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List of works by Rafn Benediktsson

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

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

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

scientific article (publication date: March 2006)

Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

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A variant in CDKAL1 influences insulin response and risk of type 2 diabetes

scientific article (publication date: June 2007)

Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

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Two variants on chromosome 17 confer prostate cancer risk and the one in TCF2 protects against type 2 diabetes

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The Lin28/let-7 axis regulates glucose metabolism

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Genome-wide association analysis identifies variants associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease that have distinct effects on metabolic traits

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The same sequence variant on 9p21 associates with myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm and intracranial aneurysm

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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies eight new loci for type 2 diabetes in east Asians

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Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseases

scientific article published on December 2009

Refining the impact of TCF7L2 gene variants on type 2 diabetes and adaptive evolution

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Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals

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Genome-wide association study identifies loci influencing concentrations of liver enzymes in plasma

scientific article published on 16 October 2011

Loss-of-function mutations in SLC30A8 protect against type 2 diabetes

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Glucocorticoid exposure in utero: new model for adult hypertension

scientific article published in The Lancet

Protein intake in pregnancy, placental glucocorticoid metabolism and the programming of hypertension in the rat

scientific article published on 01 March 1996

Identification of an imprinted master trans regulator at the KLF14 locus related to multiple metabolic phenotypes

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Genome-wide association identifies nine common variants associated with fasting proinsulin levels and provides new insights into the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

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Genome-wide association for abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose reveals a novel locus for visceral fat in women

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Genetic fine mapping and genomic annotation defines causal mechanisms at type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci

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Dysfunction of placental glucocorticoid barrier: link between fetal environment and adult hypertension?

scientific article published in The Lancet

Identification of low-frequency and rare sequence variants associated with elevated or reduced risk of type 2 diabetes

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An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

scientific article published on 31 May 2017

Placental 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase: a key regulator of fetal glucocorticoid exposure

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Stratifying type 2 diabetes cases by BMI identifies genetic risk variants in LAMA1 and enrichment for risk variants in lean compared to obese cases

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A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci associated with circulating phospho- and sphingolipid concentrations

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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in African Americans provides insights into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

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A genome-wide association study identifies GRK5 and RASGRP1 as type 2 diabetes loci in Chinese Hans

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Localization of a susceptibility gene for type 2 diabetes to chromosome 5q34-q35.2.

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Genome-wide association study identifies three novel loci for type 2 diabetes

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Genome-wide association study identifies a novel locus contributing to type 2 diabetes susceptibility in Sikhs of Punjabi origin from India

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Genome-wide association study for type 2 diabetes in Indians identifies a new susceptibility locus at 2q21.

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The epidemiology of pituitary adenomas in Iceland, 1955-2012: a nationwide population-based study

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Outcomes of educational interventions in type 2 diabetes: WEKA data-mining analysis

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Size at birth and coronary artery disease in a population with high birth weight

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Circadian gene variants and susceptibility to type 2 diabetes: a pilot study

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Retinopathy in old persons with and without diabetes mellitus: the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility--Reykjavik Study (AGES-R).

scientific article published on 2 December 2011

Tissue-specific messenger ribonucleic acid expression of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase types 1 and 2 and the glucocorticoid receptor within rat placenta suggests exquisite local control of glucocorticoid action

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

Effects of statin medication on mortality risk associated with type 2 diabetes in older persons: the population-based AGES-Reykjavik Study

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Relationship between size at birth and hypertension in a genetically homogeneous population of high birth weight.

scientific article published in April 2002

Association between size at birth, truncal fat and obesity in adult life and its contribution to blood pressure and coronary heart disease; study in a high birth weight population.

scientific article published in May 2004

Unfavourable risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus are already apparent more than a decade before onset in a population-based study of older persons: from the Age, Gene/Environment Susceptibility-Reykjavik Study (AGES-Reykjavik)

scientific article published on 2 May 2009

Size at birth and glucose intolerance in a relatively genetically homogeneous, high-birth weight population

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Congenital and acquired syndromes of apparent mineralocorticoid excess.

scientific article published on April 1993

Adipose tissue, muscle, and function: potential mediators of associations between body weight and mortality in older adults with type 2 diabetes

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

scientific article published in May 2010

Fetal osteocalcin levels are related to placental 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity in humans

scientific article published on 01 May 1995