Selected publications

Retinal disorders

• Lotta LA, Pietzner M, Stewart ID, Wittemans LBL, Li C, Bonelli R, Raffler J, Biggs EK, Oliver-Williams C, Auyeung VPW, Luan J, Wheeler E, Paige E, Surendran P, Michelotti GA, Scott RA, Burgess S, Zuber V, Sanderson E, Koulman A, Imamura F, Forouhi NG, Khaw KT; MacTel Consortium, Griffin JL, Wood AM, Kastenmüller G, Danesh J, Butterworth AS, Gribble FM, Reimann F, Bahlo M, Fauman E, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C.  A cross-platform approach identifies genetic regulators of human metabolism and health. Nat Genet. 2021 Jan;53(1):54-64. PMID 33414548

• Scerri TS, Quaglieri A, Cai C, Zernant J, Matsunami N, Baird L, Scheppke L, Bonelli R, Yannuzzi LA, Friedlander M; MacTel Project Consortium, Egan CA, Fruttiger M, Leppert M, Allikmets R, Bahlo M. Genome-wide analyses identify common variants associated with macular telangiectasia type 2. Nat Genet. 2017 Apr;49(4):559-567. Epub 2017 Feb 27. PMID: 28250457

Speech disorders

• Hildebrand MS, Jackson VE, Scerri TS, Van Reyk O, Coleman M, Braden RO, Turner S, Rigbye KA, Boys A, Barton S, Webster R, Fahey M, Saunders K, Parry-Fielder B, Paxton G, Hayman M, Coman D, Goel H, Baxter A, Ma A, Davis N, Reilly S, Delatycki M, Liégeois FJ, Connelly A, Gecz J, Fisher SE, Amor DJ, Scheffer IE, Bahlo M, Morgan AT. Severe childhood speech disorder: Gene discovery highlights transcriptional dysregulation. Neurology. 2020 May 19;94(20):e2148-e2167. PMID 32345733

Repeat expansion disorders, including methods development

• Bennett MF, Oliver KL, Regan BM, Bellows ST, Schneider AL, Rafehi H, Sikta N, Crompton DE, Coleman M, Hildebrand MS, Corbett MA, Kroes T, Gecz J, Scheffer IE, Berkovic SF, Bahlo M. Familial adult myoclonic epilepsy type 1 SAMD12 TTTCA repeat expansion arose 17,000 years ago and is present in Sri Lankan and Indian families. Eur J Hum Genet. 2020 Jul;28(7):973-978. PMID 32203200

• Rafehi H, Szmulewicz DJ, Pope K, Wallis M, Christodoulou J, White SM, Delatycki MB, Lockhart PJ, Bahlo M. Rapid Diagnosis of Spinocerebellar Ataxia 36 in a three-Generation Family Using Short-Read Whole-Genome Sequencing Data. Mov Disord. 2020 May 14. PMID 32407596

• Corbett MA, Kroes T, Veneziano L, Bennett MF, Florian R, Schneider AL, Coppola A, Licchetta L, Franceschetti S, Suppa A, Wenger A, Mei D, Pendziwiat M, Kaya S, Delledonne M, Straussberg R, Xumerle L, Regan B, Crompton D, van Rootselaar AF, Correll A, Catford R, Bisulli F, Chakraborty S, Baldassari S, Tinuper P, Barton K, Carswell S, Smith M, Berardelli A, Carroll R, Gardner A, Friend KL, Blatt I, Iacomino M, Di Bonaventura C, Striano S, Buratti J, Keren B, Nava C, Forlani S, Rudolf G, Hirsch E, Leguern E, Labauge P, Balestrini S, Sander JW, Afawi Z, Helbig I, Ishiura H, Tsuji S, Sisodiya SM, Casari G, Sadleir LG, van Coller R, Tijssen MAJ, Klein KM, van den Maagdenberg AMJM, Zara F, Guerrini R, Berkovic SF, Pippucci T, Canafoglia L, Bahlo M, Striano P, Scheffer IE, Brancati F, Depienne C, Gecz J. Intronic ATTTC repeat expansions in STARD7 in familial adult myoclonic epilepsy linked to chromosome 2. Nat Commun. 2019 Oct 29;10(1):4920. PMID 31664034

• Rafehi H, Szmulewicz DJ, Bennett MF, Sobreira NLM, Pope K, Smith KR, Gillies G, Diakumis P, Dolzhenko E, Eberle MA, Barcina MG, Breen DP, Chancellor AM, Cremer PD, Delatycki MB, Fogel BL, Hackett A, Halmagyi GM, Kapetanovic S, Lang A, Mossman S, Mu W, Patrikios P, Perlman SL, Rosemergy I, Storey E, Watson SRD, Wilson MA, Zee DS, Valle D, Amor DJ, Bahlo M, Lockhart PJ. Bioinformatics-Based Identification of Expanded Repeats: A Non-reference Intronic Pentamer Expansion in RFC1 Causes CANVAS. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Jul 3;105(1):151-165. PMID 31230722

• Dolzhenko E, Bennett MF, Richmond PA, Trost B, Chen S, van Vugt JJFA, Nguyen C, Narzisi G, Gainullin VG, Gross AM, Lajoie BR, Taft RJ, Wasserman WW, Scherer SW, Veldink JH, Bentley DR, Yuen RKC, Bahlo M, Eberle MA. ExpansionHunter Denovo: a computational method for locating known and novel repeat expansions in short-read sequencing data. Genome Biol. 2020 Apr 28;21(1):102. PMID 32345345

• Tankard RM, Bennett MF, Degorski P, Delatycki MB, Lockhart PJ, Bahlo M. Detecting Expansions of Tandem Repeats in Cohorts Sequenced with Short-Read Sequencing Data. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Dec 6;103(6):858-873. PMID 30503517

Identity by descent methods

• Henden L, Lee S, Mueller I, Barry A, Bahlo M. Identity-by-descent analyses for measuring population dynamics and selection in recombining pathogens. PLoS Genet. 2018 May 23;14(5):e1007279. PMID 29791438

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