Olaf Witt

Active 1996–2025

145
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35,630
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Citations per year for Olaf Witt1987: 1 citations1990: 3 citations1993: 1 citations1997: 9 citations1999: 4 citations2000: 3 citations2001: 7 citations2002: 6 citations2003: 12 citations2004: 13 citations2005: 13 citations2006: 10 citations2007: 3 citations2008: 9 citations2009: 25 citations2010: 44 citations2011: 49 citations2012: 174 citations2013: 309 citations2014: 339 citations2015: 406 citations2016: 453 citations2017: 462 citations2018: 490 citations2019: 1,532 citations2020: 1,690 citations2021: 1,918 citations2022: 1,522 citations2023: 1,147 citations2024: 1,765 citations2025: 786 citations2026: 13 citations1988–1989: no citations, so these years are not shown1991–1992: no citations, so these years are not shown1994–1996: no citations, so these years are not shown1998: no citations, so this year is not shown

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World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 3,995 citing papers, 23.9% of this breakdownGermany: 1,787 citing papers, 10.7% of this breakdownChina: 1,196 citing papers, 7.2% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,120 citing papers, 6.7% of this breakdownCanada: 843 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownItaly: 759 citing papers, 4.5% of this breakdownFrance: 754 citing papers, 4.5% of this breakdownNetherlands: 615 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 523 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownSpain: 422 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownAustralia: 421 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownJapan: 421 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Medicine50.5%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology44.1%
  • Immunology and Microbiology1.4%
  • Neuroscience1%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.8%
  • Computer Science0.8%
  • Other1.4%

Topics

  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment10%
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation6.1%
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics4.1%
  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research4.1%
  • Neuroblastoma Research and Treatments3.3%
  • Protein Degradation and Inhibitors3%
  • Other69.4%

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  1. DNA methylation-based classification of central nervous system tumours

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Rudi Beschorner, Jens Schittenhelm, Ori Staszewski, Khalida Wani, Pascale Varlet, Mélanie Pagès, Petra Temming, Dietmar Lohmann, Florian Selt, Hendrik Witt, Till Milde, Olaf Witt, Eleonora Aronica, Felice Giangaspero, Elisabeth J. Rushing, Wolfram Scheurlen, Christoph Geisenberger, Fausto J. Rodríguez, Albert J. Becker, Matthias Preusser, Christine Haberler, Rolf Bjerkvig, Jane Cryan, Michael A. Farrell, Martina Deckert, Jürgen Hench, Stephan Frank, Jonathan Serrano, Kasthuri Kannan, Aristotelis Tsirigos, Wolfgang Brück, Silvia Höfer, Stefanie Brehmer, Marcel Seiz‐Rosenhagen, Daniel Hänggi, Volkmar Hans, Stephanie Rozsnoki, Jordan R. Hansford, Patricia Kohlhof, Bjarne Winther Kristensen, Matt Lechner, Beatriz Lopes, Christian Mawrin, Ralf Ketter, Andreas E. Kulozik, Ziad Khatib, Frank L. Heppner, Arend Koch, Anne Jouvet, Catherine Keohane, Helmut Mühleisen, Wolf Mueller, Ute Pohl, Marco Prinz, Axel Benner, Marc Zapatka, Nicholas G. Gottardo, Pablo Hernáiz Driever, Christof M. Kramm, Hermann L. Müller, Stefan Rutkowski, Katja von Hoff, Michael C. Frühwald, Astrid Gnekow, Gudrun Fleischhack, Stephan Tippelt, Gabriele Calaminus, Camelia‐Maria Monoranu, Arie Perry, Chris Jones and 43 more - Nature, Nat. 2018 cited by 3,197

  2. Larotrectinib in patients with TRK fusion-positive solid tumours: a pooled analysis of three phase 1/2 clinical trials

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - The Lancet Oncology 2020 cited by 994

  3. The landscape of genomic alterations across childhood cancers

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Jenny Wegert, Roland Kappler, Daniel Baumhoer, Stefan Burdach, Renate Kirschner‐Schwabe, Udo Kontny, Andreas E. Kulozik, Dietmar Lohmann, Simone Hettmer, Cornelia Eckert, Stefan Bielack, Michaela Nathrath, Charlotte M. Niemeyer, Günther Richter, Johannes H. Schulte, Reiner Siebert, Frank Westermann, Jan J. Molenaar, Gilles Vassal, Hendrik Witt, Birgit Burkhardt, Christian P. Kratz, Olaf Witt, Cornelis M. van Tilburg, Christof M. Kramm, Gudrun Fleischhack, Uta Dirksen, Stefan Rutkowski, Michael C. Frühwald, Katja von Hoff, Stephan Wolf, Thomas Klingebiel, Ewa Kościelniak, Pablo Landgraf, Jan Köster, Adam Resnick, Jinghui Zhang, Yanling Liu, Xin Zhou, Angela J. Waanders, Danny A. Zwijnenburg, Pichai Raman, Benedikt Brors, Ursula Weber, Paul A. Northcott, Kristian W. Pajtler, Marcel Kool, Rosario M. Piro, Jan O. Korbel, Matthias Schlesner, Roland Eils, David Jones, Peter Lichter, Lukas Chávez, Marc Zapatka, Stefan M. Pfister - Nature 2018 cited by 1,634

  4. Driver mutations in histone H3.3 and chromatin remodelling genes in paediatric glioblastoma

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Wolfgang Roggendorf, Christoph Kramm, Matthias Dürken, Jeffrey Atkinson, Pierre Lepage, Alexandre Montpetit, Magdalena Zakrzewska, Krzysztof Zakrzewski, Paweł P. Liberski, Zhifeng Dong, Peter M. Siegel, Andreas E. Kulozik, Marc Zapatka, Abhijit Guha, David Malkin, Jörg Felsberg, Guido Reifenberger, Andreas von Deimling, Koichi Ichimura, V. Peter Collins, Hendrik Witt, Till Milde, Olaf Witt, Cindy Zhang, Pedro Castelo‐Branco, Peter Lichter, Damien Faury, Uri Tabori, Christoph Plass, Jacek Majewski, Stefan M. Pfister, Nada Jabado - Nature 2012 cited by 2,711

  5. Hotspot Mutations in H3F3A and IDH1 Define Distinct Epigenetic and Biological Subgroups of Glioblastoma

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Matthias Dürken, Andreas E. Kulozik, Jenny Madden, Andrew M. Donson, Nicholas K. Foreman, Rachid Drissi, Maryam Fouladi, Wolfram Scheurlen, Andreas von Deimling, Camelia Monoranu, Wolfgang Roggendorf, Christel Herold‐Mende, Andreas Unterberg, Christof M. Kramm, Jörg Felsberg, Christian Hartmann, Benedikt Wiestler, Wolfgang Wick, Till Milde, Olaf Witt, Anders M. Lindroth, Jeremy Schwartzentruber, Damien Faury, Adam Fleming, Magdalena Zakrzewska, Paweł P. Liberski, Krzysztof Zakrzewski, Péter Hauser, Miklós Garami, Álmos Klekner, László Bognár, A. Sorana Morrissy, Florence M.G. Cavalli, Michael D. Taylor, Peter van Sluis, Jan Köster, Rogier Versteeg, Richard Volckmann, Tom Mikkelsen, Kenneth Aldape, Guido Reifenberger, V. Peter Collins, Jacek Majewski, Andrey Korshunov, Peter Lichter, Christoph Plass, Nada Jabado, Stefan M. Pfister - Cancer Cell 2012 cited by 1,864

  6. Sarcoma classification by DNA methylation profiling

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Matthias Schick, Melanie Bewerunge‐Hudler, Till Milde, Olaf Witt, Andreas E. Kulozik, Marcel Kool, Laura Romero‐Pérez, Thomas G. P. Grünewald, Thomas Kirchner, Wolfgang Wick, Michael Platten, Andreas Unterberg, Matthias Uhl, Amir Abdollahi, Jürgen Debus, Burkhard Lehner, Christian Thomas, Martin Hasselblatt, Werner Paulus, Christian Hartmann, Ori Staszewski, Marco Prinz, Jürgen Hench, Stephan Frank, Yvonne M.H. Versleijen‐Jonkers, Marije E. Weidema, Thomas Mentzel, Klaus Griewank, Enrique de Álava, Juan Díaz‐Martín, Miguel Á. Idoate, Kenneth Tou En Chang, Sharon Y. Y. Low, Adrián Cuevas-Bourdier, Michel Mittelbronn, Martin Mynarek, Stefan Rutkowski, Ulrich Schüller, Viktor Mautner, Jens Schittenhelm, Jonathan Serrano, Matija Snuderl, Reinhard Büttner, Thomas Klingebiel, Rolf Buslei, Manfred Gessler, Pieter Wesseling, Winand N.M. Dinjens, Sebastian Brandner, Zane Jaunmuktane, Iben Lyskjær, Peter Schirmacher, Albrecht Stenzinger, Benedikt Brors, Hanno Glimm, Christoph Heining, Òscar M. Tirado, Miguel Sáinz‐Jaspeado, Jaume Mora, Javier Alonso, Xavier García del Muro, Sebastián Morán, Manel Esteller, Jamal Benhamida, Marc Ladanyi, Eva Wardelmann, Cristina R. Antonescu, Adrienne M. Flanagan, Uta Dirksen, Peter Hohenberger and 11 more - Nature Communications 2021 cited by 547

  7. The whole-genome landscape of medulloblastoma subtypes

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Charles D. Imbusch, Alke Jugold, Daniel Hübschmann, Thomas S. Risch, Vyacheslav Amstislavskiy, F. Germán Rodríguez-González, Ursula Weber, Stephan Wolf, Giles Robinson, Xin Zhou, Gang Wu, David Finkelstein, Yanling Liu, Florence M.G. Cavalli, Betty Luu, Vijay Ramaswamy, Xiaochong Wu, Jan Köster, Marina Ryzhova, Yoon-Jae Cho, Scott L. Pomeroy, Christel Herold‐Mende, Martin U. Schuhmann, Martin Ebinger, Linda M. Liau, Jaume Mora, Roger E. McLendon, Nada Jabado, Toshihiro Kumabe, Eric Chuah, Yussanne Ma, Richard A. Moore, Andrew J. Mungall, Karen Mungall, Nina Thiessen, Kane Tse, Tina Wong, Steven J.M. Jones, Olaf Witt, Till Milde, Andreas von Deimling, David Capper, Andrey Korshunov, Marie-Laure Yaspo, Richard W. Kriwacki, Amar Gajjar, Jinghui Zhang, Rameen Beroukhim, Ernest Fraenkel, Jan O. Korbel, Benedikt Brors, Matthias Schlesner, Roland Eils, Marco A. Marra, Stefan M. Pfister, Michael D. Taylor, Peter Lichter - Nature 2017 cited by 1,200

  8. Practical implementation of DNA methylation and copy-number-based CNS tumor diagnostics: the Heidelberg experience

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Acta Neuropathologica 2018 cited by 590

  9. Dabrafenib plus Trametinib in Pediatric Glioma with BRAF V600 Mutations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - New England Journal of Medicine 2023 cited by 266

  10. Erdafitinib in patients with advanced solid tumours with FGFR alterations (RAGNAR): an international, single-arm, phase 2 study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Alison Y. Zhang, Hans Prenen, Jean‐Charles Goeminne, Jean‐Pascal Machiels, Sylvie Rottey, Marcelo Corassa, Graziela Zibetti Dal Molin, Katsuki Arima Tiscoski, Denis L. Jardim, Milena Perez Mak, Wei Fu, Herui Yao, Jing Huang, Haiping Jiang, Jing Huang, Baoshi Chen, Dong Yan, Yu Yang, Yohann Loriot, Christophe Le Tourneau, Nicolas Penel, Sébastien Salas, Jean‐Yves Blay, Pierre-Emmanuel Brachet, Xavier Durando, Sheik Emambux, Alain Ravaud, Gunnar Folprecht, Dirk Arnold, Martin Schüler, Marit Ahrens, Alexander Golf, Georg Martin Haag, Florian Lordick, Alexander Desuki, Marina Elena Cazzaniga, Fortunato Ciardiello, Michèle Milella, Takafumi Koyama, Yoshiki Hirooka, Wataru Okamoto, Kenjiro Aogi, Yasutoshi Kuboki, Jung-Yun Lee, Sung‐Bae Kim, Myung‐Ju Ahn, Jong Hee Chang, Yongman Kim, Do‐Hyun Nam, Jaesung Park, Iwona Ługowska, Luis Paz‐Ares, Víctor Moreno, Andrés Cervantes, Mariona Calvo, Alejandro Falcón, Antonio González, Josep Tabernero, A. Martinez Bueno, Javier García-Corbacho, Federico Longo, Chia‐Jui Yen, Jen‐Shi Chen, Ming‐Feng Hou, Yee Chao, Kun‐Ming Rau, Tai‐Jan Chiu, Yin‐Hsun Feng, Chih‐Hung Hsu, Wen‐Tsung Huang and 33 more - The Lancet Oncology 2023 cited by 200

  11. The type II RAF inhibitor tovorafenib in relapsed/refractory pediatric low-grade glioma: the phase 2 FIREFLY-1 trial

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Liat Oren, Enrica E. K. Tan, Sabine Mueller, Izzy Cornelio, Lisa McLeod, Xin Zhao, Ashley A. Walter, Daniel Da Costa, Peter Manley, Samuel C. Blackman, Roger J. Packer, Karsten Nysom - Nature Medicine 2023 cited by 177

  12. Molecular Classification of Ependymal Tumors across All CNS Compartments, Histopathological Grades, and Age Groups

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Ekkehard Hewer, Karel Zitterbart, Mark R. Gilbert, Terri S. Armstrong, Nalin Gupta, Jeffrey C. Allen, Matthias A. Karajannis, David Zagzag, Martin Hasselblatt, Andreas E. Kulozik, Olaf Witt, V. Peter Collins, Katja von Hoff, Stefan Rutkowski, Torsten Pietsch, Gary D. Bader, Marie-Laure Yaspo, Andreas von Deimling, Peter Lichter, Michael D. Taylor, Richard J. Gilbertson, David W. Ellison, Kenneth Aldape, Andrey Korshunov, Marcel Kool, Stefan M. Pfister - Cancer Cell 2015 cited by 1,237

  13. HDAC family: What are the cancer relevant targets?

    Authors: , , , - Cancer Letters 2008 cited by 1,053

  14. Enhancer hijacking activates GFI1 family oncogenes in medulloblastoma

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Benjamin Raeder, Sabine Schmidt, Nicolle Diessl, Stephan Wolf, Stefan Wiemann, Benedikt Brors, Chris Lawerenz, Jürgen Eils, Hans-Jörg Warnatz, Thomas S. Risch, Marie-Laure Yaspo, Ursula Weber, Cynthia C. Bartholomae, Christof von Kalle, Eszter Turányi, Péter Hauser, Emma Sandén, Anna Darabi, Peter Siesjö, Jaroslav Štěrba, Karel Zitterbart, David Sumerauer, Peter van Sluis, Rogier Versteeg, Richard Volckmann, Jan Köster, Martin U. Schuhmann, Martin Ebinger, H. Leighton Grimes, Giles Robinson, Amar Gajjar, Martin Mynarek, Katja von Hoff, Stefan Rutkowski, Torsten Pietsch, Wolfram Scheurlen, Jörg Felsberg, Guido Reifenberger, Andreas E. Kulozik, Andreas von Deimling, Olaf Witt, Roland Eils, Richard J. Gilbertson, Andrey Korshunov, Michael D. Taylor, Peter Lichter, Jan O. Korbel, Robert J. Wechsler‐Reya, Stefan M. Pfister - Nature 2014 cited by 681

  15. Multiomic neuropathology improves diagnostic accuracy in pediatric neuro-oncology

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Ulrich Schüller, Arend Koch, Nicolas U. Gerber, Christine L. White, Molly K. Buntine, Kathryn M. Kinross, Elizabeth M. Algar, Jordan R. Hansford, Nicholas G. Gottardo, Martin U. Schuhmann, Ulrich W. Thomale, Pablo Hernáiz Driever, Astrid Gnekow, Olaf Witt, Hermann L. Müller, Gabriele Calaminus, Gudrun Fleischhack, Uwe Kordes, Martin Mynarek, Stefan Rutkowski, Michael C. Frühwald, Christof M. Kramm, Andreas von Deimling, Torsten Pietsch, Felix Sahm, Stefan M. Pfister, David Jones - Nature Medicine 2023 cited by 136

  16. The Pediatric Precision Oncology INFORM Registry: Clinical Outcome and Benefit for Patients with Very High-Evidence Targets

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Norbert Graf, Frank Westermann, Matthias Fischer, Angelika Eggert, Birgit Burkhardt, Wilhelm Wößmann, Michaela Nathrath, Stefanie Hecker‐Nolting, Michael C. Frühwald, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Petra Ketteler, Simone Fulda, Ewa Kościelniak, Michael T. Meister, Monika Scheer, Simone Hettmer, Matthias Schwab, Roman Tremmel, Ingrid Øra, Caroline Hutter, Nicolas U. Gerber, Olli Lohi, Bernarda Kazanowska, Antonis Kattamis, Maria Filippidou, Bianca F. Goemans, C. Michel Zwaan, Till Milde, Natalie Jäger, Stephan Wolf, David Reuß, Felix Sahm, Andreas von Deimling, Uta Dirksen, Angelika Freitag, Ruth Witt, Peter Lichter, Annette Kopp‐Schneider, David Jones, Jan J. Molenaar, David Capper, Stefan M. Pfister, Olaf Witt - Cancer Discovery 2021 cited by 260

  17. Reduced H3K27me3 and DNA Hypomethylation Are Major Drivers of Gene Expression in K27M Mutant Pediatric High-Grade Gliomas

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Andreas von Deimling, Nada Jabado, Stéphanie Puget, Jacques Grill, Kristian Helin, Andrey Korshunov, Peter Lichter, Michelle Monje, Christoph Plass, Yoon-Jae Cho, Stefan M. Pfister - Cancer Cell 2013 cited by 842

  18. DNMT and HDAC inhibitors induce cryptic transcription start sites encoded in long terminal repeats

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Clarissa Gerhäuser, Christopher C. Oakes, Ting Wang, Christoph Plass - Nature Genetics 2017 cited by 337

  19. Genome Sequencing of Pediatric Medulloblastoma Links Catastrophic DNA Rearrangements with TP53 Mutations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Cindy Zhang, Rinnat M. Porat, Diana M. Merino, Jonathan D. Wasserman, Nada Jabado, Adam M. Fontebasso, Lars Bullinger, Frank G. Rücker, Konstanze Döhner, Hartmut Döhner, Jan Köster, Jan J. Molenaar, Rogier Versteeg, Marcel Kool, Uri Tabori, David Malkin, Andrey Korshunov, Michael D. Taylor, Peter Lichter, Stefan M. Pfister, Jan O. Korbel - Cell 2012 cited by 878

  20. Response assessment in paediatric low-grade glioma: recommendations from the Response Assessment in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (RAPNO) working group

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - The Lancet Oncology 2020 cited by 234

  21. Infant High-Grade Gliomas Comprise Multiple Subgroups Characterized by Novel Targetable Gene Fusions and Favorable Outcomes

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Uwe Kordes, David E. Kram, Matija Snuderl, Leslie Bridges, Andrew Martin, Lawrence J. Doey, Safa Al‐Sarraj, Christopher Chandler, Bassel Zebian, Claire Cairns, Rachael Natrajan, Jessica K.R. Boult, Simon P. Robinson, Martin Sill, Ira J. Dunkel, Stephen W. Gilheeney, Marc K. Rosenblum, Debbie Hughes, Paula Proszek, Tobey J. MacDonald, Matthias Preusser, Christine Haberler, Irene Slavc, Roger J. Packer, Ho‐Keung Ng, Shani Caspi, Mara Popović, Barbara Faganel Kotnik, Matthew D. Wood, Lissa Baird, Monika A. Davare, David A. Solomon, Thale Kristin Olsen, Petter Brandal, Michael Farrell, Jane Cryan, Michael Capra, Michael Karremann, Jens Schittenhelm, Martin U. Schuhmann, Martin Ebinger, Winand N.M. Dinjens, Kornelius Kerl, Simone Hettmer, Torsten Pietsch, Felipe Andreiuolo, Pablo Hernáiz Driever, Andrey Korshunov, Lotte Hiddingh, Barbara C. Worst, Dominik Sturm, Marc Zuckermann, Olaf Witt, Tabitha Bloom, Clare Mitchell, Evelina Miele, Giovanna Stefania Colafati, Francesca Diomedi‐Camassei, Simon Bailey, Andrew S. Moore, Tim Hassall, Stephen P. Lowis, Maria Tsoli, Mark J. Cowley, David S. Ziegler, Matthias A. Karajannis, Kristian Aquilina, Darren Hargrave, Fernando Carceller, Lynley V. Marshall and 14 more - Cancer Discovery 2020 cited by 278

  22. Risk stratification of childhood medulloblastoma in the molecular era: the current consensus

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Acta Neuropathologica 2016 cited by 650

  23. HDAC8: a multifaceted target for therapeutic interventions

    Authors: , , , , , , , - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 2015 cited by 268

  24. Recurrent somatic alterations of FGFR1 and NTRK2 in pilocytic astrocytoma

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Ursula Weber, Marc Zapatka, Benjamin Raeder, Matthias Schlesner, Catherine L. Worth, Cynthia C. Bartholomae, Christof von Kalle, Charles D. Imbusch, Sylwester Radomski, Chris Lawerenz, Peter van Sluis, Jan Köster, Richard Volckmann, Rogier Versteeg, Hans Lehrach, Camelia Monoranu, Beate Winkler, Andreas Unterberg, Christel Herold‐Mende, Till Milde, Andreas E. Kulozik, Martin Ebinger, Martin U. Schuhmann, Yoon‐Jae Cho, Scott L. Pomeroy, Andreas von Deimling, Olaf Witt, Michael D. Taylor, Stephan Wolf, Matthias A. Karajannis, Charles G. Eberhart, Wolfram Scheurlen, Martin Hasselblatt, Keith L. Ligon, Mark W. Kieran, Jan O. Korbel, Marie‐Laure Yaspo, Benedikt Brors, Jörg Felsberg, Guido Reifenberger, V. Peter Collins, Nada Jabado, Roland Eils, Peter Lichter - Nature Genetics 2013 cited by 835