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Lars Alfredsson

Lars Alfredsson

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Medicine
Sweden
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
147
Citations
87989
World Ranking
1271
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Lars Alfredsson is affiliated with the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a particular focus on subfields such as Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Rheumatology, Genetics, Immunology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work encompasses several main research topics, including:

  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Systemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases

Alfredsson has contributed to numerous academic publications, with frequent appearances in journals such as:

  • Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Arthritis Research & Therapy

Among recent papers authored or coauthored are:

  • Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses identify novel genetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Association of Healthy Lifestyle With Years Lived Without Major Chronic Diseases, 2020, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Confounding effect of blood volume and body mass index on blood neurofilament light chain levels, 2020, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors, 2021, Biological Psychiatry

Frequent collaborators in Alfredsson's research include Tomas Olsson, Lars Klareskog, Ingrid Kockum, Anna Karin Hedström, and Jan Hillert.

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

  • A new model for an etiology of rheumatoid arthritis: smoking may trigger HLA-DR (shared epitope)-restricted immune reactions to autoantigens modified by citrullination.

    Lars Klareskog;Patrik Stolt;Karin Lundberg;Henrik Källberg

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • 2017 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and their major subgroups

    Ingrid E Lundberg;Anna Tjärnlund;Matteo Bottai;Victoria P Werth

  • Genome-wide association study meta-analysis identifies seven new rheumatoid arthritis risk loci

    Eli A Stahl;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Elaine F Remmers;Gang Xie

  • 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

  • The Association between Job Strain and Atrial Fibrillation: Results from the Swedish WOLF Study

    Eleonor I. Fransson;Magdalena Stadin;Maria Nordin;Dan Malm

  • 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

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • STAT4 and the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    Elaine F. Remmers;Robert M. Plenge;Annette T. Lee;Robert R. Graham;Robert R. Graham

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of individual participant data.

    Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki;Solja T. Nyberg;G. David Batty;G. David Batty;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson;Eleonor I. Fransson

  • Interactions between genetic, lifestyle and environmental risk factors for multiple sclerosis

    Tomas Olsson;Lisa F. Barcellos;Lars Alfredsson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Five amino acids in three HLA proteins explain most of the association between MHC and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

    Soumya Raychaudhuri;Cynthia Sandor;Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Jan Freudenberg

  • Epigenome-wide association data implicate DNA methylation as an intermediary of genetic risk in rheumatoid arthritis

    Yun Liu;Martin J Aryee;Leonid Padyukov;M Daniele Fallin;M Daniele Fallin

  • TRAF1–C5 as a Risk Locus for Rheumatoid Arthritis — A Genomewide Study

    Robert M. Plenge;Mark Seielstad;Leonid Padyukov;Annette T. Lee

  • Sleep disturbances, work stress and work hours: A cross-sectional study

    Torbjörn Åkerstedt;Anders Knutsson;P Westerholm;T Theorell

  • 2017 European League Against Rheumatism/American College of Rheumatology Classification Criteria for Adult and Juvenile Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies and Their Major Subgroups.

    Ingrid E Lundberg;Anna Tjärnlund;Matteo Bottai;Victoria P Werth

  • A gene-environment interaction between smoking and shared epitope genes in HLA-DR provides a high risk of seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

    Leonid Padyukov;Camilla Silva;Patrik Stolt;Lars Alfredsson

  • Job strain as a risk factor for coronary heart disease

    Mika Kivimäki;Solja T Nyberg;G David Batty;Eleonor I Fransson

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Klareskog
Lars Klareskog Karolinska Institute
Leonid Padyukov
Leonid Padyukov Karolinska Institute
Ingrid Kockum
Ingrid Kockum Karolinska Institute
Mika Kivimäki
Mika Kivimäki University College London
Jan Hillert
Jan Hillert Karolinska Institute
Jussi Vahtera
Jussi Vahtera Turku University Hospital
Tomas Olsson
Tomas Olsson Karolinska Institute
G. David Batty
G. David Batty University College London
Sakari Suominen
Sakari Suominen University of Turku

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