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  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Medicine
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Medicine

Overview

Kristian Hveem is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Their research spans primarily across Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The scientist has contributed notably in the subfields of Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their work covers a range of topics, including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Asthma and respiratory diseases, Diabetes Treatment and Management, Birth, Development, and Health, Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Dermatology and Skin Diseases.

Frequent publication venues for Kristian Hveem include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature Communications
  • Circulation
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some of their recent papers are:

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Exome sequencing and characterization of 49,960 individuals in the UK Biobank, 2020, Nature
  • Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Ben Brumpton
  • Laurent F. Thomas
  • Cristen J. Willer
  • Maiken E. Gabrielsen
  • Bjørn Olav Åsvold

Kristian Hveem has been recognized as a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, specifically in the field of Medicine.

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

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Efficiently controlling for case-control imbalance and sample relatedness in large-scale genetic association studies

    Wei Zhou;Jonas B. Nielsen;Lars G. Fritsche;Rounak Dey

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Rayjean J. Hung;James D. Mckay;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

    Niamh Mullins;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Andreas J. Forstner;Kevin S. O'Connell;Kevin S. O'Connell;Brandon Coombes

  • 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

  • Cohort Profile: The HUNT Study, Norway

    S Krokstad;A Langhammer;K Hveem;TL Holmen

  • 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

  • SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe

    Steven Hageman;Lisa Pennells

  • 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

Cristen J. Willer
Cristen J. Willer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Michael Boehnke
Michael Boehnke University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Jaakko Tuomilehto
Jaakko Tuomilehto University of Helsinki
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University

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