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Hanns Lochmüller

Hanns Lochmüller

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Medicine

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National Ranking
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Overview

Hanns Lochmüller is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and has a research focus spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work encompasses subfields such as molecular biology, genetics, neurology, cell biology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research primarily centers on neurogenetic and muscular disorders, muscle physiology and disorders, genomics and rare diseases, RNA modifications and cancer, myasthenia gravis and thymoma, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and cellular transport and secretion.

Recent significant publications include:

  • Life expectancy at birth in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2020), European Journal of Epidemiology
  • The GA4GH Phenopacket schema defines a computable representation of clinical data (2022), Nature Biotechnology
  • Solve-RD: systematic pan-European data sharing and collaborative analysis to solve rare diseases (2021), European Journal of Human Genetics
  • Comparative proteomic analyses of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy muscles: changes contributing to preserve muscle function in Becker muscular dystrophy patients (2020), Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle
  • A Phase 2 Study of AMO-02 (Tideglusib) in Congenital and Childhood-Onset Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) (2020), Pediatric Neurology

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Rita Horvàth
  • Andreas Roos
  • Ana Töpf
  • Kiran Polavarapu
  • Ulrike Schara-Schmidt

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases
  • Brain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Hanns Lochmüller also has contributions in book publications, including a title published by Frontiers Media: Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Assembly and Maintenance of the Neuromuscular Junction (2021).

Best Publications

  • The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2017

    Sebastian Köhler;Nicole A. Vasilevsky;Mark Engelstad;Erin D. Foster

  • Expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) knowledge base and resources

    Sebastian Köhler;Leigh Carmody;Nicole A. Vasilevsky;Julius O. B. Jacobsen

  • The TREAT-NMD DMD Global Database: Analysis of More than 7,000 Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mutations

    Catherine L. Bladen;David Salgado;Soledad Monges;Maria E. Foncuberta

  • Prevalence, incidence and carrier frequency of 5q–linked spinal muscular atrophy – a literature review

    Ingrid E. C. Verhaart;Agata Robertson;Ian J. Wilson;Annemieke Aartsma-Rus

  • Mutations in dynamin 2 cause dominant centronuclear myopathy.

    Marc Bitoun;Svetlana Maugenre;Pierre-Yves Jeannet;Emmanuelle Lacène

  • Phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations of the mitochondrial polymerase γ gene

    R Horvath;G Hudson;G Ferrari;N Futterer

  • International Cooperation to Enable the Diagnosis of All Rare Genetic Diseases.

    Kym M. Boycott;Ana Rath;Jessica X. Chong;Taila Hartley

  • The route of administration is a major determinant of the transduction efficiency of rat tissues by adenoviral recombinants.

    Johnny Huard;H. Lochmüller;G. Acsadi;A. Jani

  • Mildly affected patients with spinal muscular atrophy are partially protected by an increased SMN2 copy number

    B. Wirth;L. Brichta;B. Schrank;H. Lochmüller

  • The myopathic form of coenzyme Q10 deficiency is caused by mutations in the electron-transferring-flavoprotein dehydrogenase (ETFDH) gene

    Klaus Gempel;Haluk Topaloglu;Beril Talim;Peter Schneiderat

  • Mutation in TACO1, encoding a translational activator of COX I, results in cytochrome c oxidase deficiency and late-onset Leigh syndrome.

    Woranontee Weraarpachai;Hana Antonicka;Florin Sasarman;Florin Sasarman;Jürgen Seeger

  • A Mutation in the Dimerization Domain of Filamin C Causes a Novel Type of Autosomal Dominant Myofibrillar Myopathy

    Matthias Vorgerd;Peter F.M. van der Ven;Peter F.M. van der Ven;Vera Bruchertseifer;Thomas Löwe

  • Late onset Pompe disease: clinical and neurophysiological spectrum of 38 patients including long-term follow-up in 18 patients.

    Wolfgang Müller-Felber;Rita Horvath;Klaus Gempel;Teodor Podskarbi

  • Alterations in the ankyrin domain of TRPV4 cause congenital distal SMA, scapuloperoneal SMA and HMSN2C

    Michaela Auer-Grumbach;Andrea Olschewski;Lea Papić;Hannie Kremer

  • Dok-7 Mutations Underlie a Neuromuscular Junction Synaptopathy

    David Beeson;Osamu Higuchi;Jackie Palace;Judy Cossins

  • SDHAF1, encoding a LYR complex-II specific assembly factor, is mutated in SDH-defective infantile leukoencephalopathy.

    Daniele Ghezzi;Paola Goffrini;Graziella Uziel;Rita Horvath;Rita Horvath

  • Mutations in SIL1 cause Marinesco-Sjogren syndrome, a cerebellar ataxia with cataract and myopathy

    J. Senderek;M. Krieger;C. Stendel;C. Bergmann

  • Emergence of Early Region 1-Containing Replication-Competent Adenovirus in Stocks of Replication-Defective Adenovirus Recombinants (ΔE1 + ΔE3) During Multiple Passages in 293 Cells

    H. Lochmuller;A. Jani;Johnny Huard;S. Prescott

  • Risk of developing a mitochondrial DNA deletion disorder

    Patrick F Chinnery;Salvatore DiMauro;Sara Shanske;Eric A Schon

  • Phenotypic spectrum associated with mutations of the mitochondrial polymerase γ gene. Commentary

    Salvatore Dimauro;Guido Davidzon;Michio Hirano;Rita Horvath

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Straub
Volker Straub Newcastle University
Rita Horvath
Rita Horvath University of Cambridge
Kate Bushby
Kate Bushby Newcastle University
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Patrick F. Chinnery
Patrick F. Chinnery University of Cambridge
Benedikt Schoser
Benedikt Schoser Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Annemieke Aartsma-Rus
Annemieke Aartsma-Rus Leiden University Medical Center
Angela Pyle
Angela Pyle Newcastle University
George Karpati
George Karpati Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
David Beeson
David Beeson University of Oxford

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