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Karl V. Voelkerding

Karl V. Voelkerding

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
49363
World Ranking
18803
National Ranking
7679

Overview

Karl V. Voelkerding is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research specializes in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Genetics. Other subfields include Cancer Research, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, notably Genomics and Rare Diseases, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation.

Frequently published in the journal Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, with five publications, Karl V. Voelkerding has also contributed to UNC Libraries, Journal of Leukocyte Biology, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, and Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Voelkerding include:

  • Laboratory and Clinical Implications of Incidental and Secondary Germline Findings During Tumor Testing, 2021, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
  • Frontline Science: Cxxc5 expression alters cell cycle and myeloid differentiation of mouse hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, 2020, Journal of Leukocyte Biology
  • Creation of an Expert Curated Variant List for Clinical Genomic Test Development and Validation, 2021, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
  • Four-Year Laboratory Performance of the First College of American Pathologists In Silico Next-Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Proficiency Testing Surveys, 2022, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
  • CXXC5 variant in an immunodeficient patient with a progressive loss of hematopoietic cells, 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

The scientist collaborates frequently with coauthors including Birgit Funke, Avni Santani, Rhona J. Souers, Jaimie Halley, and Madhuri Hegde.

Best Publications

  • Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology.

    Sue Richards;Nazneen Aziz;Nazneen Aziz;Sherri Bale;David Bick

  • Next-Generation Sequencing: From Basic Research to Diagnostics

    Karl V. Voelkerding;Shale A. Dames;Jacob D. Durtschi

  • Guidelines for Validation of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Oncology Panels: A Joint Consensus Recommendation of the Association for Molecular Pathology and College of American Pathologists.

    Lawrence J. Jennings;Maria E. Arcila;Christopher Corless;Suzanne Kamel-Reid;Suzanne Kamel-Reid

  • Assuring the quality of next-generation sequencing in clinical laboratory practice

    Amy S Gargis;Lisa Kalman;Meredith W Berry;David P Bick

  • Standards and Guidelines for Validating Next-Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Pipelines: A Joint Recommendation of the Association for Molecular Pathology and the College of American Pathologists.

    Somak Roy;Christopher Coldren;Arivarasan Karunamurthy;Nefize S. Kip

  • Amplicon DNA Melting Analysis for Mutation Scanning and Genotyping: Cross-Platform Comparison of Instruments and Dyes

    Mark G. Herrmann;Jacob D. Durtschi;L. Kathryn Bromley;Carl T. Wittwer;Carl T. Wittwer

  • High resolution melting applications for clinical laboratory medicine

    Maria Erali;Karl V. Voelkerding;Carl T. Wittwer

  • College of American pathologists' laboratory standards for next-generation sequencing clinical tests

    Nazneen Aziz;Qin Zhao;Lynn Bry;Denise K. Driscoll

  • Germline Mutations in NFKB2 Implicate the Noncanonical NF-κB Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Common Variable Immunodeficiency

    Karin Chen;Emily M. Coonrod;Attila Kumánovics;Attila Kumánovics;Zechariah F. Franks

  • Loss of B Cells in Patients with Heterozygous Mutations in IKAROS

    Hye Sun Kuehn;Bertrand Boisson;Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles;Janine Reichenbach

  • Specific versus Nonspecific Isothermal DNA Amplification through Thermophilic Polymerase and Nicking Enzyme Activities

    Eric Tan;Barbara Erwin;Shale Dames;Tanya Ferguson

  • Expanded Instrument Comparison of Amplicon DNA Melting Analysis for Mutation Scanning and Genotyping

    Mark G. Herrmann;Jacob D. Durtschi;Carl T. Wittwer;Carl T. Wittwer;Karl V. Voelkerding;Karl V. Voelkerding

  • Phevor Combines Multiple Biomedical Ontologies for Accurate Identification of Disease-Causing Alleles in Single Individuals and Small Nuclear Families

    Marc V. Singleton;Stephen L. Guthery;Karl V. Voelkerding;Karin Chen

  • Next Generation Sequencing for Clinical Diagnostics-Principles and Application to Targeted Resequencing for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Paper from the 2009 William Beaumont Hospital Symposium on Molecular Pathology

    Karl V. Voelkerding;Karl V. Voelkerding;Shale Dames;Jacob D. Durtschi

  • Good laboratory practice for clinical next-generation sequencing informatics pipelines

    Amy S. Gargis;Lisa Kalman;David P. Bick;Cristina Da Silva

  • Taxonomer: an interactive metagenomics analysis portal for universal pathogen detection and host mRNA expression profiling.

    Steven Flygare;Keith Simmon;Chase Miller;Yi Qiao

  • Opportunities and challenges associated with clinical diagnostic genome sequencing: a report of the Association for Molecular Pathology.

    Iris Schrijver;Nazneen Aziz;Daniel H. Farkas;Manohar Furtado

  • Unlabeled oligonucleotides as internal temperature controls for genotyping by amplicon melting.

    Michael T. Seipp;Jacob D. Durtschi;Michael A. Liew;Jamie Williams

  • A unified test of linkage analysis and rare-variant association for analysis of pedigree sequence data

    Hao Hu;Jared C Roach;Hilary Coon;Stephen L Guthery

  • Identification of two nuclear subclasses of the adenovirus type 5-encoded DNA-binding protein.

    K Voelkerding;D F Klessig

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl T. Wittwer
Carl T. Wittwer University of Utah
Harry R. Hill
Harry R. Hill University of Sheffield
Birgit Funke
Birgit Funke Harvard University
Heidi L. Rehm
Heidi L. Rehm Brigham and Women's Hospital
Madhuri Hegde
Madhuri Hegde Emory University
Mark Yandell
Mark Yandell University of Utah
Gabor T. Marth
Gabor T. Marth University of Utah
Andrew T. Pavia
Andrew T. Pavia University of Utah
Vijay G. Sankaran
Vijay G. Sankaran Harvard University
Lynn B. Jorde
Lynn B. Jorde University of Utah

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