Stefan Mundlos

48.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
337 papers, 25.0k citations indexed

About

Stefan Mundlos is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Developmental Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Mundlos has authored 337 papers receiving a total of 25.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 226 papers in Molecular Biology, 158 papers in Genetics and 48 papers in Developmental Biology. Recurrent topics in Stefan Mundlos's work include Connective tissue disorders research (81 papers), Congenital limb and hand anomalies (48 papers) and Bone Metabolism and Diseases (40 papers). Stefan Mundlos is often cited by papers focused on Connective tissue disorders research (81 papers), Congenital limb and hand anomalies (48 papers) and Bone Metabolism and Diseases (40 papers). Stefan Mundlos collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Stefan Mundlos's co-authors include Malte Spielmann, Peter N. Robinson, Bjørn R. Olsen, Bernhard Zabel, Daniel M. Ibrahim, Sigmar Stricker, Florian Otto, Michael J. Owen, Darío G. Lupiáñez and Denise Horn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Mundlos

331 papers receiving 24.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Cbfa1, a Candidate Gene for Cleidocranial Dysplasia Syndrome, Is Essential for Osteoblast Differentiation and Bone Development

1997 2.4k citations Stefan Mundlos et al. profile →
The single-cell transcriptional landscape of mammalian organogenesis

2019 2.2k citations Junyue Cao, Malte Spielmann et al. Nature profile →
Mutations Involving the Transcription Factor CBFA1 Cause Cleidocranial Dysplasia

1997 1.2k citations Stefan Mundlos, Bernhard Zabel et al. profile →
The Human Phenotype Ontology: A Tool for Annotating and Analyzing Human Hereditary Disease

2008 622 citations Peter N. Robinson, Sebastian Bauer et al. profile →
The receptor tyrosine kinase Ror2 is involved in non‐canonical Wnt5a/JNK signalling pathway

2003 605 citations Stefan Mundlos et al. profile →
Nosology and classification of genetic skeletal disorders: 2010 revision

2011 450 citations Stefan Mundlos, Bernhard Zabel et al. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A profile →
Structural variation in the 3D genome

2018 406 citations Malte Spielmann, Darío G. Lupiáñez et al. profile →
Nosology and classification of genetic skeletal disorders: 2019 revision

2019 379 citations Stefan Mundlos et al. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A profile →
Nosology and classification of genetic skeletal disorders: 2015 revision

2015 367 citations Stefan Mundlos et al. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stefan Mundlos Germany	77	17.3k	7.6k	3.5k	3.3k	2.6k	337	25.0k
Bjørn R. Olsen United States	80	14.7k 0.9×	4.9k 0.6×	4.7k 1.4×	5.2k 1.6×	4.9k 1.9×	277	26.7k
Henry M. Kronenberg United States	81	17.7k 1.0×	5.0k 0.7×	8.1k 2.3×	5.3k 1.6×	2.9k 1.1×	241	28.9k
Raoul C. M. Hennekam Netherlands	68	9.9k 0.6×	9.6k 1.3×	1.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	736 0.3×	408	20.2k
Sherri J. Bale United States	52	14.7k 0.9×	12.9k 1.7×	2.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	2.9k 1.1×	142	29.9k
Andrew B. Lassar United States	59	19.6k 1.1×	3.8k 0.5×	2.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	88	22.9k
Mario R. Capecchi United States	95	20.4k 1.2×	7.5k 1.0×	3.2k 0.9×	509 0.2×	1.5k 0.6×	239	28.3k
Herman Van den Berghe Belgium	71	8.2k 0.5×	5.4k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	766	23.4k
David M. Ornitz United States	94	27.6k 1.6×	9.2k 1.2×	3.0k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	259	36.5k
James F. Martin United States	80	15.8k 0.9×	3.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	267	21.8k
Peter Nürnberg Germany	71	9.0k 0.5×	4.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.3×	1.0k 0.3×	1.0k 0.4×	407	17.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Mundlos

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stefan Mundlos. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stefan Mundlos based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stefan Mundlos. Stefan Mundlos is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Glaser, Juliane, Beatrix Fauler, Cesar A. Prada‐Medina, et al.. (2025). Enhancer adoption by an LTR retrotransposon generates viral-like particles, causing developmental limb phenotypes. Nature Genetics. 57(7). 1766–1776. 2 indexed citations

Ing‐Simmons, Elizabeth, Ilya M. Flyamer, Heathcliff Dorado García, et al.. (2023). Doxorubicin Changes the Spatial Organization of the Genome around Active Promoters. Cells. 12(15). 2001–2001. 7 indexed citations

Real, Francisca M., Miguel Burgos, Stefan Mundlos, et al.. (2022). Cell adhesion and immune response, two main functions altered in the transcriptome of seasonally regressed testes of two mammalian species. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 340(3). 231–244. 2 indexed citations

Hülsemann, Wiebke, Manuel Holtgrewe, Denise Horn, et al.. (2021). GLI3 variants causing isolated polysyndactyly are not restricted to the protein's C‐terminal third. Clinical Genetics. 100(6). 758–765. 5 indexed citations

Cao, Junyue, Malte Spielmann, Xiaojie Qiu, et al.. (2019). The single-cell transcriptional landscape of mammalian organogenesis. Nature. 566(7745). 496–502. 2172 indexed citations breakdown →

Mackenroth, Luisa, Björn Fischer‐Zirnsak, Johannes Egerer, et al.. (2016). An overlapping phenotype of Osteogenesis imperfecta and Ehlers–Danlos syndrome due to a heterozygous mutation in COL1A1 and biallelic missense variants in TNXB identified by whole exome sequencing. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 170(4). 1080–1085. 15 indexed citations

Kühnisch, Jirko, Jong Seto, Claudia Lange, et al.. (2014). Neurofibromin inactivation impairs osteocyte development in Nf1Prx1 and Nf1Col1 mouse models. Bone. 66. 155–162. 8 indexed citations

Zimmer, Julia, Maria Walther, Carsten Reißner, et al.. (2013). A GDF5 Point Mutation Strikes Twice - Causing BDA1 and SYNS2. PLoS Genetics. 9(10). e1003846–e1003846. 34 indexed citations

Stricker, Sigmar, Susanne Mathia, Julia Haupt, et al.. (2011). Odd-Skipped Related Genes Regulate Differentiation of Embryonic Limb Mesenchyme and Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stromal Cells. Stem Cells and Development. 21(4). 623–633. 33 indexed citations

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Heinrich, Verena, Jens Stange, Thorsten Dickhaus, et al.. (2011). The allele distribution in next-generation sequencing data sets is accurately described as the result of a stochastic branching process. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(6). 2426–2431. 30 indexed citations

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Liška, František, Sigmar Stricker, Claudia Gösele, et al.. (2010). Impairment of Sox9 Expression in Limb Buds of Rats Homozygous for Hypodactyly Mutation. Folia Biologica. 56(2). 58–65. 1 indexed citations

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Ratzka, Andreas, Stefan Mundlos, & Andrea Vortkamp. (2010). Expression patterns of sulfatase genes in the developing mouse embryo. Developmental Dynamics. 239(6). 1779–1788. 22 indexed citations

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Villavicencio‐Lorini, Pablo, Pia Kuss, Julia Friedrich, et al.. (2010). Homeobox genes d11–d13 and a13 control mouse autopod cortical bone and joint formation. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 120(6). 1994–2004. 66 indexed citations

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Shen, Qi, Shawn C. Little, Meiqi Xu, et al.. (2009). The fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva R206H ACVR1 mutation activates BMP-independent chondrogenesis and zebrafish embryo ventralization. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 119(11). 3462–72. 173 indexed citations

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Ratzka, Andreas, Ina Kalus, Markus Moser, et al.. (2008). Redundant function of the heparan sulfate 6‐O‐endosulfatases Sulf1 and Sulf2 during skeletal development. Developmental Dynamics. 237(2). 339–353. 72 indexed citations

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Kornak, Uwe, Ellen Reynders, Aikaterini Dimopoulou, et al.. (2008). Mutations in the a2-subunit of the v-type H+-ATPase impair Golgi function and cause a novel congenital disorder of glycosylation with cutix laxa. Medizinische Genetik. 20(1).

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Kuss, Pia, Pablo Villavicencio‐Lorini, Florian Witte, et al.. (2008). Mutant Hoxd13 induces extra digits in a mouse model of synpolydactyly directly and by decreasing retinoic acid synthesis. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 119(1). 146–56. 56 indexed citations

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Kornak, Uwe, Ellen Reynders, Aikaterini Dimopoulou, et al.. (2007). Impaired glycosylation and cutis laxa caused by mutations in the vesicular H+-ATPase subunit ATP6V0A2. Nature Genetics. 40(1). 32–34. 259 indexed citations

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Wirth, Stefan, et al.. (1992). Detection of Hepatitis B Virus DNA in the Liver of Children with Chronic Hepatitis B by In Situ Hybridization and Its Relation to Other Viral Markers. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 14(2). 128–134. 2 indexed citations

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Mundlos, Stefan, et al.. (1991). [Effect of pellet size of a pancreas enzyme preparation on duodenal lipolytic activity].. PubMed. 29(9). 417–21. 21 indexed citations

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