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Kathelijn Fischer

Kathelijn Fischer

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D-Index
104
Citations
73345
World Ranking
6884
National Ranking
262

Overview

Kathelijn Fischer is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Fischer's contributions include a significant number of publications across genetics, molecular biology, infectious diseases, cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, as well as endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The scientist's main fields of study encompass biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology with a total of 107 publications, alongside 82 publications in medicine. Subfields particularly represented in their work include genetics (70 publications), molecular biology (34 publications), infectious diseases (15 publications), cardiology and cardiovascular medicine (11 publications), and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism (9 publications).

Research topics covered by Fischer involve:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer

Fischer has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Genetic identification of cell types underlying brain complex traits yields insights into the etiology of Parkinson's disease (2020, Nature Genetics)
  • Glycosylation of immunoglobulin G is regulated by a large network of genes pleiotropic with inflammatory diseases (2020, Science Advances)
  • Ancestry deconvolution and partial polygenic score can improve susceptibility predictions in recently admixed individuals (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Development of the Gastrointestinal Dysfunction Score (GIDS) for critically ill patients - A prospective multicenter observational study (iSOFA study) (2021, Clinical Nutrition)
  • Gallstones, Body Mass Index, C-Reactive Protein, and Gallbladder Cancer: Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Chilean and European Genotype Data (2020, Hepatology)

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Fischer are:

  • Tõnu Esko
  • Reedik Mägi
  • Nele Taba
  • Kristi Läll
  • Lili Milani

Fischer's research is regularly published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 15 publications, UNC Libraries with 10 publications, Nature Communications and Frontiers in Genetics with 4 publications each, and SSRN Electronic Journal with 4 publications.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

    Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • 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 provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

    Andrew P Morris;Benjamin F Voight;Benjamin F Voight;Tanya M Teslovich;Teresa Ferreira

  • Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

    Harm-Jan Westra;Marjolein J Peters;Tõnu Esko;Hanieh Yaghootkar

  • 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

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa

    Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Hunna J. Watson;Zeynep Yilmaz;Laura M. Thornton;Christopher Hübel;Christopher Hübel

  • Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

    Ron Do;Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta

  • GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment

    Cornelius A. Rietveld;Sarah E. Medland;Jaime Lane Derringer;Jian Yang

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

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

  • Epigenome-wide association study of body mass index, and the adverse outcomes of adiposity

    Simone Wahl;Alexander Drong;Benjamin Lehne;Marie Loh;Marie Loh;Marie Loh

  • 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

  • The prevalence of metabolic syndrome and metabolically healthy obesity in Europe: a collaborative analysis of ten large cohort studies.

    Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk;Marja-Liisa Nuotio;Marja-Liisa Nuotio;Sandra N Slagter;Dany Doiron

  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

Frequent Co-Authors

Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Andres Metspalu
Andres Metspalu University of Tartu
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Veikko Salomaa
Veikko Salomaa Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Johan G. Eriksson
Johan G. Eriksson National University of Singapore
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Samuli Ripatti
Samuli Ripatti University of Helsinki

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