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Overview

Helena Kuivaniemi is affiliated with Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Their research contributions span medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, surgery, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including tuberculosis research and epidemiology, esophageal cancer research and treatment, air quality and health impacts, neutrophil, myeloperoxidase and oxidative mechanisms, blood disorders and treatments, RNA modifications and cancer, and inhalation and respiratory drug delivery.

Kuivaniemi has authored multiple papers published in various academic venues, including UNC Libraries, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Square, BMC Public Health, and PLoS ONE.

  • Diagnostic Accuracy of the Cepheid 3-gene Host Response Fingerstick Blood Test in a Prospective, Multi-site Study: Interim Results (2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • Environmental and life-style risk factors for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023, BMC Public Health)
  • Targeted next-generation sequencing identifies novel variants in candidate genes for Parkinson's disease in Black South African and Nigerian patients (2020, BMC Medical Genetics)
  • Neutrophil degranulation, NETosis and platelet degranulation pathway genes are co-induced in whole blood up to six months before tuberculosis diagnosis (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • The Peripheral Blood Transcriptome Is Correlated With PET Measures of Lung Inflammation During Successful Tuberculosis Treatment (2021, Frontiers in Immunology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kuivaniemi include Gerard Tromp, Stephanus T. Malherbe, Gerhard Walzl, Jane Shaw, and Jayne S. Sutherland, with significant publication counts alongside each.

The scientist contributes primarily to fields such as medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, supported by subfields of pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, surgery, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

Key publication venues reflect the research focus areas and include UNC Libraries, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Square, BMC Public Health, and PLoS ONE, indicating active engagement with journals that publish work on infectious diseases, public health, and molecular genetics.

Best Publications

  • The same sequence variant on 9p21 associates with myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm and intracranial aneurysm

    Anna Helgadottir;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Kristinn P Magnusson;Solveig Grétarsdottir

  • The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network: past, present, and future

    Omri Gottesman;Helena Kuivaniemi;Gerard Tromp;W. Andrew Faucett

  • Mutations in collagen genes: causes of rare and some common diseases in humans.

    Helena Kuivaniemi;Gerard Tromp;Darwin J. Prockop

  • Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Abdominal aortic aneurysms.

    Natzi Sakalihasan;Jean-Baptiste Michel;Athanasios Katsargyris;Helena Kuivaniemi

  • Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity

    Valérie Turcot;Yingchang Lu;Yingchang Lu;Heather M Highland;Heather M Highland;Claudia Schurmann

  • Understanding the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysms

    Helena Kuivaniemi;Evan J Ryer;James R Elmore;Gerard Tromp

  • Pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysms: A multidisciplinary research program supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute******

    Momtaz Wassef;B. Timothy Baxter;Rex L. Chisholm;Ronald L. Dalman

  • Mutations in fibrillar collagens (types I, II, III, and XI), fibril‐associated collagen (type IX), and network‐forming collagen (type X) cause a spectrum of diseases of bone, cartilage, and blood vessels

    Helena Kuivaniemi;Gerard Tromp;Darwin J. Prockop

  • Familial intracranial aneurysms.

    Antti Ronkainen;Juha Hernesniemi;Matti Puranen;Lea Niemitukia

  • Toll-like receptor-2 and -4 in the chorioamniotic membranes in spontaneous labor at term and in preterm parturition that are associated with chorioamnionitis

    Yeon Mee Kim;Roberto Romero;Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Gi Jin Kim

  • Bacterial vaginosis, the inflammatory response and the risk of preterm birth: a role for genetic epidemiology in the prevention of preterm birth.

    Roberto Romero;Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa;Helena Kuivaniemi;Gerard Tromp

  • Type III collagen (COL3A1): Gene and protein structure, tissue distribution, and associated diseases.

    Helena Kuivaniemi;Gerard Tromp

  • Aortic Aneurysms An Immune Disease With a Strong Genetic Component

    Helena Kuivaniemi;Chris D. Platsoucas;M. David Tilson

  • Human spontaneous labor without histologic chorioamnionitis is characterized by an acute inflammation gene expression signature

    Ramsi Haddad;Gerard Tromp;Helena Kuivaniemi;Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa

  • First-stage autosomal genome screen in extended pedigrees suggests genes predisposing to low bone mineral density on chromosomes 1p, 2p and 4q

    M Devoto;K Shimoya;K Shimoya;J Caminis;J Ott

  • Genome-wide association study identifies a sequence variant within the DAB2IP gene conferring susceptibility to abdominal aortic aneurysm

    Solveig Gretarsdottir;Annette F. Baas;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Hilma Holm

  • A mutation in the gene for type III procollagen (COL3A1) in a family with aortic aneurysms.

    S Kontusaari;G Tromp;H Kuivaniemi;A M Romanic

  • A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in the Matrix Metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) Promoter Influences Amnion Cell MMP-1 Expression and Risk for Preterm Premature Rupture of the Fetal Membranes

    Toshio Fujimoto;Samuel Parry;Margrit Urbanek;Mary Sammel

  • Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

    Eirini Marouli;Mariaelisa Graff;Carolina Medina-Gomez;Ken Sin Lo

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerard Tromp
Gerard Tromp Stellenbosch University
Darwin J. Prockop
Darwin J. Prockop Texas A&M University
David J. Carey
David J. Carey Geisinger Health System
Marylyn D. Ritchie
Marylyn D. Ritchie University of Pennsylvania
Roberto Romero
Roberto Romero National Institutes of Health
Catherine A. McCarty
Catherine A. McCarty University of Minnesota
Gail P. Jarvik
Gail P. Jarvik University of Washington
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Dana C. Crawford
Dana C. Crawford Case Western Reserve University
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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