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  • 2003 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Gynaecology and Paediatrics

Overview

Beat Steinmann is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and specializes in research spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The scientist's work notably concentrates on several subfields, including genetics, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and pharmacology.

The main topics covered in Beat Steinmann's publications highlight a focus on connective tissue disorders research, aortic disease and treatment approaches, aortic aneurysm repair treatments, pharmacogenetics and drug metabolism, biochemical and molecular research, genomics and rare diseases, and cardiac valve diseases and treatments.

Selected recent research papers include:

  • Added Value of Clinical Sequencing: WGS-Based Profiling of Pharmacogenes (2020), published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Optimising the mutation screening strategy in Marfan syndrome and identifying genotypes with more severe aortic involvement (2020), published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • Potential of Whole-Genome Sequencing-Based Pharmacogenetic Profiling (2021), published in Pharmacogenomics
  • Potential predictors of severe cardiovascular involvement in Marfan syndrome: the emphasized role of genotype-phenotype correlations in improving risk stratification-a literature review (2021), published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • A pilot clinical trial with losartan in Myhre syndrome (2020), published in American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Beat Steinmann include:

  • Sylvan M. Caspar
  • Janine Meienberg
  • Francesca Bonassin
  • Marianne Rohrbach
  • Nicolo Dubacher

Common publication venues for Beat Steinmann encompass:

  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • Zeitschrift für Herz- Thorax- und Gefäßchirurgie
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A

In 2003, Beat Steinmann was recognized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for work in gynaecology and paediatrics.

Best Publications

  • LDL Receptor-Related Protein 5 (LRP5) Affects Bone Accrual and Eye Development

    Y. Q. Gong;R. B. Slee;N. Fukai;G. Rawadi

  • Ehlers‐Danlos syndromes: Revised nosology, Villefranche, 1997

    Peter Beighton;Anne De Paepe;Beat Steinmann;Petros Tsipouras

  • Connective tissue and its heritable disorders : molecular, genetic, and medical aspects

    Peter M. Royce;Beat U. Steinmann

  • The Ehlers‐Danlos Syndrome

    Beat Steinmann;Peter M. Royce;Andrea Superti‐Furga

  • Cyclosporin A slows collagen triple-helix formation in vivo: indirect evidence for a physiologic role of peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans-isomerase.

    B Steinmann;P Bruckner;A Superti-Furga

  • Update of the UMD-FBN1 mutation database and creation of an FBN1 polymorphism database.

    Gwenaëlle Collod-Béroud;Saga Le Bourdelles;Lesley Ades;Lesley Ades;Leena Ala-Kokko;Leena Ala-Kokko

  • Mutations in GLUT2, the gene for the liver-type glucose transporter, in patients with Fanconi-Bickel syndrome.

    René Santer;Reinhard Schneppenheim;Anja Dombrowski;Hermann Götze

  • Generalized Arterial Calcification of Infancy and Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum Can Be Caused by Mutations in Either ENPP1 or ABCC6

    Yvonne Nitschke;Geneviève Baujat;Ulrike Botschen;Tanja Wittkampf

  • Osteoporosis-pseudoglioma syndrome, a disorder affecting skeletal strength and vision, is assigned to chromosome region 11q12-13

    Y Gong;Miikka Vikkula;L Boon;J Liu

  • Genetic Linkage of the Marfan Syndrome, Ectopia Lentis, and Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly to the Fibrillin Genes on Chromosomes 15 and 5

    Tsipouras P;Del Mastro R;Sarfarazi M;Lee B

  • In vivo and in vitro characterization of neonatal hyperparathyroidism resulting from a de novo, heterozygous mutation in the Ca2+-sensing receptor gene: normal maternal calcium homeostasis as a cause of secondary hyperparathyroidism in familial benign hypocalciuric hypercalcemia.

    M. Bai;S. H. S. Pearce;O. Kifor;S. Trivedi

  • Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia and neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism. Effects of mutant gene dosage on phenotype.

    M R Pollak;Y H Chou;S J Marx;B Steinmann

  • Disorders of Fructose Metabolism

    Beat Steinmann;René Santer

  • Spondylocheiro Dysplastic Form of the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome—An Autosomal-Recessive Entity Caused by Mutations in the Zinc Transporter Gene SLC39A13

    Cecilia Giunta;Nursel H. Elçioglu;Beate Albrecht;Georg Eich

  • Achondrogenesis type IB is caused by mutations in the diastrophic dysplasia sulphate transporter gene.

    Superti-Furga A;Superti-Furga A;Hästbacka J;Wilcox Wr;Cohn Dh

  • Lack of the mitochondrial protein acylglycerol kinase causes Sengers syndrome.

    Johannes A. Mayr;Tobias B. Haack;Elisabeth Graf;Franz A. Zimmermann

  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV: a multi-exon deletion in one of the two COL3A1 alleles affecting structure, stability, and processing of type III procollagen.

    A Superti-Furga;E Gugler;R Gitzelmann;B Steinmann

  • Cysteine in the triple-helical domain of one allelic product of the alpha 1(I) gene of type I collagen produces a lethal form of osteogenesis imperfecta.

    B Steinmann;V H Rao;A Vogel;P Bruckner

  • Evidence for a structural mutation of procollagen type I in a patient with the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type VII.

    B Steinmann;L Tuderman;L Peltonen;G R Martin

  • The mutation spectrum of the facilitative glucose transporter gene SLC2A2 (GLUT2) in patients with Fanconi-Bickel syndrome

    René Santer;Sebastian Groth;Martina Kinner;Anja Dombrowski

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Raghunath
Michael Raghunath Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Andrea Superti-Furga
Andrea Superti-Furga University of Lausanne
Peter H. Byers
Peter H. Byers University of Washington
Thierry Carrel
Thierry Carrel University of Bern
Eugen Boltshauser
Eugen Boltshauser University of Zurich
Anne De Paepe
Anne De Paepe Ghent University Hospital
Reinhard Schneppenheim
Reinhard Schneppenheim Universität Hamburg
Martin R. Pollak
Martin R. Pollak Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Edward M. Brown
Edward M. Brown University of Rochester Medical Center
Bernhard Zabel
Bernhard Zabel University of Freiburg

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