Prof. Elina Hyppönen

University of South Australia, Australia

Email: Elina.Hypponen@unisa.edu.au

Qualifications

2001 Doctor of Philosophy (epidemiology), Univ.of Tampere, Finland

2000 Master of Science (medical statistics), LSHTM, UK

1997 Master of Public Health (public health), Univ. of Kuopio, Finland

1996 Authorised nutritionist, Nat. Board of Medicolegal Affairs, Finland

1996 Master of Science (nutrition), Univ. of Kuopio, Finland

Publications (Selected)

1. Madakkatel, I., Lumsden, A. L., Mulugeta, A., Mäenpää, J., Oehler, M. K., & Hyppönen, E. (2025). Large-scale analysis to identify risk factors for ovarian cancer. International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 101844.
2. Byrne, S., Hyppönen, E., Benyamin, B., & Boyle, T. (2025). Greater adherence to lifestyle recommendations after cancer diagnosis is associated with lower mortality in the UK Biobank. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, OF1-OF7.
3. Hyppönen, E., Sutherland, J. P., & Zhou, A. (2024). Vitamin D deficiency increases mortality risk in the UK Biobank. Annals of Internal Medicine, 177(12), 1743-1746.
4. Eshetie, S., Choi, K. W., Hyppönen, E., Benyamin, B., & Lee, S. H. (2024). Integrative multi-omics analysis to gain new insights into COVID-19. Scientific reports, 14(1), 29803.
5. Madakkatel, I., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). LLpowershap: logistic loss-based automated Shapley values feature selection method. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 24(1), 247.
6. Stacey, D., Benyamin, B., Lee, S. H., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). A metabolome-wide Mendelian randomization study identifies dysregulated arachidonic acid synthesis as a potential causal risk factor for bipolar disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 96(6), 455-462.
7. Duko, B., Mengistu, T. S., Stacey, D., Moran, L. J., Tessema, G., Pereira, G., ... & Hyppönen, E. (2024). Associations between maternal preconception and pregnancy adiposity and neuropsychiatric and behavioral outcomes in the offspring: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research, 116149.
8. Stacey, D., Suppiah, V., Benyamin, B., Lee, S. H., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). In-silico functional analyses identify TMPRSS15-mediated intestinal absorption of lithium as a modulator of lithium response in bipolar disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 358, 416-421.
9. Kassaw, N. A., Zhou, A., Mulugeta, A., Lee, S. H., Burgess, S., & Hyppönen, E. (2024). Alcohol consumption and the risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality—a linear and nonlinear Mendelian randomization study. International journal of epidemiology, 53(2), dyae046.
10. Madakkatel, I., Lumsden, A. L., Mulugeta, A., Olver, I., & Hyppönen, E. (2023). Hypothesis‐free discovery of novel cancer predictors using machine learning. European Journal of Clinical Investigation, 53(10), e14037.
11. Byrne, S., Boyle, T., Ahmed, M., Lee, S. H., Benyamin, B., & Hyppönen, E. (2023). Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types. International Journal of Epidemiology, 52(3), 817-826.
12. Zhou, A., & Hyppönen, E. (2023). Vitamin D deficiency and C-reactive protein: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 52(1), 260-271.
13. Lumsden, A. L., Mulugeta, A., & Hyppönen, E. (2023). Milk consumption and risk of twelve cancers: A large-scale observational and Mendelian randomisation study. Clinical Nutrition, 42(1), 1-8.
14. Lumsden, A. L., Mulugeta, A., Mäkinen, V. P., & Hyppönen, E. (2023). Metabolic profile‐based subgroups can identify differences in brain volumes and brain iron deposition. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 25(1), 121-131.
15. Sutherland, J. P., Zhou, A., & Hyppönen, E. (2022). Vitamin D deficiency increases mortality risk in the UK Biobank: a nonlinear Mendelian randomization study. Annals of internal medicine, 175(11), 1552-1559.
16. Hyppönen, E., Vimaleswaran, K. S., & Zhou, A. (2022). Genetic determinants of 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and their relevance to public health. Nutrients, 14(20), 4408.
17. Wang, Z., Emmerich, A., Pillon, N. J., Moore, T., Hemerich, D., Cornelis, M. C., ... & Ameur, A. (2022). Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention. Nature genetics, 54(9), 1332-1344.

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