Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Silke Szymczak

1. Moitinho-Silva L, Boraczynski N, Emmert H, Baurecht H, Szymczak S, Schulz H, Haller D, Linseisen J, Gieger C, Peters A, Tittmann L, Lieb W, Bang C, Franke A, Rodriguez E, Weidinger S. Host traits, lifestyle and environment are associated with human skin bacteria. Br J Dermatol 2021 Mar 18. doi: 10.1111/bjd.20072. Online ahead of print.

2. Seifert S, Gundlach S, Junge O, Szymczak S. Integrating biological knowledge and gene expression data using pathway guided random forests: A benchmarking study. Bioinformatics 2020; 36:4301-4308

3. Seifert S, Gundlach S, Szymczak S. Surrogate minimal depth as an importance measure for variables in random forests. Bioinformatics 2019; 35:3663-3671

4. Tsoi LC, Rodriguez E, Degenhardt F, Baurecht H, Wehkamp U, Volks N, Szymczak S, Swindell WR, Sarkar MK, Raja K, Shao S, Patrick M, Gao Y, Uppala R, Perez White BE, Getsios S, Harms PW, Maverakis E, Elder JT, Franke A, Gudjonsson JE, Weidinger S. Atopic dermatitis is an IL-58 13-dominant disease with greater molecular heterogeneity compared to psoriasis. J Invest Dermatol 2019; 139:1480-1489

5. Nikolaus S, Waetzig GH, Butzin S, Ziolkiewicz M, Al-Massad N, Thieme F, Lövgren U, Rasmussen BB, Reinheimer TM, Seegert D, Rosenstiel P, Szymczak S, Schreiber S. Evaluation of interleukin-6 and its soluble receptor components sIL-6R and sgp130 as markers of inflammation in inflammatory bowel diseases. Int J Colorectal Dis 2018; 33:927-936

6. Degenhardt F, Seifert S, Szymczak S. Evaluation of variable selection methods for random forests and omics data sets. Brief Bioinform 2019; 20:492-503

7. Nikolaus S, Schulte B, Al-Massad N, Thieme F, Schulte DM, Bethge J, Rehman A, Tran F, Aden K, Häsler R, Moll N, Schütze G, Schwarz MJ, Waetzig GH, Rosenstiel P, Krawczak M, Szymczak S, Schreiber S. Increased tryptophan metabolism is associated with activity of inflammatory bowel diseases. Gastroenterology 2017; 153:1504-1516.e2

8. Wang J, Thingholm LB, Skiecevičienė J, Rausch P, Kummen M, Hov JR, Degenhardt F, Heinsen FA, Rühlemann MC, Szymczak S, Holm K, Esko T, Sun J, Pricop-Jeckstadt M, Al-Dury S, Bohov P, Bethune J, Sommer F, Ellinghaus D, Berge RK, Hübenthal M, Koch M, Schwarz K, Rimbach G, Hübbe P, Pan WH, Sheibani-Tezerji R, Häsler R, Rosenstiel P, D'Amato M, Cloppenborg-Schmidt K, Künzel S, Laudes M, Marschall HU, Lieb W, Nöthlings U, Karlsen TH, Baines JF, Franke A. Genome-wide association analysis identifies variation in vitamin D receptor and other host factors influencing the gut microbiota. Nat Genet 2016; 48:1396-1406

9. Szymczak S, Holzinger E, Dasgupta A, Malley JD, Molloy AM, Mills JL, Brody LC, Stambolian D, Bailey-Wilson JE. r2VIM: A new variable selection method for random forests in genome-wide association studies. BioData Min 2016; 9:7

10. Sei Y, Zhao X, Forbes J, Szymczak S, Li Q, Trivedi A, Voellinger M, Joy G, Feng J, Whatley M, Jones MS, Harper UL, Marx SJ, Venkatesan AM, Chandrasekharappa SC, Raffeld M, Quezado MM, Louie A, Chen CC, Lim RM, Agarwala R, Schäffer AA, Hughes MS, Bailey-Wilson JE, Wank SA. A hereditary form of small intestinal carcinoid associated with a germline mutation in inositol polyphosphate multikinase. Gastroenterology 2015; 149:67-78