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Overview

Wolfgang Enard is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also in medicine. Their scientific work includes notable subfields such as molecular biology, immunology, hematology, genetics, and oncology.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases
  • CRISPR and genetic engineering
  • Pluripotent stem cells research
  • Acute myeloid leukemia research
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Immune cell function and interaction

Enard has published extensively, with frequent contributions in several key venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • European Heart Journal
  • HemaSphere
  • Blood

Some recent publications from Wolfgang Enard include:

  • "Benchmarking single-cell RNA-sequencing protocols for cell atlas projects," 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Prime-seq, efficient and powerful bulk RNA sequencing," 2022, Genome Biology
  • "Non-canonical Wnt/PCP signalling regulates intestinal stem cell lineage priming towards enteroendocrine and Paneth cell fates," 2021, Nature Cell Biology
  • "Recent evolution of a TET-controlled and DPPA3/STELLA-driven pathway of passive DNA demethylation in mammals," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Congenic expression of poly-GA but not poly-PR in mice triggers selective neuron loss and interferon responses found in C9orf72 ALS," 2020, Acta Neuropathologica

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as:

  • Aleksandar Janjic
  • Lucas E. Wange
  • Johanna Geuder
  • Johannes Bagnoli
  • Ines Hellmann

Best Publications

  • Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome

    Tarjei S. Mikkelsen;LaDeana W. Hillier

  • Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language

    Wolfgang Enard;Molly Przeworski;Simon E. Fisher;Cecilia S. L. Lai

  • The Human Cell Atlas

    Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Ido Amit

  • Comparative Analysis of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Methods.

    Christoph Ziegenhain;Beate I.H. Vieth;Swati Parekh;Björn Reinius

  • Intra- and interspecific variation in primate gene expression patterns

    Wolfgang Enard;Philipp Khaitovich;Joachim Klose;Sebastian Zöllner

  • The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals

    Johannes Krause;Carles Lalueza-Fox;Ludovic Orlando;Wolfgang Enard

  • A humanized version of Foxp2 affects cortico-basal ganglia circuits in mice

    Wolfgang Enard;Sabine Gehre;Kurt Hammerschmidt;Sabine M. Hölter

  • Parallel Patterns of Evolution in the Genomes and Transcriptomes of Humans and Chimpanzees

    Philipp Khaitovich;Ines Hellmann;Wolfgang Enard;Katja Nowick

  • Autosomal Recessive Primary Microcephaly (MCPH): A Review of Clinical, Molecular, and Evolutionary Findings

    C. Geoffrey Woods;Jacquelyn Bond;Wolfgang Enard

  • LRRTM1 on chromosome 2p12 is a maternally suppressed gene that is associated paternally with handedness and schizophrenia

    Clyde Francks;S. Maegawa;J. Laurén;B. S. Abrahams

  • Aspm specifically maintains symmetric proliferative divisions of neuroepithelial cells

    Jennifer L. Fish;Yoichi Kosodo;Wolfgang Enard;Svante Pääbo

  • Benchmarking Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Protocols for Cell Atlas Projects

    Elisabetta Mereu;Atefeh Lafzi;Catia Moutinho;Christoph Ziegenhain

  • A neutral model of transcriptome evolution.

    Philipp Khaitovich;Gunter Weiss;Michael Lachmann;Ines Hellmann

  • Evolution of primate gene expression

    Philipp Khaitovich;Wolfgang Enard;Michael Lachmann;Svante Pääbo

  • Regional patterns of gene expression in human and chimpanzee brains.

    Philipp Khaitovich;Bjoern Muetzel;Xinwei She;Michael Lachmann

  • Evolutionary routes and KRAS dosage define pancreatic cancer phenotypes

    Sebastian Mueller;Thomas Engleitner;Thomas Engleitner;Roman Maresch;Roman Maresch;Magdalena Zukowska

  • Impaired synaptic plasticity and motor learning in mice with a point mutation implicated in human speech deficits.

    Matthias Groszer;David A. Keays;Robert M.J. Deacon;Joseph P. de Bono

  • Transcriptomes of germinal zones of human and mouse fetal neocortex suggest a role of extracellular matrix in progenitor self-renewal

    Simone A. Fietz;Robert Lachmann;Holger Brandl;Martin Kircher

  • zUMIs - A fast and flexible pipeline to process RNA sequencing data with UMIs.

    Swati Parekh;Christoph Ziegenhain;Beate Vieth;Wolfgang Enard

  • A Recent Evolutionary Change Affects a Regulatory Element in the Human FOXP2 Gene

    Tomislav Maricic;Viola Günther;Oleg Georgiev;Sabine Gehre

Frequent Co-Authors

Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Irmela Jeremias
Irmela Jeremias Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Simon E. Fisher
Simon E. Fisher Max Planck Society
Philipp Khaitovich
Philipp Khaitovich Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Wolfgang Hiddemann
Wolfgang Hiddemann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Oliver Stegle
Oliver Stegle German Cancer Research Center
Sarah A. Teichmann
Sarah A. Teichmann University of Cambridge
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute

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