Bjarke Feenstra

The paper presents a longitudinal transcriptomic atlas of maternal peripheral blood during healthy pregnancy, identifying 720 pregnancy-specific genes and nine transcriptional modules associated with immune and metabolic changes.

This study identifies a genome-wide association for neonatal jaundice, revealing distinct genetic pathways compared to adult bilirubin metabolism.

This study investigates whether birth weight has a direct causal effect on psychiatric disorders later in life using Mendelian randomization, finding no direct causal relationship.

This study identifies 40 genetic loci associated with placental weight using GWAS in 179,025 children and parents, revealing shared and distinct genetic influences with fetal growth.

The paper identifies five genetic loci associated with postpartum hemorrhage through a meta-analysis and links them to progesterone receptor binding sites and related traits.

The paper introduces a deep learning framework for polygenic risk score prediction, showing improved performance over traditional methods for various diseases.

This study identifies genetic loci associated with gestational duration and preterm delivery, showing maternal and fetal genetic effects and antagonistic pleiotropy with birth weight.

This study identifies 19 genetic loci associated with gestational duration and spontaneous preterm birth, including seven novel loci, and highlights potential biological mechanisms and tissue-specific effects.

The paper investigates the impact of the LDLR p.G137S variant on metabolic health and cardiovascular disease risk in Greenlanders, finding it increases FH and cardiovascular disease risk in up to 30% of the population.

This study identifies 81 genetic loci associated with different hernia types using genome-wide association analysis in the UK Biobank.

This study uses Mendelian randomization to test if SMOX levels causally affect cancer risk, finding no significant association with six cancer types.

This study identifies seven new genetic loci associated with febrile seizures, linking them to fever response and neuronal excitability genes, and suggests potential clinical applications of polygenic risk scores.

This paper investigates the genetic link between idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and severe COVID-19, finding a positive genetic correlation and suggesting a causal effect of most IPF risk variants on COVID-19 severity, except for the MUC5B variant which shows protective effects.

This study identifies 48 genetic variants associated with handedness using a large GWAS, highlighting polygenic nature and genetic links to neuropsychiatric traits.

The paper identifies HLA-B*55:01 as a genetic risk factor for penicillin allergy through genome-wide analysis of electronic health records and imputed HLA data.

The paper uses haplotype genetic scores in mother/infant pairs to show maternal and fetal genetic effects influence gestational duration, birth outcomes, and adult phenotypes.

This study identifies genetic effects on birth weight and their impact on cardio-metabolic traits, distinguishing fetal and maternal contributions.

This study identifies a fetal genome-wide association signal near pro-inflammatory cytokine genes on 2q13 linked to gestational duration and preterm/postterm birth.

This paper conducts a consortium-wide GWAS to identify genetic variants associated with childhood dental caries, finding two significant loci but low heritability estimates.

This study identifies maternal genetic variants associated with offspring birth weight using GWAS and SEM, showing independent effects from fetal genetics.

This study investigates the genetic contributions to gestational weight gain, finding that maternal common variants explain about 20% of variability, while fetal variants have a minor role.

This study identifies genetic loci associated with early childhood growth phenotypes and links them to later adiposity traits, suggesting potential targets for obesity prevention.