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Nadine Van Roy

Nadine Van Roy

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
34116
World Ranking
12872
National Ranking
236

Overview

Nadine Van Roy is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium, contributing extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including molecular biology, neurology, cancer research, oncology, and genetics.

Their work focuses on several main topics, notably neuroblastoma research and treatments, cancer genomics and diagnostics, sarcoma diagnosis and treatment, renal and related cancers, epigenetics and DNA methylation, glioma diagnosis and treatment, and peptidase inhibition and analysis.

Van Roy has published frequently in various scientific venues. The most common publication outlets include:

  • Nature Medicine
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Blood
  • Pathology - Research and Practice

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Van Roy include:

  • Clinical evolution, genetic landscape and trajectories of clonal hematopoiesis in SAMD9/SAMD9L syndromes (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • Frequency and Prognostic Impact of ALK Amplifications and Mutations in the European Neuroblastoma Study Group (SIOPEN) High-Risk Neuroblastoma Trial (HR-NBL1) (2021, Journal of Clinical Oncology)
  • The pitfalls and promise of liquid biopsies for diagnosing and treating solid tumors in children: a review (2020, European Journal of Pediatrics)
  • Minimally invasive classification of paediatric solid tumours using reduced representation bisulphite sequencing of cell-free DNA: a proof-of-principle study (2020, Epigenetics)
  • Extrauterine Mesonephric-like Neoplasms (2021, The American Journal of Surgical Pathology)

Van Roy frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Jo Van Dorpe
  • Katleen De Preter
  • Bram De Wilde
  • Barbara De Moerloose
  • Frank Speleman

Best Publications

  • Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes

    Jo Vandesompele;Katleen De Preter;Filip Pattyn;Bruce Poppe

  • EV-TRACK: transparent reporting and centralizing knowledge in extracellular vesicle research

    Jan Van Deun;Pieter Mestdagh;Patrizia Agostinis;Özden Akay

  • Exhaustive mutation analysis of the NF1 gene allows identification of 95% of mutations and reveals a high frequency of unusual splicing defects.

    Ludwine M. Messiaen;Tom Callens;Geert Mortier;Diane Beysen

  • Genome dynamics of the human embryonic kidney 293 lineage in response to cell biology manipulations.

    Yao-Cheng Lin;Morgane Boone;Leander Meuris;Irma Lemmens

  • Loss-of-function mutations in LEMD3 result in osteopoikilosis, Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome and melorheostosis.

    Jan Hellemans;Olena Preobrazhenska;Andy Willaert;Philippe Debeer

  • PHF6 mutations in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Pieter van Vlierberghe;Pieter van Vlierberghe;Pieter van Vlierberghe;Teresa Palomero;Hossein Khiabanian;Joni van der Meulen

  • Meta-analysis of Neuroblastomas Reveals a Skewed ALK Mutation Spectrum in Tumors with MYCN Amplification

    Sara De Brouwer;Katleen De Preter;Candy Kumps;Piotr Zabrocki

  • The need for transparency and good practices in the qPCR literature

    Stephen A. Bustin;Vladimir Benes;Jeremy A. Garson;Jan Hellemans

  • The H3K27me3 demethylase UTX is a gender-specific tumor suppressor in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Joni Van der Meulen;Viraj Sanghvi;Konstantinos Mavrakis;Kaat Durinck

  • Predicting outcomes for children with neuroblastoma using a multigene-expression signature: a retrospective SIOPEN/COG/GPOH study

    Joëlle Vermeulen;Katleen De Preter;Arlene Naranjo;Liesbeth Vercruysse

  • Unequivocal Delineation of Clinicogenetic Subgroups and Development of a New Model for Improved Outcome Prediction in Neuroblastoma

    Jo Vandesompele;Michael Baudis;Katleen De Preter;Nadine Van Roy

  • Quantification of MYCN, DDX1, and NAG Gene Copy Number in Neuroblastoma Using a Real-Time Quantitative PCR Assay

    Katleen De Preter;Frank Speleman;Valérie Combaret;John Lunec

  • A Novel Gene Family NBPF: Intricate Structure Generated by Gene Duplications During Primate Evolution

    Karl Vandepoele;Nadine Van Roy;Katrien Staes;Franki Speleman

  • Genetic heterogeneity of neuroblastoma studied by comparative genomic hybridization

    Jo Vandesompele;Nadine Van Roy;Mireille Van Gele;Geneviève Laureys

  • A new recurrent inversion, inv(7)(p15q34), leads to transcriptional activation of HOXA10 and HOXA11 in a subset of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemias

    F Speleman;B Cauwelier;N Dastugue;J Cools;J Cools

  • Mutation analysis of P73 and TP53 in Merkel cell carcinoma.

    M Van Gele;M Kaghad;J H Leonard;N Van Roy

  • Detection of Staphylococcus Aureus in Nasal Tissue with Peptide Nucleic Acid–Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization:

    Marie-Noëlle Corriveau;Nan Zhang;Gabriele Holtappels;Nadine Van Roy

  • MYCN/c-MYC-induced microRNAs repress coding gene networks associated with poor outcome in MYCN/c-MYC-activated tumors

    P Mestdagh;E Fredlund;F Pattyn;J H Schulte

  • MYC-containing double minutes in hematologic malignancies: evidence in favor of the episome model and exclusion of MYC as the target gene

    Clelia Tiziana Storlazzi;Thoas Fioretos;Cecilia Surace;Angelo Lonoce

  • Novel biological insights in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Kaat Durinck;Steven Goossens;Steven Goossens;Sofie Peirs;Annelynn Wallaert

Frequent Co-Authors

Franki Speleman
Franki Speleman Ghent University
Jo Vandesompele
Jo Vandesompele Ghent University
Katleen De Preter
Katleen De Preter Ghent University
Genevieve Laureys
Genevieve Laureys Ghent University Hospital
Anne De Paepe
Anne De Paepe Ghent University Hospital
Bruce Poppe
Bruce Poppe Ghent University Hospital
Björn Menten
Björn Menten Ghent University Hospital
Pieter Mestdagh
Pieter Mestdagh Ghent University
Rogier Versteeg
Rogier Versteeg University of Amsterdam
Tom Taghon
Tom Taghon Ghent University

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