Institut für Translationale Medizin

COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative. A second update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19. Nature 2023; 621(7977):E7-E26. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06355-3.
PMID: 37674002

Gassner C. PIEZO1: now also featuring blood group antigens. Blood 2023; 141(2):123–4.
PMID: 36633886

Clausen FB, Hellberg Å, Bein G, Bugert P, Schwartz D, Drnovsek TD et al. Recommendation for validation and quality assurance of non-invasive prenatal testing for foetal blood groups and implications for IVD risk classification according to EU regulations. Vox Sang 2022; 117(2):157–65. 
PMID: 34155647 

Degenhardt F, Ellinghaus D, Juzenas S, Lerga-Jaso J, Wendorff M, Maya-Miles D et al. Detailed stratified GWAS analysis for severe COVID-19 in four European populations. Hum Mol Genet 2022.
PMID: 35848942

Gassner C, Castilho L, Chen Q, Clausen FB, Denomme GA, Flegel WA et al. International Society of Blood Transfusion Working Party on Red Cell Immunogenetics and Blood Group Terminology Report of Basel and three virtual business meetings: Update on blood group systems. Vox Sang 2022; 117(11):1332–44.
PMID: 36121188

Gassner C, Olsson ML, Lane WJ, Hyland CA. Novel or not? Reference alleles, genes, and genomes to unmask the true nature of the ABO*AW.10 allele associated with weak A phenotype: Editorial. Transfusion 2022; 62(4):721–4.
PMID: 335383952

Gassner C, Scherer V, Zanolin-Purin D, Scharberg EA, Flesch B. Occurrence of Rare Deletional Yus and Gerbich Alleles in Syria and Neighbouring Countries. Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy 2022:1–9.
DOI: 10.1159/000524249 

Gassner C, Wagner FF. Blood Groups and Their Correlation with Hereditary Disease: Editorial. Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy 2022; 49(1):1–3. Available from: URL: https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/521418.

Gueuning M, Schneider L, Thun GA, Trost N, Sigurdardottir S, Engstroem C et al. Nanopore sequencing to resolve KIDD blood group discrepancies: Abstract. Clin.Lab. 2022; Abstract No. 24(08):14–5.

Gueuning M, Thun GA, Wittig M, Galati A-L, Meyer S, Trost N et al. Haplotype sequence collection of ABO blood group alleles by long-read sequencing reveals putative A1-diagnostic variants. Blood Adv 2022.
PMID: 36129841

Henny C, Engstroem C, Gassner C, Still F, Gottschalk J, Sigurdardottir S, Frey B.M., Niederhauser C., Hustinx H, Meyer S, Crotett S.L. Ten years of donor RHD Screening in Schwitzerland: Abtract. Clin.Lab. 2022; Abstract No.5(08):3–4.

Mattle-Greminger M, Gueuning M, Thun GA, Wittig M, Galati AL, Meyer S et al. Reference sequences for AB0 alleles by long-read sequencing reveal putative A1-diagnostic variants: Abstract. Clin.Lab. 2022; Abstract No. 26(08):15–6.
PMID: 34060100 

Steiert TA, Fuß J, Juzenas S, Wittig M, Hoeppner MP, Vollstedt M et al. High-throughput method for the hybridisation-based targeted enrichment of long genomic fragments for PacBio third-generation sequencing. NAR Genom Bioinform 2022; 4(3):lqac051.
PMID: 35855323

COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative. Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19. Nature 2021; 600(7889):472–7.
PMID: 34237774      PDF

Mattle-Greminger MP, Gueuning M, Thun GA, Wittig M,Galati AL, Meyer S, Fuss J, Sigurdardottir S Trost N, Merki Y, Neuenschwander K Gourri E, Busch Y, Gottschalk J, Franke A, Frey BM, Gassner C, Peter W. Complete reference sequences for ABO blood group gene alleles by long-read sequencing: Abstract. Vox Sang 2021; 116 Suppl 1:5–188.
PMID: 34060100    PDF 

Mattle-Greminger MP, Thun GA, Gueuning M, Wittig M, Galati AL, Meyer S, Fuss J, Sigurdardottir S Trost N, Merki Y, Neuenschwander K Gourri E, Busch Y, Gottschalk J, Franke A, Frey BM, Gassner C, Peter W. Fully-phased reference sequences for ABO blood group gene alleles by long-read Nanopore sequencing: putative ABO*A1-specific single-nucleotide variants revealed: Abstract. Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy 2021; 48(Suppl. 1):1–77.
DOI: 10.1159/000518751       Karger

Meyer S, Schneider L, Gueuning M, Trost N, Sigurdardottir S, Engström C, Rizzi G, Merki Y, Neuenschwander K Thun GA, Gassner C, Mattle-Greminger MP, Frey BM. From high-throughput genotyping to nanopore sequencing: resolving genotype/phenotype discrepancies of the kidd blood group system revealed novel null alleles and a large deletion variants revealed: Abstract. Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy 2021; 48(Suppl. 1):1-77.
DOI: 10.1159/000518751       Karger

Gassner C, Purin D. Erstellung eines Referenz-Genoms menschlicher Blutgruppen. «160 im Quadrat» Wissenschaftsmagazin des Liechtenstein-Instituts und der Universität Liechtenstein. 2021 [cited 2022 Jul 7]:64–5. Available from: URL: www.liechtenstein-institut.li/application/files/7016/3835/6661/Forschungsmagazin160_2_Web.pdf.
 

Boettcher S, Wilk CM, Singer J, Beier F, Burcklen E, Beisel C et al. Clonal hematopoiesis in donors and long-term survivors of related allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Blood 2020; 135(18):1548–59.
PMID: 32558485

Ellinghaus D, Degenhardt F, Bujanda L, Buti M, Albillos A, Invernizzi P et al. Genomewide Association Study of Severe Covid-19 with Respiratory Failure. N Engl J Med 2020; 383(16):1522–34.
PMID: 32558485

Engstroem C, Rizzi G, Trost N, Zorbas A, Neuenschwander K, Song Y, Meyer E, Gassner C, Frey BM, Meyer S. Bombay in-house: Highlight of a Molecular Employee Screening: Abstract. Vox Sang 2020; 115 Suppl 1:3–387.

Gassner C. Next-Generation Sequencing in Blood Group Genomics: State of the Art and Perspectives: Editorial. Transfus Med Hemother 2020; 47(1):2–3.
PMID: 32110188

Gassner C, Denomme GA, Portmann C, Bensing KM, Mattle-Greminger MP, Meyer S et al. Two Prevalent ∼100-kb GYPB Deletions Causative of the GPB-Deficient Blood Group MNS Phenotype S-s-U- in Black Africans. Transfus Med Hemother 2020; 47(4):326–36.

Hyland CA, Gassner C, Daly J, Flower R. Blood Group Antigens in the Genomic Era: Abstract. Vox Sang 2020; 115 Suppl 1:3–387.

Young-Lan Song, Pascal Weisser, Gabriella Rizzi, Nadine Trost, David Goslings, Yvonne Merki, Beat M. Frey, Christoph Gassner, Stefan Meyer, Charlotte Engström. Securing supply of HPA-1a negative platelet concentrates for FNAIT patients: Abstract. 53. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhämatologie e.V. (DGTI) 2020 [cited 2021 Jun 25].
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