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Overview

Katherine A. Rauen is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to medicine. The main subfields of their study include molecular biology, genetics, neurology, cell biology, and immunology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably protein tyrosine phosphatases, neurofibromatosis and schwannoma cases, RNA regulation and disease, melanoma and MAPK pathways, genomics and rare diseases, meningioma and schwannoma management, and PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling in cancer.

Rauen has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • Revised diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis type 1 and Legius syndrome: an international consensus recommendation, 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • Updated diagnostic criteria and nomenclature for neurofibromatosis type 2 and schwannomatosis: An international consensus recommendation, 2022, Genetics in Medicine
  • Project Baby Bear: Rapid precision care incorporating rWGS in 5 California children's hospitals demonstrates improved clinical outcomes and reduced costs of care, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • MEK inhibitors for neurofibromatosis type 1 manifestations: Clinical evidence and consensus, 2022, Neuro-Oncology
  • The duality of human oncoproteins: drivers of cancer and congenital disorders, 2020, Nature reviews. Cancer

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Maija Kiuru
  • Suma P. Shankar
  • David A. Stevenson
  • William E. Tidyman
  • Alena Egense

Rauen's research outputs have appeared in various journals, with several publications in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Disease Models & Mechanisms
  • Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
  • Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Best Publications

  • The RASopathies: Developmental syndromes of Ras/MAPK pathway dysregulation

    William E Tidyman;Katherine A Rauen

  • Germline mutations in genes within the MAPK pathway cause cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome

    Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana;Osamu Tetsu;William E. Tidyman;Anne L. Estep

  • Revised diagnostic criteria for neurofibromatosis type 1 and Legius syndrome: an international consensus recommendation.

    E Legius;L Messiaen;P Wolkenstein;P Pancza

  • Germline loss-of-function mutations in LZTR1 predispose to an inherited disorder of multiple schwannomas

    Arkadiusz Piotrowski;Arkadiusz Piotrowski;Jing Xie;Ying F Liu;Andrzej B Poplawski

  • Expression of the Coxsackie Adenovirus Receptor in Normal Prostate and in Primary and Metastatic Prostate Carcinoma: Potential Relevance to Gene Therapy

    Katherine A Rauen;Daniel Sudilovsky;Jason L Le;Karen L Chew

  • Advocacy groups as research organizations: the PXE International example.

    Sharon F. Terry;Patrick F. Terry;Katherine A. Rauen;Jouni Uitto

  • Cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome: clinical features, diagnosis, and management guidelines.

    Mary E lla M Pierpont;Pilar L. Magoulas;Saleh Adi;Maria I nes Kavamura

  • Autism traits in the RASopathies

    Brigid Adviento;Iris L Corbin;Felicia Widjaja;Guillaume Desachy

  • HRAS mutations in Costello syndrome: detection of constitutional activating mutations in codon 12 and 13 and loss of wild-type allele in malignancy.

    Anne L. Estep;William E. Tidyman;Michael A. Teitell;Philip D. Cotter;Philip D. Cotter

  • Project Baby Bear: Rapid precision care incorporating rWGS in 5 California children's hospitals demonstrates improved clinical outcomes and reduced costs of care.

    David Dimmock;Sara Caylor;Bryce Waldman;Wendy Benson

  • ClinGen's RASopathy Expert Panel consensus methods for variant interpretation.

    Bruce D Gelb;Hélène Cavé;Mitchell W Dillon;Karen W Gripp

  • Integrin αv and coxsackie adenovirus receptor expression in clinical bladder cancer

    Markus D Sachs;Markus D Sachs;Katherine A Rauen;Meera Ramamurthy;Jennifer L Dodson

  • Disruption of 3D tissue integrity facilitates adenovirus infection by deregulating the coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor.

    M. Anders;R. Hansen;R. X. Ding;Katherine A Rauen

  • Diversity parental germline origin, and phenotypic spectrum of de novo HRAS missense changes in Costello syndrome

    Giuseppe Zampino;Francesca Pantaleoni;Claudio Carta;Gilda Cobellis

  • Noonan, Costello and cardio-facio-cutaneous syndromes: dysregulation of the Ras-MAPK pathway.

    William E. Tidyman;Katherine A. Rauen

  • HRAS and the Costello syndrome

    Katherine A Rauen

  • Pathogenetics of the RASopathies

    William E. Tidyman;Katherine A. Rauen

  • Clinical, pathological, and molecular analyses of cardiovascular abnormalities in Costello syndrome: a Ras/MAPK pathway syndrome.

    Angela E. Lin;Mark E. Alexander;Steven D. Colan;Bronwyn Kerr

  • Mutation analysis of BRAF, MEK1 and MEK2 in 15 ovarian cancer cell lines: implications for therapy.

    Anne L. Estep;Chana Palmer;Frank McCormick;Katherine A. Rauen

  • Cancer Targets in the Ras Pathway

    P. Rodriguez-Viciana;O. Tetsu;K. Oda;J. Okada

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank McCormick
Frank McCormick University of California, San Francisco
Ophir D. Klein
Ophir D. Klein University of California, San Francisco
Lauren A. Weiss
Lauren A. Weiss University of California, San Francisco
Daniel Pinkel
Daniel Pinkel University of California, San Francisco
Bruce D. Gelb
Bruce D. Gelb Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bruce R. Korf
Bruce R. Korf University of Alabama at Birmingham
Bronwyn Kerr
Bronwyn Kerr University of Manchester
Eric Legius
Eric Legius KU Leuven
Ludwine Messiaen
Ludwine Messiaen University of Alabama at Birmingham
Martin Zenker
Martin Zenker Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

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