| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy | Lancet, The | 2012 | 6,107 |
| 2 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,823 |
| 3 | Age-Related Clonal Hematopoiesis Associated with Adverse Outcomes | New England Journal of Medicine | 2014 | 3,474 |
| 4 | Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids | Nature | 2010 | 3,249 |
| 5 | Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 2,641 |
| 6 | Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 2,634 |
| 7 | A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation | Nature Genetics | 2016 | 2,421 |
| 8 | Suicide Prevention Strategies | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2005 | 2,352 |
| 9 | A 2 year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomised controlled trial | Lancet, The | 2015 | 2,307 |
| 10 | A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 2,054 |
| 11 | New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 1,982 |
| 12 | Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study | Lancet, The | 2012 | 1,937 |
| 13 | Quadrivalent Vaccine against Human Papillomavirus to Prevent High-Grade Cervical Lesions | New England Journal of Medicine | 2007 | 1,886 |
| 14 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,818 |
| 15 | Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height | Nature | 2010 | 1,789 |
| 16 | Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 1,685 |
| 17 | Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 1,544 |
| 18 | Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 1,439 |
| 19 | Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 1,395 |
| 20 | Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 1,331 |
| 21 | New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution | Nature | 2015 | 1,328 |
| 22 | Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution | Nature Genetics | 2006 | 1,201 |
| 23 | Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 1,124 |
| 24 | Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain | Science | 2018 | 1,085 |
| 25 | Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project | Lancet, The | 2014 | 1,077 |
| 26 | Vitamin D deficiency in Europe: pandemic? | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2016 | 963 |
| 27 | Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 959 |
| 28 | The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes | Nature | 2016 | 952 |
| 29 | Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia | Nature | 2022 | 929 |
| 30 | Quality of the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register: A systematic review | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health | 2012 | 887 |
| 31 | Development of Land Use Regression Models for PM2.5, PM2.5 Absorbance, PM10 and PMcoarse in 20 European Study Areas; Results of the ESCAPE Project | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 877 |
| 32 | Multiple common variants for celiac disease influencing immune gene expression | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 871 |
| 33 | Environmental biodiversity, human microbiota, and allergy are interrelated | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 856 |
| 34 | Association of Bariatric Surgery With Long-term Remission of Type 2 Diabetes and With Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2014 | 849 |
| 35 | Contribution of copy number variants to schizophrenia from a genome-wide study of 41,321 subjects | Nature Genetics | 2017 | 838 |
| 36 | Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 836 |
| 37 | Birth Weight and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2008 | 820 |
| 38 | Confounding and Effect Modification in the Short-Term Effects of Ambient Particles on Total Mortality: Results from 29 European Cities within the APHEA2 Project | Epidemiology | 2001 | 810 |
| 39 | Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 808 |
| 40 | A genome-wide approach accounting for body mass index identifies genetic variants influencing fasting glycemic traits and insulin resistance | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 762 |
| 41 | Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 754 |
| 42 | Causal Relationship between Obesity and Vitamin D Status: Bi-Directional Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Multiple Cohorts | PLoS Medicine | 2013 | 753 |
| 43 | GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment | Science | 2013 | 750 |
| 44 | Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 746 |
| 45 | Development of NO2 and NOx land use regression models for estimating air pollution exposure in 36 study areas in Europe – The ESCAPE project | Atmospheric Environment | 2013 | 719 |
| 46 | New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias | Nature Genetics | 2022 | 700 |
| 47 | Mutations in the palmitoyl protein thioesterase gene causing infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis | Nature | 1995 | 690 |
| 48 | Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 675 |
| 49 | The influence of urban green environments on stress relief measures: A field experiment | Journal of Environmental Psychology | 2014 | 666 |
| 50 | Effects of bariatric surgery on cancer incidence in obese patients in Sweden (Swedish Obese Subjects Study): a prospective, controlled intervention trial | Lancet Oncology, The | 2009 | 659 |
