Barbara Thorand

Research interests

Publications

• Genetics of circulating inflammatory proteins identifies drivers of immune-mediated disease risk and therapeutic targets

  Nature Immunology · 2023 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-023-01588-w

• Sex-dimorphic genetic effects and novel loci for fasting glucose and insulin variability

  Nature Communications · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19366-9

• Multiplatform Approach for Plasma Proteomics: Complementarity of Olink Proximity Extension Assay Technology to Mass Spectrometry-Based Protein Profiling

  Journal of Proteome Research · 2020 · 10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00641

• Application of non-HDL cholesterol for population-based cardiovascular risk stratification: results from the Multinational Cardiovascular Risk Consortium

  The Lancet · 2019 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32519-x

• Application of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Suspected Myocardial Infarction

  New England Journal of Medicine · 2019 · 10.1056/nejmoa1803377

• Visceral adiposity index (VAI), lipid accumulation product (LAP), and product of triglycerides and glucose (TyG) to discriminate prediabetes and diabetes

  Scientific Reports · 2019 · 10.1038/s41598-019-46187-8

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

  Nature Genetics · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0241-6

• Lipoprotein(a) and the risk of cardiovascular disease in the European population: results from the BiomarCaRE consortium

  European Heart Journal · 2017 · 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx166

• An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans

  Diabetes · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.2337/db16-1253

• Troponin I and cardiovascular risk prediction in the general population: the BiomarCaRE consortium

  European Heart Journal · 2016 · 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw172

• Cystatin C and Cardiovascular Disease

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2016.05.092

• Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity

  Nature · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20784

• Epigenome-wide association of DNA methylation markers in peripheral blood from Indian Asians and Europeans with incident type 2 diabetes: a nested case-control study

  The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2213-8587(15)00127-8

• Mendelian randomization of blood lipids for coronary heart disease

  European Heart Journal · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/eht571

• Vitamin D and mortality: meta-analysis of individual participant data from a large consortium of cohort studies from Europe and the United States

  BMJ · 2014 · 10.1136/bmj.g3656

• Large-Scale Gene-Centric Meta-Analysis across 39 Studies Identifies Type 2 Diabetes Loci

  The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2012 · 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.12.022

• Novel biomarkers for pre‐diabetes identified by metabolomics

  Molecular Systems Biology · 2012 · 10.1038/msb.2012.43

• Patterns of Multimorbidity in the Aged Population. Results from the KORA-Age Study

  PLoS ONE · 2012 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0030556

• Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies in >80 000 Subjects Identifies Multiple Loci for C-Reactive Protein Levels

  Circulation · 2011 · 10.1161/circulationaha.110.948570

• Body fat distribution and risk of type 2 diabetes in the general population: are there differences between men and women? The MONICA/KORA Augsburg Cohort Study

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2006 · 10.1093/ajcn/84.3.483

• Cardiovascular Effects of Fine and Ultrafine Particles

  Journal of Aerosol Medicine · 2005 · 10.1089/jam.2005.18.1

• Sex differences in the relation of body composition to markers of inflammation

  Atherosclerosis · 2005 · 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2005.04.011

• Elevated Levels of Interleukin-18 Predict the Development of Type 2 Diabetes

  Diabetes · 2005 · 10.2337/diabetes.54.10.2932

• Leisure time physical activity and the risk of type 2 diabetes in men and women from the general population

  Diabetologia · 2004 · 10.1007/s00125-004-1604-3

• C-Reactive Protein as a Predictor for Incident Diabetes Mellitus Among Middle-aged Men

  Archives of Internal Medicine · 2003 · 10.1001/archinte.163.1.93

• Sex Differences in Risk Factors for Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

  Archives of Internal Medicine · 2002 · 10.1001/archinte.162.1.82

• Impaired glucose tolerance is associated with increased serum concentrations of interleukin 6 and co-regulated acute-phase proteins but not TNF-α or its receptors

  Diabetologia · 2002 · 10.1007/s00125-002-0829-2

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