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Christine Van Broeckhoven

Christine Van Broeckhoven

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Genetics
Belgium
2026

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
157
Citations
109139
World Ranking
108
National Ranking
2

Genetics

D-Index
161
Citations
110481
World Ranking
95
National Ranking
1

Medicine

D-Index
161
Citations
113023
World Ranking
741
National Ranking
8

Christine Van Broeckhoven publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christine Van Broeckhoven sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 997 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Christine Van Broeckhoven D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christine Van Broeckhoven sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 161 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2012 - Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease
  • 1993 - Sedgwick Memorial Medal, American Public Health Association
  • 1993 - Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases, American Academy of Neurology

Overview

Christine Van Broeckhoven is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and has contributed extensively to medical and genetic research, particularly in the study of neurodegenerative diseases. Their work spans fields such as Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant attention given to subfields including Molecular Biology, Physiology, Neurology, Genetics, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics related to Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders. Main research topics include:

  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Neurological diseases and metabolism

Frequent publication venues for this researcher's work include:

  • Alzheimer s & Dementia
  • Neurology
  • Neurobiology of Aging
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Acta Neuropathologica

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers, including:

  • Sebastiaan Engelborghs
  • Julie van der Zee
  • Rik Vandenberghe
  • Peter Paul De Deyn
  • Patrick Cras

Recent publications demonstrate the focus on Alzheimer's disease genetics and biomarker studies, listing these representative papers:

  • "Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Insight into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease: A comprehensive review of the role of rare variants," 2021, Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • "Genome-wide association study of Alzheimer's disease CSF biomarkers in the EMIF-AD Multimodal Biomarker Discovery dataset," 2020, Translational Psychiatry
  • "Genetic perspective on the synergistic connection between vesicular transport, lysosomal and mitochondrial pathways associated with Parkinson's disease pathogenesis," 2020, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • "Age and the association between apolipoprotein E genotype and Alzheimer disease: A cerebrospinal fluid biomarker-based case-control study," 2020, PLoS Medicine

Recognition for the scientist's contributions includes awards such as:

  • Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease, 2012
  • Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases, American Academy of Neurology, 1993
  • Sedgwick Memorial Medal, American Public Health Association, 1993

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

  • Genome-wide association study indentifies variants at CLU and CR1 associated with Alzheimer’s disease

    J Lambert;S Heath;G Even;D Campion

  • Erratum: Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease (Nature Genetics (2009) 41 (1088-1093))

    D Harold;R Abraham;P Hollingworth;R Sims

  • Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • NanoPack: visualizing and processing long-read sequencing data.

    Wouter De Coster;Svenn D’Hert;Darrin T Schultz;Marc Cruts

  • Atherosclerosis, apolipoprotein E, and prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the Rotterdam Study.

    Albert Hofman;Alewijn Ott;Monique M B Breteler;Michiel L Bots

  • Null mutations in progranulin cause ubiquitin-positive frontotemporal dementia linked to chromosome 17q21

    Marc Cruts;Ilse Gijselinck;Julie van der Zee;Sebastiaan Engelborghs

  • De novo mutations in the sodium-channel gene SCN1A cause severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy.

    Lieve Claes;Jurgen Del-Favero;Berten Ceulemans;Lieven Lagae

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • The C9orf72 GGGGCC Repeat Is Translated into Aggregating Dipeptide-Repeat Proteins in FTLD/ALS

    Kohji Mori;Shih-Ming Weng;Thomas Arzberger;Stephanie May

  • Presenile dementia and cerebral haemorrhage linked to a mutation at codon 692 of the β–amyloid precursor protein gene

    Lydia Hendriks;Cornelia M. van Duijn;Patrick Cras;Marc Cruts

  • Mutation of POLG is associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia characterized by mtDNA deletions

    Gert Van Goethem;Bart Dermaut;Ann Löfgren;Jean Jacques Martin

  • VEGF is a modifier of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice and humans and protects motoneurons against ischemic death

    Diether Lambrechts;Erik Storkebaum;Masafumi Morimoto;Jurgen Del-Favero

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • The genetic landscape of Alzheimer disease: clinical implications and perspectives

    Caroline Van Cauwenberghe;Christine Van Broeckhoven;Kristel Sleegers

  • A C9orf72 promoter repeat expansion in a Flanders-Belgian cohort with disorders of the frontotemporal lobar degeneration-amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spectrum: a gene identification study.

    Ilse Gijselinck;Tim Van Langenhove;Julie van der Zee;Kristel Sleegers

  • Extra-pair paternity results from female preference for high-quality males in the blue tit.

    Bart Kempenaers;G. R. Verheyen;M. van den Broeck;Terry Burke;Terry Burke

  • Duplication in chromosome 17p11.2 in Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy type 1a (CMT 1a). The HMSN Collaborative Research Group.

    P Raeymaekers;V Timmerman;E Nelis;P De Jonghe

  • Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimertextquotesingles disease

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

Frequent Co-Authors

Kristel Sleegers
Kristel Sleegers University of Antwerp
Peter Paul De Deyn
Peter Paul De Deyn University of Antwerp
Sebastiaan Engelborghs
Sebastiaan Engelborghs Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Marc Cruts
Marc Cruts University of Antwerp
Jurgen Del-Favero
Jurgen Del-Favero University of Antwerp
Patrick Cras
Patrick Cras University of Antwerp
Peter De Jonghe
Peter De Jonghe University of Antwerp
Julien Mendlewicz
Julien Mendlewicz Université Libre de Bruxelles
Samir Kumar-Singh
Samir Kumar-Singh University of Antwerp

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