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83
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52694
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1386
National Ranking
13

Overview

Tune H. Pers is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work prominently spans molecular biology, physiology, genetics, endocrine and autonomic systems, and epidemiology, with significant focus areas including regulation of appetite and obesity, adipose tissue and metabolism, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, genetic associations and epidemiology, diet and metabolism studies, adipokines, inflammation, and metabolic diseases, as well as pancreatic function and diabetes.

Their recent publications include:

  • A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue, 2022, Nature
  • Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • scVAE: variational auto-encoders for single-cell gene expression data, 2020, Bioinformatics
  • Modeling neural tube development by differentiation of human embryonic stem cells in a microfluidic WNT gradient, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Identification of epilepsy-associated neuronal subtypes and gene expression underlying epileptogenesis, 2020, Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include Kristoffer L. Egerod, Dylan M. Rausch, Tõnu Esko, Reedik Mägi, and Kai-How Farh.

Tune H. Pers has published papers predominantly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Nature Communications, Nature Metabolism, and Nature.

The fields of study that define Tune H. Pers's research landscape are medicine with 89 publications and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with 74 publications. Their subfields include molecular biology, physiology, genetics, endocrine and autonomic systems, and epidemiology.

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

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • 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

  • 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 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

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

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

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

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

  • Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects

    Christian R Marshall;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniel P Howrigan;Daniele Merico;Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram

  • Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions

    Tune H Pers;Juha M Karjalainen;Yingleong Chan;Harm-Jan Westra

  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • 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

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

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

  • Meta-analysis of 375,000 individuals identifies 38 susceptibility loci for migraine

    Padhraig Gormley;Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Bendik S. Winsvold;Bendik S. Winsvold;Priit Palta

  • An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

    Robert A. Scott;Laura J. Scott;Reedik Mägi;Letizia Marullo

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

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

  • A molecular census of arcuate hypothalamus and median eminence cell types

    John N Campbell;Evan Z Macosko;Henning Fenselau;Tune H Pers;Tune H Pers

  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

    John R.B. Perry;Felix Day;Cathy E. Elks;Patrick Sulem

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify new risk variants and the genetic architecture of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Wouter van Rheenen;Aleksey Shatunov;Annelot M. Dekker;Russell L. McLaughlin

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital
Lude Franke
Lude Franke University Medical Center Groningen
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Aarno Palotie
Aarno Palotie University of Helsinki
Andres Metspalu
Andres Metspalu University of Tartu
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital

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