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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - E. Mead Johnson Award, Society for Pediatric Research

Overview

Eric Vilain is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States and focuses their research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work explores several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Plant Science.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer
  • Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Eric Vilain's recent publications include:

  • In Addition to Stigma: Cognitive and Autism-Related Predictors of Mental Health in Transgender Adolescents (2021), Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • Towards improved genetic diagnosis of human differences of sex development (2021), Nature Reviews Genetics
  • Histone H3.3 beyond cancer: Germline mutations in Histone 3 Family 3A and 3B cause a previously unidentified neurodegenerative disorder in 46 patients (2020), Science Advances
  • The Neuroanatomy of Transgender Identity: Mega-Analytic Findings From the ENIGMA Transgender Persons Working Group (2021), The Journal of Sexual Medicine
  • Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome of Children: Subphenotypes, Risk Factors, Biomarkers, Cytokine Profiles, and Viral Sequencing (2021), The Journal of Pediatrics

The researcher collaborates frequently with several scholars, including:

  • Emmanuèle C. Délot
  • Seth Berger
  • Jonathan LoTempio
  • Surajit Bhattacharya
  • Hayk Barseghyan

Eric Vilain has published multiple papers in a variety of venues, with some of the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genetics in Medicine Open
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Pediatric Research
  • Genetics in Medicine

Among the awards received, Eric Vilain was honored with the E. Mead Johnson Award by the Society for Pediatric Research in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Clinical Exome Sequencing for Genetic Identification of Rare Mendelian Disorders

    Hane Lee;Joshua L. Deignan;Naghmeh Dorrani;Samuel P. Strom

  • Epigenetic Predictor of Age

    Sven Bocklandt;Wen Lin;Mary E. Sehl;Francisco J. Sánchez

  • Genomic surveys by methylation-sensitive SNP analysis identify sequence-dependent allele-specific DNA methylation

    Kristi Kerkel;Alexandra Spadola;Eric Yuan;Jolanta Kosek

  • The genetics of sex differences in brain and behavior.

    Tuck C. Ngun;Negar Ghahramani;Francisco J. Sánchez;Sven Bocklandt

  • Sexually dimorphic gene expression in mouse brain precedes gonadal differentiation

    Phoebe Dewing;Tao Shi;Steve Horvath;Eric Vilain

  • Up-Regulation of WNT-4 Signaling and Dosage-Sensitive Sex Reversal in Humans

    Brian K. Jordan;Mansoor Mohammed;Saunders T. Ching;Emmanuèle Délot

  • Direct Regulation of Adult Brain Function by the Male-Specific Factor SRY

    Phoebe Dewing;Charleston W K Chiang;Kevin Sinchak;Helena Sim

  • Identification of SOX3 as an XX male sex reversal gene in mice and humans

    Edwina Sutton;James Hughes;Stefan John White;Ryohei Sekido

  • Mutant Cohesin in Premature Ovarian Failure

    Sandrine Caburet;Valerie A. Arboleda;Elena Llano;Paul A. Overbeek

  • Androgen Receptor Repeat Length Polymorphism Associated with Male-to-Female Transsexualism

    Lauren May Hare;Pascal Bernard;Francisco J Sanchez;Paul N Baird

  • Identification of rare-disease genes using blood transcriptome sequencing and large control cohorts

    Laure Frésard;Craig Smail;Nicole M. Ferraro;Nicole A. Teran

  • Collective self-esteem as a coping resource for male-to-female transsexuals.

    Francisco J. Sánchez;Eric Vilain

  • Exome sequencing in the clinical diagnosis of sporadic or familial cerebellar ataxia.

    Brent L. Fogel;Hane Lee;Joshua L. Deignan;Samuel P. Strom

  • Wnt4 overexpression disrupts normal testicular vasculature and inhibits testosterone synthesis by repressing steroidogenic factor 1/β-catenin synergy

    Brian K. Jordan;Jennifer H.-C. Shen;Robert Olaso;Holly A. Ingraham

  • Summary of Consensus Statement on Intersex Disorders and Their Management

    Christopher P. Houk;Ieuan A. Hughes;S. Faisal Ahmed;Peter A. Lee

  • Exome sequencing for the diagnosis of 46,XY disorders of sex development.

    Ruth M. Baxter;Valerie A. Arboleda;Hane Lee;Hayk Barseghyan

  • Dimerization of SOX9 is required for chondrogenesis, but not for sex determination

    Pascal Bernard;Paisu Tang;Siyuan Liu;Phoebe Dewing

  • DSDs: genetics, underlying pathologies and psychosexual differentiation

    Valerie A. Arboleda;David E. Sandberg;Eric Vilain

  • Mutations in the PCNA-binding domain of CDKN1C cause IMAGe syndrome

    Valerie A Arboleda;Hane Lee;Rahul Parnaik;Alice Fleming

  • MARRVEL: Integration of Human and Model Organism Genetic Resources to Facilitate Functional Annotation of the Human Genome.

    Julia Wang;Rami Al-Ouran;Yanhui Hu;Seon-Young Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken McElreavey
Ken McElreavey Institut Pasteur
Hane Lee
Hane Lee University of California, Los Angeles
Marc Fellous
Marc Fellous Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Vincent R. Harley
Vincent R. Harley Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Stanley F. Nelson
Stanley F. Nelson University of California, Los Angeles
David E. Sandberg
David E. Sandberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Janet S. Sinsheimer
Janet S. Sinsheimer University of California, Los Angeles
Jill A. Rosenfeld
Jill A. Rosenfeld Baylor College of Medicine
Brendan Lee
Brendan Lee Baylor College of Medicine
William A. Gahl
William A. Gahl National Institutes of Health

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