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Heiner Westphal is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their scholarly work spans multiple fields, including Psychology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's research also covers several specialized subfields such as Social Psychology, Genetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Their main topics of work include Primate Behavior and Ecology, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, and Animal Behavior and Reproduction.

Westphal has contributed to the following recent publications:

  • Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques by inferring identity-by-descent segments, 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Taking identity-by-descent analysis into the wild: Estimating realized relatedness in free-ranging macaques, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Heiner Westphal collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Annika Freudiger
  • Vladimir Jovanović
  • Yilei Huang
  • Noah Snyder-Mackler
  • Donald F. Conrad

Best Publications

  • Cyclopia and defective axial patterning in mice lacking Sonic hedgehog gene function.

    Chin Chiang;Ying Litingtung;Eric Lee;Keith E. Young

  • Regulation of cell fate decision of undifferentiated spermatogonia by GDNF.

    Xiaojuan Meng;Maria Lindahl;Mervi E. Hyvönen;Martti Parvinen

  • Targeted disruption of the alpha isoform of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gene in mice results in abolishment of the pleiotropic effects of peroxisome proliferators.

    S S Lee;T Pineau;J Drago;E J Lee

  • Defects in enteric innervation and kidney development in mice lacking GDNF

    José G. Pichel;Liya Shen;Hui Z. Sheng;Ann-Charlotte Granholm

  • Efficient in vivo manipulation of mouse genomic sequences at the zygote stage

    Merja Lakso;Jose G. Pichel;James R. Gorman;Brian Sauer

  • The LIM‐only protein Lmo2 is a bridging molecule assembling an erythroid, DNA‐binding complex which includes the TAL1, E47, GATA‐1 and Ldb1/NLI proteins

    Isobel A. Wadman;Hirotaka Osada;Gerald G. Grütz;Alan D. Agulnick

  • Targeted oncogene activation by site-specific recombination in transgenic mice

    M Lakso;B Sauer;B Mosinger;E J Lee

  • Sonic hedgehog is essential to foregut development

    Ying Litingtung;Li Lei;Heiner Westphal;Chin Chiang

  • Early neonatal death in mice homozygous for a null allele of the insulin receptor gene

    Domenico Accili;John Drago;John Drago;Eric J. Lee;Mark D. Johnson;Mark D. Johnson

  • Dickkopf1 Is Required for Embryonic Head Induction and Limb Morphogenesis in the Mouse

    Mahua Mukhopadhyay;Svetlana Shtrom;Concepcion Rodriguez-Esteban;Lan Chen

  • Essential role for Sonic hedgehog during hair follicle morphogenesis.

    Chin Chiang;Ryan Z. Swan;Marina Grachtchouk;Matthew Bolinger

  • Lhx2, a LIM homeobox gene, is required for eye, forebrain, and definitive erythrocyte development.

    Forbes D. Porter;John Drago;Yang Xu;Surindar S. Cheema

  • Specification of Pituitary Cell Lineages by the LIM Homeobox Gene Lhx3

    Hui Z. Sheng;Alexander B. Zhadanov;Bedrich Mosinger;Tetsuya Fujii

  • Characterization of a mouse strain expressing Cre recombinase from the 3′ untranslated region of the dopamine transporter locus

    Cristina M. Bäckman;Nasir Malik;YaJun Zhang;Lufei Shan

  • Profound impairment in social recognition and reduction in anxiety-like behavior in vasopressin V1a receptor knockout mice.

    Isadora F Bielsky;Shuang-Bao Hu;Kathleen L Szegda;Heiner Westphal

  • Impaired host defense, hematopoiesis, granulomatous inflammation and type 1-type 2 cytokine balance in mice lacking CC chemokine receptor 1.

    Ji Liang Gao;Thomas A. Wynn;Yun Chang;Eric J. Lee

  • Variable and tissue-specific hormone resistance in heterotrimeric Gs protein α-subunit (Gsα) knockout mice is due to tissue-specific imprinting of the Gsα gene

    Shuhua Yu;Dawen Yu;Eric Lee;Michael Eckhaus

  • Functions of LIM-homeobox genes.

    Oliver Hobert;Heiner Westphal

  • LIM HOMEODOMAIN FACTORS LHX3 AND LHX4 ASSIGN SUBTYPE IDENTITIES FOR MOTOR NEURONS

    Kamal Sharma;Hui Z Sheng;Karen Lettieri;Hung Li

  • The LIM homeobox gene Lhx9 is essential for mouse gonad formation.

    Ohad S. Birk;Delane E. Casiano;Christopher A. Wassif;Tiziana Cogliati

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Grinberg
Alexander Grinberg National Institutes of Health
John Drago
John Drago University of Melbourne
Paul A. Overbeek
Paul A. Overbeek Baylor College of Medicine
Forbes D. Porter
Forbes D. Porter National Institutes of Health
Paul E. Love
Paul E. Love National Institutes of Health
Patrick P.L. Tam
Patrick P.L. Tam University of Sydney
Jacqueline N. Crawley
Jacqueline N. Crawley University of California, Davis
Igor B. Dawid
Igor B. Dawid National Institutes of Health
Richard L. Proia
Richard L. Proia National Institutes of Health
Marc L. Reitman
Marc L. Reitman National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

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