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Jurgen Del-Favero

Jurgen Del-Favero

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
63
Citations
15290
World Ranking
2882
National Ranking
43

Jurgen Del-Favero publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jurgen Del-Favero sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 190 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Jurgen Del-Favero D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jurgen Del-Favero sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jurgen Del-Favero is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research focuses on key areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable contributions to medicine. The specialist fields include genetics, molecular biology, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and statistics and probability.

Their published works cover a range of important topics such as genetic associations and epidemiology, genomics and rare diseases, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, lung cancer treatments and mutations, advanced causal inference techniques, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, as well as schizophrenia research and treatment.

Frequent publication venues for Jurgen Del-Favero include UNC Libraries, Biological Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, iScience, and Nature Communications.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Jurgen Del-Favero are:

  • "A Comparison of Ten Polygenic Score Methods for Psychiatric Disorders Applied Across Multiple Cohorts" (2021, Biological Psychiatry)
  • "Interaction Testing and Polygenic Risk Scoring to Estimate the Association of Common Genetic Variants With Treatment Resistance in Schizophrenia" (2022, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • "Using brain cell-type-specific protein interactomes to interpret neurodevelopmental genetic signals in schizophrenia" (2023, iScience)
  • "Distinct genetic liability profiles define clinically relevant patient strata across common diseases" (2024, Nature Communications)
  • "A phase Ia study of the MEK1/2 inhibitor PD-0325901 with the c-MET inhibitor crizotinib in patients with advanced solid cancers" (2025, BJC Reports)

Jurgen Del-Favero collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors, including Farooq Amin, Elizabeth Bevilacqua, Nancy G. Buccola, Dominique Campion, and James J. Crowley, each with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

    Eli A. Stahl;Eli A. Stahl;Gerome Breen;Andreas J. Forstner;Andrew McQuillin

  • De novo mutations in the sodium-channel gene SCN1A cause severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy.

    Lieve Claes;Jurgen Del-Favero;Berten Ceulemans;Lieven Lagae

  • VEGF is a modifier of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice and humans and protects motoneurons against ischemic death

    Diether Lambrechts;Erik Storkebaum;Masafumi Morimoto;Jurgen Del-Favero

  • Thrombomodulin mutations in atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome.

    Mieke Delvaeye;Marina Noris;Astrid De Vriese;Charles T. Esmon

  • Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder.

    Ricardo Segurado;Sevilla D. Detera-Wadleigh;Douglas F. Levinson;Cathryn M. Lewis

  • Meta-analyses of genetic studies on major depressive disorder.

    S López-León;A C J W Janssens;A M González-Zuloeta Ladd;J Del-Favero

  • APP duplication is sufficient to cause early onset Alzheimer's dementia with cerebral amyloid angiopathy.

    Kristel Sleegers;Nathalie Brouwers;Ilse Gijselinck;Jessie Theuns

  • Paroxysmal exercise-induced dyskinesia and epilepsy is due to mutations in SLC2A1, encoding the glucose transporter GLUT1.

    Arvid Suls;Peter Dedeken;Karolien Goffin;Hilde Van Esch

  • novoSNP, a novel computational tool for sequence variation discovery

    Stefan Weckx;Jurgen Del-Favero;Rosa Rademakers;Lieve Claes

  • Mutations in SEPT9 cause hereditary neuralgic amyotrophy.

    Gregor Kuhlenbäumer;Gregor Kuhlenbäumer;Mark C Hannibal;Eva Nelis;Anja Schirmacher

  • Optimized filtering reduces the error rate in detecting genomic variants by short-read sequencing

    Joke Reumers;Joke Reumers;Peter De Rijk;Hui Zhao;Hui Zhao;Anthony Liekens

  • De novo SCN1A mutations are a major cause of severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy

    Lieve Claes;Berten Ceulemans;Dominique Audenaert;Katrien Smets

  • Resequencing of positional candidates identifies low frequency IL23R coding variants protecting against inflammatory bowel disease

    Yukihide Momozawa;Myriam Mni;Kayo Nakamura;Wouter Coppieters

  • Association between COMT (Val158Met) functional polymorphism and early onset in patients with major depressive disorder in a European multicenter genetic association study.

    I Massat;D Souery;J Del-Favero;M Nothen

  • Clinical spectrum of early-onset epileptic encephalopathies associated with STXBP1 mutations

    Liesbet Deprez;Sarah Weckhuysen;Philip Holmgren;Arvid Suls

  • Genetic variation in the KIF1B locus influences susceptibility to multiple sclerosis.

    Yurii S Aulchenko;Ilse A Hoppenbrouwers;Sreeram V Ramagopalan;Linda Broer

  • Glucocorticoid receptor gene-based SNP analysis in patients with recurrent major depression

    Dirk Van West;Filip Van Den Eede;Jurgen Del-Favero;Daniel Souery

  • High-density SNP haplotyping suggests altered regulation of tau gene expression in progressive supranuclear palsy

    Rosa Rademakers;Stacey Melquist;Marc Cruts;Jessie Theuns

  • Short telomeres in depression and the general population are associated with a hypocortisolemic state.

    Mikael Wikgren;Martin Maripuu;Thomas Karlsson;Katarina Nordfjäll

  • Paroxysmal exercise-induced dyskinesia and epilepsy due to mutations in SLC2A1, encoding the glucose transporter, Gluti

    David Cassiman;A Suls;P Dedeken;Karolien Goffin

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Van Broeckhoven
Christine Van Broeckhoven University of Antwerp
Rolf Adolfsson
Rolf Adolfsson Umeå University
Julien Mendlewicz
Julien Mendlewicz Université Libre de Bruxelles
Marc Cruts
Marc Cruts University of Antwerp
Douglas Blackwood
Douglas Blackwood University of Edinburgh
Alessandro Serretti
Alessandro Serretti Kore University of Enna
Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Walter J. Muir
Walter J. Muir University of Edinburgh
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Anders D. Børglum
Anders D. Børglum Aarhus University

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