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David Westergaard, PhD

Senior Researcher, Hvidovre Hospital. Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen
Verified email at regionh.dk
Cited by 2449

Unexplored therapeutic opportunities in the human genome

…, O Ursu, D Vidović, A Waller, D Westergaard… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
… Proper archiving of negative results (for example, “protein P is not expressed in cell type
CT” or “gene mutation Gm does not play a role in disease D”) would benefit the community at …

The genetic basis of endometriosis and comorbidity with other pain and inflammatory conditions

…, NF Topbas-Selcuki, A Vitonis, D Westergaard… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Endometriosis is a common condition associated with debilitating pelvic pain and infertility.
A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, including 60,674 cases and 701,926 …

[HTML][HTML] Acute and persistent symptoms in non-hospitalized PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients

…, L Cantwell, M Schwinn, M Tulstrup, D Westergaard… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Reports of persistent symptoms after hospitalization with COVID-19 have raised concern of a
“long COVID” syndrome. This study aimed at determining the prevalence of and risk factors …

SARS-CoV-2 in first trimester pregnancy: a cohort study

…, ER Severinsen, AM Kolte, D Westergaard… - Human …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION Does maternal infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome
Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) in first trimester pregnancy have an impact on the fetal development …

[HTML][HTML] Novel variation and de novo mutation rates in population-wide de novo assembled Danish trios

…, J Damm Sørensen, P Chmura, D Westergaard… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Building a population-specific catalogue of single nucleotide variants (SNVs), indels and
structural variants (SVs) with frequencies, termed a national pan-genome, is critical for further …

[HTML][HTML] Sequencing and de novo assembly of 150 genomes from Denmark as a population reference

…, T Sicheritz-Pontén, P Sullivan, A Syed, D Westergaard… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Hundreds of thousands of human genomes are now being sequenced to characterize genetic
variation and use this information to augment association mapping studies of complex …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive and quantitative comparison of text-mining in 15 million full-text articles versus their corresponding abstracts

D Westergaard, HH Stærfeldt, C Tønsberg… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… of listing references (eg [1] Westergaard, …). Such a pattern can be matched by the RegEx
“^\[\d+\]\s[A-Za-z]”. The other commonly used pattern, “1. Westergaard, …”, was avoided since …

[HTML][HTML] Population-wide analysis of differences in disease progression patterns in men and women

D Westergaard, P Moseley, FKH Sørup, P Baldi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… In addition, there is an interesting and emerging set of studies showing vitamin D receptor
polymorphisms in patients with COPD and osteoporosis 60 . The relative impact of these …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic effects on the timing of parturition and links to fetal birth weight

…, J Chen, T Laisk, AL LaBella, D Westergaard… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The timing of parturition is crucial for neonatal survival and infant health. Yet, its genetic
basis remains largely unresolved. We present a maternal genome-wide meta-analysis of …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide association study of placental weight identifies distinct and shared genetic influences between placental and fetal growth

…, SE Stinson, K Trajanoska, CA Wang, D Westergaard… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
A well-functioning placenta is essential for fetal and maternal health throughout pregnancy.
Using placental weight as a proxy for placental growth, we report genome-wide association …