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Christian Mertes

Technical University of Munich
Verified email at in.tum.de
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[PDF][PDF] Severe COVID-19 is marked by a dysregulated myeloid cell compartment

…, O Makarewicz, M Marz, A McHardy, C Mertes… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a mild to moderate respiratory tract infection, however,
a subset of patients progress to severe disease and respiratory failure. The mechanism …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diagnosis of Mendelian disorders via RNA sequencing

LS Kremer, DM Bader, C Mertes, R Kopajtich… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Across a variety of Mendelian disorders, ∼50–75% of patients do not receive a genetic
diagnosis by exome sequencing indicating disease-causing variants in non-coding regions. …

[PDF][PDF] Early IFN-α signatures and persistent dysfunction are distinguishing features of NK cells in severe COVID-19

…, F Marini, M Marz, AC McHardy, C Mertes… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Longitudinal analyses of the innate immune system, including the earliest time points, are
essential to understand the immunopathogenesis and clinical course of coronavirus disease (…

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant splicing prediction across human tissues

N Wagner, MH Çelik, FR Hölzlwimmer, C Mertes… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Aberrant splicing is a major cause of genetic disorders but its direct detection in transcriptomes
is limited to clinically accessible tissues such as skin or body fluids. While DNA-based …

[PDF][PDF] Longitudinal multi-omics analyses identify responses of megakaryocytes, erythroid cells, and plasmablasts as hallmarks of severe COVID-19

…, O Makarewicz, M Marz, A McHardy, C Mertes… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Temporal resolution of cellular features associated with a severe COVID-19 disease
trajectory is needed for understanding skewed immune responses and defining predictors of …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical implementation of RNA sequencing for Mendelian disease diagnostics

VA Yépez, M Gusic, R Kopajtich, C Mertes, NH Smith… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Lack of functional evidence hampers variant interpretation, leaving a large
proportion of individuals with a suspected Mendelian disorder without genetic diagnosis after …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of aberrant splicing events in RNA-seq data using FRASER

C Mertes, IF Scheller, VA Yépez, MH Çelik… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Aberrant splicing is a major cause of rare diseases. However, its prediction from genome
sequence alone remains in most cases inconclusive. Recently, RNA sequencing has proven to …

Detection of aberrant gene expression events in RNA sequencing data

VA Yépez, C Mertes, MF Müller, D Klaproth-Andrade… - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has emerged as a powerful approach to discover disease-causing
gene regulatory defects in individuals affected by genetically undiagnosed rare disorders…

[PDF][PDF] OUTRIDER: a statistical method for detecting aberrantly expressed genes in RNA sequencing data

F Brechtmann, C Mertes, A Matusevičiūtė… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is gaining popularity as a complementary assay to genome
sequencing for precisely identifying the molecular causes of rare disorders. A powerful …

Chromatin-remodeling factor SMARCD2 regulates transcriptional networks controlling differentiation of neutrophil granulocytes

…, E Bahrami, T Racek, M Rohlfs, J Puchałka, C Mertes… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We identify SMARCD2 (SWI/SNF-related, matrix-associated, actin-dependent regulator of
chromatin, subfamily D, member 2), also known as BAF60b (BRG1/Brahma-associated factor …