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Overview

H.-Erich Wichmann is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Epidemiology.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas, with notable emphasis on:

  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

Wichmann has co-authored publications with the following frequent collaborators:

  • Christian Gieger
  • Meng Zhu
  • Kāri Stefánsson
  • Ivan P. Gorlov
  • Olga Y. Gorlova

Their research findings have been published in multiple scientific venues, including:

  • Nature Genetics
  • Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology
  • New Biotechnology
  • Clinical Chemistry
  • Cancer

Some recent papers featuring Wichmann's contributions include:

  • Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • GWAS of random glucose in 476,326 individuals provide insights into diabetes pathophysiology, complications and treatment stratification, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Impact of the pre-examination phase on multicenter metabolomic studies, 2022, New Biotechnology
  • Metabolomic Fingerprints in Large Population Cohorts: Impact of Preanalytical Heterogeneity, 2021, Clinical Chemistry
  • Identification of genetically predicted DNA methylation markers associated with non-small cell lung cancer risk among 34,964 cases and 448,579 controls, 2023, Cancer

Best Publications

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

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

    Denise Harold;Richard Abraham;Paul Hollingworth;Rebecca Sims

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • 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

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

    Josée Dupuis;Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena;Richa Saxena

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies.

    S. Darby;D. Hill;A. Auvinen;J. M. Barros-Dios

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

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)

    J Dupuis;C Langenberg;I Prokopenko;R Saxena

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Respiratory effects are associated with the number of ultrafine particles.

    A Peters;H E Wichmann;T Tuch;J Heinrich

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Erratum: New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (Nature Genetics (2010) 42 (105-116))

    Josée Dupuis;Claudia Langenberg;Inga Prokopenko;Richa Saxena

  • 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

Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Thomas Illig
Thomas Illig Hannover Medical School
Joachim Heinrich
Joachim Heinrich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thomas Meitinger
Thomas Meitinger Technical University of Munich
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Nicole Soranzo
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

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