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Anton J. M. de Craen
Researcher at Leiden University Medical Center
Publications - 335
Citations - 30956
Anton J. M. de Craen is an academic researcher from Leiden University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 79, co-authored 335 publications receiving 27613 citations. Previous affiliations of Anton J. M. de Craen include University of Amsterdam & Leiden University.
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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Adam E. Locke,Bratati Kahali,Sonja I. Berndt,Anne E. Justice,Tune H. Pers,Felix R. Day,Corey Powell,Sailaja Vedantam,Martin L. Buchkovich,Jian Yang,Damien C. Croteau-Chonka,Tõnu Esko,Tove Fall,Teresa Ferreira,Stefan Gustafsson,Zoltán Kutalik,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Thomas W. Winkler,Andrew R. Wood,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Jessica D. Faul,Jennifer A. Smith,Jing Hua Zhao,Wei Zhao,Jin Chen,Rudolf S N Fehrmann,Åsa K. Hedman,Juha Karjalainen,Ellen M. Schmidt,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Denise Anderson,Marian Beekman,Jennifer L. Bolton,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Steven Buyske,Ayse Demirkan,Guohong Deng,Georg Ehret,Bjarke Feenstra,Mary F. Feitosa,Krista Fischer,Anuj Goel,Jian Gong,Anne U. Jackson,Stavroula Kanoni,Marcus E. Kleber,Kati Kristiansson,Unhee Lim,Vaneet Lotay,Massimo Mangino,Irene Mateo Leach,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Sarah E. Medland,Mike A. Nalls,Cameron D. Palmer,Dorota Pasko,Sonali Pechlivanis,Marjolein Peters,Inga Prokopenko,Dmitry Shungin,Alena Stančáková,Rona J. Strawbridge,Yun Ju Sung,Toshiko Tanaka,Alexander Teumer,Stella Trompet,Sander W. van der Laan,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Zhaoming Wang,Loic Yengo,Weihua Zhang,Aaron Isaacs,Eva Albrecht,Johan Ärnlöv,Gillian M. Arscott,Antony P. Attwood,Stefania Bandinelli,Amy Barrett,Isabelita Bas,Claire Bellis,Amanda J. Bennett,Christian Berne,Roza Blagieva,Matthias Blüher,Stefan Böhringer,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Yvonne Böttcher,Heather A. Boyd,Marcel Bruinenberg,Ida Henriette Caspersen,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Robert Clarke,E. Warwick Daw,Anton J. M. de Craen,Graciela E. Delgado,Maria Dimitriou,Alex S. F. Doney,Niina Eklund,Karol Estrada,Elodie Eury,Lasse Folkersen,Ross M. Fraser,Melissa E. Garcia,Frank Geller,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Bruna Gigante,Alan S. Go,Alain Golay,Alison H. Goodall,Scott D. Gordon,Mathias Gorski,Hans-Jörgen Grabe,Harald Grallert,Tanja B. Grammer,Jürgen Gräßler,Henrik Grönberg,Christopher J. Groves,Gaëlle Gusto,Jeffrey Haessler,Per Hall,Toomas Haller,Göran Hallmans,Catharina A. Hartman,Maija Hassinen,Caroline Hayward,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Quinta Helmer,Christian Hengstenberg,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Alan James,Janina M. Jeff,Åsa Johansson,Jennifer Jolley,Thorhildur Juliusdottir,Leena Kinnunen,Wolfgang Koenig,Markku Koskenvuo,Wolfgang Kratzer,Jaana Laitinen,Claudia Lamina,Karin Leander,Nanette R. Lee,Peter Lichtner,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Ken Sin Lo,Stéphane Lobbens,Roberto Lorbeer,Yingchang Lu,François Mach,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Anubha Mahajan,Wendy L. McArdle,Stela McLachlan,Cristina Menni,Sigrun Merger,Evelin Mihailov,Lili Milani,Alireza Moayyeri,Keri L. Monda,Mario A. Morken,Antonella Mulas,Gabriele Müller,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Arthur W. Musk,Ramaiah Nagaraja,Markus M. Nöthen,Ilja M. Nolte,Stefan Pilz,Nigel W. Rayner,Frida Renström,Rainer Rettig,Janina S. Ried,Stephan Ripke,Neil R. Robertson,Lynda M. Rose,Serena Sanna,Hubert Scharnagl,Salome Scholtens,Fredrick R. Schumacher,William R. Scott,Thomas Seufferlein,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Joanna Smolonska,Alice Stanton,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Kathleen Stirrups,Heather M. Stringham,Johan Sundström,Morris A. Swertz,Amy J. Swift,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Sian-Tsung Tan,Bamidele O. Tayo,Barbara Thorand,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Jonathan Tyrer,Hae-Won Uh,Liesbeth Vandenput,Frank C. Verhulst,Sita H. Vermeulen,Niek Verweij,Judith M. Vonk,Lindsay L. Waite,Helen R. Warren,Dawn M. Waterworth,Michael N. Weedon,Lynne R. Wilkens,Christina Willenborg,Tom Wilsgaard,Mary K. Wojczynski,Andrew Wong,Alan F. Wright,Qunyuan Zhang,Eoin P. Brennan,Murim Choi,Zari Dastani,Alexander W. Drong,Per Eriksson,Anders Franco-Cereceda,Jesper R. Gådin,Ali G. Gharavi,Michael E. Goddard,Robert E. Handsaker,Jinyan Huang,Fredrik Karpe,Sekar Kathiresan,Sarah Keildson,Krzysztof Kiryluk,Michiaki Kubo,Jong-Young Lee,Liming Liang,Richard P. Lifton,Baoshan Ma,Steven A. McCarroll,Amy Jayne McKnight,Josine L. Min,Miriam F. Moffatt,Grant W. Montgomery,Joanne M. Murabito,George Nicholson,Dale R. Nyholt,Yukinori Okada,John R. B. Perry,Rajkumar Dorajoo,Eva Reinmaa,Rany M. Salem,Niina Sandholm,Robert A. Scott,Lisette Stolk,Atsushi Takahashi,Toshihiro Tanaka,Ferdinand M. van't Hooft,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Harm-Jan Westra,Wei Zheng,Krina T. Zondervan,Andrew C. Heath,Dominique Arveiler,Stephan J. L. Bakker,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,John Blangero,Pascal Bovet,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Caulfield,Giancarlo Cesana,Aravinda Chakravarti,Daniel I. Chasman,Peter S. Chines,Francis S. Collins,Dana C. Crawford,L. Adrienne Cupples,Daniele Cusi,John Danesh,Ulf de Faire,Hester M. den Ruijter,Anna F. Dominiczak,Raimund Erbel,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Martin Farrall,Stephan B. Felix,Ele Ferrannini,Jean Ferrières,Ian Ford,Nita G. Forouhi,Terrence Forrester,Oscar H. Franco,Ron T. Gansevoort,Pablo V. Gejman,Christian Gieger,Omri Gottesman,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Alistair S. Hall,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Andrew A. Hicks,Lucia A. Hindorff,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,Georg Homuth,G. Kees Hovingh,Steve E. Humphries,Steven C. Hunt,Elina Hyppönen,Thomas Illig,Kevin B. Jacobs,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Berit Johansen,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Antti Jula,Jaakko Kaprio,John J.P. Kastelein,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Paul Knekt,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Peter Kovacs,Aldi T. Kraja,Meena Kumari,Johanna Kuusisto,Timo A. Lakka,Claudia Langenberg,Loic Le Marchand,Terho Lehtimäki,Valeriya Lyssenko,Satu Männistö,André Marette,Tara C. Matise,Colin A. McKenzie,Barbara McKnight,Frans L. Moll,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Jeffrey C. Murray,Mari Nelis,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ken K. Ong,Pamela A. F. Madden,Gerard Pasterkamp,John F. Peden,Annette Peters,Dirkje S. Postma,Peter P. Pramstaller,Jackie F. Price,Lu Qi,Olli T. Raitakari,Tuomo Rankinen,Dabeeru C. Rao,Treva Rice,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Marylyn D. Ritchie,Igor Rudan,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Jouko Saramies,Mark A. Sarzynski,Heribert Schunkert,Peter Schwarz,Peter S. Sever,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Ronald P. Stolk,Konstantin Strauch,Anke Tönjes,David-Alexandre Trégouët,Angelo Tremblay,Elena Tremoli,Jarmo Virtamo,Marie-Claude Vohl,Uwe Völker,Gérard Waeber,Gonneke Willemsen,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,M. Carola Zillikens,Linda S. Adair,Philippe Amouyel,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Themistocles L. Assimes,Murielle Bochud,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Erwin P. Bottinger,Claude Bouchard,Stéphane Cauchi,John C. Chambers,Stephen J. Chanock,Richard S. Cooper,Paul I.W. de Bakker,George Dedoussis,Luigi Ferrucci,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Leif Groop,Christopher A. Haiman,Anders Hamsten,Jennie Hui,David J. Hunter,Kristian Hveem,Robert C. Kaplan,Mika Kivimäki,Diana Kuh,Markku Laakso,Yongmei Liu,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Mads Melbye,Andres Metspalu,Susanne Moebus,Patricia B. Munroe,Inger Njølstad,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Nancy L. Pedersen,Markus Perola,Louis Pérusse,Ulrike Peters,Chris Power,Thomas Quertermous,Rainer Rauramaa,Fernando Rivadeneira,Timo Saaristo,Danish Saleheen,Naveed Sattar,Eric E. Schadt,David Schlessinger,P. Eline Slagboom,Harold Snieder,Tim D. Spector,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Michael Stumvoll,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Matti Uusitupa,Pim van der Harst,Mark Walker,Henri Wallaschofski,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,David R. Weir,H-Erich Wichmann,James F. Wilson,Pieter Zanen,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Iris M. Heid,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,Kari Stefansson,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Lude Franke,Timothy M. Frayling,Mark I. McCarthy,Peter M. Visscher,André Scherag,Cristen J. Willer,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jacques S. Beckmann,Inês Barroso,Kari E. North,Erik Ingelsson,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Ruth J. F. Loos,Elizabeth K. Speliotes +481 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals.
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Statins and risk of incident diabetes: a collaborative meta-analysis of randomised statin trials
Naveed Sattar,David Preiss,Heather Murray,Paul Welsh,Brendan M. Buckley,Anton J. M. de Craen,Sreenivasa Rao Kondapally Seshasai,John J.V. McMurray,Dilys J. Freeman,J. Wouter Jukema,Peter W. Macfarlane,Chris J. Packard,David J. Stott,Rudi G. J. Westendorp,James Shepherd,Barry R. Davis,Sara L. Pressel,Roberto Marchioli,Rosa Maria Marfisi,Aldo P. Maggioni,Luigi Tavazzi,Gianni Tognoni,John Kjekshus,Terje R. Pedersen,Thomas J. Cook,Antonio M. Gotto,Michael Clearfield,John R. Downs,Haruo Nakamura,Yasuo Ohashi,Kyoichi Mizuno,Kausik K. Ray,Ian Ford +32 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of published and unpublished data found that statin therapy is associated with a slightly increased risk of development of diabetes, but the risk is low both in absolute terms and when compared with the reduction in coronary events.
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Thyroid Status, Disability and Cognitive Function, and Survival in Old Age
Jacobijn Gussekloo,Eric van Exel,Anton J. M. de Craen,Arend E Meinders,Marijke Frölich,Rudi G. J. Westendorp +5 more
TL;DR: In the general population of the oldest old, elderly individuals with abnormally high levels of thyrotropin do not experience adverse effects and may have a prolonged life span, however, evidence for not treating elderly individuals can only come from a well-designed, randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial.
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Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease
Veryan Codd,Christopher P. Nelson,Eva Albrecht,Massimo Mangino,Joris Deelen,Jessica L. Buxton,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Krista Fischer,Tõnu Esko,Ida Surakka,Linda Broer,Dale R. Nyholt,Irene Mateo Leach,Perttu Salo,Sara Hägg,Mary K. Matthews,Jutta Palmen,Giuseppe Danilo Norata,Paul F. O'Reilly,Danish Saleheen,Najaf Amin,Anthony J. Balmforth,Marian Beekman,Rudolf A. de Boer,Stefan Böhringer,Peter S. Braund,Paul Burton,Anton J. M. de Craen,Matthew Denniff,Yanbin Dong,Konstantinos Douroudis,Elena Dubinina,Johan G. Eriksson,Katia Garlaschelli,Dehuang Guo,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Anjali K. Henders,Jeanine J. Houwing-Duistermaat,Laura Kananen,Lennart C. Karssen,Johannes Kettunen,Norman Klopp,Vasiliki Lagou,Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen,Pamela A. F. Madden,Reedik Mägi,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Satu Männistö,Satu Männistö,Mark I. McCarthy,Mark I. McCarthy,Mark I. McCarthy,Sarah E. Medland,Evelin Mihailov,Grant W. Montgomery,Ben A. Oostra,Aarno Palotie,Annette Peters,Helen Pollard,Anneli Pouta,Anneli Pouta,Inga Prokopenko,Samuli Ripatti,Veikko Salomaa,Veikko Salomaa,H. Eka D. Suchiman,Ana M. Valdes,Niek Verweij,Ana Viñuela,Xiaoling Wang,Xiaoling Wang,H-Erich Wichmann,Elisabeth Widen,Gonneke Willemsen,Margaret J. Wright,Kai Xia,Xiangjun Xiao,Dirk J. van Veldhuisen,Alberico L. Catapano,Martin D. Tobin,Alistair S. Hall,Alexandra I. F. Blakemore,Wiek H. van Gilst,Haidong Zhu,Haidong Zhu,Jeanette Erdmann,Muredach P. Reilly,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Heribert Schunkert,Philippa J. Talmud,Nancy L. Pedersen,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Willem H. Ouwehand,Jaakko Kaprio,Nicholas G. Martin,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Iiris Hovatta,Iiris Hovatta,Christian Gieger,Andres Metspalu,Dorret I. Boomsma,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,P. Eline Slagboom,John R Thompson,Tim D. Spector,Pim van der Harst,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani +110 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a genome-wide meta-analysis of 37,684 individuals with replication of selected variants in an additional 10,739 individuals was carried out to identify seven loci, including five new loci associated with mean leukocyte telomere length (LTL) (P < 5 × 10−8).
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Whole-genome sequence variation, population structure and demographic history of the Dutch population
Laurent C. Francioli,Androniki Menelaou,Sara L. Pulit,Freerk van Dijk,Pier Francesco Palamara,Clara C. Elbers,Pieter B. Neerincx,Kai Ye,Kai Ye,Victor Guryev,Wigard P. Kloosterman,Patrick Deelen,Abdel Abdellaoui,Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen,Mannis van Oven,Martijn Vermaat,Mingkun Li,Jeroen F. J. Laros,Lennart C. Karssen,Alexandros Kanterakis,Najaf Amin,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Eric-Wubbo Lameijer,Mathijs Kattenberg,Martijn Dijkstra,Heorhiy Byelas,Jessica van Setten,Barbera D. C. van Schaik,Jan Bot,Isaac J. Nijman,Ivo Renkens,Tobias Marschall,Alexander Schönhuth,Jayne Y. Hehir-Kwa,Robert E. Handsaker,Robert E. Handsaker,Paz Polak,Mashaal Sohail,Mashaal Sohail,Dana Vuzman,Fereydoun Hormozdiari,David van Enckevort,Hailiang Mei,Vyacheslav Koval,Matthijs Moed,K. Joeri van der Velde,Fernando Rivadeneira,Fernando Rivadeneira,Fernando Rivadeneira,Karol Estrada,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Aaron Isaacs,Aaron Isaacs,Steven A. McCarroll,Marian Beekman,Anton J. M. de Craen,H. Eka D. Suchiman,Albert Hofman,Ben A. Oostra,André G. Uitterlinden,Gonneke Willemsen,Mathieu Platteel,Jan H. Veldink,Leonard H. van den Berg,Steven J. Pitts,Shobha Potluri,Purnima Sundar,David R. Cox,David R. Cox,Shamil R. Sunyaev,Johan T. den Dunnen,Mark Stoneking,Peter de Knijff,Manfred Kayser,Qibin Li,Yingrui Li,Yuanping Du,Ruoyan Chen,Hongzhi Cao,Ning Li,Sujie Cao,Jun Wang,Jasper A. Bovenberg,Itsik Pe'er,P. Eline Slagboom,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Dorret I. Boomsma,Gert-Jan B. van Ommen,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Morris A. Swertz,Cisca Wijmenga +91 more
TL;DR: The Genome of the Netherlands (GoNL) Project is described, in which the whole genomes of 250 Dutch parent-offspring families were sequenced and a haplotype map of 20.4 million single-nucleotide variants and 1.2 million insertions and deletions were constructed.