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Mari Nelis is affiliated with the University of Tartu in Estonia. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, Nelis has contributed significantly to subfields including Genetics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Oncology.

Their work encompasses a range of topics, notably:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Mari Nelis has published extensively in several academic venues. These include Nature Communications, with nine publications, Communications Biology and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), each hosting three articles, Annals of Surgical Oncology, also with three papers, and Nature Immunology with two contributions.

Some recent papers associated with their research are:

  • Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets, 2023, Nature Immunology
  • A cross-disorder dosage sensitivity map of the human genome, 2022, Cell
  • Genome-wide association study identifies 48 common genetic variants associated with handedness, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • European and multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of atopic dermatitis highlights importance of systemic immune regulation, 2023, Nature Communications
  • The individual and global impact of copy-number variants on complex human traits, 2022, The American Journal of Human Genetics

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Lili Milani
  • Tōnu Esko
  • Andres Metspalu
  • Reedik Mägi
  • Georgi Hudjashov

Best Publications

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

    Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • 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

  • Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

    Harm-Jan Westra;Marjolein J Peters;Tõnu Esko;Hanieh Yaghootkar

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

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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • 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

  • The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Ji Chen;Ji Chen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Cassandra N. Spracklen;Gaëlle Marenne;Gaëlle Marenne;Arushi Varshney

  • Sequence variants at CHRNB3-CHRNA6 and CYP2A6 affect smoking behavior.

    Thorgeir E Thorgeirsson;Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Ida Surakka;Ida Surakka;Jacqueline M Vink

  • Genomic Dissection of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia, Including 28 Subphenotypes

    Douglas M. Ruderfer;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Andrew McQuillin;James Boocock

  • Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases

    Alexander Gusev;S. Hong Lee;Gosia Trynka;Hilary Finucane

  • 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 new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11.2

    R. G. Walters;S. Jacquemont;A. Valsesia;A. Valsesia;A. Valsesia;A. J. de Smith

  • 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

  • A Genome-wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Identifies a Region of Chromosome 5p15 Associated with Risk for Adenocarcinoma.

    Maria Teresa Landi;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Kai Yu;Lynn R. Goldin

  • Common variants in KCNN3 are associated with lone atrial fibrillation

    Patrick T. Ellinor;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Nicole L. Glazer;Arne Pfeufer

  • Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

    Yufei Wang;James D McKay;Thorunn Rafnar;Zhaoming Wang

  • Genetic structure of Europeans: a view from the North-East

    Mari Nelis;Mari Nelis;Tõnu Esko;Tõnu Esko;Reedik Mägi;Fritz Zimprich

  • Identification of heart rate–associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders

    Marcel Den Hoed;Mark Eijgelsheim;Tõnu Esko;Bianca J J M Brundel

Frequent Co-Authors

Andres Metspalu
Andres Metspalu University of Tartu
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital
Inês Barroso
Inês Barroso University of Exeter
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Jouke-Jan Hottenga
Jouke-Jan Hottenga Hamad bin Khalifa University
Reedik Mägi
Reedik Mägi University of Tartu
Philippe Froguel
Philippe Froguel Imperial College London
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

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