Marten H. Hofker

32.3k citations

207 papers · 15.8k · 3 hit papers · h-index 68

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Cancer Research top 0.5%
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism top 0.5%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 94
- Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors 27
Surgery 52
- Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health 23
- Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism 21

Co-authors: Louis M. Havekes (55 shared papers)Rune R. Frants (30 shared papers)Menno P.J. de Winther (23 shared papers)Ronit Shiri‐Sverdlov (42 shared papers)Marion J. Gijbels (31 shared papers)Cisca Wijmenga (32 shared papers)Patrick J. van Gorp (27 shared papers)Georg Kraal (7 shared papers)
Journals: Atherosclerosis (17 papers)Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (16 papers)PLoS ONE (10 papers)Genomics (10 papers)Journal of Clinical Investigation (9 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands United States United Kingdom

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Marten H. Hofker

204 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Marten H. Hofker's Hit Papers

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The Gut Microbiome Contributes to a Substantial Proportion of the Variation in Blood Lipids 2015 · 557 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2015 Circulation Research
1996 Cell
1992 Nature Genetics

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1	Familial Hemiplegic Migraine and Episodic Ataxia Type-2 Are Caused by Mutations in the Ca2+ Channel Gene CACNL1A4 Cell ·Roel A. Ophoff, Gisela M. Terwindt, Monique N. Vergouwe, Ronald van Eijk, Peter J. Oefner, Susan M.G. Hoffman, Jane E. Lamerdin, Harvey W. Mohrenweiser, Dennis E. Bulman, Maurizio Ferrari, Joost Haan, Dick Lindhout, Gert‐Jan B. van Ommen, Marten H. Hofker, Michel D. Ferrari, Rune R. Frants Hit paper breakdown →	1996	1767
2	The Gut Microbiome Contributes to a Substantial Proportion of the Variation in Blood Lipids Circulation Research ·Jingyuan Fu, Marc Jan Bonder, María Carmen Cénit, Ettje F. Tigchelaar, Astrid Maatman, Jackie Dekens, Eelke Brandsma, Joanna Marczynska, Floris Imhann, Rinse K. Weersma, Lude Franke, Tiffany Poon, Ramnik J. Xavier, Dirk Gevers, Marten H. Hofker, Cisca Wijmenga, Alexandra Zhernakova Hit paper breakdown →	2015	557
3	Chromosome 4q DNA rearrangements associated with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy Nature Genetics ·Cisca Wijmenga, Jane Hewitt, Lodewijk A. Sandkuijl, Lorraine N. Clark, Tracy J. Wright, Hans G. Dauwerse, Anne-Marie Gruter, Marten H. Hofker, Petra Moerer, Robert Williamson, Gert‐Jan B. van Ommen, George W. Padberg, Rune R. Frants Hit paper breakdown →	1992	516
4	Nuclear Factor κB Signaling in Atherogenesis Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Menno P.J. de Winther, Edwin Kanters, Georg Kraal, Marten H. Hofker	2005	489
5	Role of ApoCs in Lipoprotein Metabolism Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Miek C. Jong, Marten H. Hofker, Louis M. Havekes	1999	433
6	FSHD associated DNA rearrangements are due to deletions of integral copies of a 3.2 kb tandemly repeated unit Human Molecular Genetics ·Judith C. T. van Deutekom, Cisca Wljmenga, Esther A.E.Van Tlenhoven, Anne-Marie Gruter, Jane Hewitt, George W. Padberg, Gert‐Jan B. van Ommen, Marten H. Hofker, Rune R. Fronts	1993	421
7	Dietary cholesterol, rather than liver steatosis, leads to hepatic inflammation in hyperlipidemic mouse models of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis† Hepatology ·Kristiaan Wouters, Patrick J. van Gorp, Veerle Bieghs, Marion J. Gijbels, Hans Duimel, Dieter Lütjohann, Anja Kerksiek, Roger van Kruchten, Nobuyo Maeda, Bart Staels, Marc van Bilsen, Ronit Shiri‐Sverdlov, Marten H. Hofker	2008	393
8	A Proinflammatory Gut Microbiota Increases Systemic Inflammation and Accelerates Atherosclerosis Circulation Research ·Eelke Brandsma, Niels Kloosterhuis, Mirjam H. Koster, Daphne Dekker, Marion J. Gijbels, Saskia van der Velden, Melany Ríos-Morales, Martijn van Faassen, Marco G. Loreti, Alain de Bruin, Jingyuan Fu, Folkert Kuipers, Barbara M. Bakker, Marit Westerterp, Menno P.J. de Winther, Marten H. Hofker, Bart van de Sluis, Debby P.Y. Koonen	2019	296
9	PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS AND CARRIER DETECTION OF DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY WITH CLOSELY LINKED RFLPs The Lancet ·Egbert Bakker, Nicole Goor, Klaus Wrogemann, Louis M. Kunkel, Wayne A. Fenton, Daniëlle Majoor‐Krakauer, M. G. J. Jahoda, G.J.B. van Ommen, Marten H. Hofker, Jean‐Louis Mandel, Kay E. Davies, H.F. Willard, L. A. Sandkuyl, A.J. van Essen, E. S. Sachs, P. Pearson	1985	284
10	Inhibition of NF-κB activation in macrophages increases atherosclerosis in LDL receptor–deficient mice Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Edwin Kanters, Manolis Pasparakis, Marion J. Gijbels, Monique N. Vergouwe, Iris Partouns-Hendriks, Remond J.A. Fijneman, Björn E. Clausen, Irmgard Förster, Mark Kockx, Klaus Rajewsky, Georg Kraal, Marten H. Hofker, Menno P.J. de Winther	2003	257
11	Analysis of the tandem repeat locus D4Z4 associated with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystropothhy Human Molecular Genetics ·Jane Hewitt, Robert Lyle, Lorraine N. Clark, Elizabeth M. A. Valleley, Tracy J. Wright, Cisca Wijmenga, J.C.T. van Deutekom, Fiona Francis, Paul T. Sharpe, Marten H. Hofker, Rune R. Frants, Robert Williamson	1994	256
12	Inhibition of NF-κB activation in macrophages increases atherosclerosis in LDL receptor–deficient mice Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Edwin Kanters, Manolis Pasparakis, Marion J. Gijbels, Monique N. Vergouwe, Iris Partouns-Hendriks, Remond J.A. Fijneman, Björn E. Clausen, Irmgard Förster, Mark Kockx, Klaus Rajewsky, Georg Kraal, Marten H. Hofker, Menno P.J. de Winther	2003	238
13	High-fat diet induced obesity primes inflammation in adipose tissue prior to liver in C57BL/6j mice Aging ·Roel A. van der Heijden, Fareeba Sheedfar, Martine C. Morrison, Pascal P. H. Hommelberg, Danny Kor, Niels Kloosterhuis, Nanda Gruben, Sameh A. Youssef, Alain de Bruin, Marten H. Hofker, Robert Kleemann, Debby P.Y. Koonen, Peter Heeringa	2015	235
14	Human Disease-Associated Genetic Variation Impacts Large Intergenic Non-Coding RNA Expression PLoS Genetics ·Vinod Kumar, Harm-Jan Westra, Juha Karjalainen, Daria V. Zhernakova, Tõnu Esko, Barbara Hrdličková, Rodrigo de Almeida, Alexandra Zhernakova, Eva Reinmaa, Urmo Võsa, Marten H. Hofker, Rudolf S.N. Fehrmann, Jingyuan Fu, Sebo Withoff, Andres Metspalu, Lude Franke, Cisca Wijmenga	2013	216
15	Diet-induced hyperlipoproteinemia and atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E3-Leiden transgenic mice. Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Bart J. van Vlijmen, Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg, Marion J. Gijbels, Hans van der Boom, Harm HogenEsch, Rune R. Frants, Marten H. Hofker, Louis M. Havekes	1994	214
16	Early diet-induced non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in APOE2 knock-in mice and its prevention by fibrates Journal of Hepatology ·Ronit Shiri‐Sverdlov, Kristiaan Wouters, Patrick J. van Gorp, Marion J. Gijbels, Benoît Noël, Laurent Buffat, Bart Staels, Nobuyo Maeda, Marc van Bilsen, Marten H. Hofker	2005	208
17	Macrophage Scavenger Receptor Class A Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Menno P.J. de Winther, Ko Willems van Dijk, Louis M. Havekes, Marten H. Hofker	2000	207
18	Transgenic mice carrying the apolipoprotein E3-Leiden gene exhibit hyperlipoproteinemia Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Arn M. J. M. van den Maagdenberg, Marten H. Hofker, Paul Krimpenfort, Ino de Bruijn, Bas van Vlijmen, Hans van der Boom, Louis M. Havekes, Rune R. Frants	1993	195
19	Isolation of probes detecting restriction fragment length polymorphisms from X chromosome-specific libraries: potential use for diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy Human Genetics ·Marten H. Hofker, Martin C. Wapenaar, Nicole Goor, Egbert Bakker, G.J.B. van Ommen, P. Pearson	1985	194
20	Unraveling the Regulatory Mechanisms Underlying Tissue-Dependent Genetic Variation of Gene Expression PLoS Genetics ·Jingyuan Fu, Marcel G. M. Wolfs, Patrick Deelen, Harm-Jan Westra, Rudolf S.N. Fehrmann, Gerard J. te Meerman, Wim A. Buurman, Sander S. Rensen, Harry J.M. Groen, Rinse K. Weersma, Leonard H. van den Berg, Jan H. Veldink, Roel A. Ophoff, Harold Snieder, David A. van Heel, Ritsert C. Jansen, Marten H. Hofker, Cisca Wijmenga, Lude Franke	2012	160

About Marten H. Hofker

Marten H. Hofker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery, Epidemiology, Genetics and Immunology, having authored 207 papers that have together received 15.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (27 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (25 papers), Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health (23 papers), Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (21 papers), Lipid metabolism and disorders (16 papers), Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism (16 papers), Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases (16 papers) and Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (1.5k citations), Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (1.6k citations), Molecular Biology (6.9k citations), Immunology (2.0k citations) and Epidemiology (2.7k citations). Marten H. Hofker has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Louis M. Havekes, Rune R. Frants, Menno P.J. de Winther, Ronit Shiri‐Sverdlov, Marion J. Gijbels, Cisca Wijmenga, Patrick J. van Gorp, Georg Kraal, Ko Willems van Dijk and Monique N. Vergouwe. Their work appears in journals such as Atherosclerosis, Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, PLoS ONE, Genomics and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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