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Guðmar Þorleifsson | Researchclopedia

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Guðmar Þorleifsson

deCODE Genetics (Iceland)ORCID

577

Works

118,796

Citations

159

h-index

377

i10-index

Research Topics

Genetic Associations and Epidemiology Epigenetics and DNA Methylation Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Affiliations

Reykjavík University2007–2015

Uppsala University2007–2007

University of Copenhagen1991–1992

Apple (Israel)2016–2016

Girls Incorporated2016–2021

Top Works

Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

Tanya M. Teslovich,Kiran Musunuru,et al.

20103,662 citations

RNA modifications and cancer

Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

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

MAGIC,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,et al.

20102,969 citations

Benjamin F. Voight,Gina M. Peloso,et al.

2,273 citations

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

Struan F.A. Grant,Guðmar Þorleifsson,et al.

20062,267 citations

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

Augustine Kong,Michael L. Frigge,et al.

20122,230 citations

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

Josée Dupuis,the MAGIC investigators,et al.

20102,225 citations

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

Hana Lango Allen,Karol Estrada,et al.

20102,053 citations

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

Andrew P. Morris,Benjamin F. Voight,et al.

20122,003 citations

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

Anubha Mahajan,Daniel Taliun,et al.

20181,896 citations