Julius Gudmundsson

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2018-2020

Study types

  • meta-analysis 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
  • mesh:D004715 1
meta-analysis 2020
Genome-wide association identifies seven loci for pelvic organ prolapse in Iceland and the UK Biobank
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
Variants associating with uterine leiomyoma highlight genetic background shared by various cancers and hormone-related traits
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…