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Elisabeth Widen

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1 Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nat Genet 2010 23.08
2 Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height. Nature 2010 20.01
3 Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution. Nat Genet 2010 7.94
4 GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment. Science 2013 4.71
5 A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance. Nat Genet 2012 4.37
6 Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease. Nat Genet 2013 3.87
7 Combined genome scans for body stature in 6,602 European twins: evidence for common Caucasian loci. PLoS Genet 2007 3.47
8 Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies. Nat Genet 2010 3.37
9 Geographical structure and differential natural selection among North European populations. Genome Res 2009 3.03
10 A genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies new childhood obesity loci. Nat Genet 2012 2.60
11 Variants in ADCY5 and near CCNL1 are associated with fetal growth and birth weight. Nat Genet 2010 2.30
12 Meta-analyses identify 13 loci associated with age at menopause and highlight DNA repair and immune pathways. Nat Genet 2012 2.12
13 Genetic determinants of height growth assessed longitudinally from infancy to adulthood in the northern Finland birth cohort 1966. PLoS Genet 2009 1.89
14 Multiethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in >100 000 subjects identifies 23 fibrinogen-associated Loci but no strong evidence of a causal association between circulating fibrinogen and cardiovascular disease. Circulation 2013 1.77
15 Identification of heart rate-associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders. Nat Genet 2013 1.72
16 Genome-wide screen for metabolic syndrome susceptibility Loci reveals strong lipid gene contribution but no evidence for common genetic basis for clustering of metabolic syndrome traits. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012 1.60
17 Maintenance of genetic variation in human personality: testing evolutionary models by estimating heritability due to common causal variants and investigating the effect of distant inbreeding. Evolution 2012 1.21
18 Susceptibility loci for preeclampsia on chromosomes 2p25 and 9p13 in Finnish families. Am J Hum Genet 2002 1.21
19 The human GIMAP5 gene has a common polyadenylation polymorphism increasing risk to systemic lupus erythematosus. J Med Genet 2007 1.16
20 A meta-analysis of thyroid-related traits reveals novel loci and gender-specific differences in the regulation of thyroid function. PLoS Genet 2013 1.12
21 Whole genome association scan for genetic polymorphisms influencing information processing speed. Biol Psychol 2010 1.07
22 Harmonization of Neuroticism and Extraversion phenotypes across inventories and cohorts in the Genetics of Personality Consortium: an application of Item Response Theory. Behav Genet 2014 0.99
23 Genome-wide association studies of asthma in population-based cohorts confirm known and suggested loci and identify an additional association near HLA. PLoS One 2012 0.99
24 Association of adiposity genetic variants with menarche timing in 92,105 women of European descent. Am J Epidemiol 2013 0.93
25 Genome-wide meta-analysis of common variant differences between men and women. Hum Mol Genet 2012 0.88
26 Intracranial aneurysm risk locus 5q23.2 is associated with elevated systolic blood pressure. PLoS Genet 2012 0.85
27 Genome-wide association study of sleep duration in the Finnish population. J Sleep Res 2014 0.84
28 Identification of MAMDC1 as a candidate susceptibility gene for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). PLoS One 2009 0.80