Working Group Skeletal Diseases and Genetic Syndromes

Selected publications

Moosa S, Yamamoto GL, Garbes L, Keupp K, Beleza-Meireles A, Moreno CA, Valadares ER, de Sousa SB, Maia S, Saraiva J, Honjo RS, Kim CA, Cabral de Menezes H, Lausch E, Lorini PV, Lamounier A Jr, Carniero TCB, Giunta C, Rohrbach M, Janner M, Semler O, Beleggia F, Li Y, Yigit G, Reintjes N, Altmüller J, Nürnberg P, Cavalcanti DP, Zabel B, Warman ML, Bertola DR, Wollnik B, Netzer C.

Autosomal-Recessive Mutations in MESD Cause Osteogenesis Imperfecta.
Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Oct 3;105(4):836-843.
PubMed PMID: 31564437

Marbach F, Rustad CF, Riess A, Đukić D, Hsieh TC, Jobani I, Prescott T, Bevot A, Erger F, Houge G, Redfors M, Altmueller J, Stokowy T, Gilissen C, Kubisch C, Scarano E, Mazzanti L, Fiskerstrand T, Krawitz PM, Lessel D, Netzer C.

The Discovery of a LEMD2-Associated Nuclear Envelopathy with Early Progeroid Appearance Suggests Advanced Applications for AI-Driven Facial Phenotyping.
Am J Hum Genet. 2019;104(4):749-757.
Pubmed PMID: 30905398

Hoyer-Kuhn H, Rehberg M, Netzer C, Schoenau E, Semler O.
Individualized treatment with denosumab in children with osteogenesis imperfecta - follow up of a trial cohort.
Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2019 Sep 18;14(1):219.
PubMed PMID: 31533771

Riehmer V, Erger F, Herkenrath P, Seland S, Jackels M, Wiater A, Heller R, Beck BB, Netzer C.
A heritable microduplication encompassing TBL1XR1 causes a genomic sister-disorder for the 3q26.32 microdeletion syndrome.
Am J Med Genet A. 2017;173(8):2132-2138.
PubMed PMID: 28574232

Garbes L, Kim K, Rieß A, Hoyer-Kuhn H, Beleggia F, Bevot A, Kim MJ, Huh YH, Kweon HS, Savarirayan R, Amor D, Kakadia PM, Lindig T, Kagan KO, Becker J, Boyadjiev SA, Wollnik B, Semler O, Bohlander SK, Kim J, Netzer C.

Mutations in SEC24D, Encoding a Component of the COPII Machinery, Cause a Syndromic Form of OsteogenesisImperfecta.
Am J Hum Genet. 2015:5;96(3):432-9.
PubMedID: 25683121

Semler O, Netzer C, Hoyer-Kuhn H, Becker J, Eysel P, Schoenau E.
First use of the RANKL antibody denosumab in Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type VI.
J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact. 2012 Sep;12(3):183-8.
PubMed PMID: 22947550

Semler O, Garbes L, Keupp K, Swan D, Zimmermann K, Becker J, Iden S, Wirth B, Eysel P, Koerber F, Schoenau E, Bohlander SK, Wollnik B, Netzer C.
A Mutation in the 5'-UTR of IFITM5 Creates an In-Frame Start Codon and Causes Autosomal-Dominant Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type V with Hyperplastic Callus.
Am J Hum Genet. 2012 Aug 10;91(2):349-57. Epub 2012 Aug 2.
PubMed PMID: 22863195

Netzer C, Schmitz D, Henn W.
To know or not to know the genomic sequence of a fetus.
Nat Rev Genet. 2012 Oct;13(10):676-7. doi: 10.1038/nrg3333. Epub 2012 Sep 4.
PubMed PMID: 22945393

Becker J, Semler O, Gilissen C, Li Y, Bolz HJ, Giunta C, Bergmann C, Rohrbach M, Koerber F, Zimmermann K, de Vries P, Wirth B, Schoenau E, Wollnik B, Veltman JA, Hoischen A, Netzer C.
Exome sequencing identifies truncating mutations in human SERPINF1 in autosomal-recessive osteogenesis imperfecta.
Am J Hum Genet. 2011, 88:362-71.
PubMed PMID: 21353196

Prof. Dr.--Netzer-Christian
Prof. Dr. Christian Netzer

Head, Clinical Human Genetics
Head, Molecular Genetic Diagnostics
Head, Human Genetics at MVZ


Prof. Christian Netzer, MD, has been Manager of Clinical Human Genetics since 2019. Previously, he served as a Senior Physician at the Institute of Human Genetics and since 2009 was Head of Human Genetics at the Medical Health Center (Medizinische Versorgungszentrum, MVZ) at the University Hospital Cologne. Prof. Netzer completed his post-doctoral professorship and research qualification at the University of Cologne in 2009 with his work on the molecular pathogenesis of monogenic diseases and since then his research has focussed on the genetic causes of hereditary skeletal diseases and syndromes. For his research, in 2012 he received the Eva Luise Köhler Research Award for Rare Diseases. Following further training at the Institutes for Human Genetics at the Universities of Göttingen and Bonn, in 2005 he became a specialist in Human Genetics. Prof. Netzer studied medicine and philosophy in Göttingen and Hamburg. He completed his doctorate at the University of Göttingen; he also received an MA in philosophy there, completing his work on the moral issue pre-implantation diagnostics.

In 2018, Prof. Netzer was appointed to the Gene Diagnostics Committee of the RKI by the Federal Health Ministry. He is the deputy spokesperson of the committee for Fundamental Positions and Ethics Issues of the Germany Society for Human Genetics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Humangenetik, GfH).


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The team

Dr. rer. nat. Jutta Becker, specialist human geneticist
Serjoscha Blick, biological-technical assistant
Dr. rer. nat. Nico Fuhrmann, specialist human geneticist
Dr. rer. nat. Sophie Kaspar, M.Sc, Research assistant
Katharina Nohl, biological-technical assistant
Dr. nat. med. Nadine Reintjes, specialist human geneticist
Dr. rer. nat. Vera Riehmer, specialist human geneticist
Laura Wilden, biological-technical assistant