Marit E. Jørgensen

Research interests

Publications

• Exome sequencing of 20,791 cases of type 2 diabetes and 24,440 controls

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1231-2

• Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes

  Nature Genetics · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0084-1

• Cardiovascular Events Associated With SGLT-2 Inhibitors Versus Other Glucose-Lowering Drugs

  Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.03.009

• 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

• Lower Risk of Heart Failure and Death in Patients Initiated on Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors Versus Other Glucose-Lowering Drugs

  Circulation · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.117.029190

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

  Nature Genetics · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3977

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

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

• Genome-wide meta-analysis uncovers novel loci influencing circulating leptin levels

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10494

• Genome-wide association studies in the Japanese population identify seven novel loci for type 2 diabetes

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10531

• Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

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

• Genetic fine mapping and genomic annotation defines causal mechanisms at type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci

  Nature Genetics · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3437

• Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility

  Nature Communications · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6897

• Identification of low-frequency and rare sequence variants associated with elevated or reduced risk of type 2 diabetes

  Nature Genetics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2882

• Loss-of-function mutations in SLC30A8 protect against type 2 diabetes

  Nature Genetics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2915

• A common Greenlandic TBC1D4 variant confers muscle insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes

  Nature · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13425

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