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  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stephen P. Daiger is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Medicine. Within these, their work involves several subfields including Molecular Biology, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, as well as Epidemiology.

The main topics investigated by Stephen P. Daiger include retinal development and disorders, retinal diseases and treatments, RNA regulation and disease, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, genetic and kidney cyst diseases, and fetal and pediatric neurological disorders.

Throughout their career, Stephen P. Daiger has published research in several venues, most frequently appearing in Translational Vision Science & Technology, followed by bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The American Journal of Human Genetics, Human Mutation, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Co-authorship is a significant aspect of their work. Frequent collaborators include David G. Birch, Jacque L. Duncan, Lori S. Sullivan, Kari Branham, and Kinga M. Bujakowska.

Some notable recent papers by Stephen P. Daiger include:

  • "Mutations in the Kinesin-2 Motor KIF3B Cause an Autosomal-Dominant Ciliopathy" (2020) published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • "Tissue-specific genotype-phenotype correlations among USH2A-related disorders in the RUSH2A study" (2022) published in Human Mutation
  • "Understanding the genetic architecture of human retinal degenerations" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Overcoming the Challenges to Clinical Development of X-Linked Retinitis Pigmentosa Therapies: Proceedings of an Expert Panel" (2023) published in Translational Vision Science & Technology
  • "De novo and inherited dominant variants in U4 and U6 snRNAs cause retinitis pigmentosa" (2025) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Stephen P. Daiger has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2014.

Best Publications

  • Genes and mutations causing retinitis pigmentosa

    Stephen P Daiger;Lori S Sullivan;Sara J Bowne

  • Perspective on Genes and Mutations Causing Retinitis Pigmentosa

    Stephen P. Daiger;Sara J. Bowne;Lori S. Sullivan

  • Group-specific component (Gc) proteins bind vitamin D and 25-hydroxyvitamin D

    Stephen P. Daiger;Mel S. Schanfield;L. L. Cavalli-Sforza

  • Apparent heterozygote deficiencies observed in DNA typing data and their implications in forensic applications.

    Ranajit Chakraborty;M. De Andrade;S. P. Daiger;Bruce Budowle

  • Prevalence of mutations causing retinitis pigmentosa and other inherited retinopathies

    Melanie M. Sohocki;Stephen P Daiger;Sara J Bowne;Joseph A. Rodriquez

  • A Range of Clinical Phenotypes Associated with Mutations in CRX, a Photoreceptor Transcription-Factor Gene

    Melanie M. Sohocki;Lori S. Sullivan;Helen A. Mintz-Hittner;David Birch

  • Mutations in a new photoreceptor-pineal gene on 17p cause Leber congenital amaurosis.

    Melanie M. Sohocki;Sara J. Bowne;Lori S. Sullivan;Seth Blackshaw

  • Prevalence of disease-causing mutations in families with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa: a screen of known genes in 200 families.

    Lori S. Sullivan;Sara J. Bowne;David G. Birch;Dianna Hughbanks-Wheaton

  • Autosomal Dominant Sectoral Retinitis Pigmentosa: Two Families With Transversion Mutation in Codon 23 of Rhodopsin

    John R. Heckenlively;Joseph A. Rodriguez;Stephen P. Daiger

  • Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (ADRP): Localization of an ADRP gene to the long arm of chromosome 3

    Peter McWilliam;G.Jane Farrar;Paul Kenna;Daniel G. Bradley

  • Localization of two genes for Usher syndrome type I to chromosome 11.

    Richard J.H. Smith;Elizabeth C. Lee;William J. Kimberling;Stephen P. Daiger

  • Mutations in the inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase 1 gene (IMPDH1) cause the RP10 form of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa

    Sara J. Bowne;Lori S. Sullivan;Susan H. Blanton;Constance L. Cepko

  • Next generation sequencing-based molecular diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa: identification of a novel genotype-phenotype correlation and clinical refinements

    Feng Wang;Hui Wang;Han Fang Tuan;Duy H. Nguyen

  • Spectrum and frequency of mutations in IMPDH1 associated with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa and leber congenital amaurosis.

    Sara J. Bowne;Lori S. Sullivan;Sarah E. Mortimer;Lizbeth Hedstrom

  • Linkage mapping of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP1) to the pericentric region of human chromosome 8

    Susan Halloran Blanton;John R. Heckenlively;Anne W. Cottingham;Jackie Friedman

  • Inherited Retinal Degenerations: Current Landscape and Knowledge Gaps.

    Jacque L. Duncan;Eric A. Pierce;Amy M. Laster;Stephen P. Daiger

  • Prevalence of AIPL1 mutations in inherited retinal degenerative disease

    Melanie M. Sohocki;Isabelle Perrault;Bart P. Leroy;Bart P. Leroy;Annette M. Payne

  • Autosomal-dominant retinitis pigmentosa caused by a mutation in SNRNP200, a gene required for unwinding of U4/U6 snRNAs.

    Chen Zhao;Chen Zhao;Deepti L. Bellur;Shasha Lu;Shasha Lu;Feng Zhao

  • Mutations in a novel retina-specific gene cause autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa

    Lori S. Sullivan;John R. Heckenlively;Sara J. Bowne;Jian Zuo

  • Mutations in a novel photoreceptor-pineal gene on 17P cause leber congenital amaurosis (LCA4)

    Melanie M. Sohocki;Stephen P. Daiger

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Birch
David G. Birch The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John R. Heckenlively
John R. Heckenlively University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Susan H. Blanton
Susan H. Blanton University of Miami
Peter Humphries
Peter Humphries Trinity College Dublin
Eric A. Pierce
Eric A. Pierce Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Rui Chen
Rui Chen Capital Medical University
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock The Jackson Laboratory
Daniel C. Koboldt
Daniel C. Koboldt The Ohio State University
Robert S. Fulton
Robert S. Fulton Washington University in St. Louis
Edwin M. Stone
Edwin M. Stone University of Iowa

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