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2010
 
1. Isabel Fortier, Paul R Burton, Paula J Robson, Vincent Ferretti, Julian Little, Francois L’Heureux, Mylène Deschênes, Bartha M Knoppers, Dany Doiron, Joost C Keers, Pamela Linksted, Jennifer R Harris, Geneviève Lachance, Catherine Boileau, Nancy L Pedersen, Carol M Hamilton, Kristian Hveem, Marilyn J Borugian, Richard P Gallagher, John McLaughlin, Louise Parker, John D Potter, John Gallacher, Rudolf Kaaks, Bette Liu, Tim Sprosen, Anne Vilain, Susan A Atkinson, Andrea Rengifo, Robin Morton, Andres Metspalu, H Erich Wichmann, Mark Tremblay, Rex L Chisholm, Andrés Garcia-Montero, Hans Hillege, Jan-Eric Litton, Lyle J Palmer, Markus Perola, Bruce HR Wolffenbuttel, Leena Peltonen, and Thomas J Hudson
Quality, quantity and harmony: the DataSHaPER approach to integrating data across bioclinical studies
IJE Advance Access published on September 2, 2010.
doi:10.1093/ije/dyq139 PDF

 
2. Jüri Allik, Anu Realo, René Mõttus, Tõnu Esko, Janne Pullat and Andres Metspalu
Variance determines self-observer agreement on the Big Five personality traits
Journal of Research in Personality
Volume 44, Issue 4, August 2010, Pages 421-426
 
3. Nagirnaja L, Rull K, Uusküla L, Hallast P, Grigorova M, Laan M (2010) Genomics and genetics of gonadotropin beta subunit genes: unique FSHB and duplicated LHB/CGB loci. Mol Cell Endocrinol, May 19. [Epub ahead of print]; doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2010.04.024
  
4. Männik J, Vaas P, Rull K, Teesalu P, Rebane T, Laan M (2010) Differential Expression Profile of Growth Hormone/Chorionic Somatomammotropin Genes in Placenta of Small- and Large-for-Gestational-Age Newborns. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 95(5):2433-42
  
5. Kepp K, Org E, Sõber S, Kelgo P, Viigimaa M, Veldre G, Tõnisson N, Juhanson P, Putku M, Kindmark A, Kozich V, Laan M (2010) Hypervariable intronic region in NCX1 is enriched in short insertion-deletion polymorphisms and showed association with cardiovascular traits. BMC Med Genet 11:15.
  
6. Sõber S, Laan M, Annilo T (2010) MicroRNAs miR-124 and miR-135a are potential regulators of the mineralocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C2) expression. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 391(1): 727-32.
 
7. Grigorova M, Punab M, Poolamets O, Kelgo P, Ausmees K, Korrovits P, Vihljajev V, Laan M (2010) Increased Prevalance of the 211 T Allele of Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) Subunit Promoter Polymorphism and Lower Serum FSH in Infertile Men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95(1): 100-108.
 
8. Nikopensius T, Birnbaum S, Ludwig KU, Jagomägi T, Saag M, Herms S, Knapp M, Hoffmann P, Nöthen MM, Metspalu A, Mangold E. Susceptibility locus for nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate on chromosome 10q25 confers risk in Estonian patients. Eur J Oral Sci 2010; 118: 317-319.
 
9. Jagomägi T, Nikopensius T, Krjutškov K, Tammekivi V, Viltrop T, Saag M, Metspalu A. MTHFR and MSX1 contribute to the risk of nonsyndromic cleft lip/palate. Eur J Oral Sci 2010; 118: 213-220.
  
10. Lauris Kaplinski, Ott Scheler, Sven Parkel, Priit Palta, Kadri Toome, Ants Kurg and Maido Remm
Detection of tmRNA molecules on microarrays at low temperatures using helper oligonucleotides
BMC Biotechnology 2010, 10:34
 
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Sequence variants at CHRNB3-CHRNA6 and CYP2A6 affect smoking behavior Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Ida Surakka, Jacqueline M. Vink, Najaf Amin, Frank Geller, Patrick Sulem, Thorunn Rafnar, Tõnu Esko, Stefan Walter, Christian Gieger, Rajesh Rawal, Massimo Mangino, Inga Prokopenko , Reedik Mägi, Kaisu Keskitalo, Iris H. Gudjonsdottir, Solveig Gretarsdottir, Hreinn Stefansson, John R. Thompson, Yurii S. Aulchenko, Mari Nelis, Katja K. Aben, Martin den Heijer, Asger Dirksen, Haseem Ashraf, Nicole Soranzo, Ana M Valdes, Claire Steves, André G Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, Anke Tönjes, Peter Kovacs, Jouke Jan Hottenga, Gonneke Willemsen, Nicole Vogelzangs, Angela Döring, Norbert Dahmen, Barbara Nitz, Michele L. Pergadia, Berta Saez, Veronica De Diego, Victoria Lezcano, Maria D. Garcia-Prats, Samuli Ripatti, Markus Perola, Johannes Kettunen, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Anneli Pouta, Jaana Laitinen, Matti Isohanni, Shen Huei-Yi, Maxine Allen, Maria Krestyaninova, Alistair S Hall, Gregory T. Jones, Andre M. van Rij, Thomas Mueller, Benjamin Dieplinger, Meinhard Haltmayer, Steinn Jonsson, Stefan E. Matthiasson, Hogni Oskarsson, Thorarinn Tyrfingsson, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Jose I. Mayordomo, Jes S Lindholt, Jesper Holst Pedersen, Wilbur A. Franklin, Holly Wolf, Grant W. Montgomery, Andrew C. Heath, Nicholas G. Martin, Pamela A.F. Madden, Ina Giegling, Dan Rujescu, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin, Veikko Salomaa, Michael Stumvoll,Tim D Spector, H-Erich Wichmann, Andres Metspalu, Nilesh J. Samani, Brenda W. Penninx, Ben A. Oostra, Dorret I. Boomsma, Henning Tiemeier, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Jaakko Kaprio, Jeffrey R. Gulcher, The ENGAGE Consortium, Mark I. McCarthy, Leena Peltonen , Unnur Thorsteinsdottir1, Kari Stefansson
Nat Genet. 2010 May;42(5):448-53.
 

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Braschinsky M, Rannikmäe K, Tamm R, Metspalu A, Gross-Paju K, Haldre S.
Hereditaarset spastilist parapleegiat süsteemselt käsitlenud uuring Eestis tõi esile uusi andmeid.
Eesti Arst, 2010, 89(3), 165 - 170.
 

13.

Tamm R, Saks K, Pääsuke M. Research on ageing and longevity in Estonia. Reviews in Clinical Gerontology 2010; 20(3): x - x.
  

14.

Maron E, Hettema JM, Shlik J.
Advances in molecular genetics of panic disorder.
Mol Psychiatry. 2010 Jan 5.
 

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Braschinsky M, Tamm R, Beetz C, Sachez-Ferrero E, Raukas E, Luus SM, Gross-Paju K, Boillot C, Canzian F, Metspalu A, Haldre S
Unique spectrum of SPAST variants in Estonian HSP patients: presence of benign missense changes but lack of exonic rearrangements.

BMC Neurol. 2010 Mar 9;10(1):17.
  

16.

Tamm R.
Novel human pathological mutations. Gene symbol: SPAST. Disease: Hereditary spastic paraplegia.
Hum Genet. 2010 Jan;127(1):112.

 

17.

Saare M, Lamp M, Kaart T, Karro H, Kadastik U, Metspalu A, Peters M, Salumets A.
Polymorphisms in MMP-2 and MMP-9 promoter regions are associated with endometriosis.

Fertil Steril. 2010 Jan 23.
 

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Theodoraki EV, Nikopensius T, Suhorutsenko J, Peppes V, Fili P, Kolovou G, Papamikos V, Richter D, Zakopoulos N, Krjutskov K, Metspalu A, Dedoussis GV.
Fibrinogen beta variants confer protection against coronary artery disease in a Greek case-control study.
BMC Med Genet. 2010 Feb 18;11(1):28.

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R. G. Walters, S. Jacquemont, A. Valsesia, A. J. de Smith, D. Martinet, J. Andersson, M. Falchi, F. Chen, J. Andrieux, S. Lobbens, B. Delobel, F. Stutzmann, J. S. El-Sayed Moustafa, J.-C. Chèvre, C. Lecoeur, V. Vatin, S. Bouquillon, J. L. Buxton, O. Boute, M. Holder-Espinasse, J.-M. Cuisset, M.-P. Lemaitre, A.-E. Ambresin, A. Brioschi, M. Gaillard, V. Giusti, F. Fellmann, A. Ferrarini, N. Hadjikhani, D. Campion, A. Guilmatre, A. Goldenberg, N. Calmels, J.-L. Mandel, C. Le Caignec, A. David, B. Isidor, M.-P. Cordier, S. Dupuis-Girod, A. Labalme, D. Sanlaville, M. Béri-Dexheimer, P. Jonveaux, B. Leheup, K. Õunap, E. G. Bochukova, E. Henning, J. Keogh, R. J. Ellis, K. D. MacDermot, M. M. van Haelst, C. Vincent-Delorme, G. Plessis, R. Touraine, A. Philippe, V. Malan, M. Mathieu-Dramard, J. Chiesa, B. Blaumeiser, R. F. Kooy, R. Caiazzo, M. Pigeyre, B. Balkau, R. Sladek, S. Bergmann, V. Mooser, D. Waterworth, A. Reymond, P. Vollenweider, G. Waeber, A. Kurg, P. Palta, T. Esko, A. Metspalu, M. Nelis, P. Elliott, A.-L. Hartikainen, M. I. McCarthy, L. Peltonen, L. Carlsson, P. Jacobson, L. Sjöström, N. Huang, M. E. Hurles, S. O’Rahilly, I. S. Farooqi, K. Männik, M.-R. Jarvelin, F. Pattou, D. Meyre, A. J. Walley, L. J. M. Coin, A. I. F. Blakemore, P. Froguel & J. S. Beckmann
A new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11.2
Nature. 2010 Feb 4;463(7281):671-5. PDF
 

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Karla V. Allebrandt, Maris Teder-Laving, Mahmut Akyol, Irene Pichler, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Peter Pramstaller, Martha Merrow, Thomas Meitinger, Andreas Metspalu, and Till Roenneberg
CLOCK Gene Variants Associate with Sleep Duration in Two Independent Populations
BIOL PSYCHIATRY 2010;xx:xxx, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.12.026, PDF

 

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Patrick T Ellinor, Kathryn L Lunetta, Nicole L Glazer, Arne Pfeufer, Alvaro Alonso,
Mina K Chung, Moritz F Sinner, Paul I W de Bakker, Martina Mueller, Steven A Lubitz, Ervin Fox, Dawood Darbar, Nicholas L Smith, Jonathan D Smith, Renate B Schnabel, Elsayed Z Soliman, Kenneth M Rice, David R Van Wagoner, Britt-M Beckmann, Charlotte van Noord, Ke Wang, Georg B Ehret, Jerome I Rotter, Stanley L Hazen, Gerhard Steinbeck, Albert V Smith, Lenore J Launer, Tamara B Harris, Seiko Makino, Mari Nelis, David J Milan, Siegfried Perz, Tõnu Esko, Anna Köttgen, Susanne Moebus, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Man Li, Stefan Möhlenkamp, Thomas J Wang, W H Linda Kao, Ramachandran S Vasan, Markus M Nöthen, Calum A MacRae, Bruno H Ch Stricker, Albert Hofman, André G Uitterlinden, Daniel Levy, Eric Boerwinkle, Andres Metspalu, Eric J Topol, Aravinda Chakravarti, Vilmundur Gudnason, Bruce M Psaty, Dan M Roden, Thomas Meitinger, H-Erich Wichmann, Jacqueline C M Witteman, John Barnard, Dan E Arking, Emelia J Benjamin, Susan R Heckbert & Stefan Kääb
Common variants in KCNN3 are associated with lone atrial fibrillation
Nat Genet. 2010 Mar;42(3):240-4, PDF
  

 
2009
   
1. Viltrop T, Krjutškov K, Palta P, Metspalu A.
Comparison of DNA extraction methods for multiplex PCR.
Anal Biochem. 2010 Mar 15;398(2):260-2.  PDF
  
2. Theodoraki EV, Nikopensius T, Suhorutšenko J, Papamikos V, Kolovou GD,
Peppes V, Panagiotakos D, Limberi S, Zakopoulos N, Metspalu A,
Dedoussis GV.
ROS1 Asp2213Asn polymorphism is not associated with coronary artery
disease in a Greek case-control study.
Clin Chem Lab Med. 2009 Oct 28.
 

3.

Nikopensius T, Ambrozaitytė L, Ludwig KU, Birnbaum S, Jagomägi T, Saag M, Matulevičienė A, Linkevičienė L, Herms S, Knapp M, Hoffmann P, Nöthen MM, Kučinskas V, Metspalu A, Mangold E.
Replication of novel susceptibility locus for nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate on chromosome 8q24 in Estonian and Lithuanian patients.
Am J Med Genet A. 2009 Oct 16;149A(11):2551-2553. PDF
  

4.

M. Kuningas, L. May, R. Tamm, D. van Bodegom, A H.J. van den Biggelaar,
J. J. Meij, M. Frölich, J. B. Ziem, H. E.D. Suchiman,  A. Metspalu, E. P. Slagboom and R. G.J. Westendorp.
Selection for Genetic Variation Inducing Pro-Inflammatory Responses under Adverse Environmental Conditions in a Ghanaian Population. PlosOne, 2009. PDF
 

5.

Maria Teresa Landi, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Kai Yu, Lynn R. Goldin, Alisa M. Goldstein,
Melissa Rotunno, Lisa Mirabello, Kevin Jacobs, William Wheeler, Meredith Yeager,
Andrew W. Bergen, Qizhai Li, Dario Consonni, Angela C. Pesatori, Sholom Wacholder, Michael Thun, Ryan Diver, Martin Oken, Jarmo Virtamo, Demetrius Albanes, Zhaoming Wang, Laurie Burdette, Kimberly F. Doheny, Elizabeth W. Pugh, Cathy Laurie, Paul Brennan, Rayjean Hung, Valerie Gaborieau, James D. McKay, Mark Lathrop, John McLaughlin, Ying Wang, Ming-Sound Tsao, Margaret R. Spitz, Yufei Wang, Hans Krokan, Lars Vatten, Frank Skorpen, Egil Arnesen, Simone Benhamou, Christine Bouchard, Andres Metsapalu, Tonu Vooder, Mari Nelis, Kristian Välk, John K. Field, Chu Chen, Gary Goodman, Patrick Sulem, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Thorunn Rafnar, Timothy Eisen, Wiebke Sauter, Albert Rosenberger, Heike Bickebo¨ller, Angela Risch, Jenny Chang-Claude, H. Erich Wichmann, Kari Stefansson, Richard Houlston,16 Christopher I. Amos, Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr., Sharon A. Savage, Pier Alberto Bertazzi, Margaret A. Tucker, Stephen Chanock, and Neil E. Caporaso
A Genome-wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Identifies a Region of Chromosome 5p15 Associated with Risk for Adenocarcinoma
The American Journal of Human Genetics 85, 1–13, November 13, 2009 PDF
 

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Soh J, Okumura N, Lockwood WW, Yamamoto H, Shigematsu H, Zhang W, Chari R, Shames DS, Tang X, Macaulay C, Varella-Garcia M, Vooder T, Wistuba II, Lam S, Brekken R, Toyooka S, Minna JD, Lam WL, Gazdar AF.
Oncogene Mutations, Copy Number Gains and Mutant Allele Specific Imbalance (MASI) Frequently Occur Together in Tumor Cells.

PLoS One
. 2009 Oct 14;4(10):e7464.
 

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Lips EH, Gaborieau V, McKay JD, Chabrier A, Hung RJ, Boffetta P, Hashibe M, Zaridze D, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Lissowska J, Rudnai P, Fabianova E, Mates D, Bencko V, Foretova L, Janout V, Field JK, Liloglou T, Xinarianos G, McLaughlin J, Liu G, Skorpen F, Elvestad MB, Hveem K, Vatten L, Study E, Benhamou S, Lagiou P, Holc?tov? I, Merletti F, Kjaerheim K, Agudo A, Castellsagué X, Macfarlane TV, Barzan L, Canova C, Lowry R, Conway DI, Znaor A, Healy C, Curado MP, Koifman S, Eluf-Neto J, Matos E, Menezes A, Fernandez L, Metspalu A, Heath S, Lathrop M, Brennan P.
Association between a 15q25 gene variant, smoking quantity and tobacco-related cancers among 17 000 individuals.
Int J Epidemiol. 2009 Sep 23.
 
8. Annilo T, Kepp K, Laan M. Natural antisense transcript of natriuretic peptide precursor A (NPPA): structural organization and modulation of NPPA expression.
BMC Mol Biol. 2009 Aug 11;10:81. PDF
  
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Sõber S, Org E, Kepp K, Juhanson P, Eyheramendy S, Gieger C, Lichtner P, Klopp N, Veldre G, Viigimaa M, Döring A, Putku M, Kelgo P, Shaw-Hawkins S, Howard P, Onipinla A, Dobson RJ, Newhouse SJ, Brown M, Dominiczak A, Connell J, Samani N, Farrall M, Caulfield M, Munroe PB, Illig T, Wichmann HE, Meitinger T, Laan M (2009) Targeting 160 candidate genes for blood pressure regulation with a genome-wide genotyping array. PLoS ONE 4(6): e6034, p. 1-13; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006034
   

10. Hallast P, Laan M (2009) Evolution of the chorionic gonadotropin beta genes in primates. In: Encyclopedia of Life Science (ELS), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. p. 1-12; DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0021966
  
11. Org E, Eyheramendy S, Juhanson P, Gieger C, Lichtner P, Klopp N, Veldre G, Döring A, Viigimaa M, Sõber S, Tomberg K, Eckstein G, KORA, Kelgo P, Rebane T, Shaw-Hawkins S, Howard P, Onipinla A, Dobson RJ, Newhouse SJ, Brown M, Dominiczak A, Connell J, Samani N, Farrall M, BRIGHT, Caulfield M, Munroe PB, Illig T, Wichmann HE, Meitinger T, Laan M (2009) Genome-wide scan identifies CDH13 as a novel susceptibility locus contributing to blood pressure determination in two European populations. Hum Mol Genet 18: 2288-2296; doi:10.1093/hmg/ddp198
  
12, Newton-Cheh C, Johnson T, Gateva V, Tobin MD, Bochud M, Coin L, Najjar SS, Zhao JH, Heath SC, Eyheramendy S, Papadakis K, Voight BF, Scott LJ, Zhang F, Farrall M, Tanaka T, Wallace C, Chambers JC, Khaw KT, Nilsson P, van der Harst P, Polidoro S, Grobbee DE, Onland-Moret NC, Bots ML, Wain LV, Elliott KS, Teumer A, Luan J, Lucas G, Kuusisto J, Burton PR, Hadley D, McArdle WL; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Brown M, Dominiczak A, Newhouse SJ, Samani NJ, Webster J, Zeggini E, Beckmann JS, Bergmann S, Lim N, Song K, Vollenweider P, Waeber G, Waterworth DM, Yuan X, Groop L, Orho-Melander M, Allione A, Di Gregorio A, Guarrera S, Panico S, Ricceri F, Romanazzi V, Sacerdote C, Vineis P, Barroso I, Sandhu MS, Luben RN, Crawford GJ, Jousilahti P, Perola M, Boehnke M, Bonnycastle LL, Collins FS, Jackson AU, Mohlke KL, Stringham HM, Valle TT, Willer CJ, Bergman RN, Morken MA, Döring A, Gieger C, Illig T, Meitinger T, Org E, Pfeufer A, Wichmann HE, Kathiresan S, Marrugat J, O'Donnell CJ , Schwartz SM, Siscovick DS, Subirana I, Freimer NB, Hartikainen AL, McCarthy MI, O'Reilly PF, Peltonen L, Pouta A, de Jong PE, Snieder H, van Gilst WH, Clarke R, Goel A, Hamsten A, Peden JF, Seedorf U, Syvänen AC, Tognoni G, Lakatta EG, Sanna S, Scheet P, Schlessinger D, Scuteri A, Dörr M, Ernst F, Felix SB, Homuth G, Lorbeer R, Reffelmann T, Rettig R, Völker U, Galan P, Gut IG, Hercberg S, Lathrop GM, Zelenika D, Deloukas P, Soranzo N, Williams FM, Zhai G, Salomaa V, Laakso M, Elosua R, Forouhi NG, Völzke H, Uiterwaal CS, van der Schouw YT, Numans ME, Matullo G, Navis G, Berglund G, Bingham SA, Kooner JS, Connell JM, Bandinelli S, Ferrucci L, Watkins H, Spector TD, Tuomilehto J, Altshuler D, Strachan DP, Laan M, Meneton P, Wareham NJ, Uda M, Jarvelin MR, Mooser V, Melander O, Loos RJ, Elliott P, Abecasis GR, Caulfield M, Munroe PB (2009) Eight blood pressure loci identified by genomewide association study of 34,433 people of European ancestry.  Nature Genet 41: 666 – 676; DOI: 10.1038/ng.384
   
13. Newhouse S, Farrall M, Wallace C, Hoti M, Burke B, Howard P, Onipinla A, Lee K, Shaw-Hawkins S, Dobson R, Brown M, Samani N, Dominiczak A, Connell JM, Webster J, Lathrop GM, Kooner J, Clarke R, Collins R, Laan M, Org E, Juhanson P, Veldre G, Viigimaa M, Eyheramendy S, Cappuccio FP, Ji C, Iacone R, Strazzullo P, Kumari M, Marmot M, Brunner E, Caulfield M, Munroe PB (2009) Polymorphisms in the WNK1 gene are associated with blood pressure variation and urinary potassium excretion. PLoS ONE 4(4): e5003, p. 1-14; doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005003
  
14. Ott Scheler, Barry Glynn, Sven Parkel, Priit Palta, Kadri Toome, Lauris Kaplinski, Maido Remm, Majella Maher and Ants Kurg 
Fluorescent labeling of NASBA amplified tmRNA molecules for microarray applications
BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9:45
doi:10.1186/1472-6750-9-45, PDF
  
15. Mari Nelis, Tõnu Esko, Reedik Mägi, Fritz Zimprich, Alexander Zimprich, Draga Toncheva, Sena Karachanak, Tereza Piskáčková, Ivan Balaščák, Leena Peltonen, Eveliina Jakkula, Karola Rehnström, Mark Lathrop, Simon Heath, Pilar Galan, Stefan Schreiber, Thomas Meitinger, Arne Pfeufer, H-Erich Wichmann, Béla Melegh, Noémi Polgár, Daniela Toniolo, Paolo Gasparini, Pio D'Adamo, Janis Klovins, Liene Nikitina-Zake, Vaidutis Kučinskas, Jūratė Kasnauskienė, Jan Lubinski, Tadeusz Debniak, Svetlana Limborska, Andrey Khrunin, Xavier Estivill, Raquel Rabionet, Sara Marsal, Antonio Julià, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Samuel Deutsch, Christelle Borel, Homa Attar, Maryline Gagnebin, Milan Macek, Michael Krawczak, Maido Remm, Andres Metspalu
Genetic Structure of Europeans: a view from the North-East
PlosOne 2009, http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005472 
  
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Maron E, Tammiste A, Kallassalu K, Eller T, Vasar V, Nutt DJ, Metspalu A.
Serotonin transporter promoter region polymorphisms do not influence treatment response to escitalopram in patients with major depression.
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2009 Jun;19(6):451-6. PDF

  

17. B W M van Bon, H C Mefford, B Menten, D A Koolen, A J Sharp, W M Nillesen, J W Innis, T J L de Ravel, C L Mercer, M Fichera, H Stewart, L E Connell, K Ounap, B Castle, N Van der Aa, C van Ravenswaaij, M A Nobrega, C Serra-Juhé, I Simonic, N de Leeuw, R Pfundt, E M Bongers, C Baker, P Finnemore, S Huang, V K Maloney, J A Crolla, M van Kalmthout, M Elia, G Vandeweyer, J P Fryns, S Janssens, N Foulds, S Reitano, K Smith, S Parkel, B Loeys, C G Woods, A Oostra, F Speleman, A C C Pereira, A Kurg, Lionel Willatt, S J L Knight, J R Vermeesch, C Romano, J C Barber, G Mortier, L A Perez-Jurado, F Kooy, H G Brunner, E E Eichler, T Kleefstra and B B A de Vries
Further delineation of the 15q13 microdeletion and duplication syndromes: A clinical spectrum varying from non-pathogenic to a severe outcome, 
J Med Genet. Published Online First: 15 April 2009. doi:10.1136/jmg.2008.063412, PDF
  
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Puusepp H, Zilina O, Teek R, Männik K, Parkel S, Kruustük K, Kuuse K, Kurg A, Ounap K. 5.9 "Mb microdeletion in chromosome band 17q22-q23.2 associated with tracheo-esophageal fistula and conductive hearing loss." 
Eur J Med Genet. 2009 Jan-Feb;52(1):71-4. PDF
   

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Van der Aa N, Rooms L, Vandeweyer G, van den Ende J, Reyniers E, Fichera M, Romano C, Delle Chiaie B, Mortier G, Menten B, Destrée A, Maystadt I, Männik K, Kurg A, Reimand T, McMullan D, Oley C, Brueton L, Bongers EM, Bregje W Bon MV, Pfund R, Jacquemont S, Ferrarini A, Martinet D, Schrander-Stumpel C, Stegmann AP, Frints SG, de Vries BB, Ceulemans B, Kooy RF. "Fourteen new cases contribute to the characterization of the 7q11.23 microduplication syndrome." Eur J Med Genet. 2009 Feb 26. PDF
   

20. Khrunin A, Mihailov E, Nikopensius T, Krjutškov K, Limborska S, Metspalu A. 
Analysis of Allele and Haplotype Diversity Across 25 Genomic Regions in Three Eastern European Populations.
Hum Hered 2009;68:35-44 (DOI: 10.1159/000210447)
   
21. Cristina Canova, Mia Hashibe, Lorenzo Simonato, Mari Nelis, Andres Metspalu, Pagona Lagiou, Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Wolfgang Ahrens, Iris Pigeot, Franco Merletti, Lorenzo Richiardi, Renato Talamini, Luigi Barzan, Gary J. Macfarlane, Tatiana V. Macfarlane, Ivana Holcátová, Vladimir Bencko, Simone Benhamou, Christine Bouchardy, Kristina Kjaerheim, Ray Lowry, Antonio Agudo, Xavier Castellsagué, David I. Conway, Patricia A. McKinney, Ariana Znaor, Bernard E. McCartan, Claire M. Healy, Manuela Marron and Paul Brennan
Genetic Associations of 115 Polymorphisms with Cancers of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract across 10 European Countries: The ARCAGE Project
Cancer Research 69, 2956, April 1, 2009, 2956-2965
  
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Kaarel Krjutškov, Triin Viltrop, Priit Palta, Ene Metspalu, Erika Tamm, Siim Suvi, Katrin Sak, Alo Merilo, Helena Sork, Rita Teek, Tiit Nikopensius, Toomas Kivisild and Andres Metspalu
Evaluation of the 124-plex SNP typing microarray for forensic testing
Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2009 Dec;4(1):43-8.  PDF
    

2008

1.

Helen Puusepp, Tiina Kahre, Hiljar Sibul, Viljo Soo, Ilona Lind, Elve Raukas and Katrin Õunap.
Prevalence of the Fragile X Syndrome Among Estonian Mentally Retarded and the Entire Children’s Population
J Child Neurol 2008; 23; 1400-1405 PDF
   

2.

Männik J. et al (2008) Expression pattern of human Growth Hormone Chorionic Somatomammotropin (hGH/CSH) gene cluster in normal and complicated pregnancies. Placenta 29 (8), A43.
  

3.

Veldre G. et al (2008) HYPEST, first hypertension targeted sample collection in Estonian population. J Hypertens 26, 107.
  

4.

Rull K. et al (2008) Expressional profile and genetic variation of chorionic gonadotropin beta genes is associated to recurrent miscarriages. Placenta 29 (8), A46.
  

5.

Teek R, Oitmaa E, Kruustük K, Zordania R, Joost K, Raukas E, Tõnisson N, Gardner P, Schrijver I, Kull M, Ounap K.
Splice variant IVS2-2A>G in the SLC26A5 (Prestin) gene in five Estonian families with hearing loss.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2009 Jan;73(1):103-7. Epub 2008 Nov 22.
 

6.

Lagiou P, Georgila C, Minaki P, Ahrens W, Pohlabeln H, Benhamou S, Bouchardy
C, Slamova A, Schejbalova M, Merletti F, Richiardi L, Kjaerheim K, Agudo A,
Castellsague X, Macfarlane TV, Macfarlane GJ, Talamini R, Barzan L, Canova
C, Simonato L, Lowry R, Conway DI, McKinney PA, Znaor A, McCartan BE, Healy
C, Nelis M, Metspalu A, Marron M, Hashibe M, Brennan PJ.
Alcohol-related cancers and genetic susceptibility in Europe: the ARCAGE
project: study samples and data collection.Eur J Cancer Prev. 2008 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 18830131 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
  
7. Knapp, DC., Keller, A., D'Onofrio, J., Lubys, A., Serva, S., Kurg, A.,
Remm, M., Kwiatkowski, M, and Engels, JW. (2008) Synthesis of four
colors fluorescently labelled 3'-O-blocked nucleotides with fluoride
cleavable blocking group and linker for array based
Sequencing-by-Synthesis applications. /Nucleic Acids Symp Ser/ (Oxf).
(52):345-6.
  
8. Saare M, Belousova A, Punab M, Peters M, Haller K, Ausmees K, Poolamets O,
Karro H, Metspalu A, Salumets A.
Androgen receptor gene haplotype is associated with male infertility.Int J Androl. 2008 Aug;31(4):395-402.
PMID: 17651405 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
  
9. Maron E, Kallassalu K, Tammiste A, Kolde R, Vilo J, Tõru I, Vasar V, Shlik
J, Metspalu A.
Peripheral gene expression profiling of CCK-4-induced panic in healthy
subjects.Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2008 Dec 2. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 19051287 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] PDF
    
10.

Signe Altmae, Kadri Haller, Maire Peters, Merli Saare, Outi Hovatta, Anneli Stavreus-Evers, Agne Velthut, Helle Karro, Andres Metspalu, Andres Salumets,
Aromatase gene (CYP19A1) allele variants are essential to controlled ovarian hyperstimulation outcome 
RBMOnline, Volume 17, No 3, September 2008
  

11. Sedman, L.; Padhukasahasram, B.; Kelgo, P.; Laan, M. (2008). Complex Signatures of Locus-Specific Selective Pressures and Gene Conversion on Human Growth Hormone/Chorionic Somatomammotropin Genes. Hum Mutat, 29, 1181 - 1193.
   
12. Grigorova, M.; Punab, M.; Ausmees, K.; Laan, M. (2008). FSHB promoter polymorphism within evolutionary conserved element is associated with serum FSH level in men. Hum Reprod, 23, 2160 - 2166. PDF
 
13. Hallast, P.; Saarela, J.; Palotie, A.; Laan, M. (2008). High divergence in primate-specific duplicated regions: Human and chimpanzee Chorionic Gonadotropin Beta genes. BMC Evol Biol, 8, 1 - 14. PDF
 
14. Juhanson, P.; Kepp, K.; Org, E.; Veldre, G.; Kelgo, P.; Rosenberg, M.; Viigimaa, M.; Laan, M. (2008). N-acetyltransferase 8, a positional candidate for blood pressure and renal regulation: resequencing, association and in silico study. BMC Med Genet, 9, 1 - 12, PDF
 
15. Pullat, J., Kusnezow, W., Jaakson, K., Beier, M., Hoheisel, J.D., Metspalu, A.,
Arrayed Primer Extension on in situ Synthesized 5'→3' Oligonucleotides in Microchannels
New Biotechnology
(2008), August 14, PMID: 18786662
 
16. Riin Tamm, Kersti Oselin, Kristi Kallassalu, Reedik Mägi, Kaili Anier, Maido Remm, Andres Metspalu
Thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) pharmacogenetics: three new mutations and haplotype analysis in the Estonian population
Clin Chem Lab Med 2008;46(7):974-979
 
17. Pullat J, Metspalu A. Arrayed primer extension reaction for genotyping on oligonucleotide microarray.
Methods Mol Biol. 2008;444:161-7 PDF
 
18. Kousoulidou, L.; Männik, K.; Zilina, O.; Parkel, S.; Palta, P.; Remm, M.; Kurg, A.; Patsalis, P.C. (2008). 
Application of two different microarray-based copy-number detection methodologies - array-comparative genomic hybridization and array-multiplex amplifiable probe hybridization - with identical amplifiable target sequences. 
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 46, 722 - 724.
  
19. Kaarel Krjutškov, Reidar Andreson, Reedik Mägi, Tiit Nikopensius, Andrey Khrunin, Evelin Mihailov, Veronika Tammekivi, Helena Sork, Maido Remm and Andres Metspalu
Development of a single tube 640-plex genotyping method for detection of nucleic acid variations on microarrays
Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jul;36(12):e75. Epub 2008 Jun 5.  PDF
  
20. Kousoulidou L, Männik K, Sismani C, Zilina O, Parkel S, Puusepp H, Tõnisson N,Palta P, Remm M, Kurg A, Patsalis PC. Array-MAPH: a methodology for the detection of locus copy-number changes in complex genomes. Nat Protoc. 2008;3(5):849-65.
 
21. Haller K, Salumets A, Uibo R.
Anti-FSH antibodies associate with poor outcome of ovarian stimulation in IVF.
Reprod Biomed Online. 2008;16(3):350-355. PDF
 
22. Rull, K.; Nagirnaja, L.; Ulander, V.-M.; Kelgo, P.; Margus, T.; Kaare, M.; Aittomäki, K.; Laan, M. (2008). Chorionic Gonadotropin Beta gene variants are associated with recurrent miscarriage in two European populations. J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 93(12): 4697-4706.
 
23. Rull, K.; Hallast, P.; Uusküla, L.; Jackson, J.; Punab, M.; Salumets, A.; Campbell, R.; Laan, M. (2008). Fine scale quantification of HCG beta gene transcription in human trophoblastic and nonmalignant non-trophoblastic tissues. Mol Hum Reprod, 14, 23 - 31.PDF
  
24. Caulfield, M.J.; Munroe, P.B.; O'Neill, D.; Witkowska, K.; Charchar, F.; Doblado, M.; Evans, S.; Eyheramendy, S.; Onipinia, A.; Howard, P.; Shaw-Hawkins, S.; Dobson, R.J.; Wallace, C.; Newhouse, S.J.; Brown, M.; Connell, J.M.; Dominiczak, A.; Farrall, M.; Lathrop, G.M.; Samani, N.; Kumari, M.; Marmot, M.; Brunner, E.; Chambers, J.; Elliott, P.; Kooner, J.; Laan, M.; Org, E.; Veldre, G.; Viigimaa, M.; Cappuccio, F.P.; Ji, C.; Iacone, R.; Strazzullo, P. ; Moley, K.H.; Cheeseman, C. (2008). SLC2A9 Is a High-Capacity Urate Transporter in Humans. PLOS Med, 5, 0001 - 0015.
  
  

2007

1.  Haller K, Sikut A, Karro H, Uibo R, Salumets A.
Circulating anti-follicle-stimulating hormone immunoglobulin A in women: a sperm-prone reaction of mucosal tolerance?
Fertility and Sterility. 2007 Dec 21; PDF
 
2. Kousoulidou L, Parkel S, Zilina O, Palta P, Puusepp H, Remm M, Turner G, Boyle J, van Bokhoven H, de Brouwer A, Van Esch H, Froyen G, Ropers HH, Chelly J, Moraine C, Gecz J, Kurg A, Patsalis PC.
Screening of 20 patients with X-linked mental retardation using chromosome X-specific array-MAPH.
Eur J Med Genet. 50(2007)399e410, PDF
 
3. Kepp K, Juhanson P, Kozich V, Ots M, Viigimaa M, Laan M.:Resequencing PNMT in European hypertensive and normotensive individuals: no common susceptibilily variants for hypertension and purifying selection on intron 1. BMC Med Genet. 2007 Jul 23;8:47. PDF
 
4. Pullat, Janne; Metspalu, Andres. Arrayed primer extension reaction for genotyping on oligonucleotide microarray. In Methods in Molecular Biology: Prenatal Diagnosis: Preface. Ed by S. Hahn, L.G. Jackson. Prenatal Diagnosis (435), Series: Methods in Molecular Biology , Vol. 444 ISBN: 978-1-58829-803-4. Humana Press [in Press]
 
5. Roovere T, Peters M, Horelli-Kuitunen N, Molter-Vaar T, Punab M, Rootsi S, Poolamets O, Salumets A. Cytogenetic and molecular characterization of the derivative Y chromosome: a case study of an azoospermic patient. Clin Genet. 2007 Nov;72(5):460-3 PDF
 
6.  Saare M, Belousova A, Punab M, Peters M, Haller K, Ausmees K, Poolamets O, Karro H, Metspalu A, Salumets A. Androgen receptor gene haplotype is associated with male infertility. Int J Androl. 2007 Jul 25; [Epub ahead of print]. PDF
 
7. Pullat J, Fleisher R, Becker N, Beier M, Metspalu A, Hoheisel JD. Optimization of candidate-gene SNP-genotyping by flexible oligonucleotide microarrays; analyzing variations in immune regulator genes of hay-fever samples.
BMC Genomics 2007 Aug 17, 8:282 PDF
 
8. Magi R, Pfeufer A, Nelis M, Montpetit A, Metspalu A, Remm M.
Evaluating the performance of commercial whole-genome marker sets for capturing common genetic variation.
BMC Genomics. 2007 Jun 11;8:159.

 
9. Merisalu A, Punab M, Altmae S, Haller K, Tiido T, Peters M, Salumets A. The contribution of genetic variations of aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway genes to male factor infertility. Fertil Steril. 2007 Jun 6; [Epub ahead of print] PDF
 
10. Altmae, S., Haller, K., Peters, M., Hovatta, O., Stavreus-Evers, A., Karro, H., Metspalu, A., Salumets, A. Allelic estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) gene variants predict the outcome of ovarian stimulation in in vitro fertilization. Molecular Human Reproduction, May 30, 2007. pdf
 
11. Haller, K., Laisk, T., Peters, M., Talving, E., Karits, P., Karro, H., Uibo, R., Salumets, A. (2007) VNTR I/I genotype of insulin gene is associated with the increase of follicle number independent from polycystic ovary syndrome.
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 86(6):726-32.
  
12.

Merisalu, A., Punab M., Altmäe, S., Haller, K., Tiido. T., Peters, M., Salumets, A. The contribution of genetic variations of aryl hydrocarbon receptor pathway genes to male infertility. Fertility and Sterility, in press.
  

13. Saare, M., Belousova, A., Punab, M., Peters, M., Haller, K., Ausmees, K., Poolamets, O., Karro, H., Metspalu, A., Salumets, A. Androgen receptor gene haplotype is associated with male infertility. International Journal of Andrology, in press. 
  
14. Haller K, Salumets A, Grigorova M, Talja I, Salur L, Bene MC, Laan M, Uibo R.
Putative predictors of antibodies against follicle-stimulating hormone in female infertility: a study based on in vitro fertilization patients.
Am J Reprod Immunol. 2007 Mar;57(3):193-200.
  
15. International patent application #PCT/EE2007/000003, A method to determine single nucleotide polymorphisms and mutations in nucleic acid sequence.
Priority Date: 06.03.2007
Inventors: Kaarel Krjutškov, Andres Metspalu
  
16. J.Schliwka, J. Pullat, E.-M. Devilliers, J.D. Hoheisel, M. Beier
Mit der Geniom-Microarray-Technologie HPV-Genotypen auf der Spur
Biospectrum, vol. 1,  February 2007, 13. Jahrgang, pp. 52-53. PDF
  
17. Patsalis PC, Kousoulidou L, Mannik K, Sismani C, Zilina O, Parkel S, Puusepp H, Tonisson N, Palta P, Remm M, Kurg A.
Detection of small genomic imbalances using microarray-based multiplex amplifiable probe hybridization.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2007 Feb;15(2):162-72. Epub 2006 Nov 22.
  
18. Grigorova M, Rull K, Laan M.
Haplotype structure of FSHB, the beta-subunit gene for fertility-associated follicle-stimulating hormone: possible influence of balancing selection.
Ann Hum Genet. 2007 Jan;71(Pt 1):18-28.
  
19. Hallast P, Rull K, Laan M.
The evolution and genomic landscape of CGB1 and CGB2 genes.
Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2007 Jan 2;260-262:2-11. Epub 2006 Oct 19.
 
20. Eesti kasulik mudel “Päriliku vähiriski analüüsimeetod”. Taotluse number on U200700047, taotleja: Eesti Biokeskus, leiutajad: Andres Metspalu, Toomas Veidebaum, Kristiina Tamboom, Helena Sork, Krista Kaasik, Neeme Tõnisson ja Ants Kurg.
 
21.

Rahvusvaheline (PCT) patendi taotlus "A method to determine single nucleotide polymorphisms and mutations in nucleic acid sequence. Taotluse number: PCT/EE2007/000003.
Taotleja: Eesti Biokeskus
Leiutajad: Kaarel Krjutškov, Andres Metspalu
 

   

2006

1.

US patent application #US11/584934, Method and Apparatus for Detection and Analysis of Biological Materials through Laser Induced Fluorescence. 
Priority date: 23.10.2006
Inventors: Jevgeni Berik, Ants Kurg, Andres Metspalu

  

2.

Kõks, S., Nikopensius, T., Koido, K., Maron, E., Altmäe, S., Heinaste, E., Vabrit, K., Tammekivi, V., Hallast, P., Kurg, A., Shlik, J., Vasar, V., Metspalu, A., Vasar, E. (2006) Analysis of SNP profiles in patients with major depressive disorder.
 Int. J. Neuropsychopharmacol. 9 (2): 167-174.
  

3. 

Annilo T, Chen ZQ, Shulenin S, Costantino J, Thomas L, Lou H, Stefanov S, Dean M.
Evolution of the vertebrate ABC gene family: analysis of gene birth and death.
Genomics. 2006 Jul;88(1):1-11.
  

4. 

Patsalis PC, Kousoulidou L, Mannik K, Sismani C, Zilina O, Parkel S, Puusepp H, Tonisson N, Palta P, Remm M, Kurg A.
Detection of small genomic imbalances using microarray-based multiplex amplifiable probe hybridization.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2006 Nov 22
   

5. 

Haller K, Sarapik A, Talja I, Salumets A, Uibo R. "Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation changes the prevalence of serum autoantibodies in in vitro fertilization patients". 
Am J Reprod Immunol. 2006 Nov;56(5-6):364-70. PDF
   

6.

Saal, K; Tätte, T; Tulp, I; Kink, I; Kurg, A; Mäeorg, U; Rinken, A;
Lõhmus, A (2006). Sol-gel films for DNA microarray applications.
Materials Letters, 60(15), 1833 - 1838. PDF
     

7.

Oiglane-Shlik E, Talvik T, Zordania R, Poder H, Kahre T, Raukas E, Ilus T, Tasa G, Bartsch O, Vaisanen ML, Ounap K.
Prevalence of Angelman syndrome and Prader-Willi syndrome in Estonian children: sister syndromes not equally represented.
Am J Med Genet A. 2006 Sep 15;140(18):1936-43. PDF
  
8. Gardner P, Oitmaa E, Messner A, Hoefsloot L, Metspalu A, Schrijver I.
Simultaneous multigene mutation detection in patients with sensorineural hearing loss through a novel diagnostic microarray: a new approach for newborn screening follow-up.
Pediatrics. 2006 Sep;118(3):985-94. PDF
  
9.

Alexandre Montpetit, Mari Nelis, Philippe Laflamme, Reedik Magi, Xiayi Ke, Maido Remm, Lon Cardon, Thomas J Hudson, and Andres Metspalu
An Evaluation of the Performance of Tag SNPs Derived from HapMap in a Caucasian Population.
PLoS Genet. 2006 Mar 10;2(3):e27
Full article
   

10.

Andres Salumets, Anne-Maria Suikkari, Sirpa Mäkinen, Helle Karro, Anu Roos ja Timo Tuuri
“Frozen embryo transfers: implications of clinical and embryological factors on the pregnancy outcome” 
Human Reproduction 2006 21(9): 2368-2374;
  

11.

Shadrina M, Nikopensius T, Slominsky P, Illarioshkin S, Bagyeva G, Markova E, Ivanova-Smolenskaia I, Kurg A, Limborska S, Metspalu A.
Association study of sporadic Parkinson's disease genetic risk factors in patients from Russia by APEX technology.
Neurosci Lett. 2006 Sep 25;405(3):212-6. Epub 2006 Jul 28. PDF
    

12.

Oselin K, Anier K, Tamm R, Kallassalu K, Maeorg U. 
Determination of thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) activity by comparing various normalization factors: reference values for Estonian population using HPLC-UV assay.
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2006 Apr 13;834(1-2):77-83.
  

13.

Lahermo P, Liljedahl U, Alnaes G, Axelsson T, Brookes A, Ellonen P, Groop P-E, Halldén C, Holmberg D, Holmberg K, Keinänen M, Kepp K, Kere J, Kiviluoma P, Kristensen V, Lindgren C, Odeberg J, Osterman P, Parkkonen M, Saarela J, Sterner M, Strömqvist L, Talas U, Wessman M, Palotie A, Syvänen A-C (2006) A Quality Assessment Survey of SNP Genotyping Laboratories. Hum Mutat, 27(7):711-714 PDF
 

14.

Zhang J, Kaasik K, Blackburn MR, Lee CC.
Constant darkness is a circadian metabolic signal in mammals.
Nature. 2006 Jan 19;439(7074):340-3. PDF
   
   

   
2005

1.

S. Altmäe, A. Runina, M. Kuningas, T. Kahre, M. Peters, A. Ehrenberg, H. Karro, A. Salumets, A. Metspalu. 2005. Loote reesusstaatuse mitte-invasiivne diagnostika - prenataalse diagnostika uus võimalus Eestis.
Eesti Arst 12/2005: 847-853.
 

2.

Evaluation of arrayed primer extension for TP53 mutation detection in breast and ovarian carcinomas.
Pedro Kringen, Anna Bergamaschi, Eldri Undlien Due, Yun Wang, Elda Tagliabue, Jahn M. Nesland, Aune Ahman, Neeme Tõnisson, and Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale.
BioTechniques, vol. 39 , no 5 (2005): pp 755-761 PDF
  

3.

Haller K, Mathieu C, Rull K, Matt K, Bene MC, Uibo R. IgG, IgA and IgM Antibodies against FSH: Serological Markers of Pathogenic Autoimmunity or of Normal Immunoregulation? Am J Reprod Immunol. 2005 Nov;54(5):262-9.
 

4.

Hallast P, Nagirnaja L, Margus T, Laan M. Segmental duplications and gene conversion: Human luteinizing hormone/chorionic gonadotropin {beta} gene cluster. Genome Res. 2005 Nov;15(11):1535-46.
  

5.

Rull K, Laan M. Expression of {beta}-subunit of HCG genes during normal and failed pregnancy. Hum Reprod. 2005 Hum. Reprod. 20(12), 3360-3368.
   

6.

Patsalis PC, Kousoulidou L, Sismani C, Männik K, Kurg A.
MAPH: from gels to microarrays.
Eur J Med Genet. 2005 Jul-Sep;48(3):241-9.
  

7.

Schrijver I, Oitmaa E, Metspalu A, Gardner P.
Genotyping Microarray for the Detection of More Than 200 CFTR Mutations in Ethnically Diverse Populations. J Mol Diagn. 2005 Aug;7(3):375-87 PDF
   

8.

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. 
  

9.

Eensaar R, Metspalu A, L'Estonie parie sur les biotechnologies. Biofutur 257: 51-54.
   

10.

Le Calvez F, Ahman A, Tonisson N, Lambert J, Temam S, Brennan P, Zaridze DG, Metspalu A, Hainaut P.
Arrayed Primer Extension Resequencing of Mutations in the TP53 Tumor Suppressor Gene: Comparison with Denaturing HPLC and Direct Sequencing.
Clin Chem. 2005 Jul;51(7):1284-7.
   

11.

Koks S, Nikopensius T, Koido K, Maron E, Altmae S, Heinaste E, Vabrit K, Tammekivi V, Hallast P, Kurg A, Shlik J, Vasar V, Metspalu A, Vasar E.
Analysis of SNP profiles in patients with major depressive disorder.
Int. J. Neuropsychopharmacol. 2005 Jun 1,pp. 1-8 PDF
  

12.

Maron E., Nikopensius T., Kõks S., Altmäe S., Heinaste E., Vabrit K., Tammekivi V., Hallast P., Koido K., Kurg A., Metspalu A., Vasar E., Vasar V., Shlik J.  Association study of 90 candidate gene polymorphisms in panic disorder.  Psychiatric Genet., 2005, 15(1):17-24.  PDF
  

13.

Laan M, Wiebe V, Khusnutdinova E, Remm M, Paabo S. X-chromosome as a marker for population history: linkage disequilibrium and haplotype study in Eurasian populations. Eur J Hum Genet. 2005 Apr;13(4):452-62. PDF 
  

14.

Dean M, Annilo T. Evolution of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter superfamily in vertebrates. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2005;6:123-42. 
  

15.

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
  

16.

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). PDF
  

   
2004

1.

Koido K., Kõks S., Nikopensius T., Maron E., Altmäe S., Heinaste E., Vabrit K., Tammekivi V., Hallast P., Kurg A., Shlik J., Vasar V., Metspalu A., Vasar E.  Polymorphisms in wolframin (WFS1) gene are possibly related to increased risk for mood disorders. Int. J. Neuropsychopharmacol., 2005, 8(2): 235-244. PDF

2.

Andres Metspalu (2004), “The Estonian Genome Project”,  Drug Development Research 62: 97-101.PDF

3.

Kaasik K., Lee CC., "Reciprocal regulation of haem biosynthesis and the circadian clock in mammals.", Nature. 2004 Jul 22;430(6998):467-71.

4.

K Kingo, S Koks, T Nikopensius, H Silm and E Vasar
Polymorphisms in the interleukin-20 gene: relationships to plaque-type psoriasis
Genes and Immunity, Vol 5 (2004): 117–121.

5.

Kahre, T., Teder, M., Panov, M., Metspalu, A., "Severe CF manifestation with anaemia and failure to thrive in a 394delTT homozygous patient. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, Vol 3 (2004): 58-60. PDF

6.

Salumets, A., Horelli-Kuitunen, N., Suikkari, A-M., Metspalu, A., Tuuri, T. "Elevated incidence of chromosomally chaotic embryos among frozen-thawed preimplatation embryos." Eur. J. Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Vol 114, Issue 1,  (2004): 59-63.

7.

Metspalu, A., Köhler, F., Laschinski, G., Ganten, D., Roots, I., "Das estnische Genomprojekt in Kontext der europäischen Genomforschung", Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr 2004;129:S25-S28.

8.

Salumets A, Horelli-Kuitunen N, Suikkari AM, Metspalu A, Tuuri T. 
Elevated incidence of chromosomally chaotic embryos among frozen-thawed
preimplantation embryos.
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2004 May 10;114(1):59-63. 

9.

J. Pullat, M. Beier, M. Dahms, E. de Villiers, J. Hoheisel. Simultaneous typing of HPV strains by microarray analysis, European Journal of Human Genetics Vol. 10, Suppl 1, 2004, P1124
   
2003
 
1.
Lamba, J.K., Adachi, M., Sun, D., Tammur, J., Schuetz, E.G.,
Allikmets, R. and Schuetz, J.D. "Nonsense mediated decay downregulates
conserved alternatively spliced ABCC4 transcripts bearing nonsense
codons." Human Molecular Genetics 2, Vol. 12 (2003): 99-109.
2.
Murumägi, A., Vähämurto, P., and Peterson, P. "Characterization of Regulatory Elements and Metylation Pattern of the Autoimmune Regulator (AIRE) Promoter." The Journal of Biological Chemistry 22, Vol. 278 (2003): 19784-19790. PDF
3.
Tätte, T., Saal, K., Kink, I., Kurg, A., Lõhmus, R., Mäeorg, U., Rahi, M., Rinken, A., Lõhmus, A. "Preparation of smooth siloxane surfaces for AFM visualization of immobilized biomolecules." Surface Science 532-533 (2003): 1085-1091.
4.
Talkop, U-A., Kahre, T., Napa, A., Talvik, I., Sööt, A., Piirsoo, A., Sander, V., Talvik, T. "A descriptive epidemiological study of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in childhood in Estonia" European Journal of Pediatric Neurology (2003) 7, 221-226.
5.
Jaakson, K., Zernant, J., Külm, M., Hutchinson, A., Tõnisson, N., Glavac, D., Ravnik-Clavac, M., Hawlina, M., Meltzer, M.R., Caruso, R.C., Testa, F., Maugeri, A., Hoyng, C.B., Gouras, P., Simonelli, F., Lewis, R.A., Lupski, J.R., Cremers, F.P.M., Allikmets, R. "Genotyping Micoarray (Gene Chip) for the ABCR (ABCA4) Gene". Human Mutation 22 (2003): 395-403.
6.
Bauer, A., Beckmann, B., Busold, C., Brandt, O., Kusnezow, W., Pullat, J., Aign, V., Fellenberg, K., Fleischer, R., Jacob, A., Frohme, M. & Hoheisel, J.D. “Use of complex DNA- and antibody-microarrays as tools in functional analyses”. Comp. Funct. Genom., (2003) 4:520-524. PDF
7.
Metspalu, A. “Microarrays and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping”. In: Nature Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. Nature Publishing Group.  2003. pp. 921-925.
8.
Remm, M., Kurg, A. Metspalu, A. PCR Technology: Current Innovations, 2nd Edition. pp: 131-140. CRC Press, USA, November 2003. ISBN 0-8493-1184-5
 
 
2002
 
1.
Zhang, X., Hargitai, J., Tammur, J., Hutchinson, A., Allikmets,
R., Chang, S., Gouras, P. "Macular pigment and visual acuity in
Stargardt macular dystrophy." Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 240
(2002):802-809. DOI 10.1007/s00417-002-0554-z
2.
Rebane A, Roomere H, Metspalu A. "Locations of several novel 2'-O-methylated nucleotides in human
28S rRNA." BMC Molecular Biology 2002, 3:1 (14 February 2002) PDF  
3.
Metspalu A." Genes, technology and public dialogue in Tartu, Estonia" Trends in Biotechnology 2002, Feb;2:51-52. PDF
4.
Tõnisson N., Zernant J., Kurg A., Pavel H., Slavin G., Roomere H., Meiel A., Hainaut P. and Metspalu A.. “Evaluating the arrayed primer extension resequencing assay of TP53 tumor suppressor gene”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 2002, Vol. 99, Issue 8, 5503-5508. PDF
5.
Maugeri, A., Flothmann, K., Hemmrich, N., Ingvast, S., Jorge, P., Paloma, E., Patel, R., Rozet J.M., Tammur, J., Testa, F., Balcells, S., Bird, A.C., Brunner, H.G., Hoyng, C.B., Metspalu, A., Simonelli, F., Allikmets, R., Bhattacharya, S.S., D'Urso, M., Gonzàlez-Duarte, R., Kaplan, J., te Meerman, G.J., Santos, R., Schwartz, M., Camp G.V., Wadelius, C., Weber, B.H.F., and Cremers, F.P.M. "The ABCG4 2588 G>C Stargardt mutation: single origin and increasing frequency from South-West to North-East Europe". Eur J Hum Genet. 2002, 10: 197-203.
6.
Kaessmann H, Zöllner S, Gustafsson A, Wiebe V, Laan M, Lundeberg J, Uhlen M, Pääbo S (2002) Extensive linkage disequilibrium in small human populations in Eurasia. Am J Hum Genet.,70, 673-685
7.
Laan M, Richmond H, Chaomei He, Campbell R (2002) Zebrafish as a model for vertebrate reproduction: Characterization of the first functional zebrafish (Danio rerio) gonadotropin receptor. Gen Comp Endocrinol., 125, 349-364.
8.
Tammur J, Sibul H, Ustav E, Ustav M, Metspalu A. “A bovine papillomavirus-1 based vector restores the function of the low-density lipoprotein receptor in the receptor-deficient CHO-IdIA7 cell line” BMC Molecular Biology 2002, 3:5. ISSN 1471-2199. PDF
9.
Andres Metspalu comment to: Pálsson, G. and Hardardóttir "For Whom the Cell Tolls" Current Anthropology 43, 2, April 2002: 292.
10.
Andres Metspalu "Biotechnology as an instrument of politics: the example of Estonia. 17th Sinclair House debate "Who owns the human genome?" Herbert Quandt Foundation, March 2002: 43-45. ISBN 3-00-008926-8
11.
Jafar Mahdavi, Berit Sondén, Marina Hurtig, Farzad O. Olfat, Lina Forsberg, Niamh Roche, Jonas Ångström, Thomas Larsson, Susann Teneberg, Karl-Anders Karlsson, Siiri Altraja, Torkel Wadström, Dangeruta Kersulyte, Douglas E. Berg, Andre Dubois, Christoffer Petersson, Karl-Eric Magnusson, Thomas Norberg, Frank Lindh, Bertil B. Lundskog, Anna Arnqvist, Lennart Hammarström, and Thomas Borén “Helicobacter pylori SabA Adhesin in Persistent Infection and Chronic Inflammation”, Science 2002 July 26; 297: 573-578. PDF
12.
Elisabeth Dawson, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Suzannah Bumpstead, Yuan Chen, Sarah Hunt, David M. Beare, Jagjit Pabial, Thomas Dibling, Emma Tinsley, Susan Kirby, David Carter, Marianna Papaspyridonos, Simon Livingstone, Rocky Ganske, Elin Lõhmussaar, Jana Zernant, Neeme Tõnisson, Maido Remm, Reedik Mägi, Tarmo Puurand, Jaak Vilo, Ants Kurg, Kate Rice, Panos Deloukas, Richard Mott, Andres Metspalu, David R. Bentley, Lon R. Cardon, Ian Dunham “A first-generation linkage disequilibrium map of human chromosome 22”, Nature 418, 544 - 548 (01 Aug 2002) PDF
13.
Gemignani, F., Perra, C., Landi, St., Canzian, F., Kurg, A., Tõnisson, N., Galanello, R., Cao, A., Metsplau, A. and Romeo, G. "Reliable detection of b-Thalassemia and G6PD mutations by a DNA microarray." Clinical Chemistry 48 No. 11 (2002): 2051-2054. PDF
14.
Annilo, T., Tammur, J., Hutchinson, A., Rzhetsky, A., Dean, M.
and Allikmets, R. "Human mouse orthologs of a new ATP-binding cassette
gene, ABCG4." Cytogenetics and cell Genetics 94 (2001): 196-201.

15.

Metspalu A. 
Estonian Genome Project-before the take-off and take-off.
Bioinformatics. 2002 Oct;18 Suppl 2:S152. 
16.
Kurzawski G, Suchy J, Kladny J, Safranow K, Jakubowska A, Elsakov P, Kucinskas V, Gardovski J, Irmejs A, Sibul H, Huzarski T, Byrski T, Debniak T, Cybulski C, Gronwald J, Oszurek O, Clark J, Gozdz S, Niepsuj S, Slomski R, Plawski A, Lacka-Wojciechowska A, Rozmiarek A, Fiszer-Maliszewska L, Bebenek M, Sorokin D, Stawicka M, Godlewski D, Richter P, Brozek I, Wysocka B, Jawien A, Banaszkiewicz Z, Kowalczyk J, Czudowska D, Goretzki PE, Moeslein G, Lubinski J. "Germline MSH2 and MLH1 mutational spectrum in HNPCC families from Poland and the Baltic States." J Med Genet. 2002 Oct;39(10):E65
 
2001
 
1.
Tammur, J., Prades, C., Arnould, I., Rzhetsky, A., Hutchinson, A., Adachi, M., Schuetz, J.D., Swoboda, K.J., Ptacek, L.J., Rosier, M., Dean, M., and Allikmets, R. Two new genes from the human ATP-binding cassette transporter superfamily, ABCC11 and ABCC12, tandemly duplicated on chromosome 16q12. Gene (2001) 273(1):89-96.
2.
Bernstein, P.S., Tammur, J., Singh, N., Hutchinson, A., Dixon, M., Pappas, C.M., Zabriskie, N.A., Zhang, K., Petrukhin, K., Leppert, M., and Allikmets, R. Diverse macular dystrophy phenotype caused by a novel complex mutation in the ELOVL4 gene. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. (2001) 42(13):3331-3336.
3.
Ayyagari R, Zhang K, Hutchinson A, Yu Z, Swaroop A, Kakuk LE, Seddon JM, Bernstein PS, Lewis RA, Tammur J, Yang Z, Li Y, Zhang H, Yashar BM, Liu J, Petrukhin K, Sieving PA, Allikmets R. Evaluation of the ELOVL4 gene in patients with age-related macular degeneration. Ophthalmic Genet. (2001) 22(4):233-239.
4.
Vaher U, Napa A, Nurmiste A, Piirsoo A, Sibul H, Talvik T. Four siblings with Hallervorden-Spatz disease. Brain Dev. 2001 Jul;23(4):236-9.
5.
Wittig I, Augstein P, Brown GK, Fujii T, Rotig A, Rustin P, Munnich A, Seibel P, Thorburn D, Wissinger B, Tamboom K, Metspalu A, Lamantea E, Zeviani M, Wehnert MS. Sequence variations in the NDUFA1 gene encoding a subunit of complex I of the respiratory chain. Journal Inherited Metabolic Diseases 2001 Feb;24(1):15-27.
6.
Gerhard M, Hirmo S, Wadström T, Miller-Podraza H, Teneberg S, Karlsson K-A, Appelmelk B, Odenbreit S, Haas R, Arnqvist A, Borén T. 2001. H. pylori, an adherent pain in the stomach. In: Helicobacter pylori: Molecular and Cellular Biology (Achtman M, Suerbaum S, Eds.) Horizon Scientific Press, Norfolk, U.K. Chapter 12.
7.
Arnqvist A, Ilver D, Ögren J, Hirmo S, Wadström T, Borén T. 2001. Adherence of Helicobacter pylori: Mechanisms and Relevance to Pathogenesis. In: Pathogenesis and Host Response in Helicobacter pylori Infections (Moran AP, O'Morain CO, Eds.) Normed Verlag Inc, Englewood, NJ, USA.
8.
Wang X, Hirmo S, Willén R, Wadström T. 2001. Inhibition of Helicobacter pylori infection by bovine milk glycoconjugates in a Balb/cA mouse model. J Med Microbiol 50: 430-435.

9. 

Remm, M. and A. Metspalu. "High-density genotyping and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome using chromosome 22 as a model". Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2001, 6:24-30. PDF
 
2000
1.
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. PDF
2.
Hahn, D., Ilisson, R., Metspalu, A. and Sterchi, E.E. Human N-benzoyl-L-Tyrosyl-p-Aminobenzoic Acid Hydrolase (human meprin): genomic structure of alpha and beta subunits. Biochemical Journal (2000) 346, 83-91. 
3.
Kurg, A., Tõnisson, N., Georgiou, I., Shumaker, J., Tollett, J., Metspalu, A. Arrayed Primer Extension: Solid phase four-color DNA resequencing and mutation detection technology (2000) Genetic Testing 4(1), 1-7. PDF
4.
Gasparini, P., Rabionet, R., Barbujani, G., Melchionda, S., Petersen, M., Brondum-Nielsen, K., Metspalu, A., Oitmaa, E., Pisano, M., Fortina, P., Zelante, L., Estivill, X. High carrier frequency of the 35delG deafness mutation in European populations. Genetic Analysis Consortium of GJB2 35delG. Eurpean Journal of Human Genetics (2000) 8 (1), 19-23
5.
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. PDF

6.

T. Dörk, M. Macek, F. Mekus, B. Tümmler, J. Tzountzouris, T. Casals, A. Krebsova, M. Koudova, I. Sakmaryova, M. Macek Sr, V. Vavrova, D. Zemkova, E. Ginter, N.V. Petrova, T. Ivaschenko, V. Baranov, M. Witt,  A. Pogorzelski, T. Neumann, S. Jakubiczka, C. Kraus, B. Thamm, M. Nechiporenko, L. Livshits, N. Mosse, G. Tsukerman, L. Kadasi, M. Ravnik-Glava, R. Komel, K. Vouk, V. Kuzinskas, A. Krumina, M. Teder, S. Kocheva, G.D. Efremov, T. Onay, B. Kirdar, G. Malone, M. Schwarz, Z. Zhou, K.J. Friedman, S. Carles, M. Claustres, D. Bozon, C. Verlingue, C. Ferec, M. Tzetis, E. Kanavakis, H. Cuppens, C. Bombieri, P.F. Pignatti, F. Sangiuolo, A. Jordanova, J. Kusic, D. Radojkovi?, J. Serti, D. Richter, A. Stavljeni? Rukavina, E. Bjorck, B. Strandvik, H. Cardoso, M. Montgomery, B. Nakielna, D. Hughes, X. Estivill, I. Aznarez, E. Tullis, L-C. Tsui, J. Zielenski. Charecterization of a novel 21-kb deletion, CFTRdel2,3(21 kb), in the CFTR gene: a cystic fibrosis mutation of Slavic origin common in Central and East Europe (2000) Hum Genet 106, 259-268. DOI 10.1007/s004390000246
7.
Teder, M., Klaassen, T., Oitmaa, E., Kaasik, K. and Metspalu, A. Distribution of the CFTR gene mutations in cystic fibrosis patients from Estonia (2000) Journal of Medical Genetics 37 (http://jmedgenet.com/cgi/content/full/37/8/e16)
8.
Varilo T, Laan M, Hovatta I, Wiebe V, Terwilliger JD and Peltonen L (2000)
Linkage disequilibrium and the demographic history of isolated populations:
Finland and a young subpopulation of Kuusamo. Eur J Hum Genet 8: 604-612
9.
Auffray, C., Mundy, C. and Metspalu, A. DNA arrays: method and applications: report on HUGO Meeting, Tartu, Estonia, 23-26 May, 1999. European Journal of Human Genetics (2000) 8, 236-238.
 
1999
1.
Metspalu, A and Shumaker, J.M. "DNA resequencing, mutation detection and gene expression analysis by oligonucleotide microchips" In: "Microsystems Technology: A Powerful Tool for Biomolecular Studies" ed. by M. Köhler et al. (1999) Birkhaeuser Verlag, 371-397.
2.
Tensing, K., Pata, I., Wittig, I., Wehnert, M., and Metspalu, A. Genomic organization of the human Complex I13kDa subunit gene NDUFA5 (1999) Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 84, 125-127.
3.
Rebane, A. and Metspalu, A. U821, a novel snoRNA identified from the fifth intron of human and mousenucleon gene (1999) Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1446, 426-430.
4.
Ü.A. Talkop, T. Klaassen, A. Piirsoo, V. Sander, , A. Napa, E. Essenson, J. Tammur, T. Talvik "Early clinical symptoms of Duchenne muscular dystrophy in correlation with DNA diagnostics and immunochemical analysis" (1999) Brain and Development 21, 244-247.
5.
Ü.A. Talkop, M. Sõnajalg, A. Paves, H. Sibul, A. Piirsoo, T. Talvik "Kardiomüopaatia Duchenne'i ja Beckeri tüüpi lihasdüstroofiaga lastel" (1999) Eesti Arst 2, 107-110. 

6. 

Auffray C, Mundy C, Metspalu A. DNA arrays: methods and applications: report on HUGO Meeting, Tartu, Estonia.
23-26 May, 1999.Eur J Hum Genet. 2000 Mar;8(3):236-8.

7.

Hardo Lilleväli, Külli Margus, Katrin Õunap and Andres Metspalu
Mutation 985A>G in the MCAD Gene Shows Low
Incidence in Estonian Population
HUMAN MUTATION Mutation in Brief #295 (1999) Online

8.

Metspalu, A., Kaasik, K., Tõnisson, N., & Kurg, A. (1999). Oligonucleotide Array for Mutation Analysis in Familial Breast Cancer. Disease Markers, 15(1-3), 117.
 
1998
 
1.
Õunap, K., H. Lilleväli, A. Metspalu, M. Sitska-Lipping. Development of phenylketonuria screening program in Estonia. (1998) Journal of Medical Screening 4, 00-00. 
2.
Klaassen, T., M. Teder, M. Viikmaa, A. Metspalu. Neonatal screening for the cystic fibrosis main mutation D F508 in Estonia: A pilot study. (1998) Journal of Medical Screening 5 
3.
Rebane, A., Tamme, R., Laan, M., Pata, I. and Metspalu, A. A novel snoRNA (U73) is encoded within the introns of the human and mouse ribosomal proteins S3a genes. (1998) Gene.
4.
Stephens, J.C., Reich, D.E., Goldstein, D.B., Shain, H.D., Smith, M.W., Carrington, M., Winkler, C., Huttley, G.A., Allikmets, R., Schriml, L., Gerrard, B., Malasky, M., Ramos, M.D., Morlot, S., Tzetis, M., Oddoux, C., di Giovine, F.S., Nasioulas, G., Chandler, D., Aseev, M., Hanson, M., Kalaydjieva, L., Glavac, D., Gasparini, P., Kanavakis, E., Claustres, M., Kambouris, M., Ostrer, H., Duff, G., Baranov, V., Sibul, H., Metspalu, A., Goldman, D., Martin, N., Duffy, D., Schmidtke, J., Estevill, X., O’Brien, S.J., Dean, M. “Dating the Origin of the CCR5-Delta32 AIDS-Resistance Allele by the Coalescence of Haplotypes” (1998) Am. J. Hum. Genet. 62(6), 1507-1515. 
5.
Metspalu, A., Saulep, H., Kurg, A., Tõnisson, N., Shumaker, J.M. (1998) Primer extension from two-dimensional oligonucleotides grid for DNA sequencing analysis. In: Genomics: Commercial opportunities from a scientific revolution. BIOS Scientific Publishers. Edited by G. K. Dixon, L. G. Copping, D. Livingstone. 217-219
6.
Annilo, T., Karis, A., Hoth, S., Rikk, T., Kruppa, J., Metspalu, A. “Nuclear import and nucleolar accumulation of the human ribosomal protein S7 depend on both a minimal nuclear localization sequence and adjacent basic region”. (1998) Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. Volume 249, No. 3, Aug 28, 1998
7.
Annilo,T., Jelina, J., Pata, I., and Metspalu, A. “Isolation and characterization of a mouse ribosomal protein S7 gene” (1998) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology International. 46(2), 287-295

1997
 
1.
Pata, I., Tensing, K. and Metspalu, A. A human cDNA encoding the homologue of NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase subunit B13. (1997) Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1350/2, 115-118.
2.
Pastinen, T., Kurg, A., Metspalu, A., Peltonen, L. and Syvänen, A.-C. Minisequencing: A specific tool for DNA analysis and diagnostics on oligonucleotide arrays. (1997) Genome Research 7 ,606-614.
3.
Ilisson, R., Pata, I.Kurg, A., Beier, D., Marquart, O. and Ebner, D. Provirus Mutants of the Bovine Leukaemia Virus and their Relation to the Serological Status in Naturally Infected Cattle. (1997) Virology 237, 261-269
1996
1.
Fechner, H., Kurg, A., Blankenstein, P., Mewes, G., Geue, L., Albrecht, C. and Ebner, D. Direct use of cell lysates in PCR-based diagnosis of bovine leukaemia virus infection. (1996) Berl. Münch. Tierärztl. Wschr. 109, 446-450.
2.
Fechner, H., Kurg, A., Geue, L., Blankenstein, P., Mewes, G., Ebner, D. and Bsier, D. Evaluation of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Application in Diagnosis of Bovine Leukaemia Virus (BLV) Infection in Naturally Infected Cattle. (1996) Journal of Veterinary Medicine B 43, 621-630.
3.
Shumaker, J.M., Metspalu, A., Caskey, T.C. Mutation Detection by Solid Phase Primer Extension. (1996) Human Mutation 7, 346-354.
4.
Shumaker, J.M., Metspalu, A. and Caskey C.T. “Multiplex solid-phase fluorescent primer extension” In "Laboratory protocols for mutation detection" Ed. by Landegren, Ulf, Oxford University Press (1996) 93-95.
5.
Õunap, K., Lilleväli, H., Klaassen, T., Metspalu, A. and Sitska, M. Short Report. The incidence and characterization of phenylketonuric patients in Estonia. (1996) J. Inher. Metab. Dis. 19, 381-382.
6.
Pata, I. and Metspalu, A. Structural characterization of the mouse ribosomal protein S6-encoding gene. (1996) Gene 175, 241-245. 
7.
Lilleväli, H., Õunap, K. and Metspalu, A. Phenylalanine hydroxylase gene mutation R408W is present on 84% of Estonian phenylketonuria chromosomes. (1996) European Journal of Human Genetics 4, 296-300.

1995
1.
Annilo, T., Laan, M., Stahl, J., Metspalu, A. Human ribosomal protein S7 gene - isolation, structure and location in 2p25. (1995) Gene 165, 297-302.
2.
Kurg, A., Sommer, G., and Metspalu, A. An RNA Stem-Loop Structure Involved in the Packaging of Bovine leukaemia Virus Genomic RNA in vivo. (1995) Virology 211, 434-442.
3.
Shumaker, J.M., Metspalu, A., Ngo, T.T., Caskey, C.T. Primer Extension Mutation Detection Method: A Non-Gel Based Method for Rapid Mutation Identification. (1995) The Fifth International Symposium on Human Identification 1994, 147-151. ISBN 1-882274-54-7. 

 


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