Name: Elin Org (Lõhmussaar)
 
Date of birth: March 5, 1974

Place of birth:

Tartu, Estonia
Citizenship: Estonian
 
  Office:
Address:

Dept. of Biotechnology, 

Inst. of Molecular and Cell Biology, 

University of Tartu

23 Riia St.

Tartu 51010

Estonia

Phone: +372 7 375009
Fax: +372 7 420286
E-mail: elin@ebc.ee
 
 
  Publications:
 
  1. Lamina C, Steffens M, Mueller J, Lõhmussaar E, Meitinger T, Wichmann HE. Genetic diversity in german and European populations: looking for substructures and genetic patterns. Gesundheitswesen. 2005 Aug;67 Suppl 1:S127-31. 

  2. Lõhmussaar E, Gschwendtner A, Mueller JC, Org T, Wichmann E, Hamann G, Meitinger T, Dichgans M. ALOX5AP gene and the PDE4D gene in a central European population of stroke patients. Stroke. 2005 Apr;36(4):731-6. Epub 2005 Feb 24.

  3. Elin Lõhmussaar, Andreas Gschwendtner, Jakob C. Mueller, Tõnis Org, Erich Wichmann, Gerhard Hamann, Thomas Meitinger and Martin Dichgans. The ALOX5AP gene and the PDE4D gene in a Central-European population of stroke patients. Stroke 2005 (in press). 

  4. Jakob C. Mueller*, Elin Lõhmussaar*, Reedik Mägi, Maido Remm, Thomas Bettecken, Peter Lichtner, Saskia Biskup, Thomas Illig, Arne Pfeufer, Jan Luedemann, Stefan Schreiber, Peter Pramstaller, Irene Pichler, Giovanni Romeo, Anthony Gaddi, Alessandra Testa, Heinz-Erich Wichmann, Andres Metspalu and Thomas Meitinger. Linkage disequilibrium patterns and tagSNP transferability among European populations. Am J Hum Genet 2005 Jan 6;76 (3).

  5. Binder EB, Salyakina D, Lichtner P, Wochnik GM, Ising M, Putz B, Papiol S, Seaman S, Lucae S, Kohli MA, Nickel T, Kunzel HE, Fuchs B, Majer M, Pfennig A, Kern N, Brunner J, Modell S, Baghai T, Deiml T, Zill P, Bondy B, Rupprecht R, Messer T, Kohnlein O, Dabitz H, Bruckl T, Muller N, Pfister H, Lieb R, Mueller JC, Lohmussaar E, Strom TM, Bettecken T, Meitinger T, Uhr M, Rein T, Holsboer F, Muller-Myhsok B. Polymorphisms in FKBP5 are associated with increased recurrence of depressive episodes and rapid response to antidepressant treatment. Nat Genet. 2004 Dec; 36(12):1319-25. Epub 2004 Nov 21.

  6. Dawson E, Abecasis GR, Bumpstead S, Chen Y, Hunt S, Beare DM, Pabial J, Dibling T, Tinsley E, Kirby S, Carter D, Papaspyridonos M, Livingstone S, Ganske R, Lohmussaar E, Zernant J, Tonisson N, Remm M, Magi R, Puurand T, Vilo J, Kurg A, Rice K, Deloukas P, Mott R, Metspalu A, Bentley DR, Cardon LR, Dunham I. A first-generation linkage disequilibrium map of human chromosome 22. Nature. 2002 Aug 1; 418(6897): 544-8.

  7. Tõnisson, N., Kurg, A., Lõhmussaar, E., Metspalu, A. Arrayed primer extension on the DNA chip - method and applications. In "DNA Microarrayes: Biology and Technology" Ed by M. Schena (2000) BioTechniques Books ISBN 1-881299-37-6, 247-263.

  8. Tõnisson N, Kurg A, Kaasik K, Lõhmussaar E ,Metspalu A. Unravelling Genetic Data by Arrayed Primer Extension. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2000, 38 (2), 165-177. By Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York.