2024

DITTO: An Explainable Machine-Learning Model for Transcript-Specific Variant Pathogenicity Prediction
Tarun Karthik Kumar Mamidi, Brandon M. Wilk, Manavalan Gajapathy, Elizabeth A. Worthey
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Critical assessment of variant prioritization methods for rare disease diagnosis within the rare genomes project
Sarah L. Stenton, Melanie C. O’Leary, Gabrielle Lemire, Grace E. VanNoy, Stephanie DiTroia, Vijay S. Ganesh, Emily Groopman, Emily O’Heir, Brian Mangilog, Ikeoluwa Osei-Owusu, Lynn S. Pais, Jillian Serrano, Moriel Singer-Berk, Ben Weisburd, Michael W. Wilson, Christina Austin-Tse, Marwa Abdelhakim, Azza Althagafi, Giulia Babbi, Riccardo Bellazzi, Samuele Bovo, Maria Giulia Carta, Rita Casadio, Pieter-Jan Coenen, Federica De Paoli, Matteo Floris, Manavalan Gajapathy, Robert Hoehndorf, Julius O. B. Jacobsen, Thomas Joseph, Akash Kamandula, Panagiotis Katsonis, Cyrielle Kint, Olivier Lichtarge, Ivan Limongelli, Yulan Lu, Paolo Magni, Tarun Karthik Kumar Mamidi, Pier Luigi Martelli, Marta Mulargia, Giovanna Nicora, Keith Nykamp, Vikas Pejaver, Yisu Peng, Thi Hong Cam Pham, Maurizio S. Podda, Aditya Rao, Ettore Rizzo, Vangala G. Saipradeep, Castrense Savojardo, Peter Schols, Yang Shen, Naveen Sivadasan, Damian Smedley, Dorian Soru, Rajgopal Srinivasan, Yuanfei Sun, Uma Sunderam, Wuwei Tan, Naina Tiwari, Xiao Wang, Yaqiong Wang, Amanda Williams, Elizabeth A. Worthey, Rujie Yin, Yuning You, Daniel Zeiberg, Susanna Zucca, Constantina Bakolitsa, Steven E. Brenner, Stephanie M. Fullerton, Predrag Radivojac, Heidi L. Rehm, Anne O’Donnell-Luria
Genotype–Phenotype Correlation in Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Evidence for a Mild Phenotype Associated with Splicing Variants Leading to In-Frame Skipping of NF1 Exon 24 [19a]
Yunjia Chen, Yulong Fu, Magdalena Koczkowska, Tom Callens, Alicia Gomes, Jian Liu, William Bradley, Bryce Brown, Brandon Shaw, Daniela D’Agostino, Chuanhua Fu, Deeann Wallis
The landscape of SETBP1 gene expression and transcription factor activity across human tissues
Jordan H. Whitlock, Elizabeth J. Wilk, Timothy C. Howton, Amanda D. Clark, Brittany N. Lasseigne
Sex-biased gene expression and gene-regulatory networks of sex-biased adverse event drug targets and drug metabolism genes
Jennifer L. Fisher, Amanda D. Clark, Emma F. Jones, Brittany N. Lasseigne
BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40360-023-00727-1
Lack of Nuclear Localization of the Creb3l1 Transcription Factor Causes Defects in Caudal Fin Bifurcation in Zebrafish Danio rerio
Peyton E VanWinkle, Bridge Wynn, Eunjoo Lee, Tomasz J Nawara, Holly Thomas, John M Parant, Cecilia Alvarez, Rosa Serra, Elizabeth Sztul
Cells Tissues Organs, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1159/000540103
Disruption of the creb3l1 gene causes defects in caudal fin regeneration and patterning in zebrafish Danio rerio
Peyton E. VanWinkle, Eunjoo Lee, Bridge Wynn, Tomasz J. Nawara, Holly Thomas, John Parant, Cecilia Alvarez, Rosa Serra, Elizabeth Sztul
Developmental Dynamics, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.726
Standardization of zebrafish drug testing parameters for muscle diseases
Muthukumar Karuppasamy, Katherine G. English, Clarissa A. Henry, M. Chiara Manzini, John M. Parant, Melissa A. Wright, Avnika A. Ruparelia, Peter D. Currie, Vandana A. Gupta, James J. Dowling, Lisa Maves, Matthew S. Alexander
Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.050339
Precision preclinical modeling to advance cancer treatment
David H Gutmann, Jesse S Boehm, Elinor K Karlsson, Eric Padron, Mukund Seshadri, Deeann Wallis, Joshua C Snyder
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djae249
Rab35 Is Required for Embryonic Development and Kidney and Ureter Homeostasis through Regulation of Epithelial Cell Junctions
Kelsey R. Clearman, Napassawon Timpratoom, Dharti Patel, Addison B. Rains, Courtney J. Haycraft, Mandy J. Croyle, Jeremy F. Reiter, Bradley K. Yoder
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1681/asn.0000000000000335
NF1 mutation-driven neuronal hyperexcitability sets a threshold for tumorigenesis and therapeutic targeting of murine optic glioma
Corina Anastasaki, Jit Chatterjee, Joshua P Koleske, Yunqing Gao, Stephanie L Bozeman, Chloe M Kernan, Lara I Marco Y Marquez, Ji-Kang Chen, Caitlin E Kelly, Connor J Blair, Dennis J Dietzen, Robert A Kesterson, David H Gutmann
Riding the gene therapy wave: challenges and opportunities for rare disease patients and clinicians
Matthew S. Alexander, Nathaniel H. Robin
Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1097/mop.0000000000001402
Streamlining Drug Repurposing: Optimizing Candidate Prioritization to Facilitate Clinical Adoption and Minimize Attrition Rates
Emma Jones, Sasha Taluri, Elizabeth Wilk, Brittany Lasseigne
DOI

2023

Ten simple rules for using public biological data for your research
Vishal H. Oza, Jordan H. Whitlock, Elizabeth J. Wilk, Angelina Uno-Antonison, Brandon Wilk, Manavalan Gajapathy, Timothy C. Howton, Austyn Trull, Lara Ianov, Elizabeth A. Worthey, Brittany N. Lasseigne
PLOS Computational Biology, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010749
QuaC: A Pipeline Implementing Quality Control Best Practices for Genome Sequencing and Exome Sequencing Data
Manavalan Gajapathy, Brandon M Wilk, Elizabeth A Worthey
Journal of Open Source Software, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05313
DOI
Rosalution: Supporting data accessibility, integration, curation, interoperability, and reuse for precision animal modeling
Angelina E Uno-Antonison, Rabab Fatima, James Scherer, Alexander Moss, Donna Brown, Aleksandra Foksinska, Manavalan Gajapathy, Elizabeth J Wilk, Brittany N Lasseigne, Elizabeth Worthey
Journal of Open Source Software, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05443
DOI
CoSIA: an R Bioconductor package for CrOss Species Investigation and Analysis
Anisha Haldar, Vishal H Oza, Nathaniel S DeVoss, Amanda D Clark, Brittany N Lasseigne
Cell‐type‐specific gene expression and regulation in the cerebral cortex and kidney of atypical Setbp1S858R Schinzel Giedion Syndrome mice
Jordan H. Whitlock, Tabea M. Soelter, Timothy C. Howton, Elizabeth J. Wilk, Vishal H. Oza, Brittany N. Lasseigne
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcmm.18001
Prioritized polycystic kidney disease drug targets and repurposing candidates from pre-cystic and cystic mouse Pkd2 model gene expression reversion
Elizabeth J. Wilk, Timothy C. Howton, Jennifer L. Fisher, Vishal H. Oza, Ryan T. Brownlee, Kasi C. McPherson, Hannah L. Cleary, Bradley K. Yoder, James F. George, Michal Mrug, Brittany N. Lasseigne
Molecular Medicine, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1186/s10020-023-00664-z
Evaluating cancer cell line and patient‐derived xenograft recapitulation of tumor and non‐diseased tissue gene expression profiles in silico
Avery S. Williams, Elizabeth J. Wilk, Jennifer L. Fisher, Brittany N. Lasseigne
Cancer Reports, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.1874
The landscape of SETBP1 gene expression and transcription factor activity across human tissues
Jordan H. Whitlock, Elizabeth J. Wilk, Timothy C. Howton, Amanda D. Clark, Brittany N. Lasseigne
DOCK3 regulates normal skeletal muscle regeneration and glucose metabolism
Adrienne Samani, Muthukumar Karuppasamy, Katherine G. English, Colin A. Siler, Yimin Wang, Jeffrey J. Widrick, Matthew S. Alexander
The FASEB Journal, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.202300386rr
CINmetrics: an R package for analyzing copy number aberrations as a measure of chromosomal instability
Vishal H. Oza, Jennifer L. Fisher, Roshan Darji, Brittany N. Lasseigne
Restoration of brain dystrophin using tricyclo-DNA ASOs restores neurobehavioral deficits in DMD mice
Muthukumar Karuppasamy, Matthew S. Alexander
Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtn.2023.04.007
Sex-biased gene expression and gene-regulatory networks of sex-biased adverse event drug targets and drug metabolism genes
Jennifer L. Fisher, Amanda D. Clark, Emma F. Jones, Brittany N. Lasseigne
Accuracy and processing time of kidney volume measurement methods in rodents polycystic kidney disease models: superiority of semiautomated kidney segmentation
Mary Claire Doss, Sean Mullen, Ronald Roye, Juling Zhou, Phillip Chumley, Elias Mrug, Darren P. Wallace, Feng Qian, Peter C. Harris, Bradley K. Yoder, Harrison Kim, Michal Mrug
American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00295.2022
DOCK3-Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorder—Clinical Features and Molecular Basis
Matthew S. Alexander, Milen Velinov

2022

DOCKopathies: A systematic review of the clinical pathologies associated with human DOCK pathogenic variants
Adrienne Samani, Katherine G. English, Michael A. Lopez, Camille L. Birch, Donna M. Brown, Gurpreet Kaur, Elizabeth A. Worthey, Matthew S. Alexander
Human Mutation, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.24398
Variable phenotypes and penetrance between and within different zebrafish ciliary transition zone mutants
Jun Wang, Holly R. Thomas, Robert G. Thompson, Stephanie C. Waldrep, Joseph Fogerty, Ping Song, Zhang Li, Yongjie Ma, Peu Santra, Jonathan D. Hoover, Nan Cher Yeo, Iain A. Drummond, Bradley K. Yoder, Jeffrey D. Amack, Brian Perkins, John M. Parant
Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.049568
Reduced sister chromatid cohesion acts as a tumor penetrance modifier
Jun Wang, Holly R. Thomas, Yu Chen, Stefanie M. Percival, Stephanie C. Waldrep, Ryne C. Ramaker, Robert G. Thompson, Sara J. Cooper, Zechen Chong, John M. Parant
Analysis of patient‐specific NF1 variants leads to functional insights for Ras signaling that can impact personalized medicine
Ashlee Long, Hui Liu, Jian Liu, Michael Daniel, David M. Bedwell, Bruce Korf, Robert A. Kesterson, Deeann Wallis
Human Mutation, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.24290
Functional characterization and potential therapeutic avenues for variants in the NTRK2 gene causing developmental and epileptic encephalopathies
Ashlee Long, Andrew Crouse, Robert A. Kesterson, Matthew Might, Deeann Wallis
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.b.32882
Targeted exon skipping of NF1 exon 17 as a therapeutic for neurofibromatosis type I
André Leier, Marc Moore, Hui Liu, Michael Daniel, Alexis M. Hyde, Ludwine Messiaen, Bruce R. Korf, Jamuna Selvakumaran, Lukasz Ciszewski, Laura Lambert, Jeremy Foote, Margaret R. Wallace, Robert A. Kesterson, George Dickson, Linda Popplewell, Deeann Wallis
Molecular Therapy – Nucleic Acids, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtn.2022.03.011
Next-Generation SINE Compound KPT−8602 Ameliorates Dystrophic Pathology in Zebrafish and Mouse Models of DMD
Katherine G. English, Andrea L. Reid, Adrienne Samani, Gerald J. F. Coulis, S. Armando Villalta, Christopher J. Walker, Sharon Tamir, Matthew S. Alexander
The precision medicine process for treating rare disease using the artificial intelligence tool mediKanren
Aleksandra Foksinska, Camerron M. Crowder, Andrew B. Crouse, Jeff Henrikson, William E. Byrd, Gregory Rosenblatt, Michael J. Patton, Kaiwen He, Thi K. Tran-Nguyen, Marissa Zheng, Stephen A. Ramsey, Nada Amin, John Osborne, UAB Precision Medicine Institute, Matthew Might, Stephen Barnes, William E. Byrd, Mei-Jan Chen, Andrew B. Crouse, Camerron M. Crowder, Mary E. Crumbley, Madeline Eckenrode, Crayton A. Fargason, Nathaniel Fehrmann, Aleksandra Foksinska, Kaiwen He, Forest Huls, Matthew Jarrell, Lindsay Jenkins, Meg McCalley, Matthew Might, Tamsyn Osborn, Michael J. Patton, Elizabeth Pollard, Gregory Rosenblatt, Sienna Rucka, Nicholas T. Southern, Thi K. Tran-Nguyen, Jillian Tinglin, Jordan H. Whitlock
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.910216

2021

Evolutionarily conserved genetic interactions between nphp-4 and bbs-5 mutations exacerbate ciliopathy phenotypes
Melissa R Bentley-Ford, Melissa LaBonty, Holly R Thomas, Courtney J Haycraft, Mikyla Scott, Cameron LaFayette, Mandy J Croyle, Reagan S Andersen, John M Parant, Bradley K Yoder
Cystin genetic variants cause autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease associated with altered Myc expression
Chaozhe Yang, Naoe Harafuji, Amber K. O’Connor, Robert A. Kesterson, Jacob A. Watts, Amar J. Majmundar, Daniela A. Braun, Monkol Lek, Kristen M. Laricchia, Hanan M. Fathy, Shrikant Mane, Shirlee Shril, Friedhelm Hildebrandt, Lisa M. Guay-Woodford
Scientific Reports, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97046-4
Puma, noxa, p53, and p63 differentially mediate stress pathway induced apoptosis
Jun Wang, Holly R. Thomas, Zhang Li, Nan Cher (Florence) Yeo, Hannah E. Scott, Nghi Dang, Mohammed Iqbal Hossain, Shaida A. Andrabi, John M. Parant
Cell Death & Disease, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41419-021-03902-6
Aberrant regulation of a poison exon caused by a non-coding variant in a mouse model of Scn1a-associated epileptic encephalopathy
Yuliya Voskobiynyk, Gopal Battu, Stephanie A. Felker, J. Nicholas Cochran, Megan P. Newton, Laura J. Lambert, Robert A. Kesterson, Richard M. Myers, Gregory M. Cooper, Erik D. Roberson, Gregory S. Barsh
Genotype–phenotype correlations and novel molecular insights into the DHX30-associated neurodevelopmental disorders
Ilaria Mannucci, Nghi D. P. Dang, Hannes Huber, Jaclyn B. Murry, Jeff Abramson, Thorsten Althoff, Siddharth Banka, Gareth Baynam, David Bearden, Ana Beleza-Meireles, Paul J. Benke, Siren Berland, Tatjana Bierhals, Frederic Bilan, Laurence A. Bindoff, Geir Julius Braathen, Øyvind L. Busk, Jirat Chenbhanich, Jonas Denecke, Luis F. Escobar, Caroline Estes, Julie Fleischer, Daniel Groepper, Charlotte A. Haaxma, Maja Hempel, Yolanda Holler-Managan, Gunnar Houge, Adam Jackson, Laura Kellogg, Boris Keren, Catherine Kiraly-Borri, Cornelia Kraus, Christian Kubisch, Gwenael Le Guyader, Ulf W. Ljungblad, Leslie Manace Brenman, Julian A. Martinez-Agosto, Matthew Might, David T. Miller, Kelly Q. Minks, Billur Moghaddam, Caroline Nava, Stanley F. Nelson, John M. Parant, Trine Prescott, Farrah Rajabi, Hanitra Randrianaivo, Simone F. Reiter, Janneke Schuurs-Hoeijmakers, Perry B. Shieh, Anne Slavotinek, Sarah Smithson, Alexander P. A. Stegmann, Kinga Tomczak, Kristian Tveten, Jun Wang, Jordan H. Whitlock, Christiane Zweier, Kirsty McWalter, Jane Juusola, Fabiola Quintero-Rivera, Utz Fischer, Nan Cher Yeo, Hans-Jürgen Kreienkamp, Davor Lessel
Mechanics of dystrophin deficient skeletal muscles in very young mice and effects of age
Michael A. Lopez, Sherina Bontiff, Mary Adeyeye, Aziz I. Shaibani, Matthew S. Alexander, Shari Wynd, Aladin M. Boriek
American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00155.2019
A ciliopathy complex builds distal appendages to initiate ciliogenesis
Dhivya Kumar, Addison Rains, Vicente Herranz-Pérez, Quanlong Lu, Xiaoyu Shi, Danielle L. Swaney, Erica Stevenson, Nevan J. Krogan, Bo Huang, Christopher Westlake, Jose Manuel Garcia-Verdugo, Bradley K. Yoder, Jeremy F. Reiter
Journal of Cell Biology, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202011133
A mouse model of BBS identifies developmental and homeostatic effects of BBS5 mutation and identifies novel pituitary abnormalities
Melissa R Bentley-Ford, Staci E Engle, Kelsey R Clearman, Courtney J Haycraft, Reagan S Andersen, Mandy J Croyle, Addison B Rains, Nicolas F Berbari, Bradley K Yoder
Human Molecular Genetics, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab039
ATXN10 Is Required for Embryonic Heart Development and Maintenance of Epithelial Cell Phenotypes in the Adult Kidney and Pancreas
Melissa R. Bentley-Ford, Reagan S. Andersen, Mandy J. Croyle, Courtney J. Haycraft, Kelsey R. Clearman, Jeremy B. Foote, Jeremy F. Reiter, Bradley K. Yoder
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2021.705182
Restoration of Normal NF1 Function with Antisense Morpholino Treatment of Recurrent Pathogenic Patient-Specific Variant c.1466A>G; p.Y489C
Elias K. Awad, Marc Moore, Hui Liu, Lukasz Ciszewski, Laura Lambert, Bruce R. Korf, Linda Popplewell, Robert A. Kesterson, Deeann Wallis
Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11121320

2020

DOCK3 is a dosage-sensitive regulator of skeletal muscle and Duchenne muscular dystrophy-associated pathologies
Andrea L Reid, Yimin Wang, Adrienne Samani, Rylie M Hightower, Michael A Lopez, Shawn R Gilbert, Lara Ianov, David K Crossman, Louis J Dell’Italia, Douglas P Millay, Thomas van Groen, Ganesh V Halade, Matthew S Alexander
Human Molecular Genetics, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddaa173
BBSome Component BBS5 Is Required for Cone Photoreceptor Protein Trafficking and Outer Segment Maintenance
Katie L. Bales, Melissa R. Bentley, Mandy J. Croyle, Robert A. Kesterson, Bradley K. Yoder, Alecia K. Gross
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.61.10.17