Jörn Walter

34.2k citations

153 papers · 18.4k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 53

Impact in

Genetics top 0.05%
- Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
Molecular Biology top 0.1%
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Cancer-related gene regulation
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Papers in

Genetics 51
- Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting 38
Molecular Biology 124
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 99
- RNA modifications and cancer 30
- Cancer-related gene regulation 23
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 20
- Pluripotent Stem Cells Research 12

Co-authors: Wolf Reik Wendy Dean Thomas Haaf Thomas Lengauer Christoph Bock Julia Arand Reinald Fundele Wolfgang Mayer
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (14 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)Frontiers in Immunology (4 papers)International Journal of Cancer (4 papers)Epigenetics & Chromatin (4 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Jörn Walter

152 papers receiving 18.0k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Comprehensive analysis of DNA methylation data with RnBeads 2014 · 419 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Nature Methods
2012 Molecular Cell
2011 Nature Communications
2005 Computer applications in the biosciences
2002 Mechanisms of Development
2001 Science
2001 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2001 Nature Reviews Genetics
2000 Nature
2000 Current Biology

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Jörn Walter, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Enhanced medullary and extramedullary granulopoiesis sustain the inflammatory response in lupus nephritis Lupus Science & Medicine ·Eleni Zervopoulou, Maria Grigoriou, Stavros Doumas, Danae Yiannakou, Pavlos Pavlidis, Gilles Gasparoni, Jörn Walter, Anastasia Filia, Harikleia Gakiopoulou, Aggelos Banos, Ioannis Mitroulis, Dimitrios T. Boumpas	2024	10
2	EpiSegMix: a flexible distribution hidden Markov model with duration modeling for chromatin state discovery Bioinformatics ·Johanna Elena Schmitz, Nihit Aggarwal, Lukas Laufer, Jörn Walter, Abdulrahman Salhab, Sven Rahmann	2024	0
3	DNA cytosine methylation suppresses meiotic recombination at the sex-determining region Science Advances ·Tong Ge, Xiuqi Gui, J. Xu, Wei Xia, Chaolong Wang, Wenqiang Yang, Kaiyao Huang, Colum P. Walsh, James Umen, Jörn Walter, Ya-Rui Du, Hui Chen, Zhen Shao, Guoliang Xu	2024	5
4	Age‐Associated Changes in Endothelial Transcriptome and Epigenetic Landscapes Correlate With Elevated Risk of Cerebral Microbleeds Journal of the American Heart Association ·Kshitij Mohan, Gilles Gasparoni, Abdulrahman Salhab, Michael M. Orlich, Robert Geffers, Steve Hoffmann, Ralf H. Adams, Jörn Walter, Alfred Nordheim	2023	4
5	Increased chromatin accessibility facilitates intron retention in specific cell differentiation states Nucleic Acids Research ·Veronika Petrova, Renhua Song, Karl Nordström, Jörn Walter, Justin Wong, Nicola J. Armstrong, John E.J. Rasko, Ulf Schmitz	2022	11
6	Rapid Base-Specific Calling of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Using Combined RT-PCR Melting Curve Screening and SIRPH Technology Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Sascha Tierling, Kathrin Kattler, Markus Vogelgesang, Thorsten Pfuhl, Stefan Lohse, C. Lo Porto, B. Schmitt, Nastasja Seiwert, Abdulrahman Salhab, Sigrun Smola, Jörn Walter	2021	4
7	Effects of Resistant Starch on Symptoms, Fecal Markers, and Gut Microbiota in Parkinson’s Disease — The RESISTA-PD Trial Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics ·Anouck Becker, Georges P Schmartz, Laura Gröger, Nadja Grammes, Valentina Galata, Hannah Philippeit, Jacqueline Weiland, Nicole Ludwig, Eckart Meese, Sascha Tierling, Jörn Walter, Andreas Schwiertz, Jörg Spiegel, Gudrun Wagenpfeil, Klaus Faßbender, Andreas Keller, Marcus M. Unger	2021	72
8	Prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals is associated with altered DNA methylation in cord blood Epigenetics ·Katharina Mattonet, Nikola Nowack-Weyers, Vanessa Vogel, Dirk Moser, Sascha Tierling, Monika Kasper-Sonnenberg, Michael Wilhelm, Michael Scherer, Jörn Walter, Jan G. Hengstler, Axel Schölmerich, Robert Kumsta	2021	9
9	Prediction of single-cell gene expression for transcription factor analysis GigaScience ·Fatemeh Behjati Ardakani, Kathrin Kattler, Tobias Heinen, Florian Schmidt, David Feuerborn, Gilles Gasparoni, Konstantin Lepikhov, Patrick Nell, Jan G. Hengstler, Jörn Walter, Marcel H. Schulz	2020	12
10	Antisense Oligonucleotide- and CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Rescue of mRNA Splicing for a Deep Intronic CLRN1 Mutation Molecular Therapy — Nucleic Acids ·Anna-Lena Panagiotopoulos, Nina Karguth, Marina Pavlou, Sybille Böhm, Gilles Gasparoni, Jörn Walter, Alexander Graf, Helmut Blum, Martin Biel, Lisa Maria Riedmayr, Elvir Bećirović	2020	24
11	GABA is a modulator, rather than a classical transmitter, in the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body–lateral superior olive sound localization circuit The Journal of Physiology ·Alexander U. Fischer, Nicolas I. C. Müller, Thomas Deller, Domenico Del Turco, Jonas O. Fisch, Désirée Griesemer, Kathrin Kattler, Ayse Maraslioglu-Sperber, Vera Roemer, Matthew A. Xu‐Friedman, Jörn Walter, Eckhard Friauf	2019	16
12	DNA methylation alterations in iPSC- and hESC-derived neurons: potential implications for neurological disease modeling Clinical Epigenetics ·Laura de Boni, Gilles Gasparoni, Carolin Haubenreich, Sascha Tierling, Ina Schmitt, Michael Peitz, Philipp Koch, Jörn Walter, Ullrich Wüllner, Oliver Brüstle	2018	32
13	Adult monozygotic twins discordant for intra-uterine growth have indistinguishable genome-wide DNA methylation profiles Genome biology ·Nicole Y. Souren, Pavlo Lutsik, Gilles Gasparoni, Sascha Tierling, Jasmin Gries, Markus J. Riemenschneider, Jean‐Pierre Fryns, Cathérine Derom, Maurice P. Zeegers, Jörn Walter	2013	31
14	FGF signalling inhibition in ESCs drives rapid genome-wide demethylation to the epigenetic ground state of pluripotency Clinical Epigenetics ·Gabriella Ficz, Timothy A. Hore, Fátima Santos, Heather Lee, Wendy Dean, Julia Arand, Felix Krueger, David Oxley, Yu‐Lee Paul, Jörn Walter, Simon J. Cook, Simon Andrews, Miguel R. Branco, Wolf Reik	2013	154
15	Overexpression of the IGF2-mRNA binding protein p62 in transgenic mice induces a steatotic phenotype Journal of Hepatology ·Elisabeth Tybl, Fu‐Dong Shi, Sonja M. Kessler, Sascha Tierling, Jörn Walter, Rainer M. Bohle, Stefan Wieland, Jianying Zhang, Eng M. Tan, Alexandra K. Kiemer	2010	51
16	Conservation of methylation reprogramming in mammalian development: Aberrant reprogramming in cloned embryos Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Wendy Dean, Fátima Santos, Miodrag Stojković, Valeri Zakhartchenko, Jörn Walter, Eckhard Wolf, Wolf Reik Hit paper breakdown →	2001	805
17	Maternal methylation imprints on human chromosome 15 are established during or after fertilization Nature Genetics ·Osman El‐Maarri, Karin Buiting, Edwin G. Peery, Peter M. Kroisel, Başak Balaban, Klaus Wagner, Bülent Urman, Julia Heyd, Christina Lich, Camilynn I. Brannan, Jörn Walter, Bernhard Horsthemke	2001	159
18	Methylation Levels at Selected CpG Sites in the Factor VIII and FGFR3 Genes, in Mature Female and Male Germ Cells: Implications for Male-Driven Evolution The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Osman El‐Maarri, Alexander Olek, Başak Balaban, Markus Montag, H. van der Ven, Bulent Urman, Klaus Olek, S. Hande Çağlayan, Jörn Walter, Johannes Oldenburg	1998	32
19	A Gene Essential for De Novo Methylation and Development in Ascobolus Reveals a Novel Type of Eukaryotic DNA Methyltransferase Structure Cell ·Fabienne Malagnac, Birgit Wendel, Christophe Goyon, Godeleine Faugeron, Denise Zickler, Jean‐Luc Rossignol, Mario Noyer-Weidner, Peter Vollmayr, Thomas A. Trautner, Jörn Walter	1997	100
20	Genomic Imprinting and Modifier Genes in the Mouse Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Jörn Walter, Torsten Krüger, Sabine Engemann, Nicholas D. Allen, Gavin Kelsey, Robert Feil, Thierry Forné, Wolf Reik	1996	8

About Jörn Walter

Jörn Walter is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Cancer Research, having authored 153 papers that have together received 18.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (99 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (38 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (30 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (23 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (20 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (12 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (12 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (6.6k citations), Molecular Biology (14.9k citations), Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (3.7k citations), Reproductive Medicine (608 citations) and Cancer Research (1.1k citations). Jörn Walter has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Wolf Reik, Wendy Dean, Thomas Haaf, Thomas Lengauer, Christoph Bock, Julia Arand, Reinald Fundele, Wolfgang Mayer, Martina Paulsen and Fátima Santos. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications, Frontiers in Immunology, International Journal of Cancer and Epigenetics & Chromatin.

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