Therese Haugdahl Nøst


Associate professor

Job description

I belong to the Systemsepidemiology research group and my research interests are in the fields of molecular and environmental epidemiology. My research focuses on markers that can be measured in blood and that can help us understand more about diseases and how environmental exposures can influence our bodies. I especially have focused on markers often called ' omics markers' (for example genetics, gene expression, and DNA methylation) as intermediate markers between exposures and the systemic reactions to the exposure or the disease, especially cancer. I have also worked with different projects focus on exposure to and effects of environmental contaminants. 


  • Thibault Fiolet, Geneviève Nicolas, Corinne Casagrande, Zsuzsanna Horvath, Pauline Frenoy, Elisabete Weiderpass Vainio et al.:
    Dietary intakes of dioxins and polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) and mortality: EPIC cohort study in 9 European countries
    International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2024 DOI
  • Yumie Takata, Jae Jeong Yang, Danxia Yu, Stephanie A. Smith-Warner, William J. Blot, Emily White et al.:
    Calcium Intake and Lung Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis of 12 Prospective Cohort Studies
    Journal of Nutrition 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Dolley Charles, Vivian Berg, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Tom Wilsgaard, Ingvar A. Bergdahl, Sandra Huber et al.:
    Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in type 2 diabetes mellitus cases and controls: Repeated measurements prior to and after diagnosis
    International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ingjerd Sunde Krogseth, Knut Breivik, Sylvia Frantzen, Bente Merete Nilsen, Sabine Eckhardt, Therese Haugdahl Nøst et al.:
    Modelling PCB-153 in northern ecosystems across time, space, and species using the nested exposure model
    Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Xiaoshuang Feng, Wendy Yi-Ying Wu, Justina Ucheojor Onwuka, Zahra Haider, Karine Alcala, Karl Smith-Byrne et al.:
    Lung cancer risk discrimination of prediagnostic proteomics measurements compared with existing prediction tools
    Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lara Cioni, Merle Plassmann, Jonathan P. Benskin, Ana Carolina Coelho, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Karin Charlotta Maria Rylander et al.:
    Fluorine Mass Balance, including Total Fluorine, Extractable Organic Fluorine, Oxidizable Precursors, and Target Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, in Pooled Human Serum from the Tromsø Population in 1986, 2007, and 2015
    Environmental Science and Technology 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Edoardo Botteri, Pietro Ferrari, Tonje Braaten, Torkjel M Sandanger et al.:
    Overall lifestyle changes in adulthood are associated with cancer incidence in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC) - a prospective cohort study
    BMC Public Health 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Danya F. Vears, Nina Hallowell, Heidi Beate Bentzen, Bridget Ellul, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Angeliki Kerasidou et al.:
    A practical checklist for return of results from genomic research in the European contex
    European Journal of Human Genetics 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Joseph A. Rothwell, Jelena Bešević, Niki Dimou, Marie Breeur, Neil Murphy, Mazda Jenab et al.:
    Circulating amino acid levels and colorectal cancer risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition and UK Biobank cohorts
    BMC Medicine 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nikita Baiju, Karin Charlotta Maria Rylander, Pål Sætrom, Torkjel M Sandanger, Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    Associations of gene expression in blood with BMI and weight changes among women in the Norwegian Women and Cancer postgenome cohort
    Obesity 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tammy Y. N. Tong, Robert Michael Clarke, Julie A. Schmidt, Inge Huybrechts, Urwah Noor, Nita G. Forouhi et al.:
    Dietary amino acids and risk of stroke subtypes: a prospective analysis of 356,000 participants in seven European countries
    European Journal of Nutrition 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ilona Halva Urbarova, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Yi-Qian Sun, Xiao-Mei Mai, Bjørn Henning Grønberg, Torkjel Manning Sandanger et al.:
    Increased expression of individual genes in whole blood is associated with late-stage lung cancer at and close to diagnosis
    Scientific Reports 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • David J. Hughes, Lutz Schomburg, Mazda Jenab, Carine Biessy, Catherine Méplan, Aurelie Moskal et al.:
    Prediagnostic selenium status, selenoprotein gene variants and association with breast cancer risk in a European cohort study
    Free Radical Biology & Medicine 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Barbara Bodinier, Sarah Filippi, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Julien Chiquet, Marc Chadeau-Hyam :
    Automated calibration for stability selection in penalised regression and graphical models
    The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics) 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Emmanouil Bouras, Ville Karhunen, Dipender Gill, Jian Huang, Philip C. Haycock, Marc J. Gunter et al.:
    Circulating inflammatory cytokines and risk of five cancers: a Mendelian randomization analysis
    BMC Medicine 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Valerie Cayssials, Genevieve Buckland, Marta Crous-Bou, Catalina Bonet, Elisabete Weiderpass, Guri Skeie et al.:
    Inflammatory potential of diet and pancreatic cancer risk in the EPIC study
    European Journal of Nutrition 2022 DOI
  • Dusan Petrovic, Barbara Bodinier, Sonia Dagnino, Matthew Whitaker, Maryam Karimi, Gianluca Campanella et al.:
    Epigenetic mechanisms of lung carcinogenesis involve differentially methylated CpG sites beyond those associated with smoking
    European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE) 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Niki Dimou, Wemimo Omiyale, Carine Biessy, Vivian Viallon, Rudolf Kaaks, Tracy A. O'Mara et al.:
    Cigarette Smoking and Endometrial Cancer Risk: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analyses
    Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Huiling Zhao, Humaira Rasheed, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Yoonsu Cho, Yi Liu, Laxmi Bhatta et al.:
    Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization in global biobank meta-analysis reveals multi-ancestry drug targets for common diseases
    Cell Genomics 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Karl Smith-Byrne, Agustin Cerani, Florence Guida, Sirui Zhou, Antonio Agudo, Krasimira Aleksandrova et al.:
    Circulating Isovalerylcarnitine and Lung Cancer Risk: Evidence from Mendelian Randomization and Prediagnostic Blood Measurements
    Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Wendy Yi-Ying Wu, Zahra Haider, Xiaoshuang Feng, Alicia K. Heath, Anne Tjønneland, Antonio Agudo et al.:
    Assessment of the EarlyCDT-Lung test as an early biomarker of lung cancer in ever-smokers: A retrospective nested case-control study in two prospective cohorts
    International Journal of Cancer 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Marie Breeur, Pietro Ferrari, Laure Dossus, Mazda Jenab, Mattias Johansson, Sabina Rinaldi et al.:
    Pan-cancer analysis of pre-diagnostic blood metabolite concentrations in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
    BMC Medicine 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Ilona Halva Urbarova, Robin Mjelle, Erna-Elise Paulsen, Tom Dønnem et al.:
    Increased levels of microRNA-320 in blood serum and plasma is associated with imminent and advanced lung cancer
    Molecular Oncology 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Dolley Charles, Vivian Berg, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Ingvar A. Bergdahl, Sandra Huber, Pierre Ayotte et al.:
    Longitudinal changes in concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (1986–2016) and their associations with type 2 diabetes mellitus
    Environmental Research 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Thibault Fiolet, Corinne Casagrande, Geneviève Nicolas, Zsuzsanna Horvath, Pauline Frenoy, Elisabete Weiderpass et al.:
    Dietary intakes of dioxins and polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) and breast cancer risk in 9 European countries
    Environment International 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erik Eik Anda, Tonje Bjørndal Braaten, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Marko Lukic et al.:
    Seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in the adult population during the pre-vaccination period, Norway, winter 2020/21
    Eurosurveillance 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Florian Thibord, Derek Klarin, Jennifer A. Brody, Ming-Huei Chen, Michael G. Levin, Daniel I. Chasman et al.:
    Cross-Ancestry Investigation of Venous Thromboembolism Genomic Predictors
    Circulation 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Christian Magnus Page, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Vera Djordjilović, Magne Thoresen, Arnoldo Frigessi, Torkjel M Sandanger et al.:
    Pre-diagnostic DNA methylation in blood leucocytes in cutaneous melanoma; a nested case–control study within the Norwegian Women and Cancer cohort
    Scientific Reports 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Miquel Porta, Magda Gasull, José Pumarega, Hannu Kiviranta, Panu Rantakokko, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen et al.:
    Plasma concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and pancreatic cancer risk
    International Journal of Epidemiology 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Barbara Bodinier, Sarah Filippi, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Julien Chiquet, Marc Chadeau-Hyam :
    Automated calibration for stability selection in penalised regression and graphical models: a multi-OMICs network application exploring the molecular response to tobacco smoking
    arXiv 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sonia Dagnino, Barbara Bodinier, Florence Guida, Karl Smith Byrne, Dusan Petrovic, Matthew Whitaker et al.:
    Prospective Identification of Elevated Circulating CDCP1 in Patients Years before Onset of Lung Cancer
    Cancer Research 2021 DOI
  • Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Tonje Bjørndal Braaten, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Pietro Ferrari, Torkjel M Sandanger, Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    Combined Lifestyle Behaviors and the Incidence of Common Cancer Types in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC)
    Clinical Epidemiology 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Vivian Berg, Dolley Charles, Ingvar A. Bergdahl, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Torkjel M Sandanger, Andreas Tornevi et al.:
    Pre- and post-diagnostic blood profiles of chlorinated persistent organic pollutants and metabolic markers in type 2 diabetes mellitus cases and controls; a pilot study
    Environmental Research 09. February 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erica Ponzi, Magne Thoresen, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Kajsa Møllersen :
    Integrative, multi-omics, analysis of blood samples improves model predictions: applications to cancer
    BMC Bioinformatics 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Karine Alcala, Ilona Urbarova, Karl Smith Byrne, Florence Guida, Torkjel M Sandanger et al.:
    Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank
    European Journal of Epidemiology (EJE) 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Vivian Viallon, Mathilde His, Sabina Rinaldi, Marie Breeur, Audrey Gicquiau, Bertrand Hémon et al.:
    A new pipeline for the normalization and pooling of metabolomics data
    Metabolites 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nikita Baiju, Torkjel M Sandanger, Pål Sætrom, Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    Gene expression in blood reflects smoking exposure among cancer-free women in the Norwegian Women and Cancer (NOWAC) postgenome cohort
    Scientific Reports 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Erikka Loftfield, Magdalena Stepien, Vivian Viallon, Laura Trijsburg, Joseph A. Rothwell, Nivonirina Robinot et al.:
    Novel Biomarkers of Habitual Alcohol Intake and Associations With Risk of Pancreatic and Liver Cancers and Liver Disease Mortality
    Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Mathilde His, Vivian Viallon, Laure Dossus, Julie A. Schmidt, Ruth C. Travis, Marc Gunter et al.:
    Lifestyle correlates of eight breast cancer-related metabolites: a cross-sectional study within the EPIC cohort
    BMC Medicine 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lara Cioni, Merle Plassmann, Jonathan Benskin, Ana Carolina Coelho, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Karin Charlotta Maria Rylander et al.:
    Fluorine Mass-balance in Pooled Serum Samples from Northern Norwegian Men and Women Between 1986 and 2015
    2023
  • Oluf Dimitri Røe, I Fotopoulos, Olav Toai Duc Nguyen, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, M Markaki, Vincenzo Lagani et al.:
    Common MicroRNAs in Pre-diagnostic Serum Associated with Lung Cancer in Two Cohorts up to Eight Years Before Diagnosis: A HUNT Study
    Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2022 DOI
  • Olav Toai Duc Nguyen, I Fotopoulos, Therese Haugdahl Nøst, M Markaki, Vincenzo Lagani, I Tsamardinos et al.:
    Genetic Variants of HUNT Lung Cancer Model Improve Lung Cancer Risk Assessment Over Clinical Models
    Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2022 DOI
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Ilona Halva Urbarova, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Robin Mjelle, Erna Elise Paulsen, Tom Dønnem et al.:
    Increased levels of mRNAs and miRNAs associated with imminent and advanced lung cancer
    2022
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    Sex differences in AF - the HUNT study
    2022
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Jonas Bille Nielsen, Kristian Hveem :
    Sex differences in AF - the HUNT study
    2022
  • Kit Chapman, Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    The toxic tide of ship breaking
    21. February 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Ingjerd Sunde Krogseth, Knut Breivik, Sylvia Frantzen, Bente Merete Nilsen, Sabine Eckhardt, Therese Haugdahl Nøst et al.:
    Modelling organic contaminants in northern ecosystems across time, space and species using the integrated NEM model
    2022
  • Therese Haugdahl Nøst, Anne Heidi Skogholt, Robin Mjelle, Bjørn Henning Grønberg, Torkjel M Sandanger, Pål Sætrom :
    microRNA levels in serum at diagnosis are predictive for lung cancer
    2021
  • Sairah Lai Fa Chen, Tonje Braaten, Kristin Benjaminsen Borch, Pietro Ferrari, Torkjel M Sandanger, Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    Combined lifestyle behaviours and the incidence of common cancers in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Study (NOWAC)
    2021
  • Charlotta Rylander, Vivian Berg, Dolley Charles, Torkjel M Sandanger, Therese Haugdahl Nøst :
    Diabetes 2 og miljøgifter: Hva kom først – høna eller egget?
    Forskersonen.no 22. December 2021

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