Christian Gieger

149.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
171 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Christian Gieger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Gieger has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Molecular Biology, 62 papers in Genetics and 36 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Christian Gieger's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (48 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (38 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (26 papers). Christian Gieger is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (48 papers), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (38 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (26 papers). Christian Gieger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Qatar. Christian Gieger's co-authors include Karsten Suhre, Jerzy Adamski, Thomas Illig, Annette Peters, Florian Kronenberg, Gabi Kastenmüller, Thomas Meitinger, Elisabeth Altmaier, Christa Meisinger and Mélanie Waldenberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Circulation and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christian Gieger

164 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Tobacco Smoking Leads to Extensive Genome-Wide Changes in DNA Methylation

2013 538 citations Sonja Zeilinger, Brigitte Kühnel et al. PLoS ONE profile →
A genome-wide perspective of genetic variation in human metabolism

2009 475 citations Thomas Illig, Christian Gieger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Gieger Germany	44	4.4k	1.8k	1.7k	1.0k	612	171	7.9k
Liming Liang United States	47	3.5k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	834 0.8×	406 0.7×	269	8.2k
Cornelia Prehn Germany	44	4.0k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	753 0.4×	963 1.0×	695 1.1×	146	6.9k
Eugene P. Rhee United States	34	4.3k 1.0×	2.5k 1.4×	790 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	635 1.0×	109	7.9k
Jerry Vockley United States	60	7.0k 1.6×	3.1k 1.7×	1.2k 0.7×	743 0.7×	623 1.0×	318	11.3k
Joshua N. Sampson United States	48	3.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	927 0.5×	858 0.9×	283 0.5×	186	7.9k
Cheng Hu China	42	2.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	852 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	1.4k 2.3×	274	6.2k
Gunnar Mellgren Norway	38	2.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	619 0.6×	566 0.9×	164	5.2k
Christopher Newton‐Cheh United States	49	2.4k 0.5×	782 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	964 1.0×	1.6k 2.6×	124	10.8k
Nilesh J. Samani United Kingdom	55	3.2k 0.7×	3.1k 1.7×	1.5k 0.8×	861 0.9×	1.9k 3.1×	328	12.3k
Winfried Siffert Germany	48	3.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	456 0.5×	1.5k 2.5×	262	8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Gieger

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Schaefer, Benedikt, Bernhard Pfeifer, Sabrina Neururer, et al.. (2024). Penetrance, cancer incidence and survival in HFE haemochromatosis—A population‐based cohort study. Liver International. 44(3). 838–847. 5 indexed citations

Xi, Yue, Stefan Brandmaier, Christian Herder, et al.. (2024). Subphenotypes of adult‐onset diabetes: Data‐driven clustering in the population‐based KORA cohort. Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism. 27(1). 338–347.

Matías‐García, Pamela R., Anja Kretschmer, Christian Gieger, et al.. (2024). Smoking-Induced DNA Hydroxymethylation Signature Is Less Pronounced than True DNA Methylation: The Population-Based KORA Fit Cohort. Biomolecules. 14(6). 662–662. 1 indexed citations

Maalmi, Haïfa, Holger Prokisch, Barbara Thorand, et al.. (2024). Interpretable multimodal machine learning (IMML) framework reveals pathological signatures of distal sensorimotor polyneuropathy. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 265–265.

Mirza‐Schreiber, Nazanin, Sigrun Roeber, Ambra Stefani, et al.. (2023). Epigenetic Association Analyses and Risk Prediction of RLS. Movement Disorders. 38(8). 1410–1418. 2 indexed citations

Rospleszcz, Susanne, Birgit Linkohr, Moritz von Scheidt, et al.. (2022). Validation of the 30-Year Framingham Risk Score in a German Population-Based Cohort. Diagnostics. 12(4). 965–965. 5 indexed citations

Ni, Wenli, Kathrin Wolf, Susanne Breitner, et al.. (2022). Higher Daily Air Temperature Is Associated with Shorter Leukocyte Telomere Length: KORA F3 and KORA F4. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(24). 17815–17824. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Xiao, Xin Cao, Jutta Lintelmann, et al.. (2022). Assessment of the association of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, oxidative stress, and inflammation: A cross-sectional study in Augsburg, Germany. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. 244. 113993–113993. 18 indexed citations

Huang, Jialing, Cornelia Huth, Marcela Covic, et al.. (2020). Machine Learning Approaches Reveal Metabolic Signatures of Incident Chronic Kidney Disease in Individuals With Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes. 69(12). 2756–2765. 39 indexed citations

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Erhart, Gertraud, Claudia Lamina, Terho Lehtimäki, et al.. (2018). Genetic Factors Explain a Major Fraction of the 50% Lower Lipoprotein(a) Concentrations in Finns. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 38(5). 1230–1241. 32 indexed citations

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Tsepilov, Yakov A., Sodbo Sharapov, Olga O. Zaytseva, et al.. (2018). A network-based conditional genetic association analysis of the human metabolome. GigaScience. 7(12). 12 indexed citations

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Schweiger, Regev, Omer Weissbrod, Elior Rahmani, et al.. (2017). RL-SKAT: An Exact and Efficient Score Test for Heritability and Set Tests. Genetics. 207(4). 1275–1283. 13 indexed citations

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Jäger, Susanne, Simone Wahl, Janine Kröger, et al.. (2017). Genetic variants including markers from the exome chip and metabolite traits of type 2 diabetes. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 6037–6037. 11 indexed citations

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Schulte, Eva C., Elisabeth Altmaier, Kieu Trinh, et al.. (2016). Alterations in Lipid and Inositol Metabolisms in Two Dopaminergic Disorders. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0147129–e0147129. 32 indexed citations

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Zech, Michael, Sylvia Boesch, Angela Jochim, et al.. (2015). Large-scale TUBB4A mutational screening in isolated dystonia and controls. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 21(10). 1278–1281. 6 indexed citations

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Zech, Michael, Daniel D. Lam, Ludmila Francescatto, et al.. (2015). Recessive Mutations in the α3 (VI) Collagen Gene COL6A3 Cause Early-Onset Isolated Dystonia. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 96(6). 883–893. 61 indexed citations

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Zeilinger, Sonja, Brigitte Kühnel, Norman Klopp, et al.. (2013). Tobacco Smoking Leads to Extensive Genome-Wide Changes in DNA Methylation. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e63812–e63812. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ladwig, Karl‐Heinz, Anne Catharina Brockhaus, Jens Baumert, et al.. (2013). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Not Depression Is Associated with Shorter Leukocyte Telomere Length: Findings from 3,000 Participants in the Population-Based KORA F4 Study. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e64762–e64762. 56 indexed citations

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Petersen, Ann-Kristin, Sonja Zeilinger, Gabi Kastenmüller, et al.. (2013). Epigenetics meets metabolomics: an epigenome-wide association study with blood serum metabolic traits. Human Molecular Genetics. 23(2). 534–545. 123 indexed citations

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Fischer, Alexandra, Harald Grallert, Christian Gieger, et al.. (2009). Association Analysis Between the Prostaglandin E Synthase 2 R298H Polymorphism and Body Mass Index in 8079 Participants of the KORA Study Cohort. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers. 13(2). 223–226. 8 indexed citations

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