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Carsten G. Bönnemann is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans extensive work primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their contributions total 283 publications in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and 182 publications in Medicine.

The scope of Bönnemann's research includes several specific subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Physiology. Their work covers prominent topics including Muscle Physiology and Disorders, Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, RNA Research and Splicing, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Cell Adhesion Molecules Research, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Bönnemann has published frequently in journals such as Neuromuscular Disorders, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neurology, Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, and Annals of Neurology.

Some of the recent papers associated with Bönnemann include the following:

  • PIEZO2 in sensory neurons and urothelial cells coordinates urination (2020, Nature)
  • Childhood amyotrophic lateral sclerosis caused by excess sphingolipid synthesis (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • Genome Sequencing for Diagnosing Rare Diseases (2024, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • PIEZO2 in somatosensory neurons controls gastrointestinal transit (2023, Cell)
  • LAMA2-Related Dystrophies: Clinical Phenotypes, Disease Biomarkers, and Clinical Trial Readiness (2020, Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience)

Bönnemann collaborates closely with several coauthors, including:

  • Sandra Donkervoort
  • A. Reghan Foley
  • Payam Mohassel
  • Dimah Saade
  • Diana Bharucha-Goebel

Best Publications

  • Myotubes differentiate optimally on substrates with tissue-like stiffness: pathological implications for soft or stiff microenvironments

    Adam J. Engler;Maureen A. Griffin;Shamik Sen;Carsten G. Bönnemann

  • Improving genetic diagnosis in Mendelian disease with transcriptome sequencing

    Beryl B. Cummings;Beryl B. Cummings;Jamie L. Marshall;Jamie L. Marshall;Taru Tukiainen;Taru Tukiainen;Monkol Lek

  • Mutations in the dystrophin-associated protein γ-sarcoglycan in chromosome 13 muscular dystrophy

    Satoru Noguchi;Elizabeth M. McNally;Kamel Ben Othmane;Yasuko Hagiwara

  • β–sarcoglycan (A3b) mutations cause autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy with loss of the sarcoglycan complex

    Carsten G. Bönnemann;Raju Modi;Satoru Noguchi;Yuji Mizuno

  • Mechanisms of mosaicism, chimerism and uniparental disomy identified by single nucleotide polymorphism array analysis

    Laura K. Conlin;Brian D. Thiel;Carsten G. Bonnemann;Livija Medne

  • Mutations of the Selenoprotein N Gene, Which Is Implicated in Rigid Spine Muscular Dystrophy, Cause the Classical Phenotype of Multiminicore Disease: Reassessing the Nosology of Early-Onset Myopathies

    Ana Ferreiro;Susana Quijano-Roy;Claire Pichereau;Behzad Moghadaszadeh

  • Mutational Spectrum of DMD Mutations in Dystrophinopathy Patients: Application of Modern Diagnostic Techniques to a Large Cohort

    Flanigan Km;Dunn Dm;von Niederhausern A;Soltanzadeh P

  • The Role of PIEZO2 in Human Mechanosensation

    Alexander T. Chesler;Marcin Szczot;Diana Bharucha-Goebel;Marta Čeko

  • Phase 2a Study of Ataluren-Mediated Dystrophin Production in Patients with Nonsense Mutation Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

    Richard S. Finkel;Kevin M. Flanigan;Brenda Wong;Carsten Bönnemann

  • De Novo LMNA Mutations Cause a New Form of Congenital Muscular Dystrophy

    Susana Quijano-Roy;Blaise Mbieleu;Carsten G. Bönnemann;Pierre Yves Jeannet

  • Approach to the diagnosis of congenital myopathies

    Kathryn N. North;Kathryn N. North;Ching H. Wang;Nigel Clarke;Heinz Jungbluth;Heinz Jungbluth

  • Caveolin-3 in Muscular Dystrophy

    Elizabeth M. McNally;Elizabeth M. McNally;Eloisa de Sá Moreira;David J. Duggan;Carsten G. Bönnemann

  • Long-term persistence of donor nuclei in a Duchenne muscular dystrophy patient receiving bone marrow transplantation

    Emanuela Gussoni;Richard R. Bennett;Kristina R. Muskiewicz;Todd Meyerrose

  • A recessive form of central core disease, transiently presenting as multi-minicore disease, is associated with a homozygous mutation in the ryanodine receptor type 1 gene.

    Ana Ferreiro;Nicole Monnier;Norma B. Romero;Jean-Paul Leroy

  • Loss of Myotubularin Function Results in T-Tubule Disorganization in Zebrafish and Human Myotubular Myopathy

    James J. Dowling;Andrew P. Vreede;Sean E. Low;Elizabeth M. Gibbs

  • Desmin-related myopathy with Mallory body-like inclusions is caused by mutations of the selenoprotein N gene.

    Ana Ferreiro;Chantal Ceuterick‐de Groote;Jared J. Marks;Nathalie Goemans

  • Consensus Statement on Standard of Care for Congenital Muscular Dystrophies

    Ching C.H. Wang;Carsten C.G. Bönnemann;Anne A. Rutkowski;Thomas T. Sejersen

  • Mutations in GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase b cause congenital and limb-girdle muscular dystrophies associated with hypoglycosylation of α-dystroglycan

    Keren J. Carss;Elizabeth Stevens;A. Reghan Foley;Sebahattin Cirak;Sebahattin Cirak

  • The Sarcoglycan Complex in the Six Autosomal Recessive Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophies

    M. Vainzof;M. R. Passos-Bueno;M. Canovas;E. S. Moreira

  • Muscle MRI in Ullrich congenital muscular dystrophy and Bethlem myopathy

    Eugenio Mercuri;Eugenio Mercuri;Anne Lampe;Joanna Allsop;Ravi Knight

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Ying Hu
Ying Hu National Institutes of Health
Richard S. Finkel
Richard S. Finkel St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Volker Straub
Volker Straub Newcastle University
Kevin M. Flanigan
Kevin M. Flanigan The Ohio State University
Caroline Sewry
Caroline Sewry Great Ormond Street Hospital
Pascale Guicheney
Pascale Guicheney Sorbonne University
Mon-Li Chu
Mon-Li Chu Thomas Jefferson University
Robert B. Weiss
Robert B. Weiss University of Utah
Kate Bushby
Kate Bushby Newcastle University

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