Interrogating the genetic determinants of Tourette's syndrome and other tic disorders through genome-wide association studies

…, E Sæmundsen, Ó Thorarensen… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Tourette’s syndrome is polygenic and highly heritable. Genome-wide association
study (GWAS) approaches are useful for interrogating the genetic architecture and …

Large-scale whole-genome sequencing of the Icelandic population

…, G Bjornsdottir, JJ Jonsson, O Thorarensen… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Here we describe the insights gained from sequencing the whole genomes of 2,636 Icelanders
to a median depth of 20×. We found 20 million SNPs and 1.5 million insertions-deletions (…

Trends in prevalence and characteristics of cerebral palsy among Icelandic children born 1990 to 2003

…, M Halldórsdóttir, O Thorarensen… - … medicine & child …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To describe trends in cerebral palsy (CP) prevalence, severity, and associated
impairments among 139 Icelandic children (65 males, 74 females) born from 1990 to 1996 (period …

Factor V Leiden mutation: an unrecognized cause of hemiplegic cerebral palsy, neonatal stroke, and placental thrombosis

O Thorarensen, S Ryan, J Hunter… - Annals of Neurology …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Activated protein C resistance caused by an Arg 506 Gln mutation in the factor V gene (factor
V Leiden mutation) is the most common cause of familial thrombosis. This mutation is …

[HTML][HTML] Rare variants with large effects provide functional insights into the pathology of migraine subtypes, with and without aura

…, J Olesen, P Ludvigsson, O Thorarensen… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Migraine is a complex neurovascular disease with a range of severity and symptoms, yet
mostly studied as one phenotype in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Here we …

Morning glory disc anomaly and moyamoya vessels

M Massaro, O Thorarensen, GT Liu… - Archives of …, 1998 - jamanetwork.com
unusual synkinesis in a 10-yearold boy. On the sixth day of life a neuroblastoma was removed
from the right side of his neck. A rightsided Horner syndrome and paresis of the recurrent …

Longterm outcomes of temporomandibular joints in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: 17 years of followup of a nordic juvenile idiopathic arthritis cohort

…, P Frid, ED Arnstad, M Rygg, O Thorarensen… - The Journal of …, 2020 - jrheum.org
Objective. To determine the prevalence of orofacial symptoms, dysfunctions, and deformities
of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) 17 years after …

[HTML][HTML] Population-level deficit of homozygosity unveils CPSF3 as an intellectual disability syndrome gene

…, JG Jonasson, OT Magnusson, O Thorarensen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Predicting the pathogenicity of biallelic missense variants can be challenging. Here, we use
a deficit of observed homozygous carriers of missense variants, versus an expected number …

Posterior cervical spinal cord infarction following vertebral artery dissection

CAG Bergqvist, HI Goldberg, O Thorarensen, SJ Bird - Neurology, 1997 - AAN Enterprises
… Goldberg, MD; Olafur Thorarensen, MD; and Shawn J. Bird, MD … Bergqvist and
Thorarensen), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Departments of Radiology (Dr …

[HTML][HTML] NANS-CDG: delineation of the genetic, biochemical, and clinical spectrum

…, MEH Simon, K Stefansson, Ó Thorarensen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: NANS-CDG is a recently described congenital disorder of glycosylation caused
by biallelic genetic variants in NANS, encoding an essential enzyme in de novo sialic acid …