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Unnur Thorsteinsdottir

Unnur Thorsteinsdottir

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Iceland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Iceland Leader Award

Overview

Unnur Thorsteinsdottir is affiliated with deCODE Genetics in Iceland, where their research spans medicine and the biochemical, genetic, and molecular biology fields. Their work notably includes subfields such as genetics, molecular biology, infectious diseases, rheumatology, and surgery.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including genetic associations and epidemiology, genomics and rare diseases, epigenetics and DNA methylation, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, and lipoproteins and cardiovascular health.

Frequent publication venues for Unnur Thorsteinsdottir include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature Communications
  • Communications Biology
  • Nature

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Unnur Thorsteinsdottir are:

  • Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Icelandic Population, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Large-scale integration of the plasma proteome with genetics and disease, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Humoral Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank, 2022, Nature

Frequent collaborators in Unnur Thorsteinsdottir's research include Kāri Stefánsson, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Patrick Sulem, Guðmar Þorleifsson, and Hilma Hólm.

Best Publications

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

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  • 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

  • Variant of TREM2 associated with the risk of Alzheimer's disease

    Thorlakur Jonsson;Hreinn Stefansson;Stacy Steinberg;Ingileif Jonsdottir

  • Variant of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene confers risk of type 2 diabetes.

    Struan F. A. Grant;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Inga Reynisdottir;Rafil Benediktsson

  • 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

  • Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk

    Augustine Kong;Michael L. Frigge;Gisli Masson;Soren Besenbacher;Soren Besenbacher

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

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

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

    E Zeggini;L J Scott;R Saxena;B F Voight

  • 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

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes

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  • A mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer’s disease and age-related cognitive decline

    Thorlakur Jonsson;Jasvinder K. Atwal;Stacy Steinberg;Jon Snaedal

  • Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Dan Rujescu;Sven Cichon;Olli P. H. Pietilainen

  • Common variants conferring risk of schizophrenia

    Hreinn Stefansson;Hreinn Stefansson;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Roel A. Ophoff;Stacy Steinberg;Stacy Steinberg;Ole A. Andreassen

  • A common variant on chromosome 9p21 affects the risk of myocardial infarction

    Anna Helgadottir;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Andrei Manolescu;Solveig Gretarsdottir

Frequent Co-Authors

Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Daniel F. Gudbjartsson
Daniel F. Gudbjartsson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Gudmar Thorleifsson
Gudmar Thorleifsson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Patrick Sulem
Patrick Sulem deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Augustine Kong
Augustine Kong University of Oxford
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University

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