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Yon Ko is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and has contributed research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Geriatrics and Gerontology, as well as Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics cover areas such as Bone Metabolism and Diseases, NF-κB Signaling Pathways, Bone Health and Treatments, Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes, Health Systems with Economic Evaluations and Quality of Life, and Medication Adherence and Compliance.

Recent publications by Yon Ko include the following papers:

  • LGR4 binding small RANKL fragment inhibits RANKL-induced bone resorption, 2025, European Cells and Materials
  • Multiprofessional Medication Management (MuMM) Intervention Aiming at Enhancing the Tolerability of Cancer Chemotherapy: A Randomized Feasibility Trial, 2020, Research Square (Research Square)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yon Ko are Young Pyo Jang, YJ Cho, Hang Lee, Byungjun Kim, and CM Lee.

Their work has been published primarily in the venues European Cells and Materials and Research Square (Research Square), reflecting the focus and distribution of their research output.

Best Publications

  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

    Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

  • Associations of Breast Cancer Risk Factors With Tumor Subtypes: A Pooled Analysis From the Breast Cancer Association Consortium Studies

    Xiaohong R. Yang;Jenny Chang-Claude;Ellen L. Goode;Fergus J. Couch

  • Osteopontin is a hematopoietic stem cell niche component that negatively regulates stem cell pool size.

    Sebastian Stier;Yon Ko;Randolf Forkert;Randolf Forkert;Christoph Lutz;Christoph Lutz

  • Breast Cancer Risk Genes - Association Analysis in More than 113,000 Women

    Leila Dorling;Sara Carvalho;Jamie Allen

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Prediction of Breast Cancer Risk Based on Profiling With Common Genetic Variants

    Nasim Mavaddat;Paul D.P. Pharoah;Kyriaki Michailidou;Jonathan Tyrer

  • A genomics-based classification of human lung tumors

    Danila Seidel;Thomas Zander;Lukas C. Heukamp;Martin Peifer

  • Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Associations with Five Susceptibility Loci by Clinical and Pathological Characteristics

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Per Hall;Heli Nevanlinna;Karen Pooley

  • Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci

    Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Fergus J. Couch;Sara Lindstrom;Kyriaki Michailidou

  • Genome-wide association study identifies 32 novel breast cancer susceptibility loci from overall and subtype-specific analyses

    Haoyu Zhang;Haoyu Zhang;Thomas U. Ahearn;Julie Lecarpentier;Daniel Barnes

  • A common variant at the TERT-CLPTM1L locus is associated with estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer

    Christopher A. Haiman;Gary K. Chen;Celine M. Vachon;Federico Canzian

  • A method for the rapid construction of cRNA standard curves in quantitative real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction.

    S. Fronhoffs;G. Totzke;S. Stier;N. Wernert

  • Markers of genetic susceptibility in human environmental hygiene and toxicology: The role of selected CYP, NAT and GST genes

    Ricarda Thier;Thomas Brüning;Peter H. Roos;Hans-Peter Rihs

  • Low penetrance breast cancer susceptibility loci are associated with specific breast tumor subtypes: Findings from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium

    Annegien Broeks;Marjanka K. Schmidt;Mark E. Sherman;Fergus J. Couch

  • K-ras Mutation Subtypes in NSCLC and Associated Co-occuring Mutations in Other Oncogenic Pathways.

    Matthias Scheffler;Michaela A. Ihle;Rebecca Hein;Sabine Merkelbach-Bruse

  • MET amplification status in therapy-naïve adeno- and squamous cell carcinomas of the lung

    Hans-Ulrich Schildhaus;Anne M Schultheis;Josef Ruschoff;Elke Binot

  • Night work and breast cancer - results from the German GENICA study.

    Beate Pesch;Volker Harth;Sylvia Rabstein;Christian Baisch

  • Thromboxane A2 and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation

    Agapios Sachinidis;Markus Flesch;Yon Ko;Karsten Schrör

  • Association of CYP1B1 codon 432 mutant allele in head and neck squamous cell cancer is reflected by somatic mutations of p53 in tumor tissue.

    Yon Ko;Josef Abel;Volker Harth;Peter Bröde

  • Early Prediction of Nonprogression in Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated With Erlotinib By Using ( 18 F)Fluorodeoxyglucose and ( 18 F)Fluorothymidine

    Thomas Zander;Matthias Scheffler;Lucia Nogova

Frequent Co-Authors

Agapios Sachinidis
Agapios Sachinidis University of Cologne
Fergus J. Couch
Fergus J. Couch Mayo Clinic
Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
Chen-Yang Shen
Chen-Yang Shen Academia Sinica
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Heli Nevanlinna
Heli Nevanlinna University of Helsinki
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Angela Cox
Angela Cox University of Sheffield
Alison M. Dunning
Alison M. Dunning University of Cambridge
Marjanka K. Schmidt
Marjanka K. Schmidt Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital

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