Websites:
The Centre for Applied Genomics
The Chromosome 7 Project
Database of Genomic Variants
McLaughlin Centre
Steve Scherer's Wiki

News:
Press Releases and Articles
Lay Reviews/Opinions/Editorials
Media/Scientific News Articles
Interviews
Video presentation and interview
Integrative research at TCAG [Video]

Contact Info:
Stephen W. Scherer
The Centre for Applied Genomics
The Hospital for Sick Children
Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning
686 Bay Street, Room 13.9800
Toronto, Ontario, M5G 0A4, Canada
(416) 813-7613 (office)
(416) 813-8319 (fax)

Elaine Chang
Dr. Scherer's Assistant
Phone: (416) 813-7654 x301574
Fax: (416) 813-8319

1. Minassian, B.A., Andrade, D.M., Ianzano, L., Young, E.J., Chan, E., Ackerley, C.A. and Scherer, S.W. 2001. Laforin is a cell membrane and endoplasmic reticulum associated protein tyrosine phosphatase. Annals of Neurology 41, 271-275. [PMID: 11220751]
2. Nakabayashi, K. and Scherer, S.W. 2001. The human contactin-associated protein-like 2 gene (CNTNAP2) spans over 2 Mb of DNA at chromosome 7q35. Genomics 73, 108-112. [PMID: 11352571]
3. Hannula, K., Lipsanen-Nyman, M., Scherer, S.W., Holmberg, C., Höglund, P. and Kere, J. 2001. Maternal and paternal chromosomes 7 show differential methylation of many genes in lymphoblast DNA. Genomics 73, 1-9. [PMID: 11352560]
4. Petek, E., Windpassinger, C., Vincent, J.B., Cheung, J., Boright, A.P., Scherer, S.W., Kroisel, P.M. and Wagner, K. 2001. Disruption of a novel gene (IMMP2L) by a breakpoint in 7q31 associated with Tourette syndrome. American Journal of Human Genetics 68, 848-858. [PMID: 11254443]
5. Fröhling, S., Nakabayashi, K., Scherer, S.W., Döhner, H. and Döhner, K. 2001. Mutation analysis of the origin recognition complex subunit 5 (ORC5L) gene in adult patients with myeloid leukemias exhibiting deletions of chromosome band 7q22. Human Genetics 108, 304-309. [PMID: 11379876]
6. Wilson, M.D., Riemer, C., Martindale, D.W., Schnupf, P., Boright, A.P., Cheung, T.L., Hardy, D.M., Schwartz, S., Scherer, S.W., Tsui, L.C., Miller, W. and Koop, B.F. 2001. Comparative analysis of the gene-dense ACHE/TFR2 region on human chromosome 7q22 with the orthologous region on mouse chromosome 5. Nucleic Acids Research 29, 1352-1365. [PMID: 11239002]
7. Wong, C.G., Scherer, S.W., Snead, O.C. and Hampson, D.R. 2001. Localization of the human mGluR4 gene within an epilepsy susceptibility locus. Molecular Brain Research 87, 109-116. [PMID: 11223165]
8. Hadano, S., Yanagisawa, Y., Skaug, J., Fichter, K., Nasir, J., Martindale, D., Koop, B.F., Scherer, S.W., Nicholson, D.W., Rouleau, G.A., Ikeda, J. and Hayden M.R. 2001. Cloning and Characterization of Three Novel Genes, ALS2CR1, ALS2CR2, and ALS2CR3, in the Juvenile Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS2) Critical Region at Chromosome 2q33-q34: Candidate Genes for ALS2. Genomics 71, 200-213. [PMID: 11161814]
9. Hadano, S., Hand, C.K., Osuga, H., Yanagisawa, Y., Otomo, A., Devon, R.S., Miyamoto, N., Showguchi-Miyata, J., Okada, Y., Singaraja, R., Figlewicz, D.A., Kwiatkowski, T., Hosler, B.A., Sagie, T., Skaug, J., Nasir, J., Brown, R.H. Jr, Scherer, S.W., Rouleau, G.A., Hayden, M.R. and Ikeda, J.E. 2001. A gene encoding a putative GTPase regulator is mutated in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis 2. Nature Genetics 29, 166-173. [PMID: 11586298]
10. Ma, Z., Morris, S.W., Valentine, V., Li, M., Herbrick, J.A., Cui, X., Bouman, D., Li, Y., Mehta, P.K., Nizetic, D., Kaneko, Y., Chan, G.C., Chan, L.C., Squire, J., Scherer, S.W. and Hitzler JK. 2001. Fusion of two novel genes, RBM15 and MKL1, in the t(1;22)(p13;q13) of acute megakaryoblastic leukemia. Nature Genetics 3, 220-221. [PMID: 11431691]
11. Cheung, J., Petek, E., Nakabayashi, K., Tsui, L.C., Vincent, J.B. and Scherer, S.W. 2001. Identification of the human cortactin-binding protein-2 gene from the autism candidate region at 7q31. Genomics 78, 7-11. [PMID: 11707066]
12. Osborne, L.R., Li, M., Pober, B., Chitayat, D., Bodurtha, J., Mandel, A., Costa, T., Grebe, T., Cox, S., Tsui, L.C. and Scherer, S.W. 2001. A 1.5 million base pair inversion polymorphism in families with Williams-Beuren syndrome. Nature Genetics 29, 321-325. [PMID: 11685205]