Area of research
Genetics · Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Research interest
The University of Basel is a research institution with regional roots and international networks. As a high-profile full university, it creates optimal research conditions and regards the increasing competition as an incentive to constantly improve and position itself both nationally and internationally. It owes its innovative strength to the achievements of its researchers.
Cohort Profile Update: Expanding the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study into a multigenerational cohort.
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-eQTLs reveal the architecture of human gene regulatory networks
Association of neighborhood and individual-level socioeconomic disadvantage in childhood and adulthood with cognitive function in mid-adulthood: Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study.
Diagnosing migraine from genome-wide genotype data: a machine learning analysis.
Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage from childhood to midlife and carotid atherosclerosis.
Polygenic risk for schizophrenia predicting test-measured and self-reported cognitive performance in individuals without psychosis.
Associations of long-term cumulative C-reactive protein and glycoprotein acetyls concentrations in childhood, adolescence and adulthood with adulthood retinal microvascular structure.
Differential effects of adolescent health behaviours on adult cardiometabolic health by parental and neighbourhood socioeconomic background.
EpiSmokEr2: a robust epigenetic classifier for smoking status inference using Illumina EPIC methylation data.
Nature's Curriculum: Genes Linked to Educational Attainment and Adult Socioeconomic Status Across Birth Cohorts in a Nordic Welfare State.
Genome-wide DNA methylation patterns for indicators of liver steatosis: a longitudinal multiomic study.
Life-Course Blood Pressure Levels, 38-Year Tracking, and Prediction of Hypertension.
Large-scale blood pressure GWAS accounting for gene-depression interactions in 564,680 individuals from diverse populations.
Discovery of gene-alcohol interaction loci influencing blood pressure in 1.1 million individuals from multiple populations
Gene-by-Sleep Duration Interaction for Glycemic Traits in over 480,000 Individuals
Traditional disease risk factors outperform epigenetic clocks as predictors of non-communicable disease morbidity in a middle-aged cohort
Lipoprotein(a): Particle vs. Mass and Cardiovascular Events in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study population
Polygenic prediction of body mass index and obesity through the life course and across ancestries.
Robust inference and widespread genetic correlates from a large-scale genetic association study of human personality
Contribution of autosomal rare and de novo variants to sex differences in autism.
MR-link-2: pleiotropy robust cis Mendelian randomization validated in three independent reference datasets of causality.
Exploring penetrance of clinically relevant variants in over 800,000 humans from the Genome Aggregation Database.
Blood pressure in childhood, young- and mid-adulthood: association with carotid plaque severity.
Sleep disturbances, shift work, and epigenetic ageing in working-age adults: findings from the Young Finns study.
Early resilience and epigenetic ageing: Results from the prospective Young Finns Study with a 31-year follow-up.
Factors related to blood-based biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases and their intergenerational associations in the Young Finns Study: a cohort study.
Viridans Streptococcal Biofilm Evades Immune Detection and Contributes to Inflammation and Rupture of Atherosclerotic Plaques.
Association of epicardial adipose tissue thickness and cardiac structure and function in early midlife - The cardiovascular risks in Young Finns Study.
Electrocardiogram markers predicting ischemic stroke after acute coronary syndrome.
Polygenic risk for schizophrenia and subjective well-being in a general population sample.