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2024

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Dagmar Wieczorek is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Medicine as well. The main subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Immunology.

The scientist's work spans several key topics, notably:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer

Recent publications from Dagmar Wieczorek include the following papers:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 targets neurons of 3D human brain organoids," 2020, The EMBO Journal
  • "Genotype-phenotype correlations in SCN8A-related disorders reveal prognostic and therapeutic implications," 2021, Brain
  • "Genome Sequencing for Diagnosing Rare Diseases," 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Unique variants in CLCN3, encoding an endosomal anion/proton exchanger, underlie a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders," 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • "ANKRD11 variants: KBG syndrome and beyond," 2021, Clinical Genetics

Dagmar Wieczorek frequently publishes in several scientific venues. The most common journals where their work appears include:

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

The scientist has collaborated extensively with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Rami Abou Jamra
  • Konrad Platzer
  • Harald Surowy
  • Luisa Averdunk
  • Margarete Koch-Hogrebe

Best Publications

  • Severe COVID-19 Is Marked by a Dysregulated Myeloid Cell Compartment.

    Jonas Schulte-Schrepping;Nico Reusch;Daniela Paclik;Kevin Baßler

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

    Anita Rauch;Dagmar Wieczorek;Elisabeth Graf;Thomas Wieland

  • Deep sequencing reveals 50 novel genes for recessive cognitive disorders

    Hossein Najmabadi;Hao Hu;Masoud Garshasbi;Tomasz Zemojtel

  • Germline KRAS and BRAF mutations in cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome

    Tetsuya Niihori;Yoko Aoki;Yoko Narumi;Giovanni Neri

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

    Sabine Endele;Georg Rosenberger;Kirsten Geider;Bernt Popp

  • SARS-CoV-2 targets neurons of 3D human brain organoids.

    Anand Ramani;Lisa Müller;Philipp Niklas Ostermann;Elke Gabriel

  • Mutations in genes encoding subunits of RNA polymerases I and III cause Treacher Collins syndrome

    Johannes G. Dauwerse;Jill Dixon;Saskia Seland;Claudia A L Ruivenkamp

  • Longitudinal Multi-omics Analyses Identify Responses of Megakaryocytes, Erythroid Cells, and Plasmablasts as Hallmarks of Severe COVID-19.

    Joana P. Bernardes;Neha Mishra;Florian Tran;Thomas Bahmer

  • Distinct spectrum of CFTR gene mutations in congenital absence of vas deferens

    Thilo Dörk;Bernd Dworniczak;Christa Aulehla-Scholz;Dagmar Wieczorek

  • 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

  • Mutations in NSUN2 cause autosomal-recessive intellectual disability

    Lia Abbasi-Moheb;Sara Mertel;Melanie Gonsior;Leyla Nouri-Vahid

  • 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

  • Mutations in U4atac snRNA, a Component of the Minor Spliceosome, in the Developmental Disorder MOPD I

    Huiling He;Sandya Liyanarachchi;Keiko Akagi;Rebecca Nagy

  • Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum (OAVS) : clinical evaluation and severity scoring of 53 patients and proposal for a new classification

    Christiane Tasse;Stefan Böhringer;Sven Fischer;Hermann-Josef Lüdecke

  • CEP152 is a genome maintenance protein disrupted in Seckel syndrome

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

  • Heterozygous missense mutations in SMARCA2 cause Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome

    Jeroen K.J. Van Houdt;Beata Anna Nowakowska;Sérgio B. Sousa;Sérgio B. Sousa;Barbera D.C. Van Schaik

  • 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

  • Diagnostic approach to microcephaly in childhood: a two-center study and review of the literature.

    Maja von der Hagen;Mark Pivarcsi;Juliane Liebe;Horst von Bernuth

  • Heterozygous Submicroscopic Inversions Involving Olfactory Receptor–Gene Clusters Mediate the Recurrent t(4;8)(p16;p23) Translocation

    Sabrina Giglio;Vladimiro Calvari;Giuliana Gregato;Giorgio Gimelli

  • A comprehensive molecular study on Coffin-Siris and Nicolaides-Baraitser syndromes identifies a broad molecular and clinical spectrum converging on altered chromatin remodeling.

    Dagmar Wieczorek;Nina Bögershausen;Filippo Beleggia;Sabine Steiner-Haldenstätt

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach
Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach University of Lübeck
Tim M. Strom
Tim M. Strom Technical University of Munich
Beate Albrecht
Beate Albrecht University of Duisburg-Essen
Bernd Wollnik
Bernd Wollnik University of Göttingen
Anita Rauch
Anita Rauch University of Zurich
Bernhard Horsthemke
Bernhard Horsthemke University of Duisburg-Essen
Martin Zenker
Martin Zenker Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
André Reis
André Reis University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Christiane Zweier
Christiane Zweier University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Rami Abou Jamra
Rami Abou Jamra Leipzig University

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