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Christoph Engel

Christoph Engel

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Medicine

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89
Citations
37413
World Ranking
12505
National Ranking
674

Overview

Christoph Engel is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions across subfields including Genetics, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Oncology, Molecular Biology, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics:

  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
  • Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment

Among recently published papers, the following are notable:

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Ovarian and Breast Cancer Risks Associated With Pathogenic Variants in RAD51C and RAD51D, 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Polygenic risk scores and breast and epithelial ovarian cancer risks for carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 pathogenic variants, 2020, Genetics in Medicine
  • Social factors and the prevalence of social isolation in a population-based adult cohort, 2021, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • D. Gareth Evans
  • Markus Loeffler
  • Steffi G. Riedel-Heller
  • Kerstin Wirkner
  • Irene L. Andrulis

Christoph Engel has published extensively in several journals, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Cancer

Best Publications

  • Intensive insulin therapy and pentastarch resuscitation in severe sepsis.

    Frank M. Brunkhorst;Christoph Engel;Frank Bloos;Andreas Meier-Hellmann

  • Risks of Breast, Ovarian, and Contralateral Breast Cancer for BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

    Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker;John L. Hopper;Daniel R. Barnes;Kelly-Anne Phillips

  • Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

    Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

  • Epidemiology of sepsis in Germany: results from a national prospective multicenter study

    Christoph Engel;Frank M. Brunkhorst;Hans-Georg Bone;Reinhard Brunkhorst

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Germline mutations in breast and ovarian cancer pedigrees establish RAD51C as a human cancer susceptibility gene

    Alfons Meindl;Heide Hellebrand;Constanze Wiek;Verena Erven

  • Revised guidelines for the clinical management of Lynch syndrome (HNPCC): recommendations by a group of European experts

    Hans F A Vasen;Ignacio Blanco;Katja Aktan-Collan;Jessica P Gopie

  • Guidelines for the clinical management of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)

    H. F. A Vasen;G. Moslein;A. Alonso;S. Aretz

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Guidelines for the clinical management of Lynch syndrome (hereditary non-polyposis cancer)

    Hans F.A. Vasen;Gabriele Möslein;Angel Alonso;Inge Bernstein

  • Pathology of Breast and Ovarian Cancers among BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers: Results from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA).

    Nasim Mavaddat;Daniel Barrowdale;Irene L. Andrulis;Susan M. Domchek

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Association of type and location of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations with risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

    Timothy R. Rebbeck;Nandita Mitra;Fei Wan;Olga M. Sinilnikova

  • Cancer risks by gene, age, and gender in 6350 carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair variants: findings from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database

    Mev Dominguez-Valentin;Julian R. Sampson;Toni T. Seppälä;Sanne W. ten Broeke

  • Application of a 5-tiered scheme for standardized classification of 2,360 unique mismatch repair gene variants in the InSiGHT locus-specific database

    Bryony A Thompson;Bryony A Thompson;Amanda B Spurdle;John-Paul Plazzer;Marc S Greenblatt

  • Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

    Catherine M Phelan;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Jonathan P Tyrer;Siddhartha P Kar

  • Contralateral Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers

    Monika K. Graeser;Christoph Engel;Kerstin Rhiem;Dorothea Gadzicki

  • A locus on 19p13 modifies risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is associated with hormone receptor-negative breast cancer in the general population

    Antonis C. Antoniou;Xianshu Wang;Zachary S. Fredericksen;Lesley McGuffog

  • Expanded Extracolonic Tumor Spectrum in MUTYH-Associated Polyposis

    Stefanie Vogt;Natalie Jones;Daria Christian;Christoph Engel

  • Genome-wide association study in BRCA1 mutation carriers identifies novel loci associated with breast and ovarian cancer risk

    Fergus J. Couch;Xianshu Wang;Lesley McGuffog;Andrew Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Rita K. Schmutzler
Rita K. Schmutzler University of Cologne
Alfons Meindl
Alfons Meindl Technical University of Munich
Irene L. Andrulis
Irene L. Andrulis University of Toronto
Markus Loeffler
Markus Loeffler Leipzig University
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge
Barbara Wappenschmidt
Barbara Wappenschmidt University of Cologne
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Roger L. Milne
Roger L. Milne Cancer Council Victoria
Antonis C. Antoniou
Antonis C. Antoniou University of Cambridge

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