• Assessing the Causal Relationship of Maternal Height on Birth Size and Gestational Age at Birth: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis 

      Zhang, Ge; Bacelis, Jonas; Lengyel, Candice; Teramo, Kari; Hallman, Mikko; Helgeland, Øyvind; Johansson, Stefan; Myhre, Ronny; Sengpiel, Verena; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Jacobsson, Bo; Muglia, Louis (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-08-18)
      Background: Observational epidemiological studies indicate that maternal height is associated with gestational age at birth and fetal growth measures (i.e., shorter mothers deliver infants at earlier gestational ages with ...
    • Autozygosity mapping and time-to-spontaneous delivery in Norwegian parent-offspring trios 

      Solé-Navais, Pol; Bacelis, Jonas; Helgeland, Øyvind; Modzelewska, Dominika; Vaudel, Marc; Flatley, Christopher; Andreassen, Ole; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Muglia, Louis J.; Johansson, Stefan; Zhang, Ge; Jacobsson, Bo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Parental genetic relatedness may lead to adverse health and fitness outcomes in the offspring. However, the degree to which it affects human delivery timing is unknown. We use genotype data from ≃25 000 parent-offspring ...
    • Candidate gene analysis of spontaneous preterm delivery: New insights from re-analysis of a case-control study using case-parent triads and control-mother dyads 

      Myking, Solveig; Myhre, Ronny; Gjessing, Håkon K.; Morken, Nils-Halvdan; Sengpiel, Verena; Williams, Scott M.; Ryckman, Kelli K.; Magnus, Per; Jacobsson, Bo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011-12-30)
      Background: Spontaneous preterm delivery (PTD) has a multifactorial etiology with evidence of a genetic contribution to its pathogenesis. A number of candidate gene case-control studies have been performed on spontaneous ...
    • Characterization of the genetic architecture of infant and early childhood body mass index 

      Helgeland, Øyvind; Vaudel, Marc; Sole-Navais, Pol; Flatley, Christopher; Juodakis, Julius; Bacelis, Jonas; Koløen, Ingvild; Knudsen, Gun Peggy Strømstad; Johansson, Bente Berg; Magnus, Per Minor; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted; Juliusson, Pétur Benedikt; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Holmen, Oddgeir Lingaas; Andreassen, Ole; Jacobsson, Bo; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Johansson, Stefan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Early childhood obesity is a growing global concern; however, the role of common genetic variation on infant and child weight development is unclear. Here, we identify 46 loci associated with early childhood body mass index ...
    • Diet matters, particularly in pregnancy - results from MoBa studies of maternal diet and pregnancy outcomes 

      Brantsæter, Anne Lise; Haugen, Margaretha; Myhre, Ronny; Sengpiel, Verena; Englund-Ögge, Linda; Nilsen, Roy Miodini; Borgen, Iren; Duarte-Salles, Talita; Papadopoulou, Eleni; Vejrup, Kristine; von Ruesten, Anne; Hillesund, Elisabet Rudjord; Birgisdottir, Bryndis Eva; Magnus, Per; Trogstad, Lill; Jacobsson, Bo; Bacelis, Jonas; Myking, Solveig; Knutsen, Helle Katrine; Kvalem, Helen Engelstad; Alexander, Jan; Mendez, Michelle; Meltzer, Helle Margrete (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
      Awareness that maternal diet may influence the outcome of pregnancy as well as the long-term health of mother and child has increased in recent years. A new food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was developed and validated ...
    • European and multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of atopic dermatitis highlights importance of systemic immune regulation 

      Budu-Aggrey, Ashley; Kilanowski, Anna; Sobczyk, Maria K.; Shringarpure, Suyash S.; Mitchell, Ruth; Reis, Kadri; Reigo, Anu; Mägi, Reedik; Nelis, Mari; Tanaka, Nao; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Thomas, Laurent Francois; Sole-Navais, Pol; Flatley, Christopher; Espuela-Ortiz, Antonio; Herrera-Luis, Esther; Lominchar, Jesus V. T.; Bork-Jensen, Jette; Marenholz, Ingo; Arnau-Soler, Aleix; Jeong, Ayoung; Fawcett, Katherine A.; Baurecht, Hansjorg; Rodriguez, Elke; Alves, Alexessander Couto; Kumar, Ashish; Sleiman, Patrick M.; Chang, Xiao; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Hu, Chen; Xu, Cheng-jian; Qi, Cancan; El-Heis, Sarah; Titcombe, Philip; Antoun, Elie; Fadista, João; Wang, Carol A.; Thiering, Elisabeth; Wu, Baojun; Kress, Sara; Kothalawala, Dilini M.; Kadalayil, Latha; Duan, Jiasong; Zhang, Hongmei; Hadebe, Sabelo; Hoffmann, Thomas; Jorgenson, Eric; Choquet, Hélène; Risch, Neil; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Andreassen, Ole; Johansson, Stefan; Almqvist, Catarina; Gong, Tong; Ullemar, Vilhelmina; Karlsson, Robert; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Szwajda, Agnieszka; Burchard, Esteban G.; Thyssen, Jacob P.; Hansen, Torben; Kårhus, Line L.; Dantoft, Thomas M.; Jeanrenaud, Alexander C.S.N.; Ghauri, Ahla; Arnold, Andreas; Homuth, Georg; Lau, Susanne; Nöthen, Markus M.; Hübner, Norbert; Imboden, Medea; Visconti, Alessia; Falchi, Mario; Bataille, Veronique; Hysi, Pirro; Ballardini, Natalia; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Hottenga, Jouke J.; Müller-Nurasyid, Martina; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Stokholm, Jakob; Chawes, Bo; Schoos, Ann-Marie M.; Esplugues, Ana; Bustamante, Mariona; Raby, Benjamin; Arshad, Syed; German, Chris; Esko, Tõnu; Milani, Lili A.; Metspalu, Andres; Terao, Chikashi; Abuabara, Katrina; Løset, Mari; Hveem, Kristian; Jacobsson, Bo; Pino-Yanes, Maria; Strachan, David P.; Grarup, Niels; Linneberg, Allan; Lee, Young-Ae; Probst-Hensch, Nicole; Weidinger, Stephan; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Melén, Erik; Hakonarson, Hakon; Irvine, Alan D.; Jarvis, Deborah; Nijsten, Tamar; Duijts, Liesbeth; Vonk, Judith M.; Koppelmann, Gerard H.; Godfrey, Keith M.; Barton, Sheila J.; Feenstra, Bjarke; Pennell, Craig E.; Sly, Peter D.; Holt, Patrick G.; Williams, L. Keoki; Bisgaard, Hans; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Curtin, John; Simpson, Angela; Murray, Clare; Schikowski, Tamara; Bunyavanich, Supinda; Weiss, Scott T.; Holloway, John W.; Min, Josine L.; Brown, Sara J.; Standl, Marie; Paternoster, Lavinia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common inflammatory skin condition and prior genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 71 associated loci. In the current study we conducted the largest AD GWAS to date (discovery ...
    • A fast wavelet-based functional association analysis replicates several susceptibility loci for birth weight in a Norwegian population 

      Denault, William Robert Paul; Romanowska, Julia; Helgeland, Øyvind; Jacobsson, Bo; Gjessing, Håkon K.; Jugessur, Astanand (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Birth weight (BW) is one of the most widely studied anthropometric traits in humans because of its role in various adult-onset diseases. The number of loci associated with BW has increased dramatically since ...
    • Folic acid supplementation, dietary folate intake during pregnancy and risk for spontaneous preterm delivery: a prospective observational cohort study 

      Sengpiel, Verena; Bacelis, Jonas; Myhre, Ronny; Myking, Solveig; Pay, Aase Serine Devold; Haugen, Margaretha; Brantsæter, Anne Lise; Meltzer, Helle Margrethe; Nilsen, Roy Miodini; Magnus, Per; Vollset, Stein Emil; Nilsson, Staffan; Jacobsson, Bo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-02)
      Background: Health authorities in numerous countries recommend periconceptional folic acid supplementation to prevent neural tube defects. The objective of this study was to examine the association of dietary folate intake ...
    • The genetic architecture of sporadic and multiple consecutive miscarriage 

      Laisk, Triin; Soares, Ana Luiza G.; Ferreira, Teresa; Painter, Jodie N.; Censin, Jenny C.; Laber, Samantha; Bacelis, Jonas; Chen, Chia-Yen; Lepamets, Maarja; Lin, Kuang; Liu, Siyang; Millwood, Iona Y.; Ramu, Avinash; Southcombe, Jennifer; Andersen, Marianne S.; Yang, Ling; Becker, Christian M.; Børglum, Anders D.; Gordon, Scott D.; Bybjerg-Grauholm, Jonas; Helgeland, Øyvind; Hougaard, David M.; Jin, Xin; Johansson, Stefan; Juodakis, Julius; Kartsonaki, Christina; Kukushkina, Viktorija; Lind, Penelope A.; Metspalu, Andres; Montgomery, Grant W.; Morris, Andrew P.; Mors, Ole; Mortensen, Preben B.; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Nordentoft, Merete; Nyholt, Dale R.; Lippincott, Margaret; Seminara, Stephanie; Salumets, Andres; Snieder, Harold; Zondervan, Krina; Werge, Thomas; Chen, Zhengming; Conrad, Donald F.; Jacobsson, Bo; Li, Liming; Martin, Nicholas G.; Neale, Benjamin M.; Nielsen, Rasmus; Walters, Robin G. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Miscarriage is a common, complex trait affecting ~15% of clinically confirmed pregnancies. Here we present the results of large-scale genetic association analyses with 69,054 cases from five different ancestries for sporadic ...
    • Genetic effects on the timing of parturition and links to fetal birth weight 

      Solé-Navais, Pol; Flatley, Christopher; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Vaudel, Marc; Juodakis, Julius; Chen, Jing; Laisk, Triin; LaBella, Abigail L.; Westergaard, David; Bacelis, Jonas; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Skotte, Line; Borges, Maria C.; Helgeland, Øyvind; Mahajan, Anubha; Wielscher, Matthias; Lin, Frederick; Briggs, Catherine; Wang, Carol A.; Moen, Gunn-Helen Øiseth; Beaumont, Robin N.; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Abraham, Abin; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Ostrowski, Sisse R.; Modzelewska, Dominika; Nøhr, Ellen Aagaard; Hypponen, Elina; Srivastava, Amit; Talbot, Octavious; Allard, Catherine; Williams, Scott M.; Menon, Ramkumar; Shields, Beverley M.; Sveinbjornsson, Gardar; Xu, Huan; Melbye, Mads; Lowe, William; Bouchard, Luigi; Oken, Emily; Pedersen, Ole B.; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Erikstrup, Christian; Sørensen, Erik; Lie, Rolv T.; Teramo, Kari; Hallman, Mikko; Juliusdottir, Thorhildur; Hakonarson, Hakon; Ullum, Henrik; Hattersley, Andrew T.; Sletner, Line; Merialdi, Mario; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Steingrimsdottir, Thora; Scholtens, Denise; Power, Christine; West, Jane; Nyegaard, Mette; Capra, John A.; Skogholt, Anne Heidi; Magnus, Per Minor; Andreassen, Ole; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Grant, Struan F. A.; Qvigstad, Elisabeth; Pennell, Craig E.; Hivert, Marie-France; Hayes, Geoffrey M.; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; McCarthy, Mark I.; Lawlor, Deborah A.; Nielsen, Henriette S.; Mägi, Reedik; Rokas, Antonis; Hveem, Kristian; Stefansson, Kari; Feenstra, Bjarke; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Muglia, Louis J.; Freathy, Rachel M.; Johansson, Stefan; Zhang, Ge; Jacobsson, Bo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The timing of parturition is crucial for neonatal survival and infant health. Yet, its genetic basis remains largely unresolved. We present a maternal genome-wide meta-analysis of gestational duration (n = 195,555), ...
    • Genome-wide association study of offspring birth weight in 86 577 women identifies five novel loci and highlights maternal genetic effects that are independent of fetal genetics 

      Beaumont, Robin N.; Warrington, Nicole M.; Cavadino, Alana; Tyrrell, Jessica; Nodzenski, Michael; Horikoshi, Momoko; Geller, Frank; Myhre, Ronny; Richmond, Rebecca C.; Paternoster, Lavinia; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Kreiner-Møller, Eskil; Huikari, Ville; Metrustry, Sarah; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Painter, Jodie N.; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Allard, Catherine; Barton, Sheila J.; Espinosa, Ana; Marsh, Julie A.; Potter, Catherine; Zhang, Ge; Ang, Wei; Berry, Diane J.; Bouchard, Luigi; Das, Shikta; Hakonarson, Hakon; Heikkinen, Jani; Helgeland, Øyvind; Hocher, Berthold; Hofman, Albert; Inskip, Hazel M.; Jones, Samuel E.; Kogevinas, Manolis; Lind, Penelope A.; Marullo, Letizia; Medland, Sarah E.; Murray, Anna; Murray, Jeffrey C.; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Nohr, Ellen A.; Reichetzeder, Christoph; Ring, Susan M.; Ruth, Katherine S.; Santa-Marina, Loreto; Scholtens, Denise M.; Sebert, Sylvain; Sengpiel, Verena; Tuke, Marcus A.; Vaudel, Marc; Weedon, Michael N.; Willemsen, Gonneke; Wood, Andrew R.; Yaghootkar, Hanieh; Muglia, Louis J.; Bartels, Meike; Relton, Caroline L.; Pennell, Craig E.; Chatzi, Leda; Estivill, Xavier; Holloway, John W.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Montgomery, Grant W.; Murabito, Joanne M.; Spector, Tim D.; Power, Christine; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Bisgaard, Hans; Grant, Struan F.A.; Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.; Jaddoe, Vincent W.; Jacobsson, Bo; Melbye, Mads; McCarthy, Mark I.; Hattersley, Andrew T.; Hayes, M. Geoffrey; Hivert, Marie-France; Frayling, Timothy M.; Felix, Janine F.; Hyppönen, Elina; Lowe, William L.; Evans, David M.; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Feenstra, Bjarke; Freathy, Rachel M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-02)
      Genome-wide association studies of birth weight have focused on fetal genetics, whereas relatively little is known about the role of maternal genetic variation. We aimed to identify maternal genetic variants associated ...
    • Genome-wide association study reveals dynamic role of genetic variation in infant and early childhood growth 

      Helgeland, Øyvind; Vaudel, Marc; Juliusson, Petur Benedikt; Holmen, Oddgeir Lingaas; Juodakis, Julius; Bacelis, Jonas; Jacobsson, Bo; Lindekleiv, Haakon; Hveem, Kristian; Lie, Rolv T.; Knudsen, Gun Peggy Strømstad; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Magnus, Per; Sagen, Jørn V.; Molven, Anders; Johansson, Stefan; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-10-01)
      Infant and childhood growth are dynamic processes with large changes in BMI during development. By performing genome-wide association studies of BMI at 12 time points from birth to eight years (9286 children, 74,105 ...
    • Placental weight centiles adjusted for age, parity and fetal sex 

      Flatley, Christopher; Sole-Navais, Pol; Vaudel, Marc; Helgeland, Øyvind; Modzelewska, Dominika; Johansson, Stefan; Jacobsson, Bo; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Introduction The weight of the placenta can be indicative of efficacy in nutrient and oxygen supply. Furthermore, it has been suggested that a measure of the placenta's ability to adequately supply nutrients to the fetus ...
    • Reference population for international comparisons and time trend surveillance of preterm delivery proportions in three countries 

      Morken, Nils-Halvdan; Vogel, Ida; Kallen, Karin; Skjærven, Rolv; Langhoff-Roos, Jens; Kesmodel, Ulrik Schiøler; Jacobsson, Bo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-09-25)
      Background: International comparison and time trend surveillance of preterm delivery rates is complex. New techniques that could facilitate interpretation of such rates are needed. Methods: We studied all live births and ...
    • Smoking during pregnancy and its effect on placental weight: a Mendelian randomization study 

      Jaitner, Annika; Vaudel, Marc; Tsaneva-Atanasova, Krasimira; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Jacobsson, Bo; Bowden, Jack; Johansson, Stefan; Freathy, Rachel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024-04-04)
      Background: The causal relationship between maternal smoking in pregnancy and reduced offspring birth weight is well established and is likely due to impaired placental function. However, observational studies have given ...
    • Variants in the fetal genome near pro-inflammatory cytokine genes on 2q13 associate with gestational duration 

      Liu, Xueping; Helenius, Dorte; Skotte, Line; Beaumont, Robin N.; Wielscher, Matthias; Geller, Frank; Juodakis, Julius; Mahajan, Anubha; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Lin, Frederick T.J.; Vogelezang, Suzanne; Bustamante, Mariona; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Pitkänen, Niina; Wang, Carol A.; Bacelis, Jonas; Borges, Maria C.; Zhang, Ge; Bedell, Bruce A.; Rossi, Robert M.; Skogstrand, Kristin; Peng, Shouneng; Thompson, Wesley Kurt; Appadurai, Vivek; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Kalliala, Ilkka; Power, Christine; McCarthy, Mark I.; Boyd, Heather A.; Marazita, Mary L.; Hakonarson, Hakon; Hayes, M. Geoffrey; Scholtens, Denise M.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Jaddoe, Vincent W.V.; Vinding, Rebecca K.; Bisgaard, Hans; Knight, Bridget A.; Pahkala, Katja; Raitakari, Olli; Helgeland, Øyvind; Johansson, Stefan; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus; Fadista, João; Schork, Andrew J.; Nudel, Ron; Miller, Daniel E.; Chen, Xiaoting; Weirauch, Matthew T.; Mortensen, Preben Bo; Børglum, Anders D.; Nordentoft, Merete; Mors, Ole; Hao, Ke; Ryckman, Kelli K.; Hougaard, David M.; Kottyan, Leah C.; Pennell, Craig E.; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Vrijheid, Martine; Felix, Janine F.; Lowe, William L.; Grant, Struan F.A.; Hyppönen, Elina; Jacobsson, Bo; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Muglia, Louis J.; Murray, Jeffrey C.; Freathy, Rachel M.; Werge, Thomas M.; Melbye, Mads; Buil, Alfonso; Feenstra, Bjarke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09-02)
      The duration of pregnancy is influenced by fetal and maternal genetic and non-genetic factors. Here we report a fetal genome-wide association meta-analysis of gestational duration, and early preterm, preterm, and postterm ...
    • Wavelet Screening: a novel approach to analyzing GWAS data 

      Denault, William Robert Paul; Gjessing, Håkon K.; Juodakis, Julius; Jacobsson, Bo; Jugessur, Astanand (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Traditional methods for single-variant genome-wide association study (GWAS) incur a substantial multiple-testing burden because of the need to test for associations with a vast number of single-nucleotide ...