Prof. Dr. Klaus Stark

• 1991-1996 Studium der Biologie (Diplom) an der Universität Regensburg
• 1996-2002 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Genetik der Universität Regensburg
• 1999 Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat.
• 2002-2004 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter bei NeuroProfile GmbH
• 2004-2012 Forschungslaborleiter an der Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II des Universitätsklinikums Regensburg
• 2011 Feststellung der Lehrbefähigung durch die Fakultät für Medizin der Universität Regensburg und Erteilung der Lehrbefugnis für das Fachgebiet Experimentelle Medizin
• Seit 2012 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Genetische Epidemiologie, Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin, Universität Regensburg
• 2020 Ernennung zum außerplanmäßigen Professor

• Molekulare und Genetische Epidemiologie
• Augenstudie der Universität Regensburg (AugUR)
• Kardiovaskuläre Erkrankungen
• Metabolische Phänotypen
• Biomarker

Wopperer FJ, Knaup KX, Stanzick KJ, Schneider K, Jobst-Schwan T, Ekici AB,
Uebe S, Wenzel A, Schliep S, Schürfeld C, Seitz R, Bernhardt W, Gödel M,
Wiesener A, Popp B, Stark KJ, Gröne HJ, Friedrich B, Weiß M, Basic-Jukic N,
Schiffer M, Schröppel B, Huettel B, Beck BB; Genomics England Research
Consortium, Sayer JA, Ziegler C, Büttner-Herold M, Amann K, Heid IM, Reis A,
Pasutto F, Wiesener MS. Diverse molecular causes of unsolved autosomal dominant
tubulointerstitial kidney diseases. Kidney Int. 2022 Aug;102(2):405-420. doi:
10.1016/j.kint.2022.04.031. Epub 2022 May 26. PMID: 35643372.

Gorski M, Rasheed H, Teumer A, Thomas LF, Graham SE, Sveinbjornsson G,
Winkler TW, Günther F, Stark KJ, Chai JF, Tayo BO, Wuttke M, Li Y, Tin A,
Ahluwalia TS, Ärnlöv J, Åsvold BO, Bakker SJL, Banas B, Bansal N, Biggs ML,
Biino G, Böhnke M, Boerwinkle E, Bottinger EP, Brenner H, Brumpton B, Carroll
RJ, Chaker L, Chalmers J, Chee ML, Chee ML, Cheng CY, Chu AY, Ciullo M, Cocca M,
Cook JP, Coresh J, Cusi D, de Borst MH, Degenhardt F, Eckardt KU, Endlich K,
Evans MK, Feitosa MF, Franke A, Freitag-Wolf S, Fuchsberger C, Gampawar P,
Gansevoort RT, Ghanbari M, Ghasemi S, Giedraitis V, Gieger C, Gudbjartsson DF,
Hallan S, Hamet P, Hishida A, Ho K, Hofer E, Holleczek B, Holm H, Hoppmann A,
Horn K, Hutri-Kähönen N, Hveem K, Hwang SJ, Ikram MA, Josyula NS, Jung B,
Kähönen M, Karabegović I, Khor CC, Koenig W, Kramer H, Krämer BK, Kühnel B,
Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lange LA, Lehtimäki T, Li M, Lieb W; Lifelines Cohort
Study, Lind L, Lindgren CM, Loos RJF, Lukas MA, Lyytikäinen LP, Mahajan A,
Matias-Garcia PR, Meisinger C, Meitinger T, Melander O, Milaneschi Y, Mishra PP,
Mononen N, Morris AP, Mychaleckyj JC, Nadkarni GN, Naito M, Nakatochi M, Nalls
MA, Nauck M, Nikus K, Ning B, Nolte IM, Nutile T, O'Donoghue ML, O'Connell J,
Olafsson I, Orho-Melander M, Parsa A, Pendergrass SA, Penninx BWJH, Pirastu M,
Preuss MH, Psaty BM, Raffield LM, Raitakari OT, Rheinberger M, Rice KM, Rizzi F,
Rosenkranz AR, Rossing P, Rotter JI, Ruggiero D, Ryan KA, Sabanayagam C, Salvi
E, Schmidt H, Schmidt R, Scholz M, Schöttker B, Schulz CA, Sedaghat S, Shaffer
CM, Sieber KB, Sim X, Sims M, Snieder H, Stanzick KJ, Thorsteinsdottir U,
Stocker H, Strauch K, Stringham HM, Sulem P, Szymczak S, Taylor KD, Thio CHL,
Tremblay J, Vaccargiu S, van der Harst P, van der Most PJ, Verweij N, Völker U,
Wakai K, Waldenberger M, Wallentin L, Wallner S, Wang J, Waterworth DM, White
HD, Willer CJ, Wong TY, Woodward M, Yang Q, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Zimmermann M,
Zonderman AB, Bergler T, Stefansson K, Böger CA, Pattaro C, Köttgen A,
Kronenberg F, Heid IM. Genetic loci and prioritization of genes for kidney
function decline derived from a meta-analysis of 62 longitudinal genome-wide
association studies. Kidney Int. 2022 Jun 16:S0085-2538(22)00454-9. doi:
10.1016/j.kint.2022.05.021. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35716955.

Winkler TW, Rasheed H, Teumer A, Gorski M, Rowan BX, Stanzick KJ, Thomas LF,
Tin A, Hoppmann A, Chu AY, Tayo B, Thio CHL, Cusi D, Chai JF, Sieber KB, Horn K,
Li M, Scholz M, Cocca M, Wuttke M, van der Most PJ, Yang Q, Ghasemi S, Nutile T,
Li Y, Pontali G, Günther F, Dehghan A, Correa A, Parsa A, Feresin A, de Vries
APJ, Zonderman AB, Smith AV, Oldehinkel AJ, De Grandi A, Rosenkranz AR, Franke
A, Teren A, Metspalu A, Hicks AA, Morris AP, Tönjes A, Morgan A, Podgornaia AI,
Peters A, Körner A, Mahajan A, Campbell A, Freedman BI, Spedicati B, Ponte B,
Schöttker B, Brumpton B, Banas B, Krämer BK, Jung B, Åsvold BO, Smith BH, Ning
B, Penninx BWJH, Vanderwerff BR, Psaty BM, Kammerer CM, Langefeld CD, Hayward C,
Spracklen CN, Robinson-Cohen C, Hartman CA, Lindgren CM, Wang C, Sabanayagam C,
Heng CK, Lanzani C, Khor CC, Cheng CY, Fuchsberger C, Gieger C, Shaffer CM,
Schulz CA, Willer CJ, Chasman DI, Gudbjartsson DF, Ruggiero D, Toniolo D,
Czamara D, Porteous DJ, Waterworth DM, Mascalzoni D, Mook-Kanamori DO, Reilly
DF, Daw EW, Hofer E, Boerwinkle E, Salvi E, Bottinger EP, Tai ES, Catamo E,
Rizzi F, Guo F, Rivadeneira F, Guilianini F, Sveinbjornsson G, Ehret G, Waeber
G, Biino G, Girotto G, Pistis G, Nadkarni GN, Delgado GE, Montgomery GW, Snieder
H, Campbell H, White HD, Gao H, Stringham HM, Schmidt H, Li H, Brenner H, Holm
H, Kirsten H, Kramer H, Rudan I, Nolte IM, Tzoulaki I, Olafsson I, Martins J,
Cook JP, Wilson JF, Halbritter J, Felix JF, Divers J, Kooner JS, Lee JJ,
O'Connell J, Rotter JI, Liu J, Xu J, Thiery J, Ärnlöv J, Kuusisto J,
Jakobsdottir J, Tremblay J, Chambers JC, Whitfield JB, Gaziano JM, Marten J,
Coresh J, Jonas JB, Mychaleckyj JC, Christensen K, Eckardt KU, Mohlke KL,
Endlich K, Dittrich K, Ryan KA, Rice KM, Taylor KD, Ho K, Nikus K, Matsuda K,
Strauch K, Miliku K, Hveem K, Lind L, Wallentin L, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Raffield
LM, Phillips LS, Launer LJ, Lyytikäinen LP, Lange LA, Citterio L, Klaric L,
Ikram MA, Ising M, Kleber ME, Francescatto M, Concas MP, Ciullo M, Piratsu M,
Orho-Melander M, Laakso M, Loeffler M, Perola M, de Borst MH, Gögele M, Bianca
M, Lukas MA, Feitosa MF, Biggs ML, Wojczynski MK, Kavousi M, Kanai M, Akiyama M,
Yasuda M, Nauck M, Waldenberger M, Chee ML, Chee ML, Boehnke M, Preuss MH,
Stumvoll M, Province MA, Evans MK, O'Donoghue ML, Kubo M, Kähönen M, Kastarinen
M, Nalls MA, Kuokkanen M, Ghanbari M, Bochud M, Josyula NS, Martin NG, Tan NYQ,
Palmer ND, Pirastu N, Schupf N, Verweij N, Hutri-Kähönen N, Mononen N, Bansal N,
Devuyst O, Melander O, Raitakari OT, Polasek O, Manunta P, Gasparini P, Mishra
PP, Sulem P, Magnusson PKE, Elliott P, Ridker PM, Hamet P, Svensson PO, Joshi
PK, Kovacs P, Pramstaller PP, Rossing P, Vollenweider P, van der Harst P,
Dorajoo R, Sim RZH, Burkhardt R, Tao R, Noordam R, Mägi R, Schmidt R, de Mutsert
R, Rueedi R, van Dam RM, Carroll RJ, Gansevoort RT, Loos RJF, Felicita SC,
Sedaghat S, Padmanabhan S, Freitag-Wolf S, Pendergrass SA, Graham SE, Gordon SD,
Hwang SJ, Kerr SM, Vaccargiu S, Patil SB, Hallan S, Bakker SJL, Lim SC, Lucae S,
Vogelezang S, Bergmann S, Corre T, Ahluwalia TS, Lehtimäki T, Boutin TS,
Meitinger T, Wong TY, Bergler T, Rabelink TJ, Esko T, Haller T, Thorsteinsdottir
U, Völker U, Foo VHX, Salomaa V, Vitart V, Giedraitis V, Gudnason V, Jaddoe VWV,
Huang W, Zhang W, Wei WB, Kiess W, März W, Koenig W, Lieb W, Gao X, Sim X, Wang
YX, Friedlander Y, Tham YC, Kamatani Y, Okada Y, Milaneschi Y, Yu Z; Lifelines
cohort study; DiscovEHR/MyCode study; VA Million Veteran Program, Stark KJ,
Stefansson K, Böger CA, Hung AM, Kronenberg F, Köttgen A, Pattaro C, Heid IM.
Differential and shared genetic effects on kidney function between diabetic and
non-diabetic individuals. Commun Biol. 2022 Jun 13;5(1):580. doi:
10.1038/s42003-022-03448-z. PMID: 35697829; PMCID: PMC9192715.

Einhauser S, Peterhoff D, Beileke S, Günther F, Niller HH, Steininger P,
Knöll A, Korn K, Berr M, Schütz A, Wiegrebe S, Stark KJ, Gessner A, Burkhardt R,
Kabesch M, Schedl H, Küchenhoff H, Pfahlberg AB, Heid IM, Gefeller O, Überla K,
Wagner R. Time Trend in SARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity, Surveillance Detection- and
Infection Fatality Ratio until Spring 2021 in the Tirschenreuth County-Results
from a Population-Based Longitudinal Study in Germany. Viruses. 2022 May
27;14(6):1168. doi: 10.3390/v14061168. PMID: 35746640; PMCID: PMC9228731.

Koller A, Brandl C, Lamina C, Zimmermann ME, Summerer M, Stark KJ, Würzner R,
Heid IM, Kronenberg F. Relative Telomere Length Is Associated With Age-Related
Macular Degeneration in Women. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2022 May 2;63(5):30.
doi: 10.1167/iovs.63.5.30. PMID: 35612837; PMCID: PMC9150829.

Mauschitz MM, Schmitz MT, Verzijden T, Schmid M, Thee EF, Colijn JM, Delcourt
C, Cougnard-Grégoire A, Merle BMJ, Korobelnik JF, Gopinath B, Mitchell P, Elbaz
H, Schuster AK, Wild PS, Brandl C, Stark KJ, Heid IM, Günther F, Peters A,
Klaver CCW, Finger RP; European Eye Epidemiology (E3) Consortium. Physical
Activity, Incidence, and Progression of Age-Related Macular Degeneration: A
Multicohort Study. Am J Ophthalmol. 2022 Apr;236:99-106. doi:
10.1016/j.ajo.2021.10.008. Epub 2021 Oct 22. PMID: 34695401.

Brandl C, Zimmermann ME, Günther F, Dietl A, Küchenhoff H, Loss J, Stark KJ,
Heid IM. Changes in healthcare seeking and lifestyle in old aged individuals
during COVID-19 lockdown in Germany: the population-based AugUR study. BMC
Geriatr. 2022 Jan 8;22(1):34. doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02677-x. PMID: 34998375;
PMCID: PMC8742665.

Matos C, Peter K, Weich L, Peuker A, Schoenhammer G, Roider T, Ghimire S,
Babl N, Decking S, Güllstorf M, Kröger N, Hammon K, Herr W, Stark K, Heid IM,
Renner K, Holler E, Kreutz M. Anti-Thymocyte Globulin Treatment Augments
1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Serum Levels in Patients Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem
Cell Transplantation. Front Immunol. 2022 Jan 4;12:803726. doi:
10.3389/fimmu.2021.803726. PMID: 35058935; PMCID: PMC8763972.

Brandl C, Günther F, Zimmermann ME, Hartmann KI, Eberlein G, Barth T, Winkler
TW, Linkohr B, Heier M, Peters A, Li JQ, Finger RP, Helbig H, Weber BHF,
Küchenhoff H, Mueller A, Stark KJ, Heid IM. Incidence, progression and risk
factors of age-related macular degeneration in 35-95-year-old individuals from
three jointly designed German cohort studies. BMJ Open Ophthalmol. 2022 Jan
4;7(1):e000912. doi: 10.1136/bmjophth-2021-000912. PMID: 35047672; PMCID:
PMC8728420.

Graham SE, Clarke SL, Wu KH, Kanoni S, Zajac GJM, Ramdas S, Surakka I,
Ntalla I, Vedantam S, Winkler TW, Locke AE, Marouli E, Hwang MY, Han S, Narita
A, Choudhury A, Bentley AR, Ekoru K, Verma A, Trivedi B, Martin HC, Hunt KA, Hui
Q, Klarin D, Zhu X, Thorleifsson G, Helgadottir A, Gudbjartsson DF, Holm H,
Olafsson I, Akiyama M, Sakaue S, Terao C, Kanai M, Zhou W, Brumpton BM, Rasheed
H, Ruotsalainen SE, Havulinna AS, Veturi Y, Feng Q, Rosenthal EA, Lingren T,
Pacheco JA, Pendergrass SA, Haessler J, Giulianini F, Bradford Y, Miller JE,
Campbell A, Lin K, Millwood IY, Hindy G, Rasheed A, Faul JD, Zhao W, Weir DR,
Turman C, Huang H, Graff M, Mahajan A, Brown MR, Zhang W, Yu K, Schmidt EM,
Pandit A, Gustafsson S, Yin X, Luan J, Zhao JH, Matsuda F, Jang HM, Yoon K,
Medina-Gomez C, Pitsillides A, Hottenga JJ, Willemsen G, Wood AR, Ji Y, Gao Z,
Haworth S, Mitchell RE, Chai JF, Aadahl M, Yao J, Manichaikul A, Warren HR,
Ramirez J, Bork-Jensen J, Kårhus LL, Goel A, Sabater-Lleal M, Noordam R, Sidore
C, Fiorillo E, McDaid AF, Marques-Vidal P, Wielscher M, Trompet S, Sattar N,
Møllehave LT, Thuesen BH, Munz M, Zeng L, Huang J, Yang B, Poveda A, Kurbasic A,
Lamina C, Forer L, Scholz M, Galesloot TE, Bradfield JP, Daw EW, Zmuda JM,
Mitchell JS, Fuchsberger C, Christensen H, Brody JA, Feitosa MF, Wojczynski MK,
Preuss M, Mangino M, Christofidou P, Verweij N, Benjamins JW, Engmann J, Kember
RL, Slieker RC, Lo KS, Zilhao NR, Le P, Kleber ME, Delgado GE, Huo S, Ikeda DD,
Iha H, Yang J, Liu J, Leonard HL, Marten J, Schmidt B, Arendt M, Smyth LJ,
Cañadas-Garre M, Wang C, Nakatochi M, Wong A, Hutri-Kähönen N, Sim X, Xia R,
Huerta-Chagoya A, Fernandez-Lopez JC, Lyssenko V, Ahmed M, Jackson AU, Irvin MR,
Oldmeadow C, Kim HN, Ryu S, Timmers PRHJ, Arbeeva L, Dorajoo R, Lange LA, Chai
X, Prasad G, Lorés-Motta L, Pauper M, Long J, Li X, Theusch E, Takeuchi F,
Spracklen CN, Loukola A, Bollepalli S, Warner SC, Wang YX, Wei WB, Nutile T,
Ruggiero D, Sung YJ, Hung YJ, Chen S, Liu F, Yang J, Kentistou KA, Gorski M,
Brumat M, Meidtner K, Bielak LF, Smith JA, Hebbar P, Farmaki AE, Hofer E, Lin M,
Xue C, Zhang J, Concas MP, Vaccargiu S, van der Most PJ, Pitkänen N, Cade BE,
Lee J, van der Laan SW, Chitrala KN, Weiss S, Zimmermann ME, Lee JY, Choi HS,
Nethander M, Freitag-Wolf S, Southam L, Rayner NW, Wang CA, Lin SY, Wang JS,
Couture C, Lyytikäinen LP, Nikus K, Cuellar-Partida G, Vestergaard H, Hildalgo
B, Giannakopoulou O, Cai Q, Obura MO, van Setten J, Li X, Schwander K, Terzikhan
N, Shin JH, Jackson RD, Reiner AP, Martin LW, Chen Z, Li L, Highland HM, Young
KL, Kawaguchi T, Thiery J, Bis JC, Nadkarni GN, Launer LJ, Li H, Nalls MA,
Raitakari OT, Ichihara S, Wild SH, Nelson CP, Campbell H, Jäger S, Nabika T, Al-
Mulla F, Niinikoski H, Braund PS, Kolcic I, Kovacs P, Giardoglou T, Katsuya T,
Bhatti KF, de Kleijn D, de Borst GJ, Kim EK, Adams HHH, Ikram MA, Zhu X,
Asselbergs FW, Kraaijeveld AO, Beulens JWJ, Shu XO, Rallidis LS, Pedersen O,
Hansen T, Mitchell P, Hewitt AW, Kähönen M, Pérusse L, Bouchard C, Tönjes A,
Chen YI, Pennell CE, Mori TA, Lieb W, Franke A, Ohlsson C, Mellström D, Cho YS,
Lee H, Yuan JM, Koh WP, Rhee SY, Woo JT, Heid IM, Stark KJ, Völzke H, Homuth G,
Evans MK, Zonderman AB, Polasek O, Pasterkamp G, Hoefer IE, Redline S, Pahkala
K, Oldehinkel AJ, Snieder H, Biino G, Schmidt R, Schmidt H, Chen YE, Bandinelli
S, Dedoussis G, Thanaraj TA, Kardia SLR, Kato N, Schulze MB, Girotto G, Jung B,
Böger CA, Joshi PK, Bennett DA, De Jager PL, Lu X, Mamakou V, Brown M, Caulfield
MJ, Munroe PB, Guo X, Ciullo M, Jonas JB, Samani NJ, Kaprio J, Pajukanta P,
Adair LS, Bechayda SA, de Silva HJ, Wickremasinghe AR, Krauss RM, Wu JY, Zheng
W, den Hollander AI, Bharadwaj D, Correa A, Wilson JG, Lind L, Heng CK, Nelson
AE, Golightly YM, Wilson JF, Penninx B, Kim HL, Attia J, Scott RJ, Rao DC,
Arnett DK, Walker M, Koistinen HA, Chandak GR, Yajnik CS, Mercader JM, Tusié-
Luna T, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Villalpando CG, Orozco L, Fornage M, Tai ES, van Dam
RM, Lehtimäki T, Chaturvedi N, Yokota M, Liu J, Reilly DF, McKnight AJ, Kee F,
Jöckel KH, McCarthy MI, Palmer CNA, Vitart V, Hayward C, Simonsick E, van Duijn
CM, Lu F, Qu J, Hishigaki H, Lin X, März W, Parra EJ, Cruz M, Gudnason V, Tardif
JC, Lettre G, 't Hart LM, Elders PJM, Damrauer SM, Kumari M, Kivimaki M, van der
Harst P, Spector TD, Loos RJF, Province MA, Psaty BM, Brandslund I, Pramstaller
PP, Christensen K, Ripatti S, Widén E, Hakonarson H, Grant SFA, Kiemeney LALM,
de Graaf J, Loeffler M, Kronenberg F, Gu D, Erdmann J, Schunkert H, Franks PW,
Linneberg A, Jukema JW, Khera AV, Männikkö M, Jarvelin MR, Kutalik Z, Cucca F,
Mook-Kanamori DO, van Dijk KW, Watkins H, Strachan DP, Grarup N, Sever P,
Poulter N, Rotter JI, Dantoft TM, Karpe F, Neville MJ, Timpson NJ, Cheng CY,
Wong TY, Khor CC, Sabanayagam C, Peters A, Gieger C, Hattersley AT, Pedersen NL,
Magnusson PKE, Boomsma DI, de Geus EJC, Cupples LA, van Meurs JBJ, Ghanbari M,
Gordon-Larsen P, Huang W, Kim YJ, Tabara Y, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Zeggini E,
Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Ingelsson E, Abecasis G, Chambers JC, Kooner JS, de Vries
PS, Morrison AC, North KE, Daviglus M, Kraft P, Martin NG, Whitfield JB, Abbas
S, Saleheen D, Walters RG, Holmes MV, Black C, Smith BH, Justice AE, Baras A,
Buring JE, Ridker PM, Chasman DI, Kooperberg C, Wei WQ, Jarvik GP, Namjou B,
Hayes MG, Ritchie MD, Jousilahti P, Salomaa V, Hveem K, Åsvold BO, Kubo M,
Kamatani Y, Okada Y, Murakami Y, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K, Ho YL, Lynch
JA, Rader DJ, Tsao PS, Chang KM, Cho K, O'Donnell CJ, Gaziano JM, Wilson P,
Rotimi CN, Hazelhurst S, Ramsay M, Trembath RC, van Heel DA, Tamiya G, Yamamoto
M, Kim BJ, Mohlke KL, Frayling TM, Hirschhorn JN, Kathiresan S; VA Million
Veteran Program; Global Lipids Genetics Consortium*, Boehnke M, Natarajan P,
Peloso GM, Brown CD, Morris AP, Assimes TL, Deloukas P, Sun YV, Willer CJ. The
power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids. Nature.
2021 Dec;600(7890):675-679. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04064-3. Epub 2021 Dec 9.
PMID: 34887591; PMCID: PMC8730582.

Dietl A, Zimmermann ME, Brandl C, Wallner S, Burkhardt R, Maier LS, Luchner
A, Heid IM, Stark KJ. Distribution and specificity of high-sensitivity cardiac
troponin T in older adults without acute cardiac conditions: cross-sectional
results from the population-based AugUR study. BMJ Open. 2021 Nov
2;11(11):e052004. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-052004. PMID: 34728452; PMCID:
PMC8565570.

Drewitz KP, Stark KJ, Zimmermann ME, Heid IM, Apfelbacher CJ. Frequency of
hand eczema in the elderly: Cross-sectional findings from the German AugUR
study. Contact Dermatitis. 2021 Nov;85(5):489-493. doi: 10.1111/cod.13920. Epub
2021 Jul 12. PMID: 34161620.

Stanzick KJ, Li Y, Schlosser P, Gorski M, Wuttke M, Thomas LF, Rasheed H,
Rowan BX, Graham SE, Vanderweff BR, Patil SB; VA Million Veteran Program,
Robinson-Cohen C, Gaziano JM, O'Donnell CJ, Willer CJ, Hallan S, Åsvold BO,
Gessner A, Hung AM, Pattaro C, Köttgen A, Stark KJ, Heid IM, Winkler TW.
Discovery and prioritization of variants and genes for kidney function in >1.2
million individuals. Nat Commun. 2021 Jul 16;12(1):4350. doi:
10.1038/s41467-021-24491-0. PMID: 34272381; PMCID: PMC8285412.

Wagner R, Peterhoff D, Beileke S, Günther F, Berr M, Einhauser S, Schütz A,
Niller HH, Steininger P, Knöll A, Tenbusch M, Maier C, Korn K, Stark KJ, Gessner
A, Burkhardt R, Kabesch M, Schedl H, Küchenhoff H, Pfahlberg AB, Heid IM,
Gefeller O, Überla K. Estimates and Determinants of SARS-Cov-2 Seroprevalence
and Infection Fatality Ratio Using Latent Class Analysis: The Population-Based
Tirschenreuth Study in the Hardest-Hit German County in Spring 2020. Viruses.
2021 Jun 10;13(6):1118. doi: 10.3390/v13061118. PMID: 34200766; PMCID:
PMC8230374.

Garnier S, Harakalova M, Weiss S, Mokry M, Regitz-Zagrosek V, Hengstenberg
C, Cappola TP, Isnard R, Arbustini E, Cook SA, van Setten J, Calis JJA,
Hakonarson H, Morley MP, Stark K, Prasad SK, Li J, O'Regan DP, Grasso M, Müller-
Nurasyid M, Meitinger T, Empana JP, Strauch K, Waldenberger M, Marguiles KB,
Seidman CE, Kararigas G, Meder B, Haas J, Boutouyrie P, Lacolley P, Jouven X,
Erdmann J, Blankenberg S, Wichter T, Ruppert V, Tavazzi L, Dubourg O, Roizes G,
Dorent R, de Groote P, Fauchier L, Trochu JN, Aupetit JF, Bilinska ZT, Germain
M, Völker U, Hemerich D, Raji I, Bacq-Daian D, Proust C, Remior P, Gomez-Bueno
M, Lehnert K, Maas R, Olaso R, Saripella GV, Felix SB, McGinn S, Duboscq-Bidot
L, van Mil A, Besse C, Fontaine V, Blanché H, Ader F, Keating B, Curjol A,
Boland A, Komajda M, Cambien F, Deleuze JF, Dörr M, Asselbergs FW, Villard E,
Trégouët DA, Charron P. Genome-wide association analysis in dilated
cardiomyopathy reveals two new players in systolic heart failure on chromosomes
3p25.1 and 22q11.23. Eur Heart J. 2021 May 21;42(20):2000-2011. doi:
10.1093/eurheartj/ehab030. Erratum in: Eur Heart J. 2021 May 21;42(20):2011.
PMID: 33677556; PMCID: PMC8139853.

Peter K, Siska PJ, Roider T, Matos C, Bruns H, Renner K, Singer K, Weber D,
Güllstorf M, Kröger N, Wolff D, Herr W, Ayuk F, Holler E, Stark K, Heid IM,
Kreutz M. 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin-D3 but not the clinically applied marker
25-hydroxyvitamin-D3 predicts survival after stem cell transplantation. Bone
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Dietl A, Stark K, Zimmermann ME, Meisinger C, Schunkert H, Birner C, Maier
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Brandl C, Stark KJ, Wintergerst M, Heinemann M, Heid IM, Finger RP.
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Reinhard W, Stark K, Sedlacek K, Fischer M, Baessler A, Neureuther K, Weber
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Stark K, Reinhard W, Neureuther K, Wiedmann S, Sedlacek K, Baessler A,
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Schunkert H, Götz A, Braund P, McGinnis R, Tregouet DA, Mangino M, Linsel-
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Jakobiak T, Mages W, Scharf B, Babinger P, Stark K, Schmitt R. The bacterial
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Stark K, Schmitt R. Genetic control of germ-soma differentiation in Volvox
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Stark K, Kirk DL, Schmitt R. Two enhancers and one silencer located in the
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Meissner M, Stark K, Cresnar B, Kirk DL, Schmitt R. Volvox germline-specific
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Kirk MM, Stark K, Miller SM, Müller W, Taillon BE, Gruber H, Schmitt R, Kirk
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