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Thomas Sevenius Nilsen
Researcher at Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Publications - 36
Citations - 824
Thomas Sevenius Nilsen is an academic researcher from Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Twin study & Heritability. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 32 publications receiving 543 citations.
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Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts.
Karri Silventoinen,Karri Silventoinen,Aline Jelenkovic,Aline Jelenkovic,Reijo Sund,Reijo Sund,Antti Latvala,Chika Honda,Fujio Inui,Fujio Inui,Rie Tomizawa,Mikio Watanabe,Norio Sakai,Esther Rebato,Andreas Busjahn,Jessica Tyler,John L. Hopper,John L. Hopper,Juan R. Ordoñana,Juan F. Sánchez-Romera,Lucía Colodro-Conde,Lucía Colodro-Conde,Lucas Calais-Ferreira,Vinícius Cunha Oliveira,Paulo H. Ferreira,Emanuela Medda,Lorenza Nisticò,Virgilia Toccaceli,Catherine Derom,Catherine Derom,Robert F. Vlietinck,Ruth J. F. Loos,Sisira Siribaddana,Matthew Hotopf,Matthew Hotopf,Athula Sumathipala,Fruhling Rijsdijk,Glen E. Duncan,Dedra Buchwald,Per Tynelius,Finn Rasmussen,Qihua Tan,Dongfeng Zhang,Zengchang Pang,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nancy L. Pedersen,Anna K. Dahl Aslan,Anna K. Dahl Aslan,Amie E. Hwang,Thomas M. Mack,Robert F. Krueger,Matt McGue,Shandell Pahlen,Ingunn Brandt,Thomas Sevenius Nilsen,Jennifer R. Harris,Nicholas G. Martin,Sarah E. Medland,Grant W. Montgomery,Gonneke Willemsen,Meike Bartels,Catharina E. M. van Beijsterveldt,Carol E. Franz,William S. Kremen,William S. Kremen,Michael J. Lyons,Judy L. Silberg,Hermine H. Maes,Christian Kandler,Tracy L. Nelson,Keith E. Whitfield,Robin P. Corley,Brooke M. Huibregtse,Margaret Gatz,Margaret Gatz,David A. Butler,Adam Domonkos Tarnoki,David Laszlo Tarnoki,Hang A Park,Hang A Park,Jooyeon Lee,Soo Ji Lee,Joohon Sung,Yoshie Yokoyama,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Dorret I. Boomsma,Jaakko Kaprio +86 more
TL;DR: Both genetic and environmental factors shared by co-twins have an important influence on individual differences in educational attainment, and the effect of genetic factors on educational attainment has decreased from the cohorts born before to those born after the 1950s.
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Differences in genetic and environmental variation in adult BMI by sex, age, time period, and region: an individual-based pooled analysis of 40 twin cohorts.
Karri Silventoinen,Karri Silventoinen,Aline Jelenkovic,Reijo Sund,Reijo Sund,Yoshie Yokoyama,Yoon-Mi Hur,Wendy Cozen,Amie E. Hwang,Thomas M. Mack,Chika Honda,Fujio Inui,Fujio Inui,Yoshinori Iwatani,Mikio Watanabe,Rie Tomizawa,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Aila Rissanen,Aila Rissanen,Sisira Siribaddana,Matthew Hotopf,Athula Sumathipala,Fruhling Rijsdijk,Qihua Tan,Dongfeng Zhang,Zengchang Pang,Maarit Piirtola,Sari Aaltonen,Sevgi Y. Öncel,Fazil Aliev,Esther Rebato,Jacob v. B. Hjelmborg,Kaare Christensen,Axel Skytthe,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,Judy L. Silberg,Lindon J. Eaves,Tessa L. Cutler,Juan R. Ordoñana,Juan F. Sánchez-Romera,Lucía Colodro-Conde,Yun-Mi Song,Sarah Yang,Kayoung Lee,Carol E. Franz,William S. Kremen,William S. Kremen,Michael J. Lyons,Andreas Busjahn,Tracy L. Nelson,Keith E. Whitfield,Christian Kandler,Kerry L. Jang,Margaret Gatz,Margaret Gatz,David A. Butler,Maria A. Stazi,Corrado Fagnani,Cristina D'Ippolito,Glen E. Duncan,Dedra Buchwald,Nicholas G. Martin,Sarah E. Medland,Grant W. Montgomery,Hoe-Uk Jeong,Gary E. Swan,Ruth Krasnow,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nancy L. Pedersen,Anna K. Dahl Aslan,Anna K. Dahl Aslan,Tom A. McAdams,Thalia C. Eley,Alice M. Gregory,Per Tynelius,Laura A. Baker,Catherine Tuvblad,Catherine Tuvblad,Gombojav Bayasgalan,Danshiitsoodol Narandalai,Tim D. Spector,Massimo Mangino,Massimo Mangino,Genevieve Lachance,S. Alexandra Burt,Kelly L. Klump,Jennifer R. Harris,Ingunn Brandt,Thomas Sevenius Nilsen,Robert F. Krueger,Matt McGue,Shandell Pahlen,Robin P. Corley,Brooke M. Huibregtse,Meike Bartels,Catharina E.M. van Beijsterveldt,Gonneke Willemsen,Jack H. Goldberg,Finn Rasmussen,Adam Domonkos Tarnoki,David Laszlo Tarnoki,Catherine Derom,Catherine Derom,Robert F. Vlietinck,Ruth J. F. Loos,John L. Hopper,John L. Hopper,Joohon Sung,Hermine H. Maes,Eric Turkheimer,Dorret I. Boomsma,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Jaakko Kaprio +116 more
TL;DR: The heritability of BMI decreased and differences in the sets of genes affecting BMI in men and women increased from young adulthood to old age, despite large differences in mean BMI and variances in BMI.
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Association of current and former smoking with body mass index: A study of smoking discordant twin pairs from 21 twin cohorts.
Maarit Piirtola,Aline Jelenkovic,Aline Jelenkovic,Antti Latvala,Reijo Sund,Reijo Sund,Chika Honda,Fujio Inui,Fujio Inui,Mikio Watanabe,Rie Tomizawa,Yoshinori Iwatani,Juan R. Ordoñana,Juan F. Sánchez-Romera,Lucía Colodro-Conde,Lucía Colodro-Conde,Adam Domonkos Tarnoki,David Laszlo Tarnoki,Nicholas G. Martin,Grant W. Montgomery,Sarah E. Medland,Finn Rasmussen,Per Tynelius,Qihua Tan,Dongfeng Zhang,Zengchang Pang,Esther Rebato,Maria Antonietta Stazi,Corrado Fagnani,Sonia Brescianini,Andreas Busjahn,Jennifer R. Harris,Ingunn Brandt,Thomas Sevenius Nilsen,Tessa L. Cutler,John L. Hopper,John L. Hopper,Robin P. Corley,Brooke M. Huibregtse,Joohon Sung,Jina Kim,Jooyeon Lee,Sooji Lee,Margaret Gatz,Margaret Gatz,David A. Butler,Carol E. Franz,William S. Kremen,Michael J. Lyons,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nancy L. Pedersen,Anna K. Dahl Aslan,Anna K. Dahl Aslan,Sevgi Y. Öncel,Fazil Aliev,Fazil Aliev,Catherine Derom,Catherine Derom,Robert Vlietinck,Ruth J. F. Loos,Judy L. Silberg,Hermine H. Maes,Dorret I. Boomsma,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Tellervo Korhonen,Jaakko Kaprio,Karri Silventoinen,Karri Silventoinen +67 more
TL;DR: The net effect of smoking and subsequent cessation on weight development appears to be minimal, i.e. never more than an average of 0.7 kg/m2.
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The CODATwins Project: The Cohort Description of Collaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins to Study Macro-Environmental Variation in Genetic and Environmental Effects on Anthropometric Traits
Karri Silventoinen,Aline Jelenkovic,Reijo Sund,Chika Honda,Sari Aaltonen,Yoshie Yokoyama,Adam Domonkos Tarnoki,David Laszlo Tarnoki,Feng Ning,Fuling Ji,Zengchang Pang,Juan R. Ordoñana,Juan F. Sánchez-Romera,Lucía Colodro-Conde,S. Alexandra Burt,Kelly L. Klump,Sarah E. Medland,Grant W. Montgomery,Christian Kandler,Tom A. McAdams,Thalia C. Eley,Alice M. Gregory,Kimberly J. Saudino,Lise Dubois,Michel Boivin,Claire M. A. Haworth,Robert Plomin,Sevgi Y. Öncel,Fazil Aliev,Maria A. Stazi,Corrado Fagnani,Cristina D'Ippolito,Jeffrey M. Craig,Richard Saffery,Sisira Siribaddana,Matthew Hotopf,Athula Sumathipala,Tim D. Spector,Massimo Mangino,Genevieve Lachance,Margaret Gatz,David A. Butler,Gombojav Bayasgalan,Danshiitsoodol Narandalai,Duarte L. Freitas,José Maia,K. Paige Harden,Elliot M. Tucker-Drob,Kaare Christensen,Axel Skytthe,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,Changhee Hong,Youngsook Chong,Catherine Derom,Robert F. Vlietinck,Ruth J. F. Loos,Wendy Cozen,Amie E. Hwang,Thomas M. Mack,Mingguang He,Xiaohu Ding,Billy Heung Wing Chang,Judy L. Silberg,Lindon J. Eaves,Hermine H. Maes,Tessa L. Cutler,John L. Hopper,Kelly Aujard,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nancy L. Pedersen,Anna K. Dahl Aslan,Yun Mi Song,Sarah Yang,Kayoung Lee,Laura A. Baker,Catherine Tuvblad,Morten Bjerregaard-Andersen,Henning Beck-Nielsen,Morten Sodemann,Kauko Heikkilä,Qihua Tan,Dongfeng Zhang,Gary E. Swan,Ruth Krasnow,Kerry L. Jang,Ariel Knafo-Noam,David Mankuta,Lior Abramson,Paul Lichtenstein,Robert F. Krueger,Matt McGue,Shandell Pahlen,Per Tynelius,Glen E. Duncan,Dedra Buchwald,Robin P. Corley,Brooke M. Huibregtse,Tracy L. Nelson,Keith E. Whitfield,Carol E. Franz,William S. Kremen,Michael J. Lyons,Syuichi Ooki,Ingunn Brandt,Thomas Sevenius Nilsen,Fujio Inui,Mikio Watanabe,Meike Bartels,Toos C. E. M. van Beijsterveldt,Jane Wardle,Clare H. Llewellyn,Abigail Fisher,Esther Rebato,Nicholas G. Martin,Yoshinori Iwatani,Kazuo Hayakawa,Finn Rasmussen,Joohon Sung,Jennifer R. Harris,Gonneke Willemsen,Andreas Busjahn,Jack H. Goldberg,Dorret I. Boomsma,Yoon-Mi Hur,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Jaakko Kaprio +125 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new research project was proposed to analyze the variation of heritability estimates of height, BMI and their trajectories over the life course between birth cohorts, ethnicities and countries, and study the effects of birth-related factors, education and smoking on these anthropometric traits and whether these effects vary between twin cohorts.
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Genetic and environmental influences on adult human height across birth cohorts from 1886 to 1994
Aline Jelenkovic,Aline Jelenkovic,Yoon-Mi Hur,Reijo Sund,Yoshie Yokoyama,Sisira Siribaddana,Matthew Hotopf,Athula Sumathipala,Fruhling Rijsdijk,Qihua Tan,Dongfeng Zhang,Zengchang Pang,Sari Aaltonen,Kauko Heikkilä,Sevgi Y. Öncel,Fazil Aliev,Fazil Aliev,Esther Rebato,Adam Domonkos Tarnoki,David Laszlo Tarnoki,Kaare Christensen,Axel Skytthe,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,Judy L. Silberg,Lindon J. Eaves,Hermine H. Maes,Tessa L. Cutler,John L. Hopper,John L. Hopper,Juan R. Ordoñana,Juan F. Sánchez-Romera,Lucía Colodro-Conde,Lucía Colodro-Conde,Wendy Cozen,Amie E. Hwang,Thomas M. Mack,Joohon Sung,Yun Mi Song,Sarah Yang,Kayoung Lee,Carol E. Franz,William S. Kremen,Michael J. Lyons,Andreas Busjahn,Tracy L. Nelson,Keith E. Whitfield,Christian Kandler,Kerry L. Jang,Margaret Gatz,Margaret Gatz,David A. Butler,Maria A. Stazi,Corrado Fagnani,Cristina D'Ippolito,Glen E. Duncan,Dedra Buchwald,Catherine Derom,Catherine Derom,Robert F. Vlietinck,Ruth J. F. Loos,Nicholas G. Martin,Sarah E. Medland,Grant W. Montgomery,Hoe Uk Jeong,Gary E. Swan,Ruth Krasnow,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Nancy L. Pedersen,Anna K. Dahl-Aslan,Anna K. Dahl-Aslan,Tom A. McAdams,Thalia C. Eley,Alice M. Gregory,Per Tynelius,Laura A. Baker,Catherine Tuvblad,Catherine Tuvblad,Gombojav Bayasgalan,Danshiitsoodol Narandalai,Paul Lichtenstein,Tim D. Spector,Massimo Mangino,Genevieve Lachance,Meike Bartels,Toos C. E. M. van Beijsterveldt,Gonneke Willemsen,S. Alexandra Burt,Kelly L. Klump,Jennifer R. Harris,Ingunn Brandt,Thomas Sevenius Nilsen,Robert F. Krueger,Matt McGue,Shandell Pahlen,Robin P. Corley,Jacob v. B. Hjelmborg,Jack H. Goldberg,Yoshinori Iwatani,Mikio Watanabe,Chika Honda,Fujio Inui,Fujio Inui,Finn Rasmussen,Brooke M. Huibregtse,Dorret I. Boomsma,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Jaakko Kaprio,Karri Silventoinen,Karri Silventoinen +109 more
TL;DR: The findings do not support the hypothesis that heritability of height is lower in populations with low living standards than in affluent populations, nor that herigenicity of height will increase within a population as living standards improve.