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Stephen W. Scherer
The Centre for Applied Genomics
The Hospital for Sick Children
14th Floor, Toronto Medical Discovery Tower/MaRS Discovery District
101 College St., Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1L7, Canada
(416) 813-7613 (office)
(416) 813-8319 (fax)

Jenny Kaderali,
Dr. Scherer's Assistant
Phone: (416) 813-7654 x1574     Fax: (416) 813-8319

1. Dowhanick, T.M., Scherer, S.W., Willick, G., Russell, I., Stewart, G.G. and Seligy, V.L. 1988. Differetial glucoamylase expression in Schwanniomyces castellii induced by maltose. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 34, 262-270.
2. Dowhanick, T.M., Russell, I., Scherer, S.W., Stewart, G.G. and Seligy, V.L. 1990. Expression and regulation of glucoamylase from the yeast Schwanniomyces castellii. Journal of Bacteriology 172, 2360-2366. [PMID: 2110140]
3. Scherer, S.W., Otulakowski, G., Robinson, B.H. and Tsui, L-C. 1991. Localization of the human dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase gene (DLD) to 7q31-32. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 56, 176-177. [PMID: 2055113]
4. Scherer, S.W., Tompkins, B.J.F. and Tsui, L.-C. 1992. A human chromosome 7-specific genomic DNA library in yeast artificial chromosomes. Mammalian Genome 3, 179-181. [PMID: 1617225]
5. Scherer, S.W., Rommens, J.M., Soder, S., Wong, E., Plasvic, N., Tompkins, B.J.F., Beattie, A., Kim, J. and Tsui, L.-C. 1993. Refined localization and yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) contig-mapping of genes and DNA segments in the 7q21-q32 region. Human Molecular Genetics 2, 751-760. [PMID: 8353494]
6. Scherer, S.W., Neufeld, E.J., Lievens, P.M-J., Orkin, S.H., Kim, J. and Tsui, L.-C. 1993. Regional localization of the CCAAT displacement protein gene (CUTL1) to 7q22 by analysis of somatic cell hybrids. Genomics 15, 695-696. [PMID: 8468066]
7. Guirrieri, F., Trask, B., van den Engh, G., Krauss, C.M., Schinzel, A., Pettenati, M.J., Shindler, D., Dietz-Band, J., Vergnaud, G., Scherer, S.W., Tsui, L.-C. and Muenke, M. 1993. Physical mapping of the holoprosencephaly critical region in 7q36. Nature Genetics 3, 247-251. [PMID: 8485580]
8. Marsden, P.A., Heng, H.H.Q., Scherer, S.W., Stewart, R.J., Hall, A.V., Shi, X.M., Tsui, L.-C. and Schappert, K. 1993. Structure and chromosomal localization of the human constitutive endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene. Journal of Biological Chemistry 268, 17478-17488. [PMID: 7688726]
9. Peichel, C.L., Scherer, S.W., Tsui, L.-C., Beier, D.R. and Vogt, T. F. 1993. Mapping the midkine family of developmentally regulated signalling molecules. Mammalian Genome 4, 632-638. [PMID: 8281012]
10. Heng, H.H.Q., Shi, X-M., Scherer, S.W., Andrulis, I. and Tsui, L.C. 1994. Refined localization of the asparagine synthetase gene (ASNS) to chromosome 7, region q21.3, and characterization of the somatic cell hybrid line 4AF/106/K015. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 66, 135-138. [PMID: 7904551]
11. Powers, P., Scherer, S.W., Tsui, L.-C., Gregg, R. and Hogan, K. 1994. Localization of the gene encoding the alpha 2/delta subunit (CACNL2A) of the human skeletal muscle voltage-dependent Ca2+ channel to chromosome 7q21-q22 by somatic cell hybrid analysis. Genomics 19, 192-193. [PMID: 8188232]
12. Vamvakopoulos, N.C., Kunz, J., Olberding, U., Scherer, S.W., Sioutopoulou, O., Schneider, V., Durkin, S. and Nierman, W.C. 1994. Mapping the human growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor (GHRHR) gene to the short arm of chromosome 7 (7p13-21) near the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene. Genomics 20, 338-340. [PMID: 8020995]
13. Scherer, S.W., Poorkaj, P., Allen, T., Kim, J., Geshuri, D., Nunes, M., Soder, S., Pagon, R., Stephens, K., Patton, M., Rivera, H., Berg, M.A., Pfeiffer, R.A., Naritomi, K., Hughes, H., Genuardi, M., Gurrieri, F., Neri, G., Lovrein, E., Magenis, E., Tsui, L.-C. and Evans, J.P. 1994. Fine mapping of the autosomal dominant split hand/split foot locus on chromosome 7 band q21.3-q22.1. American Journal of Human Genetics 55, 12-20. [PMID: 8023840]
14. Palmer, S., Scherer, S.W., Kukolich, M., Wijsman, E.M., Tsui, L.-C., Stephens, K. and Evans, J.P. 1994.
    Evidence for locus heterogeneity in human autosomal dominant split hand/split foot malformation. American Journal of Human Genetics 55, 21-26. [PMID: 7912888]
15. Kunz, J.*, Scherer, S.W.*, Klawitz, I., Soder, S., Du, Y-Z., Speich, N., Kalff-Suske, M., Heng, H., Tsui, L.-C. and Grzeschik, K.-H. 1994. Regional localization of 725 human chromosome 7-specific yeast artificial chromosome clones. Genomics 22, 439-448. *contributed equally to the manuscript. [PMID: 7806232]
16. Scherer, S.W., Poorkaj, P., Trask, B., Soder, S., Allen, T., Nunes, M., Geshuri, D., Wong, E., Belloni, E., Little, S., Zhou, L., Becker, D., Kere, J., Ignatius, J., Niikawa, N., Fukushima, Y., Hasegawa, T., Weissenbach, J., Boncinelli, E., Massa, H., Tsui, L.-C. and Evans, J.P. 1994. Physical mapping of the split hand/split foot locus on chromosome 7 and implication in syndromic ectrodactyly. Human Molecular Genetics 3, 1345-1354. [PMID: 7987313]
17. Iles, D.E., Lehmann-Horn, F., Scherer, S.W., Tsui, L.-C., Olde Weghuis, D., Suijkerbuijk, R.F., Heytens, L., Mikala, G., Schwartz, A., Ellis, F.R., Stewart, A.D. and Wieringa, B. 1994. Localization of the gene encoding the alpha 2/delta-subunits of the L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel to chromosome 7q and analysis of the segregation of flanking markers in malignant hyperthermia susceptible families. Human Molecular Genetics 3, 969-975. [PMID: 7951247]
18. Thacker J., Tambini, C. E., Simpson, P.J., Tsui, L.-C. and Scherer, S.W. 1995. Localization to chromosome 7q36.1 of the human XRCC2 gene, determining sensitivity to DNA-damaging agents. Human Molecular Genetics 4, 113-120. [PMID: 7711722]
19. Scherer, S.W., Heng, H.H.Q., Robinson, G.W., Mahon, K. A., Evans, J.P. and L.-C. Tsui. 1995. Assignment of the human homolog of mouse Dlx-3 to chromosome 17q21.3-q22 by analysis of somatic cell hybrids and fluorescence in situ hybridization. Mammalian Genome 6, 310-311. [PMID: 7613049]
20. Barron-Casella, E.A., Torres, M.A., Scherer, S.W., Heng, H.H.Q., Tsui, L.-C. and Casella, J.F. 1995. Sequence analysis and chromosomal localization of human Cap Z. Conserved residues within the actin-binding domain may link Cap Z to gelsolin/severin and profilin families. Journal of Biological Chemistry 270, 21472-21479. [PMID: 7665558]
21. Alley, T.L., Gray, B.A., Lee, S., Scherer, S.W., Tsui, L.-C., Tint, G.S., Williams, C.A., Zori, R. and Wallace, M.R. 1995. Identification of a yeast artificial chromosome clone spanning the translocation breakpoint at 7q32.1 in a Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome Patient. American Journal of Human Genetics 56, 1411-1416. [PMID: 7762564]
22. Torigue, K., Sato, S., Kusaba, H., Kohno, K., Kuwano, M., Okumura, K., Green, E., Tsui, L.-C., Scherer, S.W., Schlessinger, D. and Wada, M. 1995. A YAC-based contig of 1.5 Mb spanning the human multidrug resistance gene region and delineating the amplification unit in three human multidrug-resistant cell lines. Genome Research 5, 233-244. [PMID: 8593611]