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2024

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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Benedikt Brors is affiliated with the German Cancer Research Center in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Medicine. Within these broad fields, their work has a focus on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Immunology, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment, and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

Recent publications by Benedikt Brors include the following papers:

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes, 2020, Nature
  • Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Sarcoma classification by DNA methylation profiling, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Accurate and efficient detection of gene fusions from RNA sequencing data, 2021, Genome Research
  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes identifies driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition, 2020, Nature Genetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Benedikt Brors include:

  • Barbara Hutter
  • Stefan Fröhling
  • Charles D. Imbusch
  • Peter Horak
  • Sebastian Uhrig

Their work has been published extensively in several venues, with a high number of publications in specialized journals and repositories. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics
  • Neuro-Oncology
  • Cancer Research

Best Publications

  • circlize Implements and enhances circular visualization in R.

    Zuguang Gu;Lei Gu;Roland Eils;Matthias Schlesner

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • The landscape of genomic alterations across childhood cancers

    Susanne N. Gröbner;Barbara C. Worst;Joachim Weischenfeldt;Joachim Weischenfeldt;Ivo Buchhalter

  • The Microarray Quality Control (MAQC)-II study of common practices for the development and validation of microarray-based predictive models

    Leming Shi;Gregory Campbell;Wendell D. Jones;Fabien Campagne

  • The whole-genome landscape of medulloblastoma subtypes

    Paul A. Northcott;Paul A. Northcott;Ivo Buchhalter;Ivo Buchhalter;A. Sorana Morrissy;Volker Hovestadt

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Dissecting the genomic complexity underlying medulloblastoma

    David T. W. Jones;Natalie Jäger;Marcel Kool;Thomas Zichner

  • Genome Sequencing of Pediatric Medulloblastoma Links Catastrophic DNA Rearrangements with TP53 Mutations

    Tobias Rausch;David T.W. Jones;Marc Zapatka;Adrian M. Stütz

  • Recurrent somatic alterations of FGFR1 and NTRK2 in pilocytic astrocytoma

    David T W Jones;Barbara Hutter;Natalie Jäger;Andrey Korshunov;Andrey Korshunov

  • Genome Sequencing of SHH Medulloblastoma Predicts Genotype-Related Response to Smoothened Inhibition

    Marcel Kool;David T.W. Jones;Natalie Jäger;Paul A. Northcott

  • Promiscuous gene expression in thymic epithelial cells is regulated at multiple levels.

    Jens Derbinski;Jana Gäbler;Benedikt Brors;Sascha Tierling

  • Enhancer hijacking activates GFI1 family oncogenes in medulloblastoma

    Paul A. Northcott;Catherine Lee;Catherine Lee;Thomas Zichner;Adrian M. Stütz

  • Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing

    Isidro Cortés-Ciriano;Jake June-Koo Lee;Ruibin Xi;Dhawal Jain

  • The International Human Epigenome Consortium: A Blueprint for Scientific Collaboration and Discovery

    Hendrik G. Stunnenberg;Martin Hirst

  • Identification of regulatory networks in HSCs and their immediate progeny via integrated proteome, transcriptome, and DNA methylome analysis

    Nina Cabezas-Wallscheid;Daniel Klimmeck;Daniel Klimmeck;Jenny Hansson;Daniel B. Lipka

  • Recurrent mutation of the ID3 gene in Burkitt lymphoma identified by integrated genome, exome and transcriptome sequencing

    Julia Richter;Matthias Schlesner;Steve Hoffmann;Markus Kreuz

  • Medullary Epithelial Cells of the Human Thymus Express a Highly Diverse Selection of Tissue-specific Genes Colocalized in Chromosomal Clusters

    Jörn Gotter;Benedikt Brors;Manfred Hergenhahn;Bruno Kyewski

  • Correspondence analysis applied to microarray data

    Kurt Fellenberg;Nicole C. Hauser;Benedikt Brors;Albert Neutzner

  • Decoding the regulatory landscape of medulloblastoma using DNA methylation sequencing

    Volker Hovestadt;David T.W. Jones;Simone Picelli;Wei Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Eils
Roland Eils Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Barbara Hutter
Barbara Hutter German Cancer Research Center
Hanno Glimm
Hanno Glimm TU Dresden
Matthias Schlesner
Matthias Schlesner University of Augsburg
Marc Zapatka
Marc Zapatka German Cancer Research Center
Peter Lichter
Peter Lichter German Cancer Research Center
Stefan M. Pfister
Stefan M. Pfister German Cancer Research Center
Albrecht Stenzinger
Albrecht Stenzinger Heidelberg University
Wilko Weichert
Wilko Weichert Technical University of Munich
David T. W. Jones
David T. W. Jones German Cancer Research Center

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