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Zeynep Coban Akdemir, Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Website
gsbs.uth.edu/directory/profile?id=ff34e478-b36d-41d0-b8b6-3c7d00c3d8bc

Publications

Biallelic variants in KIF14 cause intellectual disability with microcephaly.

Eur. J. Hum. Genet., January 16, 2018

Makrythanasis P., Maroofian R., Stray-Pedersen A., Musaev D., Zaki M.S., Mahmoud I.G., et al.

Mutations in EBF3 disturb transcriptional profiles and cause intellectual disability, ataxia and facial dysmorphism.

Am. J. Hum. Genet., January 4, 2017

Harms F.L., Girisha K.M., Hardigan A.A., Kortum F., Shukla A., Alawi M., et al.

Identification of a RAI1-associated disease network through integration of exome sequencing, transcriptomics, and 3D genomics.

Genome Med., October 31, 2016

Loviglio M.N., Beck C.R., White J.J., Leleu M., Harel T., Guex N., et al.

Projects

Improving the prediction of nonsense-mediated decay outcomes for protein-truncating variants associated with autism

Awarded 2024

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2023 Summer Pilot Awards Announced

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