Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

Professor, emeritus


  1. 2021
  2. Published

    The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits

    Chen, J., Spracklen, C. N., Marenne, G., Varshney, A., Corbin, L. J., Luan, J., Willems, S. M., Wu, Y., Zhang, X., Horikoshi, M., Boutin, T. S., Magi, R., Waage, J., Li-Gao, R., Chan, K. H. K., Yao, J., Anasanti, M. D., Chu, A. Y., Claringbould, A., Heikkinen, J. & 31 others, Hong, J., Hottenga, J., Huo, S., Kaakinen, M. A., Louie, T., Maerz, W., Moreno-Macias, H., Ndungu, A., Nelson, S. C., Nolte, I. M., North, K. E., Appel, E. V. R., Liu, J., Sparso, T., Zhao, J., Astrup, A., Jørgensen, M. E., Linneberg, Allan René, Vestergaard, H., Bisgaard, H., Bønnelykke, Klaus, Grarup, Niels, Hansen, Torben, Kovacs, P., Lind, L., Loos, R. J. F., Njølstad, I., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Schwarz, Peter, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Meta-Analysis of Glucose and Insulin-Related Trait Consortium (MAGIC), M. O. G. A. I. T. C. (., 2021, In: Nature Genetics. 53, 6, p. 840-860 41 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Time trends in epigenetic signatures and population health risks

    Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Barrès, Romain, 2021, Twin and Family Studies of Epigenetics. Li, S. & Hopper, J. L. (eds.). Elsevier Ltd. Academic Press, p. 285-298 (Translational Epigenetics, Vol. 27).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Two genetic analyses to elucidate causality between body mass index and personality

    Arumäe, K., Briley, D., Colodro-Conde, L., Mortensen, Erik Lykke, Jang, K., Ando, J., Kandler, C., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Dagher, A., Mõttus, R. & Vainik, U., 2021, In: International Journal of Obesity. 45, p. 2244–2251 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Zhou, B., Carrillo-Larco, R. M., Danaei, G., Riley, L. M., Paciorek, C. J., Stevens, G. A., Gregg, E. W., Bennett, J. E., Solomon, B., Singleton, R. K., Sophiea, M. K., Iurilli, M. LC., Lhoste, V. PF., Cowan, M. J., Savin, S., Woodward, M., Balanova, Y., Cifkova, R., Damasceno, A., Elliott, P. & 31 others, Farzadfar, F., Afzal, Shoaib, Allin, K., Andersen, L. B., Bjerregaard, P., Bojesen, Stig Egil, Christensen, K., Dantoft, T. M., Eliasen, M., Eriksen, L., Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth, Giwercman, A., Halkjær, J., Jørgensen, T., Kristensen, P. L., Lind, L., Linneberg, Allan René, Mårild, S. B., Møllehave, Line Tang, Nguyen, Q. V., Nordestgaard, Børge, Overvad, K., Schnohr, P., Sobngwi, E., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Tjønneland, Anne, Toft, Ulla Marie Nørgaard, Tolstrup, J. S., Wang, Y. W., Yang, Y. & NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC), N. R. F. C. (., 2021, In: The Lancet. 398, 10304, p. 957-980 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Maternal obesity and metabolic disorders associate with congenital heart defects in the offspring: A systematic review

    Hedermann, G., Hedley, P. L., Thagaard, I. N., Krebs, Lone, Ekelund, Charlotte Kvist, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Christiansen, M., May 2021, In: PLoS ONE. 16, 5 , 22 p., e0252343.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  7. 2022
  8. Published

    An integrated model of obesity pathogenesis that revisits causal direction

    Ludwig, D. S. & Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., 2022, In: Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 18, p. 261-262 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Causality between physical activity, sedentary behavior and obesity: A Mendelian randomization study

    Carrasquilla, Germán D., García Ureña, Mario, Fall, T., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O., 2022, In: European Journal of Human Genetics. 30, Supplement 1, p. 536-536 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalConference abstract in journalResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Changing genetic architecture of body mass index from infancy to early adulthood: an individual based pooled analysis of 25 twin cohorts

    Silventoinen, K., Li, W., Jelenkovic, A., Sund, R., Yokoyama, Y., Aaltonen, S., Piirtola, M., Sugawara, M., Tanaka, M., Matsumoto, S., Baker, L. A., Tuvblad, C., Tynelius, P., Rasmussen, F., Craig, J. M., Saffery, R., Willemsen, G., Bartels, M., van Beijsterveldt, C. E. M., Martin, N. G. & 37 others, Medland, S. E., Montgomery, G. W., Lichtenstein, P., Krueger, R. F., McGue, M., Pahlen, S., Christensen, K., Skytthe, A., Kyvik, K. O., Saudino, K. J., Dubois, L., Boivin, M., Brendgen, M., Dionne, G., Vitaro, F., Ullemar, V., Almqvist, C., Magnusson, P. K. E., Corley, R. P., Huibregtse, B. M., Knafo-Noam, A., Mankuta, D., Abramson, L., Haworth, C. M. A., Plomin, R., Bjerregaard-Andersen, M., Beck-Nielsen, H., Sodemann, M., Duncan, G. E., Buchwald, D., Burt, S. A., Klump, K. L., Llewellyn, C. H., Fisher, A., Boomsma, D., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Kaprio, J., 2022, In: International Journal of Obesity. 46, p. 1901–1909 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Do gene-environment interactions have implications for the precision prevention of type 2 diabetes?

    Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Metz, Sophia & Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O., 2022, In: Diabetologia. 65, p. 1804–1813 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Epidemiology of Obesity

    Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Martinez, A. R. & Jørgensen, Terese Sara Høj, 2022, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. J. E. & K. C. (eds.). 1 ed. Heidelberg: Springer, p. 3-27 25 p. (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

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