Search Results - "Thorleifsson, G"

Association between the Gene Encoding 5-Lipoxygenase–Activating Protein and Stroke Replicated in a Scottish Population by Helgadottir, A., Gretarsdottir, S., St. Clair, D., Manolescu, A., Cheung, J., Thorleifsson, G., Pasdar, A., Grant, S.F.A., Whalley, L.J., Hakonarson, H., Thorsteinsdottir, U., Kong, A., Gulcher, J., Stefansson, K., MacLeod, M.J.

“…Cardiovascular diseases, including myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke, most often occur on the background of atherosclerosis, a condition attributed to the…”
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Universal negative poisson ratio of self-avoiding fixed-connectivity membranes by Bowick, M, Cacciuto, A, Thorleifsson, G, Travesset, A

“…We determine the Poisson ratio of self-avoiding fixed-connectivity membranes, modeled as impenetrable plaquettes, to be sigma = -0.37(6), in statistical…”
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A community-driven global reconstruction of human metabolism by Thiele, Ines, Swainston, Neil, Fleming, Ronan M T, Hoppe, Andreas, Sahoo, Swagatika, Aurich, Maike K, Haraldsdottir, Hulda, Mo, Monica L, Rolfsson, Ottar, Stobbe, Miranda D, Thorleifsson, Stefan G, Agren, Rasmus, Bölling, Christian, Bordel, Sergio, Chavali, Arvind K, Dobson, Paul, Dunn, Warwick B, Endler, Lukas, Hala, David, Hucka, Michael, Hull, Duncan, Jameson, Daniel, Jamshidi, Neema, Jonsson, Jon J, Juty, Nick, Keating, Sarah, Nookaew, Intawat, Le Novère, Nicolas, Malys, Naglis, Mazein, Alexander, Papin, Jason A, Price, Nathan D, Selkov, Evgeni, Sigurdsson, Martin I, Simeonidis, Evangelos, Sonnenschein, Nikolaus, Smallbone, Kieran, Sorokin, Anatoly, van Beek, Johannes H G M, Weichart, Dieter, Goryanin, Igor, Nielsen, Jens, Westerhoff, Hans V, Kell, Douglas B, Mendes, Pedro, Palsson, Bernhard Ø

“…The metabolic modeling community has curated information from five models to create the most comprehensive model of human metabolism to date. Multiple models…”
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Pleiotropic effects on lipid levels and obesity identified in multi-trait meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of type 2 diabetes related traits by Lagou, V., Maegi, R., Surakka, I., Sarin, A. -P, Horikoshi, M., Thorleifsson, G., Hagg, Sara, Beekman, M., Ladenvall, C., Hottenga, J. -J, Ried, J. S., McCarthy, M. I., Morris, A., Ripatti, S., Prokopenko, I.

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83 ANALYSIS OF CANDIDATE OSTEOARTHRITIS GENES IN A META-ANALYSIS OF 8 GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES by Rodriguez-Fontela, C, Evangelou, E, Valdes, A, Calaza, M, Arden, N.K, Bos, S, Cupples, A, Esko, T, Gomez-Reino, J, Helgadottir, H, Hofman, A, Jonsdottir, I, Kerkhof, H.J.M, Meulenbelt, I, Metrustry, S, Metspalu, A, van Meurs, J, Ntzani, E, Panoutsopoulou, K, Styrkarsdottir, U, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Thorleifsson, G, Zhu, Y, Felson, D, Ioannidis, J, Stefansson, K, Uitterlinden, A, Zeggini, E, Spector, T, Gonzalez, A

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Universality classes of self-avoiding fixed-connectivity membranes by Bowick, M.J., Cacciuto, A., Thorleifsson, G., Travesset, A.

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4d Simplicial quantum gravity: matter fields and the corresponding effective action by Bilke, S., Burda, Z., Krzywicki, A., Petersson, B., Tabaczek, J., Thorleifsson, G.

“…Four-dimensional simplicial quantum gravity is modified either by coupling it to U(1) gauge fields or by introducing a measure weighted by the orders of the…”
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Twenty loci associated with bone mineral density identified by large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association datasets by Rivadeneira, F, Styrkarsdottir, U, Estrada, K, Halldorsson, B, Hsu, Y, Richards, J.B, Zillikens, M.C, Kavvoura, F, Amin, N, Aulchenko, Y, Cupples, L, Deloukas, P, Demissie, S, Grundberg, E, Hofman, A, Kong, A, Karasik, D, van Meurs, J, Oostra, B, Pastinen, T, Pols, H.A.P, Sigurdsson, G, Soranzo, N, Thorleifsson, G, Thorsteindottir, U, Williams, F, Wilson, S, Zhou, Y, Ralston, S, van Duijn, C, Spector, T, Kiel, D, Stefansson, K, Ioannidis, J, Uitterlinden, A.G, In behalf of the GEFOS Consortium

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A systematic evaluation of 151 candidate genes for their association with osteoporosis and osteoporotic fracture in a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data by Richards, J, Kavvoura, F.K, Rivadeneira, F, Styrkarsdottir, U, Estrada, K, Halldorsson, B, Hsu, Y, Zillikens, M, Wilson, S.G, Mullins, B, Amin, N, Aulchenko, Y.A, Cupples, L, Deloukas, P, Demissie, S, Hofman, A, Kong, A, Karasik, D, van Meurs, J.M, Oostra, B, Pols, H.A.P, Sigurdsson, G, Thorsteinsdottir, U, Soranzo, N, Williams, F.M.K, Zhou, Y, Ralston, S, Thorleifsson, G, van Duijn, C.M, Kiel, D, Stefansson, K, Uitterlinden, A, Ioannidis, J.P.A, Spector, T.D

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Numerical Observation of a Tubular Phase in Anisotropic Membranes by Bowick, Mark, Falcioni, Marco, Thorleifsson, Gudmar

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Singular vertices and the triangulation space of the D-sphere by Catterall, S., Thorleifsson, G., Kogut, J., Renken, R.

“…By a sequence of numerical experiments we demonstrate that generic triangulations of the D-sphere for D > 3 contain one singular ( D - 3)-simplex. The mean…”
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4d simplicial quantum gravity interacting with gauge matter fields by Bilke, S., Burda, Z., Krzywicki, A., Petersson, B., Tabaczek, J., Thorleifsson, G.

“…The effect of coupling non-compact U(1) gauge fields to four dimensional simplicial quantum gravity is studied using strong coupling expansions and Monte Carlo…”
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Genome-wide association analysis of insomnia complaints identifies risk genes and genetic overlap with psychiatric and metabolic traits by Hammerschlag, Anke R, Stringer, Sven, de Leeuw, Christiaan A, Sniekers, Suzanne, Taskesen, Erdogan, Watanabe, Kyoko, Blanken, Tessa F, Dekker, Kim, te Lindert, Bart H W, Wassing, Rick, Jonsdottir, Ingileif, Thorleifsson, Gudmar, Stefansson, Hreinn, Gislason, Thorarinn, Berger, Klaus, Schormair, Barbara, Wellmann, Juergen, Winkelmann, Juliane, Stefansson, Kari, Oexle, Konrad, Van Someren, Eus J W, Posthuma, Danielle

“…Danielle Posthuma and colleagues report a genome-wide association analysis for insomnia complaints in 113,006 individuals from the UK Biobank that identifies…”
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Assessment of the genetic and clinical determinants of fracture risk: genome wide association and mendelian randomisation study by Trajanoska, Katerina, Morris, John A, Oei, Ling, Zheng, Hou-Feng, Evans, David M, Kiel, Douglas P, Ohlsson, Claes, Richards, J Brent, Rivadeneira, Fernando

“…AbstractObjectivesTo identify the genetic determinants of fracture risk and assess the role of 15 clinical risk factors on osteoporotic fracture…”
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The flat phase of fixed-connectivity membranes by Bowick, M.J., Catterall, S.M., Falcioni, M., Thorleifsson, G., Anagnostopoulos, K.

“…The statistical mechanics of flexible two-dimensional surfaces (membranes) appears in a wide variety of physical settings. In this talk we discuss the simplest…”
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Geometrical interpretation of the Knizhnik-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov exponents by Ambjørn, J., Anagnostopoulos, K.N., Magnea, U., Thorleifsson, G.

“…We provide evidence that the KPZ exponents in two-dimensional quantum gravity can be interpreted as scaling exponents of correlation functions which are…”
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The weak-coupling limit of simplicial quantum gravity by Thorleifsson, G., Bialas, P., Petersson, B.

“…In the weak-coupling limit, κ 0 → ∞, the partition function of simplicial quantum gravity is dominated by an ensemble of triangulations with the ratio N 0/ N D…”
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Baby universes in 4D dynamical triangulation by Catterall, S., Kogut, J., Renken, R., Thorleifsson, G.

“…We measure numerically the distribution of baby universes in the crumpled phase of the dynamical triangulation model of 4D quantum gravity. The relevance of…”
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The phase diagram of crystalline surfaces by Anagnostopoulos, K., Bowick, M.J., Catterall, S.M., Falcioni, M., Thorleifsson, G.

“…We report the status of a high-statistics Monte Carlo simulation of non-self-avoiding crystalline surfaces with extrinsic curvature on lattices of size up to…”
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Monte Carlo renormalization of 2d simplicial quantum gravity coupled to Gaussian matter by Gregory, E.B., Catterall, S.M., Thorleifsson, G.

“…We extend a recently proposed real-space renormalization group scheme for dynamical triangulations to situations where the lattice is coupled to continuous…”
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