Hreinn Stefánsson

ORCID: 0000-0002-9331-6666 · 5 papers in corpus
article 2025
The burden of endometriosis on quality of life in Danish women: an analysis of the Danish Blood Donor Study
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…

preprint 2018
Large-scale genome-wide association meta-analysis of endometriosis reveals 13 novel loci and genetically-associated comorbidity with other pain conditions
·doi:10.1101/406967

Abstract Endometriosis is a common complex inflammatory condition characterised by the presence of endometrium-like tissue outside the uterus, mainly in the pelvic area. It is associated with chronic pelvic pain and infertility, and its pat…

article 2002
Genetic factors contributing to the risk of endometriosis: data from a population-based study
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)03074-6
article 2002
Linkage or association to the GALT gene on chromosome 9 is not demonstrable in endometriosis
·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)03073-4
article 2001
Endometriosis is not associated with or linked to the GALT gene
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(01)02862-x

ObjectiveTo investigate a possible association between the carrier frequency of the N314D mutation in the galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase (GALT) gene and endometriosis and linkage to the short arm of chromosome 9, where the GALT ge…