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Christina Backes

Christina Backes

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
12139
World Ranking
14369
National Ranking
1016

Overview

Christina Backes is affiliated with Saarland University in Germany and specializes in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research output includes a total of 35 publications in these broad areas with a focus on several subfields such as Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Physiology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work centers on various main topics, notably:

  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Circular RNAs in diseases
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Recent publications by Christina Backes include:

  • "miEAA 2.0: integrating multi-species microRNA enrichment analysis and workflow management systems," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Evaluating the Use of Circulating MicroRNA Profiles for Lung Cancer Detection in Symptomatic Patients," 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • "Common diseases alter the physiological age-related blood microRNA profile," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Validation of human microRNA target pathways enables evaluation of target prediction tools," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Deep sequencing of sncRNAs reveals hallmarks and regulatory modules of the transcriptome during Parkinson's disease progression," 2021, Nature Aging

Christina Backes has published frequently in these venues:

  • Nucleic Acids Research (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • JAMA Oncology (1 publication)
  • Nature Communications (1 publication)
  • Nature Aging (1 publication)

Frequent co-authors in Christina Backes's research network include:

  • Andreas Keller (14 co-authored publications)
  • Tobias Fehlmann (12 co-authored publications)
  • Eckart Meese (12 co-authored publications)
  • Fabian Kern (11 co-authored publications)
  • Mustafa Kahraman (5 co-authored publications)

Best Publications

  • Distribution of miRNA expression across human tissues

    Nicole Ludwig;Petra Leidinger;Kurt Becker;Christina Backes

  • An estimate of the total number of true human miRNAs.

    Alles J;Fehlmann T;Fischer U;Backes C

  • New insights into the Tyrolean Iceman's origin and phenotype as inferred by whole-genome sequencing

    Andreas Keller;Angela Graefen;Markus Ball;Mark Matzas

  • A blood based 12-miRNA signature of Alzheimer disease patients

    Petra Leidinger;Christina Backes;Stephanie Deutscher;Katja Schmitt

  • GeneTrail—advanced gene set enrichment analysis

    Christina Backes;Andreas Keller;Jan Kuentzer;Benny Kneissl

  • Toward the blood-borne miRNome of human diseases

    Andreas Keller;Petra Leidinger;Andrea Bauer;Abdou Elsharawy

  • PLSDB: a resource of complete bacterial plasmids

    Valentina Galata;Tobias Fehlmann;Christina Backes;Andreas Keller

  • Specific miRNA Disease Biomarkers in Blood, Serum and Plasma: Challenges and Prospects

    Christina Backes;Eckart Meese;Andreas Keller

  • Altered microRNA expression profiles of human spermatozoa in patients with different spermatogenic impairments

    Masood Abu-Halima;Mohamad Hammadeh;Jana Schmitt;Petra Leidinger

  • An integer linear programming approach for finding deregulated subgraphs in regulatory networks

    Christina Backes;Alexander Rurainski;Gunnar W. Klau;Oliver Müller

  • miRPathDB 2.0: a novel release of the miRNA Pathway Dictionary Database.

    Tim Kehl;Fabian Kern;Christina Backes;Tobias Fehlmann

  • About miRNAs, miRNA seeds, target genes and target pathways.

    Tim Kehl;Christina Backes;Fabian Kern;Tobias Fehlmann

  • miEAA: microRNA enrichment analysis and annotation

    Christina Backes;Qurratulain T. Khaleeq;Eckart Meese;Andreas Keller

  • Genome-wide miRNA signatures of human longevity

    Abdou ElSharawy;Andreas Keller;Friederike Flachsbart;Anke Wendschlag

  • miEAA 2.0: integrating multi-species microRNA enrichment analysis and workflow management systems.

    Fabian Kern;Tobias Fehlmann;Jeffrey Solomon;Louisa Schwed

  • MicroRNA expression profiles in human testicular tissues of infertile men with different histopathologic patterns

    Masood Abu-Halima;Christina Backes;Petra Leidinger;Andreas Keller

  • Multi-omics enrichment analysis using the GeneTrail2 web service

    Daniel Stöckel;Tim Kehl;Patrick Trampert;Lara Schneider

  • Panel of five microRNAs as potential biomarkers for the diagnosis and assessment of male infertility

    Masood Abu-Halima;Mohamad Hammadeh;Christina Backes;Ulrike Fischer

  • Comprehensive analysis of microRNA profiles in multiple sclerosis including next-generation sequencing

    Andreas Keller;Petra Leidinger;Florian Steinmeyer;Cord Stähler

  • EDISON-WMW: Exact Dynamic Programing Solution of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test.

    Alexander Marx;Christina Backes;Eckart Meese;Hans-Peter Lenhof

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Keller
Andreas Keller Saarland University
Eckart Meese
Eckart Meese Saarland University
Hans-Peter Lenhof
Hans-Peter Lenhof Saarland University
Benjamin Meder
Benjamin Meder Heidelberg University
Andre Franke
Andre Franke Kiel University
Hugo A. Katus
Hugo A. Katus Heidelberg University
Klemens Ruprecht
Klemens Ruprecht Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Oliver Kohlbacher
Oliver Kohlbacher University of Tübingen
Norbert Graf
Norbert Graf Saarland University
Daniela Berg
Daniela Berg University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein

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