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Marju Orho-Melander

Marju Orho-Melander

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Medicine

D-Index
111
Citations
60638
World Ranking
5254
National Ranking
108

Overview

Marju Orho-Melander is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work focuses on various subfields including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Epidemiology.

Key topics in their research include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease

Marju Orho-Melander has contributed to multiple publications. Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by them are:

  • Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals, 2020, Nature Metabolism
  • Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Association of Sleep Duration With All- and Major-Cause Mortality Among Adults in Japan, China, Singapore, and Korea, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • An online atlas of human plasma metabolite signatures of gut microbiome composition, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Distinct contributions of metabolic dysfunction and genetic risk factors in the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, 2021, Journal of Hepatology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marju Orho-Melander include:

  • Gunnar Engström
  • Olle Melander
  • Jan Nilsson
  • Johan Ärnlöv
  • Ulrika Ericson

The scientist's work has been published regularly in a diverse range of academic venues. Some frequently appearing publication sites are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • UNC Libraries
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Best Publications

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Loci for Type 2 Diabetes and Triglyceride Levels

    Richa Saxena;Benjamin F. Voight;Valeriya Lyssenko;Noël P. Burtt

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • Genetic variation in the gene encoding calpain-10 is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus

    Y Horikawa;N Oda;N J Cox;X Li;X Li

  • Six new loci associated with blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol or triglycerides in humans.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Olle Melander;Candace Guiducci;Aarti Surti

  • Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Sekar Kathiresan;Cristen J. Willer;Gina M. Peloso;Serkalem Demissie

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Genetic Risk, Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, and Coronary Disease

    Amit V. Khera;Connor A. Emdin;Isabel Drake;Pradeep Natarajan

  • From noncoding variant to phenotype via SORT1 at the 1p13 cholesterol locus

    Kiran Musunuru;Kiran Musunuru;Kiran Musunuru;Alanna Strong;Maria Frank-Kamenetsky;Noemi E. Lee

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Christian Fuchsberger;Jason A. Flannick;Jason A. Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

  • Mechanisms by which common variants in the TCF7L2 gene increase risk of type 2 diabetes

    Valeriya Lyssenko;Roberto Lupi;Piero Marchetti;Silvia Del Guerra

  • Loss-of-function mutations in APOC3, triglycerides, and coronary disease

    Jacy Crosby;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Paul L. Auer;David R. Crosslin

  • Prediction of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver fat using metabolic and genetic factors.

    Anna Kotronen;Markku Peltonen;Antti Hakkarainen;Ksenia Sevastianova

  • Polymorphisms Associated with Cholesterol and Risk of Cardiovascular Events

    Sekar Kathiresan;Olle Melander;Dragi Anevski;Candace Guiducci

  • Multi-Ethnic Genome-wide Association Study for Atrial Fibrillation

    Carolina Roselli;Mark D. Chaffin;Lu Chen Weng;Lu Chen Weng;Stefanie Aeschbacher

  • Testing for an unusual distribution of rare variants.

    Benjamin Michael Neale;Manuel A. Rivas;Manuel A. Rivas;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;David Matthew Altshuler;David Matthew Altshuler

  • Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: A meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children

    Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen;Lu Qi;Soren Brage;Stephen J. Sharp

  • A multilocus genetic risk score for coronary heart disease: case-control and prospective cohort analyses.

    Samuli Ripatti;Samuli Ripatti;Emmi Tikkanen;Emmi Tikkanen;Marju Orho-Melander;Aki S Havulinna

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Christian Fuchsberger;Jason Flannick;Tanya M. Teslovich;Anubha Mahajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Olle Melander
Olle Melander Lund University
Leif Groop
Leif Groop Lund University
Paul W. Franks
Paul W. Franks Lund University
Peter M. Nilsson
Peter M. Nilsson Lund University
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Gunnar Engström
Gunnar Engström Lund University
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen

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