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Andreas Ziegler

Andreas Ziegler

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Genetics
Germany
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
108
Citations
59092
World Ranking
561
National Ranking
44

Medicine

D-Index
113
Citations
64244
World Ranking
4850
National Ranking
265

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Andreas Ziegler is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Biomaterials, Ecology, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Paleontology. The main topics addressed in their research include Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition, Crustacean biology and ecology, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Bone Tissue Engineering Materials, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology, and Cephalopods and Marine Biology.

Ziegler has published multiple scientific papers in notable venues, frequently contributing to journals such as Journal of Structural Biology, Crystal Growth & Design, SSRN Electronic Journal, Acta Biomaterialia, and Journal of Structural Biology X.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Directing Effect of Bacterial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) on Calcite Organization and EPS-Carbonate Composite Aggregate Formation, 2020, Crystal Growth & Design
  • Calcite crystal orientation patterns in the bilayers of laminated shells of benthic rotaliid foraminifera, 2021, Journal of Structural Biology
  • Bacterial EPS in Agarose Hydrogels Directs Mineral Organization in Calcite Precipitates: Species-Specific Biosignatures of Bacillus subtilis, Mycobacterium phley, Mycobacterium smagmatis, and Pseudomonas putida EPS, 2020, Crystal Growth & Design
  • Functional adaptations in the tergite cuticle of the desert isopod Hemilepistus reaumuri (Milne-Edwards, 1840), 2020, Journal of Structural Biology
  • The dorsal tergite cuticle of Helleria brevicornis: Ultrastructure, mineral distribution, calcite microstructure and texture, 2021, Journal of Structural Biology X

Ziegler collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Erika Griesshaber
  • Wolfgang W. Schmahl
  • Xiaofei Yin
  • Florian Weitzel
  • Concepción Jiménez-López

Best Publications

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • ranger: A Fast Implementation of Random Forests for High Dimensional Data in C++ and R

    Marvin N. Wright;Andreas Ziegler

  • Perzentile für den Body-mass-Index für das Kindes- und Jugendalter unter Heranziehung verschiedener deutscher Stichproben

    Katrin Kromeyer-Hauschild;M. Wabitsch;D. Kunze;F. Geller

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease.

    Nilesh J. Samani;Jeanette Erdmann;Alistair S. Hall;Christian Hengstenberg

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • European Stroke Initiative Recommendations for Stroke Management-update 2003.

    Gunnel E. Carlsson;Anders Möller;Christian Blomstrand;Takashi Ueda

  • New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Cristian Pattaro;Carsten A. Böger;Christian Fuchsberger

  • Genetics and Beyond – The Transcriptome of Human Monocytes and Disease Susceptibility

    Tanja Zeller;Philipp Wild;Silke Szymczak;Maxime Rotival

  • Several Mutations in the Melanocortin-4 Receptor Gene Including a Nonsense and a Frameshift Mutation Associated with Dominantly Inherited Obesity in Humans

    A. Hinney;A. Schmidt;K. Nottebom;O. Heibült

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • BRCA2 Germline Mutations in Familial Pancreatic Carcinoma

    Stephan A. Hahn;Bill Greenhalf;Ian Ellis;Mercedes Sina-Frey

  • Identification of Hodgkin and Sternberg-reed cells as a unique cell type derived from a newly-detected small-cell population

    Harald Stein;Johannes Gerdes;Ulrich Schwab;Hilmar Lemke

  • New susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease on chromosome 3q22.3

    Jeanette Erdmann;Anika Großhennig;Peter S Braund;Inke R König

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Inke R. König
Inke R. König University of Lübeck
Jeanette Erdmann
Jeanette Erdmann University of Lübeck
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert Technical University of Munich
Christian Hengstenberg
Christian Hengstenberg Medical University of Vienna
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Erika Griesshaber
Erika Griesshaber Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Johannes Hebebrand
Johannes Hebebrand University of Duisburg-Essen
Tanja Zeller
Tanja Zeller Universität Hamburg
Helmut Remschmidt
Helmut Remschmidt Philipp University of Marburg
Wolfgang W. Schmahl
Wolfgang W. Schmahl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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