2015
Clinical, Electrodiagnostic, and Genetic Features of Tangier Disease in an Adolescent Girl with Presentation of Peripheral Neuropathy
Per H, Canpolat M, Bayram A, Ulgen E, Baran B, Kardas F, Gumus H, Kumandas S, Bilguvar K, Çağlayan A. Clinical, Electrodiagnostic, and Genetic Features of Tangier Disease in an Adolescent Girl with Presentation of Peripheral Neuropathy. Neuropediatrics 2015, 46: 420-423. PMID: 26479764, DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1565275.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPeripheral neuropathyTangier diseaseLipid electrophoresisHigh-density lipoprotein levelsPlasma high-density lipoprotein levelsCassette transporter 1 (ABCA1) geneWhole-exome sequencingLike neuropathyPediatric patientsFemale patientsHDL cholesterolLipoprotein levelsSystemic findingsHDL levelsDifferential diagnosisAsymptomatic sisterNeuropathyPatientsTransporter 1 geneDiagnostic testsExome sequencingAdolescent girlsDiagnosisGenetic featuresGenetic diagnosis
2014
Homozygous loss of DIAPH1 is a novel cause of microcephaly in humans
Ercan-Sencicek AG, Jambi S, Franjic D, Nishimura S, Li M, El-Fishawy P, Morgan TM, Sanders SJ, Bilguvar K, Suri M, Johnson MH, Gupta AR, Yuksel Z, Mane S, Grigorenko E, Picciotto M, Alberts AS, Gunel M, Šestan N, State MW. Homozygous loss of DIAPH1 is a novel cause of microcephaly in humans. European Journal Of Human Genetics 2014, 23: 165-172. PMID: 24781755, PMCID: PMC4297910, DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.82.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCell divisionFamily-based linkage analysisLinkage analysisRho effector proteinsLinear actin filamentsMaintenance of polarityMitotic cell divisionHigh-throughput sequencingRare genetic variantsHuman neuronal precursor cellsParametric multipoint linkage analysisActivation of GTPNeuronal precursor cellsFormin familyMammalian DiaphanousEffector proteinsMultipoint linkage analysisSpindle formationActin filamentsNonsense alterationWhole-exome sequencingHuman pathologiesNeuroepithelial cellsGenetic variantsHomozygous loss
2013
Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia Pakistani type: Expansion of the phenotype
Tüysüz B, Yılmaz S, Gül E, Kolb L, Bilguvar K, Evliyaoğlu O, Günel M. Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia Pakistani type: Expansion of the phenotype. American Journal Of Medical Genetics Part A 2013, 161: 1300-1308. PMID: 23633440, DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35906.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAbnormalities, MultipleAdolescentAdultCalcification, PhysiologicCodon, NonsenseConsanguinityDehydroepiandrosteroneDehydroepiandrosterone SulfateDwarfismFemaleGenotypeGrowth DisordersHomozygoteHumansMaleMultienzyme ComplexesMusculoskeletal AbnormalitiesOsteochondrodysplasiasPedigreePhenotypeRadiographySequence Analysis, DNASulfate AdenylyltransferaseTurkeyConceptsDHEA sulfate levelsShort femoral neckShort halluxFemale patientsInsulin resistanceFemoral neckPlasma levelsIliac boneTestosterone levelsTurkish patientsCoxa varaPatientsVertebral bodyMetaphyseal abnormalitiesShort statureSkeletal dysplasiaEpiphyseal ossificationHyperandrogenismDysplasiaDehydroepiandrosteroneSulfate levelsTurkish familyNonsense mutationPAPSS2Androstenedione
2012
De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism
Sanders SJ, Murtha MT, Gupta AR, Murdoch JD, Raubeson MJ, Willsey AJ, Ercan-Sencicek AG, DiLullo NM, Parikshak NN, Stein JL, Walker MF, Ober GT, Teran NA, Song Y, El-Fishawy P, Murtha RC, Choi M, Overton JD, Bjornson RD, Carriero NJ, Meyer KA, Bilguvar K, Mane SM, Šestan N, Lifton RP, Günel M, Roeder K, Geschwind DH, Devlin B, State MW. De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism. Nature 2012, 485: 237-241. PMID: 22495306, PMCID: PMC3667984, DOI: 10.1038/nature10945.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2010
L-Histidine Decarboxylase and Tourette's Syndrome
Ercan-Sencicek AG, Stillman AA, Ghosh AK, Bilguvar K, O'Roak BJ, Mason CE, Abbott T, Gupta A, King RA, Pauls DL, Tischfield JA, Heiman GA, Singer HS, Gilbert DL, Hoekstra PJ, Morgan TM, Loring E, Yasuno K, Fernandez T, Sanders S, Louvi A, Cho JH, Mane S, Colangelo CM, Biederer T, Lifton RP, Gunel M, State MW. L-Histidine Decarboxylase and Tourette's Syndrome. New England Journal Of Medicine 2010, 362: 1901-1908. PMID: 20445167, PMCID: PMC2894694, DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa0907006.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRare functional mutationsL-histidine decarboxylaseRate-limiting enzymeHDC geneTwo-generation pedigreeFunctional mutationsStrong genetic contributionHistamine biosynthesisAnalysis of linkageGenetic contributionModel systemRisk allelesDevelopmental neuropsychiatric disordersDecarboxylaseBiosynthesisGenesTourette syndromeMutationsAllelesEnzymeInheritanceNeuropsychiatric disordersPedigree