Jorma Toppari
MD, PhD
jortop@utu.fi +358 29 450 2826 +358 40 180 2600 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku : C5 floor |
Pediatric endocrinology; reproductive health; endocrine disruption; testis; type 1 diabetes
Professor Jorma Toppari (H-index 68) is an international expert in environmental endocrine disruption, male reproduction and type 1 diabetes. He is a principal investigator in a NIH-funded cohort study The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) and in the Finnish Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention Study (DIPP). He is leading a joint Finnish-Danish birth cohort study exploring the genetic and environmental aspects of human reproduction.
The aim of our research is to identify risk factors of reproductive health and type 1 diabetes (T1D) to make risk management possible and prevent health problems. We are performing a comprehensive reproductive health study for 19-year-old men that we have followed up prospectively from pregnancy. We focus now our studies on sperm epigenome. We are studying the role of retinoblastoma protein (Rb) and E2F3 transcription factors in gonadal development and whether endocrine disruptors affect reproductive health. In the Finnish type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP) study and in The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study we are exploring the early determinants of T1D in large child cohorts with increased genetic risk.
Basic and clinical endocrinology, particularly pediatric and reproductive endocrinology, endocrine disruption, reproductive toxicology
- Vitamin D intake during the first 4 years and onset of asthma by age 5: A nested case-control study (2017)
- Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
- A Comparison of Rule-based Analysis with Regression Methods in Understanding the Risk Factors for Study Withdrawal in a Pediatric Study (2016)
- Scientific Reports
- A proposed framework for the systematic review and integrated assessment (SYRINA) of endocrine disrupting chemicals (2016)
- Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source
- Association of Early Exposure of Probiotics and Islet Autoimmunity in the TEDDY Study. (2016)
- JAMA Pediatrics
- Class II HLA genotype association with FPIR reflects the islet autoantibody status (2016)
- Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
- Compensated reduction in Leydig cell function is associated with lower semen quality variables: a study of 8182 European young men (2016)
- Human Reproduction
- Complement gene variants in relation to autoantibodies to beta cell specific antigens and type 1 diabetes in the TEDDY Study (2016)
- Scientific Reports
- Complete androgen insensitivity syndrome caused by a deep intronic pseudoexon-activating mutation in the androgen receptor gene (2016)
- Scientific Reports
- Country-specific chemical signatures of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in breast milk of French, Danish and Finnish women. (2016)
- Environmental Pollution
- Detection of Novel Gene Variants Associated with Congenital Hypothyroidism in a Finnish Patient Cohort. (2016)
- Thyroid
- Effects of Gluten Intake on Risk of Celiac Disease: A Case-Control Study on a Swedish Birth Cohort (2016)
- Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Exposure Variation and Endocrine Disruption of the Male Reproductive System (2016)
- Hormone Research in Paediatrics
- Factors associated with longitudinal food record compliance in a paediatric cohort study (2016)
- Public Health Nutrition
- GATA4 Regulates Blood-Testis Barrier Function and Lactate Metabolism in Mouse Sertoli Cells (2016)
- Endocrinology
- Genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes in childhood - estimation of HLA class II associated disease risk and class II effect in various phases of islet autoimmunity (2016)
- Pediatric Diabetes
- Growth and Risk for Islet Autoimmunity and Progression to Type 1 Diabetes in Early Childhood: The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young Study (2016)
- Diabetes
- Human enterovirus and rhinovirus infections are associated with otitis media in a prospective birth cohort study (2016)
- Journal of Clinical Virology
- Identification of Non-HLA Genes Associated with Celiac Disease and Country-Specific Differences in a Large, International Pediatric Cohort (2016)
- PLoS ONE
- Male Reproductive Disorders and Fertility Trends: Influences of Environment and Genetic Susceptibility (2016)
- Physiological Reviews
- Metformin treatment does not affect testicular size in offspring born to mothers with gestational diabetes (2016)
- The Review of Diabetic Studies



