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Albert Schinzel is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research mainly focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular specialization in genetics and molecular biology subfields. Additional areas of study include plant science, reproductive medicine, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work extensively covers topics related to genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, genomics and chromatin dynamics, chromosomal and genetic variations, sperm and testicular function, reproductive biology and fertility, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, as well as bioinformatics and genomic networks.

Albert Schinzel has contributed to several scientific papers, including:

  • Balanced chromosomal rearrangements offer insights into coding and noncoding genomic features associated with developmental disorders, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Identification of a new splice-acceptor mutation in HFM1 and functional analysis through molecular docking in nonobstructive azoospermia, 2022, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
  • Network-based analysis using chromosomal microdeletion syndromes as a model, 2021, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics
  • Table of Contents, Volume 193, Number 1, March 2023, 2023, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics
  • Shared Neurodevelopmental Perturbations Can Lead to Intellectual Disability in Individuals with Distinct Rare Chromosome Duplications, 2021, Genes

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Albert Schinzel include Thiago Corrêa, Mariluce Riegel, Benjamin D. Solomon, Anne Slavoš, and John M. Carey. These collaborations highlight consistent contributions across multiple publications.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as the American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, and Genes.

Best Publications

  • A common mutation in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 gene in Pfeiffer syndrome

    M Muenke;U Schell;A Hehr;N H Robin

  • Mutations in human TBX3 alter limb, apocrine and genital development in ulnar-mammary syndrome

    M Bamshad;R C Lin;D J Law;W C Watkins

  • A new chromosome 17q21.31 microdeletion syndrome associated with a common inversion polymorphism

    David A. Koolen;Lisenka E.L.M. Vissers;Rolph Pfundt;Nicole De Leeuw

  • Angelman syndrome : consensus for diagnostic criteria. Angelman syndrome foundation

    C A Williams;H Angelman;J Clayton-Smith;D J Driscoll

  • The campomelic syndrome: Review, report of 17 cases, and follow-up on the currently 17-year-old boy first reported by Maroteaux et al in 1971

    C S Houston;J M Opitz;J W Spranger;R I Macpherson

  • Genotype–phenotype correlations in Down syndrome identified by array CGH in 30 cases of partial trisomy and partial monosomy chromosome 21

    Robert Lyle;Robert Lyle;Frédérique Béna;Frédérique Béna;Sarantis Gagos;Sarantis Gagos;Corinne Gehrig;Corinne Gehrig

  • Uniparental disomy 7 in Silver—Russell syndrome and primordial growth retardation

    Dieter Kotzot;Dieter Kotzot;Silke Schmitt;Fabiana Bernasconi;Fabiana Bernasconi;Wendy P. Robinson;Wendy P. Robinson

  • Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N (SNRPN), an expressed gene in the Prader–Willi syndrome critical region

    Tayfun Özçelik;Stuart Leff;Wendy Robinson;Tim Donlon

  • Telomeres: a diagnosis at the end of the chromosomes

    L.B.A. de Vries;R. Winter;A. Schinzel;C.M.A. van Ravenswaaij-Arts

  • Molecular, cytogenetic, and clinical investigations of Prader-Willi syndrome patients.

    W P Robinson;A Bottani;Y G Xie;J Balakrishman

  • The "cat eye syndrome": dicentric small marker chromosome probably derived from a no.22 (tetrasomy 22pter to q11) associated with a characteristic phenotype. Report of 11 patients and delineation of the clinical picture.

    A. Schinzel;W. Schmid;M. Fraccaro;L. Tiepolo

  • APCDD1 is a novel Wnt inhibitor mutated in hereditary hypotrichosis simplex

    Yutaka Shimomura;Dritan Agalliu;Alin Vonica;Victor Luria

  • Molecular genetic approach to the characterization of the "Down syndrome region" of chromosome 21.

    Mary Kay McCormick;Albert Schinzel;Michael B. Petersen;Gail Stetten

  • Mutational Analysis of the SOX9 Gene in Campomelic Dysplasia and Autosomal Sex Reversal: Lack of Genotype/Phenotype Correlations

    Jobst Meyer;Peter Südbeck;Marika Held;Thomas Wagner

  • Tetrasomy 12p (Pallister-Killian syndrome).

    A Schinzel

  • Characterization of the supernumerary chromosome in cat eye syndrome.

    Heather E. McDermid;Alessandra M. V. Duncan;Klaus R. Brasch;Jeannette J. A. Holden

  • Epigenetic mutations of the imprinted IGF2-H19 domain in Silver–Russell syndrome (SRS): results from a large cohort of patients with SRS and SRS-like phenotypes

    Deborah Bartholdi;Malgorzata Krajewska-Walasek;Katrin Õunap;Katrin Õunap;Harald Gaspar

  • Clinical and Molecular Analysis of Five Inv Dup(15) Patients

    Wendy P. Robinson;Franz Binkert;Ramon Giné;Carlos Vazquez

  • Modification of 15q11 — q13 DNA methylation imprints in unique Angelman and Prader — Willi patients

    C C Glenn;R D Nicholls;W P Robinson;S Saitoh;S Saitoh

  • Linkage mapping in 29 Bardet-Biedl syndrome families confirms loci in chromosomal regions 11q13, 15q22.3-q23, and 16q21.

    E.A. Bruford;R. Riise;P.W. Teague;K. Porter

Frequent Co-Authors

Wendy P. Robinson
Wendy P. Robinson University of British Columbia
Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva
Orsetta Zuffardi
Orsetta Zuffardi University of Pavia
Eugen Boltshauser
Eugen Boltshauser University of Zurich
Niels Tommerup
Niels Tommerup University of Copenhagen
John M. Opitz
John M. Opitz University of Utah
Andreas Gal
Andreas Gal Universität Hamburg
Detlev Schindler
Detlev Schindler University of Würzburg
Eberhard Schwinger
Eberhard Schwinger University of Lübeck
Bernhard Horsthemke
Bernhard Horsthemke University of Duisburg-Essen

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