Tune H Pers

Tune H Pers

Associate Professor - Promotion Programme


  1. 2016
  2. Published

    The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

    Ehret, G. B., Ferreira, T., Chasman, D. I., Jackson, A. U., Schmidt, E. M., Johnson, T., Thorleifsson, G., Luan, J., Donnelly, L. A., Kanoni, S., Petersen, A-K., Pihur, V., Strawbridge, R. J., Shungin, D., Hughes, M. F., Meirelles, O., Kaakinen, M., Bouatia-Naji, N., Kristiansson, K., Shah, S. & 31 others, Kleber, M. E., Guo, X., Lyytikäinen, L., Fava, C., Eriksson, N., Nolte, I. M., Magnusson, P. K., Salfati, E. L., Rallidis, L. S., Theusch, E., Smith, A. J. P., Folkersen, L., Witkowska, K., Pers, Tune H, Joehanes, R., Kim, S. K., Lataniotis, L., Jansen, R., Johnson, A. D., Warren, H., Kim, Y. J., Zhao, W., Wu, Y., Tayo, B. O., Bochud, M., Absher, D., Adair, L. S., Amin, N., Njølstad, I., Schwarz, Peter & CHARGE-EchoGen Consortium, C. C., 12 Sep 2016, In: Nature Genetics. 48, 10, p. 1171-1184 14 p.

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  3. Published

    Meta-analysis of 375,000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine

    Gormley, P., Anttila, V., Winsvold, B. S., Palta, P., Esko, T., Pers, T. H., Farh, K-H., Cuenca-Leon, E., Muona, M., Furlotte, N. A., Kurth, T., Ingason, A., McMahon, G., Ligthart, L., Terwindt, G. M., Kallela, M., Freilinger, T. M., Ran, C., Gordon, S. G., Stam, A. H. & 31 others, Steinberg, S., Borck, G., Koiranen, M., Quaye, L., Adams, H. H. H., Lehtimäki, T., Sarin, A., Wedenoja, J., Hinds, D. A., Buring, J. E., Schürks, M., Ridker, P. M., Hrafnsdottir, M. G., Stefansson, H., Ring, S. M., Hottenga, J., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Färkkilä, M., Artto, V., Kaunisto, M., Vepsäläinen, S., Malik, R., Heath, A. C., Madden, P. A. F., Martin, N. G., Montgomery, G. W., Christensen, A. F., Hansen, Thomas Folkmann, Werge, Thomas, Olesen, Jes & International Headache Genetics Consortium, I. H. G. C., Aug 2016, In: Nature Genetics. 48, 8, p. 856-66 11 p.

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  4. Published

    Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Okbay, A., Beauchamp, J. P., Fontana, M. A., Lee, J. J., Pers, T. H., Rietveld, C. A., Turley, P., Chen, G-B., Emilsson, V., Meddens, S. F. W., Oskarsson, S., Pickrell, J. K., Thom, K., Timshel, P. N., de Vlaming, R., Abdellaoui, A., Ahluwalia, T. V. S., Bacelis, J., Baumbach, C., Bjornsdottir, G. & 31 others, Brandsma, J. H., Pina Concas, M., Derringer, J., Furlotte, N. A., Galesloot, T. E., Girotto, G., Gupta, R., Hall, L. M., Harris, S. E., Hofer, E., Horikoshi, M., Huffman, J. E., Kaasik, K., Kalafati, I. P., Karlsson, R., Kong, A., Lahti, J., van der Lee, S. J., deLeeuw, C., Lind, P. A., Lindgren, K., Liu, T., Mangino, M., Marten, J., Mihailov, E., Miller, M. B., Bønnelykke, Klaus, Waage, J., Bisgaard, H., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & LifeLines Cohort Study, L. C. S., 26 May 2016, In: Nature. 533, 7604, p. 539-42 4 p.

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  5. Published

    Analysis of five chronic inflammatory diseases identifies 27 new associations and highlights disease-specific patterns at shared loci

    Ellinghaus, D., Jostins, L., Spain, S. L., Cortes, A., Bethune, J., Han, B., Park, Y. R., Raychaudhuri, S., Pouget, J. G., Hübenthal, M., Folseraas, T., Wang, Y., Esko, T., Metspalu, A., Westra, H-J., Franke, L., Pers, T. H., Weersma, R. K., Collij, V., D'Amato, M. & 26 others, Halfvarson, J., Jensen, A. B., Lieb, W., Degenhardt, F., Forstner, A. J., Hofmann, A., Schreiber, S., Mrowietz, U., Juran, B. D., Lazaridis, K. N., Brunak, Søren, Dale, A. M., Trembath, R. C., Weidinger, S., Weichenthal, M., Ellinghaus, E., Elder, J. T., Barker, J. N. W. N., Andreassen, O. A., McGovern, D. P., Karlsen, T. H., Barrett, J. C., Parkes, M., Brown, M. A., Franke, A. & International IBD Genetics Consortium (IIBDGC), I. I. G. C. (., May 2016, In: Nature Genetics. 48, 5, p. 510-521 12 p.

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  6. Published

    New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk

    Lu, Y., Day, F. R., Gustafsson, S., Buchkovich, M. L., Na, J., Bataille, V., Cousminer, D. L., Dastani, Z., Drong, A. W., Esko, T., Evans, D. M., Falchi, M., Feitosa, M. F., Ferreira, T., Hedman, Å. K., Haring, R., Hysi, P. G., Iles, M. M., Justice, A. E., Kanoni, S. & 239 others, Lagou, V., Li, R., Li, X., Locke, A., Lu, C., Mägi, R., Perry, J. R. B., Pers, Tune H, Qi, Q., Sanna, M., Schmidt, E. M., Scott, W. R., Shungin, D., Teumer, A., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., Walker, R. W., Westra, H., Zhang, M., Zhang, W., Zhao, J. H., Zhu, Z., Afzal, U., Ahluwalia, Tarun Veer Singh, Bakker, S. J. L., Bellis, C., Bonnefond, A., Borodulin, K., Buchman, A. S., Cederholm, T., Choh, A. C., Choi, H. J., Curran, J. E., de Groot, L. C. P. G. M., De Jager, P. L., Dhonukshe-Rutten, R. A. M., Enneman, A. W., Eury, E., Evans, D. S., Forsen, T., Friedrich, N., Fumeron, F., Garcia, M. E., Gärtner, S., Han, B., Havulinna, A. S., Hayward, C., Hernandez, D., Hillege, H., Ittermann, T., Kent, J. W., Kolcic, I., Laatikainen, T., Lahti, J., Mateo Leach, I., Lee, C. G., Lee, J., Liu, T., Liu, Y., Lobbens, S., Loh, M., Lyytikäinen, L., Medina-Gomez, C., Michaëlsson, K., Nalls, M. A., Nielson, C. M., Oozageer, L., Pascoe, L., Paternoster, L., Polašek, O., Ripatti, S., Sarzynski, M. A., Shin, C. S., Narančić, N. S., Spira, D., Srikanth, P., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Sung, Y. J., Swart, K. M. A., Taittonen, L., Tanaka, T., Tikkanen, E., van der Velde, N., van Schoor, N. M., Verweij, N., Wright, A. F., Yu, L., Zmuda, J. M., Eklund, N., Forrester, T., Grarup, Niels, Jackson, A. U., Kristiansson, K., Kuulasmaa, T., Kuusisto, J., Lichtner, P., Luan, J., Mahajan, A., Männistö, S., Palmer, C. D., Ried, J. S., Scott, R. A., Stancáková, A., Wagner, P. J., Demirkan, A., Döring, A., Gudnason, V., Kiel, D. P., Kühnel, B., Mangino, M., Mcknight, B., Menni, C., O'Connell, J. R., Oostra, B. A., Shuldiner, A. R., Song, K., Vandenput, L., van Duijn, C. M., Vollenweider, P., White, C. C., Boehnke, M., Boettcher, Y., Cooper, R. S., Forouhi, N. G., Gieger, C., Grallert, H., Hingorani, A., Jørgensen, T., Jousilahti, P., Kivimaki, M., Kumari, M., Laakso, M., Langenberg, C., Linneberg, Allan René, Luke, A., Mckenzie, C. A., Palotie, A., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Peters, A., Strauch, K., Tayo, B. O., Wareham, N. J., Bennett, D. A., Bertram, L., Blangero, J., Blüher, M., Bouchard, C., Campbell, H., Cho, N. H., Cummings, S. R., Czerwinski, S. A., Demuth, I., Eckardt, R., Eriksson, J. G., Ferrucci, L., Franco, O. H., Froguel, P., Gansevoort, R. T., Hansen, Torben, Harris, T. B., Hastie, N., Heliövaara, M., Hofman, A., Jordan, J. M., Jula, A., Kähönen, M., Kajantie, E., Knekt, P. B., Koskinen, S., Kovacs, P., Lehtimäki, T., Lind, L., Liu, Y., Orwoll, E. S., Osmond, C., Perola, M., Pérusse, L., Raitakari, O. T., Rankinen, T., Rao, D. C., Rice, T. K., Rivadeneira, F., Rudan, I., Salomaa, V., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Stumvoll, M., Tönjes, A., Towne, B., Tranah, G. J., Tremblay, A., Uitterlinden, A. G., van der Harst, P., Vartiainen, E., Viikari, J. S., Vitart, V., Vohl, M., Völzke, H., Walker, M., Wallaschofski, H., Wild, S., Wilson, J. F., Yengo, L., Bishop, D. T., Borecki, I. B., Chambers, J. C., Cupples, L. A., Dehghan, A., Deloukas, P., Fatemifar, G., Fox, C., Furey, T. S., Franke, L., Han, J., Hunter, D. J., Karjalainen, J., Karpe, F., Kaplan, R. C., Kooner, J. S., McCarthy, M. I., Murabito, J. M., Morris, A. P., Bishop, J. A. N., North, K. E., Ohlsson, C., Ong, K. K., Prokopenko, I., Richards, J. B., Schadt, E. E., Spector, T. D., Widén, E., Willer, C. J., Yang, J., Ingelsson, E., Mohlke, K. L., Hirschhorn, J. N., Pospisilik, J. A., Zillikens, M. C., Lindgren, C., Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O. & Loos, Ruth, 1 Feb 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, p. 1-15 15 p., 10495.

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  7. Published

    Comprehensive analysis of schizophrenia-associated loci highlights ion channel pathways and biologically plausible candidate causal genes

    Pers, Tune H, Timshel, P., Ripke, S., Lent, S., Sullivan, P. F., O'Donovan, M. C., Franke, L., Hirschhorn, J. N. & Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, S. W. G. O. T. P. G. C., 10 Jan 2016, In: Human Molecular Genetics. 25, 6, p. 1247-1254 8 p.

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  8. Published

    Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new susceptibility loci for childhood body mass index

    Felix, J. F., Bradfield, J. P., Monnereau, C., van der Valk, R. J. P., Stergiakouli, E., Chesi, A., Gaillard, R., Feenstra, B., Thiering, E., Kreiner-Møller, E., Mahajan, A., Pitkänen, N., Joro, R., Cavadino, A., Huikari, V., Franks, S., Groen-Blokhuis, M. M., Cousminer, D. L., Marsh, J. A., Lehtimäki, T. & 31 others, Curtin, J. A., Vioque, J., Ahluwalia, Tarun Veer Singh, Myhre, R., Price, T. S., Vilor-Tejedor, N., Yengo, L., Grarup, Niels, Ntalla, I., Ang, W., Atalay, M., Bisgaard, H., Blakemore, A. I., Bonnefond, A., Carstensen, L., Eriksson, J., Flexeder, C., Franke, L., Geller, F., Geserick, M., Hartikainen, A., Haworth, C. M. A., Hirschhorn, J. N., Holm, Jens-Christian, Kadarmideen, H. N., Pers, Tune H, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Hansen, Torben, Melbye, M., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Bone Mineral Density in Childhood Study (BMDCS) Consortium, B. M. D. I. C. S. (. C., 2016, In: Human Molecular Genetics. 25, 2, p. 389-403

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  9. Published

    Genome-wide meta-analysis uncovers novel loci influencing circulating leptin levels

    Kilpeläinen, T. O., Carli, J. F. M., Skowronski, A. A., Sun, Q., Kriebel, J., Feitosa, M. F., Hedman, Å. K., Drong, A. W., Hayes, J. E., Zhao, J., Pers, T. H., Schick, U., Grarup, N., Kutalik, Z., Trompet, S., Mangino, M., Kristiansson, K., Beekman, M., Lyytikäinen, L-P., Eriksson, J. & 157 others, Henneman, P., Lahti, J., Tanaka, T., Luan, J., Greco M, F. D., Pasko, D., Renström, F., Willems, S. M., Mahajan, A., Rose, L. M., Guo, X., Liu, Y., Kleber, M. E., Pérusse, L., Gaunt, T., Ahluwalia, Tarun Veer Singh, Ju Sung, Y., Ramos, Y. F., Amin, N., Amuzu, A., Barroso, I., Bellis, C., Blangero, J., Buckley, B. M., Böhringer, S., I Chen, Y., de Craen, A. J. N., Crosslin, D. R., Dale, C. E., Dastani, Z., Day, F. R., Deelen, J., Delgado, G. E., Demirkan, A., Finucane, F. M., Ford, I., Garcia, M. E., Gieger, C., Gustafsson, S., Hallmans, G., Hankinson, S. E., Havulinna, A. S., Herder, C., Hernandez, D., Hicks, A. A., Hunter, D. J., Illig, T., Ingelsson, E., Ioan-Facsinay, A., Jansson, J., Jenny, N. S., Jørgensen, M. E., Jørgensen, T., Karlsson, M., Koenig, W., Kraft, P., Kwekkeboom, J., Laatikainen, T., Ladwig, K., LeDuc, C. A., Lowe, G., Lu, Y., Marques-Vidal, P., Meisinger, C., Menni, C., Morris, A. P., Myers, R. H., Männistö, S., Nalls, M. A., Paternoster, L., Peters, A., Pradhan, A. D., Rankinen, T., Rasmussen-Torvik, L. J., Rathmann, W., Rice, T. K., Brent Richards, J., Ridker, P. M., Sattar, N., Savage, D. B., Söderberg, S., Timpson, N. J., Vandenput, L., van Heemst, D., Uh, H., Vohl, M., Walker, M., Wichmann, H., Widén, E., Wood, A. R., Yao, J., Zeller, T., Zhang, Y., Meulenbelt, I., Kloppenburg, M., Astrup, A., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Sarzynski, M. A., Rao, D. C., Jousilahti, P., Vartiainen, E., Hofman, A., Rivadeneira, F., Uitterlinden, A. G., Kajantie, E., Osmond, C., Palotie, A., Eriksson, J. G., Heliövaara, M., Knekt, P. B., Koskinen, S., Jula, A., Perola, M., Huupponen, R. K., Viikari, J. S., Kähönen, M., Lehtimäki, T., Raitakari, O. T., Mellström, D., Lorentzon, M., Casas, J. P., Bandinelli, S., März, W., Isaacs, A., van Dijk, K. W., van Duijn, C. M., Harris, T. B., Bouchard, C., Allison, M. A., Chasman, D. I., Ohlsson, C., Lind, L., Scott, R. A., Langenberg, C., Wareham, N. J., Ferrucci, L., Frayling, T. M., Pramstaller, P. P., Borecki, I. B., Waterworth, D. M., Bergmann, S., Waeber, G., Vollenweider, P., drb459, drb459, Hansen, Torben, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Hu, F. B., Eline Slagboom, P., Grallert, H., Spector, T. D., Jukema, J. W., Klein, R. J., Schadt, E. E., Franks, P. W., Lindgren, C. M., Leibel, R. L. & Loos, Ruth, 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 14 p., 10494.

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  10. 2015
  11. Published

    Gene-based meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies implicates new loci involved in obesity

    Hägg, S., Ganna, A., Van Der Laan, S. W., Esko, T., Pers, Tune H, Locke, A. E., Berndt, S. I., Justice, A. E., Kahali, B., Siemelink, M. A., Pasterkamp, G., Strachan, D. P., Speliotes, E. K., North, K. E., Loos, Ruth, Hirschhorn, J. N., Pawitan, Y., Ingelsson, E. & GIANT Consortium, G. C., 1 Dec 2015, In: Human Molecular Genetics. 24, 23, p. 6849-60 12 p.

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  12. Published

    Population genetic differentiation of height and body mass index across Europe

    Robinson, M. R., Hemani, G., Medina-Gomez, C., Mezzavilla, M., Esko, T., Shakhbazov, K., Powell, J. E., Vinkhuyzen, A., Berndt, S. I., Gustafsson, S., Justice, A. E., Kahali, B., Locke, A. E., Pers, T. H., Vedantam, S., Wood, A. R., van Rheenen, W., Andreassen, O. A., Gasparini, P., Metspalu, A. & 23 others, Berg, L. H. V. D., Veldink, J. H., Rivadeneira, F., Werge, Thomas, Abecasis, G. R., Boomsma, D. I., Chasman, D. I., de Geus, E. J. C., Frayling, T. M., Hirschhorn, J. N., Hottenga, J. J., Ingelsson, E., Loos, R. J. F., Magnusson, P. K. E., Martin, N. G., Montgomery, G. W., North, K. E., Pedersen, N. L., Spector, T. D., Speliotes, E. K., Goddard, M. E., Yang, J. & Visscher, P. M., Nov 2015, In: Nature Genetics. 47, 11, p. 1357-62, 2 unpag. Methods 8 p.

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