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Ron A. Wevers is affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research output includes a significant number of publications in key areas such as molecular biology, clinical biochemistry, and genetics, demonstrating a broad engagement with both fundamental and applied biomedical sciences.

They have published over 140 works related to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with an additional 46 focusing on medicine. Within these domains, subfields of particular focus include molecular biology (70 publications), clinical biochemistry (29 publications), genetics (24 publications), physiology (13 publications), and spectroscopy (8 publications). Their work explores a range of topics, including metabolism and genetic disorders, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, genomics and rare diseases, mitochondrial function and pathology, diet and metabolism studies, RNA modifications and cancer, as well as genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Ron A. Wevers has published frequently in several journals and venues, including:

  • Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease (13 publications)
  • Analytical Chemistry (5 publications)
  • Metabolites (5 publications)
  • JIMD Reports (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)

Examples of recent papers authored or co-authored by Ron A. Wevers include:

  • The membrane protein ANKH is crucial for bone mechanical performance by mediating cellular export of citrate and ATP, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • How to proceed after "negative" exome: A review on genetic diagnostics, limitations, challenges, and emerging new multiomics techniques, 2022, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
  • Untargeted metabolomics and infrared ion spectroscopy identify biomarkers for pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy, 2021, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Nicotinamide Riboside Improves Ataxia Scores and Immunoglobulin Levels in Ataxia Telangiectasia, 2021, Movement Disorders
  • Evaluation of cyclooxygenase oxylipins as potential biomarker for obesity-associated adipose tissue inflammation and type 2 diabetes using targeted multiple reaction monitoring mass spectrometry, 2020, Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research activities, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Udo F. H. Engelke (32 collaborations)
  • Karlien L. M. Coene (21 collaborations)
  • Michèl A.A.P. Willemsen (19 collaborations)
  • Leo A. J. Kluijtmans (16 collaborations)
  • Jonathan Martens (15 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • The frequency of lysosomal storage diseases in The Netherlands

    B.J.H.M. Poorthuis;R.A. Wevers;W.J. Kleijer;J.E.M. Groener

  • Performance of near-infrared spectroscopy in measuring local O(2) consumption and blood flow in skeletal muscle.

    Mireille C. P. Van Beekvelt;Willy N. J. M. Colier;Ron A. Wevers;Baziel G. M. Van Engelen

  • Mitochondrial creatine kinase: a key enzyme of aerobic energy metabolism

    Markus Wyss;Jan Smeitink;Ron A. Wevers;Theo Wallimann

  • Glucose transporter-1 deficiency syndrome: The expanding clinical and genetic spectrum of a treatable disorder

    Wilhelmina G. Leen;Joerg Klepper;Marcel M. Verbeek;Maike Leferink

  • Impaired glycosylation and cutis laxa caused by mutations in the vesicular H+-ATPase subunit ATP6V0A2.

    Uwe Kornak;Ellen Reynders;Aikaterini Dimopoulou;Jeroen Van Reeuwijk

  • Adipose tissue thickness affects in vivo quantitative near-IR spectroscopy in human skeletal muscle.

    M. C. P. Van Beekvelt;M. S. Borghuis;B. G. M. Van Engelen;R. A. Wevers

  • Syndrome of Hepatic Cirrhosis, Dystonia, Polycythemia, and Hypermanganesemia Caused by Mutations in SLC30A10, a Manganese Transporter in Man

    Karin Tuschl;Peter T. Clayton;Sidney M. Gospe;Shamshad Gulab

  • SRD5A3 Is Required for Converting Polyprenol to Dolichol and Is Mutated in a Congenital Glycosylation Disorder

    Vincent Cantagrel;Dirk J. Lefeber;Bobby G. Ng;Ziqiang Guan

  • Exome Sequencing and the Management of Neurometabolic Disorders

    Maja Tarailo-Graovac;Maja Tarailo-Graovac;Casper Shyr;Colin J. Ross;Gabriella A. Horvath;Gabriella A. Horvath

  • Folate Receptor Alpha Defect Causes Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency: A Treatable Neurodegenerative Disorder Associated with Disturbed Myelin Metabolism

    Robert Steinfeld;Marcel Grapp;Ralph Kraetzner;Steffi Dreha-Kulaczewski

  • Mechanisms in Protein O-Glycan Biosynthesis and Clinical and Molecular Aspects of Protein O-Glycan Biosynthesis Defects: A Review

    Suzan Wopereis;Dirk J. Lefeber;Éva Morava;Ron A. Wevers

  • Dimethylmethylene blue-based spectrophotometry of glycosaminoglycans in untreated urine: a rapid screening procedure for mucopolysaccharidoses.

    J. G. N. De Jong;R. A. Wevers;C. Laarakkers;B. J. H. M. Poorthuis

  • Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome is caused by mutations in the 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase gene.

    Hans R. Waterham;Frits A. Wijburg;Raoul C.M. Hennekam;Peter Vreken

  • Elevated plasma chitotriosidase activity in various lysosomal storage disorders.

    Yufeng Guo;Wang He;A. M. Boer;R. A. Wevers

  • Multiple Phenotypes in Phosphoglucomutase 1 Deficiency

    Laura C. Tegtmeyer;Stephan Rust;Monique van Scherpenzeel;Bobby G. Ng

  • Clinical and molecular genetic characteristics of patients with cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis.

    Aad Verrips;Lies H. Hoefsloot;Gerry C. H. Steenbergen;Joop P. Theelen

  • Role of cobalamin intake and atrophic gastritis in mild cobalamin deficiency in older Dutch subjects.

    D.Z.B. van Asselt;C.P.G.M. de Groot;W.A. van Staveren;H.J.M. Blom

  • SUCLA2 mutations are associated with mild methylmalonic aciduria, Leigh-like encephalomyopathy, dystonia and deafness.

    Rosalba Carrozzo;Carlo Dionisi-Vici;Ulrike Steuerwald;Simona Lucioli

  • Mutations in the phospholipid remodeling gene SERAC1 impair mitochondrial function and intracellular cholesterol trafficking and cause dystonia and deafness

    Saskia B Wortmann;Frédéric M Vaz;Thatjana Gardeitchik;Lisenka E L M Vissers

  • Creatine deficiency syndrome caused by guanidinoacetate methyltransferase deficiency: Diagnostic tools for a new inborn error of metabolism

    A. Schulze;T. Hess;R. Wevers;E. Mayatepek

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva Morava
Eva Morava Mayo Clinic
Dirk Lefeber
Dirk Lefeber Radboud University
Leo A. J. Kluijtmans
Leo A. J. Kluijtmans Radboud University
Jan A.M. Smeitink
Jan A.M. Smeitink Radboud University
Marcel M. Verbeek
Marcel M. Verbeek Radboud University
Arjan P.M. de Brouwer
Arjan P.M. de Brouwer Radboud University
Gert Matthijs
Gert Matthijs KU Leuven
B.G.M. van Engelen
B.G.M. van Engelen Radboud University
Richard J. Rodenburg
Richard J. Rodenburg Radboud University
Wyeth W. Wasserman
Wyeth W. Wasserman University of British Columbia

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