2025/05/01 · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases #Genomics and Rare Diseases #Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer
paper · pdf · doi:10.1242/dmm.052408
openalex publication_date 2025/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/09
ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Henrike Berns is first author on ‘ A homozygous human WNT11 variant is associated with laterality, heart and renal defects’, published in DMM. Henrike is a medical student at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. She conducted the research described in this article while an MD student in Dr Peter Walentek's lab at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, investigating WNT11 variants and their implications in human development, using the Xenopus model organism.