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National Ranking
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Overview

Ingrid Kockum is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine, with a primary focus on pathology and forensic medicine, immunology, molecular biology, genetics, and rheumatology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the understanding of neurological and autoimmune conditions. Their main topics of research include multiple sclerosis studies, systemic lupus erythematosus, T-cell and B-cell immunology, genetic associations and epidemiology, systemic sclerosis and related diseases, polyomavirus and related diseases, and peripheral neuropathies and disorders.

Recent notable scientific publications include:

  • Confounding effect of blood volume and body mass index on blood neurofilament light chain levels, 2020, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • Inflammation-related plasma and CSF biomarkers for multiple sclerosis, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • FLT3 stop mutation increases FLT3 ligand level and risk of autoimmune thyroid disease, 2020, Nature
  • Blood neurofilament light levels segregate treatment effects in multiple sclerosis, 2020, Neurology
  • Cross-reactive EBNA1 immunity targets alpha-crystallin B and is associated with multiple sclerosis, 2023, Science Advances

Kockum frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors who appear consistently in their publications. These include Tomas Olsson, Lars Alfredsson, Pernilla Stridh, Fredrik Piehl, and Jan Hillert.

The scientist's findings have been published in a range of venues with repeated contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Neurology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • European Journal of Neurology
  • Neurology

In total, their academic output reflects a significant presence in the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, building a comprehensive body of work with a focus on complex diseases and their biological underpinnings.

Best Publications

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Multiple sclerosis genomic map implicates peripheral immune cells and microglia in susceptibility

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  • Analysis of immune-related loci identifies 48 new susceptibility variants for multiple sclerosis

    Ashley H. Beecham;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Dionysia K. Xifara;Mary F. Davis

  • Variation in interleukin 7 receptor alpha chain (IL7R) influences risk of multiple sclerosis

    Frida Lundmark;Kristina Duvefelt;Ellen Iacobaeus;Ingrid Kockum

  • Class II HLA interactions modulate genetic risk for multiple sclerosis

    L Moutsianas;L Jostins;A H Beecham;A T Dilthey

  • Overexpression of the Cytokine BAFF and Autoimmunity Risk

    Maristella Steri;Valeria Orrù;M. Laura Idda;Maristella Pitzalis

  • Glutamate decarboxylase-, insulin-, and islet cell-antibodies and HLA typing to detect diabetes in a general population-based study of Swedish children.

    William A. Hagopian;Carani B. Sanjeevi;Ingrid Kockum;Mona Landin-Olsson

  • Smoking and two human leukocyte antigen genes interact to increase the risk for multiple sclerosis

    Anna Karin Hedström;Emilie Sundqvist;Maria Bäärnhielm;Nina Nordin

  • Cerebrospinal fluid CXCL13 in multiple sclerosis: a suggestive prognostic marker for the disease course

    Mohsen Khademi;Ingrid Kockum;Magnus L Andersson;Ellen Iacobaeus

  • Genetic Effects on Age-Dependent Onset and Islet Cell Autoantibody Markers in Type 1 Diabetes

    Jinko Graham;William A. Hagopian;Ingrid Kockum;Lou Sheng Li

  • Interaction between adolescent obesity and HLA risk genes in the etiology of multiple sclerosis

    Anna Karin Hedström;Izaura Lima Bomfim;Lisa Barcellos;Milena Gianfrancesco

  • Relative predispositional effects of HLA class II DRB1-DQB1 haplotypes and genotypes on type 1 diabetes: a meta-analysis.

    G. Thomson;A. M. Valdes;A. M. Valdes;J. A. Noble;I. Kockum

  • Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis: interaction with HLA.

    E Sundqvist;P Sundström;M Lindén;A K Hedström

  • Molecular mimicry between Anoctamin 2 and Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 associates with multiple sclerosis risk.

    Katarina Tengvall;Katarina Tengvall;Jesse Huang;Jesse Huang;Cecilia Hellstrom;Patrick Kammer

  • DNA methylation as a mediator of HLA-DRB1*15:01 and a protective variant in multiple sclerosis

    Lara Kular;Yun Liu;Yun Liu;Sabrina Ruhrmann;Galina Zheleznyakova

  • Multiple sclerosis-associated IL2RA polymorphism controls GM-CSF production in human TH cells

    Felix J. Hartmann;Mohsen Khademi;Jehan Aram;Sandra Ammann

  • Soluble IL7Rα potentiates IL-7 bioactivity and promotes autoimmunity.

    Wangko Lundström;Steven Highfill;Scott T. R. Walsh;Stephanie Beq

  • Inflammation-related Plasma and CSF Biomarkers for Multiple Sclerosis

    Jesse Huang;Mohsen Khademi;Lars Fugger;Örjan Lindhe

  • Susceptibility loci for atopic dermatitis on chromosomes 3, 13, 15, 17 and 18 in a Swedish population

    M. Bradley;C. Söderhäll;H. Luthman;C.-F. Wahlgren

  • Sunlight is associated with decreased multiple sclerosis risk: no interaction with human leukocyte antigen‐DRB1*15

    M. Bäärnhielm;A. K. Hedström;I. Kockum;E. Sundqvist

  • Network-based multiple sclerosis pathway analysis with GWAS data from 15,000 cases and 30,000 controls

    Sergio E. Baranzini;Pouya Khankhanian;Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos;Michael Li

  • The expanding genetic overlap between multiple sclerosis and type I diabetes

    David R Booth;Robert N Heard;Graeme J Stewart;An Goris

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Alfredsson
Lars Alfredsson Karolinska Institute
Jan Hillert
Jan Hillert Karolinska Institute
Tomas Olsson
Tomas Olsson Karolinska Institute
Åke Lernmark
Åke Lernmark Lund University
Hanne F. Harbo
Hanne F. Harbo Oslo University Hospital
Fredrik Piehl
Fredrik Piehl Karolinska Institute
Mohsen Khademi
Mohsen Khademi Karolinska Institute
Lisa F. Barcellos
Lisa F. Barcellos University of California, Berkeley
Finn Sellebjerg
Finn Sellebjerg Copenhagen University Hospital
An Goris
An Goris KU Leuven

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