Weronica Ek

Hormonal Contraceptive Formulations and Breast Cancer Risk in Adolescents and Premenopausal Women

Hadizadeh, Fatemeh; Koteci, Ardita; Karlsson, Torgny; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of JAMA Oncology, 2025

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Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR-4) polymorphisms and asthma risk in rural and urban settings: findings from the UK biobank

Kisiel, Marta A.; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Johansson, Åsa; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2025

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Contemporary menopausal hormone therapy and risk of cardiovascular disease - a Swedish nationwide register-based emulated target trial

Johansson, Therese; Karlsson, Torgny; Bliuc, Dana; Schmitz, Daniel et al.

Part of The BMJ, 2024

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Adiposity and sex-specific cancer risk.

Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Ivansson, Emma; Höglund, Julia; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of Cancer Cell, p. 1186-11970000, 2023

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Population-based cohort study of oral contraceptive use and risk of depression

Johansson, Therese; Vinther Larsen, S.; Bui, M.; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2023

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Hormonal Contraceptive Formulations and Breast Cancer Risk in Adolescents and Premenopausal Women

Hadizadeh, Fatemeh; Koteci, Ardita; Karlsson, Torgny; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of JAMA Oncology, 2025

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Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR-4) polymorphisms and asthma risk in rural and urban settings: findings from the UK biobank

Kisiel, Marta A.; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Johansson, Åsa; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences, 2025

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Contemporary menopausal hormone therapy and risk of cardiovascular disease - a Swedish nationwide register-based emulated target trial

Johansson, Therese; Karlsson, Torgny; Bliuc, Dana; Schmitz, Daniel et al.

Part of The BMJ, 2024

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Adiposity and sex-specific cancer risk.

Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Ivansson, Emma; Höglund, Julia; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of Cancer Cell, p. 1186-11970000, 2023

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Population-based cohort study of oral contraceptive use and risk of depression

Johansson, Therese; Vinther Larsen, S.; Bui, M.; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 2023

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Body Mass Index and the Risk of Rheumatic Disease: Linear and Nonlinear Mendelian Randomization Analyses

Karlsson, Torgny; Hadizadeh, Fatemeh; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Johansson, Åsa et al.

Part of Arthritis & Rheumatology, p. 2027-2035, 2023

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Effects of oral contraceptives and menopausal hormone therapy on the risk of rheumatoid arthritis: a prospective cohort study

Hadizadeh, Fatemeh; Johansson, Therese; Johansson, Åsa; Karlsson, Torgny et al.

Part of Rheumatology, p. 2101-2108, 2023

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Gene-based variant analysis of whole-exome sequencing in relation to eosinophil count

Höglund, Julia; Hadizadeh, Fatemeh; Ek, Weronica E.; Karlsson, Torgny et al.

Part of Frontiers in Immunology, 2022

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Contribution of rare whole-genome sequencing variants to plasma protein levels and the missing heritability

Kierczak, Marcin; Rafati, Nima; Höglund, Julia; Gourlé, Hadrien et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2022

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Oral Contraceptives, Hormone Replacement Therapy, and Stroke Risk

Johansson, Therese; Fowler, Philip; Ek, Weronica E.; Skalkidou, Alkistis et al.

Part of Stroke, p. 3107-3115, 2022

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Investigating the Effect of Estradiol Levels on the Risk of Breast, Endometrial, and Ovarian Cancer

Johansson, Åsa; Schmitz, Daniel; Höglund, Julia; Hadizadeh, Fatemeh et al.

Part of Journal of the Endocrine Society, 2022

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Causal effects of inflammatory protein biomarkers on inflammatory diseases

Ek, Weronica E; Karlsson, Torgny; Höglund, Julia; Rask-Andersen, Mathias et al.

Part of Science Advances, 2021

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Modification of Heritability for Educational Attainment and Fluid Intelligence by Socioeconomic Deprivation in the UK Biobank

Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Karlsson, Torgny; Ek, Weronica E; Johansson, Asa

Part of American Journal of Psychiatry, p. 625-634, 2021

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Characterization of the human ABO genotypes and their association to common inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases in the UK Biobank

Höglund, Julia; Karlsson, Torgny; Johansson, Therese; Ek, Weronica E. et al.

Part of American Journal of Hematology, p. 1350-1362, 2021

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Null association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels with allergic rhinitis, allergic sensitization and non-allergic rhinitis: A Mendelian randomization study

Feng, Qi; Bonnelykke, Klaus; Ek, Weronica E; Chawes, Bo L. et al.

Part of Clinical and Experimental Allergy, p. 78-86, 2021

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Time-dependent effects of oral contraceptive use on breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers

Karlsson, Torgny; Johansson, Therese; Höglund, Julia; Ek, Weronica E et al.

Part of Cancer Research, p. 1153-1162, 2021

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Genome-Wide Association Study of Estradiol Levels and the Causal Effect of Estradiol on Bone Mineral Density

Schmitz, Daniel; Ek, Weronica E.; Berggren, Elin; Höglund, Julia et al.

Part of Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2021

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Targeted Analysis of Serum Proteins Encoded at Known Inflammatory Bowel Disease Risk Loci

Drobin, Kimi; Assadi, Ghazaleh; Hong, Mun-Gwan; Andersson, Eni et al.

Part of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, p. 306-316, 2019

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Contribution of genetics to visceral adiposity and its relation to cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

Karlsson, Torgny; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Pan, Gang; Höglund, Julia et al.

Part of Nature Medicine, p. 1390-1395, 2019

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Improved power and precision with whole genome sequencing data in genome-wide association studies of inflammatory biomarkers

Höglund, Julia; Rafati, Nima; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Enroth, Stefan et al.

Part of Scientific Reports, 2019

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Genome-wide association study of body fat distribution identifies adiposity loci and sex-specific genetic effects

Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Karlsson, Torgny; Ek, Weronica E; Johansson, Åsa

Part of Nature Communications, 2019

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Genome-wide association analysis of 350 000 Caucasians from the UK Biobank identifies novel loci for asthma, hay fever and eczema

Johansson, Åsa; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Karlsson, Torgny; Ek, Weronica E

Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 4022-4041, 2019

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A GWAS meta-analysis from 5 population-based cohorts implicates ion channel genes in the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome

Bonfiglio, F.; Henstrom, M.; Nag, A.; Hadizadeh, F. et al.

Part of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 2018

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Genetic variants influencing phenotypic variance heterogeneity

Ek, Weronica E; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Karlsson, Torgny; Enroth, Stefan et al.

Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 799-810, 2018

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A Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies of Growth Differentiation Factor-15 Concentration in Blood

Jiang, Jiyang; Thalamuthu, Anbupalam; Ho, Jennifer E.; Mahajan, Anubha et al.

Part of Frontiers in Genetics, 2018

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Breast-feeding and risk of asthma, hay fever, and eczema

Ek, Weronica E; Karlsson, Torgny; Hernándes, Carlos Azuaje; Rask-Andersen, Mathias et al.

Part of Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, p. 1157-+, 2018

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A meta-analysis of reflux genome-wide association studies in 6750 Northern Europeans from the general population

Bonfiglio, F; Hysi, P G; Ek, Weronica; Karhunen, V et al.

Part of Neurogastroenterology and Motility, 2017

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Epigenome-wide DNA methylation study of IgE concentration in relation to self-reported allergies

Ek, Weronica E.; Ahsan, Muhammad; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Liang, Liming et al.

Part of Epigenomics, p. 407-418, 2017

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The relative contribution of DNA methylation and genetic variants on protein biomarkers for human diseases.

Ahsan, Muhammad; Ek, Weronica E; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Karlsson, Torgny et al.

Part of PLOS Genetics, 2017

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Gene-environment interaction study for BMI reveals interactions between genetic factors and physical activity, alcohol consumption and socioeconomic status.

Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Karlsson, Torgny; Ek, Weronica E; Johansson, Åsa

Part of PLOS Genetics, 2017

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Tea and coffee consumption in relation to DNA methylation in four European cohorts

Ek, Weronica E.; Tobi, Elmar W; Ahsan, Muhammad; Lampa, Erik et al.

Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 3221-3231, 2017

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Epigenome-wide association study reveals differential DNA methylation in individuals with a history of myocardial infarction

Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Martinsson, David; Ahsan, Muhammad; Enroth, Stefan et al.

Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 4739-4748, 2016

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Genome-wide DNA methylation study identifies genes associated with the cardiovascular biomarker GDF-15

Ek, Weronica E; Hedman, Åsa K; Enroth, Stefan; Morris, Andrew P et al.

Part of Human Molecular Genetics, p. 817-827, 2016

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The role of DNA methylation in the pathogenesis of disease: what can epigenome-wide association studies tell?

Ek, Weronica E; Rask-Andersen, Mathias; Johansson, Åsa

Part of Epigenomics, p. 5-7, 2016

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Polymorphisms in genes in the androgen pathway and risk of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma

Ek, Weronica E; Lagergren, Katarina; Cook, Michael; Wu, Anna H et al.

Part of International Journal of Cancer, p. 1146-1152, 2016

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Analysis of the genetic architecture of susceptibility to cervical cancer indicates that common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability

Chen, Dan; Cui, Tao; Ek, Weronica E.; Liu, Han et al.

Part of Carcinogenesis, p. 992-998, 2015

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Polymorphisms in Genes of Relevance for Oestrogen and Oxytocin Pathways and Risk of Barrett's Oesophagus and Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Pooled Analysis from the BEACON Consortium.

Lagergren, Katarina; Ek, Weronica E; Levine, David; Chow, Wong-Ho et al.

Part of PLOS ONE, 2015

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Pleiotropic Analysis of Cancer Risk Loci on Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Risk.

Lee, Eunjung; Stram, Daniel O; Ek, Weronica E; Onstad, Lynn E et al.

Part of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 2015

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Exploring the genetics of irritable bowel syndrome: a GWA study in the general population and replication in multinational case-control cohorts.

Ek, Weronica E; Reznichenko, Anna; Ripke, Stephan; Niesler, Beate et al.

Part of Gut, 2015

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The history of genetics in inflammatory bowel disease.

Ek, Weronica E; D'Amato, Mauro; Halfvarson, Jonas

Part of Annals of Gastroenterology, 2014

Obesity and risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma and Barrett's esophagus: a Mendelian randomization study.

Thrift, Aaron P; Shaheen, Nicholas J; Gammon, Marilie D; Bernstein, Leslie et al.

Part of Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2014

• DOI for Obesity and risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma and Barrett's esophagus: a Mendelian randomization study.

Most common 'sporadic' cancers have a significant germline genetic component.

Lu, Yi; Ek, Weronica E; Whiteman, David; Vaughan, Thomas L et al.

Part of Human Molecular Genetics, 2014

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Loss-of-function of the voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.5 (channelopathies) in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.

Beyder, Arthur; Mazzone, Amelia; Strege, Peter R; Tester, David J et al.

Part of Gastroenterology, 2014

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Germline genetic contributions to risk for esophageal adenocarcinoma, Barrett's esophagus, and gastroesophageal reflux

Ek, Weronica E; Levine, David M; D'Amato, Mauro; Pedersen, Nancy L et al.

Part of Journal of the National Cancer Institute, p. 1711-8, 2013

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A genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for esophageal adenocarcinoma and Barrett's esophagus.

Levine, David M; Ek, Weronica E; Zhang, Rui; Liu, Xinxue et al.

Part of Nature Genetics, 2013

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Generation of a multi-locus chicken introgression line to study the effects of genetic interactions on metabolic phenotypes in chickens.

Ek, Weronica; Marklund, Stefan; Ragavendran, Ashok; Siegel, Paul et al.

Part of Frontiers in Genetics, 2012

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Common variants at the MHC locus and at chromosome 16q24.1 predispose to Barrett's esophagus.

Su, Zhan; Gay, Laura J; Strange, Amy; Palles, Claire et al.

Part of Nature Genetics, 2012

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