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Mads Melbye is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has produced a significant body of research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans numerous subfields including Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Genetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's research topics are focused on areas such as Birth, Development, and Health, Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, Gestational Diabetes Research and Management, Diabetes Treatment and Management, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction, and Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment.

Some of the recent papers authored by or associated with Melbye include:

  • Metabolic Dynamics and Prediction of Gestational Age and Time to Delivery in Pregnant Women, 2020, Cell
  • Danish premature birth rates during the COVID-19 lockdown, 2020, Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal
  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Genetic predisposition to hypertension is associated with preeclampsia in European and Central Asian women, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Melbye include Jan Wohlfahrt, Bjarke Feenstra, Anders Hviid, Line Skotte, and Henrik Hjalgrim.

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, BMJ, Nature Genetics, and Diabetes Care.

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

  • Maternal age and fetal loss: population based register linkage study

    Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen;Jan Wohlfahrt;Peter Christens;Jørn Olsen

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

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

  • The Danish National Birth Cohort - its background, structure and aim:

    Jørn Olsen;Mads Melbye;Sjurdur Frodi Olsen;Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

  • Effects of family history and place and season of birth on the risk of schizophrenia.

    Preben Bo Mortensen;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Tine Westergaard;Jan Wohlfahrt

  • A Population-Based Study of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccination and Autism

    Kreesten Meldgaard Madsen;Anders Hviid;Mogens Vestergaard;Diana Schendel

  • Genome-partitioning of genetic variation for complex traits using common SNPs

    Jian Yang;Teri A. Manolio;Louis R. Pasquale;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Sexually Transmitted Infection as a Cause of Anal Cancer

    Frisch M;Glimelius B;van den Brule Aj;Wohlfahrt J

  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

    John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

  • Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis

    Lavinia Paternoster;Marie Standl;Johannes Waage;Hansjoerg Baurecht

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • A genome-wide association study of cleft lip with and without cleft palate identifies risk variants near MAFB and ABCA4

    Terri H. Beaty;Jeffrey C. Murray;Mary L. Marazita;Ronald G. Munger

  • Detectable clonal mosaicism from birth to old age and its relationship to cancer.

    Cathy C. Laurie;Cecelia A Laurie;Kenneth Rice;Kimberly F. Doheny

  • Time from HIV-1 seroconversion to AIDS and death before widespread use of highly-active antiretroviral therapy: a collaborative re-analysis

    A Babiker;S Darby;D De Angelis;D Kwart

  • Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Cathy E. Elks;John R B Perry;Patrick Sulem;Daniel I. Chasman

  • Disruption of an AP-2 alpha binding site in an IRF6 enhancer is associated with cleft lip

    Fedik Rahimov;Mary L Marazita;Axel Visel;Margaret E Cooper

  • Acute respiratory tract infections and mannose-binding lectin insufficiency during early childhood.

    Anders Koch;Mads Melbye;Per Sørensen;Preben Homøe

  • Growth patterns and the risk of breast cancer in women.

    M. Ahlgren;M. Melbye;J. Wohlfahrt;T.I.A. Sørensen

  • Viral load of human papilloma virus 16 as a determinant for development of cervical carcinoma in situ: a nested case-control study

    Agnetha M. Josefsson;Patrik K. E. Magnusson;Nathalie Ylitalo;Per Sorensen

  • Population based study of rates of multiple pregnancies in denmark, 1980-94

    Tine Westergaard;Jan Wohlfahrt;Peter Aaby;Mads Melbye

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Wohlfahrt
Jan Wohlfahrt Statens Serum Institut
Henrik Hjalgrim
Henrik Hjalgrim Statens Serum Institut
Bjarke Feenstra
Bjarke Feenstra Statens Serum Institut
Hans-Olov Adami
Hans-Olov Adami Karolinska Institute
Frank Geller
Frank Geller Statens Serum Institut
Bengt Glimelius
Bengt Glimelius Uppsala University
Morten Frisch
Morten Frisch Statens Serum Institut
Robert J. Biggar
Robert J. Biggar National Institutes of Health
Karin E. Smedby
Karin E. Smedby Karolinska University Hospital

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