Tōnu Esko

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Genetic Associations and Epidemiology(350), Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease(74), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals(69), Genomics and Rare Diseases(57), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation(48)

Publications676 total

Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies.
Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva)·2026Open Access
The impact of environmental exposures on DNA methylation in the EXPANSE project
EBioMedicine·2025Open Access
Genome-wide association study and polygenic risk prediction of hypothyroidism
Nature Genetics·2025Open Access
Exploring penetrance of clinically relevant variants in over 800,000 humans from the Genome Aggregation Database
Nature Communications·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference
2025Open Access
Trans-eQTL mapping prioritises USP18 as a negative regulator of interferon response at a lupus risk locus
Nature Communications·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Leveraging transdiagnostic genetic liability to psychiatric disorders to dissect clinical outcomes of anorexia nervosa
Molecular Psychiatry·2025Open Access
Cohort Profiles: Personality Measurements at the Estonian Biobank of the Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu
2025Open Access
Author response for "Cohort Profiles: Personality Measurements at the Estonian Biobank of the Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu"
2025
A cross-disorder analysis of CNVs finds novel loci and dose-dependent relationships of genes to psychiatric traits
2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Psychiatric disorders converge on common pathways but diverge in cellular context, spatial distribution, and directionality of genetic effects
2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Associations of healthy lifestyle and genetic susceptibility with risks of osteoarthritis: a prospective cohort study
Lara D. Veeken·2025
An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference
2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The effect of LRRK2 loss-of-function variants in humans
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
Author Correction: The effect of LRRK2 loss-of-function variants in humans
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
Diagnosing migraine from genome-wide genotype data: a machine learning analysis
Brain·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Genetic Landscape of the ACE2 Coronavirus Receptor
UNC Libraries·2025Open Access
The Estonian Biobank’s journey from biobanking to personalized medicine
Nature Communications·2025· 38 citedOpen Access
Familial similarity and heritability of personality traits and life satisfaction are higher than shown in typical single-method studies.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Leveraging primary health care data from Estonian Biobank to find novel genetic associations
2025Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Reedik Mägi(21), Massimo Mangino(18), Teresa Ferreira(15), Anne Jackson(15), Stefan Gustafsson(15), Najaf Amin(14), Jian’an Luan(14), Jian Yang(13), Zoltán Kutalik(13), Mary F. Feitosa(13), Krista Fischer(13), Åsa Johansson(13), Guðmar Þorleifsson(13), Lori L. Bonnycastle(12), Sailaja Vedantam(12), Andrew R. Wood(12), Marcus E. Kleber(12), Inga Prokopenko(12), Eva Albrecht(12), Evelin Mihailov(12)