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Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir

Researcher Next ID · RN-016853

Researcher · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

, Iceland

Not currently recruitingFunding unknown
Works count
600
Citation count
146,893
H-index
179
i10-index
438

Research interests

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Genomics and Rare Diseases
RNA modifications and cancer
Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Publications

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps

    Nature Genetics · 2018 · 10.1038/s41588-018-0241-6

  • Variant of TREM2 Associated with the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease

    New England Journal of Medicine · 2012 · 10.1056/nejmoa1211103

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

    Nature · 2012 · 10.1038/nature11396

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

    Nature Genetics · 2006 · 10.1038/ng1732

Current projects

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