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Bronwyn Kerr is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, contributing to a total of 24 publications. Within this overarching discipline, their work focuses specifically on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Sociology and Political Science, and Safety Research.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics, including:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Bronwyn Kerr has published in a variety of academic journals with notable frequency in the following venues:

  • Value in Health
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Blood
  • Journal of Medical Genetics
  • Genetics in Medicine

Some of the recent research papers associated with Kerr include:

  • DNA Methylation Signature for EZH2 Functionally Classifies Sequence Variants in Three PRC2 Complex Genes (2020) - The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • SPEN haploinsufficiency causes a neurodevelopmental disorder overlapping proximal 1p36 deletion syndrome with an episignature of X chromosomes in females (2021) - The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Non-coding region variants upstream of MEF2C cause severe developmental disorder through three distinct loss-of-function mechanisms (2021) - The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Personalised virtual gene panels reduce interpretation workload and maintain diagnostic rates of proband-only clinical exome sequencing for rare disorders (2021) - Journal of Medical Genetics
  • Biallelic variants in PIGN cause Fryns syndrome, multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome, and neurologic phenotypes: A genotype-phenotype correlation study (2022) - Genetics in Medicine

Frequent co-authors working with Kerr include:

  • Sally Ann Lynch
  • Kate Chandler
  • Siddharth Banka
  • Helen Stewart
  • Jenny C. Taylor

Best Publications

  • Mutations in the γ2 subunit of AMP-activated protein kinase cause familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: evidence for the central role of energy compromise in disease pathogenesis

    Edward Blair;Charles Redwood;Houman Ashrafian;Marisa Oliveira

  • Evidence for 28 genetic disorders discovered by combining healthcare and research data

    J Kaplanis;K E Samocha;L Wiel;Z Zhang

  • High Rate of Recurrent De Novo Mutations in Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathies

    Fadi F. Hamdan;Candace T. Myers;Patrick Cossette;Philippe Lemay

  • An absence of cutaneous neurofibromas associated with a 3-bp inframe deletion in Exon 17 of the NF1 gene (c.2970-2972 delAAT): evidence of a clinically significant NF1 genotype-phenotype correlation

    M. Upadhyaya;S. M. Huson;M. Davies;N. Thomas

  • Mutations in genes encoding subunits of RNA polymerases I and III cause Treacher Collins syndrome

    Johannes G. Dauwerse;Jill Dixon;Saskia Seland;Claudia A L Ruivenkamp

  • Mutation of the gene encoding the ROR2 tyrosine kinase causes autosomal recessive Robinow syndrome.

    J.H.L.M. van Bokhoven;J. Celli;H. Kayserili;E. van Beusekom

  • Domain disruption and mutation of the bZIP transcription factor, MAF, associated with cataract, ocular anterior segment dysgenesis and coloboma

    Robyn V. Jamieson;Rahat Perveen;Bronwyn Kerr;Martin Carette

  • Angelman syndrome phenotype associated with mutations in MECP2 , a gene encoding a methyl CpG binding protein

    Pamela Watson;Graeme Black;Simon Ramsden;Margaret Barrow

  • Mutations in CUL4B, Which Encodes a Ubiquitin E3 Ligase Subunit, Cause an X-linked Mental Retardation Syndrome Associated with Aggressive Outbursts, Seizures, Relative Macrocephaly, Central Obesity, Hypogonadism, Pes Cavus, and Tremor

    Patrick S. Tarpey;F. Lucy Raymond;Sarah O’Meara;Sarah Edkins

  • Histone Lysine Methylases and Demethylases in the Landscape of Human Developmental Disorders

    Víctor Faundes;Víctor Faundes;William G. Newman;Laura Bernardini;Natalie Canham

  • Fraser syndrome and mouse blebbed phenotype caused by mutations in FRAS1/Fras1 encoding a putative extracellular matrix protein

    Lesley McGregor;Vile Makela;Susan M. Darling;Susan M. Darling;Sofia Vrontou

  • Genotype-phenotype correlation in Costello syndrome: HRAS mutation analysis in 43 cases

    B. Kerr;M. A. Delrue;S. Sigaudy;R. Perveen

  • Mutations in PHF6 are associated with Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome.

    Karen M Lower;Karen M Lower;Gillian Turner;Bronwyn A Kerr;Katherine D Mathews

  • Whole-Exome-Sequencing Identifies Mutations in Histone Acetyltransferase Gene KAT6B in Individuals with the Say-Barber-Biesecker Variant of Ohdo Syndrome

    Jill Clayton-Smith;James O'Sullivan;Sarah Daly;Sanjeev Bhaskar

  • How genetically heterogeneous is Kabuki syndrome?: MLL2 testing in 116 patients, review and analyses of mutation and phenotypic spectrum

    Siddharth Banka;Ratna Veeramachaneni;William Reardon;Emma Howard

  • Mutations in ZDHHC9, Which Encodes a Palmitoyltransferase of NRAS and HRAS, Cause X-Linked Mental Retardation Associated with a Marfanoid Habitus

    F. Lucy Raymond;Patrick S. Tarpey;Sarah Edkins;Calli Tofts

  • Mutations in the gamma2 subunit of AMP-activated protein kinase cause familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: evidence for the central role of energy compromise in disease pathogenesis.

    Edward Blair;Charles Redwood;Houman Ashrafian;Marisa Oliveira

  • The genetic basis of DOORS syndrome: an exome-sequencing study.

    Philippe M. Campeau;Dalia Kasperaviciute;James T. Lu;Lindsay C. Burrage

  • Macrocephaly with cutis marmorata, haemangioma and syndactyly--a distinctive overgrowth syndrome.

    J Clayton-Smith;B Kerr;H Brunner;L Tranebjaerg

  • Variable expression of mental retardation, autism, seizures, and dystonic hand movements in two families with an identical ARX gene mutation.

    Gillian Turner;Michael Partington;Bronwyn Kerr;Marie Mangelsdorf;Marie Mangelsdorf

Frequent Co-Authors

Jill Clayton-Smith
Jill Clayton-Smith University of Manchester
Jozef Gecz
Jozef Gecz University of Adelaide
Dian Donnai
Dian Donnai University of Manchester
Susan M. White
Susan M. White University of Arizona
Graeme C.M. Black
Graeme C.M. Black University of Manchester
I. Karen Temple
I. Karen Temple University of Southampton
William G. Newman
William G. Newman University of Manchester
Helen V. Firth
Helen V. Firth University of Cambridge
Katherine A. Rauen
Katherine A. Rauen University of California, Davis
Gillian Turner
Gillian Turner University of Newcastle Australia

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