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Jeanette Erdmann

Jeanette Erdmann

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Best Female Scientists
2025
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Genetics
Germany
2024

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Best Female Scientists

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121
Citations
85529
World Ranking
515
National Ranking
23

Genetics

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123
Citations
85997
World Ranking
327
National Ranking
19

Medicine

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126
Citations
88073
World Ranking
2879
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Jeanette Erdmann was affiliated with the University of Lübeck in Germany. Their academic work primarily centered on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these broad fields, their research focused extensively on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Immunology, and Surgery.

Their research topics covered multiple areas, including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, RNA modifications and cancer, Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health, and Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies.

Jeanette Erdmann contributed to a number of scientific papers published in various venues. Their recent publications included:

  • "The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans" (2020, Nature)
  • "Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure" (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • "A genomic mutational constraint map using variation in 76,156 human genomes" (2023, Nature)
  • "Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants" (2022, Nature Genetics)
  • "Transcript expression-aware annotation improves rare variant interpretation" (2020, Nature)

The frequent publication venues for their work included UNC Libraries, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Nature Communications, and the European Heart Journal.

Collaborations featured several frequent co-authors, highlighting ongoing research partnerships. These included:

  • Heribert Schunkert
  • Roberto Elosúa
  • Stacey Gabriel
  • Diego Ardissino
  • Zouhair Aherrahrou

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure.

    David Ellinghaus;Frauke Degenhardt;Luis Bujanda;Maria Buti

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

    Panos Deloukas;Stavroula Kanoni;Christina Willenborg;Martin Farrall

  • 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 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

  • Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical research

    Karsten Suhre;So-Youn Shin;Ann-Kristin Petersen;Robert P. Mohney

  • Identification of seven loci affecting mean telomere length and their association with disease

    Veryan Codd;Christopher P Nelson;Eva Albrecht;Massimo Mangino

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

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

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

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

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

  • 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

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
Sekar Kathiresan
Sekar Kathiresan Harvard University
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Hugh Watkins
Hugh Watkins University of Oxford
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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