Niina Kannisto
niina.siitonen@utu.fi +358 29 450 4364 +358 50 406 3612 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku |
genetics; genomics; statistics; bioinformatics; epidemiology; cardiovascular diseases; metabolic diseases; risk factors
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
2011 PhD, Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland
1999 MSc, Genetics, University of Turku
CURRENT POSITION
Senior scientist, Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Turku
PAST POSITIONS
2013 – 2015 Post-doctoral researcher/study coordinator, Institute of Clinical Medicine / Neurology, University of Eastern Finland
2011 - 2013 Senior scientist, Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Turku
2002 - 2011 Post-graduate student, Department of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Eastern Finland
- Prediction of Adult Dyslipidemia Using Genetic and Childhood Clinical Risk Factors - The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2017)
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
- Prediction of adulthood obesity using genetic and childhood clinical risk factors in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2017)
- Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
- Stature and long-term labor market outcomes: Evidence using Mendelian randomization (2017)
- Economics and Human Biology
- The challenges of GxE research: A rejoinder (2017)
- Social Science and Medicine
- Childhood predictors of adult fatty liver. The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2016)
- Journal of Hepatology
- Genetic risk clustering increases children's body weight at 2 years of age - the STEPS Study (2016)
- Pediatric Obesity
- Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new susceptibility loci for childhood body mass index (2016)
- Human Molecular Genetics
- Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease (2016)
- Nature
- Role of Conventional Childhood Risk Factors Versus Genetic Risk in the Development of Type 2 Diabetes and Impaired Fasting Glucose in Adulthood: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2016)
- Diabetes Care
- The Combined Effect of Common Genetic Risk Variants on Circulating Lipoproteins Is Evident in Childhood: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2016)
- PLoS ONE
- A novel common variant in DCST2 is associated with length in early life and height in adulthood (2015)
- Human Molecular Genetics
- Dietary Intake, FTO Genetic Variants, and Adiposity: A Combined Analysis of Over 16,000 Children and Adolescents (2015)
- Diabetes
- Genome-wide association study of sexual maturation in males and females highlights a role for body mass and menarche loci in male puberty (2014)
- Human Molecular Genetics
- High birth weight is associated with obesity and increased carotid wall thickness in young adults: The cardiovascular risk in young finns study (2014)
- Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
- Interactions between genetic variants and dietary lipid composition: effects on circulating LDL cholesterol in children. (2014)
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche (2014)
- Nature
- Associations between serum uric acid and markers of subclinical atherosclerosis in young adults. The cardiovascular risk in Young Finns study (2012)
- Atherosclerosis
- Childhood Physical, Environmental, and Genetic Predictors of Adult Hypertension The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (2012)
- Circulation
- Common variants at 12q15 and 12q24 are associated with infant head circumference (2012)
- Nature Genetics
- Common variants at 6q22 and 17q21 are associated with intracranial volume (2012)
- Nature Genetics