Selected References
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- Weber S, Ramirez CM, Weiser B, Burger H, Doerfler W. SARS-CoV-2 worldwide replication drives rapid rise and selection of mutations across the viral genome: a time-course study - potential challenge for vaccines and therapies. EMBO Mol Med. 2021, 13(6): e14062. doi: 10.15252/emmm.202114062.
- Doerfler W. Adenoviral vector DNA- and SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines: Possible Integration into the Human Genome - Are Adenoviral genes expressed in vector-based vaccines? Virus Research 2021 doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2021.198466.
- Weber S, Ramirez CM, Doerfler W. Ubiquitous micro-modular homologies among genomes from viruses to bacteria to human mitochondrial DNA: Platforms for Recombination during Evolution? Viruses. 2022 Apr 24;14(5):885. doi: 10.3390/v14050885.
- S. Weber, C. Ramirez, W. Doerfler. A built-in feature of the four-letter genetic alphabet - Patchy sequence identities between genomes of diverse species are key to illegitimate recombination and evolution. Under revision, 2024 (manuscript available on request).
- Doerfler W. Essential concepts are missing: Foreign DNA in food invades the organisms' cells and can lead to stochastic epigenetic alterations with a wide range of possible pathogenetic consequences. Clinical Epigenetics. 2020 Feb 7;12(1):21. doi: 10.1186/s13148-020-0813-z.
- Doerfler W. Genome-wide Epigenetic Profiles (The Sixth Weissenburg Symposium) - Bericht. In: Jahrbuch 2021 der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften; pages 93 - 110.
