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Ryan KC Yuen

Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children
Verified email at sickkids.ca
Cited by 14983

Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

…, LA Weiss, A Jeremy Willsey, TW Yu, RKC Yuen… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The genetic architecture of autism spectrum disorder involves the interplay of common and
rare variants and their impact on hundreds of genes. Using exome sequencing, here we …

The Database of Genomic Variants: a curated collection of structural variation in the human genome

JR MacDonald, R Ziman, RKC Yuen… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Over the past decade, the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV; http://dgv.tcag.ca/ ) has
provided a publicly accessible, comprehensive curated catalogue of structural variation (SV) …

The human splicing code reveals new insights into the genetic determinants of disease

…, LJ Lee, H Bretschneider, D Merico, RKC Yuen… - Science, 2015 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Advancing whole-genome precision medicine requires understanding
how gene expression is altered by genetic variants, especially those that are far outside of …

Whole-genome sequencing of quartet families with autism spectrum disorder

RKC Yuen, B Thiruvahindrapuram, D Merico… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is genetically heterogeneous, with evidence for hundreds
of susceptibility loci. Previous microarray and exome-sequencing studies have examined …

[PDF][PDF] Detection of clinically relevant genetic variants in autism spectrum disorder by whole-genome sequencing

Y Jiang, RKC Yuen, X Jin, M Wang, N Chen… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrates high heritability and familial clustering, yet
the genetic causes remain only partially understood as a result of extensive clinical and …

Molecular diagnostic yield of chromosomal microarray analysis and whole-exome sequencing in children with autism spectrum disorder

…, G Kaur, B Thiruvahindrapuram, AC Lionel, RKC Yuen… - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The use of genome-wide tests to provide molecular diagnosis for individuals with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) requires more study. Objective To perform chromosomal …

Genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive whole-genome sequence annotation

…, MES Lewis, R Weksberg, M Fiume, RKC Yuen… - 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] Whole-genome sequencing expands diagnostic utility and improves clinical management in paediatric medicine

…, T Nalpathamkalam, G Pellecchia, RKC Yuen… - NPJ genomic …, 2016 - nature.com
The standard of care for first-tier clinical investigation of the aetiology of congenital malformations
and neurodevelopmental disorders is chromosome microarray analysis (CMA) for copy…

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

…, N Sato, CE Pearson, SW Scherer, RKC Yuen - 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 . …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation profiling of human placentas reveals promoter hypomethylation of multiple genes in early-onset preeclampsia

RKC Yuen, MS Penaherrera… - European Journal of …, 2010 - nature.com
Preeclampsia and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) are two of the most common adverse
pregnancy outcomes, but their underlying causes are mostly unknown. Although multiple …