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Erica E. Davis is affiliated with Lurie Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. The main subfields addressed in their work include Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Immunology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Davis has contributed to multiple topics within genetic and molecular research, with notable emphasis on:

  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Congenital Heart Defects Research
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer
  • Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies

Their publications have appeared frequently in specialized scientific venues, with the most recurrent being:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
  • Genetics in Medicine

Davis has collaborated with several coauthors multiple times throughout their career. Frequent collaborators include Nicholas Katsanis, Farid Ullah, Kamal Khan, Georgios Kellaris, and Tahir Naeem Khan.

Several recent representative papers authored or coauthored by Davis are:

  • "A cross-disorder dosage sensitivity map of the human genome," 2022, published in Cell
  • "Acoustofluidic rotational tweezing enables high-speed contactless morphological phenotyping of zebrafish larvae," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "CFAP45 deficiency causes situs abnormalities and asthenospermia by disrupting an axonemal adenine nucleotide homeostasis module," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "Mutations in FAM50A suggest that Armfield XLID syndrome is a spliceosomopathy," 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • "A cross-disorder dosage sensitivity map of the human genome," 2021, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • The Vertebrate Primary Cilium in Development, Homeostasis, and Disease

    Jantje M. Gerdes;Erica E. Davis;Nicholas Katsanis

  • Hypomorphic mutations in syndromic encephalocele genes are associated with Bardet-Biedl syndrome

    Carmen C Leitch;Norann A Zaghloul;Erica E Davis;Corinne Stoetzel

  • TTC21B contributes both causal and modifying alleles across the ciliopathy spectrum

    Erica E. Davis;Qi Zhang;Qin Liu;Bill H. Diplas

  • RNAi-mediated allelic trans-interaction at the imprinted Rtl1/Peg11 locus

    Erica Ellen Davis;Florian Caiment;Xavier Tordoir;Jérôme Cavaillé

  • CCDC39 is required for assembly of inner dynein arms and the dynein regulatory complex and for normal ciliary motility in humans and dogs

    Anne-Christine Merveille;Erica E Davis;Anita Becker-Heck;Anita Becker-Heck;Marie Legendre

  • The ciliary proteome database: an integrated community resource for the genetic and functional dissection of cilia.

    Adrian Gherman;Erica E Davis;Nicholas Katsanis

  • BBS10 encodes a vertebrate-specific chaperonin-like protein and is a major BBS locus.

    Corinne Stoetzel;Virginie Laurier;Erica E. Davis;Jean Muller

  • Mutations in TMEM216 perturb ciliogenesis and cause Joubert, Meckel and related syndromes

    Enza Maria Valente;Clare V Logan;Soumaya Mougou-Zerelli;Jeong Ho Lee

  • A common allele in RPGRIP1L is a modifier of retinal degeneration in ciliopathies.

    Hemant Khanna;Erica E Davis;Carlos A Murga-Zamalloa;Alejandro Estrada-Cuzcano

  • Identification of a Novel BBS Gene (BBS12) Highlights the Major Role of a Vertebrate-Specific Branch of Chaperonin-Related Proteins in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome

    Corinne Stoetzel;Jean Muller;Virginie Laurier;Erica E. Davis

  • Defects in the IFT-B Component IFT172 Cause Jeune and Mainzer-Saldino Syndromes in Humans

    Jan Halbritter;Albane A. Bizet;Miriam Schmidts;Jonathan D. Porath

  • CC2D2A Is Mutated in Joubert Syndrome and Interacts with the Ciliopathy-Associated Basal Body Protein CEP290

    Nicholas T. Gorden;Heleen H. Arts;Melissa A. Parisi;Karlien L.M. Coene

  • KIF7 mutations cause fetal hydrolethalus and acrocallosal syndromes

    Audrey Putoux;Sophie Thomas;Karlien L.M. Coene;Erica E. Davis

  • An organelle-specific protein landscape identifies novel diseases and molecular mechanisms

    Boldt K;van Reeuwijk J;Lu Q;Koutroumpas K

  • TMEM237 Is Mutated in Individuals with a Joubert Syndrome Related Disorder and Expands the Role of the TMEM Family at the Ciliary Transition Zone

    Lijia Huang;Katarzyna Szymanska;Victor L. Jensen;Andreas R. Janecke

  • ARMC4 Mutations Cause Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia with Randomization of Left/Right Body Asymmetry

    Rim Hjeij;Anna Lindstrand;Richard Francis;Maimoona A. Zariwala

  • The ciliopathies: a transitional model into systems biology of human genetic disease.

    Erica E Davis;Nicholas Katsanis

  • The Emerging Complexity of the Vertebrate Cilium: New Functional Roles for an Ancient Organelle

    Erica E. Davis;Martina Brueckner;Nicholas Katsanis

  • SMCHD1 mutations associated with a rare muscular dystrophy can also cause isolated arhinia and Bosma arhinia microphthalmia syndrome

    Natalie D. Shaw;Natalie D. Shaw;Harrison Brand;Harrison Brand;Zachary A. Kupchinsky;Hemant Bengani

  • A cross-disorder dosage sensitivity map of the human genome

    Ryan L. Collins;Ryan L. Collins;Joseph T. Glessner;Joseph T. Glessner;Eleonora Porcu;Eleonora Porcu;Lisa-Marie Niestroj

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas Katsanis
Nicholas Katsanis Galatea Bio Inc
Friedhelm Hildebrandt
Friedhelm Hildebrandt Boston Children's Hospital
Edgar A. Otto
Edgar A. Otto University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard A. Lewis
Richard A. Lewis Baylor College of Medicine
Philip L. Beales
Philip L. Beales University College London
Hélène Dollfus
Hélène Dollfus University of Strasbourg
Tania Attié-Bitach
Tania Attié-Bitach Université Paris Cité
Jean-Louis Mandel
Jean-Louis Mandel Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Colin A. Johnson
Colin A. Johnson University of Leeds
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine

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