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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 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
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Meitinger is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines predominantly within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Meitinger's work is distributed over various subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, and Neurology.

The scientist's primary research topics include:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Meitinger's publication record features contributions in several notable venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Brain
  • Nature Genetics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several peers, such as Holger Prokisch, Annette Peters, Matias Wagner, Christian Gieger, and Robert Kopajtich.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Meitinger include:

  • "Discovery and systematic characterization of risk variants and genes for coronary artery disease in over a million participants," 2022, Nature Genetics
  • "Shared genetic pathways contribute to risk of hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies with opposite directions of effect," 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "Clinical implementation of RNA sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnostics," 2022, Genome Medicine
  • "Genetic variation influencing DNA methylation provides insights into molecular mechanisms regulating genomic function," 2022, Nature Genetics
  • "Transethnic Genome-Wide Association Study Provides Insights in the Genetic Architecture and Heritability of Long QT Syndrome," 2020, Circulation

Best Publications

  • Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

    Tanya M. Teslovich;Kiran Musunuru;Albert V. Smith;Andrew C. Edmondson

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • Mutations in LRRK2 Cause Autosomal-Dominant Parkinsonism with Pleomorphic Pathology

    Alexander Zimprich;Alexander Zimprich;Saskia Biskup;Petra Leitner;Peter Lichtner

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Genomewide association analysis of coronary artery disease.

    Nilesh J. Samani;Jeanette Erdmann;Alistair S. Hall;Christian Hengstenberg

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

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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Transcriptome and genome sequencing uncovers functional variation in humans

    Tuuli Lappalainen;Michael Sammeth;Marc R. Friedländer;Peter A. C. ‘t Hoen

  • 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

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

    Cristen J. Willer;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Ruth J. F. Loos;Shengxu Li

  • Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

    Harm-Jan Westra;Marjolein J Peters;Tõnu Esko;Hanieh Yaghootkar

  • A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.

    N D Palmer;C W McDonough;P J Hicks;B H Roh

  • Fine-mapping type 2 diabetes loci to single-variant resolution using high-density imputation and islet-specific epigenome maps.

    Anubha Mahajan;Daniel Taliun;Matthias Thurner;Neil R. Robertson

  • Autosomal dominant hypophosphataemic rickets is associated with mutations in FGF23

    Kenneth E. White;Wayne E. Evans;Jeffery L.H. O'Riordan;Marcy C. Speer

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

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

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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Gieger
Christian Gieger Helmholtz Zentrum München
Tim M. Strom
Tim M. Strom Technical University of Munich
Holger Prokisch
Holger Prokisch Technical University of Munich
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Annette Peters
Annette Peters Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Tobias B. Haack
Tobias B. Haack University of Tübingen
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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