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Terho Lehtimäki

Terho Lehtimäki

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2025
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Medicine
Finland
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Terho Lehtimäki is affiliated with Tampere University in Finland and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans a range of subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, genetics, physiology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Lehtimäki's work covers several main topics, focusing prominently on genetic associations and epidemiology, birth, development, and health, as well as epigenetics and DNA methylation. Additional areas of study include obesity, physical activity, and diet, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, and diet and metabolism studies.

They have published numerous studies in various scientific venues with a notable number of publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Atherosclerosis, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports.

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports

Some recent papers include:

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism (2020, Cell)
  • Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases (2020, Cell)
  • Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations (2020, Cell)
  • Rare coding variation provides insight into the genetic architecture and phenotypic context of autism (2022, Nature Genetics)

Terho Lehtimäki collaborates frequently with a set of co-authors, including:

  • Mika Kähönen
  • Olli T. Raitakari
  • Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen
  • Pashupati P. Mishra
  • Jorma Viikari

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Strong Association of De Novo Copy Number Mutations with Autism

    Jonathan Sebat;B. Lakshmi;Dheeraj Malhotra;Jennifer Troge

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • 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

  • Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

    Silvia De Rubeis;Xin-Xin He;Arthur P Goldberg;Christopher S. Poultney

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • 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

  • Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

    F. Kyle Satterstrom;F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S. Breen

  • 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

  • Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies.

    Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev;Arthur Ko;Huwenbo Shi;Gaurav Bhatia;Gaurav Bhatia

  • Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

    Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Mika Kähönen
Mika Kähönen Tampere University
Jorma Viikari
Jorma Viikari Turku University Hospital
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Markus Juonala
Markus Juonala Turku University Hospital
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore

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