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  • 2021 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physiology and Pharmacology/Toxicology
  • 2021 - Member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation

Overview

Anna Köttgen is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and has a research focus spanning medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work has substantial contributions within the subfields of nephrology, genetics, molecular biology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

Their research primarily addresses topics including chronic kidney disease and diabetes, genetic associations and epidemiology, renal diseases and glomerulopathies, renal and related cancers, folate and B vitamins research, metabolism and genetic disorders, and dialysis and renal disease management.

Frequent co-authors include Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Ulla T. Schultheiß, Pascal Schlosser, Fruzsina Kotsis, and Peggy Sekula.

Common publication venues for their work consist of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Kidney International, and UNC Libraries.

Recent published papers include:

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program, 2021, Nature
  • Plasma proteome analyses in individuals of European and African ancestry identify cis-pQTLs and models for proteome-wide association studies, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Discovery and prioritization of variants and genes for kidney function in >1.2 million individuals, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The genetic architecture of membranous nephropathy and its potential to improve non-invasive diagnosis, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate, Albuminuria, and Adverse Outcomes, 2023, JAMA

Anna Köttgen has received recognitions such as membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2021 and election to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2021 under the category of Physiology and Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Best Publications

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

    Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

  • Mendelian Randomization as an Approach to Assess Causality Using Observational Data

    Peggy Sekula;Fabiola Del Greco M;Cristian Pattaro;Anna Köttgen

  • Evolving importance of kidney disease: from subspecialty to global health burden

    Kai Uwe Eckardt;Josef Coresh;Olivier Devuyst;Richard J. Johnson

  • Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical research

    Karsten Suhre;So-Youn Shin;Ann-Kristin Petersen;Robert P. Mohney

  • Global kidney health 2017 and beyond: a roadmap for closing gaps in care, research, and policy

    Adeera Levin;Marcello Tonelli;Joseph Bonventre;Josef Coresh

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Eva Albrecht;Alexander Teumer;Veronique Vitart

  • New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

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

  • Association of three genetic loci with uric acid concentration and risk of gout: a genome-wide association study

    Abbas Dehghan;Anna Köttgen;Qiong Yang;Shih Jen Hwang

  • Identification of a urate transporter, ABCG2, with a common functional polymorphism causing gout

    Owen M. Woodward;Anna Köttgen;Josef Coresh;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Genetic variation in GIPR influences the glucose and insulin responses to an oral glucose challenge

    Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena;Claudia Langenberg;Toshiko Tanaka;Toshiko Tanaka

  • Multiple loci associated with indices of renal function and chronic kidney disease

    Anna Köttgen;Nicole L. Glazer;Abbas Dehghan;Shih Jen Hwang

  • Risk HLA-DQA1 and PLA(2)R1 alleles in idiopathic membranous nephropathy

    H.C. Stanescu;M. Arcos-Burgos;A. Medlar;D. Bockenhauer

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Common variants in KCNN3 are associated with lone atrial fibrillation

    Patrick T. Ellinor;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Kathryn L. Lunetta;Nicole L. Glazer;Arne Pfeufer

  • Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

    Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

  • Genome-wide association study of PR interval

    Arne Pfeufer;Charlotte Van Noord;Kristin D. Marciante;Dan E. Arking

  • Reduced Kidney Function as a Risk Factor for Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

    Anna Kottgen;Stuart D. Russell;Laura R. Loehr;Ciprian M. Crainiceanu

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef Coresh
Josef Coresh New York University
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Caroline S. Fox
Caroline S. Fox MSD (United States)
Kai-Uwe Eckardt
Kai-Uwe Eckardt Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Florian Kronenberg
Florian Kronenberg Innsbruck Medical University
Man Li
Man Li University of California, Los Angeles
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Qiong Yang
Qiong Yang Boston University
Alexander Teumer
Alexander Teumer Greifswald University Hospital
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

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