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Marcel M.A.M. Mannens

Marcel M.A.M. Mannens

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73
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17353
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2059
National Ranking
73

Overview

Marcel M.A.M. Mannens is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional contributions to Medicine. The scientist's work covers several main topics including Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics.

Their publication record includes significant papers such as:

  • Evaluation of DNA Methylation Episignatures for Diagnosis and Phenotype Correlations in 42 Mendelian Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Clinical epigenomics: genome-wide DNA methylation analysis for the diagnosis of Mendelian disorders, 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • Novel diagnostic DNA methylation episignatures expand and refine the epigenetic landscapes of Mendelian disorders, 2021, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances
  • Functional correlation of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in genetic neurodevelopmental disorders, 2022, Human Mutation

Marcel M.A.M. Mannens frequently publishes in established venues including Genetics in Medicine, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Epigenomics, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and Human Genetics and Genomics Advances.

The scientist maintains collaborations with several frequent co-authors, among whom are Peter Henneman, Mariëlle Alders, Bekim Sadiković, Mieke M. van Haelst, and Liselot van der Laan.

Their cross-disciplinary expertise is reflected in subfields like Genetics, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Physiology, which complements the broader domains of their research. Contributions to the understanding of genetic and epigenetic foundations of neurodevelopmental and rare disorders are prominent in their scholarly activities.

Best Publications

  • Mutation in the KCNQ1 Gene Leading to the Short QT-Interval Syndrome

    Chloé Bellocq;Antoni C.G. van Ginneken;Connie R. Bezzina;Mariel Alders

  • Cardiac conduction defects associate with mutations in SCN5A.

    J. J. Schott;C. Alshinawi;F. Kyndt;V. Probst

  • The human chitotriosidase gene - Nature of inherited enzyme deficiency

    R.G. Boot;G.H. Renkema;M. Verhoek;A. Strijland

  • Absence of Calsequestrin 2 Causes Severe Forms of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

    Alex V. Postma;Isabelle Denjoy;Theo M. Hoorntje;Jean-Marc Lupoglazoff

  • The RYR2-Encoded Ryanodine Receptor/Calcium Release Channel in Patients Diagnosed Previously With Either Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia or Genotype Negative, Exercise-Induced Long QT Syndrome A Comprehensive Open Reading Frame Mutational Analysis

    Argelia Medeiros-Domingo;Zahurul A. Bhuiyan;David J. Tester;Nynke Hofman

  • Plakophilin-2 Mutations Are the Major Determinant of Familial Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy

    J.Peter van Tintelen;Mark M. Entius;Zahurul A. Bhuiyan;Roselie Jongbloed

  • Mutations in CCBE1 cause generalized lymph vessel dysplasia in humans

    Marielle Alders;Benjamin M. Hogan;Evisa Gjini;Faranak Salehi

  • Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia: RYR2 mutations, bradycardia, and follow up of the patients

    A. V. Postma;I. Denjoy;J. Kamblock;M. Alders

  • CONCOR, an initiative towards a national registry and DNA-bank of patients with congenital heart disease in the Netherlands: Rationale, design, and first results

    E.T. Van der Velde;J.W.J. Vriend;M.M.A.M. Mannens;C.S.P.M. Uiterwaal

  • Expanding Spectrum of Human RYR2-Related Disease. New Electrocardiographic, Structural, and Genetic Features

    Zahurul A. Bhuiyan;Maarten P. van den Berg;J. Peter van Tintelen;Margreet T.E. Bink-Boelkens

  • Human SCN5A gene mutations alter cardiac sodium channel kinetics and are associated with the Brugada syndrome

    M B Rook;C Bezzina Alshinawi;W A Groenewegen;I C van Gelder

  • Hypomethylation at multiple maternally methylated imprinted regions including PLAGL1 and GNAS loci in Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome

    Jet Bliek;Gaetano Verde;Jonathan Callaway;Jonathan Callaway;Saskia M Maas

  • Aniridia-associated cytogenetic rearrangements suggest that a position effect may cause the mutant phenotype

    J Fantes;B Redeker;M Breen;S Boyle

  • A mutation in the human cardiac sodium channel (E161K) contributes to sick sinus syndrome, conduction disease and Brugada syndrome in two families.

    Jeroen P.P. Smits;Jeroen P.P. Smits;Tamara T. Koopmann;Ronald Wilders;Marieke W. Veldkamp

  • Hypomethylation of the H19 gene causes not only Silver-Russell syndrome (SRS) but also isolated asymmetry or an SRS-like phenotype.

    Jet Bliek;Paulien Terhal;Marie-José van den Bogaard;Saskia Maas

  • The Dutch Fabry cohort: Diversity of clinical manifestations and Gb3 levels

    A. C. Vedder;G. E. Linthorst;M. J. van Breemen;J. E. M. Groener

  • Molecular nature of genetic changes resulting in loss of heterozygosity of chromosome 11 in Wilms' tumours

    M. Mannens;R. M. Slater;C. Heyting;J. Bliek

  • Evaluation of DNA Methylation Episignatures for Diagnosis and Phenotype Correlations in 42 Mendelian Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Erfan Aref-Eshghi;Jennifer Kerkhof;Victor P. Pedro

  • Increased tumour risk for BWS patients correlates with aberrant H19 and not KCNQ1OT1 methylation: occurrence of KCNQ1OT1 hypomethylation in familial cases of BWS

    Jet Bliek;Saskia M. Maas;Jan M. Ruijter;Raoul C.M. Hennekam

  • A common polymorphism in KCNH2 (HERG) hastens cardiac repolarization

    Connie R. Bezzina;Arie O. Verkerk;Andreas Busjahn;Andreas Jeron

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur A.M. Wilde
Arthur A.M. Wilde University of Amsterdam
Andries Westerveld
Andries Westerveld University of Amsterdam
Raoul C.M. Hennekam
Raoul C.M. Hennekam University of Amsterdam
Connie R. Bezzina
Connie R. Bezzina University of Amsterdam
Andrew P. Feinberg
Andrew P. Feinberg Johns Hopkins University
Charles Agyemang
Charles Agyemang University of Amsterdam
Veronica van Heyningen
Veronica van Heyningen University College London
Deborah J.G. Mackay
Deborah J.G. Mackay University of Southampton
Christa Heyting
Christa Heyting Wageningen University & Research
Liam Smeeth
Liam Smeeth London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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