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Case Report: ISG15 deficiency caused by novel variants in two families and effective treatment with Janus kinase inhibition
Burleigh A, Moraitis E, Al Masroori E, Al-Abadi E, Hong Y, Omoyinmi E, Titheradge H, Stals K, Jones WD, Gait A, Jayarajan V, Di WL, Sebire N, Solman L, Ogboli M, Welch SB, Sudarsanam A, Wacogne I, Price-Kuehne F, Jensen B, Brogan PA, Eleftheriou D.
Front Immunol. 2023 Dec 5;14:1287258. ( PMID: 38115997)

Biallelic PKP2 loss of function variants are associated with a lethal perinatal-onset biventricular dilated cardiomyopathy with excessive trabeculations and ventricular septal defects
Gibb J, Wall E, Fields E, Seale A, Armstrong C, Bamber A, Daubeney P, Jacobs-Pearson M, Marton T, Stals K, Low K, Kaski JP, Spentzou G.
J Med Genet. 2023 Nov 27:jmg-2023-109493. Online ahead of print. ( PMID: 38050058)

SLC4A10 mutation causes a neurological disorder associated with impaired GABAergic transmission
Fasham J, Huebner AK, Liebmann L, Khalaf-Nazzal R, Maroofian R, Kryeziu N, Wortmann SB, Leslie JS, Ubeyratna N, Mancini GMS, van Slegtenhorst M, Wilke M, Haack TB, Shamseldin HE, Gleeson JG, Almuhaizea M, Dweikat I, Abu-Libdeh B, Daana M, Zaki MS, Wakeling MN, McGavin L, Turnpenny PD, Alkuraya FS, Houlden H, Schlattmann P, Kaila K, Crosby AH, Baple EL, Hübner CA.
Brain. 2023 Nov 2;146(11):4547-4561. ( PMID: 37459438)

IMPG2-Related Maculopathy
Birtel J, Caswell R, De Silva SR, Herrmann P, Rehman S, Lotery AJ, Mahroo OA, Michaelides M, Webster AR, MacLaren RE, Charbel Issa P.
Am J Ophthalmol. 2023 Oct 6;258:32-42. Online ahead of print. ( PMID: 37806544)

Dominant negative variants in KIF5B cause osteogenesis imperfecta via down regulation of mTOR signaling
Marom R, Zhang B, Washington ME, Song IW, Burrage LC, Rossi VC, Berrier AS, Lindsey A, Lesinski J, Nonet ML, Chen J, Baldridge D, Silverman GA, Sutton VR, Rosenfeld JA, Tran AA, Hicks MJ, Murdock DR, Dai H, Weis M, Jhangiani SN, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Caswell R, Pottinger C, Cilliers D, Stals K; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; Eyre D, Krakow D, Schedl T, Pak SC, Lee BH.
PLoS Genet. 2023 Nov 7;19(11):e1011005. Epub ahead of print. (PMID: 37934770)

Biallelic CRELD1 variants cause a multisystem syndrome including neurodevelopmental phenotypes, cardiac dysrhythmias, and frequent infections
Jeffries L, Mis EK, McWalter K, Donkervoort S, Brodsky NN, Carpier JM, Ji W, Ionita C, Roy B, Morrow JS, Darbinyan A, Iyer K, Aul RB, Banka S, Chao KR, Cobbold L, Cohen S, Custodio HM, Drummond-Borg M, Elmslie F, Finanger E, Hainline BE, Helbig I, Hewson S, Hu Y, Jackson A, Josifova D, Konstantino M, Leach ME, Mak B, McCormick D, McGee E, Nelson S, Nguyen J, Nugent K, Ortega L, Goodkin HP, Roeder E, Roy S, Sapp K, Saade D, Sisodiya SM, Stals K, Towner S, Wilson W; Deciphering Developmental Disorders; Genomics England Research Consortium; Undiagnosed Disease Network; Khokha MK, Bönnemann CG, Lucas CL, Lakhani SA.
Genet Med. 2023 Nov 6:101023. Epub ahead of print. (PMID: 37947183)

Heterozygous rare variants in NR2F2 cause a recognizable multiple congenital anomaly syndrome with developmental delays
Ganapathi M, Matsuoka LS, March M, Li D, Brokamp E, Benito-Sanz S, White SM, Lachlan K, Ahimaz P, Sewda A, Bastarache L, Thomas-Wilson A, Stoler JM, Bramswig NC, Baptista J, Stals K, Demurger F, Cogne B, Isidor B, Bedeschi MF, Peron A, Amiel J, Zackai E, Schacht JP, Iglesias AD, Morton J, Schmetz A; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; Seidel V, Lucia S, Baskin SM, Thiffault I, Cogan JD, Gordon CT, Chung WK, Bowdin S, Bhoj E.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2023 Oct;31(10):1117-1124. Epub 2023 Jul 27. (PMID: 37500725)

Clinical and molecular characterization of novel FARS2 variants causing neonatal mitochondrial disease
Chen W, Rehsi P, Thompson K, Yeo M, Stals K, He L, Schimmel P, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers ZMA, Wakeling E, Taylor RW, Kuhle B.
Mol Genet Metab. 2023 Nov;140(3):107657 (PMID: 37523899)

Clinical findings and structural analysis involving a patient with a novel KLHL15 variant
Caswell RC, Baptista J, Cairns LM, Wilson K, Stewart H.
Eur J Med Genet. 2023 Jun;66(6):104768. Epub 2023 Apr 12. ( PMID: 37059329)

Variants in CLDN5 cause a syndrome characterized by seizures, microcephaly and brain calcifications
Deshwar AR, Cytrynbaum C, Murthy H, Zon J, Chitayat D, Volpatti J, Newbury-Ecob R, Ellard S, Allen HL, Yu EP, Noche R, Walker S, Scherer SW, Mahida S, Elitt CM, Nicolas G, Goldenberg A, Saugier-Veber P, Lecoquierre F, Dabaj I, Meddaugh H, Marble M, Keppler-Noreuil KM, Drayson L, Barañano KW, Chassevent A, Agre K, Létard P, Bilan F, Le Guyader G, Laquerrière A, Ramsey K, Henderson L, Brady L, Tarnopolsky M, Bainbridge M, Friedman J, Capri Y, Athayde L, Kok F, Gurgel-Giannetti J, Ramos LLP, Blaser S, Dowling JJ, Weksberg R.
Brain. 2023 Jun 1;146(6):2285-2297. ( PMID: 36477332)

Biallelic alterations in PLXND1 cause common arterial trunk and other cardiac malformations in humans
Guimier A, de Pontual L, Braddock SR, Torti E, Pérez-Jurado LA, Muñoz-Cabello P, Arumí M, Monaghan KG, Lee H, Wang LK, Pluym ID, Lynch SA, Stals K, Ellard S, Muller C, Houyel L, Cohen L, Lyonnet S, Bajolle F, Amiel J, Gordon CT.
Hum Mol Genet. 2023 Jan 13;32(3):353-356. ( PMID: 35396997)

EMILIN1 deficiency causes arterial tortuosity with osteopenia and connects impaired elastogenesis with defective collagen fibrillogenesis
Adamo CS, Beyens A, Schiavinato A, Keene DR, Tufa SF, Mörgelin M, Brinckmann J, Sasaki T, Niehoff A, Dreiner M, Pottie L, Muiño-Mosquera L, Gulec EY, Gezdirici A, Braghetta P, Bonaldo P, Wagener R, Paulsson M, Bornaun H, De Rycke R, De Bruyne M, Baeke F, Devine WP, Gangaram B, Tam A, Balasubramanian M, Ellard S, Moore S, Symoens S, Shen J, Cole S, Schwarze U, Holmes KW, Hayflick SJ, Wiszniewski W, Nampoothiri S, Davis EC, Sakai LY, Sengle G, Callewaert B.
Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Dec 1;109(12):2230-2252. Epub 2022 Nov 8. (PMID: 36351433)

Missense Mutations of the Pro65 Residue of PCGF2 Cause a Recognizable Syndrome Associated with Craniofacial, Neurological, Cardiovascular, and Skeletal Features.
Turnpenny PD, Wright MJ, Sloman M, Caswell R, van Essen AJ, Gerkes E, Pfundt R, White SM, Shaul-Lotan N, Carpenter L, Schaefer GB, Fryer A, Innes AM, Forbes KP, Chung WK, McLaughlin H, Henderson LB, Roberts AE, Heath KE, Paumard-Hernández B, Gener B; DDD study; Fawcett KA, Gjergja-Juraški R, Pilz DT, Fry AE.
Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Nov 1;103(5):786-793. Erratum in: Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Dec 6;103(6):1054-1055. PMID: 30343942; PMCID: PMC6218713.

De Novo ZMYND8 variants result in an autosomal dominant neurodevelopmental disorder with cardiac malformations.
Dias KR, Carlston CM, Blok LER, De Hayr L, Nawaz U, Evans CA, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Htun S, Zhu Y, Ma A, Lynch SA, Moorwood C, Stals K, Ellard S, Bainbridge MN, Friedman J, Pappas JG, Rabin R, Nowak CB, Douglas J, Wilson TE, Guillen Sacoto MJ, Mullegama SV, Palculict TB, Kirk EP, Pinner JR, Edwards M, Montanari F, Graziano C, Pippucci T, Dingmann B, Glass I, Mefford HC, Shimoji T, Suzuki T, Yamakawa K, Streff H, Schaaf CP, Slavotinek AM, Voineagu I, Carey JC, Buckley MF, Schenck A, Harvey RJ, Roscioli T.
Genet Med. 2022 Sep;24(9):1952-1966. Epub 2022 Aug 1. (PMID: 35916866)

Germline homozygous missense DEPDC5 variants cause severe refractory early-onset epilepsy, macrocephaly and bilateral polymicrogyria.
Ververi A, Zagaglia S, Menzies L, Baptista J, Caswell R, Baulac S, Ellard S, Lynch S, Consortium GER, Jacques TS, Chawla MS, Heier M, Kulseth MA, Mero IL, Våtevik AK, Kraoua I, Rhouma HB, Younes TB, Miladi Z, Turki IBY, Jones WD, Clement E, Eltze C, Mankad K, Merve A, Parker J, Hoskins B, Pressler R, Sudhakar S, DeVile C, Homfray T, Kaliakatsos M, Ponnudas PP, Robinson R, Keim SMB, Habibi I, Reymond A, Sisodiya SM, Hurst JA.
Hum Mol Genet. 2022 Sep 6:ddac225.  Online ahead of print. (PMID: 36067010)

Cataract, abnormal electroretinogram and visual evoked potentials in a child with SMA-LED2 – extending the phenotype.
Oliwa A, Joseph S, Millar E, Horrocks I, Penman D, Baptista J, Cullup T, Constantinou P, Heuchan AM, Hamilton R, Longman C.
J Neuromuscul Dis. 2022 Sep 1. Online ahead of print. (PMID: 36057830)

Bi-allelic LETM1 variants perturb mitochondrial ion homeostasis leading to a clinical spectrum with predominant nervous system involvement.
Kaiyrzhanov R, Mohammed SEM, Maroofian R, Husain RA, Catania A, Torraco A, Alahmad A, Dutra-Clarke M, Grønborg S, Sudarsanam A, Vogt J, Arrigoni F, Baptista J, Haider S, Feichtinger RG, Bernardi P, Zulian A, Gusic M, Efthymiou S, Bai R, Bibi F, Horga A, Martinez-Agosto JA, Lam A, Manole A, Rodriguez DP, Durigon R, Pyle A, Albash B, Dionisi-Vici C, Murphy D, Martinelli D, Bugiardini E, Allis K, Lamperti C, Reipert S, Risom L, Laugwitz L, Di Nottia M, McFarland R, Vilarinho L, Hanna M, Prokisch H, Mayr JA, Bertini ES, Ghezzi D, Østergaard E, Wortmann SB, Carrozzo R, Haack TB, Taylor RW, Spinazzola A, Nowikovsky K, Houlden H.
Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Sep 1;109(9):1692-1712. (PMID: 36055214)

Hereditary spastic paraparesis presenting as cerebral palsy due to ADD3 variant with mechanistic insight provided by a Drosophila γ-adducin model.
Sanchez Marco SB, Buhl E, Firth R, Zhu B, Gainsborough M, Beleza-Meireles A, Moore S, Caswell R, Stals K, Ellard S, Kennedy C, Hodge JJL, Majumdar A.
Clin Genet. 2022 Aug 31.  Online ahead of print. (PMID: 36046955)

Sedaghatian spondylometaphyseal dysplasia in two siblings.
Peshimam N, Farah H, Caswell R, Ellard S, Jan W, Calder AD, Cobben J, Kariholu U, Leitch HG.
Eur J Med Genet. 2022 Aug;65(8):104541. (PMID: 35718083)

De novo putative loss-of-function variants in TAF4 are associated with a neuro-developmental disorder.
Janssen BDE, van den Boogaard MH, Lichtenbelt K, Seaby EG, Stals K, Ellard S, Newbury-Ecob R, Dixit A, Roht L, Pajusalu S, Õunap K, Firth HV, Buckley M, Wilson M, Roscioli T, Tidwell T, Mao R, Ennis S, Holwerda SJ, van Gassen K, van Jaarsveld RH.
Hum Mutat. 2022 Jul 29. Online ahead of print. (PMID: 35904126)

Identification and functional evaluation of GRIA1 missense and truncation variants in individuals with ID: An emerging neurodevelopmental syndrome.
Ismail V, Zachariassen LG, Godwin A, Sahakian M, Ellard S, Stals KL, Baple E, Brown KT, Foulds N, Wheway G, Parker MO, Lyngby SM, Pedersen MG, Desir J, Bayat A, Musgaard M, Guille M, Kristensen AS, Baralle D.
Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Jul 7;109(7):1217-1241. Epub 2022 Jun 7. (PMID: 35675825)

Bi-allelic variants in WNT7B disrupt the development of multiple organs in humans.
Bouasker S, Patel N, Greenlees R, Wellesley D, Fares Taie L, Almontashiri NA, Baptista J, Alghamdi MA, Boissel S, Martinovic J, Prokudin I, Holden S, Mudhar HS, Riley LG, Nassif C, Attie-Bitach T, Miguet M, Delous M, Ernest S, Plaisancié J, Calvas P, Rozet JM, Khan AO, Hamdan FF, Jamieson RV, Alkuraya FS, Michaud JL, Chassaing N.
J Med Genet. 2022 Jul 5:jmedgenet-2022-108475. Online ahead of print. (PMID: 35790350)

Dysmorphism and immunodeficiency – One of the differential diagnoses is PAX1 related otofaciocervical syndrome type 2.
Sherlaw-Sturrock C, Austin T, Baptista J, Gilmour K, Naik S.
Eur J Med Genet. 2022 Jul;65(7):104523. Epub 2022 May 17. (PMID: 35595062)

UNC45A deficiency causes microvillus inclusion disease-like phenotype by impairing myosin VB-dependent apical trafficking.
Duclaux-Loras R, Lebreton C, Berthelet J, Charbit-Henrion F, Nicolle O, Revenu de Courtils C, Waich S, Valovka T, Khiat A, Rabant M, Racine C, Guerrera IC, Baptista J, Mahe MM, Hess MW, Durel B, Lefort N, Banal C, Parisot M, Talbotec C, Lacaille F, Ecochard-Dugelay E, Demir AM, Vogel GF, Faivre L, Rodrigues A, Fowler D, Janecke AR, Müller T, Huber LA, Rodrigues-Lima F, Ruemmele FM, Uhlig HH, Del Bene F, Michaux G, Cerf-Bensussan N, Parlato M.
J Clin Invest. 2022 May 16;132(10):e154997. (PMID: 35575086)

Recessive PRDM13 mutations cause fatal perinatal brainstem dysfunction with cerebellar hypoplasia and disrupt Purkinje cell differentiation.
Coolen M, Altin N, Rajamani K, Pereira E, Siquier-Pernet K, Puig Lombardi E, Moreno N, Barcia G, Yvert M, Laquerrière A, Pouliet A, Nitschké P, Boddaert N, Rausell A, Razavi F, Afenjar A, Billette de Villemeur T, Al-Maawali A, Al-Thihli K, Baptista J, Beleza-Meireles A, Garel C, Legendre M, Gelot A, Burglen L, Moutton S, Cantagrel V.
Am J Hum Genet. 2022 May 5;109(5):909-927. Epub 2022 Apr 6. (PMID: 35390279)

Biallelic alterations in PLXND1 cause common arterial trunk and other cardiac malformations in humans.
Guimier A, Pontual L, Braddock SR, Torti E, Pérez-Jurado LA, Muñoz-Cabello P, Arumí M, Monaghan KG, Lee H, Wang LK, Pluym ID, Lynch SA, Stals K, Ellard S, Muller C, Houyel L, Cohen L, Lyonnet S, Bajolle F, Amiel J, Gordon CT.
Hum Mol Genet. 2022 Apr 9:ddac084. Online ahead of print. (PMID: 35396997)

THUMPD1 bi-allelic variants cause loss of tRNA acetylation and a syndromic neurodevelopmental disorder.
Broly M, Polevoda BV, Awayda KM, Tong N, Lentini J, Besnard T, Deb W, O’Rourke D, Baptista J, Ellard S, Almannai M, Hashem M, Abdulwahab F, Shamseldin H, Al-Tala S, Alkuraya FS, Leon A, van Loon RLE, Ferlini A, Sanchini M, Bigoni S, Ciorba A, van Bokhoven H, Iqbal Z, Al-Maawali A, Al-Murshedi F, Ganesh A, Al-Mamari W, Lim SC, Pais LS, Brown N, Riazuddin S, Bézieau S, Fu D, Isidor B, Cogné B, O’Connell MR.
Am J Hum Genet. 2022 Apr 7;109(4):587-600. Epub 2022 Feb 22. (PMID: 35196516)

X-linked Ohdo syndrome due to a novel MED12 variant detected by Rapid Exome Sequencing.
McDermott H, Garikapati V, Baptista J, Gowda H, Naik S.
Clin Dysmorphol. 2022 Apr 1;31(2):101-105. (PMID: 35102032)

Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of ALDH18A1-related autosomal recessive cutis laxa with a description of novel neuroradiological findings.
Pickwick C, Callewaert B, van Dijk F, Harris J, Wakeling E, Hay E, Yeo M, Chakrapani A, Baptista J, Moore S, Yoong M, Chatterjee F, Ghali N.
Clin Dysmorphol. 2022 Apr 1;31(2):66-70. (PMID: 34954732)

HK1 haemolytic anaemia in association with a neurological phenotype and co-existing CEP290 Meckel-Gruber in a Romani family.
Sasaki E, Phelan E, O’Regan M, Kassim AH, Miletin J, McMahon C, O’Sullivan MJ, Baptista J, Lynch SA.
Clin Genet. 2022 Jan;101(1):142-143. Epub 2021 Sep 16. (PMID: 34532855)

Dominant and recessive SLC12A2-syndrome.
Am J Med Genet A. 2021 Nov 19. Epub ahead of print. (PMID: 34797034)

McNeill A, Aurora P, Rajput K, Nash R, Stals K, Robinson H, Wakeling E.

Delineating the molecular and phenotypic spectrum of the SETD1B-related syndrome.
Genet Med. 2021 Nov;23(11):2122-2137. (PMID: 34345025)

Weerts MJA, Lanko K, Guzmán-Vega FJ, Jackson A, Ramakrishnan R, Cardona-Londoño KJ, Peña-Guerra KA, van Bever Y, van Paassen BW, Kievit A, van Slegtenhorst M, Allen NM, Kehoe CM, Robinson HK, Pang L, Banu SH, Zaman M, Efthymiou S, Houlden H, Järvelä I, Lauronen L, Määttä T, Schrauwen I, Leal SM, Ruivenkamp CAL, Barge-Schaapveld DQCM, Peeters-Scholte CMPCD, Galehdari H, Mazaheri N, Sisodiya SM, Harrison V, Sun A, Thies J, Pedroza LA, Lara-Taranchenko Y, Chinn IK, Lupski JR, Garza-Flores A, McGlothlin J, Yang L, Huang S, Wang X, Jewett T, Rosso G, Lin X, Mohammed S, Merritt JL 2nd, Mirzaa GM, Timms AE, Scheck J, Elting MW, Polstra AM, Schenck L, Ruzhnikov MRZ, Vetro A, Montomoli M, Guerrini R, Koboldt DC, Mosher TM, Pastore MT, McBride KL, Peng J, Pan Z, Willemsen M, Koning S, Turnpenny PD, de Vries BBA, Gilissen C, Pfundt R, Lees M, Braddock SR, Klemp KC, Vansenne F, van Gijn ME, Quindipan C, Deardorff MA, Hamm JA, Putnam AM, Baud R, Walsh L, Lynch SA, Baptista J, Person RE, Monaghan KG, Crunk A, Keller-Ramey J, Reich A, Elloumi HZ, Alders M, Kerkhof J, McConkey H, Haghshenas S; Genomics England Research Consortium, Maroofian R, Sadikovic B, Banka S, Arold ST, Barakat TS.

Clustered mutations in the GRIK2 kainate receptor subunit gene underlie diverse neurodevelopmental disorders.
Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Sep 2;108(9):1692-1709. (PMID: 34375587)

Stolz JR, Foote KM, Veenstra-Knol HE, Pfundt R, Ten Broeke SW, de Leeuw N, Roht L, Pajusalu S, Part R, Rebane I, Õunap K, Stark Z, Kirk EP, Lawson JA, Lunke S, Christodoulou J, Louie RJ, Rogers RC, Davis JM, Innes AM, Wei XC, Keren B, Mignot C, Lebel RR, Sperber SM, Sakonju A, Dosa N, Barge-Schaapveld DQCM, Peeters-Scholte CMPCD, Ruivenkamp CAL, van Bon BW, Kennedy J, Low KJ, Ellard S, Pang L, Junewick JJ, Mark PR, Carvill GL, Swanson GT.

De novo missense variants in FBXO11 alter its protein expression and subcellular localization.
Hum Mol Genet. 2021 Sep 9. Epub ahead of print. (PMID: 34505148)

Gregor A, Meerbrei T, Gerstner T, Toutain A, Lynch SA, Stals K, Maxton C, Lemke JR, Bernat JA, Bombei HM, Foulds N, Hunt D, Kuechler A, Beygo J, Stöbe P, Bouman A, Palomares-Bralo M, Santos-Simarro F, Garcia-Minaur S, Pacio-Miguez M, Popp B, Vasileiou G, Hebebrand M, Reis A, Schuhmann S, Krumbiegel M, Brown NJ, Sparber P, Melikyan L, Bessonova L, Cherevatova T, Sharkov A, Shcherbakova N, Dabir T, Kini U, Schwaibold EMC, Haack TB, Bertoli M, Hoffjan S, Falb R, Shinawi M, Sticht H, Zweier C.

Expanded phenotype of AARS1-related white matter disease.
Genet Med. 2021 Aug 27. Online ahead of print. (PMID: 34446925)

Helman G, Mendes MI, Nicita F, Darbelli L, Sherbini O, Moore T, Derksen A, Amy Pizzino, Carrozzo R, Torraco A, Catteruccia M, Aiello C, Goffrini P, Figuccia S, Smith DEC, Hadzsiev K, Hahn A, Biskup S, Brösse I, Kotzaeridou U, Gauck D, Grebe TA, Elmslie F, Stals K, Gupta R, Bertini E, Thiffault I, Taft RJ, Schiffmann R, Brandl U, Haack TB, Salomons GS, Simons C, Bernard G, van der Knaap MS, Vanderver A, Husain RA.

Robinow syndrome in an extremely preterm infant: Novel homozygous ROR2 variant detected by rapid exome sequencing.
Am J Med Genet A. 2022 Jan;188(1):298-303. Epub 2021 Sep 24. (PMID: 34558814)

McDermott H, Robinson HK, Caswell R, Gowda H, Offiah A, Naik S

HK1 haemolytic anaemia in association with a neurological phenotype and co-existing CEP290 Meckel-Gruber in a Romani family.
Clin Genet. 2021 Sep 16. Epub ahead of print. (PMID: 34532855)

Sasaki E, Phelan E, O’Regan M, Kassim AH, Miletin J, McMahon C, O’Sullivan MJ, Baptista J, Lynch SA.

Heterozygous variants in ZBTB7A cause a neurodevelopmental disorder associated with symptomatic overgrowth of pharyngeal lymphoid tissue, macrocephaly, and elevated fetal hemoglobin.
Am J Med Genet A. 2021 Sep 13. Epub ahead of print. (PMID: 34515416)

von der Lippe C, Tveten K, Prescott TE, Holla ØL, Busk ØL, Burke KB, Sansbury FH, Baptista J, Fry AE, Lim D, Jolles S, Evans J, Osio D, Macmillan C, Bruno I, Faltera F, Climent S, Urreitzi R, Hoenicka J, Palau F, Cohen ASA, Engleman K, Zhou D, Amudhavalli SM, Jeanne M, Bonnet-Brilhault F, Lévy J, Drunat S, Derive N, Haug MG, Thorstensen WM.

Novel compound heterozygous TTN variants as a cause of severe neonatal congenital contracture syndrome without cardiac involvement diagnosed with rapid trio exome sequencing.
Neuromuscul Disord. 2021 Aug;31(8):783-787. Epub 2021 May 24. (PMID: 34303570)

McDermott H, Henderson A, Robinson HK, Heaver R, Halahakoon C, Cox H, Naik S.

Bi-allelic variants in the ER quality-control mannosidase gene EDEM3 cause a congenital disorder of glycosylation.
Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Jul 1;108(7):1342-1349. (PMID: 34143952)

Polla DL, Edmondson AC, Duvet S, March ME, Sousa AB, Lehman A; CAUSES Study, Niyazov D, van Dijk F, Demirdas S, van Slegtenhorst MA, Kievit AJA, Schulz C, Armstrong L, Bi X, Rader DJ, Izumi K, Zackai EH, de Franco E, Jorge P, Huffels SC, Hommersom M, Ellard S, Lefeber DJ, Santani A, Hand NJ, van Bokhoven H, He M, de Brouwer APM.

Mutations in HID1 Cause Syndromic Infantile Encephalopathy and Hypopituitarism.
Ann Neurol. 2021 Jul;90(1):143-158. (PMID: 33999436)

Schänzer A, Achleitner MT, Trümbach D, Hubert L, Munnich A, Ahlemeyer B, AlAbdulrahim MM, Greif PA, Vosberg S, Hummer B, Feichtinger RG, Mayr JA, Wortmann SB, Aichner H, Rudnik-Schöneborn S, Ruiz A, Gabau E, Sánchez JP, Ellard S, Homfray T, Stals KL, Wurst W, Neubauer BA, Acker T, Bohlander SK, Asensio C, Besmond C, Alkuraya FS, AlSayed MD, Hahn A, Weber A.

Rapid exome sequencing: revolutionises the management of acutely unwell neonates.
Eur J Pediatr. 2021 Jun 18;1-5. (PMID: 34143244)

Williamson SL, Rasanayagam CN, Glover KJ, Baptista J, Naik S, Satodia P, Gowda H.

Truncating variants in the SHANK1 gene are associated with a spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders.
Genet Med. 2021 Jun 10. (PMID: 34113010)

May HJ, Jeong J, Revah-Politi A, Cohen JS, Chassevent A, Baptista J, Baugh EH, Bier L, Bottani A, Carminho A Rodrigues MT, Conlon C, Fluss J, Guipponi M, Kim CA, Matsumoto N, Person R, Primiano M, Rankin J, Shinawi M, Smith-Hicks C, Telegrafi A, Toy S, Uchiyama Y, Aggarwal V, Goldstein DB, Roche KW, Anyane-Yeboa K.

PIGG variant pathogenicity assessment reveals characteristic features within 19 families.
Genet Med. 2021 Jun 10. (PMID: 34113002)

Tremblay-Laganière C, Maroofian R, Nguyen TTM, Karimiani EG, Kirmani S, Akbar F, Ibrahim S, Afroze B, Doosti M, Ashrafzadeh F, Babaei M, Efthymiou S, Christoforou M, Sultan T, Ladda RL, McLaughlin HM, Truty R, Mahida S, Cohen JS, Baranano K, Ismail FY, Patel MS, Lehman A, Edmondson AC, Nagy A, Walker MA, Mercimek-Andrews S, Maki Y, Sachdev R, Macintosh R, Palmer EE, Mancini GMS, Barakat TS, Steinfeld R, Rüsch CT, Stettner GM, Wagner M, Wortmann SB, Kini U, Brady AF, Stals KL, Ismayilova N, Ellard S, Bernardo D, Nugent K, McLean SD, Antonarakis SE, Houlden H, Kinoshita T, Campeau PM, Murakami Y.

Study of Acute Liver Failure in Children Using Next Generation Sequencing Technology
J Pediatr. 2021 May 21;S0022-3476(21)00491-1.(PMID: 34023347)

Hegarty R, Gibson P, Sambrotta M, Strautnieks S, Foskett P, Ellard S, Baptista J, Lillis S, Bansal S, Vara R, Dhawan A, Grammatikopoulos T, Thompson RJ.

SPEN haploinsufficiency causes a neurodevelopmental disorder overlapping proximal 1p36 deletion syndrome with an episignature of X chromosomes in females.
Am J Hum Genet. 2021 Mar 4;108(3):502-516. (PMID: 33596411)

Radio FC, Pang K, Ciolfi A, Levy MA, Hernández-García A, Pedace L, Pantaleoni F, Liu Z, de Boer E, Jackson A, Bruselles A, McConkey H, Stellacci E, Lo Cicero S, Motta M, Carrozzo R, Dentici ML, McWalter K, Desai M, Monaghan KG, Telegrafi A, Philippe C, Vitobello A, Au M, Grand K, Sanchez-Lara PA, Baez J, Lindstrom K, Kulch P, Sebastian J, Madan-Khetarpal S, Roadhouse C, MacKenzie JJ, Monteleone B, Saunders CJ, Jean Cuevas JK, Cross L, Zhou D, Hartley T, Sawyer SL, Monteiro FP, Secches TV, Kok F, Schultz-Rogers LE, Macke EL, Morava E, Klee EW, Kemppainen J, Iascone M, Selicorni A, Tenconi R, Amor DJ, Pais L, Gallacher L, Turnpenny PD, Stals K, Ellard S, Cabet S, Lesca G, Pascal J, Steindl K, Ravid S, Weiss K, Castle AMR, Carter MT, Kalsner L, de Vries BBA, van Bon BW, Wevers MR, Pfundt R, Stegmann APA, Kerr B, Kingston HM, Chandler KE, Sheehan W, Elias AF, Shinde DN, Towne MC, Robin NH, Goodloe D, Vanderver A, Sherbini O, Bluske K, Hagelstrom RT, Zanus C, Faletra F, Musante L, Kurtz-Nelson EC, Earl RK, Anderlid BM, Morin G, van Slegtenhorst M, Diderich KEM, Brooks AS, Gribnau J, Boers RG, Finestra TR, Carter LB, Rauch A, Gasparini P, Boycott KM, Barakat TS, Graham JM Jr, Faivre L, Banka S, Wang T, Eichler EE, Priolo M, Dallapiccola B, Vissers LELM, Sadikovic B, Scott DA, Holder JL Jr, Tartaglia M.

Biallelic variants in COPB1 cause a novel, severe intellectual disability syndrome with cataracts and variable microcephaly.
Genome Med. 2021 Feb 25;13(1):34. (PMID: 33632302)

Macken WL, Godwin A, Wheway G, Stals K, Nazlamova L, Ellard S, Alfares A, Aloraini T, AlSubaie L, Alfadhel M, Alajaji S, Wai HA, Self J, Douglas AGL, Kao AP, Guille M, Baralle D.

Syndromic disorders caused by gain-of-function variants in KCNH1, KCNK4, and KCNN3-a subgroup of K + channelopathies.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2021 Feb 16. (PMID: 33594261)

Gripp KW, Smithson SF, Scurr IJ, Baptista J, Majumdar A, Pierre G, Williams M, Henderson LB, Wentzensen IM, McLaughlin H, Leeuwen L, Simon MEH, van Binsbergen E, Dinulos MBP, Kaplan JD, McRae A, Superti-Furga A, Good JM, Kutsche K.

Missense substitutions at a conserved 14-3-3 binding site in HDAC4 cause a novel intellectual disability syndrome.
HGG Adv. 2021 Jan 14;2(1):100015. (PMID: 33537682)

Wakeling E, McEntagart M, Bruccoleri M, Shaw-Smith C, Stals KL, Wakeling M, Barnicoat A, Beesley C; DDD Study, Hanson-Kahn AK, Kukolich M, Stevenson DA, Campeau PM, Ellard S, Elsea SH, Yang XJ, Caswell RC.

BICRA, a SWI/SNF Complex Member, Is Associated with BAF-Disorder Related Phenotypes in Humans and Model Organisms.
Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Dec 3;107(6):1096-1112.(PMID: 33232675)

Barish S, Barakat TS, Michel BC, Mashtalir N, Phillips JB, Valencia AM, Ugur B, Wegner J, Scott TM, Bostwick B; Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Murdock DR, Dai H, Perenthaler E, Nikoncuk A, van Slegtenhorst M, Brooks AS, Keren B, Nava C, Mignot C, Douglas J, Rodan L, Nowak C, Ellard S, Stals K, Lynch SA, Faoucher M, Lesca G, Edery P, Engleman KL, Zhou D, Thiffault I, Herriges J, Gass J, Louie RJ, Stolerman E, Washington C, Vetrini F, Otsubo A, Pratt VM, Conboy E, Treat K, Shannon N, Camacho J, Wakeling E, Yuan B, Chen CA, Rosenfeld JA, Westerfield M, Wangler M, Yamamoto S, Kadoch C, Scott DA, Bellen HJ.

Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of IFT81: Associated ciliopathy syndrome.
Am J Med Genet A. 2020 Aug 11.(PMID: 32783357)

Ashraf T, Vaina C, Giri D, Burren CP, James M, Offiah AC, Overton T, Baptista J, Ellard S, Smithson SF.

DLG5 variants are associated with multiple congenital anomalies including ciliopathy phenotypes.
J Med Genet. 2020 Jul 6:jmedgenet-2019-106805.(PMID: 32631816)

Marquez J, Mann N, Arana K, Deniz E, Ji W, Konstantino M, Mis EK, Deshpande C, Jeffries L, McGlynn J, Hugo H, Widmeier E, Konrad M, Tasic V, Morotti R, Baptista J, Ellard S, Lakhani SA, Hildebrandt F, Khokha MK.

A restricted spectrum of missense KMT2D variants cause a multiple malformations disorder distinct from Kabuki syndrome.
Genet Med. 2020 May;22(5):867-877.(PMID: 31949313)

Cuvertino S, Hartill V, Colyer A, Garner T, Nair N, Al-Gazali L, Canham N, Faundes V, Flinter F, Hertecant J, Holder-Espinasse M, Jackson B, Lynch SA, Nadat F, Narasimhan VM, Peckham M, Sellers R, Seri M, Montanari F, Southgate L, Squeo GM, Trembath R, van Heel D, Venuto S, Weisberg D, Stals K, Ellard S; Genomics England Research Consortium, Barton A, Kimber SJ, Sheridan E, Merla G, Stevens A, Johnson CA, Banka S.

Recurrent De Novo NAHR Reciprocal Duplications in the ATAD3 Gene Cluster Cause a Neurogenetic Trait with Perturbed Cholesterol and Mitochondrial Metabolism.
Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Feb 6;106(2):272-279. (PMID: 32004445)

Gunning AC, Strucinska K, Muñoz Oreja M, Parrish A, Caswell R, Stals KL, Durigon R, Durlacher-Betzer K, Cunningham MH, Grochowski CM, Baptista J, Tysoe C, Baple E, Lahiri N, Homfray T, Scurr I, Armstrong C, Dean J, Fernandez Pelayo U, Jones AWE, Taylor RW, Misra VK, Yoon WH, Wright CF, Lupski JR, Spinazzola A, Harel T, Holt IJ, Ellard S.

Compound heterozygous PKD1L1 variants in a family with two fetuses affected by heterotaxy and complex CHD.
Eur J Med Genet. 2020 Feb;63(2):103657. (PMID: 31026592)

Le Fevre A, Baptista J, Ellard S, Overton T, Oliver A, Gradhand E, Scurr I.

De Novo Mutations in EIF2B1 Affecting eIF2 Signaling Cause Neonatal/Early Onset Diabetes and Transient Hepatic Dysfunction.
Diabetes. 2019 Dec 27. (PMID: 31882561)
De Franco E, Caswell R, Johnson MB, Wakeling MN, Zung A, Dũng VC, Bích Ngọc CT, Goonetilleke R, Jury MV, El-Khateeb M, Ellard S, Flanagan SE, Ron D, Hattersley AT.

A hypomorphic allele of SLC35D1 results in Schneckenbecken-like dysplasia
Hum Mol Genet. 2019 Nov 1;28(21):3543-3551 (PMID: 31423530)
Rautengarten C, Quarrell OW, Stals K, Caswell RC, De Franco E, Baple E, Burgess N, Jokhi R, Heazlewood JL, Offiah AC, Ebert B, Ellard S.

CAKUT and Autonomic Dysfunction Caused by Acetylcholine Receptor Mutations.
Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Dec 5;105(6):1286-1293. Epub 2019 Nov 7. (PMID: 31708116)

Mann N, Kause F, Henze EK, Gharpure A, Shril S, Connaughton DM, Nakayama M, Klämbt V, Majmundar AJ, Wu CW, Kolvenbach CM, Dai R, Chen J, van der Ven AT, Ityel H, Tooley MJ, Kari JA, Bownass L, El Desoky S, De Franco E, Shalaby M, Tasic V, Bauer SB, Lee RS, Beckel JM, Yu W, Mane SM, Lifton RP, Reutter H, Ellard S, Hibbs RE, Kawate T, Hildebrandt F.

Recurrent TTN metatranscript-only c.39974-11T>G splice variant associated with autosomal recessive arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and myopathy.
Hum Mutat. 2019 Oct 29. [Epub ahead of print] (PMID: 31660661)

Bryen SJ, Ewans LJ, Pinner J, MacLennan SC, Donkervoort S, Castro D, Töpf A, O’Grady G, Cummings B, Chao KR, Weisburd B, Francioli L, Faiz F, Bournazos AM, Hu Y, Grosmann C, Malicki DM, Doyle H, Witting N, Vissing J, Claeys KG, Urankar K, Beleza-Meireles A, Baptista J, Ellard S, Savarese M, Johari M, Vihola A, Udd B, Majumdar A, Straub V, Bönnemann CG, MacArthur DG, Davis MR, Cooper ST.

Mutations in PIGB Cause an Inherited GPI Biosynthesis Defect with an Axonal Neuropathy and Metabolic Abnormality in Severe Cases.
Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Aug 01;105(2):384-394. (PMID: 31256876)

Murakami Y, Nguyen TTM, Baratang N, Raju PK, Knaus A, Ellard S, Jones G, Lace B, Rousseau J, Ajeawung NF, Kamei A, Minase G, Akasaka M, Araya N, Koshimizu E, van den Ende J, Erger F, Altmüller J, Krumina Z, Strautmanis J, Inashkina I, Stavusis J, El-Gharbawy A, Sebastian J, Puri RD, Kulshrestha S, Verma IC, Maier EM, Haack TB, Israni A, Baptista J, Gunning A, Rosenfeld JA, Liu P, Joosten M, Rocha ME, Hashem MO, Aldhalaan HM, Alkuraya FS, Miyatake S, Matsumoto N, Krawitz PM, Rossignol E, Kinoshita T, Campeau PM.

NAD(P)HX dehydratase (NAXD) deficiency: a novel neurodegenerative disorder exacerbated by febrile illnesses.
Brain. 2019 Jan 1;142(1):50-58. (PMID: 30576410)

Van Bergen NJ, Guo Y, Rankin J, Paczia N, Becker-Kettern J, Kremer LS, Pyle A, Conrotte JF, Ellaway C, Procopis P, Prelog K, Homfray T, Baptista J, Baple E, Wakeling M, Massey S, Kay DP, Shukla A, Girisha KM, Lewis LES, Santra S, Power R, Daubeney P, Montoya J, Ruiz-Pesini E, Kovacs-Nagy R, Pritsch M, Ahting U, Thorburn DR, Prokisch H, Taylor RW, Christodoulou J, Linster CL, Ellard S, Hakonarson H.

Congenital Titinopathy: Comprehensive characterization and pathogenic insights. 
,Ann Neurol. 2018 Jun;83(6):1105-1124. (PMID: 29691892)
Oates EC, Jones KJ, Donkervoort S, Charlton A, Brammah S, Smith JE 3rd, Ware, JS, Yau KS, Swanson LC, Whiffin N, Peduto AJ, Bournazos A, Waddell LB, Farrar MA, Sampaio HA, Teoh HL, Lamont PJ, Mowat D, Fitzsimons RB, Corbett AJ, Ryan MM, O’Grady GL, Sandaradura SA, Ghaoui R, Joshi H, Marshall JL, Nolan MA, Kaur S, Punetha J, Töpf A, Harris E, Bakshi M, Genetti CA, Marttila M, Werlauff U, Streichenberger N, Pestronk A, Mazanti I, Pinner JR, Vuillerot C, Grosmann C, Camacho A, Mohassel P, Leach ME, Foley AR, Bharucha-Goebel D, Collins J, Connolly AM, Gilbreath HR, Iannaccone ST, Castro D, Cummings BB, Webster RI, Lazaro L, Vissing J, Coppens S, Deconinck N, Luk HM, Thomas NH, Foulds NC, Illingworth MA, Ellard S, McLean CA, Phadke R, Ravenscroft G, Witting N, Hackman P, Richard I, Cooper ST, Kamsteeg EJ, Hoffman EP, Bushby K, Straub V, Udd B, Ferreiro A, North KN, Clarke NF, Lek M, Beggs AH, Bönnemann CG, MacArthur DG, Granzier H, Davis MR, Laing NG.

TRPV6 compound heterozygous variants result in impaired placental calcium transport and severe undermineralization and dysplasia of the fetal skeleton.
Am J Med Genet A. 2018 Sep;176(9):1950-1955. (PMID: 30144375)
Burren CP, Caswell R, Castle B, Welch CR, Hilliard TN, Smithson SF, Ellard S.

Hemizygous UBA5 missense mutation unmasks recessive disorder in a patient with infantile-onset encephalopathy, acquired microcephaly, small cerebellum, movement disorder and severe neurodevelopmental delay.
Eur J Med Genet. 2019 Feb;62(2):97-102. (PMID: 29902590)
Low KJ, Baptista J, Babiker M, Caswell R, King C, Ellard S, Scurr I.

Phenotype of CNTNAP1: a study of patients demonstrating a specific severe congenital hypomyelinating neuropathy with survival beyond infancy.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2018 Jun;26(6):796-807. (PMID: 29511323)
Low KJ, Stals K, Caswell R, Wakeling M, Clayton-Smith J, Donaldson A, Foulds N, Norman A, Splitt M, Urankar K, Vijayakumar K, Majumdar A, Study D, Ellard S, Smithson SF.

WNT Signaling Perturbations Underlie the Genetic Heterogeneity of Robinow Syndrome.
Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Jan 4;102(1):27-43. (PMID: 29276006)
JJ White, JF Mazzeu, Z Coban-Akdemir, Y Bayram, V Bahrambeigi, A Hoischen, BWM van Bon, A Gezdirici, EY Gulec, F Ramond, R Touraine, J Thevenon, M Shinawi, E Beaver, J Heeley, J Hoover-Fong, CD Durmaz, HG Karabulut, E Marzioglu-Ozdemir, A Cayir, MB Duz, M Seven, S Price, BM Ferreira, AM Vianna-Morgante, S Ellard, A Parrish, K Stals, J Flores-Daboub, SN Jhangiani, RA Gibbs; Baylor-Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics, HG Brunner, VR Sutton, JR Lupski, CMB Carvalho.

Diagnosis of lethal or prenatal-onset autosomal recessive disorders by parental exome sequencing.
Prenat Diagn. 2018 Jan;38(1):33-43. (PMID: 29096039)
Stals KL, Wakeling M, Baptista J, Caswell R, Parrish A, Rankin J, Tysoe C, Jones G, Gunning AC, Lango Allen H, Bradley L, Brady AF, Carley H, Carmichael J, Castle B, Cilliers D, Cox H, Deshpande C, Dixit A, Eason J, Elmslie F, Fry AE, Fryer A, Holder M, Homfray T, Kivuva E, McKay V, Newbury-Ecob R, Parker M, Savarirayan R, Searle C, Shannon N, Shears D, Smithson S, Thomas E, Turnpenny PD, Varghese V, Vasudevan P, Wakeling E, Baple EL, Ellard S

An exome sequencing strategy to diagnose lethal autosomal recessive disorders.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2015 Mar;23(3):401-4.  (PMID: 24961629Ellard S, Kivuva E, Turnpenny P, Stals K, Johnson M, Xie W, Caswell R, Lango Allen H.

Next generation sequencing of chromosomal rearrangements in patients with split-hand/split-foot malformation provides evidence for DYNC1I1 exonic enhancers of DLX5/6 expression in humans.
J Med Genet. 2014 Apr;51(4):264-7. (
PMID: 24459211)
Lango Allen H, Caswell R, Xie W, Xu X, Wragg C, Turnpenny PD, Turner CL, Weedon MN, Ellard S.

Exome sequencing identifies a DYNC1H1 mutation in a large pedigree with dominant axonal Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
Am J Hum Genet. 2011 Aug 12;89(2):308-12. (
PMID: 21820100)
Weedon MN, Hastings R, Caswell R, Xie W, Paszkiewicz K, Antoniadi T, Williams M, King C, Greenhalgh L, Newbury-Ecob R, Ellard S.

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