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Koenraad Devriendt

Koenraad Devriendt

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Genetics
Belgium
2026

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Genetics

D-Index
102
Citations
35845
World Ranking
708
National Ranking
8

Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
37043
World Ranking
7684
National Ranking
86

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Koenraad Devriendt is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has an extensive research profile primarily focused on genetics and molecular biology within medical sciences. Their work spans various aspects of prenatal screening, genomic variations, and genetic contributors to diseases and developmental disorders.

The scientist's notable recent publications include:

  • Genetic contributors to risk of schizophrenia in the presence of a 22q11.2 deletion, 2020, Molecular Psychiatry
  • Outcome of publicly funded nationwide first-tier noninvasive prenatal screening, 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • Metal mining and birth defects: a case-control study in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2020, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Comprehensive genome-wide analysis of routine non-invasive test data allows cancer prediction: A single-center retrospective analysis of over 85,000 pregnancies, 2021, EClinicalMedicine
  • Cell-free DNA methylome analysis for early preeclampsia prediction, 2023, Nature Medicine

Their frequent co-authors reflect collaborations with researchers who have contributed extensively to related fields. These collaborators include:

  • Joris Vermeesch
  • Aimé Lumaka
  • Jeroen Breckpot
  • Kris Van Den Bogaert
  • Prosper Lukusa-Tshilobo

The scientist has published regularly in prominent journals, with the following venues hosting multiple publications:

  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • European Journal of Medical Genetics
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • European Journal of Human Genetics

Koenraad Devriendt's primary fields of study incorporate Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their research work further delves into subfields such as Genetics, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Surgery, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Fetal and Pediatric Neurological Disorders
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Best Publications

  • Recurrent Rearrangements of Chromosome 1q21.1 and Variable Pediatric Phenotypes

    Heather C Mefford;Andrew J Sharp;Carl Baker;Andy Itsara

  • Practical Guidelines for Managing Patients with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome

    Anne S Bassett;Donna M McDonald-McGinn;Koenraad Devriendt;Maria Cristina Digilio

  • Characterization of human disease phenotypes associated with mutations in TREX1, RNASEH2A, RNASEH2B, RNASEH2C, SAMHD1, ADAR, and IFIH1.

    Yanick J. Crow;Diana S. Chase;Johanna Lowenstein Schmidt;Marcin Szynkiewicz

  • GATA3 haplo-insufficiency causes human HDR syndrome.

    H Van Esch;P Groenen;M A Nesbit;S Schuffenhauer

  • De novo mutations of SETBP1 cause Schinzel-Giedion syndrome

    Alexander Hoischen;Bregje W M van Bon;Christian Gilissen;Peer Arts

  • Congenital Hereditary Lymphedema Caused by a Mutation That Inactivates VEGFR3 Tyrosine Kinase

    Alexandre Irrthum;Marika J. Karkkainen;Koen Devriendt;Kari Alitalo

  • Constitutively activating mutation in WASP causes X-linked severe congenital neutropenia

    Koenraad Devriendt;Annette S. Kim;Gert Mathijs;Suzanna G M Frints

  • Distinct genetic architectures for syndromic and nonsyndromic congenital heart defects identified by exome sequencing

    Alejandro Sifrim;Marc-Phillip Hitz;Anna Wilsdon;Jeroen Breckpot

  • Mutations in the transcription factor gene SOX18 underlie recessive and dominant forms of hypotrichosis-lymphedema-telangiectasia.

    Alexandre Irrthum;Koenraad Devriendt;David Chitayat;Gert Matthijs

  • Mutations in the Pericentrin (PCNT) Gene Cause Primordial Dwarfism

    Anita Rauch;Christian T. Thiel;Detlev Schindler;Ursula Wick

  • Intelligence and psychosocial adjustment in velocardiofacial syndrome: a study of 37 children and adolescents with VCFS.

    Ann Swillen;Koenraad Devriendt;Eric Legius;Benedicte Eyskens

  • Emerging patterns of cryptic chromosomal imbalance in patients with idiopathic mental retardation and multiple congenital anomalies: a new series of 140 patients and review of published reports

    B. Menten;N. Maas;B. Thienpont;K. Buysse

  • The annual incidence of DiGeorge/velocardiofacial syndrome.

    Koenraad Devriendt;Jean-Pierre Fryns;Jean-Pierre Fryns;Geert Mortier;M N van Thienen

  • Mutations in LRP2 , which encodes the multiligand receptor megalin, cause Donnai-Barrow and facio-oculo-acoustico-renal syndromes

    Sibel Kantarci;Lihadh Al-Gazali;R Sean Hill;R Sean Hill;Dian Donnai

  • Haploinsufficiency of TCF4 causes syndromal mental retardation with intermittent hyperventilation (Pitt-Hopkins syndrome)

    Christiane Zweier;Maarit M Peippo;Juliane Hoyer;Sergio Sousa

  • Contribution of Global Rare Copy-Number Variants to the Risk of Sporadic Congenital Heart Disease

    Rachel Soemedi;Ian J. Wilson;Jamie Bentham;Rebecca Darlay

  • VEGF: a modifier of the del22q11 (DiGeorge) syndrome?

    Ingeborg Stalmans;Diether Lambrechts;Frederik De Smet;Sandra Jansen

  • Spectrum of FOXL2 gene mutations in blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus (BPES) families demonstrates a genotype–phenotype correlation

    Elfride De Baere;Michael J. Dixon;Kent W. Small;Ethylin W. Jabs

  • Mutations in a TGF-β ligand, TGFB3, cause syndromic aortic aneurysms and dissections.

    Aida M. Bertoli-Avella;Elisabeth Gillis;Hiroko Morisaki;Judith M A Verhagen

  • Intelligence and psychosocial adjustment in velo-cardio-facial syndrome: a study of 37 children and adolescents with VCFS

    Ann Swillen;Koenraad Devriendt;Eric Legius;B Eyskens

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