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Klaus Berger is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and has contributed extensively to medical research, focusing predominantly on fields such as cognitive neuroscience, physiology, and epidemiology. Their publication record includes 196 works primarily classified under Medicine, with notable subfields including cognitive neuroscience, general health professions, physiology, epidemiology, and clinical psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics, with frequent attention to functional brain connectivity studies, multiple sclerosis research studies, health, environment, and cognitive aging, health and medical studies, mental health research topics, genetic associations and epidemiology, as well as health disparities and outcomes. Berger has published in multiple venues known for medical and health sciences research.

  • Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry
  • Deutsches Ärzteblatt international
  • Frontiers in Neurology

Klaus Berger frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Annette Peters, Tobias Pischon, Henry Völzke, Wolfgang Lieb, and Marco Hermesdorf, each with whom they have co-authored numerous publications.

Among their recent published papers are:

  • Cross-Disorder Analysis of Brain Structural Abnormalities in Six Major Psychiatric Disorders: A Secondary Analysis of Mega- and Meta-analytical Findings From the ENIGMA Consortium (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Serum Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Compared With Neurofilament Light Chain as a Biomarker for Disease Progression in Multiple Sclerosis (2023, JAMA Neurology)
  • Restless legs syndrome (2021, Nature Reviews Disease Primers)

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

    Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

    David M. Howard;Mark J. Adams;Toni Kim Clarke;Jonathan D. Hafferty

  • 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

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

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

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

    Aysu Okbay;Jonathan P. Beauchamp;Mark Alan Fontana;James J. Lee

  • Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders

    Phil H. Lee;Verneri Anttila;Hyejung Won;Yen-Chen A. Feng

  • 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

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M L Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

  • Prognosis with Parkinson's disease in europe: A collaborative study of population-based cohorts. Neurologic Diseases in the Elderly Research Group.

    K Berger;M M Breteler;C Helmer;D Inzitari

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

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

  • Sex and the risk of restless legs syndrome in the general population.

    Klaus Berger;Jan Luedemann;Claudia Trenkwalder;Ulrich John

  • Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences

    Richard Karlsson Linnér;Richard Karlsson Linnér;Pietro Biroli;Edward Kong;S. Fleur W. Meddens;S. Fleur W. Meddens

  • Body mass index and the risk of stroke in men.

    Tobias Kurth;J. Michael Gaziano;Klaus Berger;Carlos S. Kase

  • Results of Multivariable Logistic Regression, Propensity Matching, Propensity Adjustment, and Propensity-based Weighting under Conditions of Nonuniform Effect

    Tobias Kurth;Alexander M. Walker;Robert J. Glynn;K. Arnold Chan

  • The Measurement of Multiple Chronic Diseases—A Systematic Review on Existing Multimorbidity Indices

    Claudia Diederichs;Klaus Berger;Dorothee B Bartels;Dorothee B Bartels

  • The association between smoking and smell and taste impairment in the general population

    Mechtild M Vennemann;Thomas Hummel;Klaus Berger

  • Genetic risk factors for ischaemic stroke and its subtypes (the METASTROKE collaboration): a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.

    Matthew Traylor;Martin Farrall;Elizabeth G Holliday;Cathie Sudlow

  • A sequence variant in ZFHX3 on 16q22 associates with atrial fibrillation and ischemic stroke.

    Daniel F Gudbjartsson;Hilma Holm;Hilma Holm;Solveig Gretarsdottir;Gudmar Thorleifsson

  • Predictors of In-Hospital Mortality and Attributable Risks of Death After Ischemic Stroke The German Stroke Registers Study Group

    Peter U. Heuschmann;Peter L. Kolominsky-Rabas;Bjoern Misselwitz;Peter Hermanek

  • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses

    Aysu Okbay;Bart M. L. Baselmans;Jan-Emmanuel De Neve;Patrick Turley

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard T. Baune
Bernhard T. Baune University of Münster
Henry Völzke
Henry Völzke Greifswald University Hospital
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Christa Meisinger
Christa Meisinger University of Augsburg
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir
Unnur Thorsteinsdottir deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Tobias Kurth
Tobias Kurth Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Wolfgang Lieb
Wolfgang Lieb Kiel University
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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