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Overview

Tim Becker is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and focuses their research primarily in the field of Medicine. Their work spans various subfields including Statistics and Probability, Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their recent publications cover diverse topics within these fields. Notable papers include:

  • An enhanced prognostic score for overall survival of patients with cancer derived from a large real-world cohort, 2020, Annals of Oncology

Although Tim Becker is listed as an author on one recent paper, they frequently collaborate with other researchers in related areas. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anna Bauer-Mehren (8 publications)
  • Karl Wagner (8 publications)
  • Anna K. Krome (6 publications)
  • Stefan Kehraus (6 publications)
  • Andrea Schiefer (6 publications)

The main venues for Tim Becker's research publications reflect the focus on pharmaceutical sciences and oncology-related fields. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Pharmaceutics (5 publications)
  • Annals of Oncology (1 publication)
  • Epidemiology (1 publication)
  • Natural Product Reports (1 publication)
  • Communications Medicine (1 publication)

Tim Becker's work addresses various scientific topics, including innovations in medical education, statistical methods and inference, drug solubility and delivery systems, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, statistical methods in clinical trials, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, and advanced causal inference techniques.

  • Innovations in Medical Education (8 publications)
  • Statistical Methods and Inference (6 publications)
  • Drug Solubility and Delivery Systems (6 publications)
  • Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (6 publications)
  • Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (6 publications)
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (4 publications)
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (4 publications)

These research areas suggest a cross-disciplinary approach combining medicine, statistical methodology, and computational techniques. Tim Becker contributes to both clinical and methodological aspects of biomedical research, reflecting an engagement with both empirical data and statistical innovation.

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Common schizophrenia alleles are enriched in mutation-intolerant genes and in regions under strong background selection

    Antonio F. Pardiñas;Peter Holmans;Andrew J. Pocklington;Valentina Escott-Price

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Examination of G72 and D-amino-acid oxidase as genetic risk factors for schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder.

    J Schumacher;R Abon Jamra;J Freudenberg;T Becker

  • Genome-wide association study reveals two new risk loci for bipolar disorder

    Thomas W. Mühleisen;Thomas W. Mühleisen;Markus Leber;Markus Leber;Thomas G. Schulze;Jana Strohmaier

  • Evidence for a relationship between genetic variants at the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) locus and major depression.

    Johannes Schumacher;Rami Abou Jamra;Tim Becker;Stephanie Ohlraun

  • Gender specific differences in levels of DNA methylation at selected loci from human total blood: a tendency toward higher methylation levels in males.

    Osman El-Maarri;Tim Becker;Judith Junen;Syed Saadi Manzoor

  • A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein

    G. Jun;C. A. Ibrahim-Verbaas;M. Vronskaya;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis in alopecia areata resolves HLA associations and reveals two new susceptibility loci

    Regina C. Betz;Lynn Petukhova;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Hailiang Huang;Hailiang Huang

  • Maximum-likelihood estimation of haplotype frequencies in nuclear families.

    Tim Becker;Michael Knapp

  • The DTNBP1 (dysbindin) gene contributes to schizophrenia, depending on family history of the disease.

    Ann Van Den Bogaert;Johannes Schumacher;Thomas G. Schulze;Andreas C. Otte

  • Genetic Variation in the Human Androgen Receptor Gene Is the Major Determinant of Common Early-Onset Androgenetic Alopecia

    Axel M. Hillmer;Sandra Hanneken;Sibylle Ritzmann;Tim Becker

  • A powerful strategy to account for multiple testing in the context of haplotype analysis.

    Tim Becker;Michael Knapp

  • The power of sample size and homogenous sampling: association between the 5-HTTLPR serotonin transporter polymorphism and major depressive disorder.

    Barbara Hoefgen;Thomas G. Schulze;Stephanie Ohlraun;Olrik von Widdern

  • INTERSNP: genome-wide interaction analysis guided by a priori information

    Christine Herold;Michael Steffens;Felix F. Brockschmidt;Max P. Baur

  • Convergent genetic and expression data implicate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Lesley Jones;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Genotype-phenotype studies in bipolar disorder showing association between the DAOA/G30 locus and persecutory delusions: a first step toward a molecular genetic classification of psychiatric phenotypes

    Thomas G. Schulze;Stephanie Ohlraun;Piotr M. Czerski;Johannes Schumacher

  • Susceptibility variants for male-pattern baldness on chromosome 20p11

    Axel M Hillmer;Felix F Brockschmidt;Sandra Hanneken;Sibylle Eigelshoven

  • Genome-wide association analysis of genetic generalized epilepsies implicates susceptibility loci at 1q43, 2p16.1, 2q22.3 and 17q21.32

    Michael Steffens;Costin Leu

  • Follow-Up Study of the First Genome-Wide Association Scan in Alopecia Areata: IL13 and KIAA0350 as Susceptibility Loci Supported with Genome-Wide Significance

    Dagny Jagielska;Dagny Jagielska;Silke Redler;Felix F. Brockschmidt;Christine Herold

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus M. Nöthen
Markus M. Nöthen University Hospital Bonn
Sven Cichon
Sven Cichon University of Basel
Wolfgang Maier
Wolfgang Maier University of Bonn
Johannes Schumacher
Johannes Schumacher Philipp University of Marburg
Peter Propping
Peter Propping University of Bonn
Marcella Rietschel
Marcella Rietschel Heidelberg University
Frank Jessen
Frank Jessen University of Cologne
Thomas G. Schulze
Thomas G. Schulze Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alfredo Ramirez
Alfredo Ramirez University of Cologne
Rami Abou Jamra
Rami Abou Jamra Leipzig University

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