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Lasse Folkersen

Lasse Folkersen

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
25222
World Ranking
11675
National Ranking
131

Overview

Lasse Folkersen is affiliated with Sankt Hans Hospital in Denmark and focuses primarily on research within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications also related to Medicine. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Rheumatology, and Cancer Research.

Their research explores several key topics, such as Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Inflammasome and immune disorders, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, RNA modifications and cancer, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Folkersen include Adam S. Butterworth, Anders Mälarstig, Stefan Enroth, Tõnu Esko, and Leonid Padyukov, each having contributed to multiple joint publications.

Folkersen has published numerous papers, with some notable recent works including:

  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals, 2020, Nature Metabolism

Their other related contributions, which include co-authorship, appear in prominent journals such as:

  • Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19, 2021, Nature
  • Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets, 2023, Nature Immunology
  • Portability of 245 polygenic scores when derived from the UK Biobank and applied to 9 ancestry groups from the same cohort, 2022, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Review and Consensus on Pharmacogenomic Testing in Psychiatry, 2020, Pharmacopsychiatry

Their works have been published frequently in venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), European Journal of Human Genetics, Scientific Reports, UNC Libraries, and Nature Immunology.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease:Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    Michael V Holmes;Michael V Holmes;Caroline E Dale;Luisa Zuccolo;Richard J Silverwood

  • A genome-wide association study in Europeans and South Asians identifies five new loci for coronary artery disease

    John F. Peden;Jemma C. Hopewell;Danish Saleheen;John C. Chambers

  • CD49a Expression Defines Tissue-Resident CD8+ T Cells Poised for Cytotoxic Function in Human Skin

    Stanley Cheuk;Heinrich Schlums;Irène Gallais Sérézal;Irène Gallais Sérézal;Elisa Martini

  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals

    Lasse Folkersen;Stefan Gustafsson;Qin Wang;Qin Wang;Daniel Hvidberg Hansen

  • The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Teresa Ferreira;Daniel I. Chasman;Anne U. Jackson

  • Genome-Wide Association Identifies Nine Common Variants Associated With Fasting Proinsulin Levels and Provides New Insights Into the Pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes

    R J Strawbridge;J Dupuis;I Prokopenko;A Barker

  • NLRP3 Inflammasome Expression and Activation in Human Atherosclerosis

    Geena Paramel Varghese;Lasse Folkersen;Rona J. Strawbridge;Bente Halvorsen

  • Mapping of 79 loci for 83 plasma protein biomarkers in cardiovascular disease.

    Lasse Westergaard Folkersen;Eric Fauman;Maria Sabater-Lleal;Rona J. Strawbridge

  • Meta-analysis of 65,734 Individuals Identifies TSPAN15 and SLC44A2 as Two Susceptibility Loci for Venous Thromboembolism

    Marine Germain;Marine Germain;Marine Germain;Daniel I. Chasman;Hugoline De Haan;Weihong Tang

  • 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

  • Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Is Associated with a Variant in Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein 1

    Morris J. Bown;Gregory T. Jones;Seamus C. Harrison;Benjamin J. Wright

  • Dickkopf-1 Enhances Inflammatory Interaction Between Platelets and Endothelial Cells and Shows Increased Expression in Atherosclerosis

    Thor Ueland;Kari Otterdal;Tove Lekva;Bente Halvorsen

  • Relationship between CAD Risk Genotype in the Chromosome 9p21 Locus and Gene Expression. Identification of Eight New ANRIL Splice Variants

    Lasse Folkersen;Theodosios Kyriakou;Anuj Goel;John Peden

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in abdominal aortic aneurysm

    Seamus C. Harrison;Andrew J.P. Smith;Gregory T. Jones;Daniel I. Swerdlow

  • Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Identifies Four New Disease-Specific Risk Loci

    Gregory T. Jones;Gerard Tromp;Helena Kuivaniemi;Solveig Gretarsdottir

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Eriksson
Per Eriksson Karolinska University Hospital
Anders Hamsten
Anders Hamsten Karolinska Institute
Ulf Hedin
Ulf Hedin Karolinska Institute
Göran K. Hansson
Göran K. Hansson Karolinska University Hospital
Steve E. Humphries
Steve E. Humphries University College London
Rona J. Strawbridge
Rona J. Strawbridge University of Glasgow
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Hugh Watkins
Hugh Watkins University of Oxford
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
John Danesh
John Danesh University of Cambridge

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