Azin Kheirkhah
PhD

Scientist

+43 512 9003 70575
azin.kheirkhah@i-med.ac.at


Publications

2024 (2)

  1. Pott J, Kheirkhah A, Gadin JR, Kleber ME, Delgado GE, Kirsten H, Forer L, Hauck SM, Burkhardt R, Scharnagl H, Loeffler M, März W, Thiery J, Gieger C, Peters A, Silveira A, Hooft FV, Kronenberg F, Scholz M: Sex and statin-related genetic associations at the PCSK9 gene locus: results of genome-wide association meta-analysis. Biol. Sex Differ. 15:26, 2024. PMID: 38532495   Journal Article
  2. Gruber I, Kollerits B, Forer L, Di Maio S, Schachtl-Riess JF, Kheirkhah A, Schönherr S, Schultheiss UT, Köttgen A, Eckardt KU, Coassin S, Lamina C, Kronenberg F: Lipoprotein(a) concentrations and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease: Results from the German Chronic Kidney Disease study. J. Intern. Med. 296:510-526, 2024. PMID: 39513193   Journal Article

2023 (2)

  1. Schachtl-Riess JF, Schönherr S, Lamina C, Forer L, Coassin S, Streiter G, Kheirkhah A, Li Y, Meiselbach H, Di Maio S, Eckardt KU, Köttgen A, Kronenberg F, GCKD investigators: KLKB1 and CLSTN2 are associated with HDL-mediated cholesterol efflux capacity in a genome-wide association study. Atherosclerosis 368:1-11, 2023. PMID: 36812656   Journal Article
  2. Kheirkhah A, Schachtl-Riess JF, Lamina C, Di Maio S, Koller A, Schönherr S, Coassin S, Forer L, Sekula P, Gieger C, Peters A, Köttgen A, Eckardt KU, Kronenberg F: Meta-GWAS on PCSK9 concentrations reveals associations of novel loci outside the PCSK9 locus in White populations. Atherosclerosis 386:117384, 2023. PMID: 37989062   Journal Article

2022 (1)

  1. Kheirkhah A, Lamina C, Kollerits B, Schachtl-Riess JF, Schultheiss UT, Forer L, Sekula P, Kotsis F, Eckardt KU, Kronenberg F, GCKD Investigators: PCSK9 and cardiovascular disease in individuals with moderately decreased kidney function. Clin. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 17:809-818, 2022. PMID: 35387881   Journal Article

2021 (3)

  1. Schachtl-Riess JF, Kheirkhah A, Grüneis R, Di Maio S, Schoenherr S, Streiter G, Losso JL, Paulweber B, Eckardt KU, Köttgen A, Lamina C, Kronenberg F, Coassin S, GCKD Investigators: Frequent LPA KIV-2 variants lower lipoprotein(a) concentrations and protect against coronary artery disease. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 78:437-449, 2021. PMID: 34325833   Journal Article
  2. Weissensteiner H, Forer L, Fendt L, Kheirkhah A, Salas A, Kronenberg F, Schoenherr S: Contamination detection in sequencing studies using the mitochondrial phylogeny. Genome Res. 31:309-316, 2021. PMID: 33452015   Journal Article
  3. Kheirkhah A, Lamina C, Rantner B, Kollerits B, Stadler M, Pohlhammer J, Klein-Weigel P, Fraedrich G, Kronenberg F: Elevated levels of serum PCSK9 in male patients with symptomatic peripheral artery disease: The CAVASIC study. Atherosclerosis 316:41-47, 2021. PMID: 33302043   Journal Article