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Tomas Fitzgerald

Senior Research Staff Scientist EMBL-EBI
Verified email at ebi.ac.uk
Cited by 8131

Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences

…, R Desalle, GRS Ritchie, E Cerveira, TW Fitzgerald… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We report the sequences of 1,244 human Y chromosomes randomly ascertained from 26
worldwide populations by the 1000 Genomes Project. We discovered more than 65,000 …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diagnosis of developmental disorders in the DDD study: a scalable analysis of genome-wide research data

CF Wright, TW Fitzgerald, WD Jones, S Clayton… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Human genome sequencing has transformed our understanding of genomic
variation and its relevance to health and disease, and is now starting to enter clinical practice …

Distinct genetic architectures for syndromic and nonsyndromic congenital heart defects identified by exome sequencing

…, SHA Turki, B Thienpont, J McRae, TW Fitzgerald… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) have a neonatal incidence of 0.8–1% (refs. 1 , 2 ). Despite
abundant examples of monogenic CHD in humans and mice, CHD has a low absolute …

[HTML][HTML] Making new genetic diagnoses with old data: iterative reanalysis and reporting from genome-wide data in 1,133 families with developmental disorders

…, S Clayton, G Gallone, S Aitken, TW FitzGerald… - Genetics in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose Given the rapid pace of discovery in rare disease genomics, it is likely that improvements
in diagnostic yield can be made by systematically reanalyzing previously generated …

[PDF][PDF] Histone lysine methylases and demethylases in the landscape of human developmental disorders

…, JF McRae, S Clayton, TW Fitzgerald… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
Histone lysine methyltransferases (KMTs) and demethylases (KDMs) underpin gene regulation.
Here we demonstrate that variants causing haploinsufficiency of KMTs and KDMs are …

Mobilization of giant piggyBac transposons in the mouse genome

…, Q Liang, S Eckert, L Rad, TW Fitzgerald… - Nucleic acids …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The development of technologies that allow the stable delivery of large genomic DNA
fragments in mammalian systems is important for genetic studies as well as for applications in …

Discovery of four recessive developmental disorders using probabilistic genotype and phenotype matching among 4,125 families

…, S Clayton, T Cole, C Deshpande, TW Fitzgerald… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Discovery of most autosomal recessive disease-associated genes has involved analysis of
large, often consanguineous multiplex families or small cohorts of unrelated individuals with …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic variation affects morphological retinal phenotypes extracted from UK Biobank optical coherence tomography images

H Currant, P Hysi, TW Fitzgerald, P Gharahkhani… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) enables non-invasive imaging of the retina and is
used to diagnose and manage ophthalmic diseases including glaucoma. We present the first …

[HTML][HTML] Clinically-relevant postzygotic mosaicism in parents and children with developmental disorders in trio exome sequencing data

…, J McRae, J Kaplanis, TW Fitzgerald… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Mosaic genetic variants can have major clinical impact. We systematically analyse trio
exome sequence data from 4,293 probands from the DDD Study with severe developmental …

Comparison of associations with different macular inner retinal thickness parameters in a large cohort: the UK Biobank

…, PG Hysi, S Georgoulas, H Currant, TW Fitzgerald… - Ophthalmology, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose To describe and compare associations with macular retinal nerve fiber layer (mRNFL),
ganglion cell complex (GCC), and ganglion cell–inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) …