannose Levels Are Associated with Incident Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease

scientific article published in August 2017

Plasma fatty acids as predictors of glycaemia and type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 16 August 2015

Pleiotropic effects of GIP on islet function involve osteopontin

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Refining The Accuracy Of Validated Target Identification Through Coding Variant Fine-Mapping In Type 2 Diabetes

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Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Relation of direct and surrogate measures of insulin resistance to cardiovascular risk factors in nondiabetic finnish offspring of type 2 diabetic individuals

scientific article published on 11 August 2010

SIRT3 deficiency and mitochondrial protein hyperacetylation accelerate the development of the metabolic syndrome

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Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Short Adult Stature Predicts Impaired β-Cell Function, Insulin Resistance, Glycemia, and Type 2 Diabetes in Finnish Men.

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Simvastatin Impairs Insulin Secretion by Multiple Mechanisms in MIN6 Cells

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Single-nucleotide polymorphism rs7754840 of CDKAL1 is associated with impaired insulin secretion in nondiabetic offspring of type 2 diabetic subjects and in a large sample of men with normal glucose tolerance

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The D299G/T399I Toll-like receptor 4 variant associates with body and liver fat: results from the TULIP and METSIM Studies

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The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

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The Metabolic Syndrome in Men study: a resource for studies of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

The birth weight lowering C-allele of rs900400 near LEKR1 and CCNL1 associates with elevated insulin release following an oral glucose challenge

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

The cancer-associated FGFR4-G388R polymorphism enhances pancreatic insulin secretion and modifies the risk of diabetes

retracted scientific article published on June 2013

The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

scientific article (publication date: 11 July 2016)

The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Trans-ancestry meta-analyses identify rare and common variants associated with blood pressure and hypertension

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Trans-ethnic fine-mapping of lipid loci identifies population-specific signals and allelic heterogeneity that increases the trait variance explained

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Variance of the SGK1 gene is associated with insulin secretion in different European populations: results from the TUEF, EUGENE2, and METSIM studies

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