2014
Monoallelic expression of the human FOXP2 speech gene
Adegbola AA, Cox GF, Bradshaw EM, Hafler DA, Gimelbrant A, Chess A. Monoallelic expression of the human FOXP2 speech gene. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2014, 112: 6848-6854. PMID: 25422445, PMCID: PMC4460484, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411270111.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsApraxiasComparative Genomic HybridizationFemaleForkhead Transcription FactorsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGenes, X-LinkedHumansPolymorphism, Single NucleotideReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSequence Analysis, DNASequence DeletionSpeechX Chromosome InactivationConceptsRandom monoallelic expressionMonoallelic expressionAllele-specific expressionNumber of genesHuman Mendelian disordersForkhead box P2 (FOXP2) geneP2 geneAutosomal genesMore genesAutosomal genomeX chromosomeGene expressionHaploinsufficiency phenotypeMendelian disordersGenesDevelopmental verbal dyspraxiaFOXP2 mutationsIntriguing possibilityFOXP2 geneExpressionRecent descriptionMutationsVerbal dyspraxiaAutosomesGenomepRESTO: a toolkit for processing high-throughput sequencing raw reads of lymphocyte receptor repertoires
Vander Heiden JA, Yaari G, Uduman M, Stern JN, O'Connor KC, Hafler DA, Vigneault F, Kleinstein SH. pRESTO: a toolkit for processing high-throughput sequencing raw reads of lymphocyte receptor repertoires. Bioinformatics 2014, 30: 1930-1932. PMID: 24618469, PMCID: PMC4071206, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu138.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2010
Functionally defective germline variants of sialic acid acetylesterase in autoimmunity
Surolia I, Pirnie SP, Chellappa V, Taylor KN, Cariappa A, Moya J, Liu H, Bell DW, Driscoll DR, Diederichs S, Haider K, Netravali I, Le S, Elia R, Dow E, Lee A, Freudenberg J, De Jager PL, Chretien Y, Varki A, MacDonald ME, Gillis T, Behrens TW, Bloch D, Collier D, Korzenik J, Podolsky DK, Hafler D, Murali M, Sands B, Stone JH, Gregersen PK, Pillai S. Functionally defective germline variants of sialic acid acetylesterase in autoimmunity. Nature 2010, 466: 243-247. PMID: 20555325, PMCID: PMC2900412, DOI: 10.1038/nature09115.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAcetylationAcetylesteraseAllelesAnimalsAntibodies, AntinuclearArthritis, RheumatoidAutoimmune DiseasesAutoimmunityBiocatalysisB-LymphocytesCarboxylic Ester HydrolasesCase-Control StudiesCell LineDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1EuropeExonsGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGerm-Line MutationHumansMiceN-Acetylneuraminic AcidOdds RatioPolymorphism, Single NucleotideSample SizeSequence Analysis, DNA
1998
Differential Display Cloning of a Novel Human Histone Deacetylase (HDAC3) cDNA from PHA-Activated Immune Cells
Dangond F, Hafler D, Tong J, Randall J, Kojima R, Utku N, Gullans S. Differential Display Cloning of a Novel Human Histone Deacetylase (HDAC3) cDNA from PHA-Activated Immune Cells. Biochemical And Biophysical Research Communications 1998, 242: 648-652. PMID: 9464271, DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.8033.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAmino Acid SequenceBlotting, NorthernCD3 ComplexCell CycleCloning, MolecularDNAFlow CytometryGene Expression Regulation, EnzymologicGranulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating FactorHistone DeacetylasesHumansMolecular Sequence DataPhylogenyPhytohemagglutininsRNA, MessengerSequence AlignmentSequence Analysis, DNAT-LymphocytesTransfectionTumor Cells, CulturedConceptsPeripheral blood mononuclear cellsBlock T cell proliferationEffects of HDACsBlood mononuclear cellsT cell proliferationT cell clonesG2/M cell accumulationNon-immune tissuesTHP-1 cellsHDAC mRNAsPBMC levelsDifferential display cloningMononuclear cellsIL-4Immune cellsIFN-gammaAlpha CD3Histone acetyltransferasesCell accumulationHDAC3 mRNAHDAC inhibitorsHistone deacetylase assayCell clonesCell cycle progressionFunctional activity