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Overview

Anita Rauch is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with a total of 166 publications. Their work primarily focuses on the subfields of Genetics and Molecular Biology, supplemented by contributions in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Neurology, and Cancer Research.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Anita Rauch has authored papers in several prominent journals, among which the most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
  • European Journal of Human Genetics

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Developmental Consequences of Defective ATG7-Mediated Autophagy in Humans" (2021), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • "SPEN haploinsufficiency causes a neurodevelopmental disorder overlapping proximal 1p36 deletion syndrome with an episignature of X chromosomes in females" (2021), published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • "Disruption of RFX family transcription factors causes autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, intellectual disability, and dysregulated behavior" (2021), published in Genetics in Medicine
  • "Characterization of SETD1A haploinsufficiency in humans and Drosophila defines a novel neurodevelopmental syndrome" (2020), published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • "PhenoScore quantifies phenotypic variation for rare genetic diseases by combining facial analysis with other clinical features using a machine-learning framework" (2023), published in Nature Genetics

Anita Rauch collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Katharina Steindl
  • Pascal Joset
  • Anaïs Begemann
  • Markus Zweier
  • Beatrice Oneda

Best Publications

  • Range of genetic mutations associated with severe non-syndromic sporadic intellectual disability: an exome sequencing study.

    Anita Rauch;Dagmar Wieczorek;Elisabeth Graf;Thomas Wieland

  • Germline KRAS mutations cause Noonan syndrome

    Suzanne Schubbert;Martin Zenker;Sara L . Rowe;Silke Böll

  • Transcription factor E2-2 is an essential and specific regulator of plasmacytoid dendritic cell development

    Babacar Cisse;Michele L. Caton;Manfred Lehner;Takahiro Maeda

  • Mutations in GRIN2A and GRIN2B encoding regulatory subunits of NMDA receptors cause variable neurodevelopmental phenotypes.

    Sabine Endele;Georg Rosenberger;Kirsten Geider;Bernt Popp

  • Mirror extreme BMI phenotypes associated with gene dosage at the chromosome 16p11.2 locus

    Sébastien Jacquemont;Alexandre Reymond;Flore Zufferey;Louise Harewood

  • Diagnostic yield of various genetic approaches in patients with unexplained developmental delay or mental retardation.

    Anita Rauch;Juliane Hoyer;Sabine Guth;Christiane Zweier

  • Mutations in STRA6 cause a broad spectrum of malformations including anophthalmia, congenital heart defects, diaphragmatic hernia, alveolar capillary dysplasia, lung hypoplasia, and mental retardation

    Francesca Pasutto;Heinrich Sticht;Gerhard Hammersen;Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach

  • Mutations in the Pericentrin (PCNT) Gene Cause Primordial Dwarfism

    Anita Rauch;Christian T. Thiel;Detlev Schindler;Ursula Wick

  • CNTNAP2 and NRXN1 are mutated in autosomal-recessive Pitt-Hopkins-like mental retardation and determine the level of a common synaptic protein in Drosophila.

    Christiane Zweier;Christiane Zweier;Eiko K. de Jong;Markus Zweier;Alfredo Orrico

  • Haploinsufficiency of TCF4 causes syndromal mental retardation with intermittent hyperventilation (Pitt-Hopkins syndrome)

    Christiane Zweier;Maarit M Peippo;Juliane Hoyer;Sergio Sousa

  • A 600 kb deletion syndrome at 16p11.2 leads to energy imbalance and neuropsychiatric disorders

    Flore Zufferey;Elliott H. Sherr;Noam D. Beckmann;Ellen Hanson

  • Contribution of Global Rare Copy-Number Variants to the Risk of Sporadic Congenital Heart Disease

    Rachel Soemedi;Ian J. Wilson;Jamie Bentham;Rebecca Darlay

  • Genotype-phenotype correlations in Noonan syndrome.

    Martin Zenker;Gernot Buheitel;Ralf Rauch;Rainer Koenig

  • De novo nonsense mutations in ASXL1 cause Bohring-Opitz syndrome

    Alexander Hoischen;Bregje W M van Bon;Benjamín Rodríguez-Santiago;Benjamín Rodríguez-Santiago;Christian Gilissen

  • Haploinsufficiency of ARID1B, a Member of the SWI/SNF-A Chromatin-Remodeling Complex, Is a Frequent Cause of Intellectual Disability

    Juliane Hoyer;Arif B. Ekici;Sabine Endele;Bernt Popp

  • CEP152 is a genome maintenance protein disrupted in Seckel syndrome

    Ersan Kalay;Gökhan Yigit;Yakup Aslan;Karen E Brown

  • Induction, binding specificity and function of human ICOS

    Katja C. Beier;Andreas Hutloff;Anna M. Dittrich;Christoph Heuck

  • Clinical and molecular delineation of the 17q21.31 microdeletion syndrome

    D. A. Koolen;A. J. Sharp;A. J. Sharp;J. A. Hurst;H. V. Firth

  • The core FOXG1 syndrome phenotype consists of postnatal microcephaly, severe mental retardation, absent language, dyskinesia, and corpus callosum hypogenesis

    Fanny Kortüm;Soma Das;Max Flindt;Deborah J Morris-Rosendahl

  • Human TBX1 Missense Mutations Cause Gain of Function Resulting in the Same Phenotype as 22q11.2 Deletions

    Christiane Zweier;Heinrich Sticht;Inci Aydin-Yaylagül;Christine E. Campbell

Frequent Co-Authors

Christiane Zweier
Christiane Zweier University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
André Reis
André Reis University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Heinrich Sticht
Heinrich Sticht University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Martin Zenker
Martin Zenker Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Arif B. Ekici
Arif B. Ekici University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Dagmar Wieczorek
Dagmar Wieczorek Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Bert B.A. de Vries
Bert B.A. de Vries Radboud University
Han G. Brunner
Han G. Brunner Radboud University
Laurence Faivre
Laurence Faivre University of Burgundy

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