Stefan Gustafsson
Researcher at Department of Medical Sciences; Clinical Epidemiology
- E-mail:
- stefan.gustafsson@medsci.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- EpiHubben,Dag Hammarskjölds väg 14B
SE-75185 Uppsala
Sweden - Postal address:
- EpiHubben, MTC-huset
SE-751 85 Uppsala
Sweden

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Metabolism, 2025
Part of JMIR Formative Research, 2024
- DOI for Person-Centered Web-Based Mobile Health System (Symptoms) for Reporting Symptoms in COVID-19 Vaccinated Individuals: Observational Study of System, Users, and Symptoms
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Markers of imminent myocardial infarction
Part of Nature Cardiovascular Research, p. 130-139, 2024
- DOI for Markers of imminent myocardial infarction
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Heart failure treatment in the last years of life: A nationwide study of 364 000 individuals
Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 2443-2450, 2024
- DOI for Heart failure treatment in the last years of life: A nationwide study of 364 000 individuals
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Evaluating regression and probabilistic methods for ECG-based electrolyte prediction
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Metabolism, 2025
Part of JMIR Formative Research, 2024
- DOI for Person-Centered Web-Based Mobile Health System (Symptoms) for Reporting Symptoms in COVID-19 Vaccinated Individuals: Observational Study of System, Users, and Symptoms
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Markers of imminent myocardial infarction
Part of Nature Cardiovascular Research, p. 130-139, 2024
- DOI for Markers of imminent myocardial infarction
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Heart failure treatment in the last years of life: A nationwide study of 364 000 individuals
Part of European Journal of Heart Failure, p. 2443-2450, 2024
- DOI for Heart failure treatment in the last years of life: A nationwide study of 364 000 individuals
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Evaluating regression and probabilistic methods for ECG-based electrolyte prediction
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Loci for insulin processing and secretion provide insight into type 2 diabetes risk
Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 284-299, 2023
Plasma Protein Profiling of Incident Cardiovascular Diseases: A Multisample Evaluation
Part of CIRCULATION-GENOMIC AND PRECISION MEDICINE, 2023
- DOI for Plasma Protein Profiling of Incident Cardiovascular Diseases: A Multisample Evaluation
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Proteomic analysis of 92 circulating proteins and their effects in cardiometabolic diseases
Part of Clinical Proteomics, 2023
- DOI for Proteomic analysis of 92 circulating proteins and their effects in cardiometabolic diseases
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Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study
Part of American Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal, p. 17-27, 2023
- DOI for Fibroblast Growth Factor-23 and Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study
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Part of Nature Genetics, p. 973-983, 2023
Plasma proteomic signatures of a direct measure of insulin sensitivity in two population cohorts
Part of Diabetologia, p. 1643-1654, 2023
- DOI for Plasma proteomic signatures of a direct measure of insulin sensitivity in two population cohorts
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Single-cell transcriptome dataset of human and mouse in vitro adipogenesis models
Part of Scientific Data, 2023
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2022
- DOI for Development and validation of deep learning ECG-based prediction of myocardial infarction in emergency department patients
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Genetic Landscape of the ACE2 Coronavirus Receptor
Part of Circulation, p. 1398-1411, 2022
- DOI for Genetic Landscape of the ACE2 Coronavirus Receptor
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Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries
Part of Nature, p. 115-+, 2022
- DOI for Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries
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Part of Genome Biology, 2022
- DOI for Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis
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A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height
Part of Nature, p. 704-712, 2022
- DOI for A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height
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A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids
Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1366-1387, 2022
Part of Scientific Reports, 2022
- DOI for A genome-wide association study in a large community-based cohort identifies multiple loci associated with susceptibility to bacterial and viral infections
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Part of medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, p. 1-28, 2021
Part of Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021
- DOI for Large-Scale Plasma Protein Profiling of Incident Myocardial Infarction, Ischemic Stroke, and Heart Failure
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The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids
Part of Nature, p. 675-679, 2021
The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 840-860, 2021
A multi-ethnic epigenome-wide association study of leukocyte DNA methylation and blood lipids
Part of Nature Communications, 2021
- DOI for A multi-ethnic epigenome-wide association study of leukocyte DNA methylation and blood lipids
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Renin-Angiotensin Aldosterone System Inhibitors in Primary Prevention and COVID-19
Part of Journal of the American Heart Association, 2021
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Part of Circulation, p. 671-685, 2020
Genomic and drug target evaluation of 90 cardiovascular proteins in 30,931 individuals
Part of Nature Metabolism, p. 1135-1148, 2020
Part of Kidney International, p. 1197-1208, 2019
Part of Genetic Epidemiology, p. 215-226, 2019
Body composition and atrial fibrillation: a Mendelian randomization study
Part of European Heart Journal, p. 1277-1282, 2019
Proteomic Analysis of Longitudinal Changes in Blood Pressure
Part of Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2019
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Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9
Part of BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2019
- DOI for Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9
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Common Genetic Variation in Relation to Brachial Vascular Dimensions and Flow-Mediated Vasodilation
Part of Circulation, 2019
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 452-469, 2019
Part of Diabetologia, p. 800-804, 2019
Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 103-115, 2018
Part of Vascular Medicine, p. 300-300, 2018
Part of Circulation, p. 2583-2591, 2018
Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 1809-1818, 2018
Associations of Circulating Protein Levels With Lipid Fractions in the General Population
Part of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, p. 2505-2518, 2018
Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1225-1233, 2018
Part of Circulation, p. 2869-2880, 2018
Use of Proteomics to Investigate Blood Pressure Progress in the Elderly
Part of Journal of Hypertension, 2018
Atrial fibrillation genetic risk differentiates cardioembolic stroke from other stroke subtypes
Part of NEUROLOGY-GENETICS, 2018
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Biological Insights Into Muscular Strength: Genetic Findings in the UK Biobank
Part of Scientific Reports, 2018
- DOI for Biological Insights Into Muscular Strength: Genetic Findings in the UK Biobank
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Part of Nature Genetics, p. 559-571, 2018
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 524-537, 2018
Part of Circulation, 2018
- DOI for Birthweight, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, and Cardiovascular Disease Addressing the Barker Hypothesis With Mendelian Randomization
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Part of Nature Genetics, p. 26-+, 2018
Part of Diabetologia, p. 2174-2179, 2018
- DOI for Genome-wide association study of coronary artery disease among individuals with diabetes: the UK Biobank
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A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption.
Part of Molecular Psychiatry, p. 422-433, 2018
- DOI for A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption.
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Part of Adipocyte, p. 285-296, 2018
- DOI for Role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma Pro12Ala polymorphism in human adipose tissue: assessment of adipogenesis and adipocyte glucose and lipid turnover.
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Targeted proteomic analysis of habitual coffee consumption.
Part of Journal of Internal Medicine, p. 200-211, 2018
Part of PLoS Medicine, 2017
- DOI for Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach
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Use of Proteomics To Investigate Kidney Function Decline over 5 Years
Part of American Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal, p. 1226-1235, 2017
Part of Atherosclerosis, p. 196-204, 2017
- DOI for Identification of a novel proinsulin-associated SNP and demonstration that proinsulin is unlikely to be a causal factor in subclinical vascular remodelling using Mendelian randomisation
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Part of Circulation, 2017
- DOI for Epigenetic Patterns in Blood Associated With Lipid Traits Predict Incident Coronary Heart Disease Events and Are Enriched for Results From Genome-Wide Association Studies
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Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, p. 234-242, 2017
- DOI for Genotype-based recall to study metabolic effects of genetic variation: a pilot study of PPARG Pro12Ala carriers
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Part of Nature Genetics, p. 946-+, 2017
Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height
Part of Nature, p. 186-190, 2017
An Expanded Genome-Wide Association Study of Type 2 Diabetes in Europeans
Part of Diabetes, p. 2888-2902, 2017
Mapping of 79 loci for 83 plasma protein biomarkers in cardiovascular disease
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2017
- DOI for Mapping of 79 loci for 83 plasma protein biomarkers in cardiovascular disease
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Part of European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, p. 340-348, 2017
Part of Diabetologia, 2017
Part of International Journal of Epidemiology, p. 1211-1222, 2017
PCSK9 genetic variants and risk of type 2 diabetes: a mendelian randomisation study
Part of The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, p. 97-105, 2017
- DOI for PCSK9 genetic variants and risk of type 2 diabetes: a mendelian randomisation study
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Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 817-827, 2016
Genome-wide meta-analysis uncovers novel loci influencing circulating leptin levels
Part of Nature Communications, 2016
- DOI for Genome-wide meta-analysis uncovers novel loci influencing circulating leptin levels
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Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 5472-5482, 2016
Part of Scientific Reports, 2016
- DOI for No Association of Coronary Artery Disease with X-Chromosomal Variants in Comprehensive International Meta-Analysis
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New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk
Part of Nature Communications, 2016
- DOI for New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk
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Part of Diabetes, p. 3200-3211, 2016
Part of Diabetologia, p. 2114-2124, 2016
Protein Biomarkers for Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Two Large Community Cohorts
Part of Diabetes, p. 276-284, 2016
Population genetic differentiation of height and body mass index across Europe
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1357-1362, 2015
Part of Atherosclerosis, p. 304-310, 2015
Part of Journal of the American Heart Association, 2015
- DOI for Sex-Specific Effects of Adiponectin on Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Incident Cardiovascular Disease
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A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1121-1130, 2015
The impact of low-frequency and rare variants on lipid levels
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 589-597, 2015
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1415, 2015
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2015
- DOI for The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study
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Part of Nature Communications, 2015
Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions
Part of Nature Communications, 2015
New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution
Part of Nature, p. 187-196, 2015
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Part of Nature, p. 197-206, 2015
Mendelian randomization study of height and risk of colorectal cancer
Part of International Journal of Epidemiology, p. 662-672, 2015
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1173-1186, 2014
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 826-836, 2014
Quality control and conduct of genome-wide association meta-analyses
Part of Nature Protocols, p. 1192-1212, 2014
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 501-U69, 2013
- DOI for Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture
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Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1274-1283, 2013
Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1345-+, 2013
Part of Diabetes, p. 3589-3598, 2013
Meta-analysis of Gene-Level Associations for Rare Variants Based on Single-Variant Statistics
Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 236-248, 2013