Vid Prijatelj

PhD Researcher

Vid Prijatelj finished his training as a pharmacist (MPharm) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. During his studies, he had always been interested in the quantitative approach to problem solving, which ultimately led him to pick up programming. This all culminated in his Master’s thesis, where he used in silico tools to guide his in vitro wet-lab experiments.

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“Vid proclaims himself a thrasher. Although he recognizes Anthrax as one of the big 4, he is a staunch supporter that Exodus should take their place instead”

In 2018, he started his PhD under prof. Fernando Rivadeneira and prof. Eppo Wolvius. His thesis is titled “Jolly Roger: The (Genetic) Interplay of Skulls, Teeth and Bones”, wherein he incorporates multi-omic and cohort-based data to uncover and try to understand the associations between the phenotypes of the aforementioned anatomical sites. His work encapsulates working on the RNA-Seq data, from designing the sequence pipelines to analyzing the data itself, leveraging genotype data to run GWAS as well as Mendelian randomization methods.

He is a staunch supporter of resistance training, even though he used to be a competitive swimmer – Something he would still enjoy doing given the opportunity.

 

1. Bone mineral density loci specific to the skull portray potential pleiotropic effects on craniosynostosis

2023 Jul

Medina-Gomez C, Mullin BH, Chesi A, Prijatelj V, Kemp JP, Shochat-Carvalho C, Trajanoska K, Wang C, Joro R, Evans TE, Schraut KE, Li-Gao R, Ahluwalia TS, Zillikens MC, Zhu K, Mook-Kanamori DO, Evans DS, Nethander M, Knol MJ, Thorleifsson G, Prokic I, Zemel B, Broer L, McGuigan FE, van Schoor NM, Reppe S, Pawlak MA, Ralston SH, van der Velde N, Lorentzon M, Stefansson K, Adams HHH, Wilson SG, Ikram MA, Walsh JP, Lakka TA, Gautvik KM, Wilson JF, Orwoll ES, van Duijn CM, Bønnelykke K, Uitterlinden AG, Styrkársdóttir U, Akesson KE, Spector TD, Tobias JH, Ohlsson C, Felix JF, Bisgaard H, Grant SFA, Richards JB, Evans DM, van der Eerden B, van de Peppel J, Ackert-Bicknell C, Karasik D, Kague E, Rivadeneira F.

2. Oral and craniofacial research in the Generation R study: an executive summary 2023 Jul;

van Meijeren-van Lunteren AW, Liu X, Veenman FCH, Grgic O, Dhamo B, van der Tas JT, Prijatelj V, Roshchupkin GV, Rivadeneira F, Wolvius EB, Kragt L.

3. Lowering of Circulating Sclerostin May Increase Risk of Atherosclerosis and Its Risk Factors: Evidence From a Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis Followed by Mendelian Randomization

2023 Oct

Zheng J, Wheeler E, Pietzner M, Andlauer TFM, Yau MS, Hartley AE, Brumpton BM, Rasheed H, Kemp JP, Frysz M, Robinson J, Reppe S, Prijatelj V, Gautvik KM, Falk L, Maerz W, Gergei I, Peyser PA, Kavousi M, de Vries PS, Miller CL, Bos M, van der Laan SW, Malhotra R, Herrmann M, Scharnagl H, Kleber M, Dedoussis G, Zeggini E, Nethander M, Ohlsson C, Lorentzon M, Wareham N, Langenberg C, Holmes MV, Davey Smith G, Tobias JH.

. Novel Genetic Determinants of Dental Maturation in Children

2023 Mar

Grgic O, Prijatelj V, Dudakovic A, Vucic S, Dhamo B, Trajanoska K, Monnereau C, Zrimsek M, Gautvik KM, Reppe S, Shimizu E, Haworth S, Timpson NJ, Jaddoe VWV, Jarvelin MR, Evans D, Uitterlinden AG, Ongkosuwito EM, van Wijnen AJ, Medina-Gomez C, Rivadeneira F, Wolvius EB.

5. Perspective of the GEMSTONE Consortium on Current and Future Approaches to Functional Validation for Skeletal Genetic Disease Using Cellular, Molecular and Animal-Modeling Techniques

2021 Nov

Rauner M, Foessl I, Formosa MM, Kague E, Prijatelj V, Lopez NA, Banerjee B, Bergen D, Busse B, Calado Â, Douni E, Gabet Y, Giralt NG, Grinberg D, Lovsin NM, Solan XN, Ostanek B, Pavlos NJ, Rivadeneira F, Soldatovic I, van de Peppel J, van der Eerden B, van Hul W, Balcells S, Marc J, Reppe S, Søe K, Karasik D.

6. CYP11B1 variants influence skeletal maturation via alternative splicing

2021 Nov

Grgic O, Gazzara MR, Chesi A, Medina-Gomez C, Cousminer DL, Mitchell JA, Prijatelj V, de Vries J, Shevroja E, McCormack SE, Kalkwarf HJ, Lappe JM, Gilsanz V, Oberfield SE, Shepherd JA, Kelly A, Mahboubi S, Faucz FR, Feelders RA, de Jong FH, Uitterlinden AG, Visser JA, Ghanem LR, Wolvius EB, Hofland LJ, Stratakis CA, Zemel BS, Barash Y, Grant SFA, Rivadeneira F.

7. Antrodia cinnamomea is a potentially effective complementary medicine for adjuvant therapy against breast cancer with bone metastasis: A case report

2020 Jul  

Long H, Hu CT, Prijatelj V, Weng CF.

8 Distinct Subsets of Noncoding RNAs Are Strongly Associated With BMD and Fracture, Studied in Weight-Bearing and Non-Weight-Bearing Human Bone

2020 Jun

Gautvik KM, Günther CC, Prijatelj V, Medina-Gomez C, Shevroja E, Rad LH, Yazdani M, Lindalen E, Valland H, Gautvik VT, Olstad OK, Holden M, Rivadeneira F, Utheim TP, Reppe S.

9. The Status of Nursing Documentation in Slovenia: a Survey

2016 Jul  

Rajkovič U, Kapun MM, Dinevski D, Prijatelj V, Zaletel M, Šušteršič O.

10. A Model for Risk Assessment in Health Care

Prijatelj V, Rajkovič V, Šušteršič O.

2022

ECTS Travel Award – Conference of the European Calcified Tissue Society