Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

Objectives To describe new WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Methods The guidelines were developed in accordance with WHO protocols. An expert Gu...

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population

Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

Levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, triglycerides and total cholesterol are heritable, modifiable risk factors for c...

A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the commonest cause of death. Here, we report an association analysis in 63,746 CAD cases and 130,681 controls identifying 15 loci reaching geno...

Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

Estimation of contribution of changes in classic risk factors to trends in coronary-event rates across the WHO MONICA Project populations

Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

Triglycerides are transported in plasma by specific triglyceride-rich lipoproteins; in epidemiological studies, increased triglyceride levels correlate with higher risk for coro...