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Overview

Inke R. König is affiliated with the University of Lübeck in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a focus on neurology, genetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and physiology.

Their research addresses several key topics including Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, neurological disorders and treatments, neurological diseases and metabolism, asthma and respiratory diseases, genetic associations and epidemiology, and autoimmune bullous skin diseases.

Inke R. König's recent papers include:

  • Angiography after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest without ST-Segment Elevation, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Comparison of Newer Generation Self-Expandable vs. Balloon-Expandable Valves in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: the Randomized SOLVE-TAVI Trial, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Mitochondrial Damage-Associated Inflammation Highlights Biomarkers in PRKN/PINK1 Parkinsonism, 2020, Brain
  • Transcatheter or Surgical Treatment of Aortic-Valve Stenosis, 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • General Versus Local Anesthesia with Conscious Sedation in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, 2020, Circulation

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Inke R. König include Christine Klein, Björn-Hergen Laabs, Joanne Trinh, Norbert Brüggemann, and Theresa Lüth.

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Movement Disorders
  • Brain
  • BMJ Open
  • European Respiratory Journal

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

  • Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

  • Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease.

    Nilesh J. Samani;Jeanette Erdmann;Alistair S. Hall;Christian Hengstenberg

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

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

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

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

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

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

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.

    Sekar Kathiresan;Benjamin F Voight;Shaun Purcell;Kiran Musunuru

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

    E. K. Speliotes;C. J. Willer;S. I. Berndt;K. L. Monda

  • Overview of random forest methodology and practical guidance with emphasis on computational biology and bioinformatics

    Anne-Laure Boulesteix;Silke Janitza;Jochen Kruppa;Inke R. König

  • European Stroke Initiative Recommendations for Stroke Management-update 2003.

    Gunnel E. Carlsson;Anders Möller;Christian Blomstrand;Takashi Ueda

  • Loss-of-function mutations in APOC3, triglycerides, and coronary disease

    Jacy Crosby;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Paul L. Auer;David R. Crosslin

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Mägi;Reedik Mägi;Andrea Ganna

  • Association between C reactive protein and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    G. Eiriksdottir;T. B. Harris;L. J. Launer;V. Gudnason

  • The revival of the Gini importance

    Stefano Nembrini;Inke R König;Marvin N Wright;Marvin N Wright

  • A genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 22 loci associated with eight hematological parameters in the HaemGen consortium

    Nicole Soranzo;Nicole Soranzo;Tim D Spector;Massimo Mangino;Brigitte Kühnel

  • New susceptibility locus for coronary artery disease on chromosome 3q22.3

    Jeanette Erdmann;Anika Großhennig;Peter S Braund;Inke R König

  • What is precision medicine

    Inke R. König;Oliver Fuchs;Oliver Fuchs;Gesine Hansen;Erika von Mutius

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

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Ziegler
Andreas Ziegler University of Ulm
Jeanette Erdmann
Jeanette Erdmann University of Lübeck
Heribert Schunkert
Heribert Schunkert Technical University of Munich
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Christian Hengstenberg
Christian Hengstenberg Medical University of Vienna
Stefan Schreiber
Stefan Schreiber Kiel University
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
John R. Thompson
John R. Thompson University of Leicester
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Alistair S. Hall
Alistair S. Hall University of Leeds

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