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Migration and community in an age of digital connectivity: A survey of media use and integration amongst migrants in Iceland by Hoffmann, Lara, Jónsson, Þorlákur Axel, Meckl, Markus

“…Information and communication technologies enable migrants to maintain bonds with multiple communities. Little is known about the association between migrants’…”
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Jules Pretty, Sea Sagas of the North: Travels & Tales at Warming Waters (Stroud: Hawthorne Press, 2022) by Jónsson, Þorlákur Axel

“…I welcome this book, a keen Icelandic reader of the coastal culture and communities more or less connected here in the North Atlantic and the North Sea east to…”
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Er búsetumunur á námsárangri þegar ólík þjóðfélagsstaða er tekin með í reikninginn? by Jónsson, Þorlákur Axel

“…Um áratugaskeið hafa yfirvöld menntamála hér á landi kynnt niðurstöður samræmdra prófa og PISA-rannsóknar OECD þannig að búseta sé önnur lykilbreytan til…”
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Familial Aggregation of Parkinson's Disease in Iceland by Sveinbjörnsdóttir, Sigurlaug, Hicks, Andrew A, Jónsson, Thorlákur, Pétursson, Hjörvar, Guðmundsson, Grétar, Frigge, Michael L, Kong, Augustine, Gulcher, Jeffrey R, Stefánsson, Kári

“…Parkinson's disease is an important neurodegenerative disorder affecting middle-aged and elderly persons. Its causes are largely unknown, but there is evidence…”
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U. Blossing, G. Imsen & L. Moos (eds.), The Nordic Education Model: ´A School for All´ Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014) by Jónsson, Þorlákur Axel

“…Book review of: Blossing, G. Imsen & L. Moos (eds), The Nordic Education Model: ´A School for All´ Encounters Neo-Liberal Policy (Dordrecht: Springer, Policy…”
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Per Eliasson, KG Hammarlund, Erik Lund & Carsten Tage Nielson (eds.), Historie didatik i Norden: del 1, historiemetvetanda – historiebruk (Malmö & Halmstad: Malmö högskola and Högskolan i Halmstad, 2012) by Jónsson, Þorlákur Axel

“…The book is the product of a conference on the actual challenges for the discipline of history in Nordic classrooms entitled “Historisk kunnskap – ett begreb i…”
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Páll Björnsson, Jón forseti allur? Táknmyndir þjóðhetju frá andláti til samtíðar (Reykjavík: Sögufélag, 2011) by Jónsson, Þorlákur Axel

“…The book Páll Björnsson has written entitled President Jón in Full? Icons of a National Hero From His Death to the Present, deprives the Icelandic people of…”
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A susceptibility gene for late-onset idiopathic Parkinson's disease by Hicks, Andrew A., Pétursson, Hjörvar, Jónsson, Thorlákur, Stefánsson, Hreinn, Jóhannsdóttir, Hrefna S., Sainz, Jesus, Frigge, Michael L., Kong, Augustine, Gulcher, Jeffrey R., Stefánsson, Kári, Sveinbjörnsdóttir, Sigurlaug

“…Eight regions of the genome (PARK1‐8) have been implicated in autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive forms of early‐onset Parkinson's disease. These forms…”
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Mapping of a familial essential tremor gene, FET1 , to chromosome 3q13 by Gulcher, Jeffrey R, Jónsson, Þorlákur, Kong, Augustine, Kristjánsson, Kristleifur, Frigge, Michael L, Kárason, Ari, Einarsdóttir, Ingibjörg E, Stefánsson, Hreinn, Einarsdóttir, Anna S, Sigurdardðttir, Sigrún, Baldursson, Sigurður, Björnsdóttir, Sóley, Hrafnkelsdóttir, Soffía M, Jakobsson, Finnbogi, Benedickz, John, Stefánsson, Kári

“…Essential tremor (ET), the most common movement disorder in humans, appears to be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait in many families. The familial form…”
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F5–04–02: A coding mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer's disease and age‐related cognitive decline by Jonsson, Thorlakur

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A coding mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer's disease and age-related cognitive decline by Jonsson, Thorlakur

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Variant of TREM2 Associated with the Risk of Alzheimer's Disease by Jonsson, Thorlakur, Stefansson, Hreinn, Steinberg, Stacy, Jonsdottir, Ingileif, Jonsson, Palmi V, Snaedal, Jon, Bjornsson, Sigurbjorn, Huttenlocher, Johanna, Levey, Allan I, Lah, James J, Rujescu, Dan, Hampel, Harald, Giegling, Ina, Andreassen, Ole A, Engedal, Knut, Ulstein, Ingun, Djurovic, Srdjan, Ibrahim-Verbaas, Carla, Hofman, Albert, Ikram, M. Arfan, van Duijn, Cornelia M, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Kong, Augustine, Stefansson, Kari

“…This study shows that a variant of TREM2 , which encodes a protein that suppresses inflammation, causes susceptibility to Alzheimer's disease. Although the…”
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Nonlinear Free Energy Relationships in Arc Repressor Unfolding Imply the Existence of Unstable, Native-like Folding Intermediates by Jonsson, Thorlakur, Waldburger, Carey D., Sauer, Robert T.

“…Under strongly denaturing conditions, the logarithm of the rate constant for dissociation/unfolding of the wild-type Arc dimer varies in a nonlinear fashion…”
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Experimental Evidence for Extensive Tunneling of Hydrogen in the Lipoxygenase Reaction:  Implications for Enzyme Catalysis by Jonsson, Thorlakur, Glickman, Michael H., Sun, Shujun, Klinman, Judith P.

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Protein Stabilization by Removal of Unsatisfied Polar Groups:  Computational Approaches and Experimental Tests by Hendsch, Zachary S, Jonsson, Thorlakur, Sauer, Robert T, Tidor, Bruce

“…The role of polar and charged side chains in partially buried protein environments has been probed in a variant of Arc repressor (MYL) in which hydrophobic…”
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A mutation in APP protects against Alzheimer’s disease and age-related cognitive decline by Jonsson, Thorlakur, Atwal, Jasvinder K., Steinberg, Stacy, Snaedal, Jon, Jonsson, Palmi V., Bjornsson, Sigurbjorn, Stefansson, Hreinn, Sulem, Patrick, Gudbjartsson, Daniel, Maloney, Janice, Hoyte, Kwame, Gustafson, Amy, Liu, Yichin, Lu, Yanmei, Bhangale, Tushar, Graham, Robert R., Huttenlocher, Johanna, Bjornsdottir, Gyda, Andreassen, Ole A., Jönsson, Erik G., Palotie, Aarno, Behrens, Timothy W., Magnusson, Olafur T., Kong, Augustine, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Watts, Ryan J., Stefansson, Kari

“…A coding mutation in APP , the gene that encodes the amyloid-β precursor protein, is found to protect against Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline in the…”
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Loss-of-function variants in ABCA7 confer risk of Alzheimer's disease by Steinberg, Stacy, Stefansson, Hreinn, Jonsson, Thorlakur, Johannsdottir, Hrefna, Ingason, Andres, Helgason, Hannes, Sulem, Patrick, Magnusson, Olafur Th, Gudjonsson, Sigurjon A, Unnsteinsdottir, Unnur, Kong, Augustine, Helisalmi, Seppo, Soininen, Hilkka, Lah, James J, Aarsland, Dag, Fladby, Tormod, Ulstein, Ingun D, Djurovic, Srdjan, Sando, Sigrid B, White, Linda R, Knudsen, Gun-Peggy, Westlye, Lars T, Selbæk, Geir, Giegling, Ina, Hampel, Harald, Hiltunen, Mikko, Levey, Allan I, Andreassen, Ole A, Rujescu, Dan, Jonsson, Palmi V, Bjornsson, Sigurbjorn, Snaedal, Jon, Stefansson, Kari

“…Stacy Steinberg, Hreinn Stefansson, Thorlakur Jonsson and colleagues found that rare variants predicted to alter the function of ABCA7 are associated with risk…”
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Common Sequence Variants in the LOXL1 Gene Confer Susceptibility to Exfoliation Glaucoma by Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Magnusson, Kristinn P, Sulem, Patrick, Walters, G. Bragi, Gudbjartsson, Daniel F, Stefansson, Hreinn, Jonsson, Thorlakur, Jonasdottir, Adalbjorg, Jonasdottir, Aslaug, Stefansdottir, Gerdur, Masson, Gisli, Hardarson, Gudmundur A, Petursson, Hjorvar, Arnarsson, Arsaell, Motallebipour, Mehdi, Wallerman, Ola, Wadelius, Claes, Gulcher, Jeffrey R, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Kong, Augustine, Jonasson, Fridbert, Stefansson, Kari

“…Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness. A genome-wide search yielded multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the 15q24.1 region…”
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TREM2 and Neurodegenerative Disease by Reitz, Christiane, Mayeux, Richard, Bertram, Lars, Parrado, Antonio R, Tanzi, Rudolph E, Rajagopalan, Priya, Hibar, Derrek P, Thompson, Paul M, Benitez, Bruno A, Cruchaga, Carlos, Bird, Thomas D, Jonsson, Thorlakur, Stefansson, Kari, Guerreiro, Rita, Hardy, John

“…To the Editor: Guerreiro et al. 1 and Jonsson et al. 2 (Jan. 10 issue) report an association between the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs75932628 in the…”
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Variant in the sequence of the LINGO1 gene confers risk of essential tremor by Stefansson, Kari, Stefansson, Hreinn, Steinberg, Stacy, Petursson, Hjorvar, Gustafsson, Omar, Gudjonsdottir, Iris H, Jonsdottir, Gudrun A, Palsson, Stefan T, Jonsson, Thorlakur, Saemundsdottir, Jona, Bjornsdottir, Gyda, Böttcher, Yvonne, Thorlacius, Theodora, Haubenberger, Dietrich, Zimprich, Alexander, Auff, Eduard, Hotzy, Christoph, Testa, Claudia M, Miyatake, Lisa A, Rosen, Ami R, Kristleifsson, Kristleifur, Rye, David, Asmus, Friedrich, Schöls, Ludger, Dichgans, Martin, Jakobsson, Finnbogi, Benedikz, John, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Gulcher, Jeffrey, Kong, Augustine

“…We identified a marker in LINGO1 showing genome-wide significant association (P = 1.2 × 10−9, odds ratio = 1.55) with essential tremor. LINGO1 has potent,…”
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