Publications
A2ML1 and otitis media: novel variants, differential expression, and relevant pathways. Hum Mutat 40, 1156-1171 (2019).
Adenylate cyclase 1 (ADCY1) mutations cause recessive hearing impairment in humans and defects in hair cell function and hearing in zebrafish. Hum Mol Genet 23, 3289-98 (2014).
Autosomal-Recessive Hearing Impairment Due to Rare Missense Variants within S1PR2. Am J Hum Genet 98, 331-8 (2016).
Challenges and solutions for gene identification in the presence of familial locus heterogeneity. Eur J Hum Genet 23, 1207-15 (2015).
Collapsed haplotype pattern method for linkage analysis of next-generation sequence data. Eur J Hum Genet 23, 1739-43 (2015).
Confirmation of the Role of DHX38 in the Etiology of Early-Onset Retinitis Pigmentosa. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 59, 4552-4557 (2018).
COPA mutations impair ER-Golgi transport and cause hereditary autoimmune-mediated lung disease and arthritis. Nat Genet 47, 654-60 (2015).
Delineation of a Human Mendelian Disorder of the DNA Demethylation Machinery: TET3 Deficiency. Am J Hum Genet 106, 234-245 (2020).
Disparities in discovery of pathogenic variants for autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing impairment by ancestry. Eur J Hum Genet 27, 1456-1465 (2019).
Effect of catechol-o-methyltransferase-gene (COMT) variants on experimental and acute postoperative pain in 1,000 women undergoing surgery for breast cancer. Anesthesiology 119, 1422-33 (2013).
Exome sequencing reveals predominantly de novo variants in disorders with intellectual disability (ID) in the founder population of Finland. Hum Genet (2021). doi:10.1007/s00439-021-02268-1
Expansion of the spectrum of ITGB6-related disorders to adolescent alopecia, dentogingival abnormalities and intellectual disability. Eur J Hum Genet 24, 1223-7 (2016).
FAM92A Underlies Nonsyndromic Postaxial Polydactyly in Humans and an Abnormal Limb and Digit Skeletal Phenotype in Mice. J Bone Miner Res 34, 375-386 (2019).
A fast and noise-resilient approach to detect rare-variant associations with deep sequencing data for complex disorders. Genet Epidemiol 36, 675-85 (2012).
FOXE3 mutations predispose to thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. J Clin Invest 126, 948-61 (2016).
Generation of sequence-based data for pedigree-segregating Mendelian or Complex traits. Bioinformatics 31, 3706-8 (2015).
The Genetic Basis of Mendelian Phenotypes: Discoveries, Challenges, and Opportunities. Am J Hum Genet 97, 199-215 (2015).
GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION MAPPING AND RARE ALLELES: FROM POPULATION GENOMICS TO PERSONALIZED MEDICINE - Session Introduction. Pac Symp Biocomput 74-5 (2011).
A genome-wide association study of congenital cardiovascular left-sided lesions shows association with a locus on chromosome 20. Hum Mol Genet 25, 2331-2341 (2016).
Global genetic insight contributed by consanguineous Pakistani families segregating hearing loss. Hum Mutat 40, 53-72 (2019).
Hearing impairment locus heterogeneity and identification of PLS1 as a new autosomal dominant gene in Hungarian Roma. Eur J Hum Genet 27, 869-878 (2019).
A homozygous missense variant in type I keratin KRT25 causes autosomal recessive woolly hair. J Med Genet 52, 676-80 (2015).
Identification of ASAH1 as a susceptibility gene for familial keloids. Eur J Hum Genet 25, 1155-1161 (2017).
LTBP3 Pathogenic Variants Predispose Individuals to Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections. Am J Hum Genet 102, 706-712 (2018).
MendelProb: probability and sample size calculations for Mendelian studies of exome and whole genome sequence data. Bioinformatics 35, 529-531 (2019).
Mitral regurgitation as a phenotypic manifestation of nonphotosensitive trichothiodystrophy due to a splice variant in MPLKIP. BMC Med Genet 17, 13 (2016).
Multi-omic studies on missense PLG variants in families with otitis media. Sci Rep 10, 15035 (2020).
Mutational Spectrum of MYO15A and the Molecular Mechanisms of DFNB3 Human Deafness. Hum Mutat 37, 991-1003 (2016).
Mutations in KARS, encoding lysyl-tRNA synthetase, cause autosomal-recessive nonsyndromic hearing impairment DFNB89. Am J Hum Genet 93, 132-40 (2013).
Mutations in TBC1D24, a gene associated with epilepsy, also cause nonsyndromic deafness DFNB86. Am J Hum Genet 94, 144-52 (2014).
Next generation analytic tools for large scale genetic epidemiology studies of complex diseases. Genet Epidemiol 36, 22-35 (2012).
Novel candidate genes and variants underlying autosomal recessive neurodevelopmental disorders with intellectual disability. Hum Genet 137, 735-752 (2018).
Novel digenic inheritance of PCDH15 and USH1G underlies profound non-syndromic hearing impairment. BMC Med Genet 19, 122 (2018).
A novel homozygous variant in BMPR1B underlies acromesomelic dysplasia Hunter-Thompson type. Ann Hum Genet 82, 129-134 (2018).
Novel mutations in the genes TGM1 and ALOXE3 underlying autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis. Int J Dermatol 55, 524-30 (2016).
Otitis media susceptibility and shifts in the head and neck microbiome due to variants. J Med Genet (2020). doi:10.1136/jmedgenet-2020-106844
Perrault syndrome is caused by recessive mutations in CLPP, encoding a mitochondrial ATP-dependent chambered protease. Am J Hum Genet 92, 605-13 (2013).
Power analysis and sample size estimation for sequence-based association studies. Bioinformatics 30, 2377-8 (2014).
Rare-variant extensions of the transmission disequilibrium test: application to autism exome sequence data. Am J Hum Genet 94, 33-46 (2014).
Recurrent gain-of-function mutation in PRKG1 causes thoracic aortic aneurysms and acute aortic dissections. Am J Hum Genet 93, 398-404 (2013).
RNF213 rare variants in an ethnically diverse population with Moyamoya disease. Stroke 45, 3200-7 (2014).
SEQCHIP: a powerful method to integrate sequence and genotype data for the detection of rare variant associations. Bioinformatics 28, 1745-51 (2012).
Sequence variants in nine different genes underlying rare skin disorders in 10 consanguineous families. Int J Dermatol 56, 1406-1413 (2017).