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Thorleifsson, Gudmar

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Top Publications

Top Publications Authored or Co-Authored by "Thorleifsson, Gudmar"

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Nature, Volume 518, No. 7538, Year 2015, Citations 3782
Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels
Nature Genetics, Volume 45, No. 11, Year 2013, Citations 2643
Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis
Nature Genetics, Volume 42, No. 7, Year 2010, Citations 1479
New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution
Nature, Volume 518, No. 7538, Year 2015, Citations 1310
Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps
Nature Genetics, Volume 50, No. 11, Year 2018, Citations 1200

Institutional Spectrum

Most Recent Affiliations

Institution	Country	Start Year	End Year	Affiliated Years
deCODE genetics	Iceland	2001	2023	23
Haskoli Islands	Iceland	2010	2022	13
Læknadeild Háskóla Íslands	Iceland	2013	2022	10
Amgen Incorporated	United States	2014	2022	9
School of Health Sciences	Iceland	2022	2022	1
Landspitali - The National University Hospital of Iceland	Iceland	2021	2021	1
Stellenbosch University	South Africa	2017	2017	1
Centre de Recherche en Épidémiologie et Santé des Populations	France	2017	2017	1
University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	2017	2017	1

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