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Marcus E. Kleber

Marcus E. Kleber

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Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
58075
World Ranking
7508
National Ranking
428

Overview

Marcus E. Kleber is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these areas, they have contributed notably to cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, genetics, molecular biology, surgery, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The main topics covered in their work include genetic associations and epidemiology, lipoproteins and cardiovascular health, cardiovascular function and risk factors, epigenetics and DNA methylation, diabetes, cardiovascular risks, and lipoproteins, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, as well as liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Their frequent collaborators include Winfried März, Graciela E. Delgado, Hubert Scharnagl, Angela P. Moissl, and Bernhard K. Krämer. The collaboration counts range from 30 to 115 joint works, indicating sustained partnerships in their research activities.

Marcus E. Kleber has published in numerous scientific venues. Among the most frequent are:

  • Atherosclerosis
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Heart Journal

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope and scale of their research contributions:

  • "Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "Genome-wide analysis identifies novel susceptibility loci for myocardial infarction," 2020, European Heart Journal
  • "Sex-dimorphic genetic effects and novel loci for fasting glucose and insulin variability," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Plasma proteins associated with cardiovascular death in patients with chronic coronary heart disease: A retrospective study," 2021, PLoS Medicine

Best Publications

  • 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

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes–based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    M Nikpay;A Goel;Won H-H.;L M Hall

  • 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 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

  • Causal relationship between obesity and vitamin D status: bi-directional Mendelian randomization analysis of multiple cohorts.

    Karani S. Vimaleswaran;Diane J. Berry;Emmi Tikkanen;Emmi Tikkanen;Stefan Pilz;Stefan Pilz

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

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

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

  • Interleukin-6 receptor pathways in coronary heart disease: a collaborative meta-analysis of 82 studies

    Nadeem Sarwar;Adam S. Butterworth;Daniel F. Freitag;John Gregson

  • Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Eva Albrecht;Alexander Teumer;Veronique Vitart

  • Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

    Robert A Scott;Vasiliki Lagou;Ryan P Welch;Eleanor Wheeler

  • Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomisation analysis provide insights into the pathogenesis of heart failure.

    S Shah;A Henry;C Roselli;H Lin

  • 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

  • Multi-Ethnic Genome-wide Association Study for Atrial Fibrillation

    Carolina Roselli;Mark D. Chaffin;Lu Chen Weng;Lu Chen Weng;Stefanie Aeschbacher

  • Exome sequencing identifies rare LDLR and APOA5 alleles conferring risk for myocardial infarction

    Ron Do;Ron Do;Nathan O. Stitziel;Hong Hee Won;Hong Hee Won;Anders Berg Jørgensen

  • A comprehensive 1000 Genomes-based genome-wide association meta-analysis of coronary artery disease

    Majid Nikpay;Anuj Goel;Hong-Hee Won;Leanne M. Hall

  • Association between C reactive protein and coronary heart disease: mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data

    G. Eiriksdottir;T. B. Harris;L. J. Launer;V. Gudnason

  • 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

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

    Sonja I. Berndt;Stefan Gustafsson;Reedik Maegi;Andrea Ganna

Frequent Co-Authors

Winfried März
Winfried März Medical University of Graz
Erik Ingelsson
Erik Ingelsson Stanford University
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Daniel I. Chasman
Daniel I. Chasman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Terho Lehtimäki
Terho Lehtimäki Tampere University
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Markus Perola
Markus Perola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Paul M. Ridker
Paul M. Ridker Brigham and Women's Hospital

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