Publications by authors named "A Palotie"

To broaden our understanding of bradyarrhythmias and conduction disease, we performed common variant genome-wide association analyses in up to 1.3 million individuals and rare variant burden testing in 460,000 individuals for sinus node dysfunction (SND), distal conduction disease (DCD) and pacemaker (PM) implantation. We identified 13, 31 and 21 common variant loci for SND, DCD and PM, respectively.

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Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are common after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), but their biological drivers are uncertain. We therefore explored whether polygenic risk scores (PRS) derived for PTSD and major depressive disorder (MDD) are associated with the development of cognate TBI-related phenotypes.

Methods: Meta-analyses were conducted using data from two multicenter, prospective observational cohort studies of patients with mTBI: the CENTER-TBI study (ClinicalTrials.

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Article Synopsis
  • * A large study involving nearly 10,000 DCM cases and close to a million controls identified 70 significant genetic locations linked to the disease, revealing the importance of heart muscle cells in its development.
  • * The research also indicates that factors like higher body weight and blood pressure may contribute to DCM, and genetic risk scores can help predict the condition across different populations.
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