Marcel den Hoed
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology; Research programme: Molecular Tools and Functional Genomics; Research group Marcel den Hoed
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 425 07 52
- E-mail:
- marcel.den_hoed@igp.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3
751 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- IGP / BMC
Box 815
751 08 Uppsala
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Publications
Recent publications
Part of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, p. 1252-1268, 2025
- DOI for Genome-wide interaction study with body mass index identifies CYP7A1 and GIPR as genetic modulators of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
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Part of Pharmacological Research, 2025
- DOI for Telmisartan reverses hepatic steatosis via PCK1 upregulation: A novel PPAR-independent mechanism in experimental models of MASLD
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Part of Hepatology, p. 165-183, 2025
- DOI for A functional genomic framework to elucidate novel causal metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease genes
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Part of Scientific Reports, p. 5408, 2025
- DOI for Functionally characterizing obesity-susceptibility genes using CRISPR/Cas9, in vivo imaging and deep learning.
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Part of Nature Human Behaviour, p. 790-801, 2023
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, p. 1252-1268, 2025
- DOI for Genome-wide interaction study with body mass index identifies CYP7A1 and GIPR as genetic modulators of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
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Part of Pharmacological Research, 2025
- DOI for Telmisartan reverses hepatic steatosis via PCK1 upregulation: A novel PPAR-independent mechanism in experimental models of MASLD
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Part of Hepatology, p. 165-183, 2025
- DOI for A functional genomic framework to elucidate novel causal metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease genes
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Part of Scientific Reports, p. 5408, 2025
- DOI for Functionally characterizing obesity-susceptibility genes using CRISPR/Cas9, in vivo imaging and deep learning.
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Part of Nature Human Behaviour, p. 790-801, 2023
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1448-+, 2023
- DOI for GWAS of random glucose in 476,326 individuals provide insights into diabetes pathophysiology, complications and treatment stratification
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Genetic insights into resting heart rate and its role in cardiovascular disease
Part of Nature Communications, 2023
- DOI for Genetic insights into resting heart rate and its role in cardiovascular disease
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Distilling causality between physical activity traits and obesity via Mendelian randomization
Part of Communications Medicine, 2023
- DOI for Distilling causality between physical activity traits and obesity via Mendelian randomization
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Part of Liver international, p. 2348-2350, 2023
Part of Diabetologia, p. 674-694, 2023
- DOI for Loss of RREB1 in pancreatic beta cells reduces cellular insulin content and affects endocrine cell gene expression
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Part of Nature Communications, 2022
- DOI for CRISPR-Cas9 induces large structural variants at on-target and off-target sites in vivo that segregate across generations
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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 Nature Genetics, p. 1332-1344, 2022
- DOI for Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention
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Part of Nature Metabolism, p. 476-+, 2022
Part of Nature Human Behaviour, p. 1717-1730, 2021
Genome-wide discovery of genetic loci that uncouple excess adiposity from its comorbidities
Part of Nature Metabolism, p. 228-243, 2021
Amplification-free long-read sequencing reveals unforeseen CRISPR-Cas9 off-target activity
Part of Genome Biology, 2020
- DOI for Amplification-free long-read sequencing reveals unforeseen CRISPR-Cas9 off-target activity
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
- DOI for Translating GWAS-identified loci for cardiac rhythm and rate using an in vivo image- and CRISPR/Cas9-based approach
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Part of Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, p. 213-222, 2019
- DOI for Test-retest variability of VO2max using total-capture indirect calorimetry reveals linear relationship of VO2 and Power
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Part of Nature Communications, 2018
- DOI for PR interval genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 50 loci associated with atrial and atrioventricular electrical activity
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Part of Nature Genetics, p. 524-537, 2018
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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Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity: A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults.
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2017
- DOI for Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity: A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults.
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Part of Clinical Epidemiology, p. 633-642, 2017
- DOI for Maternal diabetes and incidence of childhood cancer: a nationwide cohort study and exploratory genetic analysis
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Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk
Part of Nature Communications, 2017
- DOI for Genetic loci associated with heart rate variability and their effects on cardiac disease risk
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Extensive Type II Muscle Fiber Atrophy in Elderly Female Hip Fracture Patients
Part of The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, p. 1369-1375, 2017
Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 1462-1472, 2016
Part of Lancet Neurology, p. 695-707, 2016
Part of Science Translational Medicine, 2016
Part of Atherosclerosis, p. 304-310, 2015
Part of PLoS Medicine, 2014
- DOI for Assessing Causality in the Association between Child Adiposity and Physical Activity Levels: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis
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Part of Nature Genetics, p. 621-+, 2013
Heritability of objectively assessed daily physical activity and sedentary behavior
Part of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, p. 1317-1325, 2013
Part of Diabetologia, 2013
Part of Diabetologia, p. 2134-2146, 2013
Part of Diabetes, p. 2980-8, 2010
Articles, review/survey
Biological/Genetic Regulation of Physical Activity Level: Consensus From Genbiopac
Part of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, p. 863-873, 2018
Manuscripts (preprints)
Image-based, in vivo characterization of cardiometabolic consequences of mutations in pcsk9
Apoc2 mutant zebrafish: a model for hypertriglyceridemia and early-stage atherosclerosis
Kita crispants for systematic image-based genetic screens of complex traits in zebrafish larvae
Characterizing obesity-susceptibility genes using CRISPR/Cas9, in vivo imaging and deep learning