Publications

Schizophr Res. 2023 Jun 29;258:9-17. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2023.06.008. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Childhood adverse effects and traumatic experiences increase the risk for several psychiatric disorders. We now investigated whether prospectively assessed childhood family environment per se contributes to increased risk for psychotic disorders in adulthood, and whether these family…

Cell Rep Med. 2023 Jun 23:101093. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101093. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from autoimmune destruction of β cells. Insufficient availability of biomarkers represents a significant gap in understanding the disease cause and progression. We conduct blinded, two-phase case-control plasma proteomics on the TEDDY study…

Scand J Public Health. 2023 Jun 30:14034948231183030. doi: 10.1177/14034948231183030. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The effect of breastfeeding duration on childhood lipid levels has remained controversial. In this study, we aimed to establish the long-term associations of breastfeeding duration with future levels of total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein…

J Affect Disord. 2023 Jun 27:S0165-0327(23)00822-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.06.056. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has been posing widespread influence on mental well-being. However, research on the dynamic relations between alcohol use and psychological symptoms in the context of the pandemic and the role of alexithymic traits in…

2023 Mar 29. In: Feingold KR, Anawalt B, Blackman MR, Boyce A, Chrousos G, Corpas E, de Herder WW, Dhatariya K, Dungan K, Hofland J, Kalra S, Kaltsas G, Kapoor N, Koch C, Kopp P, Korbonits M, Kovacs CS, Kuohung W, Laferrère B, Levy M, McGee EA, McLachlan R, New…

Nordisk Alkohol Nark. 2022 Oct;39(5):568-584. doi: 10.1177/14550725221096908. Epub 2022 Jun 9. ABSTRACT Background and aim: Use of nicotine can harm adolescents’ brains and increase risk for future addiction to other drugs. Several international studies show that an acceptable attitude towards nicotine products increases the initiation or use of the products.

Eur J Nutr. 2023 Mar;62(2):847-856. doi: 10.1007/s00394-022-03035-2. Epub 2022 Oct 25. ABSTRACT PURPOSE: The aim was to study the associations between dietary intake of fatty acids in childhood and the risk of islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes (T1D). METHODS: The prospective Finnish Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP)…

Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Nov 11;50(20):11470-11491. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac900. ABSTRACT Nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD) is a highly conserved and selective RNA turnover pathway that depends on the endonuclease SMG6. Here, we show that SMG6 is essential for male germ cell differentiation in mice. Germ-cell conditional knockout (cKO) of Smg6 induces extensive…

Atherosclerosis. 2022 Nov;361:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2022.10.005. Epub 2022 Oct 8. ABSTRACT AIM: We aimed at identifying the shared biological processes underlying atherosclerosis-osteoporosis co/multimorbidity. METHODS: We performed gene set analysis (GSA) of whole-blood transcriptomic data to identify biological processes shared by the early markers of these two diseases. Early markers of diseases,…

Dev Psychopathol. 2021 Dec;33(5):1837-1848. doi: 10.1017/s0954579421001012. Epub 2021 Oct 15. ABSTRACT High levels of early emotionality (of either negative or positive valence) are hypothesized to be important precursors to early psychopathology, with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) a prime early target. The positive and negative affect domains are prime examples of Research…