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Mordechai Shohat

Mordechai Shohat

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Genetics

D-Index
60
Citations
16085
World Ranking
3135
National Ranking
29

Overview

Mordechai Shohat is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on genetics and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on hearing-related conditions and medical genetics.

The main fields of study covered by Shohat's publications include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, and Medicine. Specific subfields within these areas are Genetics, Sensory Systems, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Otorhinolaryngology.

The scientist's work addresses several topics such as Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, and Genetics; Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation; Ear Surgery and Otitis Media; Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities; RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms; Cellular transport and secretion; and Pancreatic function and diabetes.

Frequent co-authors in Shohat's research include:

  • Zippora Brownstein
  • Chana Vinkler
  • Reuven Sharony
  • Noa Ruhrman-Shahar
  • Lina Basel-Vanagaite

The scientist's published work appears in various journals, including Clinical Genetics, Human Genetics, Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, European Journal of Human Genetics, and Genetics in Medicine.

Recent publications by Mordechai Shohat include:

  • Spectrum of genes for inherited hearing loss in the Israeli Jewish population, including the novel human deafness gene ATOH1, 2020, Clinical Genetics
  • Autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing loss maps to DFNA33 (13q34) and co-segregates with splice and frameshift variants in ATP11A, a phospholipid flippase gene, 2022, Human Genetics
  • Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome: what is the actual risk for couples carriers of the DHCR7:c.964-1G>C variant?, 2020, European Journal of Human Genetics
  • A beneficial role of GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy in ABCC8-MODY (MODY 12), 2023, Journal of Diabetes and its Complications
  • Teaching clinicians practical genomic medicine: 7 years' experience in a tertiary care center, 2020, Genetics in Medicine

Best Publications

  • Ancient missense mutations in a new member of the RoRet gene family are likely to cause familial Mediterranean fever

    I. Aksentijevich;M. Centola;Z. M. Deng;R. Sood

  • Mitochondrial ribosomal RNA mutation associated with both antibiotic-induced and non-syndromic deafness.

    T R Prezant;J V Agapian;M C Bohlman;X Bu

  • Connexin26 Mutations Associated with the Most Common Form of Non-Syndromic Neurosensory Autosomal Recessive Deafness (DFNB1) in Mediterraneans

    Leopoldo Zelante;Paolo Gasparini;Xavier Estivill;Salvatore Melchionda

  • Mutant Adenosine Deaminase 2 in a Polyarteritis Nodosa Vasculopathy

    Paulina Navon Elkan;Sarah B. Pierce;Reeval Segel;Reeval Segel;Tom Walsh

  • The genetic architecture of Down syndrome phenotypes revealed by high-resolution analysis of human segmental trisomies

    Jan O. Korbel;Tal Tirosh-Wagner;Alexander Eckehart Urban;Xiao Ning Chen

  • Founder BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in Ashkenazi Jews in Israel: frequency and differential penetrance in ovarian cancer and in breast-ovarian cancer families.

    Ephrat Levy-Lahad;Raphael Catane;Shlomit Eisenberg;Bella Kaufman

  • Prevalence and Evolutionary Origins of the del(GJB6-D13S1830) Mutation in the DFNB1 Locus in Hearing-Impaired Subjects: a Multicenter Study

    Ignacio Del Castillo;Miguel A. Moreno-Pelayo;Francisco J. Del Castillo;Zippora Brownstein

  • Phenotype-genotype correlation in familial Mediterranean fever: evidence for an association between Met694Val and amyloidosis.

    M Shohat;N Magal;T Shohat;X Chen

  • Mutation in TRMU related to transfer RNA modification modulates the phenotypic expression of the deafness-associated mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA mutations

    Min-Xin Guan;Min-Xin Guan;Qingfeng Yan;Xiaoming Li;Yelena Bykhovskaya

  • Targeted genomic capture and massively parallel sequencing to identify genes for hereditary hearing loss in Middle Eastern families.

    Zippora Brownstein;Lilach M Friedman;Hashem Shahin;Varda Oron-Karni

  • Familial Central Precocious Puberty Suggests Autosomal Dominant Inheritance

    Liat de Vries;Arieh Kauschansky;Mordechai Shohat;Moshe Phillip

  • The prevalence and expression of inherited connexin 26 mutations associated with nonsyndromic hearing loss in the Israeli population.

    Tama Sobe;Sarah Vreugde;Hashem Shahin;Mira Berlin

  • Fragile-X carrier screening and the prevalence of premutation and full-mutation carriers in Israel.

    Hagit Toledano-Alhadef;Lina Basel-Vanagaite;Nurit Magal;Bella Davidov

  • Mutations in NDUFAF3 (C3ORF60), encoding an NDUFAF4 (C6ORF66)-interacting complex I assembly protein, cause fatal neonatal mitochondrial disease.

    Ann Saada;Rutger O. Vogel;Saskia J. Hoefs;Mariël A. van den Brand

  • The CC2D1A , a member of a new gene family with C2 domains, is involved in autosomal recessive non-syndromic mental retardation

    Lina Basel-Vanagaite;Revital Attia;Michal Yahav;Russell J. Ferland

  • Autosomal Recessive Ichthyosis with Hypotrichosis Caused by a Mutation in ST14, Encoding Type II Transmembrane Serine Protease Matriptase

    Lina Basel-Vanagaite;Lina Basel-Vanagaite;Revital Attia;Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto;Limor Rainshtein

  • Familial Mediterranean fever—A review

    Mordechai Shohat;Gabrielle J Halpern

  • Familial Mediterranean fever: High gene frequency among the non‐Ashkenazic and ashkenazic Jewish populations in Israel

    M Daniels;T Shohat;A Brenner-Ullman;M Shohat

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder in patients with velocardiofacial (22q11 deletion) syndrome.

    Doron Gothelf;Gadi Presburger;Ada H. Zohar;Merav Burg

  • Higher than expected carrier rates for familial Mediterranean fever in various Jewish ethnic groups.

    N Stoffman;N Magal;T Shohat;R Lotan

Frequent Co-Authors

Lina Basel-Vanagaite
Lina Basel-Vanagaite Rabin Medical Center
Nathan Fischel-Ghodsian
Nathan Fischel-Ghodsian University of California, Los Angeles
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Elon Pras
Elon Pras Tel Aviv University
Karen B. Avraham
Karen B. Avraham Tel Aviv University
Gideon Rechavi
Gideon Rechavi Sheba Medical Center
Doron Gothelf
Doron Gothelf Tel Aviv University
Christopher A. Walsh
Christopher A. Walsh Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Tom Walsh
Tom Walsh University of Washington

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