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Alex S Nord

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior and Psychiatry …
Verified email at ucdavis.edu
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Rare structural variants disrupt multiple genes in neurodevelopmental pathways in schizophrenia

…, AM Addington, SB Pierce, GM Cooper, AS Nord… - science, 2008 - science.org
Schizophrenia is a devastating neurodevelopmental disorder whose genetic influences remain
elusive. We hypothesize that individually rare structural variants contribute to the illness. …

Mutations in 12 genes for inherited ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal carcinoma identified by massively parallel sequencing

…, MK Lee, CC Pennil, AS Nord… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Inherited loss-of-function mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 and other tumor suppressor
genes predispose to ovarian carcinomas, but the overall burden of disease due to inherited …

Detection of inherited mutations for breast and ovarian cancer using genomic capture and massively parallel sequencing

…, SM Stray, C Pennil, AS Nord… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Inherited loss-of-function mutations in the tumor suppressor genes BRCA1, BRCA2, and
multiple other genes predispose to high risks of breast and/or ovarian cancer. Cancer-…

[HTML][HTML] Rapid and pervasive changes in genome-wide enhancer usage during mammalian development

AS Nord, MJ Blow, C Attanasio, JA Akiyama, A Holt… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Enhancers are distal regulatory elements that can activate tissue-specific gene expression
and are abundant throughout mammalian genomes. Although substantial progress has been …

[HTML][HTML] Patient characteristics are important determinants of neurodevelopmental outcome at one year of age after neonatal and infant cardiac surgery

…, J Bernbaum, M Gerdes, E Zackai, AS Nord… - The Journal of thoracic …, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Many studies of neurodevelopmental outcomes after neonatal and infant cardiac
surgery have focused on potentially modifiable risk factors for adverse outcomes, primarily …

Fine tuning of craniofacial morphology by distant-acting enhancers

C Attanasio, AS Nord, Y Zhu, MJ Blow, Z Li… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Introduction The shape of the face is one of the most distinctive features among humans,
and differences in facial morphology have substantial implications in areas such as social …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution enhancer atlas of the developing telencephalon

…, SN Silberberg, MJ Blow, DV Hansen, AS Nord… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
The mammalian telencephalon plays critical roles in cognition, motor function, and emotion.
Though many of the genes required for its development have been identified, the distant-…

Germline Chd8 haploinsufficiency alters brain development in mouse

…, JN Crawley, KS Zarbalis, JL Silverman, AS Nord - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The chromatin remodeling gene CHD8 represents a central node in neurodevelopmental
gene networks implicated in autism. We examined the impact of germline heterozygous …

15 years of PhosphoSitePlus®: integrating post-translationally modified sites, disease variants and isoforms

…, B Murray, V Nandhikonda, A Nord… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
For 15 years the mission of PhosphoSitePlus ® (PSP, https://www.phosphosite.org ) has
been to provide comprehensive information and tools for the study of mammalian post-…

[HTML][HTML] ColoSeq provides comprehensive lynch and polyposis syndrome mutational analysis using massively parallel sequencing

…, SJ Salipante, MK Lee, AM Thornton, AS Nord… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2012 - Elsevier
Lynch syndrome (hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer) and adenomatous polyposis
syndromes frequently have overlapping clinical features. Current approaches for molecular …