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Elin Grundberg is affiliated with Children's Mercy Hospital in the United States and has contributed extensively to research within the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, infectious diseases, immunology, and physiology.

The primary research topics addressed by Elin Grundberg cover epigenetics and DNA methylation, genomics and rare diseases, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, diet and metabolism studies, animal virus infections studies, genetic associations and epidemiology, as well as genetic syndromes and imprinting.

Elin Grundberg's publication record includes recent papers such as:

  • Antibody Responses after a Single Dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Genetic variation influencing DNA methylation provides insights into molecular mechanisms regulating genomic function, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genomic answers for children: Dynamic analyses of >1000 pediatric rare disease genomes, 2022, Genetics in Medicine
  • ASCL2 reciprocally controls key trophoblast lineage decisions during hemochorial placenta development, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Humoral immune responses during SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine administration in seropositive and seronegative individuals, 2021, BMC Medicine

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 14 publications, Circulation with 4 publications, Genetics in Medicine, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports, each with 3 publications.

Elin Grundberg collaborates regularly with several co-authors, most notably Tomi Pastinen and Warren Cheung, each with 19 joint publications, followed by Boryana Koseva with 15, Jeffrey Johnston with 13, and Daniel Louiselle with 12 co-authored works.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • An atlas of genetic influences on human blood metabolites

    So-Youn Shin;Eric B Fauman;Ann-Kristin Petersen;Jan Krumsiek

  • 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

  • Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical research

    Karsten Suhre;So-Youn Shin;Ann-Kristin Petersen;Robert P. Mohney

  • 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

  • Mapping cis - and trans -regulatory effects across multiple tissues in twins

    E Grundberg;K S Small;K S Small;Å K Hedman;A C Nica

  • Twenty bone mineral-density loci identified by large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Fernando Rivadeneira;Unnur Styrkarsdottir;Karol Estrada;Bjarni V. Halldorsson

  • An atlas of genetic influences on osteoporosis in humans and mice

    John A Morris;John P Kemp;John P Kemp;Scott E Youlten;Laetitia Laurent

  • Epigenome-Wide Scans Identify Differentially Methylated Regions for Age and Age-Related Phenotypes in a Healthy Ageing Population

    Jordana T. Bell;Pei-Chien Tsai;Tsun-Po Yang;Ruth Pidsley

  • Genome-wide association study in individuals of South Asian ancestry identifies six new type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci

    Jaspal S Kooner;Danish Saleheen;Xueling Sim;Joban Sehmi;Joban Sehmi

  • Whole-genome sequencing identifies EN1 as a determinant of bone density and fracture.

    Hou Feng Zheng;Vincenzo Forgetta;Yi Hsiang Hsu;Yi Hsiang Hsu;Karol Estrada

  • The architecture of gene regulatory variation across multiple human tissues: the MuTHER study

    Alexandra C. Nica;Alexandra C. Nica;Leopold Parts;Daniel Glass;James Nisbet

  • Identification of 153 new loci associated with heel bone mineral density and functional involvement of GPC6 in osteoporosis

    John P Kemp;John P Kemp;John A Morris;Carolina Medina-Gomez;Vincenzo Forgetta

  • Global Analysis of DNA Methylation Variation in Adipose Tissue from Twins Reveals Links to Disease-Associated Variants in Distal Regulatory Elements

    Elin Grundberg;Elin Grundberg;Eshwar Meduri;Eshwar Meduri;Johanna K. Sandling;Johanna K. Sandling;Johanna K. Sandling;Asa K. Hedman

  • Cigarette smoking reduces DNA methylation levels at multiple genomic loci but the effect is partially reversible upon cessation.

    Loukia G. Tsaprouni;Tsun Po Yang;Jordana Bell;Katherine J. Dick

  • Identification of an imprinted master trans regulator at the KLF14 locus related to multiple metabolic phenotypes

    Kerrin S. Small;Asa K. Hedman;Elin Grundberg;Alexandra C. Nica

  • Allele-Specific Chromatin Remodeling in the ZPBP2/GSDMB/ORMDL3 Locus Associated with the Risk of Asthma and Autoimmune Disease

    Dominique J. Verlaan;Soizik Berlivet;Gary M. Hunninghake;Anne-Marie Madore;Anne-Marie Madore

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

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

  • 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

Tomi Pastinen
Tomi Pastinen Children's Mercy Hospital
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Nicole Soranzo
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute
Claes Ohlsson
Claes Ohlsson University of Gothenburg
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Kerrin S. Small
Kerrin S. Small King's College London
Scott G. Wilson
Scott G. Wilson University of Western Australia
J. Brent Richards
J. Brent Richards McGill University
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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