• Biallelic Hypomorphic Mutations In A Linear Deubiquitinase Define Otulipenia, An Early-Onset Autoinflammatory Disease 

      Zhou, Qing; Yu, Xiaomin; Demirkaya, Erkan; Deuitch, Natalie; Stone, Deborah; Tsai, Wanxia Li; Kuehn, Hye Sun; Wang, Hongying; Yang, Dan; Park, Yong Hwan; Ombrello, Amanda K.; Blake, Mary; Romeo, Tina; Remmers, Elaine F.; Chae, Jae Jin; Mullikin, James C.; Guzel, Ferhat; Milner, Joshua D.; Boehm, Manfred; Rosenzweig, Sergio D.; Gadina, Massimo; Welch, Steven B.; Ozen, Seza; Topaloglu, Rezan; Abinun, Mario; Kastner, Daniel L.; Aksentijevich, Ivona (Natl Acad Sciences, 2016)
      Systemic autoinflammatory diseases are caused by mutations in genes that function in innate immunity. Here, we report an autoinflammatory disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in OTULIN (FAM105B), encoding a ...
    • Disruption Of A Long-Range Cis-Acting Regulator For Shh Causes Preaxial Polydactyly 

      Lettice, LA; Horikoshi, T; Heaney, SJH; van Baren, MJ; van der Linde, HC; Breedveld, GJ; Joosse, M; Akarsu, N; Oostra, BA; Endo, N; Shibata, M; Suzuki, M; Takahashi, E; Shinka, T; Nakahori, Y; Ayusawa, D; Nakabayashi, K; Scherer, SW; Heutink, P; Hill, RE; Noji, S (Natl Acad Sciences, 2002)
      Preaxial polydactyly (PPD) is a common limb malformation in human. A number of polydactylous mouse mutants indicate that misexpression of Shh is a common requirement for generating extra digits. Here we identify a translocation ...
    • Dysregulation of Caldag-Gefi and Caldag-Gefii Predicts the Severity of Motor Side-Effects Induced By Anti-Parkinsonian Therapy 

      Crittenden, Jill R.; Cantuti-Castelvetri, Ippolita; Saka, Esen; Keller-McGandy, Christine E.; Hernandez, Ledia F.; Kett, Lauren R.; Young, Anne B.; Standaert, David G.; Graybiel, Ann M. (Natl Acad Sciences, 2009)
      Voluntary movement difficulties in Parkinson's disease are initially relieved by L-DOPA therapy, but with disease progression, the repeated L-DOPA treatments can produce debilitating motor abnormalities known as L-DOPA-induced ...
    • Erionite Exposure In North Dakota And Turkish Villages With Mesothelioma 

      Carbone, Michele; Baris, Y. Izzettin; Bertino, Pietro; Brass, Brian; Comertpay, Sabahattin; Dogan, A. Umran; Gaudino, Giovanni; Jube, Sandro; Kanodia, Shreya; Partridge, Charles R.; Pass, Harvey I.; Rivera, Zeyana S.; Steele, Ian; Tuncer, Murat; Way, Steven; Yang, Haining; Miller, Aubrey (Natl Acad Sciences, 2011)
      Exposure to erionite, an asbestos-like mineral, causes unprecedented rates of malignant mesothelioma (MM) mortality in some Turkish villages. Erionite deposits are present in at least 12 US states. We investigated whether ...
    • Genetic Diagnosis By Whole Exome Capture And Massively Parallel Dna Sequencing 

      Choi, Murim; Scholl, Ute I.; Ji, Weizhen; Liu, Tiewen; Tikhonova, Irina R.; Zumbo, Paul; Nayir, Ahmet; Bakkaloglu, Aysin; Ozen, Seza; Sanjad, Sami; Nelson-Williams, Carol; Farhi, Anita; Mane, Shrikant; Lifton, Richard P. (Natl Acad Sciences, 2009)
      Protein coding genes constitute only approximately 1% of the human genome but harbor 85% of the mutations with large effects on disease-related traits. Therefore, efficient strategies for selectively sequencing complete ...
    • Hla-Drb1*11 And Variants Of The Mhc Class Ii Locus Are Strong Risk Factors For Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis 

      Ombrello, Michael J.; Remmers, Elaine F.; Tachmazidou, Ioanna; Grom, Alexei; Foell, Dirk; Haas, Johannes-Peter; Martini, Alberto; Gattorno, Marco; Ozen, Seza; Prahalad, Sampath; Zeft, Andrew S.; Bohnsack, John F.; Mellins, Elizabeth D.; Ilowite, Norman T.; Russo, Ricardo; Len, Claudio; Hilario, Maria Odete E.; Oliveira, Sheila; Yeung, Rae S. M.; Rosenberg, Alan; Wedderburn, Lucy R.; Anton, Jordi; Schwarz, Tobias; Hinks, Anne; Bilginer, Yelda; Park, Jane; Cobb, Joanna; Satorius, Colleen L.; Han, Buhm; Baskin, Elizabeth; Signa, Sara; Duerr, Richard H.; Achkar, J. P.; Kamboh, M. Ilyas; Kaufman, Kenneth M.; Kottyan, Leah C.; Pinto, Dalila; Scherer, Stephen W.; Alarcon-Riquelme, Marta E.; Docampo, Elisa; Estivill, Xavier; Guel, Ahmet; de Bakker, Paul I. W.; Raychaudhuri, Soumya; Langefeld, Carl D.; Thompson, Susan; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Thomson, Wendy; Kastner, Daniel L.; Woo, Patricia (Natl Acad Sciences, 2015)
      Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) is an often severe, potentially life-threatening childhood inflammatory disease, the pathophysiology of which is poorly understood. To determine whether genetic variation within ...
    • Mechanism For Survival Of Homozygous Nonsense Mutations In The Tumor Suppressor Gene Brca1 

      Seo, Aaron; Steinberg-Shemer, Orna; Unal, Sule; Casadei, Silvia; Walsh, Tom; Gumruk, Fatma; Shalev, Stavit; Shimamura, Akiko; Akarsu, Nurten Ayse; Tamary, Hannah; King, Mary-Claire (Natl Acad Sciences, 2018)
      BRCA1 is essential for repair of DNA double-strand breaks by homologous recombination, and hence for survival. Complete loss of its function is lethal during early embryonic development. Patients who are compound heterozygous ...
    • Mitochondrial Serine Protease Htra2 P.G399S In A Kindred With Essential Tremor And Parkinson Disease 

      Gulsuner, Hilal Unal; Gulsuner, Suleyman; Mercan, Fatma Nazli; Onat, Onur Emre; Walsh, Tom; Shahin, Hashem; Lee, Ming K.; Dogu, Okan; Kansu, Tulay; Topaloglu, Haluk; Elibol, Bulent; Akbostanci, Cenk; King, Mary-Claire; Ozcelik, Tayfun; Tekinay, Ayse B. (Natl Acad Sciences, 2014)
      Essential tremor is one of the most frequent movement disorders of humans and can be associated with substantial disability. Some but not all persons with essential tremor develop signs of Parkinson disease, and the ...
    • Mutations In The Chloride-Bicarbonate Exchanger Gene Ae1 Cause Autosomal Dominant But Not Autosomal Recessive Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis 

      Karet, FE; Gainza, FJ; Gyory, AZ; Unwin, RJ; Wrong, O; Tanner, MJA; Nayir, A; Alpay, H; Santos, F; Hulton, SA; Bakkaloglu, A; Ozen, Seza; Cunningham, MJ; di Pietro, A; Walker, WG; Lifton, RP (Natl Acad Sciences, 1998)
      Primary distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is characterized by reduced ability to acidify urine, variable hyperchloremic hypokalemic metabolic acidosis, nephrocalcinosis, and nephrolithiasis. Kindreds showing either ...
    • Mutations In The Very Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor Vldlr Cause Cerebellar Hypoplasia And Quadrupedal Locomotion In Humans 

      Ozcelik, Tayfun; Akarsu, Nurten; Uz, Elif; Caglayan, Safak; Gulsuner, Suleyman; Onat, Onur Emre; Tan, Meliha; Tan, Uner (Natl Acad Sciences, 2008)
      Quadrupedal gait in humans, also known as Unertan syndrome, is a rare phenotype associated with dysarthric speech, mental retardation, and varying degrees of cerebrocerebellar hypoplasia. Four large consanguineous kindreds ...