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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Johanna Kuusisto is affiliated with the University of Eastern Finland in Finland and has contributed research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their published work spans subfields including Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Molecular Biology.

Their research addresses topics such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Lipid Metabolism and Disorders, and RNA Research and Splicing. These thematic areas reflect a focus on the molecular and genetic bases of metabolic and cardiovascular health conditions.

Kuusisto has published in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) at the University of Oxford.

  • Rare coding variants in 35 genes associate with circulating lipid levels - a multi-ancestry analysis of 170,000 exomes (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • Genome-Wide Association Study of the Modified Stumvoll Insulin Sensitivity Index Identifies BCL2 and FAM19A2 as Novel Insulin Sensitivity Loci (2020, Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford))

Frequent co-authors on these projects include José C. Florez, Niels Grarup, Leif Groop, Torben Hansen, and Heikki A. Koistinen, each having collaborated on multiple publications.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies.

    Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev;Arthur Ko;Huwenbo Shi;Gaurav Bhatia;Gaurav Bhatia

  • A Pro12Ala substitution in PPARgamma2 associated with decreased receptor activity, lower body mass index and improved insulin sensitivity.

    Samir S. Deeb;Lluis Fajas;Masami Nemoto;Jussi Pihlajamäki

  • 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

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

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

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

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

  • Characterization of the early lesion of 'degenerative' valvular aortic stenosis. Histological and immunohistochemical studies.

    Catherine M. Otto;Johanna Kuusisto;Dennis D. Reichenbach;Allen M. Gown

  • 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

  • Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Cristen J. Willer;Gina M. Peloso;Serkalem Demissie

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Markku Laakso
Markku Laakso University of Eastern Finland
Michael Boehnke
Michael Boehnke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alena Stančáková
Alena Stančáková University of Eastern Finland
Anne U. Jackson
Anne U. Jackson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge
Francis S. Collins
Francis S. Collins National Institutes of Health
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London

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