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Overview

Lut Van Laer is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on subfields such as Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Genetics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research.

The main topics of Van Laer's work include:

  • Connective tissue disorders research
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Aortic disease and treatment approaches
  • Cardiomyopathy and myosin studies
  • Aortic aneurysm repair treatments
  • Cardiac valve diseases and treatments
  • Ion channel regulation and function

Van Laer has published in several frequent venues, with multiple contributions to Genetics in Medicine, European Journal of Medical Genetics, Frontiers in Genetics, Stem Cell Research, and Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. These venues reflect a focus on genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying cardiovascular and connective tissue disorders.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Enhancing rare variant interpretation in inherited arrhythmias through quantitative analysis of consortium disease cohorts and population controls," 2020, Genetics in Medicine
  • "Loeys-Dietz Syndrome," 2021, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
  • "Molecular characterization and investigation of the role of genetic variation in phenotypic variability and response to treatment in a large pediatric Marfan syndrome cohort," 2022, Genetics in Medicine
  • "A human importin-β-related disorder: Syndromic thoracic aortic aneurysm caused by bi-allelic loss-of-function variants in IPO8," 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • One paper in 2020 published in the Institutional Repository University of Antwerp

Frequent collaborators in Van Laer's work include Bart Loeys, Johan Saenen, Maaike Alaerts, Aline Verstraeten, and Josephina Meester, indicating a collaborative network focused on genetic cardiovascular research.

Best Publications

  • Mutations in the human |[alpha]|-tectorin gene cause autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing impairment

    Kristien Verhoeven;Lut Van Laer;Karin Kirschhofer;P Kevin Legan

  • Loss-of-function mutations in TGFB2 cause a syndromic presentation of thoracic aortic aneurysm

    Mark E. Lindsay;Dorien Schepers;Nikhita Ajit Bolar;Jefferson J. Doyle

  • Nonsyndromic hearing impairment is associated with a mutation in DFNA5

    Lut Van Laer;Egbert H Huizing;Margriet Verstreken;Diederick van Zuijlen

  • Mutations in the gene encoding pejvakin, a newly identified protein of the afferent auditory pathway, cause DFNB59 auditory neuropathy

    Sedigheh Delmaghani;Francisco J del Castillo;Vincent Michel;Michel Leibovici

  • Occupational noise, smoking, and a high body mass index are risk factors for age-related hearing impairment and moderate alcohol consumption is protective: a European population-based multicenter study.

    Erik Fransen;Vedat Topsakal;Jan Jaap Hendrickx;Lut Van Laer

  • Mutations in the novel protocadherin PCDH15 cause Usher syndrome type 1F

    Kumar N. Alagramam;Huijun Yuan;Markus H. Kuehn;Crystal L. Murcia

  • Mutations in a TGF-β ligand, TGFB3, cause syndromic aortic aneurysms and dissections.

    Aida M. Bertoli-Avella;Elisabeth Gillis;Hiroko Morisaki;Judith M A Verhagen

  • Mutations in the TGF-β repressor SKI cause Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome with aortic aneurysm.

    Alexander J Doyle;Alexander J Doyle;Alexander J Doyle;Jefferson J Doyle;Seneca L Bessling;Samantha Maragh;Samantha Maragh

  • Phenotypic spectrum of the SMAD3-related aneurysms–osteoarthritis syndrome

    Ingrid M B H van de Laar;Denise van der Linde;Edwin H G Oei;Pieter K Bos

  • Loeys-Dietz Syndrome

    Lut Van Laer;Harry C Dietz;Bart Loeys

  • Differences in manifestations of Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and Loeys-Dietz syndrome.

    Josephina A. N. Meester;Aline Verstraeten;Dorien Schepers;Maaike Alaerts

  • GRM7 variants confer susceptibility to age-related hearing impairment

    Rick A. Friedman;Lut Van Laer;Matthew J. Huentelman;Sonal S. Sheth

  • Clinical Validity of Genes for Heritable Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection

    Marjolijn Renard;Catherine Francis;Rajarshi Ghosh;Alan F. Scott

  • Genetics of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm At the Crossroad of Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Contractility

    Elisabeth Gillis;Lut Van Laer;Bart L. Loeys

  • GJB2 deafness gene shows a specific spectrum of mutations in Japan, including a frequent founder mutation

    Akihiro Ohtsuka;Isamu Yuge;Shinobu Kimura;Atsushi Namba

  • Mutations in KIF11 Cause Autosomal-Dominant Microcephaly Variably Associated with Congenital Lymphedema and Chorioretinopathy

    Pia Ostergaard;Michael A Simpson;Antonella Mendola;Pradeep Vasudevan

  • The grainyhead like 2 gene (GRHL2), alias TFCP2L3, is associated with age-related hearing impairment

    Lut Van Laer;Els Van Eyken;Erik Fransen;Jeroen R. Huyghe

  • A dominant-negative GFI1B mutation in the gray platelet syndrome

    Davide Monteferrario;Nikhita A Bolar;Anna E Marneth;Konnie M Hebeda

  • Marfan Syndrome and Related Disorders: 25 Years of Gene Discovery.

    Aline Verstraeten;Maaike Alaerts;Lut Van Laer;Bart Loeys;Bart Loeys

  • Genetic studies on noise-induced hearing loss: a review.

    Annelies Konings;Lut Van Laer;Guy Van Camp

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart Loeys
Bart Loeys University of Antwerp
Guy Van Camp
Guy Van Camp University of Antwerp
Erik Fransen
Erik Fransen University of Antwerp
Harry C. Dietz
Harry C. Dietz Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Paul Van de Heyning
Paul Van de Heyning University of Antwerp
Richard J.H. Smith
Richard J.H. Smith University of Iowa
Geert Mortier
Geert Mortier University of Antwerp
Anne De Paepe
Anne De Paepe Ghent University Hospital
Paul Coucke
Paul Coucke Ghent University
Cor W. R. J. Cremers
Cor W. R. J. Cremers Radboud University

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