Andreas Gal

16.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
217 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Andreas Gal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Gal has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Molecular Biology, 65 papers in Physiology and 51 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Andreas Gal's work include Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (54 papers), Retinal Development and Disorders (48 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (34 papers). Andreas Gal is often cited by papers focused on Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research (54 papers), Retinal Development and Disorders (48 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (34 papers). Andreas Gal collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Andreas Gal's co-authors include Debra A. Thompson, Michael Beck, Ulrike Orth, E. Schwinger, Susanna Bunge, Catharina Whybra, Eckart Apfelstedt-Sylla, Samuel G. Jacobson, Ulrich Finckh and Markus Ries and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Gal

213 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mutations in MERTK, the human orthologue of the RCS rat retinal dystrophy gene, cause retinitis pigmentosa

2000 539 citations Andreas Gal, Yun Li et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Mutations in RPE65 cause autosomal recessive childhood–onset severe retinal dystrophy

1997 504 citations Sumin Gu, Debra A. Thompson et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Andreas Gal	6.9k	3.3k	2.1k	1.9k	1.8k	217	11.4k
Raphael Schiffmann	5.6k 0.8×	8.6k 2.6×	266 0.1×	727 0.4×	842 0.5×	290	14.5k
Katherine B. Sims	2.8k 0.4×	3.1k 0.9×	261 0.1×	871 0.5×	690 0.4×	117	6.9k
Sandro Banfi	7.4k 1.1×	793 0.2×	823 0.4×	2.7k 1.4×	1.4k 0.8×	144	9.8k
Richard G. Weleber	7.2k 1.0×	542 0.2×	4.5k 2.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	215	10.0k
Donald J. Zack	12.8k 1.8×	588 0.2×	6.6k 3.2×	3.8k 2.0×	1.3k 0.7×	273	17.1k
Mathias W. Seeliger	7.5k 1.1×	435 0.1×	3.3k 1.6×	2.9k 1.6×	853 0.5×	170	9.8k
Georg W. Kreutzberg	4.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	369 0.2×	6.0k 3.2×	408 0.2×	141	15.2k
Suzanne J. Baker	9.9k 1.4×	628 0.2×	214 0.1×	977 0.5×	2.1k 1.1×	123	17.1k
Dean Bok	10.9k 1.6×	591 0.2×	4.8k 2.3×	3.1k 1.7×	880 0.5×	182	13.5k
Matthew M. LaVail	11.3k 1.6×	668 0.2×	3.9k 1.9×	5.6k 3.0×	1.2k 0.6×	153	14.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andreas Gal

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Neuhaus, Christine, Markus N. Preising, Arif O. Khan, et al.. (2013). High-coverage next-generation sequencing (NGS) for retinal dystrophies and Usher syndrome: High diagnostic yield, CNV detection, novel disease mechanisms and therapy targets. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 54(15). 3373–3373. 1 indexed citations

Gerding, Wanda M., Andreia Marques, Jenny Atorf, et al.. (2011). Ccdc66 null mutation causes retinal degeneration and dysfunction. Human Molecular Genetics. 20(18). 3620–3631. 32 indexed citations

Gal, Andreas, Derralynn Hughes, & Bryan Winchester. (2011). Toward a consensus in the laboratory diagnostics of Fabry disease ‐ recommendations of a European expert group. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 34(2). 509–514. 67 indexed citations

Gal, Andreas, Isabella Rau, Hans‐Jürgen Kreienkamp, et al.. (2011). Autosomal-Recessive Posterior Microphthalmos Is Caused by Mutations in PRSS56, a Gene Encoding a Trypsin-Like Serine Protease. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 88(3). 382–390. 60 indexed citations

Huebner, Antje K., Marta Gandía, Peter Frommolt, et al.. (2011). Nonsense Mutations in SMPX, Encoding a Protein Responsive to Physical Force, Result in X-Chromosomal Hearing Loss. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 88(5). 621–627. 57 indexed citations

Langmann, Thomas, Silvio Alessandro Di Gioia, Isabella Rau, et al.. (2010). Nonsense Mutations in FAM161A Cause RP28-Associated Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 87(3). 376–381. 64 indexed citations

Schob, Claudia, Ulrike Orth, Andreas Gal, et al.. (2009). Mutations inTOPORS: A Rare Cause of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa in Continental Europe?. Ophthalmic Genetics. 30(2). 96–98. 7 indexed citations

Feathers, Kecia L., Maureen A. Kane, Matthew Brooks, et al.. (2009). Rdh12 Activity and Effects on Retinoid Processing in the Murine Retina. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(32). 21468–21477. 43 indexed citations

Dehout, F., Andreas Schwarting, A. García de Lorenzo, et al.. (2005). Anemia is a new complication in Fabry disease: Data from the Fabry Outcome Survey. Kidney International. 67(5). 1955–1960. 25 indexed citations

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Meinecke, Peter, Andrew E. Czeizel, László Tı́már, et al.. (2003). Disruption of the PDGFB gene in a 1;22 translocation patient does not cause Costello syndrome. Genomics. 83(5). 883–892. 3 indexed citations

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Kampmann, Christoph, Frank Baehner, Catharina Whybra, et al.. (2002). Cardiac manifestations of Anderson–Fabry disease in heterozygous females. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 40(9). 1668–1674. 150 indexed citations

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Thompson, Debra A., Christina L. McHenry, Yun Li, et al.. (2002). Retinal Dystrophy Due to Paternal Isodisomy for Chromosome 1 or Chromosome 2, with Homoallelism for Mutations in RPE65 or MERTK, Respectively. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 70(1). 224–229. 103 indexed citations

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Thompson, Debra A., P Gyürüs, Eve L. Bingham, et al.. (2000). Genetics and phenotypes of RPE65 mutations in inherited retinal degeneration.. PubMed. 41(13). 4293–9. 214 indexed citations

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Lorenz, Birgit, P Gyürüs, Markus N. Preising, et al.. (2000). Early-onset severe rod-cone dystrophy in young children with RPE65 mutations.. PubMed. 41(9). 2735–42. 158 indexed citations

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Finckh, Ulrich, Tomas Müller‐Thomsen, Ulrike Mann, et al.. (2000). Reply to Croes et al.. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 67(4). 1035–1036.

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Gyürüs, P, et al.. (2000). Die indirekte Genotypanalyse als diagnostisches Verfahren beim Marfan-Syndrom. Zeitschrift für Kardiologie. 89(10). 939–948. 1 indexed citations

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Veske, Andres, Sven Nilsson, & Andreas Gal. (1998). Organization of the canine gene encoding the E isoform of retinal guanylate cyclase (cGC-E) and exclusion of its involvement in the inherited retinal dystrophy of the Swedish Briard and Briard–Beagle dogs. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1372(1). 69–77. 5 indexed citations

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David, D., Ulrike Orth, H. Heilbronner, & Andreas Gal. (1996). A novel splice-site mutation in the CD40L gene in a patient with X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome. Human Mutation. 7(2). 181–182. 3 indexed citations

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Gal, Andreas, Ulrike Orth, Wolfgang Baehr, E. Schwinger, & Thomas Rosenberg. (1994). Heterozygous missense mutation in the rod cGMP phosphodiesterase β–subunit gene in autosomal dominant stationary night blindness. Nature Genetics. 7(1). 64–68. 169 indexed citations

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Neumann, Hartmut P.H., Klaus Zerres, G. Wolff, et al.. (1988). Late Manifestation of Autosomal-Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease in Two Sisters. American Journal of Nephrology. 8(3). 194–197. 11 indexed citations

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