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Matthias Platzer

Matthias Platzer

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Genetics

D-Index
80
Citations
58483
World Ranking
1545
National Ranking
118

Overview

Matthias Platzer is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany. Their work focuses extensively on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as environmental science. Platzer's research covers several subfields, prominently including paleontology, sociology and political science, ecology, molecular biology, and aging.

Platzer has contributed to topics such as evolution and paleontology studies, family support in illness, genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms, animal ecology and behavior studies, marine invertebrate physiology and ecology, Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Among recent publications attributed to Platzer are:

  • "Epigenetic Modifications Associated with Maternal Anxiety during Pregnancy and Children's Behavioral Measures," 2021, published in Cells
  • "Increased longevity due to sexual activity in mole-rats is associated with transcriptional changes in the HPA stress axis," 2021, published in eLife
  • "The Mating Pattern of Captive Naked Mole-Rats Is Best Described by a Monogamy Model," 2022, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Hematologic adaptation to the subterranean environment by the naked mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber (Ctenohystrica: Heterocephalidae)," 2020, published in Journal of Mammalogy
  • "The HPA stress axis shapes aging rates in long-lived, social mole-rats," 2020, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Platzer frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cells, eLife, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and the Journal of Mammalogy.

Collaborations are a significant part of their research output. Frequent coauthors include Marco Groth, Arne Sahm, Martin Bens, Steve Hoffmann, and Karol Szafranski.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • A genome-wide association scan of nonsynonymous SNPs identifies a susceptibility variant for Crohn disease in ATG16L1

    Jochen Hampe;Andre Franke;Philip Rosenstiel;Philip Rosenstiel;Andreas Till

  • The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

    L. Eichinger;J. A. Pachebat;J. A. Pachebat;G. Glöckner;M.-A. Rajandream

  • A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome

    Klaus F.X. Mayer;Robbie Waugh;Peter Langridge;Timothy J. Close

  • A chromosome conformation capture ordered sequence of the barley genome

    Martin Mascher;Heidrun Gundlach;Axel Himmelbach;Sebastian Beier

  • The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

    Mark T Ross;Darren V Grafham;Alison J Coffey;Steven Scherer

  • Nibrin, a Novel DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Protein, Is Mutated in Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome

    Raymonda Varon;Christine Vissinga;Matthias Platzer;Karen M Cerosaletti

  • Antitumor polyketide biosynthesis by an uncultivated bacterial symbiont of the marine sponge Theonella swinhoei

    Jörn Piel;Dequan Hui;Gaiping Wen;Daniel Butzke

  • Unlocking the Barley Genome by Chromosomal and Comparative Genomics

    Klaus F. X. Mayer;Mihaela Martis;Pete E. Hedley;Hana Simkova

  • Sarcoidosis is associated with a truncating splice site mutation in BTNL2.

    Ruta Valentonyte;Jochen Hampe;Klaus Huse;Philip Rosenstiel

  • Exploiting the mosaic structure of trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthases for natural product discovery and pathway dissection.

    TuAnh Nguyen;Keishi Ishida;Holger Jenke-Kodama;Elke Dittmann

  • Impaired Insulin/IGF1 Signaling Extends Life Span by Promoting Mitochondrial L-Proline Catabolism to Induce a Transient ROS Signal

    Kim Zarse;Kim Zarse;Sebastian Schmeisser;Sebastian Schmeisser;Marco Groth;Steffen Priebe

  • Insights into Sex Chromosome Evolution and Aging from the Genome of a Short-Lived Fish.

    Kathrin Reichwald;Andreas Petzold;Philipp Koch;Bryan R Downie

  • Melanocortin-4 Receptor Gene Variant I103 Is Negatively Associated with Obesity

    Frank Geller;Kathrin Reichwald;Astrid Dempfle;Thomas Illig

  • DNA sequence and comparative analysis of chimpanzee chromosome 22.

    H. Watanabe;A. Fujiyama;M. Hattori;T. D. Taylor

  • Characterization of ATM Gene Mutations in 66 Ataxia Telangiectasia Families

    Natalia Sandoval;Matthias Platzer;André Rosenthal;Thilo Dörk

  • Genome-wide search for novel human uORFs and N-terminal protein extensions using ribosomal footprinting

    Claudia Fritsch;Alexander Herrmann;Michael Nothnagel;Karol Szafranski

  • Polyketide assembly lines of uncultivated sponge symbionts from structure-based gene targeting

    Katja M Fisch;Cristian Gurgui;Nina Heycke;Sonia A van der Sar

  • Prevalence, spectrum, and functional characterization of melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations in a representative population-based sample and obese adults from Germany.

    Anke Hinney;Thomas Bettecken;Patrick Tarnow;Harald Brumm

  • Frequent Gene Movement and Pseudogene Evolution Is Common to the Large and Complex Genomes of Wheat, Barley, and Their Relatives

    Thomas Wicker;Klaus F X Mayer;Heidrun Gundlach;Mihaela Martis

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco Groth
Marco Groth Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute
Stefan Taudien
Stefan Taudien Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Stefan Schreiber
Stefan Schreiber Kiel University
Jochen Hampe
Jochen Hampe TU Dresden
Philip Rosenstiel
Philip Rosenstiel Kiel University
Rolf Backofen
Rolf Backofen University of Freiburg
Michael Krawczak
Michael Krawczak Kiel University
André Rosenthal
André Rosenthal Institute of Molecular Biotechnology
Reinhard Guthke
Reinhard Guthke Leibniz Association
Nils Stein
Nils Stein University of Western Australia

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