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Gerrit A. Meijer is affiliated with the Netherlands Cancer Institute in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a substantial volume of work in oncology, pathology and forensic medicine, cancer research, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and molecular biology.

Their work covers several main topics, including genetic factors in colorectal cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, colorectal cancer screening and detection, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, gastric cancer management and outcomes, colorectal cancer surgical treatments, and studies on cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer.

Meijer's frequent publication venues include:

  • Cancer Research
  • Gastroenterology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Clinical Cancer Research
  • Annals of Oncology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Detection and characterization of lung cancer using cell-free DNA fragmentomes, 2021, Nature Communications
  • White blood cell and cell-free DNA analyses for detection of residual disease in gastric cancer, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Molecular Tumor Board Portal supports clinical decisions and automated reporting for precision oncology, 2022, Nature Cancer
  • Support systems to guide clinical decision-making in precision oncology: The Cancer Core Europe Molecular Tumor Board Portal, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Cell-free DNA approaches for cancer early detection and interception, 2023, Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Meijer include:

  • Remond J.A. Fijneman
  • Beatriz Carvalho
  • Veerle M.H. Coupé
  • Victor E. Velculescu
  • Evelien Dekker

Best Publications

  • AACR project genie: Powering precision medicine through an international consortium

    S. M. Sweeney;E. Cerami;A. Baras;T. J. Pugh

  • Direct detection of early-stage cancers using circulating tumor DNA

    Jillian Phallen;Mark Sausen;Vilmos Adleff;Alessandro Leal

  • Genome-wide cell-free DNA fragmentation in patients with cancer

    Stephen Cristiano;Alessandro Leal;Jillian Phallen;Jacob Fiksel

  • Gastric cancer risk in patients with premalignant gastric lesions: a nationwide cohort study in the Netherlands.

    Annemarie C. de Vries;Nicole C.T. van Grieken;Caspar W.N. Looman;Mariël K. Casparie

  • Pathology databanking and biobanking in The Netherlands, a central role for PALGA, the nationwide histopathology and cytopathology data network and archive.

    M. Casparie;A. T. M. G. Tiebosch;G. Burger;H. Blauwgeers

  • Mismatch Repair Status and BRAF Mutation Status in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients: A Pooled Analysis of the CAIRO, CAIRO2, COIN, and FOCUS Studies

    Sabine Venderbosch;Iris D Nagtegaal;Timothy S Maughan;Christopher G Smith

  • Nontemplated Nucleotide Additions Distinguish the Small RNA Composition in Cells from Exosomes

    Danijela Koppers-Lalic;Michael Hackenberg;Irene V. Bijnsdorp;Monique A.J. van Eijndhoven

  • Regulation of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli Gene by the miR-135 Family in Colorectal Cancer

    Remco Nagel;Carlos le Sage;Begoña Diosdado;Maike van der Waal

  • Low-grade dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus: overdiagnosed and underestimated.

    Wouter L Curvers;Fiebo J ten Kate;Kausilia K Krishnadath;Mike Visser

  • Up-regulation of gene expression by hypoxia is mediated predominantly by hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1).

    AE Greijer;van der P Groep;D Kemming;A Shvarts

  • DNA copy number analysis of fresh and formalin-fixed specimens by shallow whole-genome sequencing with identification and exclusion of problematic regions in the genome assembly

    Ilari Scheinin;Daoud Sie;Henrik Bengtsson;Mark A. van de Wiel

  • Colorectal adenoma to carcinoma progression follows multiple pathways of chromosomal instability

    Mario Hermsen;Cindy Postma;Jan Baak;Marjan Weiss

  • Methylation-mediated silencing and tumour suppressive function of hsa-miR-124 in cervical cancer

    Saskia M Wilting;Robert A A van Boerdonk;Florianne E Henken;Chris J L M Meijer

  • Risk of malignant progression in patients with Barrett's oesophagus: a Dutch nationwide cohort study

    Pieter J F de Jonge;Mark van Blankenstein;Caspar W N Looman;Mariël K Casparie

  • MiR-17-92 cluster is associated with 13q gain and c-myc expression during colorectal adenoma to adenocarcinoma progression.

    B Diosdado;M A van de Wiel;J S Terhaar Sive Droste;S Mongera

  • Myosin IXB variant increases the risk of celiac disease and points toward a primary intestinal barrier defect

    Alienke J Monsuur;Paul I W de Bakker;Paul I W de Bakker;Behrooz Z Alizadeh;Alexandra Zhernakova

  • Genome-wide DNA copy number alterations in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas with or without oncogene-expressing human papillomavirus

    S J Smeets;B J M Braakhuis;S Abbas;P J F Snijders

  • Barrett's oesophagus patients with low-grade dysplasia can be accurately risk-stratified after histological review by an expert pathology panel

    Lucas C Duits;K Nadine Phoa;Wouter L Curvers;Fiebo J W ten Kate

  • Detection and characterization of lung cancer using cell-free DNA fragmentomes

    Dimitrios Mathios;Jakob Sidenius Johansen;Stephen Cristiano;Stephen Cristiano;Jamie E. Medina

  • Comparative genomic hybridisation.

    M. M. Weiss;M. A. J. A. Hermsen;G. A. Meijer;N. C. T. Van Grieken

Frequent Co-Authors

Bauke Ylstra
Bauke Ylstra Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ernst J. Kuipers
Ernst J. Kuipers Nanyang Technological University
Cornelis J. A. Punt
Cornelis J. A. Punt University of Amsterdam
Victor E. Velculescu
Victor E. Velculescu Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Manon van Engeland
Manon van Engeland Maastricht University
Chris J. J. Mulder
Chris J. J. Mulder Amsterdam UMC
Emile E. Voest
Emile E. Voest Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
Connie R. Jimenez
Connie R. Jimenez Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Sander R. Piersma
Sander R. Piersma VU University Medical Center
Daniel Pinkel
Daniel Pinkel University of California, San Francisco

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