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Elina Sillanpää

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Associate professor of health promotion (tenure track)

University of Jyväskylä

Finland

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Elina Sillanpää is an Associate Professor of Health Promotion on a tenure track at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research primarily focuses on the interplay between genetics, physical activity, and the risk of age-related diseases, as evidenced by her recent articles exploring areas such as cardiovascular disease, cancer risk, and biological aging. She is actively involved in examining genetic factors related to muscle strength and physical fitness, contributing to a deeper understanding of health promotion throughout the lifespan.

Recent Grants

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Internalized and externalized obesity stigma as a threat to engagement in physical activity (IN STEPS)

Open Date: 2026-01-01

Close Date: 2028-12-01

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Genetic and Environmental Exploration of Heterogeneity and Causality in Obesity-Physical Activity Associations (GENESIS)

Open Date: 2024-02-01

Close Date: 2024-12-01

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BBMRI.FI (subproject BioRecall)

Open Date: 2024-01-01

Close Date: 2028-12-01

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Gene-environment interplay in lifestyle, cardiometabolic diseases and longevity, LongLife

Open Date: 2022-01-01

Close Date: 2023-12-01

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Investigating causal interactions between physical activity and cardiometabolic disease via polygenic risk scores, GenActive

Open Date: 2021-09-01

Close Date: 2026-08-01

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Daisy Wilson

University of Birmingham

UNITED KINGDOM

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Articles (34)

Meta-analysis of DNA methylation aging signatures in 17 human tissues

Exploring the exposome and unexplained variance in epigenetic ageing – Insights from a longitudinal twin study in adolescence and early adulthood

Associations of weekly working hours with biological aging and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality

Evaluation of Genetics in the Association Between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Health

Genetic, lifestyle and environmental influences on health: a Finnish biobank recall study protocol (BioRecall)

Adolescent weight gain trajectories and their associations with biological aging

Research into resistance training response heterogeneity: a summary of the 2025 conference at the University of Jyväskylä

The Interplay of Genes and Environment Across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) Consortium After Fifteen Years

Genetic predisposition to longer lifespan, lifestyle factors, and all-cause mortality: a 17-year prospective cohort study

Evaluating a Genome-Wide Polygenic Score for Handgrip Strength and its Interplay with Leisure-Time Physical Activity Across the IGEMS Twin Cohorts

The Effect of Cardiorespiratory and Muscular Fitness on Healthcare Costs Among Adults: A Triangulation Study

Physical activity and biological ageing: the need for stronger causal evidence

The association of a polygenic lifespan score with the risk of common age-related diseases and mortality

Exploring gene-activity interplay in cardiovascular disease: is feasible to mitigate genetic risk through physical activity?

Adolescent cardiorespiratory fitness and risk of cancer in late adulthood: A nationwide sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden

Genetic Liability to Higher Muscle Strength Associates With a Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Men Irrespective of Leisure‐Time Physical Activity in Adulthood: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study

Molecular landscape of sex- and modality-specific exercise adaptation in human skeletal muscle through large-scale multi-omics integration

Genetic liability to sedentary behaviour and cardiovascular disease incidence in the FinnGen and HUNT cohorts

An Expert Consensus Statement on Biomarkers of Aging for Use in Intervention Studies

Association of Physical Activity in Midlife With Mobility Limitations and Falls in Old Age—A Longitudinal Twin Study

Genome-Wide Polygenic Score for Muscle Strength Predicts Risk for Common Diseases and Lifespan: A Prospective Cohort Study

Circulating miRNA Signature Predicts Cancer Incidence in Lynch Syndrome

Genetic Regulation of Physical Fitness in Children: A Twin Study of 15 Tests from Eurofit and Fitnessgram Test Batteries

Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study

Mortality Associations With DNA Methylation-Based Biological Aging and Physical Functioning Measures Across a 20-Year Follow-up Period

Systemic circulating microRNA landscape in Lynch syndrome

The role of adolescent lifestyle habits in biological aging: A prospective twin study

The Association Between Epigenetic Clocks and Physical Functioning in Older Women: A 3-Year Follow-up

Do Epigenetic Clocks Provide Explanations for Sex Differences in Life Span? A Cross-Sectional Twin Study

Polygenic Score for Physical Activity Is Associated with Multiple Common Diseases

Does the epigenetic clock GrimAge predict mortality independent of genetic influences: an 18 year follow-up study in older female twin pairs

Maintenance of high quality of life as an indicator of resilience during COVID-19 social distancing among community-dwelling older adults in Finland.

Polygenic Score for Physical Activity Is Associated with Multiple Common Diseases.

Collaborators (70)

Daisy Wilson

Abigail Mackey

Jedd Pratt

Eija Laakkonen

Adam Sharples

María Rúa Alonso

Katja Waller

Kaare Christensen

Dirk Paul

Jørn Helge

Deborah Finkel

Theodora Katsila

Päivi Herranen

Anja Bye

Zaki Hassan-Smith

Toni Seppälä

Francisco B Ortega

Eero Vuoksimaa

Pashupati Mishra

Ulrik Wisløff

Miriam Anna Mosing

Ida Karlsson

Miina Ollikainen

Wim Derave

Robert Seaborne

Catherine Dotchin

Anne Hecksteden

Laura Joensuu

Nicholas Harvey

Atul Deshmukh

Elena Philippou

Juha Ahtiainen

Dudley Lamming

Rubén López-Bueno

Pontus Henriksson

Tuija Tammelin

Juha J. Hulmi

Emma Raitoharju