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Thomas Haaf is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Sensory Systems, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's recent publications cover diverse topics related to epigenetics, developmental biology, and metabolic processes. Some of their notable papers include:

  • Parental metabolic syndrome epigenetically reprograms offspring hepatic lipid metabolism in mice, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Biallelic TANGO1 mutations cause a novel syndromal disease due to hampered cellular collagen secretion, 2020, eLife
  • Lipid droplets in mammalian eggs are utilized during embryonic diapause, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • SCUBE3 loss-of-function causes a recognizable recessive developmental disorder due to defective bone morphogenetic protein signaling, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • In Vitro Fertilization Technology and Child Health, 2020, Deutsches Ärzteblatt international

Haaf's research topics include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Frequent collaborators include Barbara Vona, Marcus Dittrich, Ramya Potabattula, Reza Maroofian, and Michaela A. H. Hofrichter, indicating ongoing cooperative research efforts.

Haaf has published extensively in journals such as Aging, Cells, Aging Cell, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and The American Journal of Human Genetics. The number of contributions to these journals illustrates a consistent focus within the biological and molecular sciences community.

Best Publications

  • Demethylation of the zygotic paternal genome

    Wolfgang Mayer;Alain Niveleau;Jörn Walter;Reinald Fundele

  • The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21

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

  • Epigenetic reprogramming in mouse primordial germ cells.

    Petra Hajkova;Sylvia Erhardt;Natasha Lane;Thomas Haaf

  • A duplicated copy of DMRT1 in the sex-determining region of the Y chromosome of the medaka, Oryzias latipes

    Indrajit Nanda;Mariko Kondo;Ute Hornung;Shuichi Asakawa

  • Nuclear foci of mammalian Rad51 recombination protein in somatic cells after DNA damage and its localization in synaptonemal complexes.

    T. Haaf;E. I. Golub;Gurucharan Reddy;C. M. Radding

  • In Vitro-Differentiated Embryonic Stem Cells Give Rise to Male Gametes that Can Generate Offspring Mice

    Karim Nayernia;Jessica Nolte;Hans W. Michelmann;Jae Ho Lee

  • Nuclear foci of mammalian recombination proteins are located at single-stranded DNA regions formed after DNA damage

    Elke Raderschall;Efim I. Golub;Thomas Haaf

  • First report on chicken genes and chromosomes 2000

    M Schmid;I Nanda;M Guttenbach;C Steinlein

  • 300 million years of conserved synteny between chicken Z and human chromosome 9

    Indrajit Nanda;Zhihong Shan;Manfred Schartl;Dave W. Burt

  • Elevated Levels of Rad51 Recombination Protein in Tumor Cells

    Elke Raderschall;Karen Stout;Susanne Freier;Vanessa Suckow

  • Aberrant methylation patterns at the two-cell stage as an indicator of early developmental failure.

    W. Shi;T. Haaf

  • Metabolic Programming of MEST DNA Methylation by Intrauterine Exposure to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus

    Nady El Hajj;Galyna Pliushch;Eberhard Schneider;Marcus Dittrich

  • De novo mutations in HCN1 cause early infantile epileptic encephalopathy

    Caroline Nava;Carine Dalle;Agnès Rastetter;Pasquale Striano

  • Interaction of human rad51 recombination protein with single-stranded DNA binding protein, RPA.

    Efim I. Golub;Ravindra C. Gupta;Thomas Haaf;Marc S. Wold

  • Spatial Separation of Parental Genomes in Preimplantation Mouse Embryos

    Wolfgang Mayer;Avril Smith;Reinald Fundele;Thomas Haaf

  • Structural analysis of α-satellite DNA and centromere proteins using extended chromatin and chromosomes

    Thomas Haaf;David C. Ward

  • Mammalian ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubc9 interacts with Rad51 recombination protein and localizes in synaptonemal complexes.

    Oleg V. Kovalenko;Annemieke W. Plug;Thomas Haaf;David K. Gonda

  • Epigenetics and life-long consequences of an adverse nutritional and diabetic intrauterine environment

    Nady El Hajj;Eberhard Schneider;Harald Lehnen;Thomas Haaf

  • Constitutional Chromothripsis Rearrangements Involve Clustered Double-Stranded DNA Breaks and Nonhomologous Repair Mechanisms

    Wigard P Kloosterman;Masoumeh Tavakoli-Yaraki;Markus J van Roosmalen;Ellen van Binsbergen

  • Epigenetic disturbances in in vitro cultured gametes and embryos: implications for human assisted reproduction

    Nady el Hajj;Thomas Haaf

Frequent Co-Authors

Indrajit Nanda
Indrajit Nanda University of Würzburg
Manfred Schartl
Manfred Schartl University of Würzburg
Heiner Niemann
Heiner Niemann Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Frank Grützner
Frank Grützner University of Adelaide
Martin Poot
Martin Poot University of Würzburg
Hans-Hilger Ropers
Hans-Hilger Ropers Max Planck Society
Klaus-Peter Lesch
Klaus-Peter Lesch University of Würzburg
James P. Bogart
James P. Bogart University of Guelph
William E. Duellman
William E. Duellman University of Kansas

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