• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 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 ...
    • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits 

      Vogelezang, Suzanne; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Curtin, John A.; Lakka, Timo A.; Grarup, Niels; Scholz, Markus; van der Most, Peter J.; Monnereau, Claire; Stergiakouli, Evie; Heiskala, Anni; Horikoshi, Momoko; Fedko, Iryna O.; Vilor-Tejedor, Natalia; Cousminer, Diana L.; Standl, Marie; Wang, Carol A.; Viikari, Jorma; Geller, Frank; Íñiguez, Carmen; Pitkänen, Niina; Chesi, Alessandra; Bacelis, Jonas; Yengo, Loic; Torrent, Maties; Ntalla, Ioanna; Helgeland, Øyvind; Selzam, Saskia; Vonk, Judith M.; Zafarmand, Mohammed H.; Heude, Barbara; Farooqi, Ismaa Sadaf; Alyass, Akram; Beaumont, Robin N.; Have, Christian T.; Rzehak, Peter; Bilbao, Jose Ramon; Schnurr, Theresia M.; Barroso, Inês; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Beilin, Lawrence J.; Carstensen, Lisbeth; Charles, Marie-Aline; Chawes, Bo; Clément, Karine; Closa-Monasterolo, Ricardo; Custovic, Adnan; Eriksson, Johan G.; Vaudel, Marc; Njølstad, Pål Rasmus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The genetic background of childhood body mass index (BMI), and the extent to which the well-known associations of childhood BMI with adult diseases are explained by shared genetic factors, are largely unknown. We performed ...
    • 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 ...