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List of works by Hanieh Yaghootkar

A Common Allele in FGF21 Associated with Sugar Intake Is Associated with Body Shape, Lower Total Body-Fat Percentage, and Higher Blood Pressure

scientific article published in April 2018

A Mendelian Randomization Study Provides Evidence That Adiposity and Dyslipidemia Lead to Lower Urinary Albumin-to-Creatinine Ratio, a Marker of Microvascular Function

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

A common allele in FGF21 associated with preference for sugar consumption lowers body fat in the lower body and increases blood pressure

scholarly article published 6 November 2017

A genetic variant in the seed region of miR-4513 shows pleiotropic effects on lipid and glucose homeostasis, blood pressure, and coronary artery disease

scientific article published in December 2014

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

Allelic heterogeneity and more detailed analyses of known loci explain additional phenotypic variation and reveal complex patterns of association

scientific article

Analysis with the exome array identifies multiple new independent variants in lipid loci

scientific article published on 27 July 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

CNV-association meta-analysis in 191,161 European adults reveals new loci associated with anthropometric traits

scientific article published on 29 September 2017

Cell Specific eQTL Analysis without Sorting Cells

scientific article published on 8 May 2015

Cell specific eQTL analysis without sorting cells

Common genetic variants highlight the role of insulin resistance and body fat distribution in type 2 diabetes, independent of obesity

scientific article

Common variants at 12q15 and 12q24 are associated with infant head circumference

scientific article published on 15 April 2012

Corrigendum: Integrative genomic analysis implicates limited peripheral adipose storage capacity in the pathogenesis of human insulin resistance.

scientific article

Erratum: Common variants at 12q15 and 12q24 are associated with infant head circumference

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Ethnic differences in adiposity and diabetes risk - insights from genetic studies

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

Evidence that low socioeconomic position accentuates genetic susceptibility to obesity

article published in 2016

Exome-Derived Adiponectin-Associated Variants Implicate Obesity and Lipid Biology

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Exome-Derived Adiponectin-Associated Variants Implicate Obesity and Lipid Biology

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in >300,000 individuals

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Functional characterisation of ADIPOQ variants using individuals recruited by genotype

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Gene-obesogenic environment interactions in the UK Biobank study

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

Genetic Evidence for a Link Between Favorable Adiposity and Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, and Heart Disease

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

Genetic Studies of Leptin Concentrations Implicate Leptin in the Regulation of Early Adiposity

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Genetic evidence for a normal-weight "metabolically obese" phenotype linking insulin resistance, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes

scientific article

Genetic evidence that lower circulating FSH levels lengthen menstrual cycle, increase age at menopause and impact female reproductive health

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Genetic evidence that lower circulating FSH levels lengthen menstrual cycle, increase age at menopause, and impact reproductive health: a UK Biobank study

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Genetic origins of low birth weight

scientific article published on May 2012

Genetic studies of accelerometer-based sleep measures in 85,670 individuals yield new insights into human sleep behaviour

article published in 2018

Genome-Wide and Abdominal MRI-Imaging Data Provides Evidence that a Genetically Determined Favourable Adiposity Phenotype is Characterized by Lower Ectopic Liver Fat and Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Disease and Hypertension

scientific article published on 23 October 2018

Genome-wide association analyses in >119,000 individuals identifies thirteen morningness and two sleep duration loci

Genome-wide association study of offspring birth weight in 86,577 women highlights maternal genetic effects that are independent of fetal genetics

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Genome-wide association study of offspring birth weight in 86,577 women identifies five novel loci and highlights maternal genetic effects that are independent of fetal genetics

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Genome-wide association study to identify common variants associated with brachial circumference: a meta-analysis of 14 cohorts

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease

scientific article

HUMAN LONGEVITY IS INFLUENCED BY MANY GENETIC VARIANTS: EVIDENCE FROM 75,000 UK BIOBANK PARTICIPANTS

Human aging is characterized by focused changes in gene expression and deregulation of alternative splicing

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Identifying likely causal connections between gene expression levels using a Mendelian randomization approach

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Integrative genomic analysis implicates limited peripheral adipose storage capacity in the pathogenesis of human insulin resistance.

scientific article

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

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Machine Learning based histology phenotyping to investigate the epidemiologic and genetic basis of adipocyte morphology and cardiometabolic traits

scientific article published on 14 August 2020

Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for body fat distribution in 694 649 individuals of European ancestry

article by Sara Pulit et al published 1 January 2019 in Human Molecular Genetics

Mosaic Turner syndrome shows reduced phenotypic penetrance in an adult population study compared to clinically ascertained cases

New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism

scientific article published on 2 December 2012

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

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Parental diabetes and birthweight in 236 030 individuals in the UK biobank study

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

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

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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

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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

Quantifying the extent to which index event biases influence large genetic association studies

scientific article published on 30 December 2016

Quantifying the extent to which index event biases influence large genetic association studies

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Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

scientific article (publication date: February 2017)

Recent progress in the use of genetics to understand links between type 2 diabetes and related metabolic traits

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Red Blood Cell Distribution Width: genetic evidence for aging pathways in 116,666 volunteers

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

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Testing the role of predicted gene knockouts in human anthropometric trait variation

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The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood

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

scientific article published on 12 September 2016

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha polymorphism at position -238 in preeclampsia

scientific article published on 05 January 2014

Type 1 diabetes genetic risk score discriminates between monogenic and Type 1 diabetes in children diagnosed at the age of <5 years in the Iranian population

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Unraveling the polygenic architecture of complex traits using blood eQTL meta-analysis

scholarly article published 19 October 2018

Using Genetic Variants to Assess the Relationship Between Circulating Lipids and Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published on 6 May 2015

Using genetics to decipher the link between type 2 diabetes and cancer: shared aetiology or downstream consequence?

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Variants in the FTO and CDKAL1 loci have recessive effects on risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes respectively

Variants in the FTO and CDKAL1 loci have recessive effects on risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes, respectively

scientific article published on 10 March 2016