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Elon Pras is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Medicine. Their scholarly output encompasses a broad range of topics including Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Metabolism and Genetic Disorders, as well as specialized subjects related to Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, and Ear Surgery and Otitis Media.

Within their research portfolio, Pras has authored several recent papers covering various aspects of genetic and metabolic disorders. Notable publications include:

  • Spectrum of genes for inherited hearing loss in the Israeli Jewish population, including the novel human deafness gene ATOH1, 2020, Clinical Genetics
  • A single center experience with publicly funded clinical exome sequencing for neurodevelopmental disorders or multiple congenital anomalies, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Clues and challenges in the diagnosis of intermittent maple syrup urine disease, 2020, European Journal of Medical Genetics
  • Mild Phenotype of Wolfram Syndrome Associated With a Common Pathogenic Variant Is Predicted by a Structural Model of Wolframin, 2021, Neurology Genetics
  • Refining the Phenotypic Spectrum of KMT5B-Associated Developmental Delay, 2022, Frontiers in Pediatrics

Pras has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • Lior Greenbaum
  • Haike Reznik-Wolf
  • Ortal Barel
  • Hagit Baris Feldman
  • Ben Pode-Shakked

The principal publication venues for their work consist of:

  • Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease
  • Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • Clinical Genetics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics

Pras's research emphasizes genetics and molecular biology techniques to elucidate mechanisms underlying inherited hearing loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and metabolic diseases. Their work contributes to refining phenotypic characterizations and understanding pathogenic variants in rare genetic conditions.

Best Publications

  • Ancient missense mutations in a new member of the RoRet gene family are likely to cause familial Mediterranean fever

    I. Aksentijevich;M. Centola;Z. M. Deng;R. Sood

  • Ancient missense mutations in a new member of the RoRet gene family are likely to cause familial Mediterranean fever. The International FMF Consortium.

    N Zaks;JE Balow;E Mansfield;M. E. Mangelsdorf

  • A missense mutation in a highly conserved region of CASQ2 is associated with autosomal recessive catecholamine-induced polymorphic ventricular tachycardia in Bedouin families from Israel.

    Hadas Lahat;Elon Pras;Tsviya Olender;Nili Avidan

  • Mutant Adenosine Deaminase 2 in a Polyarteritis Nodosa Vasculopathy

    Paulina Navon Elkan;Sarah B. Pierce;Reeval Segel;Reeval Segel;Tom Walsh

  • Mutation and haplotype studies of familial Mediterranean fever reveal new ancestral relationships and evidence for a high carrier frequency with reduced penetrance in the Ashkenazi Jewish population.

    Ivona Aksentijevich;Yelizaveta Torosyan;Jonathan Samuels;Michael Centola

  • Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenopathy syndrome: clinical characteristics and outcome.

    Shai Padeh;Naphtali Brezniak;Debora Zemer;Elon Pras

  • Non-type I cystinuria caused by mutations in SLC7A9, encoding a subunit (bo,+AT) of rBAT.

    Lídia Feliubadaló;Mariona Font;Jesús Purroy;Ferran Rousaud

  • Autosomal Recessive Catecholamine- or Exercise-Induced Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Clinical Features and Assignment of the Disease Gene to Chromosome 1p13-21

    Hadas Lahat;Michael Eldar;Etgar Levy-Nissenbaum;Tangiz Bahan

  • Clinical differences between North African and Iraqi Jews with familial Mediterranean fever.

    Pras E;Livneh A;Balow Je;Kastner Dl

  • Mapping of a Gene Causing Familial Mediterranean Fever to the Short Arm of Chromosome 16

    Elon Pras;Ivona Aksentijevich;Luis Gruberg;James E. Balow

  • Whole-exome sequencing in undiagnosed genetic diseases: interpreting 119 trios

    Xiaolin Zhu;Slavé Petrovski;Slavé Petrovski;Pingxing Xie;Pingxing Xie;Elizabeth K. Ruzzo

  • Comparison between SLC3A1 and SLC7A9 Cystinuria Patients and Carriers: A Need for a New Classification

    Luca Dello Strologo;Elon Pras;Claudia Pontesilli;Ercole Beccia

  • MEFV mutation analysis in patients suffering from amyloidosis of familial Mediterranean fever.

    Avi Livneh;Pnina Langevitz;Yael Shinar;Nurit Zaks

  • Clinical disease among patients heterozygous for familial Mediterranean fever.

    Dina Marek-Yagel;Yackov Berkun;Shai Padeh;Almogit Abu

  • Point Mutation in the HCN4 Cardiac Ion Channel Pore Affecting Synthesis, Trafficking, and Functional Expression Is Associated With Familial Asymptomatic Sinus Bradycardia

    Eyal Nof;David Luria;Dovrat Brass;Dina Marek

  • Hypotrichosis simplex of the scalp is associated with nonsense mutations in CDSN encoding corneodesmosin

    Etgar Levy-Nissenbaum;Regina C Betz;Moshe Frydman;Michel Simon

  • Deficiency of Asparagine Synthetase Causes Congenital Microcephaly and a Progressive Form of Encephalopathy

    Elizabeth K. Ruzzo;José-Mario Capo-Chichi;Bruria Ben-Zeev;Bruria Ben-Zeev;David Chitayat

  • Mutation in TECPR2 Reveals a Role for Autophagy in Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis

    Danit Oz-Levi;Bruria Ben-Zeev;Bruria Ben-Zeev;Elizabeth K. Ruzzo;Yuki Hitomi

  • Mutations in FYCO1 Cause Autosomal-Recessive Congenital Cataracts

    Jianjun Chen;Zhiwei Ma;Xiaodong Jiao;Robert Fariss

  • Genotype-phenotype assessment of common genotypes among patients with familial Mediterranean fever.

    Y Shinar;A Livneh;P Langevitz;N Zaks

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivona Aksentijevich
Ivona Aksentijevich National Institutes of Health
Daniel L. Kastner
Daniel L. Kastner National Institutes of Health
Pnina Langevitz
Pnina Langevitz Tel Aviv University
Mordechai Shohat
Mordechai Shohat Tel Aviv University
Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science
David Goldstein
David Goldstein University of New South Wales
Eitan Friedman
Eitan Friedman City University of New York
James E. Balow
James E. Balow National Institutes of Health
Robert I. Richards
Robert I. Richards University of Adelaide
Michael Centola
Michael Centola Haus Bioceuticals

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