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• Genome-wide association studies highlight novel risk loci for septal defects and left-sided congenital heart defects 

  Broberg, Martin; Ampuja, Minna; Jones, Samuel; Ojala, Tiina; Rahkonen, Otto; Kivelä, Riikka; Priest, James; FinnGen; Palotie, Aarno; Ollila, Hanna M.; Helle, Emmi (BioMed Central, 2024)

  Background Congenital heart defects (CHD) are structural defects of the heart affecting approximately 1% of newborns. They exhibit low penetrance and non-Mendelian patterns of inheritance as varied and complex traits. ...

• Meta-analysis of gene–environment-wide association scans accounting for education level identifies additional loci for refractive error 

  CREAM consortium (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)

  Myopia is the most common human eye disorder and it results from complex genetic and environmental causes. The rapidly increasing prevalence of myopia poses a major public health challenge. Here, the CREAM consortium ...

• Polymorphisms in DCDC2 and S100B associate with developmental dyslexia 

  Matsson, Hans; Huss, Mikael; Persson, Helena; Einarsdottir, Elisabet; Tiraboschi, Ettore; Nopola-Hemmi, Jaana; Schumacher, Johannes; Neuhoff, Nina; Warnke, Andreas; Lyytinen, Heikki; Schulte-Körne, Gert; Nöthen, Markus M.; Leppänen, Paavo H.T.; Peyrard-Janvid, Myriam; Kere, Juha (Nature Publishing Group; Japan Society of Human Genetics, 2015)

  Genetic studies of complex traits have become increasingly successful as progress is made in next-generation sequencing. We aimed at discovering single nucleotide variation present in known and new candidate genes for ...

• The Older Finnish Twin Cohort : 45 Years of Follow-up 

  Kaprio, Jaakko; Bollepalli, Sailalitha; Buchwald, Jadwiga; Iso-Markku, Paula; Korhonen, Tellervo; Kovanen, Vuokko; Kujala, Urho; Laakkonen, Eija K.; Latvala, Antti; Leskinen, Tuija; Lindgren, Noora; Ollikainen, Miina; Piirtola, Maarit; Rantanen, Taina; Rinne, Juha; Rose, Richard J.; Sillanpää, Elina; Silventoinen, Karri; Sipilä, Sarianna; Viljanen, Anne; Vuoksimaa, Eero; Waller, Katja (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

  The older Finnish Twin Cohort (FTC) was established in 1974. The baseline survey was in 1975, with two follow-up health surveys in 1981 and 1990. The fourth wave of assessments was done in three parts, with a questionnaire ...

• Association between education and future leisure-time physical inactivity : a study of Finnish twins over a 35-year follow-up 

  Piirtola, Maarit; Kaprio, Jaakko; Kujala, Urho; Heikkilä, Kauko; Koskenvuo, Markku; Svedberg, Pia; Silventoinen, Karri; Ropponen, Annina (BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)

  Background: Education is associated with health related lifestyle choices including leisure-time physical inactivity. However, the longitudinal associations between education and inactivity merit further studies. We ...