Thorunn Rafnar

ORCID: 0000-0003-0491-7046 · 3 papers in corpus · active 2018-2025

Study types

  • meta-analysis 2
  • article 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
article 2025
BMC medicine ·doi:10.1186/s12916-025-04398-z

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a complex condition with a wide range of comorbidities. It is widely underdiagnosed, with a diagnostic delay of 4 to 10 years, potentially leading to worsened disease progression and a higher burden of comorbidi…

meta-analysis 2020
Communications biology ·doi:10.1038/s42003-020-0857-9

Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a downward descent of one or more of the pelvic organs, resulting in a protrusion of the vaginal wall and/or uterus. We performed a genome-wide association study of POP using data from Iceland and the UK Bioba…

meta-analysis 2018
Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05428-6

Uterine leiomyomas are common benign tumors of the myometrium. We performed a meta-analysis of two genome-wide association studies of leiomyoma in European women (16,595 cases and 523,330 controls), uncovering 21 variants at 16 loci that as…