| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology | Nature | 2015 | 3,823 |
| 2 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,818 |
| 3 | Maternal age and fetal loss: population based register linkage study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2000 | 1,270 |
| 4 | Genome partitioning of genetic variation for complex traits using common SNPs | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 834 |
| 5 | Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis: A Meta-analysis of Population-Based Cohort Studies | Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 2012 | 734 |
| 6 | Sexually Transmitted Infection as a Cause of Anal Cancer | New England Journal of Medicine | 1997 | 635 |
| 7 | Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche | Nature | 2014 | 548 |
| 8 | Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study of 21,000 cases and 95,000 controls identifies new risk loci for atopic dermatitis | Nature Genetics | 2015 | 529 |
| 9 | Detectable clonal mosaicism from birth to old age and its relationship to cancer | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 511 |
| 10 | Autoimmune disorders and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes: a pooled analysis within the InterLymph Consortium | Blood | 2008 | 508 |
| 11 | Multi-country analysis of the effects of diarrhoea on childhood stunting | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2008 | 470 |
| 12 | Decreasing Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Over 30 Years | Gastroenterology | 2012 | 457 |
| 13 | Mumps | Lancet, The | 2008 | 452 |
| 14 | Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 445 |
| 15 | Caesarean delivery and risk of atopy and allergic disesase: meta‐analyses | Clinical and Experimental Allergy | 2008 | 427 |
| 16 | Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 426 |
| 17 | Antibiotic use and inflammatory bowel diseases in childhood | Gut | 2011 | 424 |
| 18 | Genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease | Nature | 2016 | 406 |
| 19 | Acute Respiratory Tract Infections and Mannose-Binding Lectin Insufficiency During Early Childhood | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2001 | 381 |
| 20 | Characteristics of Hodgkin's Lymphoma after Infectious Mononucleosis | New England Journal of Medicine | 2003 | 356 |
| 21 | Growth Patterns and the Risk of Breast Cancer in Women | New England Journal of Medicine | 2004 | 351 |
| 22 | The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study | PLoS Genetics | 2015 | 331 |
| 23 | Genome Analyses of >200,000 Individuals Identify 58 Loci for Chronic Inflammation and Highlight Pathways that Link Inflammation and Complex Disorders | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2018 | 326 |
| 24 | Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies three new risk loci for atopic dermatitis | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 311 |
| 25 | Recurrence of Congenital Heart Defects in Families | Circulation | 2009 | 306 |
| 26 | Factors influencing the effect of age on prognosis in breast cancer: population based study Commentary: much still to learn about relations between tumour biology, prognosis, and treatment outcome in early breast cancer | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2000 | 303 |
| 27 | Environmental risk factors differ between rheumatoid arthritis with and without auto-antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptides | Arthritis Research and Therapy | 2006 | 299 |
| 28 | New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism | Nature Genetics | 2013 | 293 |
| 29 | Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new susceptibility loci for childhood body mass index | Human Molecular Genetics | 2016 | 275 |
| 30 | Corticosteroid use during pregnancy and risk of orofacial clefts | Cmaj | 2011 | 254 |
| 31 | Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors and risk of serious adverse events: nationwide register based cohort study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2018 | 248 |
| 32 | Association Between Thimerosal-Containing Vaccine and Autism | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2003 | 237 |
| 33 | Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies six novel loci associated with habitual coffee consumption | Molecular Psychiatry | 2015 | 235 |
| 34 | The (in)famous GWAS P-value threshold revisited and updated for low-frequency variants | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2016 | 225 |
| 35 | Danish premature birth rates during the COVID-19 lockdown | Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition | 2021 | 223 |
| 36 | Association Between Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Antagonists and Risk of Cancer in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2014 | 221 |
| 37 | Genetic Evidence for Causal Relationships Between Maternal Obesity-Related Traits and Birth Weight | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2016 | 220 |
| 38 | Use of Azithromycin and Death from Cardiovascular Causes | New England Journal of Medicine | 2013 | 219 |
| 39 | Autoimmune, neurological, and venous thromboembolic adverse events after immunisation of adolescent girls with quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in Denmark and Sweden: cohort study | BMJ, The | 2013 | 219 |
| 40 | A case–control study of risk factors for sporadic campylobacter infections in Denmark | Epidemiology and Infection | 2003 | 218 |
| 41 | Newer-Generation Antiepileptic Drugs and the Risk of Major Birth Defects | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2011 | 204 |
| 42 | Early BCG vaccination and reduction in atopy in Guinea-Bissau | Clinical and Experimental Allergy | 2000 | 202 |
| 43 | Genome-wide association study identifies sequence variants on 6q21 associated with age at menarche | Nature Genetics | 2009 | 199 |
| 44 | Fecundability in Relation to Body Mass and Menstrual Cycle Patterns | Epidemiology | 1999 | 197 |
| 45 | Measles in Europe: an epidemiological assessment | Lancet, The | 2009 | 197 |
| 46 | Use of Azathioprine and the Risk of Cancer in Inflammatory Bowel Disease | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2013 | 196 |
| 47 | Risk of post-pregnancy hypertension in women with a history of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: nationwide cohort study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2017 | 195 |
| 48 | Cancer Risk in Inflammatory Bowel Disease According to Patient Phenotype and Treatment: A Danish Population-Based Cohort Study | American Journal of Gastroenterology | 2013 | 193 |
| 49 | Fish oil intake compared with olive oil intake in late pregnancy and asthma in the offspring: 16 y of registry-based follow-up from a randomized controlled trial | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2008 | 192 |
| 50 | Fluoroquinolone use and risk of aortic aneurysm and dissection: nationwide cohort study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2018 | 190 |
