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Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen

Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen

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D-Index
53
Citations
20732
World Ranking
3686
National Ranking
36

Overview

Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their academic work spans primarily across the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine as subfields of study.

Their research topics mainly cover Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, Birth, Development, and Health, and Diet, Metabolism, and Disease.

Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen has contributed to a number of papers, including:

  • Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study, 2020, Diabetologia
  • Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Genome-wide discovery of genetic loci that uncouple excess adiposity from its comorbidities, 2021, Nature Metabolism
  • Cell-free DNA and RNA-measurement and applications in clinical diagnostics with focus on metabolic disorders, 2020, Physiological Genomics
  • A 2 year physical activity and dietary intervention attenuates the increase in insulin resistance in a general population of children: the PANIC study, 2020, Diabetologia

They frequently publish in venues such as UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Diabetologia, Diabetes, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen collaborates regularly with scientific peers, with frequent co-authors including Torben Hansen, Germán D. Carrasquilla, Ruth J. F. Loos, Traci M. Bartz, and Raymond Noordam.

Best Publications

  • 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

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

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

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

    Iris M. Heid;Anne U. Jackson;Joshua C. Randall;Tthomas W. Winkler

  • 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

  • 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

  • Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Cathy E. Elks;John R B Perry;Patrick Sulem;Daniel I. Chasman

  • The Metabochip, a Custom Genotyping Array for Genetic Studies of Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Anthropometric Traits

    B F Voight;H M Kang;J Ding;C D Palmer;C D Palmer

  • Quality control and conduct of genome-wide association meta-analyses

    Thomas W Winkler;Felix R Day;Damien C Croteau-Chonka;Andrew R Wood

  • Sex-stratified Genome-wide Association Studies Including 270,000 Individuals Show Sexual Dimorphism in Genetic Loci for Anthropometric Traits

    Joshua C. Randall;Joshua C. Randall;Thomas W. Winkler;Zoltán Kutalik;Zoltán Kutalik;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Genetic variation near IRS1 associates with reduced adiposity and an impaired metabolic profile.

    Tuomas O Kilpeläinen;M Carola Zillikens;Alena Stančákova;Francis M Finucane

  • New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism.

    Momoko Horikoshi;Hanieh Yaghootkar;Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori;Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori;Ulla Sovio;Ulla Sovio

  • Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity. A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults

    Mariaelisa Graff;Robert A. Scott;Anne E. Justice;Kristin L. Young

  • New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk

    Yingchang Lu;Felix R Day;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Martin L Buchkovich

  • Association of genetic variation in FTO with risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes with data from 96,551 East and South Asians

    H. Li;T. O. Kilpeläinen;C. Liu;J. Zhu

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

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

  • New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism

    Momoko Horikoshi;Hanieh Yaghootkar;Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori;Ulla Sovio

  • The influence of age and sex on genetic associations with adult body size and shape: A large-scale genome-wide interaction study

    Thomas Winkler;Anne Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • Genetic variation near IRS1 associates with reduced adiposity and an impaired metabolic profile

    Tuomas O. Kilpelainen;M. Carola Zillikens;Alena Stancakova;Francis M. Finucane

Frequent Co-Authors

Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Zoltán Kutalik
Zoltán Kutalik University of Lausanne
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Mary F. Feitosa
Mary F. Feitosa Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel I. Chasman
Daniel I. Chasman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Torben Hansen
Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen
Paul M. Ridker
Paul M. Ridker Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nicholas J. Wareham
Nicholas J. Wareham University of Cambridge

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