Prof. Kathleen Claes
- Associate Professor
- Head of the Cancer Predisposition and Precision Oncology lab
Contact
Campus UZ, C. Heymanslaan 10, MRB1 (entrance 34), 9000 Ghent
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Personalia
Biography
- 2009 - present: Professor - Ghent University
- 1997 - 2011: Postdoc - Ghent University
- 2003: PhD - Ghent University
- 1996: Master Bioscience Engineering - Ghent University
Member of
- CRIG
- Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 (CIMBA)
- ENIGMA consortium
- European Reference Network for rare genetic tumour risk sundromes (ERN-Genturis)
Research tracks
Expertise
- Immunogenetics
- Clinical genetics and molecular diagnostics
- Epigenetics
- Genetics
- Molecular diagnostics
- Cancer diagnosis
- Cancer prevention
- Oncology not elsewhere classified
Publications
Key publications
- Increased chromosomal radiosensitivity in asymptomatic carriers of a heterozygous BRCA1 mutation. (2016) Breast Cancer Research.
- Breast cancer risk variants at 6q25 display different phenotype associations and regulate ESR1, RMND1 and CCDC170. (2016) Nature Genetics.
- Non Coding RNA Molecules as Potential Biomarkers in Breast Cancer. (2015) Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology.
- Decoding NF1 Intragenic Copy-Number Variations. (2015) American Journal of Human Genetics.
- Flexible, scalable, and efficient targeted resequencing on a benchtop sequencer for variant detection in clinical practice. (2015) Human Mutation.