Selected publications

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• The role of adolescent lifestyle habits in biological aging: A prospective twin study Kankaanpää, A., Tolvanen, A., Heikkinen, A., Kaprio, J., Ollikainen, M., Sillanpää, E. eLIFE 2022, Nov 8.
• Differences in DNA Methylation-Based Age Prediction Within Twin Pairs Discordant for Cancer Bode HF, Heikkinen A, Lundgren S, Kaprio J, Ollikainen M. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2022 Sep 8:1-9.
• BMI is positively associated with accelerated epigenetic aging in twin pairs discordant for BMI Lundgren S, Kuitunen S, Pietiläinen K, Hurme M, Kähönen M, Mannistö S, Perola M, Lehtimäki T, Raitakari O, Kaprio J, Ollikainen M. Journal of Internal Medicine, 2022, June 14.
• Multi-Omics Integration in a Twin Cohort and Predictive Modeling of Blood Pressure Values Drouard G, Ollikainen M, Mykkänen J, Raitakari O, Lehtimäki T, Kähönen M, Mishra PP, Wang X, Kaprio J. OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 26(3), 130-141.
• Identical twins carry a persistent epigenetic signature of early genome programming van Dongen J, Gordon SD, McRae AF, Odintsova VV, Mbarek h, Breeze CE, Sugden K, Lundgren S, Castillo-Fernandez JE, Hannon E, Moffitt TE, Hagenbeek FA, van Beijsterveldt CEM, Hottenga JJ, Tsai PC, BIOS Consortium*, Genetics of DNA Methylation Consortium*, Min JL, Hemani G, Ehli EA, Paul F, Stern CD, Heijmans BT Slagboom PE, Daxinger L, van der Maarel SM, de Geus EJC, Willemsen G, Montgomery GW, Reversade B, Ollikainen M, Kaprio J, Spector TD, Bell JT, Mill J, Caspi A, Martin NG & Boomsma DI. Nature Communications, 2021 12, 5618.
• EpiSmokEr: A robust classifier to determine smoking status from DNA methylation data Bollepalli S, Korhonen T, Kaprio J, Anders S, Ollikainen M. Epigenomics. 2019, 11(13), 1469–1486