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2024
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Germany
2024

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Genetics

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101
Citations
42199
World Ranking
724
National Ranking
60

Medicine

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104
Citations
44065
World Ranking
7004
National Ranking
394

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Olaf Riess is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and the life sciences, focusing significantly on genetic and molecular aspects of neurological disorders and oncology.

The main fields of study for Olaf Riess include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The subfields of study within these broad areas cover:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Neurology
  • Genetics
  • Oncology

The core topics addressed in Olaf Riess's research are:

  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms

Among the recent publications authored or coauthored by Olaf Riess are:

  • "Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning," 2021, Nature
  • "Alpha-synuclein research: defining strategic moves in the battle against Parkinson's disease," 2021, npj Parkinson s Disease
  • "Recommendations for whole genome sequencing in diagnostics for rare diseases," 2022, European Journal of Human Genetics
  • "MDM2, MDM4 and EGFR Amplifications and Hyperprogression in Metastatic Acral and Mucosal Melanoma," 2020, Cancers
  • "Distinct Mutation Patterns Reveal Melanoma Subtypes and Influence Immunotherapy Response in Advanced Melanoma Patients," 2020, Cancers

Olaf Riess collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Nicolas Casadei
  • Stephan Ossowski
  • Tobias B. Haack
  • Lüdger Schöls
  • Marc Sturm

Their work appears regularly in specific publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neurology
  • Brain
  • Movement Disorders
  • Genetics in Medicine

Best Publications

  • Ala30Pro mutation in the gene encoding alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease.

    Rejko Krüger;Wilfried Kuhn;Thomas Müller;Dirk Woitalla

  • Genome-wide association study reveals genetic risk underlying Parkinson's disease

    Javier Simón-Sánchez;Claudia Schulte;Jose M Bras;Jose M Bras;Manu Sharma

  • Severe COVID-19 Is Marked by a Dysregulated Myeloid Cell Compartment.

    Jonas Schulte-Schrepping;Nico Reusch;Daniela Paclik;Kevin Baßler

  • Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias: clinical features, genetics, and pathogenesis.

    Ludger Schöls;Peter Bauer;Thorsten Schmidt;Thorsten Schulte

  • Range of genetic mutations associated with severe non-syndromic sporadic intellectual disability: an exome sequencing study.

    Anita Rauch;Dagmar Wieczorek;Elisabeth Graf;Thomas Wieland

  • Loss of function mutations in the gene encoding Omi/HtrA2 in Parkinson's disease

    Karsten M. Strauss;L. Miguel Martins;Helene Plun-Favreau;Frank P. Marx

  • Collaborative analysis of alpha-synuclein gene promoter variability and Parkinson disease.

    Demetrius M. Maraganore;Mariza De Andrade;Alexis Elbaz;Matthew J. Farrer

  • Expansion of a novel CAG trinucleotide repeat in the 5' region of PPP2R2B is associated with SCA12.

    Susan E. Holmes;Elizabeth E. O'Hearn;Melvin G. McInnis;Daniel A. Gorelick-Feldman

  • 14-3-3 proteins in the nervous system

    Daniela Berg;Carsten Holzmann;Olaf Riess

  • Swarm Learning for decentralized and confidential clinical machine learning.

    Stefanie Warnat-Herresthal;Hartmut Schultze;Krishnaprasad Lingadahalli Shastry;Sathyanarayanan Manamohan

  • The natural history of degenerative ataxia: a retrospective study in 466 patients.

    T Klockgether;R Lüdtke;B Kramer;M Abele

  • Reduced basal autophagy and impaired mitochondrial dynamics due to loss of Parkinson's disease-associated protein DJ-1.

    Guido Krebiehl;Sabine Ruckerbauer;Lena F. Burbulla;Nicole Kieper

  • Transgenic rat model of Huntington's disease

    Stephan von Hörsten;Ina Schmitt;Huu Phuc Nguyen;Carsten Holzmann

  • Unbiased screen for interactors of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 supports a common pathway for sporadic and familial Parkinson disease

    A. Beilina;I. N. Rudenko;A. Kaganovich;L. Civiero

  • Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia: Phenotypic differences in genetically defined subtypes?

    Ludger Schöls;Georgios Amoiridis;Thomas Büttner;Horst Przuntek

  • A Two-Stage Meta-Analysis Identifies Several New Loci for Parkinson's Disease

    V. Plagnol;M.A. Nalls;J.M. Bras;D.G. Hernandez;D.G. Hernandez

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Analyses Identify Responses of Megakaryocytes, Erythroid Cells, and Plasmablasts as Hallmarks of Severe COVID-19.

    Joana P. Bernardes;Neha Mishra;Florian Tran;Thomas Bahmer

  • Progression-specific genes identified by expression profiling of matched ductal carcinomas in situ and invasive breast tumors, combining laser capture microdissection and oligonucleotide microarray analysis.

    Christina S. Schuetz;Michael Bonin;Susan E. Clare;Kay Nieselt

  • Increased susceptibility to sporadic Parkinson's disease by a certain combined alpha-synuclein/apolipoprotein E genotype.

    Rejko Krüger;Ana Maria Menezes Vieira‐Saecker;Wilfried Kuhn;Daniela Berg

  • Spinocerebellar ataxia type 6: genotype and phenotype in German kindreds

    Ludger Schöls;Rejko Krüger;Georgios Amoiridis;Horst Przuntek

Frequent Co-Authors

Rejko Krüger
Rejko Krüger University of Luxembourg
Jörg T. Epplen
Jörg T. Epplen Ruhr University Bochum
Ludger Schöls
Ludger Schöls University of Tübingen
Daniela Berg
Daniela Berg University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Thomas Gasser
Thomas Gasser University of Tübingen
Horst Przuntek
Horst Przuntek Ruhr University Bochum
Alexis Brice
Alexis Brice Institut du Cerveau
Christine Klein
Christine Klein University of Lübeck
Jörg B. Schulz
Jörg B. Schulz RWTH Aachen University
Giovanni Stevanin
Giovanni Stevanin Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale

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