More than 20 years of experience within research in national health and clinical epidemiology. Particular interest include the use of biomarkers in causality seeking epidemiology, monitoring of health and prevalence of disease with national health surveys, genetic epidemiology, registry research and pharmocoepidemiology. Has researched occurence, risk factors and prevention of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, allergies and autoimmune disease. Since 2014 clinical professor at the Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, with focus on implementation of epidemiological methods in research at clinical departments.
Awards-/Honours:
Vice Chairman for the Capital Region's Strategic Research Council
Member of the selection panel for Capital Region's Research Fund
Member of the Heart Foundation's Research Comittee
Member of the Directoral Board of the Copenhagen Medical Society
Recipient of the Schering-Plough Prize (2000) and Grete Stampe's research legate (2013), in recognition of research on allergies.
Selected Publications:
- Qin J, Li R, Raes J, Arumugam M, Burgdorf KS, Manichanh C, Nielsen T, Pons N, Levenez F, Yamada T, Mende DR, Li J, Xu J, Li S, Li D, Cao J, Wang B, Liang H, Zheng H, Xie Y, Tap J, Lepage P, Bertalan M, Batto J-M, Hansen T, Paslier DL, Linneberg A, Nielsen HB, Pelletier E, Renault P, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Turner K, Zhu H, Yu C, Li S, Jian M, Zhou Y, Li Y, Zhang X, Li S, Qin N, Yang H, Wang J, Brunak S, Doré J, Guarner F, Kristiansen K, Pedersen O, Parkhill J, Weissenbach J, MetaHIT Consortium, Bork P, Ehrlich SD, Wang J. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing. Nature 2010;464:59-65. PMID: 20203603
- Linneberg A, Jacobsen RK, Jespersen L, Abildstrøm SZ. Association of subcutaneous allergen-specific immunotherapy with incidence of autoimmune disease, ischemic heart disease, and mortality. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2012;129:413-9.
- Linneberg A, Jacobsen RK, Skaaby T, Taylor AE, Fluharty ME, Jeppesen JL, Bjørngaard JH, Åsvold BO, Gabrielsen ME, Campbell A, Marioni RE, Kumari M, Marques-Vidal P, Kaakinen M, Cavadino A, Postmus I, Ahluwalia TS, Wannamethee SG, Lahti J, Räikkönen K, Palotie A, Wong A, Dalgård C, Ford I, Ben-Shlomo Y, Christiansen L, Kyvik KO, Kuh D, Eriksson JG, Whincup PH, Mbarek H, de Geus EJ, Vink JM, Boomsma DI, Davey Smith G, Lawlor DA, Kisialiou A, McConnachie A, Padmanabhan S, Jukema JW, Power C, Hyppönen E, Preisig M, Waeber G, Vollenweider P, Korhonen T, Laatikainen T, Salomaa V, Kaprio J, Kivimäki M, Smith BH, Hayward C, Sørensen TI, Thuesen BH, Sattar N, Morris RW, Romundstad PR, Munafò MR, Jarvelin MR, Husemoen LL. Effect of Smoking on Blood Pressure and Resting Heart Rate: A Mendelian Randomization Meta-Analysis in the CARTA Consortium. Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2015;8:832-41. PMID: 26538566
- Fumagalli M, Moltke I, Grarup N, Racimo F, Bjerregaard P, Jørgensen ME, Korneliussen TS, Gerbault P, Skotte L, Linneberg A, Christensen C, Brandslund I, Jørgensen T, Huerta-Sánchez E, Schmidt EB, Pedersen O, Hansen T, Albrechtsen A, Nielsen R. Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation. Science 2015;349:1343-7. PMID: 26383953
- Skaaby T, Jørgensen T, Linneberg A. Effects of invitation to participate in health surveys on the incidence of cardiovascular disease: a randomized general population study. Int J Epidemiol 2016 Dec 28; PMID: 28031318.
Link to Allan Linneberg's ORCID profile.