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  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Netherlands Leader Award
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  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Fernando Rivadeneira is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work includes significant focus on genetics and molecular biology, along with physiology, orthopedics and sports medicine, and surgery as notable subfields.

They have contributed to several key topics including:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Bone Metabolism and Diseases
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Diet and metabolism studies

Fernando Rivadeneira's publication record includes work published in multiple venues with the highest number of publications appearing in UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Bone Reports, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, and Frontiers in Endocrinology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Genomic and phenotypic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • The health effects of vitamin D supplementation: evidence from human studies, 2021, Nature Reviews Endocrinology
  • Bone fragility in diabetes: novel concepts and clinical implications, 2022, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology
  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits, 2020, PLoS Genetics

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, with frequent collaboration counts as follows:

  • André G. Uitterlinden (70 co-authored papers)
  • Carolina Medina-Gómez (48 co-authored papers)
  • Katerina Trajanoska (39 co-authored papers)
  • M. Arfan Ikram (32 co-authored papers)
  • M. Carola Zillikens (28 co-authored papers)

Fernando Rivadeneira's work integrates genetics and epidemiology with clinical fields such as bone health, aging nutrition, and metabolic studies. Their research outputs underline a multidisciplinary approach addressing complex biological and medical questions through large-scale association analyses, genomic insights, and phenotype investigations.

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci

    Douglas F. Easton;Karen A. Pooley;Alison M. Dunning;Paul D. P. Pharoah

  • 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

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Common genetic determinants of vitamin D insufficiency: a genome-wide association study

    Thomas J. Wang;Feng Zhang;J. Brent Richards;Bryan Kestenbaum

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

    Harm-Jan Westra;Marjolein J Peters;Tõnu Esko;Hanieh Yaghootkar

  • Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

    Alexander Kurilshikov;Carolina Medina-Gomez;Rodrigo Bacigalupe;Djawad Radjabzadeh

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

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

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

    Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

  • Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease.

    Sudha Seshadri;Annette L. Fitzpatrick;M Arfan Ikram;Anita L. DeStefano

  • 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

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

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Albert V. Smith
Albert V. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Tamara B. Harris
Tamara B. Harris National Institutes of Health
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Vilmundur Gudnason
Vilmundur Gudnason University of Iceland

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