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Markus Schuelke publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markus Schuelke sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 177 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Markus Schuelke D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Markus Schuelke sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Markus Schuelke is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple aspects of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on molecular biology, genetics, neurology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and physiology.

Schuelke's work addresses several key topics including mitochondrial function and pathology, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, thyroid disorders and treatments, muscle physiology and disorders, RNA research and splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and ATP synthase and ATPases research.

Among their recent papers are:

  • "MutationTaster2021" (2021) published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Defective metabolic programming impairs early neuronal morphogenesis in neural cultures and an organoid model of Leigh syndrome" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Complement deposition at the neuromuscular junction in seronegative myasthenia gravis" (2020) published in Acta Neuropathologica
  • "Morphologic and Molecular Patterns of Polymyositis With Mitochondrial Pathology and Inclusion Body Myositis" (2022) published in Neurology
  • "Movement disorders in MCT8 deficiency/Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome" (2021) published in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schuelke include Werner Stenzel, Heiko Krude, Ellen Knierim, Alessandro Prigione, and Angela M. Kaindl.

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • Medizinische Genetik

Markus Schuelke's publications contribute significantly to the fields of genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, mitochondrial biology, and neuromuscular diseases, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach crossing molecular biology and clinical medicine.

Best Publications

  • An economic method for the fluorescent labeling of PCR fragments

    Markus Schuelke

  • MutationTaster2: mutation prediction for the deep-sequencing age

    Jana Marie Schwarz;David Neil Cooper;Markus Schuelke;Dominik Seelow

  • MutationTaster evaluates disease-causing potential of sequence alterations

    Jana Marie Schwarz;Christian Rödelsperger;Markus Schuelke;Dominik Seelow

  • Myostatin Mutation Associated with Gross Muscle Hypertrophy in a Child

    Markus Schuelke;Kathryn R Wagner;Leslie E Stolz;Christoph Hübner

  • Lack of myostatin results in excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation

    Helge Amthor;Raymond Macharia;Roberto Navarrete;Markus Schuelke

  • Leigh Syndrome with Nephropathy and CoQ10 Deficiency Due to decaprenyl diphosphate synthase subunit 2 (PDSS2) Mutations

    Luis Carlos López;Markus Schuelke;Catarina M. Quinzii;Tomotake Kanki

  • HomozygosityMapper--an interactive approach to homozygosity mapping.

    Dominik Seelow;Markus Schuelke;Friedhelm Hildebrandt;Peter Nürnberg

  • Mutations in the gene encoding immunoglobulin mu-binding protein 2 cause spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1.

    Katja Grohmann;Markus Schuelke;Alexander Diers;Katrin Hoffmann

  • The First Nuclear-Encoded Complex I Mutation in a Patient with Leigh Syndrome

    Jan Loeffen;Jan Smeitink;Ralf Triepels;Roel Smeets

  • Variants in CPA1 are strongly associated with early onset chronic pancreatitis

    Heiko Witt;Sebastian Beer;Jonas Rosendahl;Jian Min Chen;Jian Min Chen

  • Mutant NDUFV1 subunit of mitochondrial complex I causes leukodystrophy and myoclonic epilepsy.

    M Schuelke;J Smeitink;E Mariman;J Loeffen

  • Mutations in the Gene Encoding Gap Junction Protein α12 (Connexin 46.6) Cause Pelizaeus-Merzbacher–Like Disease

    Birgit Uhlenberg;Markus Schuelke;Franz Rüschendorf;Nico Ruf

  • Mutations in PYCR1 cause cutis laxa with progeroid features

    Bruno Reversade;Nathalie Escande-Beillard;Aikaterini Dimopoulou;Bjorn Fischer

  • Fatal Cardiac Arrhythmia and Long-QT Syndrome in a New Form of Congenital Generalized Lipodystrophy with Muscle Rippling (CGL4) Due to PTRF-CAVIN Mutations

    Anna Rajab;Volker Straub;Liza J. McCann;Dominik Seelow

  • The spectrum of WRN mutations in Werner syndrome patients

    Shurong Huang;Lin Lee;Nancy B. Hanson;Catherine Lenaerts

  • Molecular diagnosis in mitochondrial complex I deficiency using exome sequencing

    Tobias B Haack;Birgit Haberberger;Eva-Maria Frisch;Thomas Wieland

  • Selective Disactivation of Neurofibromin GAP Activity in Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1)

    A. Klose;M. R. Ahmadian;M. Schuelke;K. Scheffzek

  • Genotypic and phenotypic spectrum of PANK2 mutations in patients with neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation

    Monika B. Hartig;Konstanze Hörtnagel;Barbara Garavaglia;Giovanna Zorzi

  • Systematic Comparison of Three Methods for Fragmentation of Long-Range PCR Products for Next Generation Sequencing

    Ellen Knierim;Barbara Lucke;Jana Marie Schwarz;Markus Schuelke

  • Lack of myostatin results in excessive muscle growth but impaired force generation (vol 104, pg 1835, 2007)

    H Amthor;R Macharia;R Navarrete;M Schuelke

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger Prokisch
Holger Prokisch Technical University of Munich
Stefan Mundlos
Stefan Mundlos Max Planck Society
Thomas Meitinger
Thomas Meitinger Technical University of Munich
Thomas Klopstock
Thomas Klopstock Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Richard J. Rodenburg
Richard J. Rodenburg Radboud University
Jan A.M. Smeitink
Jan A.M. Smeitink Radboud University
Peter Nürnberg
Peter Nürnberg University of Cologne
Wolfgang Sperl
Wolfgang Sperl Paracelsus Medical University
Uwe Kornak
Uwe Kornak University of Göttingen
Tobias B. Haack
Tobias B. Haack University of Tübingen

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