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Overview

Stephen R.F. Twigg is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work primarily focuses on genetics, molecular biology, and related subfields such as surgery, pathology and forensic medicine, and cancer research.

The scientist's research interests include several key topics, notably:

  • Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments
  • Cleft Lip and Palate Research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Studies
  • Connective tissue disorders research
  • Dental development and anomalies

Notable recent publications by Stephen R.F. Twigg include:

  • The developing mouse coronal suture at single-cell resolution, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Structural and non-coding variants increase the diagnostic yield of clinical whole genome sequencing for rare diseases, 2023, Genome Medicine
  • SMAD6 variants in craniosynostosis: genotype and phenotype evaluation, 2020, Genetics in Medicine
  • A variant in IL6ST with a selective IL-11 signaling defect in human and mouse, 2020, Bone Research
  • Evaluating the performance of a clinical genome sequencing program for diagnosis of rare genetic disease, seen through the lens of craniosynostosis, 2021, Genetics in Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen R.F. Twigg include:

  • Andrew O.M. Wilkie
  • Eduardo Calpena
  • Simon J. McGowan
  • Rebecca S Tooze
  • Steven A. Wall

The scientist commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Journal of Medical Genetics
  • Genome Medicine
  • Genes
  • European Journal of Human Genetics

Best Publications

  • Integrating mapping-, assembly- and haplotype-based approaches for calling variants in clinical sequencing applications

    A Rimmer;H Phan;I Mathieson;Z Iqbal

  • Localized mutations in the gene encoding the cytoskeletal protein filamin A cause diverse malformations in humans.

    Stephen P. Robertson;Stephen P. Robertson;Stephen R.F. Twigg;Andrew J. Sutherland-Smith;Valérie Biancalana

  • Factors influencing success of clinical genome sequencing across a broad spectrum of disorders

    Jenny C. Taylor;Jenny C. Taylor;Hilary C. Martin;Stefano Lise;John Broxholme

  • Mutations of ephrin-B1 (EFNB1), a marker of tissue boundary formation, cause craniofrontonasal syndrome.

    Stephen R. F. Twigg;Rui Kan;Christian Babbs;Elena G. Bochukova

  • Prevalence and complications of single-gene and chromosomal disorders in craniosynostosis.

    Andrew O. M. Wilkie;Jo C. Byren;Jane A. Hurst;Jayaratnam Jayamohan

  • Functional haploinsufficiency of the human homeobox gene MSX2 causes defects in skull ossification.

    Andrew O.M. Wilkie;Zequn Tang;Navaratnam Elanko;Sinead Walsh

  • De novo alu-element insertions in FGFR2 identify a distinct pathological basis for Apert syndrome.

    Michael Oldridge;Elaine H. Zackai;Donna M. McDonald-McGinn;Sachiko Iseki

  • Genomic Screening of Fibroblast Growth-Factor Receptor 2 Reveals a Wide Spectrum of Mutations in Patients with Syndromic Craniosynostosis

    Shih-hsin Kan;Navaratnam Elanko;David Johnson;Laura Cornejo-Roldan

  • A Genetic-Pathophysiological Framework for Craniosynostosis

    Stephen R.F. Twigg;Andrew O.M. Wilkie

  • A Comprehensive Screen for TWIST Mutations in Patients with Craniosynostosis Identifies a New Microdeletion Syndrome of Chromosome Band 7p21.1

    David Johnson;Sharon W. Horsley;Dominique M. Moloney;Michael Oldridge

  • Mutations in TCF12 , encoding a basic helix-loop-helix partner of TWIST1, are a frequent cause of coronal craniosynostosis

    Vikram P Sharma;Aimée L Fenwick;Mia S Brockop;Mia S Brockop;Simon J McGowan

  • Reduced dosage of ERF causes complex craniosynostosis in humans and mice and links ERK1/2 signaling to regulation of osteogenesis

    Stephen R F Twigg;Elena Vorgia;Elena Vorgia;Simon J McGowan;Ioanna Peraki;Ioanna Peraki

  • Frontorhiny, a Distinctive Presentation of Frontonasal Dysplasia Caused by Recessive Mutations in the ALX3 Homeobox Gene

    Stephen R.F. Twigg;Sarah L. Versnel;Gudrun Nürnberg;Melissa M. Lees

  • Genotype-Phenotype Correlation for Nucleotide Substitutions in the IgII-IgIII Linker of FGFR2

    Michael Oldridge;Peter W. Lunt;Elaine H. Zackai;Donna M. McDonald-McGinn

  • New insights into craniofacial malformations

    Twigg;AO Wilkie

  • Diagnostic value of exome and whole genome sequencing in craniosynostosis.

    Kerry A Miller;Stephen R F Twigg;Simon J McGowan;Julie M Phipps

  • A Noncoding Expansion in EIF4A3 Causes Richieri-Costa-Pereira Syndrome, a Craniofacial Disorder Associated with Limb Defects

    Francine P Favaro;Lucas Alvizi;Roseli Maria Zechi-Ceide;Débora Romeo Bertola

  • The origin of EFNB1 mutations in craniofrontonasal syndrome: frequent somatic mosaicism and explanation of the paucity of carrier males.

    Stephen R.F. Twigg;Kazuya Matsumoto;Kazuya Matsumoto;Alexa M.J. Kidd;Anne Goriely

  • Mutations in CDC45, Encoding an Essential Component of the Pre-initiation Complex, Cause Meier-Gorlin Syndrome and Craniosynostosis

    Aimee L. Fenwick;Maciej Kliszczak;Maciej Kliszczak;Fay Cooper;Jennie Murray

  • A cryptic t(5;11)(q35;p15.5) in 2 children with acute myeloid leukemia with apparently normal karyotypes, identified by a multiplex fluorescence in situ hybridization telomere assay.

    Jill Brown;Mays Jawad;Stephen R.F. Twigg;Kaan Saracoglu

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew O.M. Wilkie
Andrew O.M. Wilkie University of Oxford
Simon J. McGowan
Simon J. McGowan University of Oxford
Peter J. van der Spek
Peter J. van der Spek Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jenny C. Taylor
Jenny C. Taylor University of Oxford
Samantha J.L. Knight
Samantha J.L. Knight University of Oxford
Han G. Brunner
Han G. Brunner Radboud University
Dagmar Wieczorek
Dagmar Wieczorek Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Diana Baralle
Diana Baralle University of Southampton
Elaine H. Zackai
Elaine H. Zackai Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Robert E. Maxson
Robert E. Maxson University of Southern California

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