Valeria Lo Faro
Postdoctoral position at Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology; Research programme: Genomics and Neurobiology; Research group Åsa Johansson
- E-mail:
- valeria.lo.faro@igp.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3
751 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 815
751 08 Uppsala

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 2025
- DOI for Association Between Chronic Kidney Disease and Glaucoma: Results From the Lifelines Cohort Study and UK Biobank
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Breast cancer risk during oral contraceptive use in women with high polygenic risk
Part of Breast Cancer Research, 2025
- DOI for Breast cancer risk during oral contraceptive use in women with high polygenic risk
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Part of Blood Advances, p. 4850-4859, 2025
- DOI for Multipopulation GWAS for venous thromboembolism identifies novel loci followed by experimental validation in zebrafish
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Multi-ancestry polygenic risk scores for venous thromboembolism
Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 1584-1591, 2024
Genotyping oral contraceptive users for venous thromboembolism risk
Part of American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 2025
- DOI for Association Between Chronic Kidney Disease and Glaucoma: Results From the Lifelines Cohort Study and UK Biobank
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Breast cancer risk during oral contraceptive use in women with high polygenic risk
Part of Breast Cancer Research, 2025
- DOI for Breast cancer risk during oral contraceptive use in women with high polygenic risk
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Part of Blood Advances, p. 4850-4859, 2025
- DOI for Multipopulation GWAS for venous thromboembolism identifies novel loci followed by experimental validation in zebrafish
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Multi-ancestry polygenic risk scores for venous thromboembolism
Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 1584-1591, 2024
Genotyping oral contraceptive users for venous thromboembolism risk
Part of American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2024
Part of Cell Reports Medicine, 2024
- DOI for Novel ancestry-specific primary open-angle glaucoma loci and shared biology with vascular mechanisms and cell proliferation
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Part of American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2024
- DOI for The risk of venous thromboembolism in oral contraceptive users: the role of genetic factors-a prospective cohort study of 240,000 women in the UK Biobank
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Polygenic risk scores and risk stratification in deep vein thrombosis
Part of Thrombosis Research, p. 151-162, 2023
- DOI for Polygenic risk scores and risk stratification in deep vein thrombosis
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Copy number variations and their effect on the plasma proteome
Part of Genetics, 2023
- DOI for Copy number variations and their effect on the plasma proteome
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Global Biobank analyses provide lessons for developing polygenic risk scores across diverse cohorts
Part of Cell Genomics, 2023
- DOI for Global Biobank analyses provide lessons for developing polygenic risk scores across diverse cohorts
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Answer to the Hamlet-like dilemma of lipid metabolites causing senile macular degeneration
Part of Cell Reports Medicine, 2023
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Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease
Part of Cell Genomics, 2022
- DOI for Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease
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Part of Nature Communications, 2022
- DOI for Contribution of rare whole-genome sequencing variants to plasma protein levels and the missing heritability
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