Publications

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Karaca E, Posey JE, Bostwick B, Liu P, Gezdirici A, Yesil G, Akdemir ZCoban, Bayram Y, Harms FL, Meinecke P, Alawi M, Bacino CA, V Sutton R, Kortüm F, Lupski JR. Biallelic and De Novo Variants in DONSON Reveal a Clinical Spectrum of Cell Cycle-opathies with Microcephaly, Dwarfism and Skeletal Abnormalities. Am J Med Genet A. 2019 ;179(10):2056-2066.

Punetha J, Karaca E, Gezdirici A, Lamont RE, Pehlivan D, Marafi D, Appendino JP, Hunter JV, Akdemir ZC, Fatih JM, Jhangiani SN, Gibbs RA, A Innes M, Posey JE, Lupski JR. Biallelic CACNA2D2 variants in epileptic encephalopathy and cerebellar atrophy. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2019 ;6(8):1395-1406.

Marafi D, Mitani T, Isikay S, Hertecant J, Almannai M, Manickam K, Jamra RAbou, El-Hattab AW, Rajah J, Fatih JM, Du H, Karaca E, Bayram Y, Punetha J, Rosenfeld JA, Jhangiani SN, Boerwinkle E, Akdemir ZC, Erdin S, Hunter JV, Gibbs RA, Pehlivan D, Posey JE, Lupski JR. Biallelic GRM7 variants cause epilepsy, microcephaly, and cerebral atrophy. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2020 ;7(5):610-627.

Siekierska A, Stamberger H, Deconinck T, Oprescu SN, Partoens M, Zhang Y, Sourbron J, Adriaenssens E, Mullen P, Wiencek P, Hardies K, Lee J-S, Giong H-K, Distelmaier F, Elpeleg O, Helbig KL, Hersh J, Isikay S, Jordan E, Karaca E, Kecskes A, Lupski JR, Kovacs-Nagy R, May P, Narayanan V, Pendziwiat M, Ramsey K, Rangasamy S, Shinde DN, Spiegel R, Timmerman V, von Spiczak S, Helbig I, Weckhuysen S, Francklyn C, Antonellis A, de Witte P, De Jonghe P. Biallelic VARS variants cause developmental encephalopathy with microcephaly that is recapitulated in vars knockout zebrafish. Nat Commun. 2019 ;10(1):708.

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Van Bergen NJ, Guo Y, Al-Deri N, Lipatova Z, Stanga D, Zhao S, Murtazina R, Gyurkovska V, Pehlivan D, Mitani T, Gezdirici A, Antony J, Collins F, Willis MJH, Akdemir ZHCoban, Liu P, Punetha J, Hunter JV, Jhangiani SN, Fatih JM, Rosenfeld JA, Posey JE, Gibbs RA, Karaca E, Massey S, Ranasinghe TG, Sleiman P, Troedson C, Lupski JR, Sacher M, Segev N, Hakonarson H, Christodoulou J. Deficiencies in vesicular transport mediated by TRAPPC4 are associated with severe syndromic intellectual disability. Brain. 2020 ;143(1):112-130.

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Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Harel T, Gambin T, Kousi M, Griffin LB, Francescatto L, Ozes B, Karaca E, Jhangiani SN, Bainbridge MN, Lawson KS, Pehlivan D, Okamoto Y, Withers M, Mancias P, Slavotinek A, Reitnauer PJ, Goksungur MT, Shy M, Crawford TO, Koenig M, Willer J, Flores BN, Pediaditrakis I, Us O, Wiszniewski W, Parman Y, Antonellis A, Muzny DM, Katsanis N, Battaloglu E, Boerwinkle E, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR. Exome Sequence Analysis Suggests that Genetic Burden Contributes to Phenotypic Variability and Complex Neuropathy. Cell Rep. 2015 ;12(7):1169-83.

Charng W-L, Karaca E, Akdemir ZCoban, Gambin T, Atik MM, Gu S, Posey JE, Jhangiani SN, Muzny DM, Doddapaneni H, Hu J, Boerwinkle E, Gibbs RA, Rosenfeld JA, Cui H, Xia F, Manickam K, Yang Y, Faqeih EA, Asmari AAl, Saleh MAM, El-Hattab AW, Lupski JR. Exome sequencing in mostly consanguineous Arab families with neurologic disease provides a high potential molecular diagnosis rate. BMC Med Genomics. 2016 ;9(1):42.

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Karaca E, Harel T, Pehlivan D, Jhangiani SN, Gambin T, Akdemir ZCoban, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Erdin S, Bayram Y, Campbell IM, Hunter JV, Atik MM, Van Esch H, Yuan B, Wiszniewski W, Isikay S, Yesil G, Yuregir OO, Bozdogan STug, Aslan H, Aydin H, Tos T, Aksoy A, De Vivo DC, Jain P, B Geckinli B, Sezer O, Gul D, Durmaz B, Cogulu O, Ozkinay F, Topcu V, Candan S, Cebi AHan, Ikbal M, Gulec EYilmaz, Gezdirici A, Koparir E, Ekici F, Coskun S, Cicek S, Karaer K, Koparir A, Duz MBugrahan, Kirat E, Fenercioglu E, Ulucan H, Seven M, Guran T, Elcioglu N, Yildirim MSelman, Aktas D, Alikaşifoğlu M, Ture M, Yakut T, Overton JD, Yuksel A, Ozen M, Muzny DM, Adams DR, Boerwinkle E, Chung WK, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR. Genes that Affect Brain Structure and Function Identified by Rare Variant Analyses of Mendelian Neurologic Disease. Neuron. 2015 ;88(3):499-513.

Pehlivan D, Bayram Y, Gunes N, Akdemir ZCoban, Shukla A, Bierhals T, Tabakci B, Sahin Y, Gezdirici A, Fatih JM, Gulec EYilmaz, Yesil G, Punetha J, Ocak Z, Grochowski CM, Karaca E, Albayrak HMutlu, Radhakrishnan P, Erdem HBagis, Sahin I, Yildirim T, Bayhan IA, Bursali A, Elmas M, Yuksel Z, Ozdemir O, Silan F, Yildiz O, Yesilbas O, Isikay S, Balta B, Gu S, Jhangiani SN, Doddapaneni H, Hu J, Muzny DM, Boerwinkle E, Gibbs RA, Tsiakas K, Hempel M, Girisha KMohan, Gul D, Posey JE, Elcioglu NH, Tuysuz B, Lupski JR. The Genomics of Arthrogryposis, a Complex Trait: Candidate Genes and Further Evidence for Oligogenic Inheritance. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 ;105(1):132-150.

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Mitani T, Isikay S, Gezdirici A, Gulec EYilmaz, Punetha J, Fatih JM, Herman I, Akay G, Du H, Calame DG, Ayaz A, Tos T, Yesil G, Aydin H, Geckinli B, Elcioglu N, Candan S, Sezer O, Erdem HBagis, Gul D, Demiral E, Elmas M, Yesilbas O, Kilic B, Gungor S, Ceylan AC, Bozdogan S, Ozalp O, Cicek S, Aslan H, Yalcintepe S, Topcu V, Bayram Y, Grochowski CM, Jolly A, Dawood M, Duan R, Jhangiani SN, Doddapaneni H, Hu J, Muzny DM, Marafi D, Akdemir ZCoban, Karaca E, Carvalho CMB, Gibbs RA, Posey JE, Lupski JR, Pehlivan D. High prevalence of multilocus pathogenic variation in neurodevelopmental disorders in the Turkish population. Am J Hum Genet. 2021 ;108(10):1981-2005.

Gambin T, Akdemir ZC, Yuan B, Gu S, Chiang T, Carvalho CMB, Shaw C, Jhangiani S, Boone PM, Eldomery MK, Karaca E, Bayram Y, Stray-Pedersen A, Muzny DM, Charng W-L, Bahrambeigi V, Belmont JW, Boerwinkle E, Beaudet AL, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR. Homozygous and hemizygous CNV detection from exome sequencing data in a Mendelian disease cohort. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 ;45(4):1633-1648.

Dias CM, Punetha J, Zheng C, Mazaheri N, Rad A, Efthymiou S, Petersen A, Dehghani M, Pehlivan D, Partlow JN, Posey JE, Salpietro V, Gezdirici A, Malamiri RAzizi, Menabawy NMAl, Selim LA, Mehrjardi MYahya Vahi, Banu S, Polla DL, Yang E, Varaghchi JRezazadeh, Mitani T, van Beusekom E, Najafi M, Sedaghat A, Keller-Ramey J, Durham L, Coban-Akdemir Z, Karaca E, Orlova V, Schaeken LLM, Sherafat A, Jhangiani SN, Stanley V, Shariati G, Galehdari H, Gleeson JG, Walsh CA, Lupski JR, Seiradake E, Houlden H, van Bokhoven H, Maroofian R. Homozygous Missense Variants in NTNG2, Encoding a Presynaptic Netrin-G2 Adhesion Protein, Lead to a Distinct Neurodevelopmental Disorder. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 ;105(5):1048-1056.

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Rainger J, Pehlivan D, Johansson S, Bengani H, Sanchez-Pulido L, Williamson KA, Ture M, Barker H, Rosendahl K, Spranger J, Horn D, Meynert A, Floyd JAB, Prescott T, Anderson CA, Rainger JK, Karaca E, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Jhangiani S, Muzny DM, Seawright A, Soares DC, Kharbanda M, Murday V, Finch A, Gibbs RA, van Heyningen V, Taylor MS, Yakut T, Knappskog PM, Hurles ME, Ponting CP, Lupski JR, Houge G, FitzPatrick DR. Monoallelic and biallelic mutations in MAB21L2 cause a spectrum of major eye malformations. Am J Hum Genet. 2014 ;94(6):915-23.

Harel T, Yesil G, Bayram Y, Coban-Akdemir Z, Charng W-L, Karaca E, Asmari AAl, Eldomery MK, Hunter JV, Jhangiani SN, Rosenfeld JA, Pehlivan D, El-Hattab AW, Saleh MA, LeDuc CA, Muzny DM, Boerwinkle E, Gibbs RA, Chung WK, Yang Y, Belmont JW, Lupski JR. Monoallelic and Biallelic Variants in EMC1 Identified in Individuals with Global Developmental Delay, Hypotonia, Scoliosis, and Cerebellar Atrophy. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 ;98(3):562-570.

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Nistala H, Dronzek J, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Chim SMan, Rajamani S, Nuwayhid S, Delgado D, Burke E, Karaca E, Franklin MC, Sarangapani P, Podgorski M, Tang Y, Dominguez MG, Withers M, Deckelbaum RA, Scheonherr CJ, Gahl WA, Malicdan MC, Zambrowicz B, Gale NW, Gibbs RA, Chung WK, Lupski JR, Economides AN. NMIHBA results from hypomorphic PRUNE1 variants that lack short-chain exopolyphosphatase activity. Hum Mol Genet. 2021 ;29(21):3516-3531.

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Paine I, Posey JE, Grochowski CM, Jhangiani SN, Rosenheck S, Kleyner R, Marmorale T, Yoon M, Wang K, Robison R, Cappuccio G, Pinelli M, Magli A, Akdemir ZCoban, Hui J, Yeung WLan, K Y Wong B, Ortega L, Bekheirnia MReza, Bierhals T, Hempel M, Johannsen J, Santer R, Aktas D, Alikaşifoğlu M, Bozdogan S, Aydin H, Karaca E, Bayram Y, Ityel H, Dorschner M, White JJ, Wilichowski E, Wortmann SB, Casella EB, Kitajima JPaulo, Kok F, Monteiro F, Muzny DM, Bamshad M, Gibbs RA, V Sutton R, Van Esch H, Brunetti-Pierri N, Hildebrandt F, Brautbar A, Van den Veyver IB, Glass I, Lessel D, Lyon GJ, Lupski JR. Paralog Studies Augment Gene Discovery: DDX and DHX Genes. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 ;105(2):302-316.

Karaca E, Posey JE, Akdemir ZCoban, Pehlivan D, Harel T, Jhangiani SN, Bayram Y, Song X, Bahrambeigi V, Yuregir OOzalp, Bozdogan S, Yesil G, Isikay S, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR. Phenotypic expansion illuminates multilocus pathogenic variation. Genet Med. 2018 ;20(12):1528-1537.

Zollo M, Ahmed M, Ferrucci V, Salpietro V, Asadzadeh F, Carotenuto M, Maroofian R, Al-Amri A, Singh R, Scognamiglio I, Mojarrad M, Musella L, Duilio A, Di Somma A, Karaca E, Rajab A, Al-Khayat A, Mohapatra TMohan, Eslahi A, Ashrafzadeh F, Rawlins LE, Prasad R, Gupta R, Kumari P, Srivastava M, Cozzolino F, Rai SKumar, Monti M, Harlalka GV, Simpson MA, Rich P, Al-Salmi F, Patton MA, Chioza BA, Efthymiou S, Granata F, Di Rosa G, Wiethoff S, Borgione E, Scuderi C, Mankad K, Hanna MG, Pucci P, Houlden H, Lupski JR, Crosby AH, Baple EL. PRUNE is crucial for normal brain development and mutated in microcephaly with neurodevelopmental impairment. Brain. 2017 ;140(4):940-952.

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Karaca E, Yuregir OO, Bozdogan ST, Aslan H, Pehlivan D, Jhangiani SN, Akdemir ZC, Gambin T, Bayram Y, Atik MM, Erdin S, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR. Rare variants in the notch signaling pathway describe a novel type of autosomal recessive Klippel-Feil syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2015 ;167A(11):2795-9.

Bayram Y, White JJ, Elcioglu N, Cho MT, Zadeh N, Gedikbasi A, Palanduz S, Ozturk S, Cefle K, Kasapcopur O, Akdemir ZCoban, Pehlivan D, Begtrup A, Carvalho CMB, Paine ISophie, Mentes A, Bektas-Kayhan K, Karaca E, Jhangiani SN, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR. REST Final-Exon-Truncating Mutations Cause Hereditary Gingival Fibromatosis. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 ;101(1):149-156.

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Bayram Y, Pehlivan D, Karaca E, Gambin T, Jhangiani SN, Erdin S, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Wiszniewski W, Muzny DM, Elcioglu NH, M Yildirim S, Bozkurt B, Zamani AGul, Boerwinkle E, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR. Whole exome sequencing identifies three novel mutations in ANTXR1 in families with GAPO syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2014 ;164A(9):2328-34.

Ramasamy R, M Bakırcıoğlu E, Cengiz C, Karaca E, Scovell J, Jhangiani SN, Akdemir ZC, Bainbridge M, Yu Y, Huff C, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR, Lamb DJ. Whole-exome sequencing identifies novel homozygous mutation in NPAS2 in family with nonobstructive azoospermia. Fertil Steril. 2015 ;104(2):286-91.