Area of research
Pathology and Forensic Medicine · Cancer Research
Research interest
Research interests include Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection.
Validation structures for sequence variants of uncertain significance in hereditary cancer.
Reclassification of VUS in <i>BRCA1</i> and <i>BRCA2</i> using the new <i>BRCA1</i>/<i>BRCA2</i> ENIGMA track set demonstrates the superiority of ClinGen ENIGMA Expert Panel specifications over the standard ACMG/AMP classification system.
Repeat-associated ataxias in a German patient cohort analysed by targeted parallel long-read sequencing
Next-Generation Sequencing in Congenital Eye Malformations: Identification of Genetic Causes and Comparison of Different Panel-Based Diagnostic Strategies.
A series of reviews in familial cancer: genetic cancer risk in context variants of uncertain significance in MMR genes: which procedures should be followed?
Updated Structure of <i>CNBP</i> Repeat Expansions in Patients With Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2 and Its Implication for Standard Diagnostics.
Optical Genome Mapping as a Potential Routine Clinical Diagnostic Method.
Parallel in-depth analysis of repeat expansions: an updated Clin-CATS workflow for nanopore R10 flow cells
Optical Genome Mapping as a Potential Routine Clinical Diagnostic Method
Mortality by age, gene and gender in carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair gene variants receiving surveillance for early cancer diagnosis and treatment: a report from the prospective Lynch syndrome database
Dominantly inherited micro-satellite instable cancer – the four Lynch syndromes - an EHTG, PLSD position statement
Diagnostic yield and clinical relevance of expanded germline genetic testing for nearly 7000 suspected HBOC patients.
Closing the Gap - Detection of 5q-Spinal Muscular Atrophy by Short-Read Next-Generation Sequencing and Unexpected Results in a Diagnostic Patient Cohort
Impact of cfDNA Reference Materials on Clinical Performance of Liquid Biopsy NGS Assays.
The utility of liquid biopsy in clinical genetic diagnosis of cancer and monogenic mosaic disorders.
Colorectal cancer incidences in Lynch syndrome: a comparison of results from the prospective lynch syndrome database and the international mismatch repair consortium
Genotype-first approach to identify associations between CDH1 germline variants and cancer phenotypes: a multicentre study by the European Reference Network on Genetic Tumour Risk Syndromes
Splicing analyses for variants in MMR genes: best practice recommendations from the European Mismatch Repair Working Group.
Variation in the risk of colorectal cancer in families with Lynch syndrome: a retrospective cohort study
Solving patients with rare diseases through programmatic reanalysis of genome-phenome data
Uptake of hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair variants: a Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database report
No Difference in Penetrance between Truncating and Missense/Aberrant Splicing Pathogenic Variants in MLH1 and MSH2: A Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database Study
Beta-2-microglobulin Mutations Are Linked to a Distinct Metastatic Pattern and a Favorable Outcome in Microsatellite-Unstable Stage IV Gastrointestinal Cancers
Early detection of duodenal cancer by upper <scp>gastrointestinal</scp>‐endoscopy in Lynch syndrome
Adenoma and colorectal cancer risks in Lynch syndrome, Lynch‐like syndrome and familial colorectal cancer type X
Associations of Pathogenic Variants in MLH1, MSH2, and MSH6 With Risk of Colorectal Adenomas and Tumors and With Somatic Mutations in Patients With Lynch Syndrome
The “unnatural” history of colorectal cancer in Lynch syndrome: Lessons from colonoscopy surveillance
Risk-reducing hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in female heterozygotes of pathogenic mismatch repair variants: a Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database report
Value of upper <scp>gastrointestinal</scp> endoscopy for gastric cancer surveillance in patients with Lynch syndrome
Age‐dependent performance of <scp> <i>BRAF</i> </scp> mutation testing in Lynch syndrome diagnostics