Agnar Helgason
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Agnar Helgason is an Icelandic scientist working with genetic anthropology. PhD in Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford, 2001. He is best known for his research on the origin of Icelandic population. He is a brother of Ásgeir Helgason, the son of Helgi Valdimarsson and a brother-in-law of Tim Moore .
Agnar Helgason's Published Works
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Published Works
- Variant of transcription factor 7-like 2 (TCF7L2) gene confers risk of type 2 diabetes (2006) (2206)
- Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk (2012) (1720)
- Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease (2008) (1345)
- Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Icelandic Population (2020) (1170)
- Variants conferring risk of atrial fibrillation on chromosome 4q25 (2007) (910)
- Genome-wide association study identifies a second prostate cancer susceptibility variant at 8q24 (2007) (904)
- Humoral Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland (2020) (808)
- Common variants on chromosomes 2q35 and 16q12 confer susceptibility to estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer (2007) (787)
- Two variants on chromosome 17 confer prostate cancer risk, and the one in TCF2 protects against type 2 diabetes (2007) (765)
- A common inversion under selection in Europeans (2005) (760)
- Genetic determinants of hair, eye and skin pigmentation in Europeans (2007) (709)
- Large-scale whole-genome sequencing of the Icelandic population (2015) (638)
- A common variant associated with prostate cancer in European and African populations (2006) (630)
- The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes (2017) (618)
- Fine-scale recombination rate differences between sexes, populations and individuals (2010) (551)
- Refining the impact of TCF7L2 gene variants on type 2 diabetes and adaptive evolution (2007) (515)
- Clonal hematopoiesis, with and without candidate driver mutations, is common in the elderly. (2017) (493)
- A variant of the gene encoding leukotriene A4 hydrolase confers ethnicity-specific risk of myocardial infarction (2006) (383)
- Two newly identified genetic determinants of pigmentation in Europeans (2008) (349)
- ASIP and TYR pigmentation variants associate with cutaneous melanoma and basal cell carcinoma (2008) (335)
- Parental influence on human germline de novo mutations in 1,548 trios from Iceland (2017) (325)
- Polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder predict creativity (2015) (317)
- A direct characterization of human mutation based on microsatellites (2012) (310)
- An Icelandic example of the impact of population structure on association studies (2005) (298)
- Common variants near CAV1 and CAV2 are associated with primary open-angle glaucoma (2010) (296)
- Identification of low-frequency and rare sequence variants associated with elevated or reduced risk of type 2 diabetes (2014) (294)
- A rare variant in MYH6 is associated with high risk of sick sinus syndrome (2011) (294)
- Rate of de novo mutations, father’s age, and disease risk (2012) (258)
- Nonsense mutation in the LGR4 gene is associated with several human diseases and other traits (2013) (249)
- mtDna and the islands of the North Atlantic: estimating the proportions of Norse and Gaelic ancestry. (2001) (247)
- Y-chromosomal DNA variation in Pakistan. (2002) (242)
- The mutation rate in the human mtDNA control region. (2000) (236)
- mtDNA and the origin of the Icelanders: deciphering signals of recent population history. (2000) (222)
- Estimating Scandinavian and Gaelic ancestry in the male settlers of Iceland. (2000) (214)
- Sequence Variants in the RNF212 Gene Associate with Genome-Wide Recombination Rate (2008) (203)
- Identification of a large set of rare complete human knockouts (2015) (192)
- Single-Tissue and Cross-Tissue Heritability of Gene Expression Via Identity-by-Descent in Related or Unrelated Individuals (2011) (189)
- Characterizing mutagenic effects of recombination through a sequence-level genetic map (2019) (181)
- A Polymorphism in IRF4 Affects Human Pigmentation through a Tyrosinase-Dependent MITF/TFAP2A Pathway (2013) (174)
- Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series (2019) (150)
- An Association Between the Kinship and Fertility of Human Couples (2008) (150)
- Identification of low-frequency variants associated with gout and serum uric acid levels (2011) (149)
- Figuring fish and measuring men : the individual transferable quota system in the Icelandic cod fishery (1995) (147)
- Physical and neurobehavioral determinants of reproductive onset and success (2016) (146)
- A populationwide coalescent analysis of Icelandic matrilineal and patrilineal genealogies: evidence for a faster evolutionary rate of mtDNA lineages than Y chromosomes. (2003) (146)
- Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment (2017) (129)
- Common variants on 1p36 and 1q42 are associated with cutaneous basal cell carcinoma but not with melanoma or pigmentation traits (2008) (122)
- Ancestry-Shift Refinement Mapping of the C6orf97-ESR1 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus (2010) (113)
- A Reassessment of Genetic Diversity in Icelanders: Strong Evidence from Multiple Loci for Relative Homogeneity Caused by Genetic Drift (2003) (104)
- The Impact of Divergence Time on the Nature of Population Structure: An Example from Iceland (2009) (103)
- Large-scale integration of the plasma proteome with genetics and disease (2021) (102)
- mtDNA variation in Inuit populations of Greenland and Canada: migration history and population structure. (2006) (101)
- Multi-nucleotide de novo Mutations in Humans (2016) (97)
- Genetic variants associated with mosaic Y chromosome loss highlight cell cycle genes and overlap with cancer susceptibility (2017) (95)
- Early Spread of SARS-Cov-2 in the Icelandic Population (2020) (91)
- Whole genome characterization of sequence diversity of 15,220 Icelanders (2017) (90)
- Contested commodities : The moral landscape of modernist regimes (1997) (88)
- The Y-chromosome point mutation rate in humans (2015) (81)
- Long-read sequencing of 3,622 Icelanders provides insight into the role of structural variants in human diseases and other traits (2021) (81)
- Multiple transmissions of de novo mutations in families (2018) (81)
- Whole-genome sequencing identifies rare genotypes in COMP and CHADL associated with high risk of hip osteoarthritis (2017) (75)
- The BARD1 Cys557Ser Variant and Breast Cancer Risk in Iceland (2006) (75)
- The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK Biobank (2021) (72)
- The rate of meiotic gene conversion varies by sex and age (2016) (72)
- Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes (2019) (68)
- Genetic evidence for a family-based Scandinavian settlement of Shetland and Orkney during the Viking periods (2005) (67)
- Sequence variants from whole genome sequencing a large group of Icelanders (2015) (67)
- Sequences From First Settlers Reveal Rapid Evolution in Icelandic mtDNA Pool (2009) (64)
- Lessons from the past: Familial aggregation analysis of fatal pandemic influenza (Spanish flu) in Iceland in 1918 (2008) (64)
- Prion susceptibility and protective alleles exhibit marked geographic differences (2003) (59)
- Diversity in non-repetitive human sequences not found in the reference genome (2017) (58)
- Differences between germline genomes of monozygotic twins (2021) (54)
- The nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes (2020) (54)
- Ancient genomes from Iceland reveal the making of a human population (2018) (51)
- Epigenetic and genetic components of height regulation (2016) (49)
- Rare mutations associating with serum creatinine and chronic kidney disease. (2014) (48)
- Genome-wide Ancestry and Demographic History of African-Descendant Maroon Communities from French Guiana and Suriname. (2017) (42)
- A new subclade of mtDNA haplogroup C1 found in Icelanders: evidence of pre-Columbian contact? (2011) (38)
- COPA syndrome in an Icelandic family caused by a recurrent missense mutation in COPA (2017) (37)
- Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in Pakistani populations. (2001) (35)
- CDKN2A mutations and melanoma risk in the Icelandic population (2008) (31)
- A Drastic Reduction in the Life Span of Cystatin C L68Q Carriers Due to Life-Style Changes during the Last Two Centuries (2008) (28)
- A Statistical Approach to Identify Ancient Template DNA (2007) (27)
- Assessing the signatures of selection in PRNP from polymorphism data: results support Kreitman and Di Rienzo's opinion. (2005) (23)
- Reproductive fitness and genetic risk of psychiatric disorders in the general population (2017) (23)
- Employment Insecurity, Incumbent Partisanship, and Voting Behavior in Comparative Perspective (2017) (22)
- The Politics Of Production: Enclosure, Equity, And Efficiency (1996) (21)
- Languages, geography and HLA haplotypes in Native American and Asian populations (1999) (19)
- Fractional Integration Methods and Short Time Series: Evidence from a Simulation Study (2016) (18)
- Insertion of an SVA-E retrotransposon into the CASP8 gene is associated with protection against prostate cancer (2016) (18)
- The past, present, and future of direct-to-consumer genetic tests (2010) (18)
- Genetic homogeneity of Icelanders (2000) (17)
- Schooling and Skipperhood: The Development of Dexterity (1998) (15)
- Reconstructing an African haploid genome from the 18th century (2018) (15)
- Sequence Variants in TAAR5 and Other Loci Affect Human Odor Perception and Naming (2020) (14)
- HaploGrouper: a generalized approach to haplogroup classification (2020) (14)
- Unleashing the ‘money machine’: the domestic political foundations of VAT adoption (2017) (13)
- Introduction to Symposium on Time Series Error Correction Methods in Political Science (2016) (12)
- Blondes, lost and found: representations of genes, identity, and history. (2003) (9)
- The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool (2022) (9)
- The genetic structure of Norway (2020) (9)
- The mother’s risk of premature death after child loss across two centuries (2019) (8)
- Response to Comments on "An Association Between the Kinship and Fertility of Human Couples" (2008) (8)
- Reconstruction of a large-scale outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Iceland informs vaccination strategies (2021) (7)
- The population genomic legacy of the second plague pandemic (2022) (6)
- The genetic origins of Saint Helena’s liberated Africans (2019) (6)
- Are We in the Same Boat or Not? The Opposite Effects of Absolute and Relative Income Shifts on Redistributive Preferences (2016) (5)
- Government Responses to the Great Recession (2019) (4)
- Erroneous claims about the impact of mitochondrial DNA sequence database errors. (2003) (4)
- Corrigendum: ASIP and TYR pigmentation variants associate with cutaneous melanoma and basal cell carcinoma (2008) (4)
- Augustine Kong Recombination Rate Gene Associate with Genome-Wide RNF 212 Sequence Variants in the (3)
- The Great Recession and new class voting in Iceland (2018) (3)
- Evaluating differences in linkage disequilibrium between populations (2010) (3)
- Electoral Politics in Crisis after the Great Recession (2021) (3)
- Cash for Quotas: Disputes over the Legitimacy of an Economic Model of Fishing in Iceland (2020) (3)
- Whole genome sequencing finds rare high-risk genotypes for hip osteoarthritis in the COMP and CHADL genes (2017) (2)
- Recurrence of de novo mutations in families (2017) (2)
- Molecular benchmarks of a SARS-CoV-2 epidemic (2021) (1)
- The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present (2023) (1)
- Income-based voting and polarization over redistribution under alternative electoral systems (2016) (1)
- Author Correction: The rate of meiotic gene conversion varies by sex and age (2018) (1)
- Human Couples An Association Between the Kinship and Fertility of (2008) (1)
- Large-scale comparison of immunoassay- and aptamer-based plasma proteomics through genetics and disease (2022) (1)
- Diversity in non-repetitive human sequences not found in the reference genome (2017) (0)
- Iceland (2021) (0)
- Author Correction: The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool (2022) (0)
- A crumbling party system? (2021) (0)
- The issue preferences of the mass public and their social structural antecedents (2021) (0)
- How Institutional Environments and Policies Impacted Hardship (2019) (0)
- Corrigendum: Whole-genome sequencing identifies rare genotypes in COMP and CHADL associated with high risk of hip osteoarthritis. (2017) (0)
- Acknowledgement to the Reviewers (2007) (0)
- Essays in the comparative political economy oftaxation and redistribution (2015) (0)
- Electoral politics after the crisis: Change, fluctuations and stability in the 2021 Althingi Election (2022) (0)
- The consequences of the Great Recession on party politics and voters in Iceland (2021) (0)
- The Political Economy of Crisis Responses (2019) (0)
- Satisfaction with democracy, political trust and confidence in politics (2021) (0)
- Title : Ancient genomes from Iceland reveal the making of a human population One (2017) (0)
- Icelandic population mutations and melanoma risk in the CDKN2A (2008) (0)
- A precursor to a crisis (2021) (0)
- HAPMIX results of chromosome 6 in chiptyped Icelanders (2017) (0)
- Party–voter alignments before and after the Great Recession (2021) (0)
- The impact of real world information shocks on political attitudes: Evidence from the Panama Papers disclosures (2022) (0)
- Author response: The mother’s risk of premature death after child loss across two centuries (2019) (0)
- The political consequences of the economic collapse (2021) (0)
- The transformative impact of the Great Recession on the political system (2021) (0)
- Political participation and engagement (2021) (0)
- The party system and new parties in post-crisis Iceland (2021) (0)
- Review for "The genomic origin of Zana of Abkhazia" (2021) (0)
- Multiple transmissions of de novo mutations in families (2018) (0)
- Genomic diversity and differentiation between island and mainland populations of white‐tailed eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) (2023) (0)
- Author Correction: The rate of meiotic gene conversion varies by sex and age (2018) (0)
- Reconstructing an African haploid genome from the 18th century (2018) (0)
- Effect of Schizophrenia Risk Variants On Mating and Fecundity (2019) (0)
- Differences between germline genomes of monozygotic twins (2021) (0)
- The nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes (2020) (0)
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