Selected publications

Piratsu N*, Cordioli M*,  Nandakumar P,  Mignogna G, […], Nivard MG*, Perry J*, Ganna A*. Genetic analyses identify widespread sex-differential participation bias. Nature Genetics. 2021

The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative, Neale BM*, Daly MJ*, Ganna A* Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19. Nature. 2021

Jukarainen S, Kiiskinen T, Havulinna SA, Karjalainen J, Cordioli M, […], Ganna A. Genetic risk factors have a substantial impact on healthy life years. Nature Medicine. 2022

Hartonen T*, Jermy B*, Sõnajalg H, Vartiainen P, Krebs K, Vabalas A, FinnGen, Estonian Biobank Research Team, Leino T, Nohynek H, Sivelä J, Mägi R, Daly MJ, Ollila HM, Milani L, Perola M, Ripatti S, Ganna A. Nationwide health, socio-economic and genetic predictors of COVID-19 vaccination status in Finland. Nature Human Behaviour. 2023

Mignogna G, Carey EC, Wedow R, Baya N, Cordioli M, Piratsu N, Bellocco R, Nivard MG, Neale BM, Walters KR*, Ganna A*. Patterns of item nonresponse behavior to survey questionnaires are systematic and have a genetic basis. Nature Human Behaviour. 2023.

Wharrie S, Yang Z, Ganna A, Kaski S. Characterizing personalized effects of family information on disease risk using graph representation learning. MLHC 2023

Wharrie S*, Yang Z*, Raj V*, Monti R, Gupta R, Wang Y, Martin A, O’Connor LJ, Kaski S, Marttinen P, Palamara P*, Lippert C*, Ganna A*. HAPNEST: efficient, large-scale generation and evaluation of synthetic datasets for genotypes and phenotypes. Bioinformatics. 2023

Lee J, Jukarainen S, Dixon P, Davies NM, Davey Smith, G, Natarajan P, Ganna A. Quantifying the causal impact of biological risk factors on healthcare costs. Nature Communications. 2023

Vartiainen P, Jukarainen S, Rhedin SA, Prinz A, Hartonen T, Vabalas A, Viippola E, Rodosthenous RS, Kuitunen S, Liu A, Lundholm C, Smew AI, Osvald EC, Helle E, Perola M, Almqvist C, Heinonen S*, Ganna A*. Risk factors for severe respiratory syncytial virus infection during the first year of life: development and validation of a clinical prediction model. Lancet Digital Health. 2023

Liu A, Akimova TA, Ding X, Jukarainen S, Vartiainen P, […], Mills CM*, Ganna A*. Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women. Nature Human Behaviour. 2023


Current preprints

Liu A*, Genovese G*, Zhao Y*, […], FinnGen, BCAC, MVP, Loh P*, Ganna A*, Perry, JRB*, Machiela MJ*. Population analyses of mosaic X chromosome loss identify genetic drivers and widespread signatures of cellular selection. medRxiv. 2023

Jermy B*, Läll K, Wolford B*, Wang Y, […] Mars N, Ganna A*, Ripatti S*. A unified framework for estimating country-specific cumulative incidence for 18 diseases stratified by polygenic risk. medRxiv, 2023

Cordioli M*, Corbetta A*, Kariis HM, Jukarainen S, Vartiainen P, Kiiskinen T, Ferro M, FinnGen, Estonian Biobank research team, Lehto K, Niemi M, Ripatti S, Milani L, Ganna A. Socio-demographic and genetic risk factors for drug adherence and persistence: a retrospective nation-wide and biobank study across 5 medication classes and 1 814 521 individuals. medRxiv, 2023

Yang Z, Pajuste F, Zguro K, […] Ripatti S, Mars N, Ganna A. Limited overlap between genetic effects on disease susceptibility and disease survival. medRxiv, 2023

Vabalas A, Hartonen T, Vartiainen P, Jukarainen S, Viippola E, Rodosthenous RS, Liu A, Hägg S, Perola M, Ganna A. Deep learning-based prediction of one-year mortality in the entire Finnish population is an accurate but unfair digital marker of aging. medRxiv, 2023


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