Markku Laakso

Active 1979–2025

373
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106,903
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 12,122 citing papers, 23.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 4,392 citing papers, 8.5% of this breakdownChina: 3,976 citing papers, 7.7% of this breakdownGermany: 2,389 citing papers, 4.6% of this breakdownItaly: 2,153 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownCanada: 2,033 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownAustralia: 1,756 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownNetherlands: 1,722 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownSweden: 1,600 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownFrance: 1,588 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownFinland: 1,424 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownSpain: 1,306 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Medicine54.1%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology35.1%
  • Neuroscience3.6%
  • Nursing2%
  • Immunology and Microbiology1.3%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.6%
  • Other3.3%

Topics

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology4.4%
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins3.7%
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism2.9%
  • Diabetes Treatment and Management2.2%
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases2.1%
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases1.9%
  • Other82.8%

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  1. Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Mitja Kurki, Ami Levy Moonshine, Pradeep Natarajan, Lorena Orozco, Gina M. Peloso, Ryan Poplin, Manuel A. Rivas, Valentín Ruano-Rubio, Samuel A. Rose, Douglas M. Ruderfer, Khalid Shakir, Peter D. Stenson, Christine Stevens, Brett Thomas, Grace Tiao, Maria T. Tusie-Luna, Ben Weisburd, Hong‐Hee Won, Dongmei Yu, David Altshuler, Diego Ardissino, Michael Boehnke, John Danesh, Stacey Donnelly, Roberto Elosúa, José C. Florez, Stacey Gabriel, Gad Getz, Stephen J. Glatt, Christina M. Hultman, Sekar Kathiresan, Markku Laakso, Steven A. McCarroll, Mark I. McCarthy, Dermot McGovern, Ruth McPherson, Benjamin M. Neale, Aarno Palotie, Shaun Purcell, Danish Saleheen, Jeremiah M. Scharf, Pamela Sklar, Patrick F. Sullivan, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Ming T. Tsuang, Hugh Watkins, James G. Wilson, Mark J. Daly, Daniel G. MacArthur - Nature 2015 cited by 10,435

  2. Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Genetics 2016 cited by 2,732

  3. Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Teemu Palviainen, Anita Pandit, Gunnar W. Reginsson, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Jennifer A. Smith, Amy E. Taylor, Constance Turman, Gonneke Willemsen, Hannah Young, Kendra A. Young, Gregory J. M. Zajac, Wei Zhao, Wei Zhou, Gyða Björnsdóttir, Jason D. Boardman, Michael Boehnke, Dorret I. Boomsma, Chu Chen, Francesco Cucca, Gareth E. Davies, Charles B. Eaton, Marissa A. Ehringer, Tõnu Esko, Edoardo Fiorillo, Nathan A. Gillespie, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Toomas Haller, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Andrew C. Heath, John K. Hewitt, Ian B. Hickie, John E. Hokanson, Christian J. Hopfer, David J. Hunter, William G. Iacono, Eric O. Johnson, Yoichiro Kamatani, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Matthew C. Keller, Manolis Kellis, Charles Kooperberg, Peter Kraft, Kenneth Krauter, Markku Laakso, Penelope A. Lind, Anu Loukola, Sharon M. Lutz, Pamela A. F. Madden, Nicholas G. Martin, Matt McGue, Matthew B. McQueen, Sarah E. Medland, Andres Metspalu, Karen L. Mohlke, Jonas B. Nielsen, Yukinori Okada, Ulrike Peters, Tinca J. C. Polderman, Daniëlle Posthuma, Alex P. Reiner, John P. Rice, Eric B. Rimm, Richard J. Rose, Valgerður Rúnarsdóttir, Michael C. Stallings, Alena Stančáková, Hreinn Stefánsson, Khanh K. Thai, Hilary A. Tindle, Þórarinn Tyrfingsson and 24 more - Nature Genetics 2019 cited by 2,142

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

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Weihua Zhang, Amanda J. Bennett, Jette Bork‐Jensen, Chad M. Brummett, Mickaël Canouil, Kai-Uwe Ec kardt, Krista Fischer, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Florian Kronenberg, Kristi Läll, Ching‐Ti Liu, Adam E. Locke, Jian’an Luan, Ιωάννα Ντάλλα, Vibe Nylander, Sebastian Schönherr, Claudia Schurmann, Loïc Yengo, Erwin P. Böttinger, Ivan Brandslund, Cramer Christensen, George Dedoussis, José C. Florez, Ian Ford, Oscar H. Franco, Timothy M. Frayling, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Sophie Hackinger, Andrew T. Hattersley, Christian Herder, M. Arfan Ikram, Martin Ingelsson, Marit E. Jørgensen, Torben Jørgensen, Jennifer Kriebel, Johanna Kuusisto, Symen Ligthart, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Allan Linneberg, Valeriya Lyssenko, Vasiliki Mamakou, Thomas Meitinger, Karen L. Mohlke, Andrew D. Morris, Girish N. Nadkarni, James S. Pankow, Annette Peters, Naveed Sattar, Alena Stančáková, Konstantin Strauch, Kent D. Taylor, Barbara Thorand, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Daniel R. Witte, Josée Dupuis, Patricia A. Peyser, Eleftheria Zeggini, Ruth J. F. Loos, Philippe Froguel, Erik Ingelsson, Lars Lind, Leif Groop, Markku Laakso, Francis S. Collins, J. Wouter Jukema, Colin N. A. Palmer, Harald Grallert, Andres Metspalu and 15 more - Nature Genetics 2018 cited by 1,936

  5. Resveratrol Improves Mitochondrial Function and Protects against Metabolic Disease by Activating SIRT1 and PGC-1α

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Cell 2006 cited by 4,011

  6. Insulin resistance and hyperglycaemia in cardiovascular disease development

    Authors: , - Nature Reviews Endocrinology 2014 cited by 919

  7. Secondary prevention of macrovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes in the PROactive Study (PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macroVascular Events): a randomised controlled trial

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - The Lancet 2005 cited by 4,130

  8. Hexokinase 2 Is Required for Tumor Initiation and Maintenance and Its Systemic Deletion Is Therapeutic in Mouse Models of Cancer

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Cancer Cell 2013 cited by 859

  9. Type 2 diabetes genetic loci informed by multi-trait associations point to disease mechanisms and subtypes: A soft clustering analysis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - PLoS Medicine 2018 cited by 564

  10. Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes and in Nondiabetic Subjects with and without Prior Myocardial Infarction

    Authors: , , , , - New England Journal of Medicine 1998 cited by 7,071

  11. Genome-wide characterization of circulating metabolic biomarkers

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Fiona A. Hagenbeek, Jouke‐Jan Hottenga, René Pool, M. Arfan Ikram, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Toomas Haller, Yuri Milaneschi, Mika Kähönen, Pashupati P. Mishra, Peter K. Joshi, Erin Macdonald-Dunlop, Massimo Mangino, Jonas Zierer, İlhan E. Acar, Carel B. Hoyng, Yara Lechanteur, Lude Franke, Alexander Kurilshikov, Alexandra Zhernakova, Marian Beekman, Erik B. van den Akker, Ivana Kolčić, Ozren Polašek, Igor Rudan, Christian Gieger, Mélanie Waldenberger, Folkert W. Asselbergs, China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group, FinnGen, Caroline Hayward, Jingyuan Fu, Anneke I. den Hollander, Cristina Menni, Tim D. Spector, James F. Wilson, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli T. Raitakari, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Tõnu Esko, Robin Walters, J. Wouter Jukema, Naveed Sattar, Mohsen Ghanbari, Ko Willems van Dijk, Fredrik Karpe, Mark I. McCarthy, Markku Laakso, Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin, Nicholas J. Timpson, Markus Perola, Jaspal S. Kooner, John C. Chambers, Cornelia M. van Duijn, P. Eline Slagboom, Dorret I. Boomsma, John Danesh, Mika Ala‐Korpela, Adam S. Butterworth, Johannes Kettunen - Nature 2024 cited by 240

  12. Acarbose for prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the STOP-NIDDM randomised trial

    Authors: , , , , , - The Lancet 2002 cited by 2,548

  13. Genome-wide association studies of metabolites in Finnish men identify disease-relevant loci

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Francis S. Collins, Samuli Ripatti, Aarno Palotie, Nelson B. Freimer, Karen L. Mohlke, Laura J. Scott, Xiaoquan Wen, Eric B. Fauman, Markku Laakso, Michael Boehnke - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 191

  14. Trans-ethnic association study of blood pressure determinants in over 750,000 individuals

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Laura J. Scott, Jian’an Luan, Jing-Hua Zhao, Sara M. Willems, Sébastien Thériault, Nabi Shah, Christopher Oldmeadow, Peter Almgren, Ruifang Li‐Gao, Niek Verweij, Thibaud Boutin, Massimo Mangino, Ioanna Ntalla, Elena V. Feofanova, Praveen Surendran, James P. Cook, Savita Karthikeyan, Najim Lahrouchi, Chunyu Liu, Nuno Sepúlveda, Tom G. Richardson, Aldi T. Kraja, Philippe Amouyel, Martin Farrall, Neil R Poulter, Markku Laakso, Eleftheria Zeggini, Peter Sever, Robert A. Scott, Claudia Langenberg, Nicholas J. Wareham, David Conen, Colin Neil Alexander Palmer, John Attia, Daniel I. Chasman, Paul M. Ridker, Olle Melander, Dennis Owen Mook-Kanamori, Pim van der Harst, Francesco Cucca, David Schlessinger, Caroline Hayward, Tim D. Spector, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Branwen J. Hennig, Nicholas J. Timpson, Wei-Qi Wei, Joshua Smith, Yaomin Xu, Michael E. Matheny, Edward D. Siew, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Karl‐Heinz Herzig, George Dedoussis, Joshua C. Denny, Bruce M. Psaty, Joanna M. M. Howson, Patricia B. Munroe, Christopher Newton‐Cheh, Mark J. Caulfield, Paul Elliott, J. Michael Gaziano, John Concato, Peter W.F. Wilson, Philip S. Tsao, Digna R. Velez Edwards, Katalin Suszták, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Adriana M. Hung, Todd L. Edwards - Nature Genetics 2018 cited by 501

  15. Blood n-3 fatty acid levels and total and cause-specific mortality from 17 prospective studies

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Markku Laakso, Heidi Lai, Danielle Laurin, Karin Leander, Joan Lindsay, Renata Micha, Jaako Mursu, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Post Wendy, Bruce M. Psaty, Ulf Risérus, Jennifer G. Robinson, Aladdin H. Shadyab, Linda Snetselaar, Aleix Sala‐Vila, Yangbo Sun, Lyn M. Steffen, Michael Y. Tsai, Nicholas J. Wareham, Alexis C. Wood, Jason Wu, Frank B. Hu, Qi Sun, David S. Siscovick, Rozenn N. Lemaître, Dariush Mozaffarian - Nature Communications 2021 cited by 235

  16. The TMAO-Producing Enzyme Flavin-Containing Monooxygenase 3 Regulates Obesity and the Beiging of White Adipose Tissue

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Chris A. Flask, Markku Laakso, Mete Civelek, Sathyamangla V. Naga Prasad, Jöerg Heeren, Aldons J. Lusis, Stanley L. Hazen, J. Mark Brown - Cell Reports 2017 cited by 290

  17. SIRT3 Deficiency and Mitochondrial Protein Hyperacetylation Accelerate the Development of the Metabolic Syndrome

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Molecular Cell 2011 cited by 784

  18. Single-cell dissection of the obesity-exercise axis in adipose-muscle tissues implies a critical role for mesenchymal stem cells

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Cell Metabolism 2022 cited by 123

  19. The Metabolic Syndrome in Men study: a resource for studies of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - Journal of Lipid Research 2017 cited by 224

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

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Beaté St Pourcain, Nicholas J. Timpson, Perttu Salo, So–Youn Shin, Najaf Amin, Albert V. Smith, Guo Li, Niek Verweij, Anuj Goel, Ian Ford, P. Johnson, Toby Johnson, Karen Kapur, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Rona J. Strawbridge, Laura J. Rasmussen‐Torvik, Tõnu Esko, Evelin Mihailov, Tove Fall, Ross M. Fraser, Anubha Mahajan, Stavroula Kanoni, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Marcus E. Kleber, Günther Silbernagel, Julia Meyer, Martina Müller‐Nurasyid, Andrea Ganna, Antti‐Pekka Sarin, Loïc Yengo, Dmitry Shungin, Jian’an Luan, Momoko Horikoshi, Ping An, Serena Sanna, Yvonne Boettcher, N. William Rayner, Ilja M. Nolte, Tatijana Zemunik, Erik Van Iperen, Péter Kovács, N D Hastie, Sarah H. Wild, Stela McLachlan, Susan Campbell, Ozren Polašek, Olga D. Carlson, Josephine M. Egan, Wieland Kieß, Gonneke Willemsen, Johanna Kuusisto, Markku Laakso, Maria Dimitriou, Andrew A. Hicks, Rainer Rauramaa, Stefania Bandinelli, Barbara Thorand, Ching‐Ti Liu, Iva Miljkovic, Lars Lind, Alex S. F. Doney, Markus Perola, Aroon D. Hingorani, Mika Kivimäki, Meena Kumari, Amanda J. Bennett, Christopher J. Groves, Christian Herder, Heikki A. Koistinen, Leena Kinnunen and 104 more - Nature Communications 2021 cited by 167

  21. Biomarkers of Dietary Omega-6 Fatty Acids and Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Kuo‐Liong Chien, Ulf dé Fairé, Luc Djoussé, Guðný Eiríksdóttir, Naglaa El-Abbadi, Nita G. Forouhi, J. Michael Gaziano, Johanna M. Geleijnse, Bruna Gigante, Graham G. Giles, Eliseo Güallar, Vilmundur Guðnason, Tamara B. Harris, William S. Harris, Catherine Helmer, Mai-Lis Hellénius, Allison Hodge, Frank B. Hu, Paul F. Jacques, Jan-Håkan Jansson, Anya Kalsbeek, Kay‐Tee Khaw, Woon‐Puay Koh, Markku Laakso, Karin Leander, Hung-Ju Lin, Lars Lind, Robert Luben, Juhua Luo, Barbara McKnight, Jaakko Mursu, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Kim Overvad, Bruce M. Psaty, Eric B. Rimm, Matthias B. Schulze, David S. Siscovick, Michael S. Nielsen, Albert V. Smith, Brian T. Steffen, Lyn M. Steffen, Qi Sun, Johan Sundström, Michael Y. Tsai, H Tunstall-Pedoe, Matti Uusitupa, Rob M. van Dam, Jenna Veenstra, W. M. Monique Verschuren, Nick Wareham, Walter C. Willett, Mark Woodward, Jian-Min Yuan, Renata Micha, Rozenn N. Lemaître, Dariush Mozaffarian, Ulf Risérus - Circulation 2019 cited by 330

  22. Biomarkers for type 2 diabetes

    Authors: - Molecular Metabolism 2019 cited by 225

  23. Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Hans Bisgaard, Michael Boehnke, Dorret I. Boomsma, Robert D. Burk, Annique Claringbould, Kenneth Croitoru, Gareth E. Davies, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Liesbeth Duijts, Gwen Falony, Jingyuan Fu, Adriaan van der Graaf, Torben Hansen, Georg Homuth, David A. Hughes, Richard G. IJzerman, Matthew Jackson, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Marie Joossens, Torben Jørgensen, Dániel Keszthelyi, Rob Knight, Markku Laakso, Matthias Laudes, Lenore J. Launer, Wolfgang Lieb, Aldons J. Lusis, Ad Masclee, Henriëtte A. Moll, Zlatan Mujagic, Qibin Qi, Daphna Rothschild, Hocheol Shin, Søren J. Sørensen, Claire J. Steves, Jonathan Thorsen, Nicholas J. Timpson, Raúl Y. Tito, Sara Vieira‐Silva, Uwe Völker, Henry Völzke, Urmo Võsa, Kaitlin H. Wade, Susanna Walter, Kyoko Watanabe, Stefan Weiß, Frank Ulrich Weiß, Omer Weissbrod, Harm-Jan Westra, Gonneke Willemsen, Haydeh Payami, Daisy Jonkers, Alejandro Arias Vásquez, Eco J. C. de Geus, Katie A. Meyer, Jakob Stokholm, Eran Segal, Elin Org, Cisca Wijmenga, Hyung‐Lae Kim, Robert C. Kaplan, Tim D. Spector, André G. Uitterlinden, Fernando Rivadeneira, André Franke, Markus M. Lerch, Lude Franke, Serena Sanna, Mauro D’Amato, Oluf Pedersen and 4 more - Nature Genetics 2020 cited by 1,832

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

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Ástráður B. Hreiðarsson, Kristian Hveem, Erik Ingelsson, Bo Isomaa, Stefan Johansson, Torben Jørgensen, Marit E. Jørgensen, Sekar Kathiresan, Augustine Kong, Jaspal S. Kooner, Jasmina Kravić, Markku Laakso, Jong‐Young Lee, Lars Lind, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Allan Linneberg, Gísli Másson, Thomas Meitinger, Karen L. Mohlke, Anders Molven, Andrew P. Morris, Shobha Potluri, Rainer Rauramaa, Rasmus Ribel‐Madsen, Ann-Marie Richard, Tim Rolph, Veikko Salomaa, Ayellet V. Segrè, Hanna Skärstrand, Valgerður Steinthórsdóttir, Heather M. Stringham, Patrick Sulem, E Shyong Tai, Yik Ying Teo, Tanya M. Teslovich, Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir, Jeff K. Trimmer, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Fariba Vaziri‐Sani, Benjamin F. Voight, James G. Wilson, Michael Boehnke, Mark I. McCarthy, Pål R. Njølstad, Oluf Pedersen, Leif Groop, David R. Cox, Kāri Stefánsson, David Altshuler - Nature Genetics 2014 cited by 497