Mélanie Waldenberger

34.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Mélanie Waldenberger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mélanie Waldenberger has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Mélanie Waldenberger's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (29 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (8 papers). Mélanie Waldenberger is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (29 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (8 papers). Mélanie Waldenberger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Mélanie Waldenberger's co-authors include Annette Peters, Christian Gieger, Konstantin Strauch, Thomas Illig, Jerzy Adamski, Sonja Zeilinger, Norman Klopp, Rory Wilson, Brigitte Kühnel and Hansjörg Baurecht and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Mélanie Waldenberger

86 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

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

2013 538 citations Sonja Zeilinger, Brigitte Kühnel et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mélanie Waldenberger Germany	31	2.0k	525	515	423	420	87	3.2k
Zongli Xu United States	35	2.2k 1.1×	709 1.4×	642 1.2×	378 0.9×	383 0.9×	89	3.8k
Kurt Lohman United States	19	2.0k 1.0×	591 1.1×	512 1.0×	309 0.7×	703 1.7×	31	3.6k
Lutz Philipp Breitling Germany	25	1.6k 0.8×	374 0.7×	358 0.7×	302 0.7×	601 1.4×	58	2.7k
Konstantin Strauch Germany	35	1.6k 0.8×	978 1.9×	313 0.6×	329 0.8×	487 1.2×	127	4.3k
Xiaoling Wang United States	35	2.2k 1.1×	608 1.2×	642 1.2×	234 0.6×	611 1.5×	132	4.9k
Miina Ollikainen Finland	30	1.7k 0.8×	536 1.0×	588 1.1×	159 0.4×	553 1.3×	66	2.7k
James G. Wilson United States	21	2.3k 1.1×	585 1.1×	940 1.8×	473 1.1×	991 2.4×	41	4.4k
Li Su China	36	1.5k 0.7×	313 0.6×	276 0.5×	227 0.5×	270 0.6×	164	3.8k
Ilja Demuth Germany	34	1.7k 0.8×	348 0.7×	172 0.3×	240 0.6×	859 2.0×	170	4.1k
Hidekuni Inadera Japan	28	920 0.5×	207 0.4×	223 0.4×	432 1.0×	432 1.0×	134	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Mélanie Waldenberger

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mélanie Waldenberger

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Thiering, Elisabeth, Zhebin Yu, Anke Hüls, et al.. (2025). Childhood Asthma and Allergy Are Related to Accelerated Epigenetic Aging. Allergy. 80(7). 1912–1922. 1 indexed citations

Mueller, Michael, Dominique Scherer, Inés Zulantay, et al.. (2025). Small-RNA sequencing identifies serum microRNAs associated with abnormal electrocardiography findings in patients with Chagas disease. Journal of Infection. 91(4). 106613–106613. 1 indexed citations

Scherer, Dominique, Trine B. Rounge, Hilde Langseth, et al.. (2024). Small-RNA sequencing reveals potential serum biomarkers for gallbladder cancer: Results from a three-stage collaborative study of large European prospective cohorts. European Journal of Cancer. 214. 115138–115138. 2 indexed citations

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

Ni, Wenli, Cavin Ward‐Caviness, Susanne Breitner, et al.. (2023). Associations between medium- and long-term exposure to air temperature and epigenetic age acceleration. Environment International. 178. 108109–108109. 9 indexed citations

Holzapfel, Christina, et al.. (2022). Genetics and Epigenetics in Personalized Nutrition: Evidence, Expectations, and Experiences. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 66(17). e2200077–e2200077. 18 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

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Merid, Simon Kebede, Elisabeth Thiering, Mélanie Waldenberger, et al.. (2022). DNA methylation and aeroallergen sensitization: The chicken or the egg?. Clinical Epigenetics. 14(1). 114–114. 4 indexed citations

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Chen, Junyu, Todd M. Everson, Elisabeth Thiering, et al.. (2022). Methylation risk scores for childhood aeroallergen sensitization: Results from the LISA birth cohort. Allergy. 77(9). 2803–2817. 13 indexed citations

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Scherer, Dominique, Hermann Brenner, Mélanie Waldenberger, et al.. (2020). Robust Huber-LASSO for improved prediction of protein, metabolite and gene expression levels relying on individual genotype data. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22(4). 10 indexed citations

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Klinger-König, Johanna, Johannes Hertel, Sandra Van der Auwera, et al.. (2019). Methylation of the FKBP5 gene in association with FKBP5 genotypes, childhood maltreatment and depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 44(5). 930–938. 60 indexed citations

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Huth, Cornelia, Christine von Toerne, Tonia de las Heras Gala, et al.. (2018). Protein markers and risk of type 2 diabetes and prediabetes: a targeted proteomics approach in the KORA F4/FF4 study. European Journal of Epidemiology. 34(4). 409–422. 39 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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Waateringe, Robert P. van, Anneke C. Muller Kobold, Jana V. van Vliet‐Ostaptchouk, et al.. (2017). Influence of Storage and Inter- and Intra-Assay Variability on the Measurement of Inflammatory Biomarkers in Population-Based Biobanking. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 15(6). 512–518. 3 indexed citations

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Flaquer, Antònia, Clemens Baumbach, KH Ladwig, et al.. (2015). Mitochondrial genetic variants identified to be associated with posttraumatic stress disorder. Translational Psychiatry. 5(3). e524–e524. 29 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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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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