Publications
Transcript isoforms of Reep6 have distinct functions in the retina. Hum Mol Genet. 2021 ;30(21):1907-1918.
. Systematic assessment of the contribution of structural variants to inherited retinal diseases. Hum Mol Genet. 2023 ;32(12):2005-2015.
. Spata7 is a retinal ciliopathy gene critical for correct RPGRIP1 localization and protein trafficking in the retina. Hum Mol Genet. 2015 ;24(6):1584-601.
. REEP6 deficiency leads to retinal degeneration through disruption of ER homeostasis and protein trafficking. Hum Mol Genet. 2017 ;26(14):2667-2677.
. Noncoding mutation in contributes to inherited retinal degenerations. Mol Vis. 2021 ;27:95-106.
. NMNAT1 E257K variant, associated with Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA9), causes a mild retinal degeneration phenotype. Exp Eye Res. 2018 ;173:32-43.
. NGS-based Molecular diagnosis of 105 eyeGENE(®) probands with Retinitis Pigmentosa. Sci Rep. 2015 ;5:18287.
. Next-generation sequencing-based molecular diagnosis of a Chinese patient cohort with autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2013 ;54(6):4158-66.
. Next-generation sequencing-based molecular diagnosis of 12 inherited retinal disease probands of Uyghur ethnicity. Sci Rep. 2016 ;6:21384.
. Next-generation sequencing and novel variant determination in a cohort of 92 familial exudative vitreoretinopathy patients. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 ;56(3):1937-46.
. Next generation sequencing-based molecular diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa: identification of a novel genotype-phenotype correlation and clinical refinements. Hum Genet. 2014 ;133(3):331-45.
. Mutations in human IFT140 cause non-syndromic retinal degeneration. Hum Genet. 2015 ;134(10):1069-78.
. is mutated in a distinct type of Usher syndrome. J Med Genet. 2017 ;54(3):190-195.
. A missense mutation in HK1 leads to autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014 ;55(11):7159-64.
. Leveraging splice-affecting variant predictors and a minigene validation system to identify Mendelian disease-causing variants among exon-captured variants of uncertain significance. Hum Mutat. 2017 ;38(11):1521-1533.
. Integrative genomic analysis reveals novel regulatory mechanisms of eyeless during Drosophila eye development. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 ;46(22):11743-11758.
. IFT81 as a Candidate Gene for Nonsyndromic Retinal Degeneration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2017 ;58(5):2483-2490.
. Identification of Deep-Intronic Splice Mutations in a Large Cohort of Patients With Inherited Retinal Diseases. Front Genet. 2021 ;12:647400.
. A homozygous missense mutation in NEUROD1 is associated with nonsyndromic autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2014 ;56(1):150-5.
. Genome-wide identification of direct targets of the Drosophila retinal determination protein Eyeless. Genome Res. 2006 ;16(4):466-76.
. Gene Therapy Rescues Retinal Degeneration in Receptor Expression-Enhancing Protein 6 Mutant Mice. Hum Gene Ther. 2019 ;30(3):302-315.
. Gene augmentation therapy to rescue degenerative photoreceptors in a Cwc27 mutant mouse model. Exp Eye Res. 2023 ;234:109596.
. Cwc27, associated with retinal degeneration, functions as a splicing factor in vivo. Hum Mol Genet. 2022 ;31(8):1278-1292.
. Comprehensive Molecular Diagnosis of a Large Chinese Leber Congenital Amaurosis Cohort. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 ;56(6):3642-55.
. Comprehensive molecular diagnosis of 67 Chinese Usher syndrome probands: high rate of ethnicity specific mutations in Chinese USH patients. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2015 ;10:110.
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