Gudmundur Einarsson

Jul 15, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Elise Koch |Tuuli Jürgenson |Gudmundur Einarsson |Brittany Mitchell

The authors have declared no competing interest. We would like to thank the research participants and employees of 23andMe, Inc. for making this work possible. This work was partly performed on the TSD (Tjeneste for Sensitive Data) facilities, owned by the University of Oslo, operated and developed by the TSD service group at the University of Oslo, IT-Department (USIT).

Oct 26, 2023 | nature.com | Gyda Bjornsdottir |Mona A. Chalmer |Astros Th. Skuladottir |Gudmundur Einarsson |Egil Ferkingstad |Solveig Gretarsdottir | +27 more

AbstractMigraine is a complex neurovascular disease with a range of severity and symptoms, yet mostly studied as one phenotype in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here we combine large GWAS datasets from six European populations to study the main migraine subtypes, migraine with aura (MA) and migraine without aura (MO). We identified four new MA-associated variants (in PRRT2, PALMD, ABO and LRRK2) and classified 13 MO-associated variants.

Oct 16, 2023 | nature.com | Tanmoy Roychowdhury |Derek Klarin |Michael Levin |Joshua M. Spin |Colwyn A. Headley |Noah Tsao | +44 more

AbstractAbdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a common disease with substantial heritability. In this study, we performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis from 14 discovery cohorts and uncovered 141 independent associations, including 97 previously unreported loci. A polygenic risk score derived from meta-analysis explained AAA risk beyond clinical risk factors.