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PhD dissertations



Jeanet Lauenborg, MD: Gestational diabetes mellitus: consequences and inheritance, University of Copenhagen, January 6th, 2005.

Eva-Maria Damsgaard Nielsen, MSc: Molecular and epidemiological studies of
genetic determinants of type 2 diabetes – an experimental focus on
the candidate genes encoding Kir6.2, PPARα, IGF-1, CDKN1C, and CDK4, University of Copenhagen, May 9th, 2005.

Gitte Andersen, MSc: Human sequence variation in metabolic disease – investigation of the genes encoding PPAR, GLUT10, NCB5OR, and G3, University of Copenhagen, May 13th, 2005.

Yasmin Hassan Hamid, MD: Epidemiological and molecular studies of genetic variation in IL6, IL6R, LTA, ACDC and GPR40 in relation to phenotypes of the metabolic syndrome, University of Copenhagen, July 4th, 2005.

Sara Kristine Post Hansen, MSc: Studies of genetic risk factors in the pathogenesis of monogenic diabetes and polygenic type 2 diabetes, University of Copenhagen, October 5th, 2005.

Lesli Hingstrup Larsen, MSc: Genetic aspects of human obesity. Studies of the candidate genes: MC4R, GHSR, ghrelin, PPARG2P and ESRRA, University of Copenhagen, April 10th, 2006.

Thomas Meinert Larsen, MSc: Aspects of the molecular aetiology of obesity and co-morbidities with a focus on impact of PPARү gene variants and responses to dietary supplementation with conjugated fatty acids, University of Copenhagen, April 25th, 2006.

Anders Johansen, MD: Genetic aspects of pancreatic β-cell dysfunction in type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and maturity onset diabetes of the young, University of Copenhagen, May 11th, 2006.


Doctoral dissertations

Peter Haulund Gæde, MD: Intensified multifactorial intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes and microalbuminuria: rationale and effect on late-diabetic complications, University of Copenhagen, June 1st, 2006.


Master’s theses

Mette Sloth Mogensen, MSc: Genetic Aspects of Obesity and Non-Autoimmune Diabetes - Studies of Genetic Variation in INSIG2, FTO, PFKP, and PTF1A.

Lise Wegner, MSc: Studies of putative genetic determinants of type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity, and maturity-onset diabetes of the young, 2004.

Signe Kaastrup Torekov, MSc: Aspects of the genetic predisposition to obesity in relation to adipogenesis and appetite regulation – molecular, epidemiological and functional studies of PPAR, ghrelin receptor, MC4R, and PYY, 2004.

Dorit Packert Jensen, MSc: Molecular genetic and functional studies of SHP, IRS-1, HNF-1alpha, and HNF-4alpha – candidate genes in the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus, 2004.

Christian Schack Rose, MSc: Studies of genetic and functional variation in SLC2A10, NCB5OR, and HNF-4alpha, 2004.

Thomas Sparsø, MSc: Studies of genetic and functional variation in ESRRA, APOA5, and NEUROD1 in relation to discrete and quantitative metabolic traits in humans, 2006.

Anders Albrechtsen, MSc: Modelling higher-order gene-gene-environment interactions in population-based association studies using Markov chain Monte Carlo, 2006.

Mette Korre Andersen, MSc: Genetic and epidemiological studies of variation in PTF1A, FAAH, DIO2, and LIPC. Candidate genes in the pathogenesis of maturity-onset diabetes of the young, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and dyslipidemia, 2006.

Camilla Helene Andreasen, MSc: Genetic and epidemiological studies of variation in PTF1A, FAAH, DIO2, and LIPC. Candidate genes in the pathogenesis of maturity-onset diabetes of the young, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and dyslipidemia, 2006.

Sofie Inari Castella, MSc: The MAMSE method. A mixture mode for association studies of multiple SNP effects of a given trait, 2006.

Meena Hussain, MSc: Studies of genetic risk factors in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, obesity, and dyslipidemia. Experimental focus on the candidate genes PPARA, FOXO1A, and TCF7L2, 2007.

Kristoffer Sølvsten Burgdorf, MSc: Studies of genetic risk factors in KCNMB1, AHSG, and KLF7. Candidate genes in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, obesity, dyslipidaemia, and hypertension, 2007.

Ehm Astrid Andersen, MSc: Genetic epidemiologal studies of variants inHHEX/LIF11/IDE, CDKN2A/B, IGFBP2, SREBF1 and mutation screening of INS, 2008.

Mette Sloth Mogensen, MSc: Genetic Aspects of Obesity and Non-Autoimmune Diabetes - Studies of Genetic Variation in INSIG2, FTO, PFKP, and PTF1A, 2008.