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Krista Fischer's Degrees

PhD Biostatistics University of Tartu
Masters Statistics University of Tartu
Bachelors Mathematics University of Tartu

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According to Wikipedia, Krista Fischer is an Estonian biostatistician whose research concerns body mass, genetic variability, and their association with diseases. She is a professor of mathematical statistics in the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Tartu, where she is also an associate professor in the Institute of Genomics.

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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults (2017) (3677)
Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants (2016) (3648)
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology (2015) (3549)
Discovery and Refinement of Loci Associated with Lipid Levels (2013) (2475)
Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes (2012) (1839)
Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height (2014) (1805)
Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations (2013) (1593)
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants (2017) (1563)
Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease (2012) (1507)
New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution (2014) (1227)
Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps (2018) (1028)
A century of trends in adult human height (2016) (861)
GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment (2013) (803)
Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease (2013) (767)
Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease (2013) (761)
Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity (2016) (634)
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 (2021) (585)
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture (2013) (568)
The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study (2015) (532)
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and metabolically healthy obesity in Europe: a collaborative analysis of ten large cohort studies (2014) (419)
FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index (2012) (407)
Sex-stratified Genome-wide Association Studies Including 270,000 Individuals Show Sexual Dimorphism in Genetic Loci for Anthropometric Traits (2013) (365)
Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell (2012) (357)
Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa (2019) (314)
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults (2019) (300)
Identification of heart rate–associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders (2013) (299)
Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes (2017) (294)
A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa (2014) (284)
Biomarker Profiling by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for the Prediction of All-Cause Mortality: An Observational Study of 17,345 Persons (2014) (284)
Cohort Profile: Estonian Biobank of the Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu. (2015) (273)
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of human longevity identifies a novel locus conferring survival beyond 90 years of age (2014) (238)
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies six novel loci associated with habitual coffee consumption (2014) (224)
Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders. (2018) (221)
Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans (2017) (199)
The Role of Adiposity in Cardiometabolic Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis (2013) (199)
KLB is associated with alcohol drinking, and its gene product β-Klotho is necessary for FGF21 regulation of alcohol preference (2016) (198)
A metabolic view on menopause and ageing (2014) (184)
Education and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation study (2017) (160)
Meta-analyses identify 13 loci associated with age at menopause and highlight DNA repair and immune pathways (2012) (150)
Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits (2017) (149)
Meta-analyses identify 13 novel loci associated with age at menopause and highlights DNA repair and immune pathways (2011) (149)
Genomics of 1 million parent lifespans implicates novel pathways and common diseases and distinguishes survival chances (2018) (144)
A metabolic profile of all-cause mortality risk identified in an observational study of 44,168 individuals (2019) (139)
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants (2020) (138)
Association of branched-chain amino acids and other circulating metabolites with risk of incident dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: A prospective study in eight cohorts (2018) (134)
Adiposity as a cause of cardiovascular disease: a Mendelian randomization study. (2015) (128)
Identification of miR‐374a as a prognostic marker for survival in patients with early‐stage nonsmall cell lung cancer (2011) (122)
Genome-wide meta-analysis associates HLA-DQA1/DRB1 and LPA and lifestyle factors with human longevity (2017) (117)
Personalized risk prediction for type 2 diabetes: the potential of genetic risk scores (2016) (116)
Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity (2016) (116)
Circulating metabolites and general cognitive ability and dementia: Evidence from 11 cohort studies (2018) (113)
A genome-wide association study of early menopause and the combined impact of identified variants (2013) (99)
Leukocyte telomere length associates with prospective mortality independent of immune-related parameters and known genetic markers (2014) (92)
Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation (2020) (88)
Pathogenic implications for autoimmune mechanisms derived by comparative eQTL analysis of CD4+ versus CD8+ T cells (2017) (87)
Evidence of Inbreeding Depression on Human Height (2012) (81)
High-sensitivity C-reactive protein affects central haemodynamics and augmentation index in apparently healthy persons (2004) (79)
Variants near CHRNA3/5 and APOE have age- and sex-related effects on human lifespan (2016) (77)
Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: a pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants (2018) (70)
Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes (2019) (68)
Methylation Markers of Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (2012) (65)
Correlations between clinical parameters and interleukin-6 and interleukin-10 levels in saliva from totally edentulous patients with peri-implant disease. (2006) (64)
Age- and Sex-Specific Causal Effects of Adiposity on Cardiovascular Risk Factors (2015) (62)
The relationship between inflammation and arterial stiffness in patients with essential hypertension. (2006) (61)
Glycosylation of immunoglobulin G is regulated by a large network of genes pleiotropic with inflammatory diseases (2020) (60)
Ancestry deconvolution and partial polygenic score can improve susceptibility predictions in recently admixed individuals (2020) (59)
A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape (2016) (59)
Characterization of the antioxidant profile of human saliva in peri-implant health and disease. (2007) (57)
Comparing distributions of polygenic risk scores of type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease within different populations (2017) (57)
Results from the Estonian postmenopausal hormone therapy trial [ISRCTN35338757]. (2006) (57)
Fine-mapping of an expanded set of type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps (2018) (55)
High prevalence of blood-borne virus infections and high-risk behaviour among injecting drug users in Tallinn, Estonia (2007) (50)
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and metabolically healthy obesity in Europe (2014) (48)
Correlation of peri-implant health and myeloperoxidase levels: a cross-sectional clinical study. (2004) (47)
RegScan: a GWAS tool for quick estimation of allele effects on continuous traits and their combinations (2013) (41)
Both low and high activities of platelet monoamine oxidase increase the probability of becoming a smoker (2004) (38)
Associations Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Various Eating Disorders: A Swedish Nationwide Population Study Using Multiple Genetically Informative Approaches (2019) (37)
Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study (2016) (37)
A structural mean model to allow for noncompliance in a randomized trial comparing 2 active treatments (2010) (37)
Food neophobia associates with poorer dietary quality, metabolic risk factors, and increased disease outcome risk in population-based cohorts in a metabolomics study. (2019) (36)
Homocysteine and red blood cell glutathione as indices for middle-aged untreated essential hypertension patients (2003) (36)
Comprehensive population-based genome sequencing provides insight into hematopoietic regulatory mechanisms (2016) (35)
Using ancestry-informative markers to identify fine structure across 15 populations of European origin (2014) (34)
Smoking and associated factors among adolescents in Tallinn, Helsinki and Moscow: a multilevel analysis (2003) (34)
Polygenic prediction of breast cancer: comparison of genetic predictors and implications for risk stratification (2019) (32)
Genome-wide meta-analysis of common variant differences between men and women (2012) (31)
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight (2020) (30)
Surveillance of HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus in an estonian injection drug-using population: sensitivity and specificity of testing syringes for public health surveillance. (2006) (28)
Whole-exome sequencing identifies a polymorphism in the BMP5 gene associated with SSRI treatment response in major depression (2013) (28)
Gallstones, Body Mass Index, C‐Reactive Protein, and Gallbladder Cancer: Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Chilean and European Genotype Data (2020) (27)
Effect of antihypertensive treatment with candesartan or amlodipine on glutathione and its redox status, homocysteine and vitamin concentrations in patients with essential hypertension (2005) (27)
Association of maternal prenatal smoking GFI1-locus and cardio-metabolic phenotypes in 18,212 adults (2018) (25)
SCOPA and META-SCOPA: software for the analysis and aggregation of genome-wide association studies of multiple correlated phenotypes (2017) (24)
The risk-treatment paradox in non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients according to their estimated GRACE risk. (2018) (20)
Symptom reporting and quality of life in the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial (2008) (20)
Shared Genetic Risk between Eating Disorder- and Substance-Use-Related Phenotypes: Evidence from Genome-Wide Association Studies (2019) (20)
Development of the Gastrointestinal Dysfunction Score (GIDS) for critically ill patients - A prospective multicenter observational study (iSOFA study). (2021) (19)
Inter-observer reliability in the assessment of heterotopic ossification: proposal of a combined classification (2005) (19)
Smoking-related general and cause-specific mortality in Estonia (2017) (17)
Association of Circulating Metabolites in Plasma or Serum and Risk of Stroke (2020) (17)
Determination of drug information needs of health care professionals in Estonia. (2006) (16)
Structural Mean Effects of Noncompliance (2004) (16)
Long-term mortality following SARS-CoV-2 infection: A national cohort study from Estonia (2022) (15)
Development and validation of two SCORE-based cardiovascular risk prediction models for Eastern Europe: a multicohort study (2020) (14)
Circulating glucuronic acid predicts healthspan and longevity in humans and mice (2019) (13)
MARV: a tool for genome-wide multi-phenotype analysis of rare variants (2017) (13)
Integrating untargeted metabolomics, genetically informed causal inference, and pathway enrichment to define the obesity metabolome (2019) (13)
A rare-variant test for high-dimensional data (2017) (11)
Machine Learning Reveals Time-Varying Microbial Predictors with Complex Effects on Glucose Regulation (2020) (11)
PAIRUP-MS: Pathway analysis and imputation to relate unknowns in profiles from mass spectrometry-based metabolite data (2017) (11)
Effects of amlodipine and candesartan on oxidized LDL level in patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension (2006) (9)
Is the adiposity‐associated FTO gene variant related to all‐cause mortality independent of adiposity? Meta‐analysis of data from 169,551 Caucasian adults (2015) (9)
A catalogue of omics biological ageing clocks reveals substantial commonality and associations with disease risk (2021) (9)
DNA methylation signature of chronic low-grade inflammation and its role in cardio-respiratory diseases (2021) (9)
Postmenopausal hormone therapy increases use of health services: experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial [ISRCTN35338757]. (2006) (8)
Improved treatment and prognosis after acute myocardial infarction in Estonia: cross-sectional study from a high risk country (2015) (8)
Parents of early‐maturing girls die younger (2019) (8)
Using genetics to disentangle the complex relationship between food choices and health status (2019) (7)
Platelet monoamine oxidase activity in association with adolescent inattentive and hyperactive behaviour: A prospective longitudinal study (2007) (7)
ABCB1/4 gallbladder cancer risk variants identified in India also show strong effects in Chileans. (2020) (7)
Metabolomics reveals a link between homocysteine and lipid metabolism and leukocyte telomere length: the ENGAGE consortium (2019) (7)
Genome-wide meta-analysis associates HLA-DQA1/DRB1 and LPA and lifestyle factors with human longevity (2017) (7)
Results from a blind and a non-blind randomised trial run in parallel: experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy (EPHT) Trial (2012) (7)
Arsenic and gallbladder cancer risk: Mendelian randomization analysis of European prospective data (2019) (6)
MixFit: Methodology for Computing Ancestry-Related Genetic Scores at the Individual Level and Its Application to the Estonian and Finnish Population Studies (2017) (6)
Postmenopausal hormone therapy increases use of health services: experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial (2006) (6)
Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Ischemic Heart Disease: Is the Confluence of Risk Factors Greater Than the Parts? A Genetic Approach. (2016) (6)
KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR RELATED TO HIV/AIDS AMONG ESTONIAN YOUTH (2003) (6)
Genomic architecture and prediction of censored time-to-event phenotypes with a Bayesian genome-wide analysis (2020) (6)
Using genetic variation to disentangle the complex relationship between food intake and health outcomes (2022) (5)
Validating the doubly weighted genetic risk score for the prediction of type 2 diabetes in the Lifelines and Estonian Biobank cohorts (2020) (5)
Erratum to “Circulating metabolites and general cognitive ability and dementia: Evidence from 11 cohort studies” [Alzheimer’s & Dementia 2018;14:707-22.] (2019) (5)
Does hormone replacement therapy affect the use of prescription medicines in postmenopausal women: experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial [ISRCTN35338757] (2007) (5)
Effect of characteristics of women on attendance in blind and non-blind randomised trials: analysis of recruitment data from the EPHT Trial (2016) (4)
Statisticians Introduce Science to International Doping Agency: The Andrus Veerpalu Case (2014) (4)
Estimating the performance of three cardiovascular disease risk scores: the Estonian Biobank cohort study (2019) (4)
Genomic underpinnings of lifespan allow prediction and reveal basis in modern risks (2018) (4)
Identifying tissues implicated in Anorexia Nervosa using Transcriptomic Imputation (2018) (3)
Supplementary Material 5 (2014) (3)
Supplementary Material 7 (2014) (3)
Advances in Genomic Discovery and Implications for Personalized Prevention and Medicine: Estonia as Example (2021) (3)
Supplementary Material 3 (2015) (3)
Causal Inference in Clinical Trials (2012) (3)
Supplementary Material 6 (2014) (3)
Social contact patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic in 21 European countries – evidence from a two-year study (2022) (2)
Mendelian Randomization Identifies the Potential Causal Impact of Dietary Patterns on Circulating Blood Metabolites (2020) (2)
Evaluating the prognostic performance of a polygenic risk score for breast cancer risk stratification (2020) (2)
Adherence to recommendations for secondary prevention medications after myocardial infarction in Estonia: comparison of real-world data from 2004 to 2005 and 2017 to 2018 (2021) (2)
The 1st year of the COVID-19 epidemic in Estonia: a population-based nationwide sequential/consecutive cross-sectional study (2022) (2)
Pregnancy during COVID-19: social contact patterns and vaccine coverage of pregnant women from CoMix in 19 European countries (2022) (2)
Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Ischemic Heart DiseaseCLINICAL PERSPECTIVE (2016) (1)
Supplementary Material 4 (2015) (1)
Causal Effects of Adiposity on Cardiovascular Risk Factors (2015) (1)
Genetic Predisposition to Coronary Artery Disease in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (2020) (1)
Novel Early Pregnancy Multimarker Screening Test for Preeclampsia Risk Prediction (2022) (1)
Polygenic prediction of breast cancer: comparison of genetic predictors and implications for screening (2018) (1)
Supplementary Material 9 (2013) (1)
A Principal Component Informed Approach to Address Polygenic Risk Score Transferability Across European Cohorts (2022) (1)
Supplementary Material 15 (2013) (1)
Long-Term Mortality Following COVID-19 Infection: A National Cohort Study From Estonia (2022) (1)
Discovery and Refinement Supplementary (2015) (1)
1A.11: ASSOCIATION OF KIF6 AND HMGCR LOCI WITH CARDIOMETABOLIC PHENOTYPES AND RESPONSE TO STATIN THERAPY IN THE BRISIGHELLA COHORT (2015) (1)
The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits (2013) (1)
Multi-Phenotype Genome-Wide Meta-Analysis of Lipid Levels and BMI in 64,736 Europeans Suggests Shared Genetic Architecture (2017) (0)
Genetic insights into the age-specific biological mechanisms governing human ovarian ageing (2023) (0)
Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity Authors (2016) (0)
A meta-analysis of Italian and Estonian individuals shows an effect of common variants in HMGCR on blood apoB levels. (2019) (0)
PP.42.03: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SERUM URIC ACID AND CARDIOVASCULAR PHENOTYPES IN THE BRISIGHELLA COHORT A MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS (2015) (0)
A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa suggests a risk locus implicated in dysregulated leptin signaling (2017) (0)
Effect of hormonal treatment on menopausal symptoms: experience from the Estonian Postmenopausal Hormone Therapy Trial (EPHT) [ISRCTN35338757] (2020) (0)
Application of Advanced Mendelian Randomization Methods, to Investigate Whether Low Education Causes Coronary Heart Disease (2016) (0)
Analysis of smoking prevalence and smoking‐related diseases in the Estonian Genome Bank data (834.10) (2014) (0)
MARV: a tool for genome-wide multi-phenotype analysis of rare variants (2017) (0)
Polygenic prediction of breast cancer: comparison of genetic predictors and implications for risk stratification (2019) (0)
Correction: Methylation Markers of Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (2017) (0)
Not All Patients Benefit from Switching to Ehl: Results from the Wapps Database (2020) (0)
Refining the accuracy of validated target identification through coding variant fine-mapping in type 2 diabetes (2018) (0)
The 1st year of the COVID-19 epidemic in Estonia: an interrupted time series of population based nationwide cross-sectional studies. (2021) (0)
Epigenome-wide association reveals extensive perturbations in DNA methylation associated with adiposity and its adverse metabolic consequences. Authors (2015) (0)
Causal inference in genetic epidemiology: Mendelian randomization and beyond (2017) (0)
Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa (2019) (0)
Genome-wide association meta-analysis of human longevity identifies a novel locus conferring survival beyond 90 years (2017) (0)
Multi-ancestry genome-wide study in >2.5 million individuals reveals heterogeneity in mechanistic pathways of type 2 diabetes and complications (2023) (0)
Erratum: A genome-wide association study of anorexia nervosa suggests a risk locus implicated in dysregulated leptin signaling (2017) (0)
SCOPA and META-SCOPA: software for the analysis and aggregation of genome-wide association studies of multiple correlated phenotypes (2017) (0)
Meta-Analysis of Maternal Prenatal Smoking GFI1-Locus and Cardio-Metabolic Phenotypes in Adults (2018) (0)
Does the doubly-weighted genetic risk score improve the prediction of type 2 diabetes in the Lifelines&Estonian Biobank cohorts? (2019) (0)
OP-EHEA200570 1..9 (2020) (0)
Effectiveness and feasibility of cardiovascular disease personalized prevention on high polygenic risk score subjects: a randomized controlled pilot study (2022) (0)
A meta-analysis of Italian and Estonian individuals shows an effect of common variants in <italic>HMGCR</italic> on blood apoB levels (2019) (0)
Explorer Variants near CHRNA 3 / 5 and APOE have ageand ageand ageand sex-related effects on human lifespan (2018) (0)
Risk Factors for the Development of High-Titer Inhibitors in 260 Children with Severe Hemophilia a Born Between 1990 and 2009: The Remain Study (2016) (0)
Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson’s disease (2020) (0)
Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps (2018) (0)
Precise, Genotype-First Breast Cancer Prevention: Experience With Transferring Monogenic Findings From a Population Biobank to the Clinical Setting (2022) (0)
Ancestry deconvolution and partial polygenic score can improve susceptibility predictions in recently admixed individuals (2020) (0)
University of Groningen Validating the doubly weighted genetic risk score for the prediction of type 2 diabetes in the Lifelines and Estonian Biobank cohorts Pärna, (2020) (0)
ANTIHYPERTENSIVE TREATMENT - HOMOCYSTEINE, FOLIC ACID AND GLUTATHIONE STATUS: P1.265 (2004) (0)
Lessons learned during the process of reporting individual genomic results to participants of a population-based biobank. (2022) (0)
1. Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden AG. Osteoporosis Genes Identified by Genome-wide Association Studies. Genetics of Bone Biology and Skeletal Disease. 2013:243-56. (2013) (0)
Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development (2023) (0)

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