Publications

A Novel MAG Variant Causes Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia in a Consanguineous Pakistani Family
Akram R, Anwar H, Muzaffar H, Turchetti V, Lau T, Vona B, Makhdoom EUH, Iqbal J, Mahmood Baig S, Hussain G, Efthymiou S, Houlden H
Genes (Basel). 2024 Sep 13;15(9):1203. doi: 10.3390/genes15091203.

Genetic landscape of hearing loss in prelingual deaf patients of eastern Iran: Insights from exome sequencing analysis
Alerasool M, Eslahi A, Vona B, Kahaei MS, Mojaver NK, Rajati M, Pasdar A, Ghasemi MM, Saburi E, Ardehaie RM, Aval MH, Tale MR, Nourizadeh N, Afzalzadeh MR, Niknezhad HT, Mojarrad M
Clin Genet 2024 Aug 6. doi: 10.1111/cge.14599. Epub ahead of print.

Fbrsl1 is required for heart development in Xenopus laevis and de novo variants in FBRSL1 can cause human heart defects
Berger H, Gerstner S, Horstmann MF, Pauli S, Borchers A
Dis Model Mech 2024 Mar 19:dmm.050507. doi: 10.1242/dmm.050507. Epub ahead of print.

Mutation-induced LZTR1 polymerization provokes cardiac pathology in recessive Noonan syndrome
Busley AV, Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez Ó, Hammer E, Koitka F, Mirzaiebadizi A, Steinegger M, Pape C, Böhmer L, Schroeder H, Kleinsorge M, Engler M, Cirstea IC, Gremer L, Willbold D, Altmüller J, Marbach F, Hasenfuss G, Zimmermann WH, Ahmadian MR, Wollnik B, Cyganek L
Cell Rep 2024 Jul 13;43(7):114448. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114448. Epub ahead of print.

Targeting TGF-β signaling, oxidative stress, and cellular senescence rescues osteoporosis in gerodermia osteodysplastica
Chan WL, Bucher CH, Goldes J, Ma AC, Steiner M, Willie BM, Mundlos S, Kornak U
Aging Cell 2024 Sep 5:e14322. doi: 10.1111/acel.14322. Epub ahead of print.

Biallelic NAA60 variants with impaired n-terminal acetylation capacity cause autosomal recessive primary familial brain calcifications
Chelban V, Aksnes H, Maroofian R, LaMonica LC, Seabra L, Siggervåg A, Devic P, Shamseldin HE, Vandrovcova J, Murphy D, Richard AC, Quenez O, Bonnevalle A, Zanetti MN, Kaiyrzhanov R, Salpietro V, Efthymiou S, Schottlaender LV, Morsy H, Scardamaglia A, Tariq A, Pagnamenta AT, Pennavaria A, Krogstad LS, Bekkelund ÅK, Caiella A, Glomnes N, Brønstad KM, Tury S, Moreno De Luca A, Boland-Auge A, Olaso R, Deleuze JF, Anheim M, Cretin B, Vona B, Alajlan F, Abdulwahab F, Battini JL, İpek R, Bauer P, Zifarelli G, Gungor S, Kurul SH, Lochmuller H, Da’as SI, Fakhro KA, Gómez-Pascual A, Botía JA, Wood NW, Horvath R, Ernst AM, Rothman JE, McEntagart M, Crow YJ, Alkuraya FS, Nicolas G; SYNaPS Study Group; Arnesen T, Houlden H
Nat Commun 2024 Mar 13;15(1):2269. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-46354-0.

Ca2+-binding to the C2E domain of otoferlin is required for hair cell exocytosis and hearing
Chen H, Monga M, Fang Q, Slitin L, Neef J, Chepurwar SS, Mingroni Netto RC, Lezirovitz K, Tabith A Jr, Benseler F, Brose N, Kusch K, Wichmann C, Strenzke N, Vona B, Preobraschenski J, Moser T
Protein Cell 2024 Apr 1;15(4):305-312. doi: 10.1093/procel/pwad058.

Novel loss-of-function variants expand ABCC9-related intellectual disability and myopathy syndrome
Efthymiou S, Scala M, Nagaraj V, Ochenkowska K, Komdeur FL, Liang RA, Abdel-Hamid MS, Sultan T, Barøy T, Van Ghelue M, Vona B, Maroofian R, Zafar F, Alkuraya FS, Zaki MS, Severino M, Duru KC, Tryon RC, Brauteset LV, Ansari M, Hamilton M, van Haelst MM, van Haaften G, Zara F, Houlden H, Samarut É, Nichols CG, Smeland MF, McClenaghan C
Brain 2024 Jan 13:awae010. doi: 10.1093/brain/awae010. Online ahead of print.

A burden shared: The evolutionary case for studying human deafness in Drosophila
Guan C, Shaikh M, Warnecke A, Vona B, Albert JT
Hear Res. 2024 Jun 15;450:109047. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2024.109047. Epub ahead of print.

An NFATc1/SMAD3/cJUN Complex Restricted to SMAD4-Deficient Pancreatic Cancer Guides Rational Therapies
Hasselluhn MC, Schlösser D, Versemann L, Schmidt GE, Ulisse M, Oschwald J, Zhang Z, Hamdan F, Xiao H, Kopp W, Spitalieri J, Kellner C, Schneider C, Reutlinger K, Nagarajan S, Steuber B, Sastra SA, Palermo CF, Appelhans J, Bohnenberger H, Todorovic J, Kostyuchek I, Ströbel P, Bockelmann A, König A, Ammer-Herrmenau C, Schmidleitner L, Kaulfuß S, Wollnik B, Hahn SA, Neesse A, Singh SK, Bastians H, Reichert M, Sax U, Olive KP, Johnsen SA, Schneider G, Ellenrieder V, Hessmann E
Gastroenterology 2024 Feb;166(2):298-312.e14. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2023.10.026. Epub 2023 Oct 31.

Multi-gene panel sequencing in highly consanguineous families and patients with congenital forms of skeletal dysplasias
Kakar N, Rehman FU, Kaur R, Bhavani GS, Goyal M, Shah H, Kaur K, Sodhi KS, Kubisch C, Borck G, Panigrahi I, Girisha KM, Kornak U, Spielmann M
Clin Genet 2024 Feb 20. doi: 10.1111/cge.14509. Epub ahead of print.

Preclinical evaluation of CRISPR-based therapies for Noonan syndrome caused by deep-intronic LZTR1 variants
Knauer C, Haltern H, Schoger E, Kügler S, Roos L, Zelarayán LC, Hasenfuss G, Zimmermann WH, Wollnik B, Cyganek L
Mol Ther Nucleic Acids 2024 Jan 23;35(1):102123. doi: 10.1016/j.omtn.2024.102123.

Zebrafish as a model to investigate a biallelic gain-of-function variant in MSGN1, associated with a novel skeletal dysplasia syndrome
Koparir A, Lekszas C, Keseroglu K, Rose T, Rappl L, Rad A, Maroofian R, Narendran N, Hasanzadeh A, Karimiani EG, Boschann F, Kornak U, Klopocki E, Özbudak EM, Vona B, Haaf T, Liedtke D
Hum Genomics 2024 Mar 6;18(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s40246-024-00593-w.

Loss-of-function variants affecting the STAGA complex component SUPT7L cause a developmental disorder with generalized lipodystrophy
Kopp J, Koch LA, Lyubenova H, Küchler O, Holtgrewe M, Ivanov A, Dubourg C, Launay E, Brachs S, Mundlos S, Ehmke N, Seelow D, Fradin M, Kornak U, Fischer-Zirnsak B
Hum Genet 2024 Apr 9. doi: 10.1007/s00439-024-02669-y. Epub ahead of print.

Spliceosome malfunction causes neurodevelopmental disorders with overlapping features
Li D, Wang Q, Bayat A, Battig MR, Zhou Y, Bosch DG, van Haaften G, Granger L, Petersen AK, Pérez-Jurado LA, Aznar-Laín G, Aneja A, Hancarova M, Bendova S, Schwarz M, Kremlikova Pourova R, Sedlacek Z, Keena BA, March ME, Hou C, O’Connor N, Bhoj EJ, Harr MH, Lemire G, Boycott KM, Towne M, Li M, Tarnopolsky M, Brady L, Parker MJ, Faghfoury H, Parsley LK, Agolini E, Dentici ML, Novelli A, Wright M, Palmquist R, Lai K, Scala M, Striano P, Iacomino M, Zara F, Cooper A, Maarup TJ, Byler M, Lebel RR, Balci TB, Louie R, Lyons M, Douglas J, Nowak C, Afenjar A, Hoyer J, Keren B, Maas SM, Motazacker MM, Martinez-Agosto JA, Rabani AM, McCormick EM, Falk MJ, Ruggiero SM, Helbig I, Møller RS, Tessarollo L, Tomassoni Ardori F, Palko ME, Hsieh TC, Krawitz PM, Ganapathi M, Gelb BD, Jobanputra V, Wilson A, Greally J, Jacquemont S, Jizi K, Bruel AL, Quelin C, Misra VK, Chick E, Romano C, Greco D, Arena A, Morleo M, Nigro V, Seyama R, Uchiyama Y, Matsumoto N, Taira R, Tashiro K, Sakai Y, Yigit G, Wollnik B, Wagner M, Kutsche B, Hurst AC, Thompson ML, Schmidt R, Randolph L, Spillmann RC, Shashi V, Higginbotham EJ, Cordeiro D, Carnevale A, Costain G, Khan T, Funalot B, Tran Mau-Them F, Fernandez Garcia Moya L, García-Miñaúr S, Osmond M, Chad L, Quercia N, Carrasco D, Li C, Sanchez-Valle A, Kelley M, Nizon M, Jensson BO, Sulem P, Stefansson K, Gorokhova S, Busa T, Rio M, Hadj Habdallah H, Lesieur-Sebellin M, Amiel J, Pingault V, Mercier S, Vincent M, Philippe C, Fatus-Fauconnier C, Friend K, Halligan RK, Biswas S, Rosser J, Shoubridge C, Corbett M, Barnett C, Gecz J, Leppig K, Slavotinek A, Marcelis C, Pfundt R, de Vries BB, van Slegtenhorst MA, Brooks AS, Cogne B, Rambaud T, Tümer Z, Zackai EH, Akizu N, Song Y, Hakonarson H
J Clin Invest 2024 Jan 2;134(1):e171235. doi: 10.1172/JCI171235

METTL3-dependent m6A modification of PSEN1 mRNA regulates craniofacial development through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway
Ma L, Zhou X, Yao S, Zhang X, Mao J, Vona B, Fan L, Lou S, Li D, Wang L, Pan Y
Cell Death Dis 2024 Mar 20;15(3):229. doi: 10.1038/s41419-024-06606-9.

Biallelic variants in SLC4A10 encoding the sodium-dependent chloride-bicarbonate exchanger NCBE lead to a neurodevelopmental disorder
Maroofian R, Zamani M, Kaiyrzhanov R, Liebmann L, Ghayoor Karimiani E, Vona B, Huebner AK, Calame DG, Misra VK, Sadeghian S, Azizimalamiri R, Mohammadi MH, Zeighami J, Heydaran S, Beiraghi Toosi M, Akhondian J, Babaei M, Hashemi N, Schnur RE, Suri M, Setzke J, Wagner M, Brunet T, Grochowski CM, Emrick L, Chung WK, Hellmich UA, Schmidts M, Lupski JR, Galehdari H, Severino M, Houlden H, Hübner CA
Genet Med 2024 Mar;26(3):101034. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2023.101034.

Generation of a pluripotent stem cell line (UMGi270-A) and a corresponding CRISPR/Cas9 modified isogenic control (UMGi270-A-1) from a patient with sudden onset dilated cardiomyopathy harboring a FLNC p.R2187P mutation
Maurer W, Rebs S, Köhne S, Eberl H, Wollnik B, Zibat A, Streckfuss-Bömeke K
Stem Cell Res 2024 Mar 29;77:103409. doi: 10.1016/j.scr.2024.103409. Epub ahead of print.

Clarin-2 gene supplementation durably preserves hearing in a model of progressive hearing loss
Mendia C, Peineau T, Zamani M, Felgerolle C, Yahiaoui N, Christophersen N, Papal S, Maudoux A, Maroofian R, Patni P, Nouaille S, Bowl MR, Delmaghani S, Galehdari H, Vona B, Dulon D, Vitry S, El-Amraoui A
Mol Ther 2024 Mar 6;32(3):800-817. doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2024.01.021.

Gene therapy for deafness: are we there now?
Moser T, Chen H, Kusch K, Behr R, Vona B
EMBO Mol Med 2024 Apr;16(4):675-677. doi: 10.1038/s44321-024-00058-6. Epub 2024 Mar 25.

An inappropriate decline in ribosome levels drives a diverse set of neurodevelopmental disorders
Ni C, Yu L, Vona B, Park D, Wei Y, Schmitz DA, Wei Y, Ding Y, Sakurai M, Ballard E, Liu Y, Kumar A, Xing C, Kim HG, Ekmekci C, Karimiani EG, Imannezhad S, Eghbal F, Badv RS, Schwaibold EMC, Dehghani M, Mehrjardi MYV, Metanat Z, Eslamiyeh H, Khouj E, Alhajj SMN, Chedrawi A, Alves CAPF, Houlden H, Kruer M, Alkuraya FS, Cenik C, Maroofian R, Wu J, Buszczak M
bioRxiv [Preprint] 2024 Jan 9:2024.01.09.574708. doi: 10.1101/2024.01.09.574708.

3D Super-Resolution Nuclear Q-FISH Imaging Reveals Cell-Cycle-Related Telomere Changes
Pochechueva TV, Schwenzer N, Kohl T, Brandenburg S, Kaltenecker G, Wollnik B, Lehnart SE
Int J Mol Sci 2024 Mar 10;25(6):3183. doi: 10.3390/ijms25063183.

Expanding the spectrum of phenotypes for MPDZ: Report of four unrelated families and review of the literature
Rad A, Bartsch O, Bakhtiari S, Zhu C, Xu Y, Monteiro FP, Kok F, Vulto-van Silfhout AT, Kruer MC, Bowl MR, Vona B
Clin Genet. 2024 Jun 10. doi: 10.1111/cge.14563. Epub ahead of print.

Genetic heterogeneity in hereditary hearing loss: Potential role of kinociliary protein TOGARAM2
Ramzan M, Zafeer MF, Abad C, Guo S, Owrang D, Alper O, Mutlu A, Atik T, Duman D, Bademci G, Vona B, Kalcioglu MT, Walz K, Tekin M
Eur J Hum Genet 2024 Feb 19. doi: 10.1038/s41431-024-01562-6. Epub ahead of print.

Elucidating the clinical and genetic spectrum of inositol polyphosphate phosphatase INPP4A-related neurodevelopmental disorder
Rawlins LE, Maroofian R, Cannon SJ, Daana M, Zamani M, Ghani S, Leslie JS, Ubeyratna N, Khan N, Khan H, Scardamaglia A, Cloarec R, Khan SA, Umair M, Sadeghian S, Galehdari H, Al-Maawali A, Al-Kindi A, Azizimalamiri R, Shariati G, Ahmad F, Al-Futaisi A, Rodriguez Cruz PM, Salazar-Villacorta A, Ndiaye M, Diop AG, Sedaghat A, Saberi A, Hamid M, Zaki MS, Vona B, Owrang D, Alhashem AM, Obeid M, Khan A, Beydoun A, Najjar M, Tajsharghi H, Zifarelli G, Bauer P, Hakami WS, Hashem AMA, Boustany RN, Burglen L, Alavi S, Gunning AC, Owens M, Karimiani EG, Gleeson JG, Milh M, Salah S, Khan J, Haucke V, Wright CF, McGavin L, Elpeleg O, Shabbir MI, Houlden H, Ebner M, Baple EL, Crosby AH
Genet Med. 2024 Sep 20:101278. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2024.101278. Epub ahead of print.

PKHD1L1, a gene involved in the stereocilia coat, causes autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss
Redfield SE, De-la-Torre P, Zamani M, Wang H, Khan H, Morris T, Shariati G, Karimi M, Kenna MA, Seo GH, Xu H, Lu W, Naz S, Galehdari H, Indzhykulian AA, Shearer AE, Vona B
Hum Genet 2024 Mar 9. doi: 10.1007/s00439-024-02649-2. Epub ahead of print.

Expansion of the complex genotypic and phenotypic spectrum of FGFR2-associated neurocutaneous syndromes
Schmidt J, Kaulfuß S, Ott H, Gaubert M, Reintjes N, Bremmer F, Dreha-Kulaczewski S, Stroebel P, Yigit G, Wollnik B
Hum Genet 2024 Jan 24. doi: 10.1007/s00439-023-02634-1. Epub ahead of print.

Association of antenatal evaluations with postmortem and genetic findings in the series of fetal osteogenesis imperfecta
Senturk L, Gulec C, Sarac Sivrikoz T, Kayserili H, Kalelioglu IH, Avci S, Has R, Coucke P, Kalayci T, Wollnik B, Karaman B, Toksoy G, Symoens S, Yigit G, Yuksel A, Basaran S, Tuysuz B, Altunoglu U, Uyguner ZO
Fetal Diagn Ther 2024 Feb 12. doi: 10.1159/000536324. Epub ahead of print.

Autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss genes in Pakistan during the previous three decades
Shadab M, Abbasi AA, Ejaz A, Ben-Mahmoud A, Gupta V, Kim HG, Vona B
J Cell Mol Med 2024 Apr;28(8):e18119. doi: 10.1111/jcmm.18119.

Functional characterization of PI3K C2 domain mutations detected in breast cancer circulating tumor cells and metastatic cells
Smit DJ, Brauer H, Horn S, Yigit G, Haider MT, Pogenberg V, Schumacher U, Pantel K, Jücker M
Cell Signal 2024 Jun 21;121:111270. doi: 10.1016/j.cellsig.2024.111270. Epub ahead of print.

KRASG12C-inhibitor-based combination therapies for pancreatic cancer: insights from drug screening
Tapia Contreras C, Falke JD, Seifert DM, Schneider C, Krauß L, Fang X, Müller D, Demirdizen E, Spitzner M, De Oliveira T, Schneeweis C, Gaedcke J, Kaulfuß S, Mirzakhani K, Wollnik B, Conrads K, Beißbarth T, Salinas G, Hügel J, Beyer N, Rheinländer S, Sax U, Wirth M, Conradi LC, Reichert M, Ellenrieder V, Ströbel P, Ghadimi M, Grade M, Saur D, Hessmann E, Schneider G
Mol Oncol 2024 Sep 10. doi: 10.1002/1878-0261.13725. Epub ahead of print.

Bi-allelic truncating variants in CASP2 underlie a neurodevelopmental disorder with lissencephaly
Uctepe E, Vona B, Esen FN, Sonmez FM, Smol T, Tümer S, Mancılar H, Geylan Durgun DE, Boute O, Moghbeli M, Ghayoor Karimiani E, Hashemi N, Bakhshoodeh B, Kim HG, Maroofian R, Yesilyurt A
Eur J Hum Genet 2024 Jan;32(1):52-60. doi: 10.1038/s41431-023-01461-2.

Rethinking non-syndromic hearing loss and its mimics in the genomic era
Vona B
Eur J Hum Genet 2024 Mar 6. doi: 10.1038/s41431-024-01579-x. Epub ahead of print.

Catching up but still miles behind-a patient registry for otoferlin
Vona B, Wollnik B, Strenzke N, Moser T

Comprehensive identification of gene expression fingerprints and biomarkers of sexual endocrine disruption in zebrafish embryo
Ayobahan SU, Alvincz J, Reinwald H, Strompen J, Salinas G, Schäfers C, Eilebrecht E, Eilebrecht S
Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 2023 Jan 15;250:114514. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2023.114514. Epub 2023 Jan 4.

Phenotypic specificity in patients with neurodevelopmental delay does not correlate with diagnostic yield of trio-exome sequencing
Baalmann N, Spielmann M, Gillessen-Kaesbach G, Hanker B, Schmidt J, Lill CM, Hellenbroich Y, Greiten B, Lohmann K, Trinh J, Hüning I
Eur J Med Genet 2023 Apr 27:104774. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2023.104774. Epub ahead of print.

B3GALT6-linkeropathy: Three illustrative patients spanning the disease spectrum
Coetzer KC, Dieckerhoff J, Wollnik B, Moosa S
Eur J Med Genet 2023 Aug 30;66(10):104829. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2023.104829.

Combining ferroptosis induction with MDSC blockade renders primary tumours and metastases in liver sensitive to immune checkpoint blockade
Conche C, Finkelmeier F, Pešić M, Nicolas AM, Böttger TW, Kennel KB, Denk D, Ceteci F, Mohs K, Engel E, Canli Ö, Dabiri Y, Peiffer KH, Zeuzem S, Salinas G, Longerich T, Yang H, Greten FR
Gut 2023 Jan 27:gutjnl-2022-327909. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2022-327909. Online ahead of print.

mRNA Abundance of Neurogenic Factors Correlates with Hearing Capacity in Auditory Brainstem Nuclei of the Rat
Engert J, Doll J, Vona B, Ehret Kasemo T, Spahn B, Hagen R, Rak K, Voelker J
Life (Basel) 2023 Sep 2;13(9):1858. doi: 10.3390/life13091858.

Null and missense mutations of ERI1 cause a recessive phenotypic dichotomy in humans
Guo L, Salian S, Xue JY, Rath N, Rousseau J, Kim H, Ehresmann S, Moosa S, Nakagawa N, Kuroda H, Clayton-Smith J, Wang J, Wang Z, Banka S, Jackson A, Zhang YM, Wei ZJ, Hüning I, Brunet T, Ohashi H, Thomas MF, Bupp C, Miyake N, Matsumoto N, Mendoza-Londono R, Costain G, Hahn G, Di Donato N, Yigit G, Yamada T, Nishimura G, Ansel KM, Wollnik B, Hrabě de Angelis M, Mégarbané A, Rosenfeld JA, Heissmeyer V, Ikegawa S, Campeau PM
Am J Hum Genet 2023 Jun 20:S0002-9297(23)00202-1. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.06.001. Epub ahead of print.

Single-cell transcriptomics identifies new blood cell populations in Drosophila released at the onset of metamorphosis
Hirschhäuser A, Molitor D, Salinas G, Großhans J, Rust K, Bogdan S
Development 2023 Sep 7:dev.201767. doi: 10.1242/dev.201767. Epub ahead of print.

The enhancer landscape predetermines the skeletal regeneration capacity of stromal cells
Hochmann S, Ou K, Poupardin R, Mittermeir M, Textor M, Ali S, Wolf M, Ellinghaus A, Jacobi D, Elmiger JAJ, Donsante S, Riminucci M, Schäfer R, Kornak U, Klein O, Schallmoser K, Schmidt-Bleek K, Duda GN, Polansky JK, Geissler S, Strunk D
Sci Transl Med 2023 Mar 22;15(688):eabm7477. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abm7477. Epub 2023 Mar 22.

Single-cell, whole-embryo phenotyping of mammalian developmental disorders
Huang X, Henck J, Qiu C, Sreenivasan VKA, Balachandran S, Amarie OV, Hrabě de Angelis M, Behncke RY, Chan WL, Despang A, Dickel DE, Duran M, Feuchtinger A, Fuchs H, Gailus-Durner V, Haag N, Hägerling R, Hansmeier N, Hennig F, Marshall C, Rajderkar S, Ringel A, Robson M, Saunders LM, da Silva-Buttkus P, Spielmann N, Srivatsan SR, Ulferts S, Wittler L, Zhu Y, Kalscheuer VM, Ibrahim DM, Kurth I, Kornak U, Visel A, Pennacchio LA, Beier DR, Trapnell C, Cao J, Shendure J, Spielmann M
Nature 2023 Nov 15. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06548-w. Epub ahead of print.

Bi-allelic ACBD6 variants lead to a neurodevelopmental syndrome with progressive and complex movement disorders
Kaiyrzhanov R, Rad A, Lin SJ, Bertoli-Avella A, Kallemeijn WW, Godwin A, Zaki MS, Huang K, Lau T, Petree C, Efthymiou S, Ghayoor Karimiani E, Hempel M, Normand EA, Rudnik-Schöneborn S, Schatz UA, Baggelaar MP, Ilyas M, Sultan T, Alvi JR, Ganieva M, Fowler B, Aanicai R, Akay Tayfun G, Al Saman A, Alswaid A, Amiri N, Asilova N, Shotelersuk V, Yeetong P, Azam M, Babaei M, Bahrami Monajemi G, Mohammadi P, Samie S, Banu SH, Basto JP, Kortüm F, Bauer M, Bauer P, Beetz C, Garshasbi M, Hameed Issa A, Eyaid W, Ahmed H, Hashemi N, Hassanpour K, Herman I, Ibrohimov S, Abdul-Majeed BA, Imdad M, Isrofilov M, Kaiyal Q, Khan S, Kirmse B, Koster J, Lourenço CM, Mitani T, Moldovan O, Murphy D, Najafi M, Pehlivan D, Rocha ME, Salpietro V, Schmidts M, Shalata A, Mahroum M, Talbeya JK, Taylor RW, Vazquez D, Vetro A, Waterham HR, Zaman M, Schrader TA, Chung WK, Guerrini R, Lupski JR, Gleeson J, Suri M, Jamshidi Y, Bhatia KP, Vona B, Schrader M, Severino M, Guille M, Tate EW, Varshney GK, Houlden H, Maroofian R
Brain 2023 Nov 10:awad380. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad380. Epub ahead of print.

Lysinuric protein intolerance caused by a homozygous SLC7A7 deletion and presented with hyperferritinemia and osteoporosis in two siblings
Kalay I, Aykut H, Caliskan Z, Yigit G, Wollnik B
Mol Genet Metab Rep 2023 Nov 16;37:101022. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2023.101022.

Elastin stabilization prevents impaired biomechanics in human pulmonary arteries and pulmonary hypertension in rats with left heart disease
Kucherenko MM, Sang P, Yao J, Gransar T, Dhital S, Grune J, Simmons S, Michalick L, Wulsten D, Thiele M, Shomroni O, Hennig F, Yeter R, Solowjowa N, Salinas G, Duda GN, Falk V, Vyavahare NR, Kuebler WM, Knosalla C
Nat Commun 2023 Jul 21;14(1):4416. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39934-z.

Surveillance of 3′ mRNA cleavage during transcription termination requires CF IB/Hrp1
Li J, Querl L, Coban I, Salinas G, Krebber H
Nucleic Acids Res 2023 Sep 8;51(16):8758-8773. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad530.

Concurrent Activation of Both Survival-Promoting and Death-Inducing Signaling by Chloroquine in Glioblastoma Stem Cells: Implications for Potential Risks and Benefits of Using Chloroquine as Radiosensitizer
Müller A, Weyerhäuser P, Berte N, Jonin F, Lyubarskyy B, Sprang B, Kantelhardt SR, Salinas G, Opitz L, Schulz-Schaeffer W, Giese A, Kim EL
Cells 2023 Apr 30;12(9):1290. doi: 10.3390/cells12091290.

Structural and non-coding variants increase the diagnostic yield of clinical whole genome sequencing for rare diseases
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Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 48 risk variants and highlights the role of the stria vascularis in hearing loss
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TP53-Status-Dependent Oncogenic EZH2 Activity in Pancreatic Cancer
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Biallelic truncating variants in ATP9A cause a novel neurodevelopmental disorder involving postnatal microcephaly and failure to thrive
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Biallelic KITLG variants lead to a distinct spectrum of hypomelanosis and sensorineural hearing loss
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Deletion of the last two exons of FGF10 in a family with LADD syndrome and pulmonary acinar hypoplasia
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Is there an unmet medical need for improved hearing restoration?
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Loss-of-function variants in DNM1 cause a specific form of developmental and epileptic encephalopathy only in biallelic state
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CRISPR-Cas9-Edited Tacrolimus-Resistant Antiviral T Cells for Advanced Adoptive Immunotherapy in Transplant Recipients
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Relevant genetic variants are common in women with pregnancy and lactation-associated osteoporosis (PLO) and predispose to more severe clinical manifestations
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Protein Signatures of NK Cell-Mediated Melanoma Killing Predict Response to Immunotherapies
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Investigations on the Degradation of the Bile Salt Cholate via the 9,10-Seco-Pathway Reveals the Formation of a Novel Recalcitrant Steroid Compound by a Side Reaction in Sphingobium sp. Strain Chol11
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The detection of isochromosome i(12p) in malignant germ cell tumours and tumours with somatic malignant transformation by the use of quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
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Screening for potential targets to reduce stenosis in bioprosthetic heart valves
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Intellectual disability associated with craniofacial dysmorphism, cleft palate, and congenital heart defect due to a de novo MEIS2 mutation: A clinical longitudinal study
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Biallelic variants in PCDHGC4 cause a novel neurodevelopmental syndrome with progressive microcephaly, seizures, and joint anomalies
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MFSD2A-associated primary microcephaly – Expanding the clinical and mutational spectrum of this ultra-rare disease
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Complete lung agenesis caused by complex genomic rearrangements with neo-TAD formation at the SHH locus
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Chondrocytes From Osteoarthritic and Chondrocalcinosis Cartilage Represent Different Phenotypes
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Comparing a Novel Malformation Syndrome Caused by Pathogenic Variants in FBRSL1 to AUTS2 Syndrome
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Caveolin3 Stabilizes McT1-Mediated Lactate/Proton Transport in Cardiomyocytes
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Oncogenic NRAS Accelerates Rhabdomyosarcoma Formation When Occurring within a Specific Time Frame during Tumor Development in Mice
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The Redox Homeostasis of Skeletal Muscle Cells Regulates Stage Differentiation of Toxoplasma gondii
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Toxicogenomic fin(ger)prints for thyroid disruption AOP refinement and biomarker identification in zebrafish embryos
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A CRISPR-Cas9-engineered mouse model for GPI-anchor deficiency mirrors human phenotypes and exhibits hippocampal synaptic dysfunctions
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Efficient generation of osteoclasts from human induced pluripotent stem cells and functional investigations of lethal CLCN7-related osteopetrosis
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TFE3 activation in a TSC1-altered malignant PEComa: challenging the dichotomy of the underlying pathogenic mechanisms
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Prognostic factor identification by screening changes in differentially expressed genes in oral squamous cell carcinoma
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Aplasia cutis congenita in a CDC42-related developmental phenotype
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Premature ageing disorders – a clinical and genetic compendium
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Heterozygous truncating variants in SUFU cause congenital ocular motor apraxia
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Using Xenopus to analyze neurocristopathies like Kabuki syndrome
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Differences in synaptic vesicle pool behavior between male and female hippocampal cultured neurons
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The folate antagonist methotrexate diminishes replication of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and enhances the antiviral efficacy of remdesivir in cell culture models
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Clinical Phenotype and Relevance of LRP5 and LRP6 Variants in Patients With Early-Onset Osteoporosis (EOOP)
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Compound heterozygous frameshift mutations in MESD cause a lethal syndrome suggestive of osteogenesis imperfecta type XX
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CHARGE syndrome and related disorders: A mechanistic link
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Post-transcriptional regulation by the exosome complex is required for cell survival and forebrain development via repression of P53 signaling
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Expanding the clinical and molecular spectrum of ATP6V1A related metabolic cutis laxa
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Transmitted resistance in HIV-1 of patients from nine departments of Peru
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Cellular models and therapeutic perspectives in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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EVL regulates VEGF receptor-2 internalization and signaling in developmental angiogenesis
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Functional characterization of the first missense variant in CEP78, a founder allele associated with cone-rod dystrophy, hearing loss, and reduced male fertility
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IgG Fc sialylation is regulated during the germinal center reaction following immunization with different adjuvants
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WIF1 Suppresses the Generation of Suprabasal Cells in Acanthotic Skin and Growth of Basal Cell Carcinomas upon Forced Overexpression
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Hereditary angioedema in a single family with specific mutations in both plasminogen and SERPING1 genes
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Spreading of Isolated Ptch Mutant Basal Cell Carcinoma Precursors Is Physiologically Suppressed and Counteracts Tumor Formation in Mice
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A second cohort of CHD3 patients expands the molecular mechanisms known to cause Snijders Blok-Campeau syndrome
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Perturbed differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells upon Pelota deletion due to dysregulated FOXO1/β-catenin signaling
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The detection of isochromosome i(12p) in malignant germ cell tumours and tumours with somatic malignant transformation by the use of quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
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Bi-allelic missense disease-causing variants in RPL3L associate neonatal dilated cardiomyopathy with muscle-specific ribosome biogenesis
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Intronic CRISPR Repair in a Preclinical Model of Noonan Syndrome-Associated Cardiomyopathy
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NCSTN Deficiency and Depigmentation: All About Tyrosinase?
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Diversity of Clinically Relevant Outcomes Resulting from Hypofractionated Radiation in Human Glioma Stem Cells Mirrors Distinct Patterns of Transcriptomic Changes
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Characterization of circulating breast cancer cells with tumorigenic and metastatic capacity
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Motor neuron translatome reveals deregulation of SYNGR4 and PLEKHB1 in mutant TDP-43 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis models
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Maturational Changes in Mouse Cutaneous Touch and Piezo2-Mediated Mechanotransduction
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A Novel Mutation in PIGA Associated with Multiple Congenital Anomalies-Hypotonia-Seizure Syndrome 2 (MCAHS2) in a Boy with a Combination of Severe Epilepsy and Gingival Hyperplasia
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Long-term effects of empagliflozin on excitation-contraction-coupling in human induced pluripotent stem cell cardiomyocytes
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DNA Methylation-Mediated Modulation of Endocytosis as Potential Mechanism for Synaptic Function Regulation in Murine Inhibitory Cortical Interneurons
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Human RAD50 deficiency: Confirmation of a distinctive phenotype
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SUMOylation controls the neurodevelopmental function of the transcription factor Zbtb20
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Generation of homozygous CRISPRa human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) lines for sustained endogenous gene activation
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CRISPR-Mediated Activation of Endogenous Gene Expression in the Postnatal Heart
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Evidence of pathogenicity for the leaky splice variant c.1066-6T>G in ATM
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Ammonium acts systemically while nitrate exerts an additional local effect on Medicago truncatula nodules
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Non-Human Primate iPSC Generation, Cultivation, and Cardiac Differentiation under Chemically Defined Conditions
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Neugeborenes mit Nasenagenesie: Neonatologische Herausforderungen bei der Versorgung eines Neugeborenen mit Bosma-Arhinie-Mikrophthalmie-Syndrom (BAMS)
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De novo mutations in FBRSL1 cause a novel recognizable malformation and intellectual disability syndrome
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Inhibition of the autophagic protein ULK1 attenuates axonal degeneration in vitro and in vivo, enhances translation, and modulates splicing
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Zebrafish disease model of human RNASET2-deficient cystic leukoencephalopathy displays abnormalities in early microglia
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Increased presence and differential molecular imprinting of transit amplifying cells in psoriasis
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The recurrent postzygotic pathogenic variant p.Glu47Lys in RHOA causes a novel recognizable neuroectodermal phenotype
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SMCHD1 is involved in de novo methylation of the DUX4-encoding D4Z4 macrosatellite
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PEDIA: prioritization of exome data by image analysis
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Genet Med 2019 June 5, doi: 10.1038/s41436-019-0566-

Novel PNKP mutations causing defective DNA strand break repair and PARP1 hyperactivity in MCSZ
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Homozygous frameshift mutations in FAT1 cause a syndrome characterized by colobomatous-microphthalmia, ptosis, nephropathy and syndactyly
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Therapeutic Targeting of Stat3 Using Lipopolyplex Nanoparticle-Formulated siRNA in a Syngeneic Orthotopic Mouse Glioma Model
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Autosomal-Recessive Mutations in MESD Cause Osteogenesis Imperfecta
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Am J Hum Genet 2019, 105(4): 836-843, doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.08.008

HACE1 deficiency leads to structural and functional neurodevelopmental defects
Nagy V, Hollstein R, Pai TP, Herde MK, Buphamalai P, Moeseneder P, Lenartowicz E, Kavirayani A, Korenke GC, Kozieradzki I, Nitsch R, Cicvaric A, Monje Quiroga FJ, Deardorff MA, Bedoukian EC, Li Y, Yigit G, Menche J, Perçin EF, Wollnik B, Henneberger C, Kaiser FJ, Penninger JM
Neurol Genet 2019, 5(3): e330, doi: 10.1212/NXG.0000000000000330

Regulation and Role of GLI1 in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Pathogenesis
Pyczek J, Khizanishvili N, Kuzyakova M, Zabel S, Bauer J, Nitzki F, Emmert S, Schön MP, Boukamp P, Schildhaus HU, Uhmann A, Hahn H
Front Genet 2019, 10: 1185, doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01185

Identification of the recently described plasminogen gene mutation p.Lys330Glu in a family from Northern Germany with hereditary angioedema
Recke A, Massalme EG, Jappe U, Steinmüller-Magin L, Schmidt J, Hellenbroich Y, Hüning I, Gillessen-Kaesbach G, Zillikens D, Hartmann K
Clin Transl Allergy 2019, 9: 9, doi: 10.1186/s13601-019-0247-x

Molybdenum cofactor deficiency type B knock-in mouse models carrying patient-identical mutations and their rescue by singular AAV injections
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Hum Genet 2019, 138(4): 355-361, doi: 10.1007/s00439-019-01992-z

Baboon induced pluripotent stem cell generation by piggyBac transposition of reprogramming factors
Rodriguez-Polo I, Stauske M, Becker A, Bartels I, Dressel R, Behr R
Primate Biol 2019, 6: 75–86

Functional analysis of the p.[Arg74Trp;Val201Met;Asp1270Asn]/p.Phe508del CFTR mutation genotype in human native colon
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Mol Genet Genom Med 2019, 7(2): e00526, doi: 10.1002/mgg3.526

GRIN2A-related disorders: genotype and functional consequence predict phenotype
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Brain 2019, 142(1): 80-92, doi: 10.1093/brain/awy304

Germline loss-of-function variants in the BARD1 gene are associated with early-onset familial breast cancer but not ovarian cancer
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Insights into pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma research: Challenges and goals
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Pediatr Blood Cancer 2019, June 21: e27869, doi: 10.1002/pbc.27869