Stefan Mundlos Profile Page
Organisation: Charité
Institute: Institute for Medical Genetics
Address: Augustenburgerplatz 1
13353 Berlin
Campus: Virchow Klinikum
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Field: Medical genetics
Track(s): Bio;Med
CV: 2000-present Head of Institute for Medical Genetics, Charité, Berlin
1999 Head of the Division of Developmental Genetics at the Institute of Human Genetics, Ruprecht Karls Universität, Heidelberg
1998 Board Certification in Human Genetics
1997 Habilitation, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
1996-1999 Instructor in Pediatric Medicine and Genetics, Children´s Hospital, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz 1994-1996 Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Work in the laboratory of Prof. B.R. Olsen, Dept. of Cell Biology, on the molecular pathogenesis of skeletal disease
1993-1994 Royal Children´s Hospital and Murdoch institute for Research into Birth Defects, University of Melbourne, Australia.
1992 Board Certification in Pediatrics
1987-1992 Residency in Pediatric Medicine and Human Genetics at the Children´s Hospital of the Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz
1987 Dr. med., Philipps Universität Marburg
1985 MD, Ruprecht Karls Universität, Heidelberg
1984 School of Medicine, Philipps Universität Marburg
1978-1981 School of Medicine, Georg August Universität Göttingen
Research Interests: main field: Human Genetics

other fields: skeletal development, skeletal disease, limb development, regeneration of bone, muscle development

current research interest: molecular basis of variability and penetrance, differentiation of bone and cartilage cells, rare recessive diseases
Publications: Woods CG, Stricker S, Seemann P, Stern R, Cox J, Sherridan E, Roberts E, Springell K, Scott S, Karbani G, Sharif SM, Toomes C, Bond J, Kumar D, Al-Gazali L, Mundlos S (2006) Mutations in WNT7A Cause a Range of Limb Malformations, Including Fuhrmann Syndrome and Al-Awadi/Raas-Rothschild/Schinzel Phocomelia Syndrome. Am J Hum Genet 79: 402-408.

Hoffmann K, Muller JS, Stricker S, Megarbane A, Rajab A, Lindner TH, Cohen M, Chouery E,Adaimy L, Ghanem I, Delague V, Boltshauser E, Talim B, Horvath R, Robinson PN, Lochmuller H, Hubner C, Mundlos S (2006) Escobar Syndrome Is a Prenatal Myasthenia Caused by Disruption of the Acetylcholine Receptor Fetal gamma Subunit. Am J Hum Genet 79: 303-312

Hecht J, Kuhl H, Haas SA, Bauer S, Poustka AJ, Lienau J, Schell H, Stiege AC, Seitz V, Reinhardt R, Duda GN, Mundlos S, Robinson PN (2006) Gene identification and analysis of transcripts differentially regulated in fracture healing by EST sequencing in the domestic sheep. BMC Genomics 71: 172

Seemann P, Schwappacher R, Kjaer KW, Krakow D, Lehmann K, Dawson K, Stricker S, Pohl J, Ploger F, Staub E, Nickel J, Sebald W, Knaus P, Mundlos S (2005) Activating and deactivating mutations in the receptor interaction site of GDF5 cause symphalangism or brachydactyly type A2. J Clin Invest 115: 2373-2381

Albrecht A, Mundlos S (2005) The other trinucleotide repeat: polyalanine expansion disorders.Curr Opin Genet Dev 15: 285-293

Niedermaier M, Schwabe GC, Fees S, Helmrich A, Brieske N, Seemann P, Hecht J, Seitz V, Stricker S, Leschik G, Schrock E, Selby PB, Mundlos S (2005) An inversion involving the mouse Shh locus results in brachydactyly through dysregulation of Shh expression. J Clin Invest 115: 900-909

Albrecht AN, Kornak U, Boddrich A, Suring K, Robinson PN, Stiege AC, Lurz R, Stricker S, Wanker EE, Mundlos S (2004) A molecular pathogenesis for transcription factor associated poly-alanine tract expansions. Hum Mol Genet 13: 2351-2359

Thiele H, Sakano M, Kitagawa H, Sugahara K, Rajab A, Hohne W, Ritter H, Leschik G, Nurnberg P, Mundlos S (2004) Loss of chondroitin 6-O-sulfotransferase-1 function results in severe human chondrodysplasia with progressive spinal involvement. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101: 10155-10160

Lehmann K, Seemann P, Stricker S, Sammar M, Meyer B, Suring K, Majewski F, Tinschert S, Grzeschik KH, Muller D, Knaus P, Nurnberg P, Mundlos S (2003) Mutations in bone morphogenetic protein receptor 1B cause brachydactyly type A2. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100: 12277-12282

Mundlos S, Otto F, Mundlos C, Mulliken JB, Aylsworth AS, Albright S, Lindhout D, Cole WG, Henn W, Knoll JH, Owen MJ, Mertelsmann R, Zabel BU, Olsen BR (1997) Mutations involving the transcription factor CBFA1 cause cleidocranial dysplasia. Cell 89:773-779