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Tom H. Karlsen is affiliated with Oslo University Hospital in Norway and has a substantial body of research within the field of Medicine, focusing particularly on Hepatology.

The scientist has produced over 230 publications, with a marked concentration of 82 works in Hepatology alone. Other prominent subfields include Epidemiology (51 publications), Surgery (48 publications), Immunology (19 publications), and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (16 publications).

The research topics most frequently addressed involve Liver Diseases and Immunity (126 publications), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (90 publications), Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments (34 publications), Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies (30 publications), Liver Disease and Transplantation (18 publications), Inflammatory Bowel Disease (18 publications), and Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders (14 publications).

Among recent papers are:

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines on sclerosing cholangitis, 2022, Journal of Hepatology
  • Whole-genome sequencing of a sporadic primary immunodeficiency cohort, 2020, Nature
  • Development, validation, and prognostic evaluation of a risk score for long-term liver-related outcomes in the general population: a multicohort study, 2023, The Lancet
  • Altered Gut Microbial Metabolism of Essential Nutrients in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • Downregulation of TGR5 (GPBAR1) in biliary epithelial cells contributes to the pathogenesis of sclerosing cholangitis, 2021, Journal of Hepatology

Frequent coauthors include Johannes R. Hov, Trine Folseraas, Mette Vesterhus, Espen Melum, and Philip N. Newsome. These collaborators have co-published 32, 29, 25, 19, and 17 papers respectively with Karlsen.

Key publication venues for Karlsen's work are:

  • Journal of Hepatology (56 publications)
  • Hepatology (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • JHEP Reports (4 publications)
  • Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure.

    David Ellinghaus;Frauke Degenhardt;Luis Bujanda;Maria Buti

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Drug-induced liver injury

    Raúl J. Andrade;Guruprasad P. Aithal;Einar S. Björnsson;Neil Kaplowitz

  • Analysis of five chronic inflammatory diseases identifies 27 new associations and highlights disease-specific patterns at shared loci

    David Ellinghaus;Luke Jostins;Sarah L. Spain;Adrian Cortes

  • The First European Evidence-Based Consensus on Extra-Intestinal Manifestations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Marcus Harbord;Vito Annese;Stephan R. Vavricka;Matthieu Allez

  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis - a comprehensive review.

    Tom H. Karlsen;Tom H. Karlsen;Trine Folseraas;Douglas Thorburn;Mette Vesterhus

  • Sequence variants in IL10, ARPC2 and multiple other loci contribute to ulcerative colitis susceptibility

    Andre Franke;Tobias Balschun;Tom H Karlsen;Jurgita Sventoraityte

  • Primary sclerosing cholangitis

    Gideon M Hirschfield;Tom H Karlsen;Tom H Karlsen;Keith D Lindor;David H Adams

  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies variation in vitamin D receptor and other host factors influencing the gut microbiota

    Jun Wang;Louise B Thingholm;Jurgita Skiecevičienė;Philipp Rausch;Philipp Rausch

  • Replication of signals from recent studies of Crohn's disease identifies previously unknown disease loci for ulcerative colitis.

    Andre Franke;Tobias Balschun;Tom H Karlsen;Jürgen Hedderich

  • Patient Age, Sex, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Phenotype Associate With Course of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

    Tobias J. Weismüller;Tobias J. Weismüller;Palak J. Trivedi;Annika Bergquist;Mohamad Imam;Mohamad Imam

  • Microbiota-dependent metabolite trimethylamine-N-oxide is associated with disease severity and survival of patients with chronic heart failure.

    M. Trøseid;T. Ueland;T. Ueland;J. R. Hov;A. Svardal

  • Genome-wide association study identifies a psoriasis susceptibility locus at TRAF3IP2

    Eva Ellinghaus;David Ellinghaus;Philip E Stuart;Rajan P Nair

  • The gut microbial profile in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis is distinct from patients with ulcerative colitis without biliary disease and healthy controls

    Martin Kummen;Kristian Holm;Jarl Andreas Anmarkrud;Ståle Nygård;Ståle Nygård

  • Dense genotyping of immune-related disease regions identifies nine new risk loci for primary sclerosing cholangitis

    Jimmy Z Liu;Johannes Roksund Hov;Trine Folseraas;Trine Folseraas;Eva Ellinghaus

  • Genome-Wide Association Analysis in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

    Tom H. Karlsen;Andre Franke;Espen Melum;Arthur Kaser

  • Cholangiocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells for disease modeling and drug validation

    Fotios Sampaziotis;Fotios Sampaziotis;Miguel Cardoso de Brito;Pedro Madrigal;Pedro Madrigal;Alessandro Bertero

  • Obese Individuals with and without Type 2 Diabetes Show Different Gut Microbial Functional Capacity and Composition.

    Louise B. Thingholm;Malte C. Rühlemann;Manja Koch;Brie Fuqua

  • Dense genotyping of immune-related disease regions identifies nine new risk loci for primary sclerosing cholangitis

    Jimmy Z. Liu;Johannes Roksund Hov;Trine Folseraas;Eva Ellinghaus

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirsten Muri Boberg
Kirsten Muri Boberg University of Oslo
Andre Franke
Andre Franke Kiel University
Stefan Schreiber
Stefan Schreiber Kiel University
Gideon M. Hirschfield
Gideon M. Hirschfield University Health Network
David Ellinghaus
David Ellinghaus Kiel University
Morten H. Vatn
Morten H. Vatn University of Oslo
Cyriel Y. Ponsioen
Cyriel Y. Ponsioen University of Amsterdam
Rinse K. Weersma
Rinse K. Weersma University Medical Center Groningen
Benedicte A. Lie
Benedicte A. Lie Oslo University Hospital

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