Mitja Kurki

27.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Mitja Kurki is a scholar working on Neurology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Mitja Kurki has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Neurology, 14 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Mitja Kurki's work include Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications (14 papers), Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications (10 papers) and Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (9 papers). Mitja Kurki is often cited by papers focused on Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications (14 papers), Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications (10 papers) and Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (9 papers). Mitja Kurki collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and Germany. Mitja Kurki's co-authors include Juha E. Jääskeläinen, Mikael von und zu Fraunberg, Timo Koivisto, Mark J. Daly, Antti Lindgren, Aarno Palotie, Juha Hernesniemi, Juha Karjalainen, Aki S. Havulinna and Terhi Huttunen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mitja Kurki

42 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Polygenic and clinical risk scores and their impact on age at onset and prediction of cardiometabolic diseases and common cancers

2020 245 citations Nina Mars, Jukka Koskela et al. Nature Medicine profile →

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Andrea D. Praticò Italy

Ayumi Narisawa Japan

Domingo Escudero Spain

Andrew Yu United States

K Hirakawa Japan

Daniel L. Keene Canada

Alasdair Parker United Kingdom

Tuan Vu United States

Mary D. Ruppe United States

Roy D. Elterman United States

Andrea D. Praticò Italy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mitja Kurki

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Reeve, Mary Pat, Stephanie Loomis, Eija Nissilä, et al.. (2025). Loss of CFHR5 function reduces the risk for age-related macular degeneration. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5766–5766. 1 indexed citations

Ruotsalainen, Sanni, Juha Karjalainen, Mitja Kurki, et al.. (2024). Inherited infertility: Mapping loci associated with impaired female reproduction. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 111(12). 2789–2798. 1 indexed citations

Kurki, Mitja, Elisa Rahikkala, Eija Hämäläinen, et al.. (2024). Evidence for the additivity of rare and common variant burden throughout the spectrum of intellectual disability. European Journal of Human Genetics. 32(5). 576–583. 1 indexed citations

Hassan, Shabbeer, Elmo Saarentaus, Sanni Ruotsalainen, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide association study of varicose veins identifies a protective missense variant in GJD3 enriched in the Finnish population. Communications Biology. 6(1). 71–71. 12 indexed citations

Fauman, Eric B., et al.. (2023). LAVAA: a lightweight association viewer across ailments. Bioinformatics Advances. 3(1). vbad018–vbad018. 3 indexed citations

Heyne, Henrike, Juha Karjalainen, Konrad J. Karczewski, et al.. (2023). Mono- and biallelic variant effects on disease at biobank scale. Nature. 613(7944). 519–525. 37 indexed citations

Saarentaus, Elmo, Juha Karjalainen, Joel Rämö, et al.. (2023). Inflammatory and infectious upper respiratory diseases associate with 41 genomic loci and type 2 inflammation. Nature Communications. 14(1). 83–83. 8 indexed citations

Kurki, Mitja, Christopher N. Foley, Chia‐Yen Chen, et al.. (2022). Genetic associations of protein-coding variants in human disease. Nature. 603(7899). 95–102. 70 indexed citations

Saarentaus, Elmo, Aki S. Havulinna, Nina Mars, et al.. (2021). Polygenic burden has broader impact on health, cognition, and socioeconomic outcomes than most rare and high-risk copy number variants. Molecular Psychiatry. 26(9). 4884–4895. 7 indexed citations

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Mars, Nina, Jukka Koskela, Pietari Ripatti, et al.. (2020). Polygenic and clinical risk scores and their impact on age at onset and prediction of cardiometabolic diseases and common cancers. Nature Medicine. 26(4). 549–557. 245 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sakaue, Saori, Masahiro Kanai, Juha Karjalainen, et al.. (2020). Trans-biobank analysis with 676,000 individuals elucidates the association of polygenic risk scores of complex traits with human lifespan. Nature Medicine. 26(4). 542–548. 59 indexed citations

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Junkkari, Antti, Ville E. Korhonen, Mitja Kurki, et al.. (2019). Prevalence of schizophrenia in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 15 indexed citations

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Polla, D.L., Elisa Rahikkala, Michaela K. Bode, et al.. (2019). Phenotypic spectrum associated with a CRADD founder variant underlying frontotemporal predominant pachygyria in the Finnish population. European Journal of Human Genetics. 27(8). 1235–1243. 7 indexed citations

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Ganna, Andrea, Mitja Kurki, Aki S. Havulinna, et al.. (2018). Quantifying the Impact of Rare and Ultra-rare Coding Variation across the Phenotypic Spectrum. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja. 54 indexed citations

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Kurki, Mitja, et al.. (2018). Saccular Intracranial Aneurysms in Children When Both Parents Are Sporadic or Familial Carriers of Saccular Intracranial Aneurysms. Neuroepidemiology. 52(1-2). 47–54. 7 indexed citations

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Oinas, Minna, Janek Frantzén, Jaakko Rinne, et al.. (2016). Familial idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 368. 11–18. 25 indexed citations

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Karamanakos, Petros N., Timo Koivisto, Mitja Kurki, et al.. (2011). A Randomized Outcome Study of Enteral versus Intravenous Nimodipine in 171 Patients After Acute Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. World Neurosurgery. 78(1-2). 101–109. 34 indexed citations

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Karamanakos, Petros N., Mikael von und zu Fraunberg, Stepani Bendel, et al.. (2011). Risk Factors for Three Phases of 12-Month Mortality in 1657 Patients from a Defined Population After Acute Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. World Neurosurgery. 78(6). 631–639. 48 indexed citations

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Kurki, Mitja, Sanna-Kaisa Häkkinen, Juhana Frösen, et al.. (2011). Upregulated Signaling Pathways in Ruptured Human Saccular Intracranial Aneurysm Wall: An Emerging Regulative Role of Toll-Like Receptor Signaling and Nuclear Factor-κB, Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1A, and ETS Transcription Factors. Neurosurgery. 68(6). 1667–1676. 105 indexed citations

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Kurki, Mitja, Jussi Paananen, Markus Storvik, et al.. (2011). TAFFEL: Independent Enrichment Analysis of gene sets. BMC Bioinformatics. 12(1). 171–171. 1 indexed citations

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