Johanne Marie Justesen

Johanne Marie Justesen

Assistant Professor


  1. 2013
  2. Published

    Genetic risk score of 46 type 2 diabetes risk variants associates with changes in plasma glucose and estimates of pancreatic beta-cell function over 5 years of follow-up

    Galijatovic, E. A. A., Allin, K. H., Sandholt, C. H., Borglykke, A., Lau, C. J., Ribel-Madsen, R., Sparsø, T., Justesen, Johanne Marie, Harder, M. N., Jørgensen, M. E., Jørgensen, T., Hansen, Torben & Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, 8 Jul 2013, In: Diabetes. 62, 10, p. 3610 3617 p.

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  3. 2014
  4. Published

    Identification of low-frequency and rare sequence variants associated with elevated or reduced risk of type 2 diabetes

    Steinthorsdottir, V., Thorleifsson, G., Sulem, P., Helgason, H., Grarup, N., Sigurdsson, A., Helgadottir, H. T., Johannsdottir, H., Magnusson, O. T., Gudjonsson, S. A., Justesen, J. M., Harder, M. N., Jørgensen, M. E., Christensen, C., Brandslund, I., Sandbæk, A., Lauritzen, T., Vestergaard, H., Linneberg, A., Jørgensen, T. & 14 others, Hansen, Torben, Daneshpour, M. S., Fallah, M., Hreidarsson, A. B., Sigurdsson, G., Azizi, F., Benediktsson, R., Masson, G., Helgason, A., Kong, A., Gudbjartsson, D. F., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Thorsteinsdottir, U. & Stefansson, K., 26 Jan 2014, In: Nature Genetics. 46, 3, p. 294-300 7 p.

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  5. 2015
  6. 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.

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  7. Published

    Identification and Functional Characterization of G6PC2 Coding Variants Influencing Glycemic Traits Define an Effector Transcript at the G6PC2-ABCB11 Locus

    Mahajan, A., Sim, X., Ng, H. J., Manning, A., Rivas, M. A., Highland, H. M., Locke, A. E., Grarup, N., Im, H. K., Cingolani, P., Flannick, J., Fontanillas, P., Fuchsberger, C., Gaulton, K. J., Teslovich, T. M., Rayner, N. W., Robertson, N. R., Beer, N. L., Rundle, J. K., Bork-Jensen, J. & 31 others, Ladenvall, C., Blancher, C., Buck, D., Buck, G., Burtt, N. P., Gabriel, S., Gjesing, A. M. P., Groves, C. J., Hollensted, M., Huyghe, J. R., Jackson, A. U., Jun, G., Justesen, Johanne Marie, Mangino, M., Murphy, J., Neville, M., Onofrio, R., Small, K. S., Stringham, H. M., Syvänen, A., Trakalo, J., Abecasis, G., Bell, G. I., Blangero, J., Cox, N. J., Duggirala, R., Linneberg, Allan René, Jørgensen, T., Hansen, Torben, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye & T2D-GENES consortium and GoT2D consortium, T. C. A. G. C., Jan 2015, In: P L o S Genetics. 11, 1, p. 1-25 25 p., e1004876.

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  8. Published

    Interactions of Lipid Genetic Risk Scores with Estimates of Metabolic Health in a Danish Population

    Justesen, Johanne Marie, Allin, K. H., Sandholt, C. H., Borglykke, A., Krarup, N. T., Grarup, Niels, Linneberg, Allan René, Jørgensen, T., Hansen, Torben & Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, 24 Feb 2015, In: Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics. 8, p. 465-72 8 p.

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  9. Published

    A genetic risk score of 45 coronary artery disease risk variants associates with increased risk of myocardial infarction in 6041 Danish individuals

    Krarup, N. T., Borglykke, A., Allin, K. H., Sandholt, C. H., Justesen, Johanne Marie, Andersson, E. A., Grarup, Niels, Jørgensen, T., Pedersen, O. & Hansen, T., Jun 2015, In: Atherosclerosis. 240, 2, p. 305-10 6 p.

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  10. 2016
  11. Published

    The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

    Fuchsberger, C., Flannick, J., Teslovich, T. M., Mahajan, A., Agarwala, V., Gaulton, K. J., Ma, C., Fontanillas, P., Moutsianas, L., McCarthy, D. J., Rivas, M. A., Perry, J. R. B., Sim, X., Blackwell, T. W., Robertson, N. R., Rayner, N. W., Cingolani, P., Locke, A. E., Fernandez Tajes, J., Highland, H. M. & 281 others, Dupuis, J., Chines, P. S., Lindgren, C. M., Hartl, C., Jackson, A. U., Chen, H., Huyghe, J. R., van de Bunt, M., Pearson, R. D., Kumar, A., Müller-Nurasyid, M., Grarup, Niels, Stringham, H. M., Gamazon, E. R., Lee, J., Chen, Y., Scott, R. A., Below, J. E., Chen, P., Huang, J., Go, M. J., Stitzel, M. L., Pasko, D., Parker, S. C. J., Varga, T. V., Green, T., Beer, N. L., Day-Williams, A. G., Ferreira, T., Fingerlin, T., Horikoshi, M., Hu, C., Huh, I., Ikram, M. K., Kim, B., Kim, Y., Kim, Y. J., Kwon, M., Lee, J., Lee, S., Lin, K., Maxwell, T. J., Nagai, Y., Wang, X., Welch, R. P., Yoon, J., Zhang, W., Barzilai, N., Voight, B. F., Han, B., Jenkinson, C. P., Kuulasmaa, T., Kuusisto, J., Manning, A., Ng, M. C. Y., Palmer, N. D., Balkau, B., Stancáková, A., Abboud, H. E., Boeing, H., Giedraitis, V., Prabhakaran, D., Gottesman, O., Scott, J., Carey, J., Kwan, P., Grant, G., Smith, J. D., Neale, B. M., Purcell, S., Butterworth, A. S., Howson, J. M. M., Lee, H. M., Lu, Y., Kwak, S., Zhao, W., Danesh, J., Lam, V. K. L., Park, K. S., Saleheen, D., So, W. Y., Tam, C. H. T., Afzal, U., Aguilar, D., Arya, R., Aung, T., Chan, E., Navarro, C., Cheng, C., Palli, D., Correa, A., Curran, J. E., Rybin, D., Farook, V. S., Fowler, S. P., Freedman, B. I., Griswold, M., Hale, D. E., Hicks, P. J., Khor, C., Kumar, S., Lehne, B., Thuillier, D., Lim, W. Y., Liu, J., van der Schouw, Y. T., Loh, M., Musani, S. K., Puppala, S., Scott, W. R., Yengo, L., Tan, S., Taylor, H. A., Thameem, F., Wilson, G., Wong, T. Y., Njølstad, P. R., Levy, J. C., Mangino, M., Bonnycastle, L. L., Schwarzmayr, T., Fadista, J., Surdulescu, G. L., Herder, C., Groves, C. J., Wieland, T., Bork-Jensen, J., Brandslund, I., Christensen, C., Koistinen, H. A., Doney, A. S. F., Kinnunen, L., Esko, T., Farmer, A. J., Hakaste, L., Hodgkiss, D., Kravic, J., Lyssenko, V., Hollensted, M., Jørgensen, M. E., Jørgensen, T., Ladenvall, C., Justesen, Johanne Marie, Käräjämäki, A., Kriebel, J., Rathmann, W., Lannfelt, L., Lauritzen, T., Narisu, N., Linneberg, Allan René, Melander, O., Milani, L., Neville, M., Orho-Melander, M., Qi, L., Qi, Q., Roden, M., Rolandsson, O., Swift, A., Rosengren, A. H., Stirrups, K., Wood, A. R., Mihailov, E., Blancher, C., Carneiro, M. O., Maguire, J., Poplin, R., Shakir, K., Fennell, T., DePristo, M., Hrabé de Angelis, M., Deloukas, P., Gjesing, A. P., Jun, G., Nilsson, P., Murphy, J., Onofrio, R., Thorand, B., Hansen, Torben, Meisinger, C., Hu, F. B., Isomaa, B., Karpe, F., Liang, L., Peters, A., Huth, C., O'Rahilly, S. P., Palmer, C. N. A., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Rauramaa, R., Tuomilehto, J., Salomaa, V., Watanabe, R. M., Syvänen, A., Bergman, R. N., Bharadwaj, D., Bottinger, E. P., Cho, Y. S., Chandak, G. R., Chan, J. C. N., Chia, K. S., Daly, M. J., Ebrahim, S. B., Langenberg, C., Elliott, P., Jablonski, K. A., Lehman, D. M., Jia, W., Ma, R. C. W., Pollin, T. I., Sandhu, M., Tandon, N., Froguel, P., Barroso, I., Teo, Y. Y., Zeggini, E., Loos, R. J. F., Small, K. S., Ried, J. S., DeFronzo, R. A., Grallert, H., Glaser, B., Metspalu, A., Wareham, N. J., Walker, M., Banks, E., Gieger, C., Ingelsson, E., Im, H. K., Illig, T., Franks, P. W., Buck, G., Trakalo, J., Buck, D., Prokopenko, I., Mägi, R., Lind, L., Farjoun, Y., Owen, K. R., Gloyn, A. L., Strauch, K., Tuomi, T., Kooner, J. S., Lee, J., Park, T., Donnelly, P., Morris, A. D., Hattersley, A. T., Bowden, D. W., Collins, F. S., Atzmon, G., Chambers, J. C., Spector, T. D., Laakso, M., Strom, T. M., Bell, G. I., Blangero, J., Duggirala, R., Tai, E. S., McVean, G., Hanis, C. L., Wilson, J. G., Seielstad, M., Frayling, T. M., Meigs, J. B., Cox, N. J., Sladek, R., Lander, E. S., Gabriel, S., Burtt, N. P., Mohlke, K. L., Meitinger, T., Groop, L., Abecasis, G., Florez, J. C., Scott, L. J., Morris, A. P., Kang, H. M., Boehnke, M., Altshuler, D. & McCarthy, M. I., 4 Aug 2016, In: Nature. 536, 7614, p. 41-47 7 p.

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  12. Published

    A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape

    Ried, J. S., Jeff M, J., Chu, A. Y., Bragg-Gresham, J. L., van Dongen, J., Huffman, J. E., Ahluwalia, T. V. S., Cadby, G., Eklund, N., Eriksson, J., Esko, T., Feitosa, M. F., Goel, A., Gorski, M., Hayward, C., Heard-Costa, N. L., Jackson, A. U., Jokinen, E., Kanoni, S., Kristiansson, K. & 256 others, Kutalik, Z., Lahti, J., Luan, J., Mägi, R., Mahajan, A., Mangino, M., Medina-Gomez, C., Monda, K. L., Nolte, I. M., Pérusse, L., Prokopenko, I., Qi, L., Rose, L. M., Salvi, E., Smith, M. T., Snieder, H., Stančáková, A., Ju Sung, Y., Tachmazidou, I., Teumer, A., Thorleifsson, G., van der Harst, P., Walker, R. W., Wang, S. R., Wild, S. H., Willems, S. M., Wong, A., Zhang, W., Albrecht, E., Couto Alves, A., Bakker, S. J. L., Barlassina, C., Bartz, T. M., Beilby, J., Bellis, C., Bergman, R. N., Bergmann, S., Blangero, J., Blüher, M., Boerwinkle, E., Bonnycastle, L. L., Bornstein, S. R., Bruinenberg, M., Campbell, H., Chen, Y. I., Chiang, C. W. K., Chines, P. S., Collins, F. S., Cucca, F., Cupples, L. A., D'Avila, F., de Geus, E. J. C., Dedoussis, G., Dimitriou, M., Döring, A., Eriksson, J. G., Farmaki, A., Farrall, M., Ferreira, T., Fischer, K., Forouhi, N. G., Friedrich, N., Gjesing, A. M. P., Glorioso, N., Graff, M., Grallert, H., Grarup, Niels, Gräßler, J., Grewal, J., Hamsten, A., Harder, M. N., Hartman, C. A., Hassinen, M., Hastie, N., Hattersley, A. T., Havulinna, A. S., Heliövaara, M., Hillege, H., Hofman, A., Holmen, O., Homuth, G., Hottenga, J., Hui, J., Husemoen, L. L., Hysi, P. G., Isaacs, A., Ittermann, T., Jalilzadeh, S., James, A. L., Jørgensen, T., Jousilahti, P., Jula, A., Justesen, Johanne Marie, Justice, A. E., Kähönen, M., Karaleftheri, M., Tee Khaw, K., Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, S. M., Kinnunen, L., Knekt, P. B., Koistinen, H. A., Kolcic, I., Kooner, I. K., Koskinen, S., Kovacs, P., Kyriakou, T., Laitinen, T., Langenberg, C., Lewin, A. M., Lichtner, P., Lindgren, C. M., Lindström, J., Linneberg, Allan René, Lorbeer, R., Lorentzon, M., Luben, R., Lyssenko, V., Männistö, S., Manunta, P., Leach, I. M., McArdle, W. L., Mcknight, B., Mohlke, K. L., Mihailov, E., Milani, L., Mills, R., Montasser, M. E., Morris, A. P., Müller, G., Musk, A. W., Narisu, N., Ong, K. K., Oostra, B. A., Osmond, C., Palotie, A., Pankow, J. S., Paternoster, L., Penninx, B. W., Pichler, I., Pilia, M. G., Polašek, O., Pramstaller, P. P., Raitakari, O. T., Rankinen, T., Rao, D. C., Rayner, N. W., Ribel-Madsen, R., Rice, T. K., Richards, M., Ridker, P. M., Rivadeneira, F., Ryan, K. A., Sanna, S., Sarzynski, M. A., Scholtens, S., Scott, R. A., Sebert, S., Southam, L., Sparsø, T. H., Steinthorsdottir, V., Stirrups, K., Stolk, R. P., Strauch, K., Stringham, H. M., Swertz, M. A., Swift, A. J., Tönjes, A., Tsafantakis, E., van der Most, P. J., Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, J. V., Vandenput, L., Vartiainen, E., Venturini, C., Verweij, N., Viikari, J. S., Vitart, V., Vohl, M., Vonk, J. M., Waeber, G., Widén, E., Willemsen, G., Wilsgaard, T., Winkler, T. W., Wright, A. F., Yerges-Armstrong, L. M., Hua Zhao, J., Carola Zillikens, M., Boomsma, D. I., Bouchard, C., Chambers, J. C., Chasman, D. I., Cusi, D., Gansevoort, R. T., Gieger, C., Hansen, Torben, Hicks, A. A., Hu, F., Hveem, K., Jarvelin, M., Kajantie, E., Kooner, J. S., Kuh, D., Kuusisto, J., Laakso, M., Lakka, T. A., Lehtimäki, T., Metspalu, A., Njølstad, I., Ohlsson, C., Oldehinkel, A. J., Palmer, L. J., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Perola, M., Peters, A., Psaty, B. M., Puolijoki, H., Rauramaa, R., Rudan, I., Salomaa, V., Schwarz, Peter, Shudiner, A. R., Smit, J. H., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Spector, T. D., Stefansson, K., Stumvoll, M., Tremblay, A., Tuomilehto, J., Uitterlinden, A. G., Uusitupa, M., Völker, U., Vollenweider, P., Wareham, N. J., Watkins, H., Wilson, J. F., Zeggini, E., Abecasis, G. R., Boehnke, M., Borecki, I. B., Deloukas, P., van Duijn, C. M., Fox, C., Groop, L. C., Heid, I. M., Hunter, D. J., Kaplan, R. C., McCarthy, M. I., North, K. E., O'Connell, J. R., Schlessinger, D., Thorsteinsdottir, U., Strachan, D. P., Frayling, T., Hirschhorn, J. N., Müller-Nurasyid, M. & Loos, R. J. F., 23 Nov 2016, In: Nature Communications. 7, 11 p., 13357.

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  13. Published

    Increasing insulin resistance accentuates the effect of triglyceride-associated loci on serum triglycerides during 5 years

    Justesen, Johanne Marie, Andersson, E. A., Allin, K. H., Sandholt, C. H., Jørgensen, T., Linneberg, Allan René, Jørgensen, M. E., Hansen, Torben, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye & Grarup, Niels, Dec 2016, In: Journal of Lipid Research. 57, 12, p. 2193-2199 7 p.

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  14. 2017
  15. Published

    Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity ― A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults

    Graff, M., Scott, R. A., Justice, A. E., Young, K. L., Feitosa, M. F., Barata, L., Winkler, T. W., Chu, A. Y., Mahajan, A., Hadley, D., Xue, L., Workalemahu, T., Heard-Costa, N. L., den Hoed, M., Ahluwalia, T. S., Qi, Q., Ngwa, J. S., Renström, F., Quaye, L., Eicher, J. D. & 34 others, Hayes, J. E., Cornelis, M., Kutalik, Z., Lim, E., Luan, J., Huffman, J. E., Zhang, W., Zhao, W., Griffin, P. J., Haller, T., Ahmad, S., Marques-Vidal, P. M., Bien, S., Yengo, L., Teumer, A., Smith, A. V., Kumari, M., Harder, M. N., Justesen, Johanne Marie, Kleber, M. E., Hollensted, M., Aadahl, Mette, Færch, K., Grarup, Niels, drb459, drb459, Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Linneberg, Allan René, Hansen, Torben, Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Loos, Ruth, Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O., CHARGE Consortium, C. C., EPIC-InterAct Consortium, E. C. & PAGE Consortium, P. C., 1 Apr 2017, In: PLOS Genetics. 13, 4, e1006528.

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