2026 Walther Vogel: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	53	16212	14885	1136	1058	159	9658

Overview

Walther Vogel is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and has contributed to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily addresses topics related to prostate cancer treatment and research, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, and genetic associations and epidemiology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Medicine
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

In terms of subfields, they focus on:

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Genetics
Molecular Biology
General Health Professions
Oncology

The main topics covered in their work are:

Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques

Walther Vogel has published research in several venues, including:

UNC Libraries
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
European Journal of Human Genetics
Radiotherapy and Oncology
Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie

Recent notable papers include:

A Genetic Risk Score to Personalize Prostate Cancer Screening, Applied to Population Data (2020), published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
The effect of sample size on polygenic hazard models for prostate cancer (2020), published in European Journal of Human Genetics
Intra-prostatic recurrences after radiotherapy with focal boost: Location and dose mapping in the FLAME trial (2024), published in Radiotherapy and Oncology
HOXB13 is a susceptibility gene for prostate cancer: results from the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics (ICPCG) (2021), published in UNC Libraries
Chromosomes 4 and 8 implicated in a genome wide SNP linkage scan of 762 prostate cancer families collected by the ICPCG (2020), published in UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors include:

Stephen N. Thibodeau
Christiane Maier
Rosalind A. Eeles
Zsofia Kote-Jarai
Johanna Schleutker

Best Publications

Identification of 23 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci using the iCOGS custom genotyping array

Rosalind A. Eeles;Ali Amin Al Olama;Sara Benlloch;Edward J. Saunders

661
Citations
Identification of seven new prostate cancer susceptibility loci through a genome-wide association study

Rosalind A. Eeles;Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Ali Amin Al Olama;Graham G. Giles;Graham G. Giles

500
Citations
Predisposing Gene for Early-Onset Prostate Cancer, Localized on Chromosome 1q42.2-43

Philippe Berthon;Antoine Valeri;Annick Cohen-Akenine;Eric Drelon

497
Citations
A high density of X-linked genes for general cognitive ability: a run-away process shaping human evolution?

Ulrich Zechner;Monika Wilda;Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki;Walther Vogel

357
Citations
Visualization of the conservation of synteny between humans and pigs by heterologous chromosomal painting

G. Rettenberger;C. Klett;U. Zechner;J. Kunz

355
Citations
Induced Micronucleus Frequencies in Peripheral Lymphocytes as a Screening Test for Carriers of a BRCA1 Mutation in Breast Cancer Families

Andreas Rothfuss;Petra Schütz;Sylvia Bochum;Tanja Volm

307
Citations
Absence of Sry in species of the vole Ellobius.

Walter Just;Wolfgang Rau;Walther Vogel;Mikhail Akhverdian

281
Citations
HOXB13 is a susceptibility gene for prostate cancer: results from the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics (ICPCG)

Jianfeng Xu;Ethan M. Lange;Ethan M. Lange;Lingyi Lu;Siqun L. Zheng

234
Citations
Mitotic stability of fragile X mutations in differentiated cells indicates early post-conceptional trinucleotide repeat expansion.

Doris Wöhrle;Ingeborg Hennig;Walther Vogel;Peter Steinbach

225
Citations
Genome-Wide Meta-Analyses of Breast, Ovarian, and Prostate Cancer Association Studies Identify Multiple New Susceptibility Loci Shared by at Least Two Cancer Types.

Siddhartha P. Kar;Jonathan Beesley;Ali Amin Al Olama;Kyriaki Michailidou

204
Citations
(CAG)nCAA and GGN repeats in the human androgen receptor gene are not associated with prostate cancer in a French-German population.

Lina Correa-Cerro;Lina Correa-Cerro;Gudrun Wöhr;Jürgen Häussler;Philippe Berthon

187
Citations
An automated scoring procedure for the micronucleus test by image analysis.

Dominic Varga;Tilman Johannes;Silke Jainta;Sonja Schuster

181
Citations
Polygenic hazard score to guide screening for aggressive prostate cancer: development and validation in large scale cohorts

Tyler M. Seibert;Chun Chieh Fan;Yunpeng Wang;Verena Zuber;Verena Zuber

176
Citations
ZOO-FISH analysis: cat and human karyotypes closely resemble the putative ancestral mammalian karyotype.

G. Rettenberger;Ch. Klett;U. Zechner;J. Bruch

166
Citations
A Combined Genomewide Linkage Scan of 1,233 Families for Prostate Cancer–Susceptibility Genes Conducted by the International Consortium for Prostate Cancer Genetics

Jianfeng Xu;Latchezar Dimitrov;Bao Li Chang;Tamara S. Adams

162
Citations
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies to identify prostate cancer susceptibility loci associated with aggressive and non-aggressive disease

A Amin Al Olama;Z Kote-Jarai;F R Schumacher;F Wiklund

156
Citations
Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms as markers in prostate cancer

L. Correa-Cerro;P. Berthon;J. Häussler;S. Bochum

152
Citations
Seven prostate cancer susceptibility loci identified by a multi-stage genome-wide association study

Zsofia Kote-Jarai;Ali Amin Al Olama;Graham G. Giles;Gianluca Severi

144
Citations
Reconstruction of a 450-My-old ancestral vertebrate protokaryotype

Matthias Kohn;Josef Högel;Walther Vogel;Peter Minich

136
Citations
Unusual mutations in high functioning fragile X males: apparent instability of expanded unmethylated CGG repeats.

D Wöhrle;U Salat;D Gläser;J Mücke

132
Citations