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Reynir Arngrímsson - Professor
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School of Health Sciences
Reynir Arngrímsson
Íslenska
Professor
Professor of Clinical Genetics
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Læknagarður / Lg-535
Phone
5435030
Email
reynirar [at] hi.is
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Biochemistry
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1142-2914
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Research portal – Reynir Arngrímsson
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2023 - 2024
LÆK403F - Medical Genetics
LÆK303F - Medical Genetics
Published works
2020
Læknafélag Íslands - til móts við nýtt ár
Læknablaðið
[The Icelandic Medical Association - towards the New Year].
Laeknabladid
2019
Símenntun lækna er ævilöng skuldbinding
Læknablaðið
2018
[Continuous recruitment of doctors].
Laeknabladid
A homozygous loss-of-function mutation leading to CYBC1 deficiency causes chronic granulomatous disease.
Nature communications
[The Icelandic Medical Association celebrating 100th year anniversary 2018].
Laeknabladid
2017
Fabry Disease in Families With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Clinical Manifestations in the Classic and Later-Onset Phenotypes.
Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics
Comprehensive population-wide analysis of Lynch syndrome in Iceland reveals founder mutations in MSH6 and PMS2.
Nature communications
Compound heterozygous mutations in UBA5 causing early-onset epileptic encephalopathy in two sisters.
BMC medical genetics
COPA syndrome in an Icelandic family caused by a recurrent missense mutation in COPA.
BMC medical genetics
[Considerable demands on the medical profession[Editorial]].
Laeknabladid
2015
Recommendations for initiation and cessation of enzyme replacement therapy in patients with Fabry disease: the European Fabry Working Group consensus document.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases
2014
Susceptibility allele-specific loss of miR-1324-mediated silencing of the INO80B chromatin-assembly complex gene in pre-eclampsia.
Human molecular genetics
2013
Association of Morbus Ledderhose with Dupuytren's contracture.
Foot & ankle international
Iceland-genetic counseling services.
Journal of genetic counseling
2012
[Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV. Case study and clinical findings].
Laeknabladid
Association of HLA-DRB1*01 with Dupuytren's disease.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology
Ichthyosis prematurity syndrome with separation of fetal membranes and neonatal asphyxia.
BMJ case reports
2008
C-reactive protein is elevated 30 years after eclamptic pregnancy.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
2005
Epigenetics of hypertension in pregnancy.
Nature genetics
Cardiovascular death in women who had hypertension in pregnancy: a case-control study.
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
2003
Guillaume Dupuytren and finger contractures.
Lancet (London, England)
2002
Searching for preeclampsia genes: the current position.
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology
Increased total mortality and cancer mortality in men with Dupuytren's disease: a 15-year follow-up study.
Journal of clinical epidemiology
Linkage and association studies of IL1B and IL1RN gene polymorphisms in preeclampsia.
Hypertension in pregnancy
[Folic acid consumption by pregnant women prior to and during pregnancy.].
Laeknabladid
Genetic epidemiologic aspects of gastric cancer in Iceland.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
2001
Polymorphisms in the tumor necrosis factor and lymphotoxin-alpha gene region and preeclampsia.
Obstetrics and gynecology
A genome-wide scan for preeclampsia in the Netherlands.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG
Dupuytren's disease, alcohol consumption and alcoholism.
Scandinavian journal of primary health care
Mutations in the gene for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, homocysteine levels, and vitamin status in women with a history of preeclampsia.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology
Eighteen years follow-up study of the clinical manifestations and progression of Dupuytren's disease.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology
MODY in Iceland is associated with mutations in HNF-1alpha and a novel mutation in NeuroD1.
Diabetologia
2000
[Icelandic cancer research and clinical genomics [Editorial].].
Laeknabladid
Dyslipoproteinaemia in postmenopausal women with a history of eclampsia.
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Epidemiology of Dupuytren's disease: clinical, serological, and social assessment. The Reykjavik Study.
Journal of clinical epidemiology
1999
Prevalence of joint complaints amongst individuals with Dupuytren's disease--from the Reykjavík study.
Scandinavian journal of rheumatology
A genome-wide scan reveals a maternal susceptibility locus for pre-eclampsia on chromosome 2p13.
Human molecular genetics
1998
T-and B-lymphocyte subsets in patients with Dupuytren's disease. Correlations with disease severity.
Journal of hand surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Prediction of liability to orofacial clefting using genetic and craniofacial data from parents.
Journal of medical genetics
1997
A novel pattern of oculocerebral malformation.
The British journal of ophthalmology
Evidence for a familial pregnancy-induced hypertension locus in the eNOS-gene region.
American journal of human genetics
1996
Familial hemiplegic migraine in the west of Scotland: a clinical and genetic study of seven families.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
1995
Death rates from ischemic heart disease in women with a history of hypertension in pregnancy.
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
Characterisation of a novel splice donor mutation affecting position +1 in intron 18 of the NF-1 gene.
Human molecular genetics
1994
[The ΔF508 mutation in cystic fibrosis patients].
Laeknabladid
Is genetic susceptibility for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia associated with implantation failure and fetal demise?
Lancet (London, England)
Renin gene restriction fragment length polymorphisms do not show linkage with preeclampsia and eclampsia.
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
Falling population incidence of eclampsia. A case-control study of short term outcome.
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
1993
Angiotensinogen: a candidate gene involved in preeclampsia?
Nature genetics
A low male/female sex ratio in offspring of women with a family history of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia.
British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Dyskeratosis congenita: three additional families show linkage to a locus in Xq28.
Journal of medical genetics
1991
Open randomized comparison of prostaglandin E2 given by intracervical gel or vagitory for preinduction cervical ripening and induction of labor.
Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica
1990
Genetic and familial predisposition to eclampsia and pre-eclampsia in a defined population.
British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
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