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Jan Senderek is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on areas spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, neuroscience, and medicine.

Their work covers several subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, neurology, genetics, and cell biology. The scientist's main topics of research involve hereditary neurological disorders, neurological diseases and metabolism, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, ion channel regulation and function, genomics and rare diseases, as well as RNA research and splicing.

Jan Senderek has published numerous papers, some of the recent ones include:

  • "Loss of function mutations in GEMIN5 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Genetic pain loss disorders," 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • "Improved Diagnosis of Rare Disease Patients through Systematic Detection of Runs of Homozygosity," 2020, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
  • "The genetic landscape of axonal neuropathies in the middle-aged and elderly," 2020, Neurology
  • "Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and hereditary motor neuropathies - Update 2020," 2020, Medizinische Genetik

Their frequent coauthors include Michaela Auer-Grumbach, Tim M. Strom, Henry Houlden, Jonathan Baets, and Vincent Timmerman.

Jan Senderek's publications are commonly found in several scientific venues, including:

  • Brain
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • European Journal of Neurology
  • Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Journal of Molecular Diagnostics

Best Publications

  • Mutations in the mitochondrial GTPase mitofusin 2 cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy type 2A.

    Stephan Züchner;Stephan Züchner;Irina V Mersiyanova;Maria Muglia;Nisrine Bissar-Tadmouri;Nisrine Bissar-Tadmouri

  • PKHD1, the polycystic kidney and hepatic disease 1 gene, encodes a novel large protein containing multiple immunoglobulin-like plexin-transcription-factor domains and parallel beta-helix 1 repeats

    Luiz F. Onuchic;Laszlo Furu;Yasuyuki Nagasawa;Xiaoying Hou

  • Loss of Nephrocystin-3 Function Can Cause Embryonic Lethality, Meckel-Gruber-like Syndrome, Situs Inversus, and Renal-Hepatic-Pancreatic Dysplasia

    Carsten Bergmann;Manfred Fliegauf;Nadina Ortiz Brüchle;Valeska Frank

  • Clinical consequences of PKHD1 mutations in 164 patients with autosomal-recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD).

    Carsten Bergmann;Jan Senderek;Ellen Windelen;Fabian Küpper

  • Mutation of the SBF2 gene, encoding a novel member of the myotubularin family, in Charcot–Marie–Tooth neuropathy type 4B2/11p15

    Jan Senderek;Carsten Bergmann;Susanne Weber;Uwe-Peter Ketelsen

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

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

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

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

  • Mutations in the RNA exosome component gene EXOSC3 cause pontocerebellar hypoplasia and spinal motor neuron degeneration

    Jijun Wan;Michael Yourshaw;Hafsa Mamsa;Sabine Rudnik-Schöneborn

  • Mutations in **FAM134B**, encoding a newly identified Golgi protein, cause severe sensory and autonomic neuropathy

    Ingo Kurth;Torsten Pamminger;J Christopher Hennings;Désirée Soehendra

  • Mutations in a gene encoding a novel SH3/TPR domain protein cause autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 4C neuropathy.

    Jan Senderek;Carsten Bergmann;Claudia Stendel;Jutta Kirfel

  • Mutations of the CEP290 gene encoding a centrosomal protein cause Meckel-Gruber syndrome

    Valeska Frank;Anneke I. den Hollander;Nadina Ortiz Brüchle;Marijke N. Zonneveld

  • Spectrum of Mutations in the Gene for Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD/PKHD1)

    Carsten Bergmann;Jan Senderek;Beate Sedlacek;Ioannis Pegiazoglou

  • Hexosamine biosynthetic pathway mutations cause neuromuscular transmission defect.

    Jan Senderek;Jan Senderek;Juliane S. Müller;Marina Dusl;Tim M. Strom

  • Autosomal-dominant distal myopathy associated with a recurrent missense mutation in the gene encoding the nuclear matrix protein, matrin 3.

    Jan Senderek;Jan Senderek;Sean M. Garvey;Sean M. Garvey;Michael Krieger;Velina Guergueltcheva

  • Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix Saguenay (ARSACS): expanding the genetic, clinical and imaging spectrum

    Matthis Synofzik;Anne S Soehn;Janina Gburek-Augustat;Julia Schicks

  • PKHD1 mutations in autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD).

    Carsten Bergmann;Jan Senderek;Fabian Küpper;Frank Schneider

  • Mutations in the ganglioside-induced differentiation-associated protein-1 (GDAP1) gene in intermediate type autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy

    Jan Senderek;Carsten Bergmann;Vincent T Ramaekers;Eva Nelis

  • Transcriptional regulator PRDM12 is essential for human pain perception

    Ya Chun Chen;Michaela Auer-Grumbach;Shinya Matsukawa;Manuela Zitzelsberger

  • Peripheral Nerve Demyelination Caused by a Mutant Rho GTPase Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor, Frabin/FGD4

    Claudia Stendel;Andreas Roos;Tine Deconinck;Jorge Pereira

  • Oligophrenin 1 (OPHN1) gene mutation causes syndromic X-linked mental retardation with epilepsy, rostral ventricular enlargement and cerebellar hypoplasia.

    Carsten Bergmann;Klaus Zerres;Jan Senderek;Sabine Rudnik‐Schöneborn

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Zerres
Klaus Zerres RWTH Aachen University
Carsten Bergmann
Carsten Bergmann University of Freiburg
Joachim Weis
Joachim Weis RWTH Aachen University
Hanns Lochmüller
Hanns Lochmüller University of Freiburg
Tim M. Strom
Tim M. Strom Technical University of Munich
Thomas Eggermann
Thomas Eggermann RWTH Aachen University
Peter De Jonghe
Peter De Jonghe University of Antwerp
Stephan Züchner
Stephan Züchner University of Miami
Markus Moser
Markus Moser Technical University of Munich
Vincent Timmerman
Vincent Timmerman University of Antwerp

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