Papers and preprints

Styrkarsdottir U, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Gretarsdottir S, Gudbjartsson DF, Walters GB, Ingvarsson T, Jonsdottir T, Saemundsdottir J, Snorradóttir S, Center JR, Nguyen TV, Alexandersen P, Gulcher JR, Eisman JA, Christiansen C, Sigurdsson G, Kong A, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K.

New sequence variants associated with bone mineral density

Nature Genetics Jan 41 (2009) 15–7


Thorleifsson, G; Holm, H; Edvardsson, V; Walters, GB; Styrkarsdottir, U; Gudbjartsson, DF; Sulem, P; Bjarni V. Halldórsson; de Vegt, F; d'Ancona, FCH; den Heijer, M; Franzson, L; Christiansen, C; Alexandersen, P; Rafnar, T; Kristjansson, K; Sigurdsson, G; Kiemeney, LA; Bodvarsson, M; Indridason, OS; Palsson, R; Kong, A; Thorsteinsdottir, U; Stefansson K

Sequence variants in the CLDN14 gene associate with kidney stones and bone mineral densityg

Nature Genetics 41(8) (2009) 926–30


Styrkarsdottir, U; Bjarni V. Halldórsson; Gretarsdottir, S; Gudbjartsson, DF; Walters, GB; Ingvarsson, T; Jonsdottir, T; Saemundsdottir, J; Snorradottir, S; Center, JR; Nguyen, TV; Alexandersen, P; Gulcher, JR; Eisman, JA; Christiansen, C; Sigurdsson, G; Kong, A; Thorsteinsdottir, U; Stefansson, K

New sequence variants associated with bone mineral density

Nature Genetics 41(1) (2009) 15–17

ISI:000262085300011


Rivadeneira F, Styrkársdottir U, Estrada K, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Hsu YH, Richards JB, Zillikens MC, Kavvoura FK, Amin N, Aulchenko YS, Cupples LA, Deloukas P, Demissie S, Grundberg E, Hofman A, Kong A, Karasik D, van Meurs JB, Oostra B, Pastinen T, Pols HA, Sigurdsson G, Soranzo N, Thorleifsson G, Thorsteinsdottir U, Williams FM, Wilson SG, Zhou Y, Ralston SH, van Duijn CM, Spector T, Kiel DP, Stefansson K, Ioannidis JP, Uitterlinden AG. the Genetic Factors for Osteoporosis (GEFOS) Consortium

Twenty bone-mineral-density loci identified by large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.

Nature Genetic (2009)

Epub ahead of print


J Evangelou, E; Chapman, K; Meulenbelt, I; Karassa, FB; Loughlin, J; Carr, A; Doherty, M; Doherty, S; Gomez-Reino, JJ; Gonzalez, A; Bjarni V. Halldórsson; Hauksson, VB; Hofman, A; Hart, DJ; Ikegawa, S; Ingvarsson, T; Jiang, Q; Jonsdottir, I; Jonsson, H; Kerkhof, HJM; Kloppenburg, M; Lane, NE; Li, J; Lories, RJ; van Meurs, JBJ; Nakki, A; Nevitt, MC; Rodriguez-Lopez, J; Shi, DQ; Slagboom, E; Stefansson, K; Tsezou, A; Wallis, GA; Watson, CM; Spector, TD; Uitterlinden, AG; Valdes, AM; Ioannidis, JPA

Large-Scale Analysis of Association Between GDF5 and FRZB Variants and Osteoarthritis of the Hip, Knee, and Hand

Arthritis and Rheumatism 60 (2009) 1710–1721


Styrkarsdottir U, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Gretarsdottir S, Gudbjartsson DF, Walters GB, Ingvarsson T, Jonsdottir T, Saemundsdottir J, Center JR, Nguyen TV, Bagger Y, Gulcher JR, Eisman JA, Christiansen C, Sigurdsson G, Kong A, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K.

Multiple genetic loci for bone mineral density and fractures

New England Journal of Medicine 358 (2008) 2355–65


Gottfredsson M, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Jónsson S, Kristjánsson M, Kristjánsson K, Kristinsson KG, Löve A, Blöndal T, Viboud C, Thorvaldsson S, Helgason A, Gulcher JR, Stefánsson K, Jónsdóttir I.

Lessons from the past: familial aggregation analysis of fatal pandemic influenza (Spanish flu) in Iceland in 1918

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (2008) 1303–1308


Stefansson H, Rujescu D, Cichon S, Pietiläinen OP, Ingason A, Steinberg S, Fossdal R, Sigurdsson E, Sigmundsson T, Buizer-Voskamp JE, Hansen T, Jakobsen KD, Muglia P, Francks C, Matthews PM, Gylfason A, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Gudbjartsson D, Thorgeirsson TE, Sigurdsson A, Jonasdottir A, Jonasdottir A, Bjornsson A, Mattiasdottir S, Blondal T, Haraldsson M, Magnusdottir BB, Giegling I, Möller HJ, Hartmann A, Shianna KV, Ge D, Need AC, Crombie C, Fraser G, Walker N, Lonnqvist J, Suvisaari J, Tuulio-Henriksson A, Paunio T, Toulopoulou T, Bramon E, Di Forti M, Murray R, Ruggeri M, Vassos E, Tosato S, Walshe M, Li T, Vasilescu C, Mühleisen TW, Wang AG, Ullum H, Djurovic S, Melle I, Olesen J, Kiemeney LA, Franke B, Sabatti C, Freimer NB, Gulcher JR, Thorsteinsdottir U, Kong A, Andreassen OA, Ophoff RA, Georgi A, Rietschel M, Werge T, Petursson H, Goldstein DB, Nöthen MM, Peltonen L, Collier DA, St Clair D, Stefansson K.

Large recurrent microdeletions associated with schizophrenia

Nature 455 (2008) 232–6


Sigurdsson G, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Styrkarsdottir U, Kristjansson K, Stefansson K.

Impact of genetics on low bone mass in adults

Journal of Bone Mineral Research 23 (2008) 1584–90


Gudbjartsson DF, Walters GB, Thorleifsson G, Stefansson H, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Zusmanovich P, Sulem P, Thorlacius S, Gylfason A, Steinberg S, Helgadottir A, Ingason A, Steinthorsdottir V, Olafsdottir EJ, Olafsdottir GH, Jonsson T, Borch-Johnsen K, Hansen T, Andersen G, Jorgensen T, Pedersen O, Aben KK, Witjes JA, Swinkels DW, den Heijer M, Franke B, Verbeek AL, Becker DM, Yanek LR, Becker LC, Tryggvadottir L, Rafnar T, Gulcher J, Kiemeney LA, Kong A, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K.

Many sequence variants affecting diversity of adult human height

Nature Genetics 40 (2008) 609–615


Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Roded Sharan, Sorin Istrail

Islands of tractability of parsimony haplotyping

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, to appear (2006)


Dannie Durand, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Dannie Durand, Benjamin Vernot

A hybrid Micro-Macroevolutionary Approach to Gene Tree Reconstruction

Journal of Computational Biology 13 (2006) 320–335


Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Sorin Istrail, Andrew G. Clark, Ross Lippert, Fransisco M. De La Vega, F. M. De La Vega, H. Avi-Itzhak, A. Collins, C.R. Scafe, X. Su, R. A. Lippert, Y. Wang, M. Laig-Webster, R. T. Koehler, J.S. Ziegle, L.T. Wogan, J.F. Stevens, K.M. Leinen, S.J. Olson, K.J. Guegler, X. You, L.H. Xu., H.G. Hemken, F. Kalush, A. G. Clark, S. Istrail, M. W. Hunkapiller, E. G. Spier, D. A. Gilbert

The linkage disequilibrium maps of three human chromosomes across four populations reflect their demographic history and a common recombination pattern

Genome Research, to appear (2005)


Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Sorin Istrail, Fransisco M. De La Vega

Optimal selection of SNP markers for disease association studies

Human Heredity 58 (2004) 190–202


Sorin Istrail, Granger G. Sutton, Liliana Florea, Aaron L. Halpern, Clark M. Mobarry, Ross Lippert, Brian Walenz, Hagit Shatkay, Ian Dew, Jason R. Miller, Michael J. Flanigan, Nathan J. Edwards, Randall Bolanos, Daniel Fasulo, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Russell Turner, Shibu Yooseph, Fu Lu, Deborah R. Nusskern, Bixiong Chris Shue, Xiangqun Holly Zheng, Fei Zhong, Arthur L. Delcher, Daniel H. Huson,Saul A. Kravitz, Laurent Mouchard, Knut Reinert, Karin A. Remington, Andrew G. Clark, Michael S. Waterman, Evan E. Eichler, Mark D. Adams, Michael W. Hunkapiller, Eugene W. Myers, J. Craig Venter

Whole Genome Shotgun Assembly and Comparison of Human Genome Assemblies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (2004) 1916–21


Sorin Istrail, Liliana Florea, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Oliver Kohlbacher, Russell S. Schwartz, Von Bing Yap, Jonathan Yewdell, Stephen Hoffman

Comparative Immuno-Peptidomics of Humans and their Pathogens

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(36) (2004) 13268–72


Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Vineet Bafna, Ross Lippert, Russell S. Schwartz, Francisco M. De La Vega, Andrew G. Clark, Sorin Istrail

Optimal haplotype block free selection of tagging SNPs for genome-wide association studies

Genome Research 14(8) (2004) 1633–40


Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Reha Tutuncu

An Interior-Point Method for a Class of Saddle-Point Problems

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 116(3) (2003) 559–590


Russell S. Schwartz, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Vineet Bafna, Andrew G. Clark, Sorin Istrail

Robustness of Inference of Haplotype Block Structure

Journal of Computational Biology 10 (2003) 13–19


Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Magnús Már Halldórsson, R. Ravi, Koen M.J. De Bontridder, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Cor A.H. Hurkens, Jan K. Lenstra, R. Ravi, Leen Stougie

Approximation algorithms for test cover problem

Mathematical Programming-B 98(1-3) (2003) 477–491


Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Alan Frieze

Optimal Sequencing by Hybridization in Rounds

Journal of Computational Biology 9 (2002) 355–369

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