Faculty

Laura K Conlin, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Graduate Group Affiliations

Genomics and Computational Biology

Contact information

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
716C Abramson Research Building
34th and Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 267-426-7885

Email:
conlinl@chop.edu

Education:
BS (Chemistry with a minor in Biological Sciences)
Carnegie Mellon University, 2000.
PhD (Genetics and Gene Regulation)
University of Pennsylvania, 2007.

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Selected Publications

Schmidt RJ, Steeves M, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Benson KA, Coe BP, Conlin LK, Ganapathi M, Garcia J, Gollob MH, Jobanputra V, Luo M, Ma D, Maston G, McGoldrick K, Palculict TB, Pesaran T, Pollin TI, Qian E, Rehm HL, Riggs ER, Schilit SLP, Sergouniotis PI, Tvrdik T, Watkins N, Zec L, Zhang W, Lebo MS; ClinGen Low Penetrance/Risk Allele Working Group.: Recommendations for risk allele evidence curation, classification, and reporting from the ClinGen Low Penetrance/Risk Allele Working Group. Genetics in Medicine 26(3), March 2024.

Hayeck TJ, Li Y, Mosbruger TL, Bradfield JP, Gleason AG, Damianos G, Shaw GT, Duke JL, Conlin LK, Turner TN, Fernández-Viña MA, Sarmady M, Monos DS.: The Impact of Patterns in Linkage Disequilibrium and Sequencing Quality on the Imprint of Balancing Selection. Genome Biology and Evolution 16(2): evae009, February 2024.

Dharmadhikari AV, Abad MA, Khan S, Maroofian R, Sands TT, Ullah F, Samejima I, Wear MA, Moore KE, Kondakova E, Mitina N, Schaub T, Lee GK, Umandap CH, Berger SM, Iglesias AD, Popp B, Jamra RA, Gabriel H, Rentas S, Rippert AL, Izumi K, Conlin LK, Koboldt DC, Mosher TM, Hickey SE, Albert DVF, Norwood H, Lewanda AF, Dai H, Liu P, Mitani T, Marafi D, Pehlivan D, Posey JE, Lippa N, Vena N, Heinzen EL, Goldstein DB, Mignot C, de Sainte Agathe JM, Al-Sannaa NA, Zamani M, Sadeghian S, Azizimalamiri R, Seifia T, Zaki MS, Abdel-Salam GMH, Abdel-Hamid M, Alabdi L, Alkuraya FS, Dawoud H, Lofty A, Bauer P, Zifarelli G, Afzal E, Zafar F, Efthymiou S, Gossett D, Towne MC, Yeneabat R, Wontakal SN, Aggarwal VS, Rosenfeld JA, Tarabykin V, Ohta S, Lupski JR, Houlden H, Earnshaw WC, Davis EE, Jeyaprakash AA, Liao J.: RNA methyltransferase SPOUT1/CENP-32 links mitotic spindle organization with the neurodevelopmental disorder SpADMiSS. medRxiv January 2024.

Kilich G, Hassey K, Behrens EM, Falk M, Vanderver A, Rader DJ, Cahill PJ, Raper A, Zhang Z, Westerfer D, Jadhav T, Conlin L, Izumi K, Rajagopalan R, Sullivan KE; UDN Consortium.: Kagami Ogata syndrome: a small deletion refines critical region for imprinting. NPJ Genomic Medicine 9(1): 5, January 2024.

Rehm HL, Alaimo JT, Aradhya S, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Best H, Brandon R, Buchan JG, Chao EC, Chen E, Clifford J, Cohen ASA, Conlin LK, Das S, Davis KW, Del Gaudio D, Del Viso F, DiVincenzo C, Eisenberg M, Guidugli L, Hammer MB, Harrison SM, Hatchell KE, Dyer LH, Hoang LU, Holt JM, Jobanputra V, Karbassi ID, Kearney HM, Kelly MA, Kelly JM, Kluge ML, Komala T, Kruszka P, Lau L, Lebo MS, Marshall CR, McKnight D, McWalter K, Meng Y, Nagan N, Neckelmann CS, Neerman N, Niu Z, Paolillo VK, Paolucci SA, Perry D, Pesaran T, Radtke K, Rasmussen KJ, Retterer K, Saunders CJ, Spiteri E, Stanley C, Szuto A, Taft RJ, Thiffault I, Thomas BC, Thomas-Wilson A, Thorpe E, Tidwell TJ, Towne MC, Zouk H; Medical Genome Initiative Steering Committee.: The landscape of reported VUS in multi-gene panel and genomic testing: Time for a change. Genetics in Medicine 25(12), December 2023.

Yamamoto N, Balciuniene J, Hartman T, Diaz-Miranda MA, Bedoukian E, Devkota B, Lawrence A, Golenberg N, Patel M, Tare A, Chen R, Schindler E, Choi J, Kaur M, Charles S, Chen J, Fanning EA, Dechene E, Cao K, Jill MR, Rajagopalan R, Bayram Y, Dulik MC, Germiller J, Conlin LK, Krantz ID, Luo M.: Comprehensive Gene Panel Testing for Hearing Loss in Children: Understanding Factors Influencing Diagnostic Yield. The Journal of Pediatrics 262, November 2023.

Izumi K, Ganetzky RD, Wertheim GBW, Skraban CM, Bedoukian EC, Wilkens A, Fincher C, Thomas NH, Ginsberg JP, Rheingold SR, Conlin LK, Deardorff MA.: Co-Occurrence of Pallister-Killian Syndrome and Burkitt Lymphoma in a Patient with Near-Normal Neurocognitive Development. Molecular Syndromology 14(4), August 2023.

Kaur M, Blair J, Devkota B, Fortunato S, Clark D, Lawrence A, Kim J, Do W, Semeo B, Katz O, Mehta D, Yamamoto N, Schindler E, Al Rawi Z, Wallace N, Wilde JJ, McCallum J, Liu J, Xu D, Jackson M, Rentas S, Tayoun AA, Zhe Z, Abdul-Rahman O, Allen B, Angula MA, Anyane-Yeboa K, Argente J, Arn PH, Armstrong L, Basel-Salmon L, Baynam G, Bird LM, Bruegger D, Ch'ng GS, Chitayat D, Clark R, Cox GF, Dave U, DeBaere E, Field M, Graham JM Jr, Gripp KW, Greenstein R, Gupta N, Heidenreich R, Hoffman J, Hopkin RJ, Jones KL, Jones MC, Kariminejad A, Kogan J, Lace B, Leroy J, Lynch SA, McDonald M, Meagher K, Mendelsohn N, Micule I, Moeschler J, Nampoothiri S, Ohashi K, Powell CM, Ramanathan S, Raskin S, Roeder E, Rio M, Rope AF, Sangha K, Scheuerle AE, Schneider A, Shalev S, Siu V, Smith R, Stevens C, Tkemaladze T, Toimie J, Toriello H, Turner A, Wheeler PG, White SM, Young T, Loomes KM, Pipan M, Harrington AT, Zackai E, Rajagopalan R, Conlin L, Deardorff MA, McEldrew D, Pie J, Ramos F, Musio A, Kline AD, Izumi K, Raible SE, Krantz ID.: Genomic analyses in Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and related diagnoses: Novel candidate genes, genotype-phenotype correlations and common mechanisms. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 191(8): 2113-2131, August 2023.

Luo M, Conlin LK, Rajagopalan R.: Maximizing the Detection of Copy Number Variants in the Highly Homologous Deafness-Infertility Syndrome Locus in Standard-of-care Testing. Clinical Chemistry 69(6): 545-547, May 2023.

Chen R, Diaz-Miranda MA, Aref-Eshghi E, Hartman TR, Griffith C, Morrison JL, Wheeler PG, Torti E, Richard G, Kenna M, Dechene ET, Spinner NB, Bai R, Conlin LK, Krantz ID, Amr SS, Luo M.: Characterization of a possible founder synonymous variant in TECTA in multiple individuals with autosomal recessive hearing loss. Human Mutation 43(12): 1837-1843, December 2022.