Sami Heikkinen
Research Director
School of Medicine, Biomedicine
sami.heikkinen@uef.fi | +358 40 355 3393
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Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries
Gharahkhani, Puya; Jorgenson, Eric; Hysi, Pirro; Khawaja, Anthony P; Pendergrass, Sarah; Han, Xikun; Ong, Jue Sheng; Hewitt, Alex W; Segrè, Ayellet V; Rouhana, John M; Hamel, Andrew R; Igo, Robert P; Choquet, Helene; Qassim, Ayub; Josyula, Navya S; Cooke Bailey, Jessica N; Bonnemaijer, Pieter W M; Iglesias, Adriana; Siggs, Owen M; Young, Terri L et al. [incl FinGen; Mannermaa, Arto; Heikkinen, Sam. Nature communications 12 1: 1258. 2021 -
The debatable presence of PIWI-interacting RNAs in invasive breast cancer
Kärkkäinen, Emmi; Heikkinen, Sami; Tengström, Maria; Kosma, Veli-Matti; Mannermaa, Arto; Hartikainen, Jaana M. Cancer medicine 10 11: 3593 - 3603. 2021 -
Vitamin D Treatment Sequence Is Critical for Transcriptome Modulation of Immune Challenged Primary Human Cells
Malmberg, Henna-Riikka; Hanel, Andrea; Taipale, Mari; Heikkinen, Sami; Carlberg, Carsten. Frontiers in immunology 12: 754056. 2021 -
Toxicological transcriptome of human airway constructs after exposure to indoor air particulate matter: In search of relevant pathways of moisture damage-associated health effects
Nordberg, Maria-Elisa; Täubel, Martin; Heikkinen, Sami; Jalkanen, Kaisa; Köliö, Arto; Stranger, Marianne; Leppanen, Hanna; Hyvärinen, Anne; Huttunen, Kati. Environment international 2022; 158: 106997. 2021 -
Lifetime risk of rheumatoid arthritis-associated interstitial lung disease in MUC5B mutation carriers
Palomäki, Antti; FinnGen Rheumatology Clinical Expert Group; Palotie, Aarno; Koskela, Jukka; Eklund, Kari K; Pirinen, Matti; FinnGen; Ripatti, Samuli; Laitinen, Tarja; Mars, Nina; [incl. collaborators Kosma, Veli-Matti; Mannermaa, Arto; Heikkinen, Sami]. Annals of the rheumatic diseases 80 12: 1530-1536. 2021 -
Integrative analysis of liver-specific non-coding regulatory SNPs associated with the risk of coronary artery disease
Selvarajan, Ilakya; Toropainen, Anu; Garske, Kristina M.; López Rodríguez, Maykel; Ko, Arthur; Miao, Zong; Kaminska, Dorota; Õunap, Kadri; Örd, Tiit; Ravindran, Aarthi; Liu, Oscar H.; Moreau, Pierre R.; Jawahar Deen, Ashik; Männistö, Ville; Pan, Calvin; Levonen, Anna-Liisa; Lusis, Aldons J.; Heikkinen, Sami; Romanoski, Casey E.; Pihlajamäki, Jussi; Pajukanta, Päivi; Kaikkonen, Minna U.. American journal of human genetics 108 3: 411-430. 2021 -
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study accounting for gene-psychosocial factor interactions identifies novel loci for blood pressure traits
Sun, Daokun; Richard, Melissa A.; Musani, Solomon K.; Sung, Yun Ju; Winkler, Thomas W.; Schwander, Karen; Chai, Jin Fang; Guo, Xiuqing; Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O.; Vojinovic, Dina; Aschard, Hugues; Bartz, Traci M.; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Brown, Michael R.; Chitrala, Kumaraswamy; Hartwig, Fernando P.; Horimoto, Andrea R.V.R.; Liu, Yongmei; Manning, Alisa K.; Noordam, Raymond et al. [incl. Heikkinen, Sam. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances 2 1: 100013. 2021 -
Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene-sleep interactions identify novel loci for blood pressure
Wang, Heming; Noordam, Raymond; Cade, Brian E.; Schwander, Karen; Winkler, Thomas W.; Lee, Jiwon; Sung, Yun Ju; Bentley, Amy R.; Manning, Alisa K.; Aschard, Hugues; Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O.; Ilkov, Marjan; Brown, Michael R.; Horimoto, Andrea R.; Richard, Melissa; Bartz, Traci M.; Vojinovic, Dina; Lim, Elise; Nierenberg, Jovia L.; Liu, Yongmei et al. [incl. Heikkinen, Sami]. Molecular psychiatry 26 11: 6293-6304. 2021 -
Hematopoietic mosaic chromosomal alterations increase the risk for diverse types of infection
Zekavat, Seyedeh M.; Lin, Shu-Hong; Bick, Alexander G.; Liu, Aoxing; Paruchuri, Kaavya; Wang, Chen; Uddin, Md Mesbah; Ye, Yixuan; Yu, Zhaolong; Liu, Xiaoxi; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Bhattacharya, Romit; Pirruccello, James P.; Pampana, Akhil; Loh, Po-Ru; Kohli, Puja; McCarroll, Steven A.; Kiryluk, Krzysztof; Neale, Benjamin; Ionita-Laza, Iuliana et al. [incl. Mannermaa, Arto; Heikkinen, Sami; Kosma, Vel. Nature medicine 27 6: 1012-1024. 2021 -
Inherited myeloproliferative neoplasm risk affects haematopoietic stem cells
Bao, Erik L; Nandakumar, Satish K; Liao, Xiaotian; Bick, Alexander G; Karjalainen, J; Tabaka, Marcin; Gan, Olga I; Havulinna, Aki S; Kiiskinen, Tuomo TJ; Lareau, Caleb A; de Lapuente Portilla, Aitzkoa L; Li, Bo; Emdin, Connor; Codd, Veryan; Nelson, Christopher P; Walker, Christopher J; Churchhouse, Claire; de la Chapelle, Albert; Klein, Daryl E; et al. (incl. Kosma, V-M; Heikkinen, S; Mannermaa, A. Nature 586 7831: 769-775. 2020