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Tanja Nielsen

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery InstituteORCID 0000-0002-2389-7514Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:differential expression· 3 Organism:Drosophila· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2

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Genetic & Genomic MedicineeLifePeer-reviewedDec 11, 2025

Functional analysis across model systems implicates ribosomal proteins in growth and proliferation defects associated with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Tanja Nielsen, Anaïs Kervadec, Jeanne L. Theis…·Alexandre R. Colas

The paper identifies ribosomal protein genes as contributors to hypoplastic left heart syndrome through functional analysis across multiple model systems.

2 citations

humanDrosophila

GeneticsDisease Models & MechanismsPeer-reviewedOct 8, 2020

Identification of MYOM2 as a candidate gene in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Tetralogy of Fallot and its functional evaluation in the Drosophila heart

Emilie Auxerre-Plantié, Tanja Nielsen, Marcel Grunert…·Silke Sperling

The paper identifies MYOM2 as a candidate gene for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Tetralogy of Fallot and shows its functional role in heart development through Drosophila models.

36 citations

Drosophilaexperimental assay

GeneticseLifePeer-reviewedOct 2, 2020

Patient-specific functional genomics and disease modeling suggest a role for LRP2 in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

Jeanne L. Theis, Georg Vogler, Maria Azzurra Missinato…·Rolf Bodmer

The paper identifies LRP2 as a novel genetic driver of hypoplastic left heart syndrome using whole genome sequencing and multi-model systems.

47 citations

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