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List of works by Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir

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

scientific article (publication date: November 2010)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease

scientific article (publication date: 27 March 2008)

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

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

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Neuregulin 1 and susceptibility to schizophrenia

scientific article published on 23 July 2002

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

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

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

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

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Sequence variants affecting eosinophil numbers associate with asthma and myocardial infarction

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Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels

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A common inversion under selection in Europeans

scientific article (publication date: February 2005)

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

scientific journal article

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

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Many sequence variants affecting diversity of adult human height

scientific article published in May 2008

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

scientific article published in June 2009

Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseases

scientific article published on December 2009

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

scientific journal article

Association of neuregulin 1 with schizophrenia confirmed in a Scottish population

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

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

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

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FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

scientific article published on 16 September 2012

New common variants affecting susceptibility to basal cell carcinoma

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

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Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

scientific article (publication date: February 2017)

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

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

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A germline variant in the TP53 polyadenylation signal confers cancer susceptibility

scientific article published on 25 September 2011

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

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

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

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

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

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

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

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

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

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

scientific journal 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

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

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

Multiple novel transcription initiation sites for NRG1

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Genetic factors contribute to the risk of developing endometriosis

scientific article published in March 2002

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

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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