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Lorraine Potocki is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans a variety of subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, cell biology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Potocki's main topics of research focus on:

  • Genomics and rare diseases
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders
  • Genetic syndromes and imprinting
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Prenatal screening and diagnostics

They have published numerous papers, with significant contributions appearing in Genetics in Medicine, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, Genetics in Medicine Open, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Deficient histone H3 propionylation by BRPF1-KAT6 complexes in neurodevelopmental disorders and cancer (2020, Science Advances)
  • Phenotypic expansion of CACNA1C-associated disorders to include isolated neurological manifestations (2021, Genetics in Medicine)
  • An autosomal dominant neurological disorder caused by de novo variants in FAR1 resulting in uncontrolled synthesis of ether lipids (2020, Genetics in Medicine)
  • Clinical sites of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network: unique contributions to genomic medicine and science (2020, Genetics in Medicine)
  • Novel pathogenic variants and quantitative phenotypic analyses of Robinow syndrome: WNT signaling perturbation and phenotypic variability (2021, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances)

Potocki frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Jill A. Rosenfeld, Jennifer E. Posey, Lisa Emrick, Brendan Lee, and Daryl A. Scott, who are often co-authors on their publications.

Best Publications

  • A Systematic Analysis of Human Disease-Associated Gene Sequences In Drosophila melanogaster

    Lawrence T. Reiter;Lorraine Potocki;Sam Chien;Michael Gribskov

  • Homologous recombination of a flanking repeat gene cluster is a mechanism for a common contiguous gene deletion syndrome

    K.-S. Chen;P. Manian;T. Koeuth;L. Potocki

  • Characterization of Potocki-Lupski syndrome (dup(17)(p11.2p11.2)) and delineation of a dosage-sensitive critical interval that can convey an autism phenotype.

    Lorraine Potocki;Weimin Bi;Diane Treadwell-Deering;Claudia M. B. Carvalho

  • Multi-disciplinary clinical study of Smith-Magenis syndrome (deletion 17p11.2)

    Frank Greenberg;Richard A. Lewis;Lorraine Potocki;Daniel Glaze

  • Use of Exome Sequencing for Infants in Intensive Care Units: Ascertainment of Severe Single-Gene Disorders and Effect on Medical Management

    Linyan Meng;Linyan Meng;Mohan Pammi;Anirudh Saronwala;Pilar Magoulas;Pilar Magoulas

  • Molecular mechanism for duplication 17p11.2- the homologous recombination reciprocal of the Smith-Magenis microdeletion.

    Lorraine Potocki;Ken Shiung Chen;Sung Sup Park;Doreen E. Osterholm

  • Mutations in the neurofilament light chain gene (NEFL) cause early onset severe Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

    A. Jordanova;P. De Jonghe;C. F. Boerkoel;H. Takashima

  • Truncating mutations of MAGEL2 cause Prader-Willi phenotypes and autism

    Christian P Schaaf;Manuel L Gonzalez-Garay;Fan Xia;Lorraine Potocki

  • Detection of clinically relevant exonic copy‐number changes by array CGH

    Philip M. Boone;Carlos A. Bacino;Chad A. Shaw;Patricia A. Eng

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

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

  • Microdeletion 15q13.3: a locus with incomplete penetrance for autism, mental retardation, and psychiatric disorders

    S. Ben-Shachar;B. Lanpher;J. R. German;M. Qasaymeh

  • Circadian rhythm abnormalities of melatonin in Smith-Magenis syndrome.

    Lorraine Potocki;Daniel Glaze;Dun Xian Tan;Sung Sup Park

  • Lessons learned from additional research analyses of unsolved clinical exome cases

    Mohammad K. Eldomery;Mohammad K. Eldomery;Zeynep Coban-Akdemir;Tamar Harel;Jill A. Rosenfeld

  • 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

  • Recurrent De Novo and Biallelic Variation of ATAD3A, Encoding a Mitochondrial Membrane Protein, Results in Distinct Neurological Syndromes.

    Tamar Harel;Wan Hee Yoon;Caterina Garone;Shen Gu

  • The Undiagnosed Diseases Network: Accelerating Discovery about Health and Disease

    Rachel B. Ramoni;Rachel B. Ramoni;John J. Mulvihill;David R. Adams;Patrick Allard

  • Variability in clinical phenotype despite common chromosomal deletion in Smith-Magenis syndrome [del(17)(p11.2p11.2)].

    Lorraine Potocki;Christine J Shaw;Pawel Stankiewicz;James R Lupski;James R Lupski

  • Novel mutations of MYO15A associated with profound deafness in consanguineous families and moderately severe hearing loss in a patient with Smith-Magenis syndrome.

    Nikki Liburd;Manju Ghosh;Saima Riazuddin;Sadaf Naz

  • Identification of ANKRD11 and ZNF778 as candidate genes for autism and variable cognitive impairment in the novel 16q24.3 microdeletion syndrome

    Marjolein H. Willemsen;Bridget A. Fernandez;Carlos A. Bacino;Erica Gerkes

  • Structures and molecular mechanisms for common 15q13.3 microduplications involving CHRNA7: benign or pathological?

    Przemyslaw Szafranski;Christian P. Schaaf;Richard E. Person;Ian B. Gibson

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Lupski
James R. Lupski Baylor College of Medicine
Seema R. Lalani
Seema R. Lalani Baylor College of Medicine
Daryl A. Scott
Daryl A. Scott Baylor College of Medicine
Carlos A. Bacino
Carlos A. Bacino Baylor College of Medicine
Christine M. Eng
Christine M. Eng Baylor College of Medicine
Michael F. Wangler
Michael F. Wangler Baylor College of Medicine
Jill A. Rosenfeld
Jill A. Rosenfeld Baylor College of Medicine
Jennifer E. Posey
Jennifer E. Posey Baylor College of Medicine
Brendan Lee
Brendan Lee Baylor College of Medicine
Richard L. Maas
Richard L. Maas Brigham and Women's Hospital

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