Torben Hansen

Research interests

Publications

• Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

  Nature Genetics · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-00763-1

• Trans-ethnic and Ancestry-Specific Blood-Cell Genetics in 746,667 Individuals from 5 Global Populations

  Cell · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.045

• Statin therapy is associated with lower prevalence of gut microbiota dysbiosis

  Nature · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2269-x

• The Polygenic and Monogenic Basis of Blood Traits and Diseases

  Cell · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.08.008

• A Genome-Wide Association Study of Diabetic Kidney Disease in Subjects With Type 2 Diabetes

  Diabetes · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.2337/db17-0914

• Recovery of gut microbiota of healthy adults following antibiotic exposure

  Nature Microbiology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0257-9

• Exome-wide association study of plasma lipids in >300,000 individuals

  Nature Genetics · 2017 · 10.1038/ng.3977

• Human gut microbes impact host serum metabolome and insulin sensitivity

  Nature · 2016 · 10.1038/nature18646

• Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

  Science · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab2319

• Disentangling type 2 diabetes and metformin treatment signatures in the human gut microbiota

  Nature · 2015 · 10.1038/nature15766

• An integrated catalog of reference genes in the human gut microbiome

  Nature Biotechnology · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2942

• Identification and assembly of genomes and genetic elements in complex metagenomic samples without using reference genomes

  Nature Biotechnology · 2014 · 10.1038/nbt.2939

• Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12506

• A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

  Nature · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11450

• Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09944

• A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08821

• High Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes in Adult Offspring of Women With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus or Type 1 Diabetes

  Diabetes Care · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.2337/dc07-1596

• The same sequence variant on 9p21 associates with myocardial infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm and intracranial aneurysm

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.72

• Many sequence variants affecting diversity of adult human height

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.122

• A variant near MTNR1B is associated with increased fasting plasma glucose levels and type 2 diabetes risk

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.277

• SNPs in KCNQ1 are associated with susceptibility to type 2 diabetes in East Asian and European populations

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · 10.1038/ng.208

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

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · 10.1038/ng.120

• Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity

  Nature Genetics · 2008 · 10.1038/ng.274

• Two variants on chromosome 17 confer prostate cancer risk, and the one in TCF2 protects against type 2 diabetes

  Nature Genetics · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng2062

• A variant in CDKAL1 influences insulin response and risk of type 2 diabetes

  Nature Genetics · 2007 · 10.1038/ng2043

• Mutations in the hepatocyte nuclear factor-1α gene in maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY3)

  Nature · 1996 · 10.1038/384455a0

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