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Finland
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Genetics

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145
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102335
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155
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3

Medicine

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149
Citations
105045
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1181
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Markus Perola is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland. Their research spans a range of topics primarily within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on genetics, molecular biology, epidemiology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and physiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of genetic associations and epidemiology, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, birth, development, and health, epigenetics and DNA methylation, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, and liver disease and transplantation.

Recent publications by Markus Perola include:

  • Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Atlas of plasma NMR biomarkers for health and disease in 118,461 individuals from the UK Biobank, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Remdesivir and three other drugs for hospitalised patients with COVID-19: final results of the WHO Solidarity randomised trial and updated meta-analyses, 2022, The Lancet
  • Discovery of rare variants associated with blood pressure regulation through meta-analysis of 1.3 million individuals, 2020, Nature Genetics

Frequent co-authors of Markus Perola include:

  • Veikko Salomaa
  • Johannes Kettunen
  • Mika Kähönen
  • Aki S. Havulinna
  • Annamari Lundqvist

Their scholarly work is often published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • European Journal of Human Genetics
  • Liver International
  • Frontiers in Genetics

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 - Interim WHO Solidarity Trial Results.

    Hongchao Pan;Richard Peto;Ana-Maria Henao-Restrepo

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • 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

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

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

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

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • 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

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • 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

  • Modulation of genetic associations with serum urate levels by body-mass-index in humans

    Jennifer E. Huffman;Eva Albrecht;Alexander Teumer;Massimo Mangino

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

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

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Samuli Ripatti
Samuli Ripatti University of Helsinki
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Johannes Kettunen
Johannes Kettunen University of Oulu
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Mika Kähönen
Mika Kähönen Tampere University
Andres Metspalu
Andres Metspalu University of Tartu

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