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Overview

Anneli Pouta is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on fields within medicine, with a concentration on obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, surgery, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and public health.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Pregnancy-related medical research
  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
  • Hyperglycemia and glycemic control in critically ill and hospitalized patients

Anneli Pouta has published papers in multiple venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Hypertension
  • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • JAMA Cardiology
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Epidemiology

Recent publications include:

  • "Genetic Risk Factors Associated With Preeclampsia and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy" (2023, JAMA Cardiology)
  • "Pregnancy outcomes according to the definition of gestational diabetes" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "Increased Risk of Preeclampsia in Women With a Genetic Predisposition to Elevated Blood Pressure" (2022, Hypertension)
  • "Cohort Profile: The Finnish Gestational Diabetes (FinnGeDi) Study" (2020, International Journal of Epidemiology)
  • "Normal Gestational Weight Gain Protects From Large-for-Gestational-Age Birth Among Women With Obesity and Gestational Diabetes" (2021, Frontiers in Public Health)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anneli Pouta include:

  • Hannele Laivuori
  • Eero Kajantie
  • Marja Vääräsmäki
  • Mika Gissler
  • Risto Kaaja

Best Publications

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Causal relationship between obesity and vitamin D status: bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis of multiple cohorts.

    Karani S. Vimaleswaran;Diane J. Berry;Emmi Tikkanen;Emmi Tikkanen;Stefan Pilz;Stefan Pilz

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

    Veryan Codd;Christopher P Nelson;Eva Albrecht;Massimo Mangino

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels

    Inga Prokopenko;Claudia Langenberg;Jose C. Florez;Jose C. Florez;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Genome-wide association analysis of metabolic traits in a birth cohort from a founder population

    Chiara Sabatti;Anna-Liisa Hartikainen;Anneli Pouta

  • Sequence variants at CHRNB3-CHRNA6 and CYP2A6 affect smoking behavior.

    Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson;Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Ida Surakka;Ida Surakka;Jacqueline M Vink

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Dysfunction of lipid sensor GPR120 leads to obesity in both mouse and human

    Atsuhiko Ichimura;Akira Hirasawa;Odile Poulain-Godefroy;Odile Poulain-Godefroy;Amélie Bonnefond;Amélie Bonnefond

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five loci associated with lung function.

    E Repapi;I Sayers;L V Wain;P R Burton

  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

    John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

Frequent Co-Authors

Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Anna-Liisa Hartikainen
Anna-Liisa Hartikainen University of Oulu
Paul Elliott
Paul Elliott Imperial College London
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Samuli Ripatti
Samuli Ripatti University of Helsinki
Ulla Sovio
Ulla Sovio University of Cambridge
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh

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