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Kaare Christensen

Head of Research, DMSc.
Professor, Chief Physician
Epidemiology

Phone: 6550 3049

Fax: 6550 3682

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Research areas

Research areas

Genetic-epidemiology, twin studies, aging, age-related diseases, reproduction, fertility, congenital malformations, cleft lip and palate, and fetal programming.

Selected scientific and professional posts

Director of The Danish Twin Registry, 2007-
Director of The Danish Aging Research Center, 2008-
Member of the steering committee for the NIA- LLFS Long Life Family Study, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, USA, 2004-
Work package leader of the project LifeSpan Network, 2007-
Member of the Academic Council, University of Southern Denmark, 2004-
Board member of the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS), 2010-
Honorary Professor of the Epidemiology of Aging at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2011-

Selected publications

Jacobsen R, Martinussen T, Christiansen L, Jeune B, Andersen-Ranberg K, Vaupel JW, Christensen K. Increased effect of the ApoE gene on survival at advanced age in healthy and long-lived Danes - Two nationwide cohort studies. Aging Cell 2010; 9(6):1004-9.

Grosen D, Chevrier C, Skytthe A, Bille C, Molsted K, Sivertsen A, Murray JC, Christensen K. A cohort study of recurrence patterns among more than 54,000 relatives of oral cleft cases in Denmark: support for the multifactorial threshold model of inheritance. Journal of Medical Genetics 2010; 47(3):162-8.

Christensen K, Doblhammer G, Rau R, Vaupel JW. Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. Lancet 2009;374:1196-1208.

Christensen K, Thinggaard M, McGue M, Rexbye H, Hjelmborg J, Aviv A, Gunn D, V d Ouderaa F, Vaupel JW. Perceived age as clinically useful biomarker of ageing: cohort study. BMJ 2009; 339: b5262.

Oksuzyan A, Petersen I, Støvring H, Bingley P, Vaupel JW, Christensen K. The male-female health-survival paradox: A survey and register study of the impact of sex-specific selection and information bias. Annals of Epidemiology 2009;19(7):504-511(selected as the best article during 2009 in the Annals of Epidemiology).

Christensen K, McGue M, Petersen I, Jeune B, Vaupel JW. Exceptional longevity does not result in excessive levels of disability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008; 105(36):13274-9.

Christensen K, Murray JC. What genome-wide association studies can do for medicine.
New England Journal of Medicine 2007;356(11):1094-1097.

Christensen K, Johnson TE, Vaupel JW. The quest for genetic determinants of human longevity: challenges and insights. Nature Reviews Genetics 2006;7:436-448.

Affiliations

The Danish Twin Registry - Head of Registry
Danish Aging Research Center - Head of Centre
Human Genetics - Professor

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A cross-sectional analysis of age and sex patterns in grip strength, tooth loss, near vision and hearing levels in Chinese aged 50-74 years. / Wu, Yili ; Pang, Zengchang ; Zhang, Dongfeng ; Jiang, Wenjie ; Wang, Shaojie ; Li, Shuxia; Kruse, Torben A; Christensen, Kaare; Tan, Qihua .

I : Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Supplement , 03.09.2011.