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68
Citations
14694
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7891
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3579

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Monie A. Ferst Award, Sigma Xi
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1973 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

K. E. Van Holde is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and medicine, with significant contributions to subfields such as clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, public health, environmental and occupational health, pharmacy, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers key topics including eating disorders and behaviors, child nutrition and feeding issues, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, obesity, physical activity and diet, obesity and health practices, autism spectrum disorder research, and family and disability support research.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by K. E. Van Holde include:

  • Risk factors for anorexia nervosa: A population-based investigation of sex differences in polygenic risk and early life exposures (2023) published in International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Parental psychopathology before and after the child's diagnosis of a mental disorder: a population-based matched cohort study (2025) published in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • Polygenic Risk of Mental Disorders and Subject-Specific School Grades (2023) published in Biological Psychiatry
  • The role of co-occurring conditions and genetics in the associations of eating disorders with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder (2024) published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Maternal mental disorders and neonatal outcomes: Danish population-based cohort study (2024) published in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with the scientist are:

  • Liselotte Petersen
  • Hannah Chatwin
  • Zeynep Yılmaz
  • Clara Albiñana
  • Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson

The researcher has published multiple studies in prominent venues such as The British Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, International Journal of Eating Disorders, Biological Psychiatry, and Molecular Psychiatry.

Over the course of their career, K. E. Van Holde has received several awards including:

  • Monie A. Ferst Award, Sigma Xi (2012)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1999)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1989)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1973)

Best Publications

  • Adenylate oligomers in single- and double-strand conformation

    J. Brahms;A.M. Michelson;K.E. Van Holde

  • Crystal structure of a functional unit from Octopus hemocyanin.

    M E Cuff;K I Miller;K E van Holde;W A Hendrickson;W A Hendrickson

  • Boundary analysis of sedimentation‐velocity experiments with monodisperse and paucidisperse solutes

    K. E. Van Holde;Wolfgang O. Weischet

  • Use of selectively trypsinized nucleosome core particles to analyze the role of the histone “tails” in the stabilization of the nucleosome

    Juan Ausio;Feng Dong;K.E. van Holde

  • A comparison of molluscan and arthropod hemocyanin—I. Circular dichroism and absorption spectra

    Kenneth W. Nickerson;Kensal E. Van Holde

  • Three-dimensional structure of extended chromatin fibers as revealed by tapping-mode scanning force microscopy

    S H Leuba;G Yang;C Robert;B Samori

  • Analysis of subunit organization in chicken erythrocyte chromatin.

    Barbara Ramsay Shaw;Timothy M. Herman;Roger Timothy Kovacic;George S. Beaudreau

  • Homogeneous reconstituted oligonucleosomes, evidence for salt-dependent folding in the absence of histone H1.

    Jeffrey C. Hansen;Juan Ausio;Valerie H. Stanik;K. E. Van Holde

  • Histone hyperacetylation: its effects on nucleosome conformation and stability.

    Juan Ausio;K. E. Van Holde

  • The Effect of Trypsin on Nuclease-resistant Chromatin Fragments

    C.G. Sahasrabuddhe;K.E. Van Holde

  • What determines the folding of the chromatin fiber

    K van Holde;J Zlatanova

  • DNA and protein determinants of nucleosome positioning on sea urchin 5S rRNA gene sequences in vitro.

    Feng Dong;J. C. Hansen;K. E. Van Holde

  • Low-angle neutron scattering from chromatin subunit particles

    J.F. Pardon;D.L. Worcester;J.C. Wooley;K. Tatchell

  • Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

    Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

  • Salt-induced release of DNA from nucleosome core particles.

    Thomas D. Yager;Cynthia T. McMurray;K. E. Van Holde

  • Base interactions of nucleotide polymers in aqueous solution.

    K.E. Van Holde;J. Brahms;A.M. Michelson

  • Comparative subunit structure of HeLa, yeast, and chicken erythrocyte chromatin.

    D Lohr;J Corden;K Tatchell;R T Kovacic

  • What happens to nucleosomes during transcription

    K E van Holde;D E Lohr;C Robert

  • Physical studies of ribosomes from Escherichia coli.

    W.E. Hill;G.P. Rossetti;K.E. Van Holde

  • Thermal denaturation of nucleosomal core particles.

    W.O. Weischet;K. Tatchell;K.E. Van Holde;H. Klump

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Ausió
Juan Ausió University of Victoria
Wayne A. Hendrickson
Wayne A. Hendrickson Columbia University
Cynthia T. McMurray
Cynthia T. McMurray Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jeffrey C. Hansen
Jeffrey C. Hansen Colorado State University
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Joseph Bonaventura
Joseph Bonaventura Duke University
William J. Rutter
William J. Rutter University of California, San Francisco
Borries Demeler
Borries Demeler University of Lethbridge
Kenneth W. Nickerson
Kenneth W. Nickerson University of Nebraska–Lincoln
E. Morton Bradbury
E. Morton Bradbury University of California, Davis

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