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Barbara Thorand is affiliated with Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, genetics, epidemiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work encompasses key areas including genetic associations and epidemiology, diabetes, cardiovascular risks and lipoproteins, blood pressure and hypertension studies, adipokines, inflammation and metabolic diseases, diabetes and associated disorders, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, as well as diabetes management and research.

Barbara Thorand has published papers in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include Cardiovascular Diabetology, European Heart Journal, UNC Libraries, PLoS ONE, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barbara Thorand include Annette Peters, Wolfgang Köenig, Wolfgang Rathmann, Christian Herder, and Christa Meisinger.

Their recent papers reflect a focus on immunology, cardiovascular disease, proteomics, genetic effects in metabolism, and mortality risks:

  • Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets (2023, Nature Immunology)
  • Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality (2023, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • Multiplatform Approach for Plasma Proteomics: Complementarity of Olink Proximity Extension Assay Technology to Mass Spectrometry-Based Protein Profiling (2020, Journal of Proteome Research)
  • Sex-dimorphic genetic effects and novel loci for fasting glucose and insulin variability (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Relation of body fat mass and fat-free mass to total mortality: results from 7 prospective cohort studies (2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • 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

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility.

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity

    Simone Wahl;Alexander Drong;Benjamin Lehne;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh

  • 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

  • An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

    Robert A. Scott;Laura J. Scott;Reedik Mägi;Letizia Marullo

  • Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

    Michael V. Holmes;Folkert W. Asselbergs;Tom M. Palmer;Fotios Drenos

  • Novel biomarkers for pre-diabetes identified by metabolomics

    Rui Wang-Sattler;Zhonghao Yu;Christian Herder;Ana C Messias

  • Association between C reactive protein and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    G. Eiriksdottir;T. B. Harris;L. J. Launer;V. Gudnason

  • 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

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

    Anubha Mahajan;Min Jin Go;Weihua Zhang;Jennifer E. Below

Frequent Co-Authors

Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolfgang Koenig
Wolfgang Koenig German Heart Centre
Christa Meisinger
Christa Meisinger University of Augsburg
Wolfgang Rathmann
Wolfgang Rathmann Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Christian Herder
Christian Herder Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Thomas Illig
Thomas Illig Hannover Medical School
Michael Roden
Michael Roden Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Harald Grallert
Harald Grallert Helmholtz Zentrum München

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