Thomas Ebner

The paper detects mtDNA mutations in oocytes, blood, and saliva across ages and finds mutations increase in blood and saliva but not in oocytes, with age-related differences in mutation frequency distribution.

The paper investigates FGFR3 mutations in the male germline, finding some mutations increase with age and lead to clonal expansions and higher mutation rates.

The paper uses duplex sequencing to analyze de novo mutations in sperm DNA from older and younger donors, finding higher mutation frequencies and recurrence in older donors.

The paper investigates how length asymmetry and heterozygosity affect poly-A microsatellite evolution at meiotic recombination hotspots, finding deletion and insertion biases based on allele length differences.