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Steven J. Kunnen

Leiden UniversityORCID 0000-0001-9549-1719Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:rat· 1

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BioinformaticsToxicological SciencesPeer-reviewedSep 1, 2026

Analytical Choices Drive Toxicogenomic Potency Estimates: A Systematic Evaluation of Transcriptomic Points of Departure

Imke B. Bruns, Dayna R. Schultz, Emmanuel Demuynck…·Giulia Callegaro

The paper evaluates how different transcriptomic analysis workflows affect potency estimates in toxicogenomics, finding significant variability driven by normalization, filtering, and pathway definitions.

DOI 10.1093/toxsci/kfag115

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Pharmacology & ToxicologyiSciencePeer-reviewedJun 21, 2025

Utilizing gene co-expression networks with the rat kidney TXG-MAPr tool to enhance safety assessment, biomarker identification and human translation

Steven J. Kunnen, Giulia Callegaro, Jeffrey J. Sutherland…·Bob van de Water

This study builds gene co-expression networks from rat kidney toxicogenomics data and integrates them into a web tool to improve safety assessment and biomarker identification for drug development.

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