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Unnur Styrkarsdottir
Researcher at deCODE genetics
Publications - 110
Citations - 16632
Unnur Styrkarsdottir is an academic researcher from deCODE genetics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Bone density. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 100 publications receiving 14848 citations. Previous affiliations of Unnur Styrkarsdottir include Amgen & University of Copenhagen.
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Variant of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene confers risk of type 2 diabetes.
Struan F.A. Grant,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Inga Reynisdottir,Rafil Benediktsson,Andrei Manolescu,Jesus Sainz,Agnar Helgason,Hreinn Stefansson,Valur Emilsson,Anna Helgadottir,Unnur Styrkarsdottir,Kristinn P. Magnusson,G. Bragi Walters,Ebba Palsdottir,Thorbjorg Jonsdottir,Thorunn Gudmundsdottir,Arnaldur Gylfason,Jona Saemundsdottir,Robert L. Wilensky,Muredach P. Reilly,Daniel J. Rader,Yu Z. Bagger,Claus Christiansen,Vilmundur Gudnason,Gunnar Sigurdsson,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Jeffrey R. Gulcher,Augustine Kong,Kari Stefansson +28 more
TL;DR: A microsatellite within intron 3 of the transcription factor 7–like 2 gene (TCF7L2; formerly TCF4) was associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus and is thought to act through regulation of proglucagon gene expression in enteroendocrine cells via the Wnt signaling pathway.
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Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity
Gudmar Thorleifsson,G. Bragi Walters,Daniel F. Gudbjartsson,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Patrick Sulem,Anna Helgadottir,Unnur Styrkarsdottir,Solveig Gretarsdottir,Steinunn Thorlacius,Ingileif Jonsdottir,Ingileif Jonsdottir,Thorbjorg Jonsdottir,Elinborg J Olafsdottir,Gudridur H Olafsdottir,Thorvaldur Jonsson,Frosti Jonsson,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Torben Hansen,Gitte Andersen,Torben Jørgensen,Torben Jørgensen,Torsten Lauritzen,Katja K.H. Aben,André L. M. Verbeek,Nel Roeleveld,Ellen Kampman,Lisa R. Yanek,Lewis C. Becker,Laufey Tryggvadottir,Thorunn Rafnar,Diane M. Becker,Jeffrey R. Gulcher,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Oluf Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Augustine Kong,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson +40 more
TL;DR: In total, 29 variants, some correlated, in 11 chromosomal regions reached a genome-wide significance threshold of P < 1.6 × 10−7 and included previously identified variants close to or in the FTO, MC4R, BDNF and SH2B1 genes, in addition to variants at seven loci not previously connected with obesity.
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Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease
Valur Emilsson,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Bin Zhang,Amy Leonardson,Florian Zink,Jun Zhu,Sonia Carlson,Agnar Helgason,G. Bragi Walters,Steinunn Gunnarsdottir,Magali Mouy,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Gudrun H. Eiriksdottir,Gyda Bjornsdottir,Inga Reynisdottir,Daniel F. Gudbjartsson,Anna Helgadottir,Aslaug Jonasdottir,Adalbjorg Jonasdottir,Unnur Styrkarsdottir,Solveig Gretarsdottir,Kristinn P. Magnusson,Hreinn Stefansson,Ragnheidur Fossdal,Kristleifur Kristjansson,Hjörtur Gislason,Tryggvi Stefansson,Björn Geir Leifsson,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,John Lamb,Jeffrey R. Gulcher,Marc L. Reitman,Augustine Kong,Eric E. Schadt,Kari Stefansson +34 more
TL;DR: An extensive transcriptional network constructed from the human adipose data that exhibits significant overlap with similar network modules constructed from mouse adiposeData was identified that is enriched for genes involved in the inflammatory and immune response and has been found to be causally associated to obesity-related traits.
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Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 56 bone mineral density loci and reveals 14 loci associated with risk of fracture
Karol Estrada,Unnur Styrkarsdottir,Evangelos Evangelou,Yi-Hsiang Hsu,Emma L. Duncan,Evangelia E. Ntzani,Ling Oei,Omar M. E. Albagha,Najaf Amin,John P. Kemp,Daniel L. Koller,Guo Shuai Li,Ching-Ti Liu,Ryan L. Minster,Alireza Moayyeri,Liesbeth Vandenput,Dana Willner,Su-Mei Xiao,Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong,Hou-Feng Zheng,Nerea Alonso,Joel Eriksson,Candace M. Kammerer,Stephen Kaptoge,Paul Leo,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Scott Wilson,Scott Wilson,James F. Wilson,Ville Aalto,Ville Aalto,Markku Alen,Aaron K. Aragaki,Thor Aspelund,Zoe H. Dailiana,David Duggan,Melissa Nolan Garcia,Natalia Garcia-Giralt,Sylvie Giroux,Göran Hallmans,Lynne J. Hocking,L. B. Husted,Karen A. Jameson,Khusainova Ri,Ghi Su Kim,Charles Kooperberg,Theodora Koromila,Marcin Kruk,Marika Laaksonen,Andrea Z. LaCroix,Seung-Hun Lee,P. C. Leung,Joshua R. Lewis,Laura Masi,Simona Mencej-Bedrač,Tuan V. Nguyen,Tuan V. Nguyen,Xavier Nogués,Millan S. Patel,Janez Prezelj,Lynda M. Rose,Serena Scollen,Kristin Siggeirsdottir,Albert V. Smith,Olle Svensson,Stella Trompet,Olivia Trummer,Natasja M. van Schoor,Jean Woo,Kun Zhu,Susana Balcells,Maria Luisa Brandi,Brendan M. Buckley,Sulin Cheng,Claus Christiansen,Cyrus Cooper,George Dedoussis,Ian Ford,Morten Frost,Morten Frost,David Goltzman,Jesús González-Macías,Mika Kähönen,Magnus Karlsson,Elza Khusnutdinova,Jung-Min Koh,Panagoula Kollia,Bente L. Langdahl,William D. Leslie,Paul Lips,Östen Ljunggren,Roman S. Lorenc,Janja Marc,Dan Mellström,Barbara Obermayer-Pietsch,José M. Olmos,Ulrika Pettersson-Kymmer,David M. Reid,José A. Riancho,Paul M. Ridker,François Rousseau,P. Eline Slagboom,Nelson Ls Tang,Roser Urreizti,Wim Van Hul,Jorma Viikari,María T. Zarrabeitia,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Martha C. Castaño-Betancourt,Elin Grundberg,Elin Grundberg,Lizbeth Herrera,Thorvaldur Ingvarsson,Hrefna Johannsdottir,Tony Kwan,Rui Jian Li,Robert Luben,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Stefan T Palsson,Sjur Reppe,Jerome I. Rotter,Gunnar Sigurdsson,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Dominique J. Verlaan,Frances M K Williams,Andrew R. Wood,Yanhua Zhou,Kaare M. Gautvik,Tomi Pastinen,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Jane A. Cauley,Daniel I. Chasman,Graeme R. Clark,Steven R. Cummings,Patrick Danoy,Elaine M. Dennison,Richard Eastell,John A. Eisman,John A. Eisman,Vilmundur Gudnason,Albert Hofman,Rebecca D. Jackson,Graeme Jones,J. Wouter Jukema,Kay-Tee Khaw,Terho Lehtimäki,Yongmei Liu,Mattias Lorentzon,Eugene V. McCloskey,Braxton D. Mitchell,Kannabiran Nandakumar,Geoffrey C. Nicholson,Ben A. Oostra,Munro Peacock,Huibert A. P. Pols,Richard L. Prince,Olli T. Raitakari,Olli T. Raitakari,Ian R. Reid,John A Robbins,Philip N. Sambrook,Pak C. Sham,Alan R. Shuldiner,Frances A. Tylavsky,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Nicholas J. Wareham,L. Adrienne Cupples,Michael J. Econs,David M. Evans,Tamara B. Harris,Annie W.C. Kung,Bruce M. Psaty,Jonathan Reeve,Tim D. Spector,Elizabeth A. Streeten,M. Carola Zillikens,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Claes Ohlsson,David Karasik,J. Brent Richards,Matthew A. Brown,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,André G. Uitterlinden,Stuart H. Ralston,John P. A. Ioannidis,John P. A. Ioannidis,Douglas P. Kiel,Fernando Rivadeneira +190 more
TL;DR: Light is shed on the genetic architecture and pathophysiological mechanisms underlying BMD variation and fracture susceptibility and within the RANK-RANKL-OPG, mesenchymal stem cell differentiation, endochondral ossification and Wnt signaling pathways.
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A variant in CDKAL1 influences insulin response and risk of type 2 diabetes.
Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Inga Reynisdottir,Rafn Benediktsson,Thorbjorg Jonsdottir,G. Bragi Walters,Unnur Styrkarsdottir,Solveig Gretarsdottir,Valur Emilsson,Shyamali Ghosh,Adam Baker,Steinunn Snorradottir,Hjordis Bjarnason,Maggie C.Y. Ng,Torben Hansen,Yu Z. Bagger,Robert L. Wilensky,Muredach P. Reilly,Adebowale Adeyemo,Yuanxiu Chen,Jie Zhou,Vilmundur Gudnason,Guanjie Chen,Hanxia Huang,Kerrie Lashley,Ayo Doumatey,Wing-Yee So,Ronald Ching-Wa Ma,Gitte Andersen,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Torben Jørgensen,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Marten H. Hofker,Marten H. Hofker,Cisca Wijmenga,Cisca Wijmenga,Claus Christiansen,Daniel J. Rader,Charles N. Rotimi,Mark E. Gurney,Juliana C.N. Chan,Oluf Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Gunnar Sigurdsson,Jeffrey R. Gulcher,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Augustine Kong,Kari Stefansson +49 more
TL;DR: A genome-wide association study for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Icelandic cases and controls is conducted, and it is found that a previously described variant in the transcription factor 7-like 2 gene (TCF7L2) gene conferred the most significant risk.