Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

Bickeböller, Heike, Prof. Dr.

Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, Director of the Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Göttingen, Medical School


  • 1993 Ph.D., Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • 1998 Dr. med. habil, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • 1994 -1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, ISERM, Unité 155, Epidémiologie Génétique, Paris, France
  • 1995 -1999 Group leader Statistical Genetics, Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Technical University, Munich, Germany
  • 1999 -2001 Group leader Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology, GSF, now Helmholtz Centre Munich (HMGU), Germany
  • since 2001 Director Department Genetic Epidemiology, University of Göttingen, Medical School, Germany



Major Research Interests

Homepage Department/Research Group

http://www.genepi.med.uni-goettingen.de/


Selected Recent Publications


  • Landi MT, Chatterjee N, Yu K, Goldin LR, Goldstein AM, Rotunno M, Mirabello L, Jacobs K, Wheeler W, Yeager M, Bergen WA, Li Q, Consonni D, Pesatori AC, Wacholder S, Thun M, Diver R, Oken M, Wang Z, Burdett L, Doheny FK, Pugh WE, Laurie C, Brennan P, Hung R, Gaborieau V, McKay DJ, Lathrop M, McLaughlin J, Wang Y, Tsao M-S, Spitz MR, YWang u, Krokan H, Vatten L, Skorpen F, Arnesen E, Benhamou S, Bouchardy Ch, Metsapalu A, Vooder T, Nelis M, Välk K, Field JK, Chen C, Goodman G, Sulem P, Thorleifsson G, Rafnar T, Eisen T, Sauter W, Rosenberger A, Bickeböller H, Risch A, Chang-Claude J, Wichmann H-E, Stefansson K, Houlston R, Amos ChI, Fraumeni FJ Jr., Savage ShA, Bertazzi AP, Tucker MA, Chanock St, Caporaso NE (2009), “A genome-wide association study of lung cancer identifies a region of chromosome 5p15 associated with risk for adenocarcinoma”. Am J Hum Genet 85: 679-691

  • Malzahn D, Balavarca Y, Lozano J, Bickeböller H (2009), "Tests for candidate gene interaction for longitudinal quantitative traits measured in a large cohort", BMC Proceedings 3: S80

  • Sohns M, Rosenberger A, Bickeböller H (2009), "Integration of A Priori Gene Set Information into Genome Wide Association Studies", BMC Proceedings 3: S95

  • Tintle N, Lantieri F, Lebrec J, Sohns M, Ballard D, Bickeböller H (2009), “Inclusion of a priori information in genome-wide association analysis”, Genet Epidemiol 33: S74-S80

  • Müller M, Döring A, Küchenhoff H, Lamina C, Malzahn D, Bickeböller H, Vollmert C, Klopp N, Meising C, Heinrich J, Kronenberg F, Wichmann HE, Heid IM (2008). "Quantifying the contribution of genetic variants for survival phenotypes". Genet Epidemiol 32, 574 - 585