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Overview

Maj Hultén is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and has contributed research primarily related to molecular biology and gene expression. Their scholarly output includes work across several specialized areas, reflecting engagement with interdisciplinary topics intersecting biology and computational analysis.

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Gene expression and cancer classification

Hultén has published in venues including:

  • CL Technical Reports
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics
  • Molecular Medicine

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Hultén cover diverse aspects of fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) image analysis and biological responses under microgravity conditions. These include:

  • Gelfish - graphical environment for labelling FISH images (2021, CL Technical Reports)
  • Feature representation for the automatic analysis of fluorescence in-situ hybridization images (2021, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics)
  • Microgravity activates monocyte ERK1/2 signaling and modulates the response to lipopolysaccharide (2025, Molecular Medicine)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Boaz Lerner
  • Seema Dhanjal
  • William F. Clocksin
  • Christipher Bishop
  • Marilyn Bakker

The research involving fluorescence in-situ hybridization images indicates a focus on computational methods to support biological interpretation, with implications for understanding gene expression mechanisms. The 2025 publication related to microgravity effects highlights application of molecular biology techniques to cellular signaling pathways under altered environmental conditions.

This body of work contributes to the integration of image analysis and biological sciences, particularly in areas relevant to cancer classification and cellular biology under stress factors such as microgravity.

Best Publications

  • Chromosome instability and immunodeficiency syndrome caused by mutations in a DNA methyltransferase gene.

    Guo-Liang Xu;Timothy H. Bestor;Déborah Bourc'his;Chih-Lin Hsieh

  • Chiasma distribution at diakinesis in the normal human male

    Maj Hultén

  • Long-read sequence analysis of the MECP2 gene in Rett syndrome patients: correlation of disease severity with mutation type and location

    Jeremy Peter Cheadle;Harinder Gill;Nick Fleming;Julie Helen Maynard

  • Crossing over analysis at pachytene in man

    AL Barlow;MA Hultén

  • Distribution of the Rad51 recombinase in human and mouse spermatocytes

    Andrew L. Barlow;Fiona E. Benson;Stephen C. West;Maj A. Hultén

  • Rapid and simple prenatal diagnosis of common chromosome disorders: advantages and disadvantages of the molecular methods FISH and QF-PCR.

    Maj A Hultén;Seema Dhanjal;Barbara Pertl

  • Rapid and simple prenatal DNA diagnosis of Down's syndrome

    L Verma;F Macdonald;P Leedham;M McConachie

  • Further studies on bivalent chiasma frequency in human males with normal karyotypes

    D. A. Laurie;M. A. Hultén

  • Patterns of Meiotic Recombination in Human Fetal Oocytes

    Charles Tease;Geraldine M. Hartshorne;Maj A. Hultén

  • Nuclear Weapons Tests and Human Germline Mutation Rate

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Rakhmet I. Bersimbaev;Leila B. Djansugurova;Maira K. Tankimanova

  • Guidelines for reporting clinical features in cases with MECP2 mutations

    Alison M. Kerr;Yoshiko Nomura;Dawna Armstrong;Maria Anvret

  • Childhood cancer and parental use of tobacco: deaths from 1971 to 1976

    T Sorahan;P Prior;R J Lancashire;S P Faux

  • Sites of differential DNA methylation between placenta and peripheral blood: molecular markers for noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of aneuploidies.

    Elisavet A. Papageorgiou;Elisavet A. Papageorgiou;Elisavet A. Papageorgiou;Heike Fiegler;Vardhman Rakyan;Stephan Beck

  • DNMT3B Mutations and DNA Methylation Defect Define Two Types of ICF Syndrome

    YL Jiang;M Rigolet;D Bourc'his;F Nigon

  • Mammalian meiotic telomeres: protein composition and redistribution in relation to nuclear pores.

    Harry Scherthan;Martin Jerratsch;Bibo Li;Susan Smith

  • Inter-sex variation in synaptonemal complex lengths largely determine the different recombination rates in male and female germ cells.

    C. Tease;Maj A. Hultén

  • Childhood cancer and parental use of tobacco: deaths from 1953 to 1955.

    T Sorahan;RJ Lancashire;MA Hultén;I Peck

  • Genotype-phenotype correlation between position of constitutional APC gene mutation and CHRPE expression in familial adenomatous polyposis

    Yvonne L. Wallis;Fiona Macdonald;Maj Hultén;Jenny E. V. Morton

  • On the origin of trisomy 21 Down syndrome

    Maj A Hultén;Suketu D Patel;Maira Tankimanova;Maira Tankimanova;Magnus Westgren

  • Fluorescent staining of heteropycnotic chromosome regions in human interphase nuclei.

    T. Caspersson;T. Caspersson;L. Zech;L. Zech;C. Johansson;C. Johansson;J. Lindsten;J. Lindsten

Frequent Co-Authors

Torbjörn Caspersson
Torbjörn Caspersson Karolinska Institute
Maurizio D'Esposito
Maurizio D'Esposito National Research Council (CNR)
John P. Neoptolemos
John P. Neoptolemos Heidelberg University
Yuri E. Dubrova
Yuri E. Dubrova University of Leicester
Alessandra Ferlini
Alessandra Ferlini University of Ferrara
Michele D'Urso
Michele D'Urso United Way
Alessandra Renieri
Alessandra Renieri University of Siena
Francesca Gualandi
Francesca Gualandi University of Ferrara
Nigel P. Carter
Nigel P. Carter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Niels Tommerup
Niels Tommerup University of Copenhagen

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