Egil Ferkingstad

Employment

• deCODE Genetics (Iceland) Research scientist
  2024 - Present
• deCODE Genetics Inc Research scientist
  2017 - 2023
• University of Zurich Visting scholar
  2015 - 2015
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology Researcher
  2015 - 2015
• University of Iceland Research Scholar (equiv to Research Associate Professor)
  2014 - 2017
• Norwegian Computing Center Research scientist
  2007 - 2013
• deCODE Genetics Inc Visiting scholar
  2005 - 2005

Education

• University of Oslo PhD, Statistics
  2004 - 2008
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology MSc, Applied mathematics
  1998 - 2003

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (28)

• Large-scale integration of the plasma proteome with genetics and disease
  Nature Genetics 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-021-00978-w
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• Predicting the probability of death using proteomics
  Communications Biology 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02289-6
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• A genome-wide meta-analysis yields 46 new loci associating with biomarkers of iron homeostasis.
  Communications biology 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01575-z
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• Eleven genomic loci affect plasma levels of chronic inflammation marker soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor
  Communications Biology 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02144-8
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• Genetic variability in the absorption of dietary sterols affects the risk of coronary artery disease.
  European heart journal 2020 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa531
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• Predicted loss and gain of function mutations in ACO1 are associated with erythropoiesis.
  Communications biology 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0921-5
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• Assessing thyroid cancer risk using polygenic risk scores.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2020 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919976117
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• Beware the Jaccard: the choice of similarity measure is important and non-trivial in genomic colocalisation analysis
  Briefings in Bioinformatics 2019 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbz083
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• Genome-wide association meta-analysis yields 20 loci associated with gallstone disease
  Nature Communications 2018 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07460-y
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• Fast and accurate Bayesian model criticism and conflict diagnostics using R-INLA
  Stat 2017 DOI: 10.1002/sta4.163
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