Julian Martinez-Agosto*

Publications:

Woods JD, Khanlou N, Lee H, Signer R, Shieh P, Chen J, Herzog M, Palmer C, Martinez-Agosto J, Nelson SF. Myopathy associated with homozygous PYROXD1 pathogenic variants detected by genome sequencing. Neuropathology. 2020 Feb 09. view on PubMed

Klein SD, Martinez-Agosto JA. Hotspot Mutations in DICER1 Causing GLOW Syndrome-Associated Macrocephaly via Modulation of Specific microRNA Populations Result in the Activation of PI3K/ATK/mTOR Signaling. Microrna. 2020; 9(1):70-80. view on PubMed

Crane JN, Chang VY, Yong WH, Salamon N, Kianmahd J, Dorrani N, Martinez-Agosto JA, Davidson TB. A case report of a novel germline GNAS mutation in sonic hedgehog activated medulloblastoma. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2020 Mar; 67(3):e28103. view on PubMed

Mirzaa GM, Chong JX, Piton A, Popp B, Foss K, Guo H, Harripaul R, Xia K, Scheck J, Aldinger KA, Sajan SA, Tang S, Bonneau D, Beck A, White J, Mahida S, Harris J, Smith-Hicks C, Hoyer J, Zweier C, Reis A, Thiel CT, Jamra RA, Zeid N, Yang A, Farach LS, Walsh L, Payne K, Rohena L, Velinov M, Ziegler A, Schaefer E, Gatinois V, Geneviève D, Simon MEH, Kohler J, Rotenberg J, Wheeler P, Larson A, Ernst ME, Akman CI, Westman R, Blanchet P, Schillaci LA, Vincent-Delorme C, Gripp KW, Mattioli F, Guyader GL, Gerard B, Mathieu-Dramard M, Morin G, Sasanfar R, Ayub M, Vasli N, Yang S, Person R, Monaghan KG, Nickerson DA, van Binsbergen E, Enns GM, Dries AM, Rowe LJ, Tsai ACH, Svihovec S, Friedman J, Agha Z, Qamar R, Rodan LH, Martinez-Agosto J, Ockeloen CW, Vincent M, Sunderland WJ, Bernstein JA, Eichler EE, Vincent JB, Bamshad MJ. De novo and inherited variants in ZNF292 underlie a neurodevelopmental disorder with features of autism spectrum disorder. Genet Med. 2019 Nov 14. view on PubMed

Klein SD, Nguyen DC, Bhakta V, Wong D, Chang VY, Davidson TB, Martinez-Agosto JA. Mutations in the sonic hedgehog pathway cause macrocephaly-associated conditions due to crosstalk to the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway. Am J Med Genet A. 2019 Dec; 179(12):2517-2531. view on PubMed

Lee H, Huang AY, Wang LK, Yoon AJ, Renteria G, Eskin A, Signer RH, Dorrani N, Nieves-Rodriguez S, Wan J, Douine ED, Woods JD, Dell'Angelica EC, Fogel BL, Martin MG, Butte MJ, Parker NH, Wang RT, Shieh PB, Wong DA, Gallant N, Singh KE, Tavyev Asher YJ, Sinsheimer JS, Krakow D, Loo SK, Allard P, Papp JC, Palmer CGS, Martinez-Agosto JA, Nelson SF. Diagnostic utility of transcriptome sequencing for rare Mendelian diseases. Genet Med. 2019 Oct 14. view on PubMed

Busch RM, Srivastava S, Hogue O, Frazier TW, Klaas P, Hardan A, Martinez-Agosto JA, Sahin M, Eng C. Neurobehavioral phenotype of autism spectrum disorder associated with germline heterozygous mutations in PTEN. Transl Psychiatry. 2019 10 08; 9(1):253. view on PubMed

Kruszka P, Hu T, Hong S, Signer R, Cogné B, Isidor B, Mazzola SE, Giltay JC, van Gassen KLI, England EM, Pais L, Ockeloen CW, Sanchez-Lara PA, Kinning E, Adams DJ, Treat K, Torres-Martinez W, Bedeschi MF, Iascone M, Blaney S, Bell O, Tan TY, Delrue MA, Jurgens J, Barry BJ, Engle EC, Savage SK, Fleischer N, Martinez-Agosto JA, Boycott K, Zackai EH, Muenke M. Phenotype delineation of ZNF462 related syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2019 Oct; 179(10):2075-2082. view on PubMed

Konrad EDH, Nardini N, Caliebe A, Nagel I, Young D, Horvath G, Santoro SL, Shuss C, Ziegler A, Bonneau D, Kempers M, Pfundt R, Legius E, Bouman A, Stuurman KE, Õunap K, Pajusalu S, Wojcik MH, Vasileiou G, Le Guyader G, Schnelle HM, Berland S, Zonneveld-Huijssoon E, Kersten S, Gupta A, Blackburn PR, Ellingson MS, Ferber MJ, Dhamija R, Klee EW, McEntagart M, Lichtenbelt KD, Kenney A, Vergano SA, Abou Jamra R, Platzer K, Ella Pierpont M, Khattar D, Hopkin RJ, Martin RJ, Jongmans MCJ, Chang VY, Martinez-Agosto JA, Kuismin O, Kurki MI, Pietiläinen O, Palotie A, Maarup TJ, Johnson DS, Venborg Pedersen K, Laulund LW, Lynch SA, Blyth M, Prescott K, Canham N, Ibitoye R, Brilstra EH, Shinawi M, Fassi E, Sticht H, Gregor A, Van Esch H, Zweier C. CTCF variants in 39 individuals with a variable neurodevelopmental disorder broaden the mutational and clinical spectrum. Genet Med. 2019 12; 21(12):2723-2733. view on PubMed

Friend BD, Wolfe Schneider K, Garrington T, Truscott L, Martinez-Agosto JA, Venick RS, Tsai Chambers E, Weng P, Farmer DG, Chang VY, Federman N. Is polycystic kidney disease associated with malignancy in children? Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2019 Jul; 7(7):e00725. view on PubMed

Rexach J, Lee H, Martinez-Agosto JA, Németh AH, Fogel BL. Clinical application of next-generation sequencing to the practice of neurology. Lancet Neurol. 2019 May; 18(5):492-503. view on PubMed

Lee H, Martinez-Agosto JA, Rexach J, Fogel BL. Next generation sequencing in clinical diagnosis. Lancet Neurol. 2019 May; 18(5):426. view on PubMed

Nabais Sá MJ, Jensik PJ, McGee SR, Parker MJ, Lahiri N, McNeil EP, Kroes HY, Hagerman RJ, Harrison RE, Montgomery T, Splitt M, Palmer EE, Sachdev RK, Mefford HC, Scott AA, Martinez-Agosto JA, Lorenz R, Orenstein N, Berg JN, Amiel J, Heron D, Keren B, Cobben JM, Menke LA, Marco EJ, Graham JM, Pierson TM, Karimiani EG, Maroofian R, Manzini MC, Cauley ES, Colombo R, Odent S, Dubourg C, Phornphutkul C, de Brouwer APM, de Vries BBA, Vulto-vanSilfhout AT. De novo and biallelic DEAF1 variants cause a phenotypic spectrum. Genet Med. 2019 09; 21(9):2059-2069. view on PubMed

Chan AP, Mulatinho M, Iskander P, Lee H, Martinez-Agosto JA, Yeh J. Maternal Uniparental Disomy 14 (UPD14) Identified by Clinical Exome Sequencing in an Adolescent with Diverticulosis. ACG Case Rep J. 2019 Mar; 6(3):1-3. view on PubMed

Stephen J, Maddirevula S, Nampoothiri S, Burke JD, Herzog M, Shukla A, Steindl K, Eskin A, Patil SJ, Joset P, Lee H, Garrett LJ, Yokoyama T, Balanda N, Bodine SP, Tolman NJ, Zerfas PM, Zheng A, Ramantani G, Girisha KM, Rivas C, Suresh PV, Elkahloun A, Alsaif HS, Wakil SM, Mahmoud L, Ali R, Prochazkova M, Kulkarni AB, Ben-Omran T, Colak D, Morris HD, Rauch A, Martinez-Agosto JA, Nelson SF, Alkuraya FS, Gahl WA, Malicdan MCV. Bi-allelic TMEM94 Truncating Variants Are Associated with Neurodevelopmental Delay, Congenital Heart Defects, and Distinct Facial Dysmorphism. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 12 06; 103(6):948-967. view on PubMed

Deisseroth CA, Birgmeier J, Bodle EE, Kohler JN, Matalon DR, Nazarenko Y, Genetti CA, Brownstein CA, Schmitz-Abe K, Schoch K, Cope H, Signer R, Martinez-Agosto JA, Shashi V, Beggs AH, Wheeler MT, Bernstein JA, Bejerano G. ClinPhen extracts and prioritizes patient phenotypes directly from medical records to expedite genetic disease diagnosis. Genet Med. 2019 07; 21(7):1585-1593. view on PubMed

Mullegama SV, Klein SD, Signer RH, Vilain E, Martinez-Agosto JA. Mutations in STAG2 cause an X-linked cohesinopathy associated with undergrowth, developmental delay, and dysmorphia: Expanding the phenotype in males. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2019 02; 7(2):e00501. view on PubMed

Mullegama SV, Klein SD, Nguyen DC, Kim A, Signer R, Fox M, Dorrani N, Hendershot A, Mardach R, Suddath R, Dipple K, Vilain E, Wong DA, Deignan JL, D Cederbaum S, Grody WW, Martinez-Agosto JA. Is it time to retire fragile X testing as a first-tier test for developmental delay, intellectual disability, and autism spectrum disorder? Genet Med. 2017 12; 19(12). view on PubMed

Keppler-Noreuil KM, Martinez-Agosto JA, Hudgins L, Carey JC. 37th Annual David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis: Abstracts of the 2016 Annual Meeting. Am J Med Genet A. 2017 08; 173(8):2007-2073. view on PubMed

Kalish JM, Biesecker LG, Brioude F, Deardorff MA, Di Cesare-Merlone A, Druley T, Ferrero GB, Lapunzina P, Larizza L, Maas S, Macchiaiolo M, Maher ER, Maitz S, Martinez-Agosto JA, Mussa A, Robinson P, Russo S, Selicorni A, Hennekam RC. Nomenclature and definition in asymmetric regional body overgrowth. Am J Med Genet A. 2017 Jul; 173(7):1735-1738. view on PubMed

Ferguson GB, Martinez-Agosto JA. The TEAD family transcription factor Scalloped regulates blood progenitor maintenance and proliferation in Drosophila through PDGF/VEGFR receptor (Pvr) signaling. Dev Biol. 2017 05 01; 425(1):21-32. view on PubMed

Mullegama SV, Klein SD, Mulatinho MV, Senaratne TN, Singh K, Nguyen DC, Gallant NM, Strom SP, Ghahremani S, Rao NP, Martinez-Agosto JA. De novo loss-of-function variants in STAG2 are associated with developmental delay, microcephaly, and congenital anomalies. Am J Med Genet A. 2017 May; 173(5):1319-1327. view on PubMed

Collins RL, Brand H, Redin CE, Hanscom C, Antolik C, Stone MR, Glessner JT, Mason T, Pregno G, Dorrani N, Mandrile G, Giachino D, Perrin D, Walsh C, Cipicchio M, Costello M, Stortchevoi A, An JY, Currall BB, Seabra CM, Ragavendran A, Margolin L, Martinez-Agosto JA, Lucente D, Levy B, Sanders SJ, Wapner RJ, Quintero-Rivera F, Kloosterman W, Talkowski ME. Defining the diverse spectrum of inversions, complex structural variation, and chromothripsis in the morbid human genome. Genome Biol. 2017 03 06; 18(1):36. view on PubMed

Schoch K, Meng L, Szelinger S, Bearden DR, Stray-Pedersen A, Busk OL, Stong N, Liston E, Cohn RD, Scaglia F, Rosenfeld JA, Tarpinian J, Skraban CM, Deardorff MA, Friedman JN, Akdemir ZC, Walley N, Mikati MA, Kranz PG, Jasien J, McConkie-Rosell A, McDonald M, Wechsler SB, Freemark M, Kansagra S, Freedman S, Bali D, Millan F, Bale S, Nelson SF, Lee H, Dorrani N, Goldstein DB, Xiao R, Yang Y, Posey JE, Martinez-Agosto JA, Lupski JR, Wangler MF, Shashi V. A Recurrent De Novo Variant in NACC1 Causes a Syndrome Characterized by Infantile Epilepsy, Cataracts, and Profound Developmental Delay. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 Feb 02; 100(2):343-351. view on PubMed

Keppler-Noreuil KM, Parker VE, Darling TN, Martinez-Agosto JA. Somatic overgrowth disorders of the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway & therapeutic strategies. Am J Med Genet C Semin Med Genet. 2016 12; 172(4):402-421. view on PubMed

Truscott L, Gell J, Chang VY, Lee H, Strom SP, Pillai R, Sisk A, Martinez-Agosto JA, Anderson M, Federman N. Novel association of familial testicular germ cell tumor and autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease with PKD1 mutation. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 01; 64(1):100-102. view on PubMed

Klein S, Goldman A, Lee H, Ghahremani S, Bhakta V, Nelson SF, Martinez-Agosto JA. Truncating mutations in APP cause a distinct neurological phenotype. Ann Neurol. 2016 Sep; 80(3):456-60. view on PubMed

Stiles AR, Simon MT, Stover A, Eftekharian S, Khanlou N, Wang HL, Magaki S, Lee H, Partynski K, Dorrani N, Chang R, Martinez-Agosto JA, Abdenur JE. Mutations in TFAM, encoding mitochondrial transcription factor A, cause neonatal liver failure associated with mtDNA depletion. Mol Genet Metab. 2016 09; 119(1-2):91-9. view on PubMed

Ji J, Lee H, Argiropoulos B, Dorrani N, Mann J, Martinez-Agosto JA, Gomez-Ospina N, Gallant N, Bernstein JA, Hudgins L, Slattery L, Isidor B, Le Caignec C, David A, Obersztyn E, Wisniowiecka-Kowalnik B, Fox M, Deignan JL, Vilain E, Hendricks E, Horton Harr M, Noon SE, Jackson JR, Wilkens A, Mirzaa G, Salamon N, Abramson J, Zackai EH, Krantz I, Innes AM, Nelson SF, Grody WW, Quintero-Rivera F. DYRK1A haploinsufficiency causes a new recognizable syndrome with microcephaly, intellectual disability, speech impairment, and distinct facies. Eur J Hum Genet. 2015 Nov; 23(11):1473-81. view on PubMed

Wong DM, Shen Z, Owyang KE, Martinez-Agosto JA. Insulin- and warts-dependent regulation of tracheal plasticity modulates systemic larval growth during hypoxia in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One. 2014; 9(12):e115297. view on PubMed

Gallant NM, Gui D, Lassman CR, Yong WH, Teitell M, Mandelker D, Lorey F, Martinez-Agosto JA, Quintero-Rivera F. Novel liver findings in ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency due to Xp11.4-p21.1 microdeletion. Gene. 2015 Feb 10; 556(2):249-53. view on PubMed

Lee H, Deignan JL, Dorrani N, Strom SP, Kantarci S, Quintero-Rivera F, Das K, Toy T, Harry B, Yourshaw M, Fox M, Fogel BL, Martinez-Agosto JA, Wong DA, Chang VY, Shieh PB, Palmer CG, Dipple KM, Grody WW, Vilain E, Nelson SF. Clinical exome sequencing for genetic identification of rare Mendelian disorders. JAMA. 2014 Nov 12; 312(18):1880-7. view on PubMed

Ferguson GB, Martinez-Agosto JA. Yorkie and Scalloped signaling regulates Notch-dependent lineage specification during Drosophila hematopoiesis. Curr Biol. 2014 Nov 17; 24(22):2665-72. view on PubMed

Klein S, Lee H, Ghahremani S, Kempert P, Ischander M, Teitell MA, Nelson SF, Martinez-Agosto JA. Expanding the phenotype of mutations in DICER1: mosaic missense mutations in the RNase IIIb domain of DICER1 cause GLOW syndrome. J Med Genet. 2014 May; 51(5):294-302. view on PubMed

Ferguson GB, Martinez-Agosto JA. Kicking it up a Notch for the best in show: Scalloped leads Yorkie into the haematopoietic arena. Fly (Austin). 2014; 8(4):206-17. view on PubMed

Quintero-Rivera F, Martinez-Agosto JA. Hemifacial microsomia in cat-eye syndrome: 22q11.1-q11.21 as candidate loci for facial symmetry. Am J Med Genet A. 2013 Aug; 161A(8):1985-91. view on PubMed

Dragojlovic-Munther M, Martinez-Agosto JA. Extracellular matrix-modulated Heartless signaling in Drosophila blood progenitors regulates their differentiation via a Ras/ETS/FOG pathway and target of rapamycin function. Dev Biol. 2013 Dec 15; 384(2):313-30. view on PubMed

Klein S, Sharifi-Hannauer P, Martinez-Agosto JA. Macrocephaly as a clinical indicator of genetic subtypes in autism. Autism Res. 2013 Feb; 6(1):51-6. view on PubMed

Lu AT, Dai X, Martinez-Agosto JA, Cantor RM. Support for calcium channel gene defects in autism spectrum disorders. Mol Autism. 2012 Dec 15; 3(1):18. view on PubMed

Chiang J, Martinez-Agosto JA. Effects of mTOR Inhibitors on Components of the Salvador-Warts-Hippo Pathway. Cells. 2012 Oct 19; 1(4):886-904. view on PubMed

Chang VY, Federman N, Martinez-Agosto J, Tatishchev SF, Nelson SF. Whole exome sequencing of pediatric gastric adenocarcinoma reveals an atypical presentation of Li-Fraumeni syndrome. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Apr; 60(4):570-4. view on PubMed

Dragojlovic-Munther M, Martinez-Agosto JA. Multifaceted roles of PTEN and TSC orchestrate growth and differentiation of Drosophila blood progenitors. Development. 2012 Oct; 139(20):3752-63. view on PubMed

Arboleda VA, Lee H, Parnaik R, Fleming A, Banerjee A, Ferraz-de-Souza B, Délot EC, Rodriguez-Fernandez IA, Braslavsky D, Bergadá I, Dell'Angelica EC, Nelson SF, Martinez-Agosto JA, Achermann JC, Vilain E. Mutations in the PCNA-binding domain of CDKN1C cause IMAGe syndrome. Nat Genet. 2012 May 27; 44(7):788-92. view on PubMed

Klein S, Stroberg A, Ghahremani S, Martinez-Agosto JA. Phenotypic progression of skeletal anomalies in CLOVES syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2012 Jul; 158A(7):1690-5. view on PubMed

Tieu KS, Tieu RS, Martinez-Agosto JA, Sehl ME. Stem cell niche dynamics: from homeostasis to carcinogenesis. Stem Cells Int. 2012; 2012:367567. view on PubMed

Mondal BC, Mukherjee T, Mandal L, Evans CJ, Sinenko SA, Martinez-Agosto JA, Banerjee U. Interaction between differentiating cell- and niche-derived signals in hematopoietic progenitor maintenance. Cell. 2011 Dec 23; 147(7):1589-600. view on PubMed

Chang VY, Quintero-Rivera F, Baldwin EE, Woo K, Martinez-Agosto JA, Fu C, Gomperts BN. B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia and cystinuria in a patient with duplication 22q11.21 detected by chromosomal microarray analysis. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2011 Mar; 56(3):470-3. view on PubMed

Quintero-Rivera F, Martinez-Agosto JA. Bilateral exophthalmos: Report of a case and review of a fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 mutation associated with non-penetrant Crouzon syndrome. J Paediatr Child Health. 2010 Nov; 46(11):693-5. view on PubMed

Quintero-Rivera F, Sharifi-Hannauer P, Martinez-Agosto JA. Autistic and psychiatric findings associated with the 3q29 microdeletion syndrome: case report and review. Am J Med Genet A. 2010 Oct; 152A(10):2459-67. view on PubMed

Cheli VT, Daniels RW, Godoy R, Hoyle DJ, Kandachar V, Starcevic M, Martinez-Agosto JA, Poole S, DiAntonio A, Lloyd VK, Chang HC, Krantz DE, Dell'Angelica EC. Genetic modifiers of abnormal organelle biogenesis in a Drosophila model of BLOC-1 deficiency. Hum Mol Genet. 2010 Mar 01; 19(5):861-78. view on PubMed

Sinenko SA, Mandal L, Martinez-Agosto JA, Banerjee U. Dual role of wingless signaling in stem-like hematopoietic precursor maintenance in Drosophila. Dev Cell. 2009 May; 16(5):756-63. view on PubMed

Bui YK, Renella P, Martinez-Agosto JA, Verity A, Madikians A, Alejos JC. Danon disease with typical early-onset cardiomyopathy in a male: focus on a novel LAMP-2 mutation. Pediatr Transplant. 2008 Mar; 12(2):246-50. view on PubMed

Martinez-Agosto JA, Mikkola HK, Hartenstein V, Banerjee U. The hematopoietic stem cell and its niche: a comparative view. Genes Dev. 2007 Dec 01; 21(23):3044-60. view on PubMed

Mandal L, Martinez-Agosto JA, Evans CJ, Hartenstein V, Banerjee U. A Hedgehog- and Antennapedia-dependent niche maintains Drosophila haematopoietic precursors. Nature. 2007 Mar 15; 446(7133):320-4. view on PubMed