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758
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376

Medicine

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Overview

Charles E. Schwartz is affiliated with the Greenwood Genetic Center in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, epigenetics and DNA methylation, genomics and rare diseases, infective endocarditis diagnosis and management, genetic syndromes and imprinting, RNA modifications and cancer, and genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

Their most frequent publication venues include Genetics in Medicine, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The American Journal of Human Genetics, and European Journal of Human Genetics.

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Charles E. Schwartz include:

  • Evaluation of DNA Methylation Episignatures for Diagnosis and Phenotype Correlations in 42 Mendelian Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Clinical epigenomics: genome-wide DNA methylation analysis for the diagnosis of Mendelian disorders, 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • Novel diagnostic DNA methylation episignatures expand and refine the epigenetic landscapes of Mendelian disorders, 2021, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
  • Spermine synthase and MYC cooperate to maintain colorectal cancer cell survival by repressing Bim expression, 2020, Nature Communications
  • An intellectual disability syndrome with single-nucleotide variants in O-GlcNAc transferase, 2020, European Journal of Human Genetics

Frequent coauthors include Roger E. Stevenson, Cindy Skinner, Michael J. Friez, Jennifer Kerkhof, and Bekim Sadiković.

Charles E. Schwartz's work is situated primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their subfields of study cover Genetics, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Surgery, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Best Publications

  • Recurrent Rearrangements of Chromosome 1q21.1 and Variable Pediatric Phenotypes

    Heather C Mefford;Andrew J Sharp;Carl Baker;Andy Itsara

  • AGTR2 mutations in X-linked mental retardation.

    Virginie S. Vervoort;Michael A. Beachem;Penny S. Edwards;Sydney Ladd

  • A systematic, large-scale resequencing screen of X-chromosome coding exons in mental retardation.

    Patrick S Tarpey;Raffaella Smith;Erin Pleasance;Annabel Whibley

  • A recurrent 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome associated with mental retardation and seizures.

    Andrew J Sharp;Heather C Mefford;Kelly Li;Carl Baker

  • Targeted sequencing identifies 91 neurodevelopmental-disorder risk genes with autism and developmental-disability biases

    Holly A.F. Stessman;Bo Xiong;Bo Xiong;Bradley P. Coe;Tianyun Wang

  • UNIPARENTAL PATERNAL DISOMY IN A GENETIC CANCER-PREDISPOSING SYNDROME

    I. Henry;C. Bonaiti-Pellié;V. Chehensse;C. Beldjord

  • SIX1 mutations cause branchio-oto-renal syndrome by disruption of EYA1-SIX1-DNA complexes.

    Rainer G. Ruf;Pin-Xian Xu;Derek Silvius;Edgar A. Otto

  • Localized mutations in the gene encoding the cytoskeletal protein filamin A cause diverse malformations in humans.

    Stephen P. Robertson;Stephen P. Robertson;Stephen R.F. Twigg;Andrew J. Sutherland-Smith;Valérie Biancalana

  • Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome and the Monocarboxylate Transporter 8 (MCT8) Gene

    Charles E. Schwartz;Melanie M. May;Nancy J. Carpenter;R. Curtis Rogers

  • High frequency of neurexin 1beta signal peptide structural variants in patients with autism

    Steve S. Sommer;Jinong Feng;Jin Yan

  • Isolation and characterization of the faciogenital dysplasia (Aarskog-Scott syndrome) gene: A putative Rho Rac guanine nucleotide exchange factor

    N. German Pasteris;Amy B. Cadle;Lindsay J. Logie;Mary E. M. Porteous

  • X Chromosome–Inactivation Patterns of 1,005 Phenotypically Unaffected Females

    James M. Amos-Landgraf;Amy Cottle;Robert M. Plenge;Mike Friez

  • A promoter mutation in the XIST gene in two unrelated families with skewed X-chromosome inactivation.

    Plenge Rm;Hendrich Bd;Schwartz C;Arena Jf

  • 5,10 Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase genetic polymorphism as a risk factor for neural tube defects

    C Y Ou;R E Stevenson;V K Brown;C E Schwartz

  • Mutations in UPF3B , a member of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay complex, cause syndromic and nonsyndromic mental retardation

    Patrick S. Tarpey;F. Lucy Raymond;Lam S. Nguyen;Jayson Rodriguez

  • A novel X-linked gene, DDP, shows mutations in families with deafness (DFN-1), dystonia, mental deficiency and blindness

    Hong Jin;Melanie May;Lisbeth Tranebjærg;Elaine Kendall

  • Mutations in CUL4B, Which Encodes a Ubiquitin E3 Ligase Subunit, Cause an X-linked Mental Retardation Syndrome Associated with Aggressive Outbursts, Seizures, Relative Macrocephaly, Central Obesity, Hypogonadism, Pes Cavus, and Tremor

    Patrick S. Tarpey;F. Lucy Raymond;Sarah O’Meara;Sarah Edkins

  • Fragile X and X-Linked Intellectual Disability: Four Decades of Discovery

    Herbert A. Lubs;Roger E. Stevenson;Charles E. Schwartz

  • Skewed X-chromosome inactivation is a common feature of X-linked mental retardation disorders.

    Robert M. Plenge;Roger A. Stevenson;Herbert A. Lubs;Charles E. Schwartz

  • OPD-spectrum Disorders Clinical Collaborative Group. Localized mutations in the gene encoding the cytoskeletal protein filamin A cause diverse malformations in humans

    SP Robertson;Twigg;AJ Sutherland-Smith;Biancalana

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger E. Stevenson
Roger E. Stevenson Clemson University
Jozef Gecz
Jozef Gecz University of Adelaide
Herbert A. Lubs
Herbert A. Lubs University of Miami
Patrick S. Tarpey
Patrick S. Tarpey Wellcome Sanger Institute
Michael R. Stratton
Michael R. Stratton Wellcome Sanger Institute
Gillian Turner
Gillian Turner University of Newcastle Australia
Giovanni Neri
Giovanni Neri Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
John M. Graham
John M. Graham Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Sarah Edkins
Sarah Edkins Cardiff University
Corrado Romano
Corrado Romano I.R.C.C.S. Oasi Maria SS

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