Astrid Lunkes

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Astrid Lunkes is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Astrid Lunkes has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 5 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Astrid Lunkes's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (15 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (12 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (4 papers). Astrid Lunkes is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (15 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (12 papers) and Neurological disorders and treatments (4 papers). Astrid Lunkes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Astrid Lunkes's co-authors include Jean‐Louis Mandel, Georg Auburger, Suzana Gispert, Guy A. Rouleau, Stefan-M. Pulst, Julie R. Korenberg, Tamilla Nechiporuk, Íscia Lopes‐Cendes, Susan Pearlman and Sidney Starkman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Genetics and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Astrid Lunkes

18 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Moderate expansion of a normally biallelic trinucleotide ... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Moderate expansion of a normally biallelic trinucleotide repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2
    1996 901 citations Stefan-M. Pulst, Alex Nechiporuk et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Astrid Lunkes Germany 12 1.5k 1.4k 648 99 96 18 1.8k
Olivier Didierjean France 10 1.5k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 697 1.1× 80 0.8× 119 1.2× 13 1.7k
Francesca Cavalcanti Italy 20 1.0k 0.7× 974 0.7× 408 0.6× 113 1.1× 150 1.6× 43 1.3k
Patrik Brundin Sweden 13 1.2k 0.8× 902 0.6× 617 1.0× 62 0.6× 81 0.8× 19 1.7k
Hiroyuki Morino Japan 20 564 0.4× 685 0.5× 494 0.8× 124 1.3× 216 2.3× 78 1.2k
Osamu Komure Japan 17 809 0.5× 612 0.4× 646 1.0× 96 1.0× 250 2.6× 32 1.3k
Shabnam Ghazi‐Noori United Kingdom 7 594 0.4× 782 0.5× 339 0.5× 141 1.4× 83 0.9× 7 1.2k
Maria do Carmo Costa United States 22 988 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 298 0.5× 82 0.8× 40 0.4× 37 1.3k
Norman Kock Germany 18 484 0.3× 492 0.3× 785 1.2× 200 2.0× 98 1.0× 26 1.3k
Emilia Bellone Italy 24 1.0k 0.7× 681 0.5× 787 1.2× 176 1.8× 405 4.2× 100 1.8k
Lena E. Hjermind Denmark 18 403 0.3× 405 0.3× 388 0.6× 98 1.0× 100 1.0× 47 904

Countries citing papers authored by Astrid Lunkes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Astrid Lunkes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Astrid Lunkes

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Torres‐Padilla, Maria‐Elena, Annelien L. Bredenoord, Karin Jongsma, et al.. (2020). Thinking “ethical” when designing an international, cross‐disciplinary biomedical research consortium. The EMBO Journal. 39(19). 6 indexed citations
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Gaisser, Sibylle, Thomas Reiß, Astrid Lunkes, Kristian M. Müller, & Hubert S. Bernauer. (2009). Making the most of synthetic biology. EMBO Reports. 10(S1). S5–8. 7 indexed citations
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Lunkes, Astrid, Katrin S. Lindenberg, C. R. Weber, et al.. (2002). Proteases Acting on Mutant Huntingtin Generate Cleaved Products that Differentially Build Up Cytoplasmic and Nuclear Inclusions. Molecular Cell. 10(2). 259–269. 316 indexed citations
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Devys, Didier, Gaël Yvert, Astrid Lunkes, Yvon Trottier, & Jean‐Louis Mandel. (2001). Pathological Mechanisms in Polyglutamine Expansion Diseases. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 487. 199–210. 3 indexed citations
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Lunkes, Astrid, Yvon Trottier, Jérôme Fagart, et al.. (1999). Properties of polyglutamine expansion in vitro and in a cellular model for Huntington's disease. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 354(1386). 1013–1019. 19 indexed citations
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Lunkes, Astrid. (1998). A cellular model that recapitulates major pathogenic steps of Huntington's disease. Human Molecular Genetics. 7(9). 1355–1361. 163 indexed citations
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Lunkes, Astrid, Yvon Trottier, & Jean‐Louis Mandel. (1998). Pathological mechanisms in Huntington's disease and other polyglutamine expansion diseases. Essays in Biochemistry. 33. 149–163. 32 indexed citations
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Lunkes, Astrid & Jean‐Louis Mandel. (1997). Polyglutamines, nuclear inclusions and neurodegeneration. Nature Medicine. 3(11). 1201–1202. 46 indexed citations
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Goldfarb, Lev G., Olavo M. Vasconcelos, Федор Алексеевич Платонов, et al.. (1996). Unstable triplet repeat and phenotypic variability of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1. Annals of Neurology. 39(4). 500–506. 71 indexed citations
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Pulst, Stefan-M., Alex Nechiporuk, Tamilla Nechiporuk, et al.. (1996). Moderate expansion of a normally biallelic trinucleotide repeat in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2. Nature Genetics. 14(3). 269–276. 901 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lindblad, Kerstin, Astrid Lunkes, Patrı́cia Maciel, et al.. (1996). Mutation Detection in Machado-Joseph Disease Using Repeat Expansion Detection. Molecular Medicine. 2(1). 77–85. 14 indexed citations
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Hernández, Alejandro, Suzana Gispert, Astrid Lunkes, et al.. (1995). Genetic mapping of the spinocerebellar ataxia 2 (SCA2) locus on chromosome 12q23–q24.1. Genomics. 25(2). 433–435. 33 indexed citations
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Goldfarb, L. G., et al.. (1994). Mutation analysis of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) in a large Iakut kinship of Eastern Siberia. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 55. 2 indexed citations
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Lunkes, Astrid, et al.. (1994). Autosomal Dominant Spinocerebellar Ataxia (SCA) in a Siberian Founder Population: Assignment to the SCA1 Locus. Experimental Neurology. 126(2). 310–312. 12 indexed citations
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Zenke, Frank T., Wolfgang Zachariae, Astrid Lunkes, & Karin D. Breunig. (1993). Gal80 Proteins of Kluyveromyces lactis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae Are Highly Conserved but Contribute Differently to Glucose Repression of the Galactose Regulon. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 13(12). 7566–7576. 48 indexed citations
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Silveira, Isabel, Judith Melki, Astrid Lunkes, et al.. (1993). Machado-Joseph Disease Is Genetically Different from Holguin Dominant Ataxia (SCA2). Genomics. 17(3). 556–559. 2 indexed citations
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