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An oocyte-specific Cas9-expressing mouse for germline CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing. 

Lanza DG, Mao J, Lorenzo I, Liao L, Seavitt JR, Ljungberg MC, Simpson EM, DeMayo FJ, Heaney JD. Genesis. 2024 April; 62(2): e23589. PMID: 38523431.

De novo variants in FRYL are associated with developmental delay, intellectual disability, and dysmorphic features.

Pan X, Tao AM, Lu S, Ma M, Hannan SB, Slaugh R, Drewes Williams S, O'Grady L, Kanca O, Person R, Carter MT, Platzer K, Schnabel F, Abou Jamra R, Roberts AE, Newburger JW, Revah-Politi A, Granadillo JL, Stegmann APA, Sinnema M, Accogli A, Salpietro V, Capra V, Ghaloul-Gonzalez L, Brueckner M, Simon MEH, Sweetser DA, Glinton KE, Kirk SE; Baylor College of Medicine Center for Precision Medicine Models; Wangler MF, Yamamoto S, Chung WK, Bellen HJ. Am J Hum Genet. 2024 Mar 6:S0002-9297(24)00039-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.02.007. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38479391

Heterozygous MAP3K20 variants cause ectodermal dysplasia, craniosynostosis, sensorineural hearing loss, and limb anomalies.

Brooks D, Burke E, Lee S, Eble TN, O'Leary M, Osei-Owusu I, Rehm HL, Dhar SU, Emrick L, Bick D, Nehrebecky M, Macnamara E, Casas-Alba D, Armstrong J, Prat C, Martínez-Monseny AF, Palau F, Liu P, Adams D; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; Lalani S, Rosenfeld JA, Burrage LC. Hum Genet. 2024 Mar 7. doi: 10.1007/s00439-024-02657-2. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38451290

Allelic strengths of encephalopathy-associated UBA5 variants correlate between in vivo and in vitro assays.

Pan X, Alvarez AN, Ma M, Lu S, Crawford MW, Briere LC, Kanca O, Yamamoto S, Sweetser DA, Wilson JL, Napier RJ, Pruneda JN, Bellen HJ. Elife. 2023 Dec 11;12:RP89891. doi: 10.7554/eLife.89891. PMID: 38079206

Gain-of-function and loss-of-function variants in GRIA3 lead to distinct neurodevelopmental phenotypes.

Rinaldi B, Bayat A, Zachariassen LG, Sun JH, Ge YH, Zhao D, Bonde K, Madsen LH, Awad IAA, Bagiran D, Sbeih A, Shah SM, El-Sayed S, Lyngby SM, Pedersen MG, Stenum-Berg C, Walker LC, Krey I, Delahaye-Duriez A, Emrick LT, Sully K, Murali CN, Burrage LC, Plaud Gonzalez JA, Parnes M, Friedman J, Isidor B, Lefranc J, Redon S, Heron D, Mignot C, Keren B, Fradin M, Dubourg C, Mercier S, Besnard T, Cogne B, Deb W, Rivier C, Milani D, Bedeschi MF, Di Napoli C, Grilli F, Marchisio P, Koudijs S, Veenma D, Argilli E, Lynch SA, Au PYB, Ayala Valenzuela FE, Brown C, Masser-Frye D, Jones M, Patron Romero L, Li WL, Thorpe E, Hecher L, Johannsen J, Denecke J, McNiven V, Szuto A, Wakeling E, Cruz V, Sency V, Wang H, Piard J, Kortüm F, Herget T, Bierhals T, Condell A, Zeev BB, Kaur S, Christodoulou J, Piton A, Zweier C, Kraus C, Micalizzi A, Trivisano M, Specchio N, Lesca G, Møller RS, Tümer Z, Musgaard M, Gerard B, Lemke JR, Shi YS, Kristensen AS. Brain. 2023 Dec 1:awad403. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad403. Online ahead of print. PMID: 38038360

Promoting validation and cross-phylogenetic integration in model organism research

Keith C. Cheng, Rebecca D. Burdine, Mary E. Dickinson, Stephen C. Ekker, Alex Y. Lin, K. C. Kent Lloyd, Cathleen M. Lutz, Calum A. MacRae, John H. Morrison, David H. O'Connor, John H. Postlethwait, Crystal D. Rogers, Susan Sanchez, Julie H. Simpson, William S. Talbot, Douglas C. Wallace, Jill M. Weimer, Hugo J. Bellen. Dis Model Mech. 2022 Sep 1; 15(9): dmm049600. Published online 2022 Sep 20. doi: 10.1242/dmm.049600 PMCID: PMC9531892

Drosophila as a Model for Infectious Diseases

Harnish JM, Link N, Yamamoto S. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Mar 8;22(5):2724. doi: 10.3390/ijms22052724. PMID: 33800390; PMCID: PMC7962867.

RNA Sequencing as a Diagnostic Tool

Ketkar S, Burrage LC, Lee B. JAMA. 2023 Jan 3;329(1):85-86. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.22843. PMID: 36525251

A global Slc7a7 knockout mouse model demonstrates characteristic phenotypes of human lysinuric protein intolerance

Stroup BM, Marom R, Li X, Hsu CW, Chang CY, Truong LD, Dawson B, Grafe I, Chen Y, Jiang MM, Lanza D, Green JR, Sun Q, Barrish JP, Ani S, Christiansen AE, Seavitt JRDickinson ME, Kheradmand F, Heaney JDLee BBurrage LC. Hum Mol Genet. 2020 Aug 3;29(13):2171-2184. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa107. PMID: 32504080; PMCID: PMC7399531.

De Novo Variants in CDK19 Are Associated with a Syndrome Involving Intellectual Disability and Epileptic Encephalopathy

Chung HL, Mao X, Wang H, Park YJ, Marcogliese PC, Rosenfeld JA, Burrage LC, Liu P, Murdock DRYamamoto SWangler MF; Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Chao HT, Long H, Feng L, Bacino CA, Bellen HJ, Xiao B. Am J Hum Genet. 2020 May 7;106(5):717-725. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.04.001. Epub 2020 Apr 23. PMID: 32330417; PMCID: PMC7212481.

Loss- or Gain-of-Function Mutations in ACOX1 Cause Axonal Loss via Different Mechanisms

Chung HL, Wangler MF, Marcogliese PC, Jo J, Ravenscroft TA, Zuo Z, Duraine L, Sadeghzadeh S, Li-Kroeger D, Schmidt RE, Pestronk A, Rosenfeld JA, Burrage L, Herndon MJ, Chen S; Members of Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Shillington A, Vawter-Lee M, Hopkin R, Rodriguez-Smith J, Henrickson M, Lee B, Moser AB, Jones RO, Watkins P, Yoo T, Mar S, Choi M, Bucelli RC, Yamamoto S, Lee HK, Prada CE, Chae JH, Vogel TP, Bellen HJ. Neuron. 2020 May 20;106(4):589-606.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.02.021. Epub 2020 Mar 12. PMID: 32169171; PMCID: PMC7289150.

BICRA, a SWI/SNF Complex Member, Is Associated with BAF-Disorder Related Phenotypes in Humans and Model Organisms

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. Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Dec 3;107(6):1096-1112. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2020.11.003. Epub 2020 Nov 23. PMID: 33232675; PMCID: PMC7820627.

De novo mutations in TOMM70, a receptor of the mitochondrial import translocase, cause neurological impairment

Dutta D, Briere LC, Kanca O, Marcogliese PC, Walker MA, High FA, Vanderver A, Krier J, Carmichael N, Callahan C, Taft RJ, Simons C, Helman G, Network UD, Wangler MFYamamoto S, Sweetser DA, Bellen HJ. Hum Mol Genet. 2020 Jun 3;29(9):1568-1579. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa081. PMID: 32356556; PMCID: PMC7268787.

Disruptive mutations in TANC2 define a neurodevelopmental syndrome associated with psychiatric disorders

Guo H, Bettella E, Marcogliese PC, Zhao R, Andrews JC, Nowakowski TJ, Gillentine MA, Hoekzema K, Wang T, Wu H, Jangam S, Liu C, Ni H, Willemsen MH, van Bon BW, Rinne T, Stevens SJC, Kleefstra T, Brunner HG, Yntema HG, Long M, Zhao W, Hu Z, Colson C, Richard N, Schwartz CE, Romano C, Castiglia L, Bottitta M, Dhar SU, Erwin DJ, Emrick L, Keren B, Afenjar A, Zhu B, Bai B, Stankiewicz P, Herman K; University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics, Mercimek-Andrews S, Juusola J, Wilfert AB, Abou Jamra R, Büttner B, Mefford HC, Muir AM, Scheffer IE, Regan BM, Malone S, Gecz J, Cobben J, Weiss MM, Waisfisz Q, Bijlsma EK, Hoffer MJV, Ruivenkamp CAL, Sartori S, Xia F, Rosenfeld JA, Bernier RA, Wangler MFYamamoto S, Xia K, Stegmann APA, Bellen HJ, Murgia A, Eichler EE. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 15;10(1):4679. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12435-8. PMID: 31616000; PMCID: PMC6794285.

De novo missense variant in the GTPase effector domain (GED) of DNM1L leads to static encephalopathy and seizures

Assia Batzir N, Bhagwat PK, Eble TN, Liu P, Eng CM, Elsea SH, Robak LA, Scaglia F, Goldman AM, Dhar SU, Wangler MF. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2019 Jun 3;5(3):a003673. doi:10.1101/mcs.a003673. PMID: 30850373; PMCID: PMC6549558.

Bi-allelic Variants in TONSL Cause SPONASTRIME Dysplasia and a Spectrum of Skeletal Dysplasia Phenotypes

Burrage LC, Reynolds JJ, Baratang NV, Phillips JB, Wegner J, McFarquhar A, Higgs MR, Christiansen AE, Lanza DGSeavitt JR, Jain M, Li X, Parry DA, Raman V, Chitayat D, Chinn IK, Bertuch AA, Karaviti L, Schlesinger AE, Earl D, Bamshad M, Savarirayan R, Doddapaneni H, Muzny D, Jhangiani SN, Eng CM, Gibbs RA, Bi W, Emrick L, Rosenfeld JA, Postlethwait J, Westerfield M, Dickinson ME, Beaudet AL, Ranza E, Huber C, Cormier-Daire V, Shen W, Mao R, Heaney JD, Orange JS; University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics; Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Bertola D, Yamamoto GL, Baratela WAR, Butler MG, Ali A, Adeli M, Cohn DH, Krakow D, Jackson AP, Lees M, Offiah AC, Carlston CM, Carey JC, Stewart GS, Bacino CA, Campeau PM, Lee B. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Mar 7;104(3):422-438. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.01.007. Epub 2019 Feb 14. PMID: 30773277; PMCID: PMC6408318.

De Novo Variants in WDR37 Are Associated with Epilepsy, Colobomas, Dysmorphism, Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, and Cerebellar Hypoplasia

Kanca O, Andrews JC, Lee PT, Patel C, Braddock SR, Slavotinek AM, Cohen JS, Gubbels CS, Aldinger KA, Williams J, Indaram M, Fatemi A, Yu TW, Agrawal PB, Vezina G, Simons C, Crawford J, Lau CC; Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Chung WK, Markello TC, Dobyns WB, Adams DR, Gahl WA, Wangler MFYamamoto SBellen HJ, Malicdan MCV. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Sep 5;105(3):672-674. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.07.017. Erratum for: Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Aug 1;105(2):413-424. PMID: 31491411; PMCID: PMC6732524.

Mismatch repair gene mutations lead to lynch syndrome colorectal cancer in rhesus macaques

Dray BK, Raveendran M, Harris RA, Benavides F, Gray SB, Perez CJ, McArthur MJ, Williams LE, Baze WB, Doddapaneni H, Muzny DM, Abee CR, Rogers J. Genes Cancer. 2018 Mar;9(3-4):142-152. doi: 10.18632/genesandcancer.170. PMID: 30108684; PMCID: PMC6086002.

Clinically severe CACNA1A alleles affect synaptic function and neurodegeneration differentially

Luo X, Rosenfeld JA, Yamamoto S, Harel T, Zuo Z, Hall M, Wierenga KJ, Pastore MT, Bartholomew D, Delgado MR, Rotenberg J, Lewis RA, Emrick L, Bacino CA, Eldomery MK, Coban Akdemir Z, Xia F, Yang Y, Lalani SR, Lotze T, Lupski JR, Lee BBellen HJWangler MF; Members of the UDN. PLoS Genet. 2017 Jul 24;13(7):e1006905. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006905. PMID: 28742085; PMCID: PMC5557584.

Biallelic Variants in OTUD6B Cause an Intellectual Disability Syndrome Associated with Seizures and Dysmorphic Features

Santiago-Sim T, Burrage LC, Ebstein F, Tokita MJ, Miller M, Bi W, Braxton AA, Rosenfeld JA, Shahrour M, Lehmann A, Cogné B, Küry S, Besnard T, Isidor B, Bézieau S, Hazart I, Nagakura H, Immken LL, Littlejohn RO, Roeder E; EuroEPINOMICS RES Consortium Autosomal Recessive working group, S. Hande Caglayan, Kara B, Hardies K, Weckhuysen S, May P, Lemke JR, Elpeleg O, Abu- Libdeh B, James KN, Silhavy JL, Issa MY, Zaki MS, Gleeson JG, Seavitt JRDickinson ME, Ljungberg MC, Wells S, Johnson SJ, Teboul L, Eng CM, Yang Y, Kloetzel PM, Heaney JD, Walkiewicz MA. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 Apr 6;100(4):676-688. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.03.001. Epub 2017 Mar 23. PMID: 28343629; PMCID: PMC5384096.