Brigham Genomic Medicine Publications

Selected Publications

Cassa CA, Smith SE, Docken W, Hoffman E, McLaughlin H, Chun S, Leshchiner I, Miraoui H, Raychaudhuri S, Frank NY, Wilson BJ, Sunyaev SR, Maas RL; Brigham Genomic Medicine, Vuzman D. An argument for early genomic sequencing in atypical cases: a WISP3 variant leads to diagnosis of progressive pseudorheumatoid arthropathy of childhood. 
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2015 Oct 22. pii: kev367. PMID: 26493744.

Chopra SS, Leshchiner I, Duzkale H, McLaughlin H, Giovanni M, Zhang C, Stitziel N, Fingeroth J, Joyce RM, Lebo M, Rehm H, Vuzman D, Maas R, Sunyaev SR, Murray M, Cassa CA. Inherited CHST11/MIR3922 deletion is associated with a novel recessive syndrome presenting with skeletal malformation and malignant lymphoproliferative disease.
 Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2015 Sep;3(5):413-23. doi: 10.1002/mgg3.152. Epub 2015 May 10. PMID: 26436107.

Coste B, Houge G, Murray MF, Stitziel N, Bandell M, Giovanni MA, Philippakis A, Hoischen A, Riemer G, Steen U, Steen VM, Mathur J, Cox J, Lebo M, Rehm H, Weiss ST, Wood JN, Maas RL, Sunyaev SR, Patapoutian A. Gain-of-function mutations in the mechanically activated ion channel PIEZO2 cause a subtype of Distal Arthrogryposis.
 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 110(12):4667-72 (2013). PubMed PMID:23487782.

Brownstein, C. A., A. H. Beggs, N. Homer, B. Merriman, T. W. Yu, K. C. Flannery, E. T. DeChene, et al. An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results in the CLARITY Challenge. Genome Biology 15 (3): R53. doi:10.1186/gb-2014-15-3-r53.

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