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University of Kiel

EducationKiel, Germany
About: University of Kiel is a education organization based out in Kiel, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Transplantation. The organization has 27816 authors who have published 57114 publications receiving 2061802 citations. The organization is also known as: Christian Albrechts University & Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.


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11 Mar 2015-PLOS ONE
TL;DR: This work combines spatially explicit estimates of the baseline population with demographic data in order to derive scenario-driven projections of coastal population development and highlights countries and regions with a high degree of exposure to coastal flooding and help identifying regions where policies and adaptive planning for building resilient coastal communities are not only desirable but essential.
Abstract: Coastal zones are exposed to a range of coastal hazards including sea-level rise with its related effects. At the same time, they are more densely populated than the hinterland and exhibit higher rates of population growth and urbanisation. As this trend is expected to continue into the future, we investigate how coastal populations will be affected by such impacts at global and regional scales by the years 2030 and 2060. Starting from baseline population estimates for the year 2000, we assess future population change in the low-elevation coastal zone and trends in exposure to 100-year coastal floods based on four different sea-level and socio-economic scenarios. Our method accounts for differential growth of coastal areas against the land-locked hinterland and for trends of urbanisation and expansive urban growth, as currently observed, but does not explicitly consider possible displacement or out-migration due to factors such as sea-level rise. We combine spatially explicit estimates of the baseline population with demographic data in order to derive scenario-driven projections of coastal population development. Our scenarios show that the number of people living in the low-elevation coastal zone, as well as the number of people exposed to flooding from 1-in-100 year storm surge events, is highest in Asia. China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Viet Nam are estimated to have the highest total coastal population exposure in the baseline year and this ranking is expected to remain largely unchanged in the future. However, Africa is expected to experience the highest rates of population growth and urbanisation in the coastal zone, particularly in Egypt and sub-Saharan countries in Western and Eastern Africa. The results highlight countries and regions with a high degree of exposure to coastal flooding and help identifying regions where policies and adaptive planning for building resilient coastal communities are not only desirable but essential. Furthermore, we identify needs for further research and scope for improvement in this kind of scenario-based exposure analysis.

1,604 citations

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Peter J. Campbell1, Gad Getz2, Jan O. Korbel3, Joshua M. Stuart4  +1329 moreInstitutions (238)
06 Feb 2020-Nature
TL;DR: The flagship paper of the ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Consortium describes the generation of the integrative analyses of 2,658 whole-cancer genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types, the structures for international data sharing and standardized analyses, and the main scientific findings from across the consortium studies.
Abstract: Cancer is driven by genetic change, and the advent of massively parallel sequencing has enabled systematic documentation of this variation at the whole-genome scale1,2,3. Here we report the integrative analysis of 2,658 whole-cancer genomes and their matching normal tissues across 38 tumour types from the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG) Consortium of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). We describe the generation of the PCAWG resource, facilitated by international data sharing using compute clouds. On average, cancer genomes contained 4–5 driver mutations when combining coding and non-coding genomic elements; however, in around 5% of cases no drivers were identified, suggesting that cancer driver discovery is not yet complete. Chromothripsis, in which many clustered structural variants arise in a single catastrophic event, is frequently an early event in tumour evolution; in acral melanoma, for example, these events precede most somatic point mutations and affect several cancer-associated genes simultaneously. Cancers with abnormal telomere maintenance often originate from tissues with low replicative activity and show several mechanisms of preventing telomere attrition to critical levels. Common and rare germline variants affect patterns of somatic mutation, including point mutations, structural variants and somatic retrotransposition. A collection of papers from the PCAWG Consortium describes non-coding mutations that drive cancer beyond those in the TERT promoter4; identifies new signatures of mutational processes that cause base substitutions, small insertions and deletions and structural variation5,6; analyses timings and patterns of tumour evolution7; describes the diverse transcriptional consequences of somatic mutation on splicing, expression levels, fusion genes and promoter activity8,9; and evaluates a range of more-specialized features of cancer genomes8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18.

1,600 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an easy-to-apply concept based on a matrix linking spatially explicit biophysical landscape units to ecological integrity, ecosystem service supply and demand, which reveals patterns of human activities over time and space as well as the capacities of different ecosystems to provide ecosystem services under changing land use.

1,560 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a two-dimensional square lattice of skyrmions on the atomic length scale was described as the magnetic ground state of a hexagonal Fe film of one-atomic-layer thickness on the Ir(111) surface.
Abstract: Skyrmions are topologically protected field configurations with particle-like properties that play an important role in various fields of science. Recently, skyrmions have been observed to be stabilized by an external magnetic field in bulk magnets. Here, we describe a two-dimensional square lattice of skyrmions on the atomic length scale as the magnetic ground state of a hexagonal Fe film of one-atomic-layer thickness on the Ir(111) surface. Using spin-polarized scanning tunnelling microscopy we can directly image this non-collinear spin texture in real space on the atomic scale and demonstrate that it is incommensurate to the underlying atomic lattice. With the aid of first-principles calculations, we develop a spin model on a discrete lattice that identifies the interplay of Heisenberg exchange, the four-spin and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction as the microscopic origin of this magnetic state.

1,534 citations

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David Ellinghaus1, Frauke Degenhardt1, Luis Bujanda1, Maria Buti1, Agustín Albillos1, Pietro Invernizzi1, J. Fernández1, Daniele Prati1, Guido Baselli1, Rosanna Asselta1, Marit Mæhle Grimsrud1, Chiara Milani1, Fatima Aziz1, Jan Christian Kässens1, Sandra May1, Mareike Wendorff1, Lars Wienbrandt1, Florian Uellendahl-Werth1, Tenghao Zheng1, Xiaoli Yi1, Raúl de Pablo1, Adolfo Garrido Chercoles1, Adriana Palom1, Alba Estela Garcia-Fernandez1, Francisco Rodriguez-Frias1, Alberto Zanella1, Alessandra Bandera1, Alessandro Protti1, Alessio Aghemo1, Ana Lleo1, Andrea Biondi1, Andrea Caballero-Garralda1, Andrea Gori1, Anja Tanck1, Anna Carreras Nolla1, Anna Latiano1, Anna Ludovica Fracanzani1, Anna Peschuck1, Antonio Julià1, Antonio Pesenti1, Antonio Voza1, David Jiménez1, Beatriz Mateos1, Beatriz Nafria Jimenez1, Carmen Quereda1, Cinzia Paccapelo1, Christoph Gassner1, Claudio Angelini1, Cristina Cea1, Aurora Solier1, David Pestana1, Eduardo Muñiz-Diaz1, Elena Sandoval1, Elvezia Maria Paraboschi1, Enrique Navas1, Félix García Sánchez1, Ferruccio Ceriotti1, F. Martinelli-Boneschi1, Flora Peyvandi1, Francesco Blasi1, Luis Téllez1, Albert Blanco-Grau1, Georg Hemmrich-Stanisak1, Giacomo Grasselli1, Giorgio Costantino1, Giulia Cardamone1, Giuseppe Foti1, Serena Aneli1, Hayato Kurihara1, Hesham ElAbd1, Ilaria My1, Iván Galván-Femenía1, Javier Martin1, Jeanette Erdmann1, José Ferrusquía-Acosta1, Koldo Garcia-Etxebarria1, Laura Izquierdo-Sanchez1, Laura Rachele Bettini1, Lauro Sumoy1, Leonardo Terranova1, Leticia Moreira1, Luigi Santoro1, Luigia Scudeller1, Francisco Mesonero1, Luisa Roade1, Malte C. Rühlemann1, Marco Schaefer1, Maria Carrabba1, Mar Riveiro-Barciela1, Maria Eloina Figuera Basso1, Maria Grazia Valsecchi1, María Hernández-Tejero1, Marialbert Acosta-Herrera1, Mariella D'Angiò1, Marina Baldini1, Marina Cazzaniga1, Martin Schulzky1, Maurizio Cecconi1, Michael Wittig1, Michele Ciccarelli1, Miguel Rodríguez-Gandía1, Monica Bocciolone1, Monica Miozzo1, Nicola Montano1, Nicole Braun1, Nicoletta Sacchi1, Nilda Martinez1, Onur Özer1, Orazio Palmieri1, Paola Faverio1, Paoletta Preatoni1, Paolo Bonfanti1, Paolo Omodei1, Paolo Tentorio1, Pedro Castro1, Pedro M. Rodrigues1, Aaron Blandino Ortiz1, Rafael de Cid1, Ricard Ferrer1, Roberta Gualtierotti1, Rosa Nieto1, Siegfried Goerg1, Salvatore Badalamenti1, Sara Marsal1, Giuseppe Matullo1, Serena Pelusi1, Simonas Juzenas1, Stefano Aliberti1, Valter Monzani1, Victor Moreno1, Tanja Wesse1, Tobias L. Lenz1, Tomás Pumarola1, Valeria Rimoldi1, Silvano Bosari1, Wolfgang Albrecht1, Wolfgang Peter1, Manuel Romero-Gómez1, Mauro D'Amato1, Stefano Duga1, Jesus M. Banales1, Johannes R. Hov1, Trine Folseraas1, Luca Valenti1, Andre Franke1, Tom H. Karlsen1 
TL;DR: A 3p21.31 gene cluster is identified as a genetic susceptibility locus in patients with Covid-19 with respiratory failure and a potential involvement of the ABO blood-group system is confirmed.
Abstract: Background There is considerable variation in disease behavior among patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) Genomewide association analysis may allow for the identification of potential genetic factors involved in the development of Covid-19 Methods We conducted a genomewide association study involving 1980 patients with Covid-19 and severe disease (defined as respiratory failure) at seven hospitals in the Italian and Spanish epicenters of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Europe After quality control and the exclusion of population outliers, 835 patients and 1255 control participants from Italy and 775 patients and 950 control participants from Spain were included in the final analysis In total, we analyzed 8,582,968 single-nucleotide polymorphisms and conducted a meta-analysis of the two case-control panels Results We detected cross-replicating associations with rs11385942 at locus 3p2131 and with rs657152 at locus 9q342, which were significant at the genomewide level (P Conclusions We identified a 3p2131 gene cluster as a genetic susceptibility locus in patients with Covid-19 with respiratory failure and confirmed a potential involvement of the ABO blood-group system (Funded by Stein Erik Hagen and others)

1,529 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Stefan Schreiber1781233138528
Jun Wang1661093141621
William J. Sandborn1621317108564
Jens Nielsen1491752104005
Tak W. Mak14880794871
Annette Peters1381114101640
Severine Vermeire134108676352
Peter M. Rothwell13477967382
Dusan Bruncko132104284709
Gideon Bella129130187905
Dirk Schadendorf1271017105777
Neal L. Benowitz12679260658
Thomas Schwarz12370154560
Meletios A. Dimopoulos122137171871
Christian Weber12277653842
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023197
2022421
20212,760
20202,643
20192,556
20182,247