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List of works by Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir

A PRPH splice-donor variant associates with reduced sural nerve amplitude and risk of peripheral neuropathy

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

A Splice Region Variant in LDLR Lowers Non-high Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Protects against Coronary Artery Disease

scientific article published on September 2015

A common biological basis of obesity and nicotine addiction

scientific article

A common inversion under selection in Europeans

scientific article (publication date: February 2005)

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

scientific article published on 23 November 2016

Analysis of potential protein-modifying variants in 9000 endometriosis patients and 150000 controls of European ancestry

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

scientific article (publication date: November 2010)

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 neuregulin 1 with schizophrenia confirmed in a Scottish population

scientific article

Clostridium perfringens beta-toxin forms multimeric transmembrane pores in human endothelial cells

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

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

scientific article

Common variants upstream of KDR encoding VEGFR2 and in TTC39B associate with endometriosis

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

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

scientific article published on 27 July 2009

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

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

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

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

scientific article

Discovery and Fine-Mapping of Glycaemic and Obesity-Related Trait Loci Using High-Density Imputation

scientific article

Effect of sequence variants on variance in glucose levels predicts type 2 diabetes risk and accounts for heritability.

scientific article published on 7 August 2017

Enteric adenovirus type 40: E1B transcription map and identification of novel E1A–E1B cotranscripts in lytically infected cells ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1991

Erratum: Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

scientific article published in November 2011

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

scientific article published in May 2010

Evaluating differences in linkage disequilibrium between populations.

scientific article published in May 2010

FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

scientific article published on 16 September 2012

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

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

scientific article

Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

article

Genetic evidence that raised sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) levels reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 18 November 2009

Genetic factors contribute to the risk of developing endometriosis.

scientific article published in March 2002

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

scientific article

Genetic inactivation of ANGPTL4 improves glucose homeostasis and is associated with reduced risk of diabetes.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Genetic predisposition to hypertension is associated with preeclampsia in European and Central Asian women

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

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

scientific article

Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge

scientific journal article

Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2008)

Genome-wide analysis yields new loci associating with aortic valve stenosis

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Genome-wide association identifies seven loci for pelvic organ prolapse in Iceland and the UK Biobank

scientific article published on 17 March 2020

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 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 yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity

scientific article

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

scientific journal article

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

scientific article

Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

scientific article

Identification of a novel neuregulin 1 at-risk haplotype in Han schizophrenia Chinese patients, but no association with the Icelandic/Scottish risk haplotype

scientific article published in July 2004

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Many sequence variants affecting diversity of adult human height

scientific article published in May 2008

Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

scientific article

Meta-analysis identifies five novel loci associated with endometriosis highlighting key genes involved in hormone metabolism

scientific article

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

scientific article

Multiple novel transcription initiation sites for NRG1

scientific article

Neuregulin 1 and schizophrenia

scientific article published on January 2004

Neuregulin 1 and susceptibility to schizophrenia

scientific article

New common variants affecting susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

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

PROTEIN-CODING VARIANTS IMPLICATE NOVEL GENES RELATED TO LIPID HOMEOSTASIS CONTRIBUTING TO BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION

article

Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseases

scientific article published on December 2009

Paternity change and the recurrence risk in familial hypertensive disorder in pregnancy

scientific article

Properties of the adenovirus type 40 E1B promoter that contribute to its low transcriptional activity

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution

article

Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

scientific article published on 16 March 2018

Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

scientific article

Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

scientific article (publication date: February 2017)

Recurrence of hypertensive disorder in second pregnancy.

scientific article

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

article

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

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction

scientific article

Sequence variants associating with urinary biomarkers

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies including 270,000 individuals show sexual dimorphism in genetic loci for anthropometric traits

scientific article

Site-directed mutagenesis of Clostridium perfringens beta-toxin: expression of wild-type and mutant toxins in Bacillus subtilis

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Stratifying type 2 diabetes cases by BMI identifies genetic risk variants in LAMA1 and enrichment for risk variants in lean compared to obese cases

scientific article

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

scientific article

The epidemiology of pituitary adenomas in Iceland, 1955-2012: a nationwide population-based study

scientific article

The impact of low-frequency and rare variants on lipid levels

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

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

article

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

scientific article

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

article

Variant ASGR1 Associated with a Reduced Risk of Coronary Artery Disease

scientific article

Variants associating with uterine leiomyoma highlight genetic background shared by various cancers and hormone-related traits

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels

scientific article

Variants in the fetal genome near FLT1 are associated with risk of preeclampsia

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Variants with large effects on blood lipids and the role of cholesterol and triglycerides in coronary disease

scientific article

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