Jessica Mwinyi
Adjunct senior lecturer at Department of Surgical Sciences; Functional Pharmacology and neuroscience
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 41 23
- E-mail:
- jessica.mwinyi@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3
751 24 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Kirurgiska vetenskaper, Box 593
751 24 Uppsala
- Academic merits:
- MD, PhD, Associate Professor

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Cephalalgia, p. 1-12, 2025
- DOI for Migraine and its major subtypes: with and without aura are associated with polygenic scores for autism
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Long-term changes in adiposity markers during and after antidepressant therapy in a community cohort
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2024
- DOI for Long-term changes in adiposity markers during and after antidepressant therapy in a community cohort
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Part of Molecular Autism, 2024
- DOI for Association of polygenic scores for autism with volumetric MRI phenotypes in cerebellum and brainstem in adults
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Fluvastatin-induced myofibrillar damage is associated with elevated ROS, and impaired fatty acid oxidation, and is preceded by mitochondrial morphological changes
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Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024
- DOI for Exploring sex differences: insights into gene expression, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, cognition, and pathology
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Part of Cephalalgia, p. 1-12, 2025
- DOI for Migraine and its major subtypes: with and without aura are associated with polygenic scores for autism
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Long-term changes in adiposity markers during and after antidepressant therapy in a community cohort
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2024
- DOI for Long-term changes in adiposity markers during and after antidepressant therapy in a community cohort
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Part of Molecular Autism, 2024
- DOI for Association of polygenic scores for autism with volumetric MRI phenotypes in cerebellum and brainstem in adults
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Fluvastatin-induced myofibrillar damage is associated with elevated ROS, and impaired fatty acid oxidation, and is preceded by mitochondrial morphological changes
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Job satisfaction and job tenure of people with mental health disorders: a UK Biobank cohort study
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, p. 1248-1257, 2023
- DOI for Job satisfaction and job tenure of people with mental health disorders: a UK Biobank cohort study
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Assessing volumetric brain differences in migraine and depression patients: a UK Biobank study
Part of BMC Neurology, 2023
- DOI for Assessing volumetric brain differences in migraine and depression patients: a UK Biobank study
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Well-being spectrum traits are associated with polygenic scores for autism
Part of Autism Research, p. 1891-1902, 2023
- DOI for Well-being spectrum traits are associated with polygenic scores for autism
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Volumetric Differences in Cerebellum and Brainstem in Patients with Migraine: A UK Biobank Study
Part of Biomedicines, 2023
- DOI for Volumetric Differences in Cerebellum and Brainstem in Patients with Migraine: A UK Biobank Study
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Migraine, inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease: A Mendelian randomization study
Part of Headache, p. 642-651, 2023
- DOI for Migraine, inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease: A Mendelian randomization study
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Part of Cells, 2022
- DOI for Statins Induce Locomotion and Muscular Phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster That Are Reminiscent of Human Myopathy: Evidence for the Role of the Chloride Channel Inhibition in the Muscular Phenotypes
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Migraine and gastrointestinal disorders in middle and old age: A UK Biobank study
Part of Brain and Behavior, 2021
- DOI for Migraine and gastrointestinal disorders in middle and old age: A UK Biobank study
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Part of Journal of Headache and Pain, 2021
- DOI for Major sex differences in migraine prevalence among occupational categories: a cross-sectional study using UK Biobank
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Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 733-739, 2021
- DOI for Migraine as a risk factor for mixed symptoms of peripartum depression and anxiety in late pregnancy: A prospective cohort study.
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Toll-like receptor 4 methylation grade is linked to depressive symptom severity
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2021
- DOI for Toll-like receptor 4 methylation grade is linked to depressive symptom severity
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Part of Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy, 2021
- DOI for Association between migraine prevalence, treatment with proton-pump inhibitors and CYP2C19 phenotypes in UK Biobank
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Part of British Journal of Pharmacology, p. 4588-4607, 2021
- DOI for Pharmacological treatment of migraine: Drug classes, mechanisms of action, clinical trials and new treatments
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Part of Epigenetics, p. 145-160, 2020
- DOI for Hypermethylation-associated downregulation of microRNA-4456 in hypersexual disorder with putative influence on oxytocin signalling: A DNA methylation analysis of miRNA genes
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Part of Clinical Epigenetics, 2020
- DOI for meQTL and ncRNA functional analyses of 102 GWAS-SNPs associated with depression implicate HACE1 and SHANK2 genes
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Part of Drug development research, p. 102-113, 2020
- DOI for A pharmacogenetic risk score for the evaluation of major depression severity under treatment with antidepressants
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Part of Epigenetics, p. 646-663, 2020
- DOI for Longitudinal DNA methylation changes at MET may alter HGF/c-MET signalling in adolescents at risk for depression
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Part of Cephalalgia, p. 347-356, 2020
Plasma levels of leptin and adiponectin and depressive symptoms in young adults
Part of Psychiatry Research, p. 1-7, 2019
- DOI for Plasma levels of leptin and adiponectin and depressive symptoms in young adults
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Part of Journal of Psychiatric Research, p. 44-51, 2018
- DOI for Changes in methylation within the STK32B promoter are associated with an increased risk for generalized anxiety disorder in adolescents
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Part of Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, p. 611-618, 2018
- DOI for Plasma stearoyl-CoA desaturase activity indices and bile acid concentrations after a low-fat meal: association with a genetic variant in the FTO gene
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A genetic risk score is differentially associated with migraine with and without aura
Part of Human Genetics, p. 999-1008, 2017
- DOI for A genetic risk score is differentially associated with migraine with and without aura
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Part of Clinical Genetics, p. 566-566, 2017
Part of Translational Psychiatry, 2017
- DOI for A methylome-wide mQTL analysis reveals associations of methylation sites with GAD1 and HDAC3 SNPs and a general psychiatric risk score
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Part of Clinical Genetics, p. 379-385, 2017
High leptin levels are associated with migraine with aura
Part of Cephalalgia, p. 435-441, 2017
Part of Medicine, 2017
Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids, p. 314-323, 2017
Plasma 1-deoxysphingolipids are early predictors of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus
Part of PLOS ONE, 2017
- DOI for Plasma 1-deoxysphingolipids are early predictors of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus
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A MIR4646 associated methylation locus is hypomethylated in adolescent depression
Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 117-128, 2017
- DOI for A MIR4646 associated methylation locus is hypomethylated in adolescent depression
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Anxiety Disorders are Associated with Low Socioeconomic Status in Women but Not in Men
Part of Women's health issues, p. 302-307, 2017
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, p. 1050-1055, 2016
- DOI for A genetic variant in proximity to the gene LYPLAL1 is associated with lower hunger feelings and increased weight loss following Roux-en Y gastric bypass surgery
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microRNA-192 suppresses the expression of the farnesoid X receptor
Part of American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 2016
Part of Lipids in Health and Disease, 2016
- DOI for One-night sleep deprivation induces changes in the DNA methylation and serum activity indices of stearoyl-CoA desaturase in young healthy men
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Part of Omics, p. 334-342, 2016
Part of BMC Medical Genomics, 2016
- DOI for Longitudinal genome-wide methylation study of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients reveals novel CpG sites associated with essential hypertension
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A genetic risk score is associated with weight loss following Roux-Y gastric bypass surgery
Part of Obesity Surgery, p. 2183-2189, 2016
- DOI for A genetic risk score is associated with weight loss following Roux-Y gastric bypass surgery
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Part of BMC Genomics, 2016
- DOI for A targeted analysis reveals relevant shifts in the methylation and transcription of genes responsible for bile acid homeostasis and drug metabolism in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
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Part of Life Sciences, p. 47-56, 2016
- DOI for Chenodeoxycholic acid significantly impacts the expression of miRNAs and genes involved in lipid, bile acid and drug metabolism in human hepatocytes
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
- DOI for Roux-En Y Gastric Bypass Surgery Induces Genome-Wide Promoter-Specific Changes in DNA Methylation in Whole Blood of Obese Patients
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Part of Hepatology, 2015
Articles, review/survey
Part of Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2024
- DOI for Exploring sex differences: insights into gene expression, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, cognition, and pathology
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Part of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023
Challenges in Analyzing Functional Epigenetic Data in Perspective of Adolescent Psychiatric Health
Part of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022
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Part of Pharmaceutics, 2022
- DOI for Pharmacogenetics and Pain Treatment with a Focus on Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) and Antidepressants: A Systematic Review
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Pharmacogenetics in Primary Headache Disorders
Part of Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
- DOI for Pharmacogenetics in Primary Headache Disorders
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Part of Cell & Bioscience, 2022
- DOI for The regulatory role of AP-2 beta in monoaminergic neurotransmitter systems: insights on its signalling pathway, linked disorders and theragnostic potential
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Part of Journal of Translational Medicine, 2021
- DOI for High efficacy of onabotulinumtoxinA treatment in patients with comorbid migraine and depression: a meta-analysis
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Part of Pharmacogenomics (London), p. 485-503, 2021
- DOI for Therapy response prediction in major depressive disorder: current and novel genomic markers influencing pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
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