Publications

Selected publications

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• Metabolic syndrome and epigenetic aging: a twin study. Föhr T, Hendrix A, Kankaanpää A, Laakkonen EK, Kujala U, Pietiläinen KP, Lehtimäki T, Kähönen M, Raitakari O, Wang X, Kaprio J, Ollikainen M, Sillanpää E. Int J Obes 2024.
• DNA methylation sites in early adulthood characterised by pubertal timing and development: a twin study. Sehovic, E, Zellers SM, Youssef MK, Heikkinen A, Kaprio J, Ollikainen M. Clinical Epigenetics 2023, 15:181
• Nicotinamide riboside improves muscle mitochondrial biogenesis, satellite cell differentiation and gut microbiota in a twin study*.* Lapatto HAK, Kuusela M, Heikkinen A, Muniandy M, van der Kolk BW, Gopalakrishnan S, Pöllänen N, Sandvik M, Schmidt MS, Heinonen S, Saari S, Kuula J, Hakkarainen A, Tampio J, Saarinen T, Taskinen M-R, Lundbom N, Groop P-H, Tiirola M, Katajisto P, Lehtonen M, Brenner C, Kaprio J, Pekkala S#, Ollikainen M#, Pietiläinen KHP* and Pirinen E*. Science Advances 2023
• 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
• 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
• Genome-wide association studies identify 137 loci for DNA methylation biomarkers of ageing McCartney DL, Min JL, Richmond RC, Lu AT, Sobczyk MK, Davies G, Broer L, Guo X, Jeong A, Jung J, Kasela S, Katrinli S, Kuo P-L, Matias-Garcia PR, Mishra PP, Nygaard M, Palviainen T, Patki A, Raffield LM, Ratliff SM, Richardson TG, Robinson O, Soerensen M, Sun D, Tsai P-C, van der Zee MD, Walker RM, Wang X, Wang Y, Xia R, Xu Z, Yao J, Zhao W, Correa A, Boerwinkle E, Dugué P-A, Durda P, Elliott HR, Gieger C, The Genetics of DNA Methylation Consortium, de Geus EJC, Harris SE, Hemani G, Imboden M, Kähönen M, Kardia SLR, Kresovich JK, Li S, Lunetta KL, Mangino M, Mason D, McIntosh AM, Mengel-From J, Moore AZ, Murabito JM, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Ollikainen M, & 52 others, Horvath S, Marioni RE. Genome Biology, 2021 Jun 29;22(1):194
• Genomic and phenomic insights from an atlas of genetic effects on DNA methylation Min JL, Hemani G, Hannon E, Dekkers KF, Castillo-Fernandez J, Luijk R, Carnero-Montoro E, Lawson DJ, Burrows K, Suderman M, Breterick AD, Richardson TG, Klughammer J, Iotchkova V, Sharp G, Khleifat AA, Shatunov A, Iacoangeli A, McArdle WL, Ho KM, Kumar A, Söderhäll C, Soriano-Tárraga C, Giralt-Steinhauer E, Kazmi N, Mason D, McRae AF, Corcoran DL, Sugden K, Kasela S, Cardona A, Day FR, Cugliari G, Viberti C, Guarrera S, Lerro M, Gupta R, Bollepalli S, Mandaviya P, Zeng Y, Clarke T-K, Walker RM, Schmoll V, Czamara D, Ruiz-Arenas C, Rezwan FI, Marioni RE, Lin T, Awaloff Y, Germain M, Aïssi D, Zwamborn R, van Eijk K, Dekker A, van Dongen J, Hottenga J-J, Willemsen G, Xu C-J, Barturen G, Català-Moll F, Kerick M, Wang C, Melton P, Elliott HR, Shin J, Bernard M, Yet I, Smart M, Gorrie-Stone T, BIOS Consortium, Shaw C, Chalabi AA, Ring SM, Pershagen G, Melén E, Jiménez-Conde J, Roquer J, Lawlor DA, Wright J, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Moffitt TE, Poulton R, Esko T, Milani L, Metspalu S, Perry JRB, Ong KK, Wareham NJ, Matullo G, Sacerdote C, Caspi A, Arseneault L, Gagnon F, Ollikainen M, &76 others, Mill J, Relton CL. Nature Genetics 2021, Sep;53(9):1311-1321
• Identification, heritability and relation with gene expression of novel DNA methylation loci for blood pressure Huang Y*, Ollikainen M, Muniandy M*, Zhang T, van Dongen J, Hao G, van der Most P , Pan Y, Perviakova N, Sun Y, Hui Q, Lahti J, Fraszczyk E, Lu X, Sun D, Richard M, Willemsen G, Heikkila K, Mateo Leach I, Mononen N, Kähönen M, Hurme M, Raitakari O, Drake A, Perola M, Nuotio M-L, Huang Y, Khulan B, Räikkönen K, Wolffenbuttel K, Zhernakova A, Fu J, Zhu H, Dong Y, van Vliet-Ostaptchouk J, Franke L, Eriksson J, Fornage M, Milani L, Lehtimäki T, Vaccarino V, Boomsma D, van der Harst P, de Geus E, Salomaa V, Li S, Chen W, Su S, Wilson J, Snieder H*, Kaprio J*, and Wang X* Hypertension 2020, 76 (* equal contribution)
• Plasma metabolites reveal distinct profiles associating with different metabolic risk factors in monozygotic twin pairs Muniandy M, Velagapudi V, Hakkarainen A, Lundbom J, Lundbom N, Rissanen A, Kaprio J, Pietiläinen KH, Ollikainen M. Int J Obes(Lond) 2019, Mar;43(3):487-502