Gudmundur I. Eyjolfsson

TL;DR: It is found that loci associated with blood lipid levels are often associated with cardiovascular and metabolic traits, including coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, blood pressure, waist-hip ratio and body mass index.

TL;DR: It is suggested that triglyceride-rich lipoproteins causally influence risk for CAD, and the strength of a polymorphism's effect on triglyceride levels is correlated with the magnitude of its effect on CAD risk.

TL;DR: A genome-wide association scan for sequence variants affecting eosinophil counts in blood of 9,392 Icelanders found that a nonsynonymous SNP at 12q24, in SH2B3, associated significantly with myocardial infarction in six different populations.

TL;DR: The insights gained from sequencing the whole genomes of Icelanders to a median depth of 20× provide a study design that can be used to determine how variation in the sequence of the human genome gives rise to human diversity.

TL;DR: Two common variants, located on 9q22.33 and 14q13.3, are shown to be associated with thyroid cancer, and both risk alleles are associated with low concentrations of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and high concentration of triiodothyronine (T3).