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Brett Trost

Scientist, Molecular Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children
Verified email at sickkids.ca
Cited by 2862

Genome-wide detection of tandem DNA repeats that are expanded in autism

B Trost, W Engchuan, CM Nguyen… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Tandem DNA repeats vary in the size and sequence of each unit (motif). When expanded,
these tandem DNA repeats have been associated with more than 40 monogenic disorders 1 . …

[PDF][PDF] A comprehensive workflow for read depth-based identification of copy-number variation from whole-genome sequence data

B Trost, S Walker, Z Wang… - The American Journal of …, 2018 - cell.com
A remaining hurdle to whole-genome sequencing (WGS) becoming a first-tier genetic test
has been accurate detection of copy-number variations (CNVs). Here, we used several …

No human protein is exempt from bacterial motifs, not even one

B Trost, G Lucchese, A Stufano, M Bickis, A Kusalik… - Self/nonself, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The hypothesis that mimicry between a self and a microbial peptide antigen is strictly related
to autoimmune pathology remains a debated concept in autoimmunity research. Clear …

Computational prediction of eukaryotic phosphorylation sites

B Trost, A Kusalik - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Kinase-mediated phosphorylation is the central mechanism of post-translational
modification to regulate cellular responses and phenotypes. Signaling defects associated …

[HTML][HTML] ExpansionHunter Denovo: a computational method for locating known and novel repeat expansions in short-read sequencing data

E Dolzhenko, MF Bennett, PA Richmond, B Trost… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Repeat expansions are responsible for over 40 monogenic disorders, and undoubtedly
more pathogenic repeat expansions remain to be discovered. Existing methods for detecting …

[HTML][HTML] A large data resource of genomic copy number variation across neurodevelopmental disorders

…, EJ Higginbotham, JR MacDonald, B Trost… - NPJ genomic …, 2019 - nature.com
Copy number variations (CNVs) are implicated across many neurodevelopmental disorders
(NDDs) and contribute to their shared genetic etiology. Multiple studies have attempted to …

Genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive whole-genome sequence annotation

B Trost, B Thiruvahindrapuram, AJS Chan… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fully understanding autism spectrum disorder (ASD) genetics requires whole-genome
sequencing (WGS). We present the latest release of the Autism Speaks MSSNG resource, which …

[HTML][HTML] Rare tandem repeat expansions associate with genes involved in synaptic and neuronal signaling functions in schizophrenia

J Wen, B Trost, W Engchuan, M Halvorsen… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Tandem repeat expansions (TREs) are associated with over 60 monogenic disorders and
have recently been implicated in complex disorders such as cancer and autism spectrum …

[PDF][PDF] Length of uninterrupted CAG, independent of polyglutamine size, results in increased somatic instability, hastening onset of Huntington disease

…, A Semaka, CM Nguyen, B Trost… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
Huntington disease (HD) is caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin (HTT) gene.
Although the length of this repeat is inversely correlated with age of onset (AOO), it does …

[HTML][HTML] PIIKA 2: an expanded, web-based platform for analysis of kinome microarray data

B Trost, J Kindrachuk, P Määttänen, S Napper… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Kinome microarrays are comprised of peptides that act as phosphorylation targets for protein
kinases. This platform is growing in popularity due to its ability to measure phosphorylation-…