De novo mutations revealed by whole-exome sequencing are strongly associated with autism

…, RC Murtha, M Choi, JD Overton, RD Bjornson… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Multiple studies have confirmed the contribution of rare de novo copy number variations to
the risk for autism spectrum disorders 1 , 2 , 3 . But whereas de novo single nucleotide …

De novo mutations in histone-modifying genes in congenital heart disease

…, JD Overton, A Romano-Adesman, RD Bjornson… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most frequent birth defect, affecting 0.8% of live births
1 . Many cases occur sporadically and impair reproductive fitness, suggesting a role for de …

Mutations in kelch-like 3 and cullin 3 cause hypertension and electrolyte abnormalities

…, A Farhi, HR Toka, IR Tikhonova, R Bjornson… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Hypertension affects one billion people and is a principal reversible risk factor for
cardiovascular disease. Pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (PHAII), a rare Mendelian syndrome …

PeakSeq enables systematic scoring of ChIP-seq experiments relative to controls

…, RK Auerbach, ZD Zhang, T Gibson, R Bjornson… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
… For each of the putative binding regions, indexed by r, we can now … r as well as the
number from the control data set, … r . We appropriately normalize the count from the control by …

Contribution of rare inherited and de novo variants in 2,871 congenital heart disease probands

…, WC Hung, S Haider, J Zhang, J Knight, RD Bjornson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality from birth defects. Here,
exome sequencing of a single cohort of 2,871 CHD probands, including 2,645 parent–…

Genomic landscape of cutaneous T cell lymphoma

…, BS Hong, CG Bunick, K Chen, RD Bjornson… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) is a non-Hodgkin lymphoma of skin-homing T lymphocytes.
We performed exome and whole-genome DNA sequencing and RNA sequencing on …

AlleleSeq: analysis of allele‐specific expression and binding in a network framework

…, D Raha, A Harmanci, J Leng, R Bjornson… - Molecular systems …, 2011 - embopress.org
To study allele‐specific expression (ASE) and binding (ASB), that is, differences between
the maternally and paternally derived alleles, we have developed a computational pipeline (…

Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics

…, J Raes, PV Patel, R Bjornson… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Recently, approaches have been developed to sample the genetic content of heterogeneous
environments (metagenomics). However, by what means these sequences link distinct …

Ectopic expression of ultraviolet-rhodopsins in the blue photoreceptor cells of Drosophila: visual physiology and photochemistry of transgenic animals

R Feiler, R Bjornson, K Kirschfeld… - Journal of …, 1992 - Soc Neuroscience
We have generated transgenic flies expressing R7 cell-specific opsins in the major class of
photoreceptor cells of the Drosophila retina and characterized their spectral properties using …

The Autographa californica Baculovirus Genome: Evidence for Multiple Replication Origins

M Pearson, R Bjornson, G Pearson, G Rohrmann - Science, 1992 - science.org
The Autographa californica multinucleocapsid nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV), which
is used for the overexpression of eukaryotic genes and is being engineered for possible use …