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Overview

Soma Das is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States, contributing primarily to the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields, including Genetics, Hematology, Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work addresses diverse topics such as Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research.

Soma Das has coauthored publications with frequent collaborators including Daniela del Gaudio, Lucy A. Godley, Jane E. Churpek, Hari Prasanna Subramanian, and Christopher M. Gómez.

They have contributed to a variety of publication venues, with multiple articles appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Blood, Leukemia, Blood Advances, and Human Mutation.

Significant recent papers authored or coauthored by Soma Das include:

  • Next-generation sequencing for constitutional variants in the clinical laboratory, 2021 revision: a technical standard of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), 2021, Genetics in Medicine
  • Germline variants drive myelodysplastic syndrome in young adults, 2021, Leukemia
  • Prevalence of RFC1-mediated spinocerebellar ataxia in a North American ataxia cohort, 2020, Neurology Genetics
  • Targeted gene panels identify a high frequency of pathogenic germline variants in patients diagnosed with a hematological malignancy and at least one other independent cancer, 2021, Leukemia
  • Telomere biology disorder prevalence and phenotypes in adults with familial hematologic and/or pulmonary presentations, 2020, Blood Advances

Best Publications

  • Standards and guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants: a joint consensus recommendation of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology.

    Sue Richards;Nazneen Aziz;Nazneen Aziz;Sherri Bale;David Bick

  • Genetic variants in the UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 gene predict the risk of severe neutropenia of irinotecan.

    Federico Innocenti;Samir D. Undevia;Lalitha Iyer;Pei Xian Chen

  • UGT1A1*28 polymorphism as a determinant of irinotecan disposition and toxicity

    L Iyer;S Das;L Janisch;M Wen

  • ACMG recommendations for standards for interpretation and reporting of sequence variations: Revisions 2007

    C Sue Richards;Sherri Bale;Daniel B Bellissimo;Soma Das

  • Assuring the quality of next-generation sequencing in clinical laboratory practice

    Amy S Gargis;Lisa Kalman;Meredith W Berry;David P Bick

  • Phenotype-genotype correlation of in vitro SN-38 (active metabolite of irinotecan) and bilirubin glucuronidation in human liver tissue with UGT1A1 promoter polymorphism

    Lalitha Iyer;Diana Hall;Soma Das;Melissa A. Mortell

  • PTEN methylation is associated with advanced stage and microsatellite instability in endometrial carcinoma.

    Helga B. Salvesen;Helga B. Salvesen;Nicola MacDonald;Andy Ryan;Ian J. Jacobs

  • Genotype-Phenotype Associations in Sotos Syndrome: An Analysis of 266 Individuals with NSD1 Aberrations

    Katrina Tatton-Brown;Jenny Douglas;Kim Coleman;Geneviève Baujat

  • Mutations of ARX are associated with striking pleiotropy and consistent genotype–phenotype correlation

    Mitsuhiro Kato;Soma Das;Kristin Petras;Kunio Kitamura

  • Methylation-specific PCR simplifies imprinting analysis.

    Takeo Kubota;Soma Das;Susan L. Christian;Stephen B. Baylin

  • Comprehensive Pharmacogenetic Analysis of Irinotecan Neutropenia and Pharmacokinetics

    Federico Innocenti;Deanna L. Kroetz;Erin Schuetz;M. Eileen Dolan

  • Pharmacogenetics of outcome in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Jose Claudio C. Rocha;Cheng Cheng;Cheng Cheng;Wei Liu;Wei Liu;Shinji Kishi;Shinji Kishi

  • Homocysteine, Pharmacogenetics, and Neurotoxicity in Children With Leukemia

    Shinji Kishi;James Griener;Cheng Cheng;Soma Das

  • Pharmacogenomic and Pharmacokinetic Determinants of Erlotinib Toxicity

    Charles M. Rudin;Wanqing Liu;Apurva Desai;Theodore Karrison

  • Ancestry and pharmacogenetics of antileukemic drug toxicity.

    Shinji Kishi;Cheng Cheng;Deborah French;Deqing Pei

  • The core FOXG1 syndrome phenotype consists of postnatal microcephaly, severe mental retardation, absent language, dyskinesia, and corpus callosum hypogenesis

    Fanny Kortüm;Soma Das;Max Flindt;Deborah J Morris-Rosendahl

  • The 1200 patients project: creating a new medical model system for clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics.

    Peter H. O’Donnell;Angela Bush;Jared Spitz;Keith Danahey

  • BRCA1 promoter methylation in sporadic breast cancer is associated with reduced BRCA1 copy number and chromosome 17 aneusomy.

    Minjie Wei;Tatyana A. Grushko;James Dignam;Fitsum Hagos

  • A pharmacogenetic study of uridine diphosphate-glucuronosyltransferase 2B7 in patients receiving morphine.

    Michael B. Sawyer;Michael B. Sawyer;Federico Innocenti;Federico Innocenti;Soma Das;Soma Das;Cheng Cheng;Cheng Cheng

  • Clinical Laboratories Collaborate to Resolve Differences in Variant Interpretations Submitted to ClinVar

    Steven M. Harrison;Steven M. Harrison;Jill S. Dolinsky;Amy E. Knight Johnson;Tina Pesaran

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Ratain
Mark J. Ratain University of Chicago
Federico Innocenti
Federico Innocenti University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William B. Dobyns
William B. Dobyns University of Minnesota
Edwin H. Cook
Edwin H. Cook University of Illinois at Chicago
Mary V. Relling
Mary V. Relling St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Ching-Hon Pui
Ching-Hon Pui St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Heidi L. Rehm
Heidi L. Rehm Brigham and Women's Hospital
David H. Ledbetter
David H. Ledbetter University of Florida
Nancy J. Cox
Nancy J. Cox Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Sherri J. Bale
Sherri J. Bale OPKO Health (United States)

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