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Lude FrankeProfessor of Functional Genomics, University Medical Centre GroningenVerified email at cleverfranke.com
Tõnu EskoUniversity of TartuVerified email at ut.ee
Cisca Wijmenga, PhDERC advanced investigator; Professor of Human Genetics, Dept Genetics (MGE), UMCG, Groningen, theVerified email at umcg.nl
Patrick DeelenPost-doc researcher at University Medical Center GroningenVerified email at umcg.nl
Soumya RaychaudhuriHarvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Broad InstituteVerified email at broadinstitute.org
RSN FehrmannUniversity Medical Center GroningenVerified email at umcg.nl
Andres MetspaluUniversity of TartuVerified email at ut.ee
Jingyuan Fu, PhDProfessor, University Medical Center Groningen, NetherlandsVerified email at umcg.nl
Alexandra (Sasha) ZhernakovaProfessor of Human Genome and Exposome, University Medical Centre Groningen, The NetherlandsVerified email at umcg.nl
Jian YangProfessor of Statistical Genetics, Westlake UniversityVerified email at westlake.edu.cn
Zhernakova DVDepartment of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, GroningenVerified email at umcg.nl
Juha KarjalainenComputational scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and HarvardVerified email at broadinstitute.org
ritsert jansenProfessor of Bioinformatics, Dean of Talent DevelopmentVerified email at rug.nl
Morris SwertzFull Professor / Head of Genomics Coordination Center, Dept of Genetics, University MedicalVerified email at rug.nl
Joel HirschhornVerified email at broadinstitute.org
G J te Meermanemeritus associate professor in mathematical genetics and bioinformatics, researcher geneticsVerified email at umcg.nl
Marten HofkerProfessor of Molecular Genetics, UMCG, Groningen University, The NetherlandsVerified email at umcg.nl
Peter VisscherProfessor of Quantitative Genetics, University of QueenslandVerified email at uq.edu.au
Vinod Kumar Magadi GopalaiahGroup leader at 1: UMCG, Genetics department; 2: RadboudUMC, department of Internal MedicineVerified email at umcg.nl
Rodrigo Coutinho de AlmeidaTelespazio Belgium S.R.L. for the European Space Agency (ESA)Verified email at telespazio.com

Harm-Jan Westra

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Genetics Bioinformatics Complex Diseases Gene Expression


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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology AE Locke, B Kahali, SI Berndt, AE Justice, TH Pers, FR Day, C Powell, ... Nature 518 (7538), 197-206, 2015	4614	2015
Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery Y Okada, D Wu, G Trynka, T Raj, C Terao, K Ikari, Y Kochi, K Ohmura, ... Nature 506 (7488), 376-381, 2014	2427	2014
Association analyses identify 38 susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease and highlight shared genetic risk across populations JZ Liu, S Van Sommeren, H Huang, SC Ng, R Alberts, A Takahashi, ... Nature genetics 47 (9), 979-986, 2015	2387	2015
Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height AR Wood, T Esko, J Yang, S Vedantam, TH Pers, S Gustafsson, AY Chu, ... Nature genetics 46 (11), 1173-1186, 2014	2069	2014
Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations HJ Westra, MJ Peters, T Esko, H Yaghootkar, C Schurmann, J Kettunen, ... Nature genetics 45 (10), 1238-1243, 2013	1880	2013
Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47 CA Anderson, G Boucher, CW Lees, A Franke, M D'Amato, KD Taylor, ... Nature genetics 43 (3), 246-252, 2011	1697	2011
New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution D Shungin, TW Winkler, DC Croteau-Chonka, T Ferreira, AE Locke, ... Nature 518 (7538), 187-196, 2015	1597	2015
Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment A Okbay, JP Beauchamp, MA Fontana, JJ Lee, TH Pers, CA Rietveld, ... Nature 533 (7604), 539-542, 2016	1372	2016
Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses A Okbay, BML Baselmans, JE De Neve, P Turley, MG Nivard, MA Fontana, ... Nature genetics 48 (6), 624-633, 2016	1031	2016
GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment CA Rietveld, SE Medland, J Derringer, J Yang, T Esko, NW Martin, ... science 340 (6139), 1467-1471, 2013	983	2013
Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions TH Pers, JM Karjalainen, Y Chan, HJ Westra, AR Wood, J Yang, JC Lui, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 5890, 2015	830	2015
Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition A Kurilshikov, C Medina-Gomez, R Bacigalupe, D Radjabzadeh, J Wang, ... Nature genetics 53 (2), 156-165, 2021	813	2021
High-density genetic mapping identifies new susceptibility loci for rheumatoid arthritis S Eyre, J Bowes, D Diogo, A Lee, A Barton, P Martin, A Zhernakova, ... Nature genetics 44 (12), 1336-1340, 2012	749	2012
Analysis of five chronic inflammatory diseases identifies 27 new associations and highlights disease-specific patterns at shared loci D Ellinghaus, L Jostins, SL Spain, A Cortes, J Bethune, B Han, YR Park, ... Nature genetics 48 (5), 510-518, 2016	711	2016
Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder, P Deelen, B Zeng, ... Nature genetics 53 (9), 1300-1310, 2021	708	2021
The transcriptional landscape of age in human peripheral blood MJ Peters, R Joehanes, LC Pilling, C Schurmann, KN Conneely, J Powell, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 1-14, 2015	591	2015
Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences R Karlsson Linnér, P Biroli, E Kong, SFW Meddens, R Wedow, ... Nature genetics 51 (2), 245-257, 2019	577	2019
Unraveling the polygenic architecture of complex traits using blood eQTL metaanalysis U Võsa, A Claringbould, HJ Westra, MJ Bonder, P Deelen, B Zeng, ... BioRxiv, 447367, 2018	489	2018
Genome-Wide Association Study in Asian Populations Identifies Variants in ETS1 and WDFY4 Associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus W Yang, N Shen, DQ Ye, Q Liu, Y Zhang, XX Qian, N Hirankarn, D Ying, ... PLoS genetics 6 (2), e1000841, 2010	458	2010
Trans-eQTLs Reveal That Independent Genetic Variants Associated with a Complex Phenotype Converge on Intermediate Genes, with a Major Role for the HLA RSN Fehrmann, RC Jansen, JH Veldink, HJ Westra, D Arends, ... PLoS genetics 7 (8), e1002197, 2011	433	2011

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