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Christian Becker
Researcher at University of Cologne
Publications - 114
Citations - 13661
Christian Becker is an academic researcher from University of Cologne. The author has contributed to research in topics: Disease gene identification & Transcriptome. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 106 publications receiving 11647 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian Becker include GMC & Technical University of Dortmund.
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Comprehensive genomic profiles of small cell lung cancer
Julie George,Jing Shan Lim,Se Jin Jang,Yupeng Cun,Luka Ozretić,Gu Kong,Frauke Leenders,Xin Lu,Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta,Graziella Bosco,Christian Müller,Ilona Dahmen,Nadine Jahchan,Kwon-Sik Park,Dian Yang,Anthony N. Karnezis,Dedeepya Vaka,Ángela Torres,Maia Segura Wang,Jan O. Korbel,Roopika Menon,Sung-Min Chun,Deokhoon Kim,Matthew D. Wilkerson,Neil Hayes,David Engelmann,Brigitte M. Pützer,Marc Bos,Sebastian Michels,Ignacija Vlasic,Danila Seidel,Berit Pinther,Philipp Schaub,Christian Becker,Janine Altmüller,Jun Yokota,Takashi Kohno,Reika Iwakawa,Koji Tsuta,Masayuki Noguchi,Thomas Muley,Hans Hoffmann,Philipp A. Schnabel,Iver Petersen,Yuan Chen,Alex Soltermann,Verena Tischler,Chang-Min Choi,Yong-Hee Kim,Pierre P. Massion,Yong Zou,Dragana Jovanovic,Milica Kontic,Gavin M. Wright,Prudence A. Russell,Benjamin Solomon,Ina Koch,Michael Lindner,Lucia Anna Muscarella,Annamaria la Torre,John K. Field,Marko Jakopović,Jelena Knezevic,Esmeralda Castaños-Vélez,Luca Roz,Ugo Pastorino,O.T. Brustugun,Marius Lund-Iversen,Erik Thunnissen,Jens Köhler,Martin Schuler,Johan Botling,Martin Sandelin,Montserrat Sanchez-Cespedes,Helga B. Salvesen,Viktor Achter,Ulrich Lang,Magdalena Bogus,Peter M. Schneider,Thomas Zander,Sascha Ansén,Michael Hallek,Jürgen Wolf,Martin Vingron,Yasushi Yatabe,William D. Travis,Peter Nürnberg,Christian Reinhardt,Sven Perner,Lukas C. Heukamp,Reinhard Büttner,Stefan A. Haas,Elisabeth Brambilla,Martin Peifer,Julien Sage,Roman K. Thomas +95 more
TL;DR: This first comprehensive study of somatic genome alterations in SCLC uncovers several key biological processes and identifies candidate therapeutic targets in this highly lethal form of cancer.
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Integrative genome analyses identify key somatic driver mutations of small-cell lung cancer
Martin Peifer,Lynnette Fernandez-Cuesta,Martin L. Sos,Julie George,Danila Seidel,Lawryn H. Kasper,Dennis Plenker,Frauke Leenders,Ruping Sun,Thomas Zander,Roopika Menon,Mirjam Koker,Ilona Dahmen,Christian Müller,Vincenzo Di Cerbo,Hans Ulrich Schildhaus,Janine Altmüller,Ingelore Baessmann,Christian Becker,Bram De Wilde,Jo Vandesompele,Diana Böhm,Sascha Ansén,Franziska Gabler,Ines Wilkening,Stefanie Heynck,Johannes M. Heuckmann,Xin Lu,Scott L. Carter,Kristian Cibulskis,Shantanu Banerji,Gad Getz,Kwon-Sik Park,Daniel Rauh,Christian Grütter,Matthias Fischer,Laura Pasqualucci,Gavin M. Wright,Zoe Wainer,Prudence A. Russell,Iver Petersen,Yuan Chen,Erich Stoelben,Corinna Ludwig,Philipp A. Schnabel,Hans Hoffmann,Thomas Muley,Michael Brockmann,Walburga Engel-Riedel,Lucia Anna Muscarella,Vito Michele Fazio,Harry J.M. Groen,Wim Timens,Hannie Sietsma,Erik Thunnissen,Egber Smit,Daniëlle A M Heideman,Peter J.F. Snijders,Federico Cappuzzo,C. Ligorio,Stefania Damiani,John K. Field,Steinar Solberg,Odd Terje Brustugun,Marius Lund-Iversen,Jörg Sänger,Joachim H. Clement,Alex Soltermann,Holger Moch,Walter Weder,Benjamin Solomon,Jean-Charles Soria,Pierre Validire,Benjamin Besse,Elisabeth Brambilla,Christian Brambilla,Sylvie Lantuejoul,Philippe Lorimier,Peter M. Schneider,Michael Hallek,William Pao,Matthew Meyerson,Matthew Meyerson,Julien Sage,Jay Shendure,Robert Schneider,Robert Schneider,Reinhard Büttner,Jürgen Wolf,Peter Nürnberg,Sven Perner,Lukas C. Heukamp,Paul K. Brindle,Stefan A. Haas,Roman K. Thomas +94 more
TL;DR: This study implicates histone modification as a major feature of SCLC, reveals potentially therapeutically tractable genomic alterations and provides a generalizable framework for the identification of biologically relevant genes in the context of high mutational background.
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Lifestyle transitions in plant pathogenic Colletotrichum fungi deciphered by genome and transcriptome analyses
Richard J. O'Connell,Michael R. Thon,Stéphane Hacquard,Stefan G. Amyotte,Jochen Kleemann,Maria F. Torres,Ulrike Damm,Ester Alvarenga Santos Buiate,Lynn Epstein,Noam Alkan,Janine Altmüller,Lucia Alvarado-Balderrama,Christopher Bauser,Christian Becker,Bruce W. Birren,Zehua Chen,Jaeyoung Choi,Jo Anne Crouch,Jonathan P. Duvick,Jonathan P. Duvick,Mark A. Farman,Pamela Gan,David I. Heiman,Bernard Henrissat,Richard J. Howard,Mehdi Kabbage,Christian Koch,Barbara Kracher,Yasuyuki Kubo,Audrey D. Law,Marc-Henri Lebrun,Yong-Hwan Lee,Itay Miyara,Neil Moore,Ulla Neumann,Karl Nordström,Daniel G. Panaccione,Ralph Panstruga,Ralph Panstruga,Michael Place,Robert H. Proctor,Dov Prusky,Gabriel E. Rech,Richard Reinhardt,Jeffrey A. Rollins,Steve Rounsley,Christopher L. Schardl,David C. Schwartz,Narmada Shenoy,Ken Shirasu,Usha Rani Sikhakolli,Kurt Stüber,Serenella A. Sukno,James A. Sweigard,Yoshitaka Takano,Hiroyuki Takahara,Hiroyuki Takahara,Frances Trail,H. Charlotte van der Does,H. Charlotte van der Does,Lars M. Voll,Isa Will,Sarah Young,Qiandong Zeng,Jingze Zhang,Shiguo Zhou,Martin B. Dickman,Paul Schulze-Lefert,Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat,Li-Jun Ma,Li-Jun Ma,Lisa J. Vaillancourt +71 more
TL;DR: Findings show that preinvasion perception of plant-derived signals substantially reprograms fungal gene expression and indicate previously unknown functions for particular fungal cell types.
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The centrosomal protein nephrocystin-6 is mutated in Joubert syndrome and activates transcription factor ATF4
John A. Sayer,John A. Sayer,Edgar A. Otto,John F. O'Toole,Gudrun Nürnberg,Michael A. Kennedy,Christian Becker,Hans Christian Hennies,Juliana Helou,Massimo Attanasio,Blake V. Fausett,Boris Utsch,Hemant Khanna,Yan Liu,Iain A. Drummond,Isao Kawakami,Takehiro Kusakabe,Motoyuki Tsuda,Li Ma,Hwankyu Lee,Ronald G. Larson,Susan J. Allen,Christopher J. Wilkinson,Erich A. Nigg,Chengchao Shou,Concepción Lillo,David S. Williams,Bernd Hoppe,Markus J. Kemper,Thomas J. Neuhaus,Melissa A. Parisi,Ian A. Glass,Marianne Petry,Andreas Kispert,Joachim Gloy,Athina Ganner,Gerd Walz,Xueliang Zhu,Daniel Goldman,Peter Nürnberg,Anand Swaroop,Michel R. Leroux,Friedhelm Hildebrandt +42 more
TL;DR: These findings help establish the link between centrosome function, tissue architecture and transcriptional control in the pathogenesis of cystic kidney disease, retinal degeneration, and central nervous system development.
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Positional cloning uncovers mutations in PLCE1 responsible for a nephrotic syndrome variant that may be reversible.
Bernward Hinkes,Roger C. Wiggins,Rasheed Gbadegesin,Christopher N. Vlangos,Dominik Seelow,Gudrun Nürnberg,Puneet Garg,Rakesh Verma,Hassan Chaib,Bethan E. Hoskins,Shazia Ashraf,Christian Becker,Hans Christian Hennies,Meera Goyal,Bryan L. Wharram,Asher D. Schachter,Sudha Mudumana,Iain A. Drummond,Dontscho Kerjaschki,Rüdiger Waldherr,Alexander Dietrich,Fatih Ozaltin,Aysin Bakkaloglu,Roxana Cleper,Roxana Cleper,Lina Basel-Vanagaite,Lina Basel-Vanagaite,Martin Pohl,Martin Griebel,Alexey N. Tsygin,Alper Soylu,Dominik N. Müller,Caroline S. Sorli,Tom D. Bunney,Matilda Katan,Jinhong Liu,Massimo Attanasio,John F. O'Toole,Katrin Hasselbacher,Bettina E. Mucha,Edgar A. Otto,Rannar Airik,Andreas Kispert,Grant G. Kelley,Alan V. Smrcka,Thomas Gudermann,Lawrence B. Holzman,Peter Nürnberg,Friedhelm Hildebrandt +48 more
TL;DR: These findings, together with the zebrafish model of human nephrotic syndrome generated by plce1 knockdown, open new inroads into pathophysiology and treatment mechanisms of nephrotsic syndrome.