drs. Tahsin Stefan Barakat, MSc
Department of Reproduction and Development
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
List of Publications: PubMed
1) Jonkers, I.*, Barakat, T.S.*, Achame, E.M., Monkhorst, K., Kenter, A., Rentmeester, E., Grosveld, F., Grootegoed, J.A., and Gribnau, J. (2009). RNF12 is an X-Encoded dose-dependent activator of X chromosome inactivation. Cell 139, 999-1011
* Both authors contributed equally
2) Barakat, T.S., Jonkers, I., Monkhorst, K., and Gribnau, J. (2010) X-changing information on X inactivation. Exp. Cell Res, 316: 679-687
3) Buecker, C., Chen, H.-H., Polo, J., Daheron, L., Bu, L., Barakat, T.S., Okwieka, P., Porter, A., Gribnau, J., Hochedlinger, K., and Geijsen, N. (2010) A Murine ESC-like State Facilitates Transgenesis and Homologous Recombination in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Cell Stem Cell, 6:535-546
4) Barakat T.S, Gribnau J. X Chromosome Inactivation and Embryonic Stem Cells In: Meshorer E, Plath K, editors. The Cell Biology of Stem Cells. 1 ed. New York: Landes Bioscience / Springer Science+Business Media, LLC; 2010. p. 132-54.
5) Barakat T.S, Gunhanlar N, Gontan Pardo C, Mulugeta Achame E, Ghazvini M, et al. (2011) Rnf12 activates Xist and is essential for X chromosome inactivation. PLoS Genet 7(1): e1002001. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002001
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