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2024

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Genetics

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Citations
45816
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Medicine

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Alfons Meindl is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional contributions in Medicine. Meindl's work notably focuses on Genetics and Molecular Biology as subfields, alongside inquiries in Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Cancer Research, and Reproductive Medicine.

Their research topics cover a spectrum related to cancer genetics and epidemiology, including BRCA gene mutations in cancer, genetic associations and epidemiology, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, genomics and rare diseases, cancer genomics and diagnostics, nutrition genetics and disease, and ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Meindl has published several papers, among which are:

  • Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated With Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • A network analysis to identify mediators of germline-driven differences in breast cancer prognosis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Breast and Prostate Cancer Risks for Male BRCA1 and BRCA2 Pathogenic Variant Carriers Using Polygenic Risk Scores, 2021, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Performance of Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Scores in 760 Female CHEK2 Germline Mutation Carriers, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Prevalence of Cancer Predisposition Germline Variants in Male Breast Cancer Patients: Results of the German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, 2022, Cancers

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Meindl include Christoph Engel, Irene L. Andrulis, Eric Hahnen, Esther M. John, and Andrea Gehrig.

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications
  • Cancers
  • Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde

Best Publications

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

    Mark T Ross;Darren V Grafham;Alison J Coffey;Steven Scherer

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Per Hall;Anna Gonzalez-Neira;Maya Ghoussaini

  • RAD51B in Familial Breast Cancer

    Liisa M. Pelttari;Sofia Khan;Mikko Vuorela;Johanna I. Kiiski

  • A gene (PEX) with homologies to endopeptidases is mutated in patients with X–linked hypophosphatemic rickets

    F. Francis;S. Hennig;B. Korn;R. Reinhardt

  • Gene-Panel Sequencing and the Prediction of Breast-Cancer Risk

    Douglas Frederick Easton;Paul David Pharoah;Antonis C. Antoniou;Marc Derek Tischkowitz

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Germline mutations in breast and ovarian cancer pedigrees establish RAD51C as a human cancer susceptibility gene

    Alfons Meindl;Heide Hellebrand;Constanze Wiek;Verena Erven

  • Host response to EBV infection in X-linked lymphoproliferative disease results from mutations in an SH2-domain encoding gene

    Alison J. Coffey;Robert A. Brooksbank;Oliver Brandau;Toshitaka Oohashi

  • Mutations in the DAX-1 gene give rise to both X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

    F Muscatelli;T M Strom;A P Walker;E Zanaria

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Human TUBB3 mutations perturb microtubule dynamics, kinesin interactions, and axon guidance

    Max A. Tischfield;Hagit N. Baris;Chen Wu;Guenther Rudolph

  • Pathology of Breast and Ovarian Cancers among BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Results from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).

    Nasim Mavaddat;Daniel Barrowdale;Irene L. Andrulis;Susan M. Domchek

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

    Nasim Mavaddat;Paul D.P. Pharoah;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Tyrer

  • The der(17)t(x;17)(p11;q25) of human alveolar soft part sarcoma fuses the TFE3 transcription factor gene to ASPL, a novel gene at 17q25

    Marc Ladanyi;Man Yee Lui;Cristina R Antonescu;Amber Krause-Boehm

  • MicroRNA related polymorphisms and breast cancer risk

    Sofia Khan;Dario Greco;Dario Greco;Kyriaki Michailidou;Roger L. Milne;Roger L. Milne

  • An L-type calcium-channel gene mutated in incomplete X-linked congenital stationary night blindness

    Tim M. Strom;Gerald Nyakatura;Eckart Apfelstedt-Sylla;Heide Hellebrand

  • Newly discovered breast cancer susceptibility loci on 3p24 and 17q23.2.

    Shahana Ahmed;Gilles Thomas;Maya Ghoussaini;Catherine S. Healey

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita K. Schmutzler
Rita K. Schmutzler University of Cologne
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Hiltrud Brauch
Hiltrud Brauch German Cancer Research Center
Barbara Burwinkel
Barbara Burwinkel Heidelberg University
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center

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