Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

Thorkild I.A. Sørensen

Professor, emeritus


  1. 2015
  2. Published

    Genetic and environmental transactions underlying the association between physical fitness/physical exercise and body composition

    Johnson, W., de Ruiter, I., Kyvik, K. O., Murray, A. L. & Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Jan 2015, In: Behavior Genetics. 45, 1, p. 84-105 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations

    Joshi, P. K., Esko, T., Mattsson, H., Eklund, N., Gandin, I., Nutile, T., Jackson, A. U., Schurmann, C., Smith, A. V., Zhang, W., Okada, Y., Stančáková, A., Faul, J. D., Zhao, W., Bartz, T. M., Concas, M. P., Franceschini, N., Enroth, S., Vitart, V., Trompet, S. & 31 others, Guo, X., Chasman, D. I., O'Connel, J. R., Corre, T., Nongmaithem, S. S., Chen, Y., Mangino, M., Ruggiero, D., Traglia, M., Farmaki, A., Kacprowski, T., Bjonnes, A., van der Spek, A., Wu, Y., Giri, A. K., Yanek, L. R., Wang, L., Hofer, E., Rietveld, C. A., McLeod, O., Cornelis, M. C., Pattaro, C., Verweij, N., Baumbach, C., Abdellaoui, A., Warren, H. R., Ahluwalia, Tarun Veer Singh, Melbye, M., Bisgaard, H., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & BioBank Japan Project, B. J. P., 23 Jul 2015, In: Nature. 523, p. 459-62 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation

    Kato, N., Loh, M., Takeuchi, F., Verweij, N., Wang, X., Zhang, W., Kelly, T. N., Saleheen, D., Lehne, B., Mateo Leach, I., Drong, A. W., Abbott, J., Wahl, S., Tan, S-T., Scott, W. R., Campanella, G., Chadeau-Hyam, M., Afzal, U., Ahluwalia, T. V. S., Bonder, M. J. & 31 others, Chen, P., Dehghan, A., Edwards, T. L., Esko, T., Go, M. J., Harris, S. E., Hartiala, J., Kasela, S., Kasturiratne, A., Khor, C., Kleber, M. E., Li, H., Mok, Z. Y., Nakatochi, M., Sapari, N. S., Saxena, R., Stewart, A. F. R., Stolk, L., Tabara, Y., Teh, A. L., Wu, Y., Wu, J., Grarup, Niels, Justesen, Johanne Marie, Sparsø, T. H., Hansen, Torben, Jørgensen, T., Linneberg, Allan René, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & BIOS Consortium, B. C., 2015, In: Nature Genetics. 47, 11, p. 1282-93 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Maternal prepregnancy waist circumference and BMI in relation to gestational weight gain and breastfeeding behavior: the CARDIA study

    Kirkegaard, H., Nohr, E. A., Rasmussen, K. M., Stovring, H., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Lewis, C. E. & Gunderson, E. P., Aug 2015, In: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 102, 2, p. 393-401 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Maternal weight change from prepregnancy to 7 years postpartum: the influence of behavioral factors

    Kirkegaard, H., Stovring, H., Rasmussen, K. M., Abrams, B., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Nohr, E. A., Apr 2015, In: Obesity. 23, 4, p. 870-8 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Macro fat and micro fat: insulin sensitivity and gender dependent response of adipose tissue to isocaloric diet change

    Li, Y., Gaillard, J. R., McLaughlin, T., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Periwal, V., 10 Oct 2015, In: Adipocytes. 4, 4, p. 256-63 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Effect of Smoking on Blood Pressure and Resting Heart Rate: A Mendelian Randomisation Meta-Analysis in the CARTA Consortium

    Linneberg, A., Jacobsen, R. K., Skaaby, T., Taylor, A. E., Fluharty, M. E., Jeppesen, J. L., Bjørngaard, J. H., Åsvold, B. O., Gabrielsen, M. E., Campbell, A., Marioni, R. E., Kumari, M., Marques-Vidal, P., Kaakinen, M., Cavadino, A., Postmus, I., Ahluwalia, T. V. S., Wannamethee, S. G., Lahti, J., Räikkönen, K. & 40 others, Palotie, A., Wong, A., Dalgård, C., Ford, I., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Christiansen, L., Kyvik, K. O., Kuh, D., Eriksson, J. G., Whincup, P. H., Mbarek, H., de Geus, E. J. C., Vink, J. M., Boomsma, D. I., Davey Smith, G., Lawlor, D. A., Kisialiou, A., McConnachie, A., Padmanabhan, S., Jukema, J. W., Power, C., Hyppönen, E., Preisig, M., Waeber, G., Vollenweider, P., Korhonen, T., Laatikainen, T., Salomaa, V., Kaprio, J., Kivimäki, M., Smith, B. H., Hayward, C., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Thuesen, B. H., Sattar, N., Morris, R. W., Romundstad, P. R., Munafò, M. R., Jarvelin, M. & Husemoen, L. L. N., 2015, In: Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. 8, p. 832-841 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Heavier smoking may lead to a relative increase in waist circumference: evidence for a causal relationship from a Mendelian randomisation meta-analysis. The CARTA consortium

    Morris, R. W., Taylor, A. E., Fluharty, M. E., Bjørngaard, J. H., Åsvold, B. O., Elvestad Gabrielsen, M., Campbell, A., Marioni, R., Kumari, M., Korhonen, T., Männistö, S., Marques-Vidal, P., Kaakinen, M., Cavadino, A., Postmus, I., Husemoen, L. L. N., Skaaby, T., Ahluwalia, T. V. S., Treur, J. L., Willemsen, G. & 42 others, Dale, C., Wannamethee, S. G., Lahti, J., Palotie, A., Räikkönen, K., McConnachie, A., Padmanabhan, S., Wong, A., Dalgård, C., Paternoster, L., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Tyrrell, J., Horwood, J., Fergusson, D. M., Kennedy, M. A., Nohr, E. A., Christiansen, L., Kyvik, K. O., Kuh, D., Watt, G., Eriksson, J. G., Whincup, P. H., Vink, J. M., Boomsma, D. I., Davey Smith, G., Lawlor, D., Linneberg, Allan René, Ford, I., Jukema, J. W., Power, C., Hyppönen, E., Jarvelin, M., Preisig, M., Borodulin, K., Kaprio, J., Kivimaki, M., Smith, B. H., Hayward, C., Romundstad, P. R., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Munafò, M. R. & Sattar, N., 2015, In: B M J Open. 5, 8, p. 1-10 10 p., e008808.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Early child care and obesity at 12 months of age in the Danish National Birth Cohort

    Neelon, S. E. B., Andersen, C. S., Morgen, C. S., Kamper-Jørgensen, Mads, Oken, E., Gillman, M. W. & Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., 2015, In: International journal of obesity (2005). 39, p. 33-38 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    Exploring possible epigenetic mediation of early-life environmental exposures on adiposity and obesity development

    Richmond, R. C., Timpson, N. J. & Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Aug 2015, In: International Journal of Epidemiology. 44, 4, p. 1191-8 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Smoking and diabetes risk: building a causal case with clinical implications

    Sattar, N., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Taylor, A. E., Morris, R. & Munafò, M. R., Dec 2015, In: The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 3, 12, p. 918-20 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    No association of maternal gestational weight gain with offspring blood pressure and hypertension at age 18 years in male sibling-pairs: a prospective register-based cohort study

    Scheers Andersson, E., Tynelius, P., Nohr, E. A., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Rasmussen, F., 20 Mar 2015, In: PLOS ONE. 10, 3, p. 1-12 12 p., e0121202.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    The CODATwins Project: The Cohort Description of Collaborative Project of Development of Anthropometrical Measures in Twins to Study Macro-Environmental Variation in Genetic and Environmental Effects on Anthropometric Traits

    Silventoinen, K., Jelenkovic, A., Sund, R., Honda, C., Aaltonen, S., Yokoyama, Y., Tarnoki, A. D., Tarnoki, D. L., Ning, F., Ji, F., Pang, Z., Ordoñana, J. R., Sánchez-Romera, J. F., Colodro-Conde, L., Burt, S. A., Klump, K. L., Medland, S. E., Montgomery, G. W., Kandler, C., McAdams, T. A. & 106 others, Eley, T. C., Gregory, A. M., Saudino, K. J., Dubois, L., Boivin, M., Haworth, C. M. A., Plomin, R., Öncel, S. Y., Aliev, F., Stazi, M. A., Fagnani, C., D'Ippolito, C., Craig, J. M., Saffery, R., Siribaddana, S. H., Hotopf, M., Sumathipala, A., Spector, T., Mangino, M., Lachance, G., Gatz, M., Butler, D. A., Bayasgalan, G., Narandalai, D., Freitas, D. L., Maia, J. A., Harden, K. P., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Christensen, K., Skytthe, A., Kyvik, K. O., Hong, C., Chong, Y., Derom, C. A., Vlietinck, R. F., Loos, R. J. F., Cozen, W., Hwang, A. E., Mack, T. M., He, M., Ding, X., Chang, B., Silberg, J. L., Eaves, L. J., Maes, H. H., Cutler, T. L., Hopper, J. L., Aujard, K., Magnusson, P. K. E., Pedersen, N. L., Aslan, A. K. D., Song, Y., Yang, S., Lee, K., Baker, L. A., Tuvblad, C., Bjerregaard-Andersen, M., Beck-Nielsen, H., Sodemann, M., Heikkilä, K., Tan, Q., Zhang, D., Swan, G. E., Krasnow, R., Jang, K. L., Knafo-Noam, A., Mankuta, D., Abramson, L., Lichtenstein, P., Krueger, R. F., McGue, M., Pahlen, S., Tynelius, P., Duncan, G. E., Buchwald, D., Corley, R. P., Huibregtse, B. M., Nelson, T. L., Whitfield, K. E., Franz, C. E., Kremen, W. S., Lyons, M. J., Ooki, S., Brandt, I., Nilsen, T. S., Inui, F., Watanabe, M., Bartels, M., van Beijsterveldt, T. C. E. M., Wardle, J., Llewellyn, C. H., Fisher, A., Rebato, E., Martin, N. G., Iwatani, Y., Hayakawa, K., Rasmussen, F., Sung, J., Harris, J. R., Willemsen, G., Busjahn, A., Goldberg, J. H., Boomsma, D. I., Hur, Y., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Kaprio, J., Aug 2015, In: Twin Research and Human Genetics. 18, 4, p. 348-60 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Childhood maltreatment and obesity

    Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Aug 2015, In: Obesity. 23, 8, p. 1528 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Winkler, T. W., Justice, A. E., Graff, M., Barata, L., Feitosa, M. F., Chu, S., Czajkowski, J., Esko, T., Fall, T., Kilpeläinen, T. O., Lu, Y., Mägi, R., Mihailov, E., Pers, T. H., Rüeger, S., Teumer, A., Ehret, G. B., Ferreira, T., Heard-Costa, N. L., Karjalainen, J. & 31 others, Lagou, V., Mahajan, A., Neinast, M. D., Prokopenko, I., Simino, J., Teslovich, T. M., Jansen, R., Westra, H., White, C. C., Absher, D., Ahluwalia, Tarun Veer Singh, Ahmad, S., Albrecht, E., Alves, A. C., Bragg-Gresham, J. L., de Craen, A. J. M., Bis, J. C., Bonnefond, A., Boucher, G., Banasik, Karina, Grarup, Niels, Hansen, Torben, Jørgensen, T., Krarup, N. T., Linneberg, Allan René, Ribel-Madsen, R., Sparsø, T. H., Melbye, M., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & CHARGE Consortium, C. C., 1 Oct 2015, In: P L o S Genetics. 11, 10, p. 1-42 42 p., e1005378.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  17. Published

    Is the adiposity-associated FTO gene variant related to all-cause mortality independent of adiposity? Meta-analysis of data from 169,551 Caucasian adults

    Zimmermann, E., Ängquist, L. H., Mirza, S. S., Zhao, J. H., Chasman, D. I., Fischer, K., Qi, Q., Smith, A. V., Thinggaard, M., Jarczok, M. N., Nalls, M. A., Trompet, S., Timpson, N. J., Schmidt, B., Jackson, A. U., Lyytikäinen, L. P., Verweij, N., Mueller-Nurasyid, M., Vikström, M., Marques-Vidal, P. & 31 others, Wong, A., Meidtner, K., Middelberg, R. P., Strawbridge, R. J., Christiansen, L., Kyvik, K. O., Hamsten, A., Jääskeläinen, T., Tjønneland, A., Eriksson, J. G., Whitfield, J. B., Boeing, H., Hardy, R., Vollenweider, P., Leander, K., Peters, A., van der Harst, P., Kumari, M., Lehtimäki, T., Meirhaeghe, A., Tuomilehto, J., Jöckel, K., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Sattar, N., Baumeister, S. E., Davey Smith, G., Casas, J. P., Houston, D. K., März, W., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & FTO-Mortality Collaborating Group, F. C. G., Apr 2015, In: Obesity Reviews. 16, 4, p. 327-40 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Body mass index in school-aged children and the risk of routinely diagnosed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in adulthood: a prospective study based on the Copenhagen School Health Records Register

    Zimmermann, E., Gamborg, M., Holst, C., Baker, J. L., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Berentzen, T. L., 2015, In: B M J Open. 5, p. 1-8 8 p., e006998.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Sex Differences in the Association Between Birth Weight and Adult Type 2 Diabetes

    Zimmermann, E., Gamborg, Michael Orland, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A. & Baker, J. L., Dec 2015, In: Diabetes. 64, 12, p. 4220-4225 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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