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Robert Vlietinck

Robert Vlietinck

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Medicine

D-Index
85
Citations
21646
World Ranking
14772
National Ranking
186

Overview

Robert Vlietinck is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their work spans subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics of Robert Vlietinck's research include:

  • Cognitive Abilities and Testing
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
  • Reproductive Biology and Fertility
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Frequent co-authors in their research include Cathérine Derom, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Dorret I. Boomsma, Jaakko Kaprio, and Karri Silventoinen. Publication venues where their work often appears are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Human Reproduction
  • Hormones and Behavior

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Vlietinck are:

  • Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Genetic and environmental influences on human height from infancy through adulthood at different levels of parental education, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Genome-wide association study meta-analysis of dizygotic twinning illuminates genetic regulation of female fecundity, 2023, Human Reproduction
  • Smoking remains associated with education after controlling for social background and genetic factors in a study of 18 twin cohorts, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Educational attainment of same-sex and opposite-sex dizygotic twins: An individual-level pooled study of 19 twin cohorts, 2021, Hormones and Behavior

Best Publications

  • VEGF is a modifier of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in mice and humans and protects motoneurons against ischemic death

    Diether Lambrechts;Erik Storkebaum;Masafumi Morimoto;Jurgen Del-Favero

  • The deletion/insertion polymorphism of the angiotensin converting enzyme gene and cardiovascular-renal risk

    Jan A. Staessen;Ji G. Wang;Giuliana Ginocchio;Victor Petrov

  • Increased monozygotic twinning rate after ovulation induction.

    C. Derom;R. Derom;R. Vlietinck;H.Vanden Berghe

  • Diagnostic value of anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae and antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies in inflammatory bowel disease

    Marc Peeters;Sofie Joossens;Severine Vermeire;Robert Vlietinck

  • Familial aggregation in Crohn's disease: Increased age-adjusted risk and concordance in clinical characteristics

    M Peeters;H Nevens;F Baert;M Hiele

  • Microbiota conservation and BMI signatures in adult monozygotic twins

    Sebastian Tims;Catherine Derom;Daisy M Jonkers;Robert Vlietinck

  • Toll-like receptor-1, -2, and -6 polymorphisms influence disease extension in inflammatory bowel diseases.

    Marie Pierik;Sofie Joossens;Kristel Van Steen;Nele Van Schuerbeek

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

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

  • Clustering of increased small intestinal permeability in families with Crohn's disease

    M Peeters;B Geypens;D Claus;Hilde Nevens

  • NOD2/CARD15 does not influence response to infliximab in Crohn's disease

    Severine Vermeire;Edouard Louis;Paul Rutgeerts;Martine De Vos

  • The Belgian PCB and dioxin incident of January-June 1999: exposure data and potential impact on health.

    Nik van Larebeke;Luc Hens;Paul Schepens;Adrian Covaci

  • Prognostic factors in the myelodysplastic syndromes: importance of initial data on peripheral blood counts, bone marrow cytology, trephine biopsy and chromosomal analysis.

    G. Tricot;R. Vlietinck;M. A. Boogaerts;B. Hendrickx

  • Renal function, cytogenetic measurements, and sexual development in adolescents in relation to environmental pollutants: a feasibility study of biomarkers

    Jan A. Staessen;Tim Nawrot;Elly Den Hond;Lutgarde Thijs

  • Bone marrow histology in myelodysplastic syndromes. II. Prognostic value of abnormal localization of immature precursors in MDS.

    G. Tricot;C. De Wolf-Peeters;R. Vlietinck;R. L. Verwilghen

  • Genetic and environmental effects on body mass index from infancy to the onset of adulthood: an individual-based pooled analysis of 45 twin cohorts participating in the COllaborative project of Development of Anthropometrical measures in Twins (CODATwins) study

    Karri Silventoinen;Karri Silventoinen;Aline Jelenkovic;Aline Jelenkovic;Reijo Sund;Yoon-Mi Hur

  • Anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies (ASCA), phenotypes of IBD, and intestinal permeability: a study in IBD families.

    Severine Vermeire;Marc Peeters;Robert Vlietinck;Sofie Joossens

  • Stress-Related Negative Affectivity and Genetically Altered Serotonin Transporter Function: Evidence of Synergism in Shaping Risk of Depression

    Nele Jacobs;Gunter Kenis;Frenk Peeters;Catherine Derom

  • The East Flanders Prospective Twin Survey (Belgium): a population-based register.

    Ruth Loos;Catherine Derom;Robert Vlietinck;Robert Derom

  • Inheritance of physical fitness in 10-yr-old twins and their parents

    Hermine H. M. Maes;Gaston P. Beunen;Robert F. Vlietinck;Michael C. Neale

  • Tumour necrosis factor-alpha receptor 1 and 2 polymorphisms in inflammatory bowel disease and their association with response to infliximab.

    Marie Pierik;Severine Vermeire;Kristel Van Steen;Sofie Joossens

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Derom
Catherine Derom Ghent University
Ruth J. F. Loos
Ruth J. F. Loos University of Copenhagen
Robert Fagard
Robert Fagard KU Leuven
Hermine H. Maes
Hermine H. Maes Virginia Commonwealth University
Maurice P. Zeegers
Maurice P. Zeegers Maastricht University
Nele Jacobs
Nele Jacobs Maastricht University
Karri Silventoinen
Karri Silventoinen University of Helsinki
Marc Peeters
Marc Peeters University of Antwerp

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