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Overview

Nigel G. Laing is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. They have a substantial publication record in fields related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, genetics, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and neurology.

Their work extensively covers topics including genetic neurodegenerative diseases, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, muscle physiology and disorders, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, genomics and rare diseases, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Frequent publication venues for Nigel G. Laing include:

  • Neuromuscular Disorders
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Stem Cell Research
  • Brain
  • European Journal of Human Genetics

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Nigel G. Laing are:

  • "Deep Intronic FGF14 GAA Repeat Expansion in Late-Onset Cerebellar Ataxia," 2022, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, vestibular areflexia syndrome due to RFC1 repeat expansion," 2020, Brain
  • "Comprehensive genetic diagnosis of tandem repeat expansion disorders with programmable targeted nanopore sequencing," 2022, Science Advances
  • "Genome Sequencing for Diagnosing Rare Diseases," 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Gene selection for the Australian Reproductive Genetic Carrier Screening Project ("Mackenzie's Mission")," 2020, European Journal of Human Genetics

Nigel's frequent co-authors include:

  • Gianina Ravenscroft
  • Mark R. Davis
  • Joshua S. Clayton
  • Carolin K. Scriba
  • Rhonda L. Taylor

Best Publications

  • Improving genetic diagnosis in Mendelian disease with transcriptome sequencing

    Beryl B. Cummings;Beryl B. Cummings;Jamie L. Marshall;Jamie L. Marshall;Taru Tukiainen;Taru Tukiainen;Monkol Lek

  • Linkage of a gene causing familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to chromosome 21 and evidence of genetic-locus heterogeneity.

    T Siddique;D A Figlewicz;D A Figlewicz;M A Pericak-Vance;J L Haines

  • Mutations in the skeletal muscle α-actin gene in patients with actin myopathy and nemaline myopathy

    Kristen J. Nowak;Kristen J. Nowak;Duangrurdee Wattanasirichaigoon;Hans H. Goebel;Matthew Wilce

  • A mutation in the alpha tropomyosin gene TPM3 associated with autosomal dominant nemaline myopathy.

    Laing Ng;Wilton Sd;Akkari Pa;Akkari Pa;Dorosz S

  • Mutations in the nebulin gene associated with autosomal recessive nemaline myopathy

    Katarina Pelin;Pirta Hilpelä;Kati Donner;Caroline Sewry

  • Complete genomic screen in Parkinson disease: evidence for multiple genes.

    William K. Scott;Martha A. Nance;Ray L. Watts;Jean P. Hubble

  • Nemaline myopathy: A clinical study of 143 cases

    Monique M. Ryan;Christina Schnell;Corinne D. Strickland;Lloyd K. Shield

  • Approach to the diagnosis of congenital myopathies

    Kathryn N. North;Kathryn N. North;Ching H. Wang;Nigel Clarke;Heinz Jungbluth;Heinz Jungbluth

  • Heterozygous mutations in ANKH, the human ortholog of the mouse progressive ankylosis gene, result in craniometaphyseal dysplasia

    Peter Nürnberg;Holger Thiele;Holger Thiele;David Chandler;Wolfgang Höhne

  • Nemaline myopathy with minicores caused by mutation of the CFL2 gene encoding the skeletal muscle actin-binding protein, cofilin-2.

    Pankaj B. Agrawal;Rebecca S. Greenleaf;Kinga K. Tomczak;Vilma-Lotta Lehtokari

  • Mutations and polymorphisms of the skeletal muscle alpha-actin gene (ACTA1).

    Nigel G Laing;Danielle E Dye;Carina Wallgren-Pettersson;Gabriele Richard

  • Prognosis in Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Progression and Survival in Patients with Glu100gly and Ala4val Mutations in Cu,Zn Superoxide Dismutase

    Tony Juneja;Margaret A. Pericak-Vance;Nigel G. Laing;Sundeep Dave

  • Association of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms of the Tau Gene With Late-Onset Parkinson Disease

    Eden R. Martin;William K. Scott;Martha A. Nance;Ray L. Watts

  • Mutations in the Slow Skeletal Muscle Fiber Myosin Heavy Chain Gene (MYH7) Cause Laing Early-Onset Distal Myopathy (MPD1)

    Christopher Meredith;Ralf Herrmann;Cheryl Parry;Khema Liyanage

  • Nemaline myopathy: Current concepts

    K.N. North;Nigel Laing;C. Wallgren-Pettersson

  • Sequence Alterations within CYP7B1 Implicate Defective Cholesterol Homeostasis in Motor-Neuron Degeneration

    Maria K. Tsaousidou;Karim Ouahchi;Tom T. Warner;Yi Yang

  • Muscle disease caused by mutations in the skeletal muscle alpha-actin gene (ACTA1)

    John C. Sparrow;Kristen J. Nowak;Kristen J. Nowak;Hayley J. Durling;Alan H. Beggs

  • Mutations in KLHL40 Are a Frequent Cause of Severe Autosomal-Recessive Nemaline Myopathy

    Gianina Ravenscroft;Satoko Miyatake;Vilma Lotta Lehtokari;Emily J. Todd

  • Autosomal recessive inheritance of RYR1 mutations in a congenital myopathy with cores.

    H. Jungbluth;C.R. Muller;B. Halliger-Keller;M. Brockington

  • Use of Whole-Exome Sequencing for Diagnosis of Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy: Outcomes and Lessons Learned

    Roula Ghaoui;Sandra T. Cooper;Sandra T. Cooper;Monkol Lek;Kristi Jones;Kristi Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathryn N. North
Kathryn N. North University of Melbourne
Steve D. Wilton
Steve D. Wilton University of Western Australia
Carina Wallgren-Pettersson
Carina Wallgren-Pettersson University of Helsinki
Alan H. Beggs
Alan H. Beggs Harvard Medical School
Francesco Muntoni
Francesco Muntoni University College London
Daniel G. MacArthur
Daniel G. MacArthur Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Caroline Sewry
Caroline Sewry University College London
Heinz Jungbluth
Heinz Jungbluth King's College London
Frank L. Mastaglia
Frank L. Mastaglia University of Western Australia
Monkol Lek
Monkol Lek Yale University

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