Gesa Schwanitz
Gesa Schwanitz
Professor
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Institute of Human Genetics
University of Bonn
Bonn,Germany

Education

21.05.1966 PhD
01.07.1966 - 01.11.1969 Assistant at the Institute of Human Genetics, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
01.11.1969 Curator
01.05.1971 Akademische Oberrätin
01.05.1974 Akademische Direktorin
30.06.1977 Habilitation
17.09.1979 Wissenschaftliche Rätin, University Bonn
01.04.1981 - 01.02.1984 Temporary leadership, Institute of Human Genetics, Bonn
1995/1996    Member of the board of the Society of Applied Human Genetics
since 1994 Member of different commissions at the DAAD
since 1998 Member of the Ethic Commission of the Medical Faculty, Bonn
since 1998 Member of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Bonn

 

Biography

Dr. Gesa Schwanitz was born at Müncheberg, Germany in 1938. She completed her Diploma in h. c. Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary .She got honorary medal of the Medical University of Bialystok, in Poland. She had 246 publications.

 

Research Interest

  • Clinical Cytogenetics
  • Tumor Cytogenetics (Solid Tumors)
  • Experimental Cytogenetics

 

Professional Activities:

Honorary medal of the Medical University of Bialystok, Poland.

 

Publications

  1. Gesa Schwanitz, Javad Karim Zad Hagh, Isa Abdi Rad, Mir Davood Omrani, Ulrike Gamerdinger, Regine Schubert, Miriam Elbracht, Thomas Eggermann, Katja Eggermann, Sabrina Spengler, Herdit Schüler, Magdalena Gogiel.Patient with three euchromatic supernumerary marker chromosomes derived from chromosomes 1, 12, and 18: characterization and evaluation of the aberrations.Am J Med Genet A 2014 Mar 19;164A(3):736-40.
  2. Andreas Roos, Constantin S von Kaisenberg, Thomas Eggermann, Gesa Schwanitz, Christine Löffler, Anja Weise, Kristin Mrasek, Annelore Junge, Almuth Caliebe, Britta Belitz, Monika Kautza, Herdit Schüler, Klaus Zerres, Simone Heidemann. Analysis of SYCP3 encoding synaptonemal complex protein 3 in human aneuploidies.Arch Gynecol Obstet 2013 Nov 16;288(5):1153-8.
  3. Hartmut Engels, Herdit M Schüler, Alexander M Zink, Eva Wohlleber, Antje Brockschmidt, Alexander Hoischen, Matthias Drechsler, Jennifer A Lee, Kerstin U Ludwig, Christian Kubisch, Gesa Schwanitz, Ruthild G Weber, Barbara Leube, Raoul C M Hennekam, Sabine Rudnik-Schöneborn, Martina Kreiss-Nachtsheim, Heiko Reutter. A phenotype map for 14q32.3 terminal deletions. Am J Med Genet A 2012 Apr 24;158A(4):695-706.
  4. Gesa Schwanitz, Eckhard Korsch, Ursula Kremens-Korsch, Katja Ahlbory, Ulrike Gamerdinger, Christiane Heidrich-Kaul,Regine Schubert, Sabrina Spengler, Thomas Eggermann. Mosaic tetrasomy 14pterq13.1: longitudinal study. Eur J Med Genet 2011 Jul-Aug;54(4):e465-7.
  5. Hartmut Engels, Thomas Eggermann, Almut Caliebe, Anna Jelska, Regine Schubert, Herdit M Schüler, Barbara Panasiuk,Jacek Zaremba, Anna Latos-Bieleńska, Lucjusz Jakubowski, Klaus P Zerres, Gesa Schwanitz, Alina T Midro. Genetic counseling in Robertsonian translocations der(13;14): frequencies of reproductive outcomes and infertility in 101 pedigrees. Am J Med Genet A 2008 Oct;146A(20):2611-6.
  6. Ulrike Gamerdinger, Thomas Eggermann, Regine Schubert, Gesa Schwanitz, Martina Kreiss-Nachtsheim. Rare interstitial deletion 9q31.2 to q33.1 de novo: longitudinal study in a patient over a period of more than 20 years. Am J Med Genet A 2008 May;146A(9):1180-4.
  7. Ulrike Gamerdinger, Kristin Bosse, Thomas Eggermann, Vera Kalscheuer, Gesa Schwanitz, Hartmut Engels. First report of a partial trisomy 3q12-q23 de novo--FISH breakpoint determination and phenotypic characterization. Eur J Med Genet 2006 May-Jun;49(3):225-34.
  8. Susanne Zahn, Antje Ehrbrecht, Kristin Bosse, Vera Kalscheuer, Peter Propping, Gesa Schwanitz, Beate Albrecht,Hartmut Engels.Further delineation of the phenotype maps for partial trisomy 16q24 and Jacobsen syndrome by a subtle familial translocation t(11;16)(q24.2;q24.1). Am J Med Genet A 2005 Nov;139(1):19-24
  9. Thomas Eggermann, Ulrike Gamerdinger, Kristin Bosse, Christiane Heidrich-Kaul, Ruth Raff, Esther Meyer, Ingeborg Heil,Herdit Schüler, Eckhard Korsch, Gesa Schwanitz. Mosaic tetrasomy 14pter-q13 due to a supernumerary isodicentric derivate of proximal chromosome 14q. Am J Med Genet A 2005 Apr;134(3):305-8.
  10. Ruth Schellberg, Gesa Schwanitz, Lutz Grävinghoff, Rolf Kallenberg, Detlef Trost, Ruth Raff, Walter Wiebe. New trends in chromosomal investigation in children with cardiovascular malformations. Cardiol Young 2004 Dec;14(6):622-9.
  11. Hartmut Engels, Antje Ehrbrecht, Susanne Zahn, Kristin Bosse, Hans Vrolijk, Stefan White, Vera Kalscheuer, Jan M N Hoovers, Gesa Schwanitz, Peter Propping, Hans J Tanke, Joop Wiegant, Anton K Raap. Comprehensive analysis of human subtelomeres with combined binary ratio labelling fluorescence in situ hybridisation. Eur J Hum Genet 2003 Sep;11(9):643-51.
  12. Regine Schubert, Thomas Eggermann, Cornelia Hofstaetter, Barbara von Netzer, Gisela Knöpfle, Gesa Schwanitz. Clinical, cytogenetic, and molecular findings in 45,X/47,XX,+18 mosaicism: clinical report and review of the literature. Am J Med Genet 2002 Jul;110(3):278-82.

 

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