Marcella Devoto, PhD

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Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
Division of Human Genetics,
ARC Room 1002,
3615 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4399
Office: (267)426-0124
Fax: (215) 590-3764
Education:
PhD (Statistics and Demography)
University of Bologna, Italy, 1983.
MSc (Applied Statistics)
Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK, 1986.
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Selected Publications

Goldenberg PC, Calkins ME, Richard J, McDonald-McGinn D, Zackai E, Mitra N, Emanuel B, Devoto M, Borgmann-Winter K, Kohler C, Conroy CG, Gur R, Gur R: Computerized neurocognitive profile in young people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome compared to youths with schizophrenia and at-risk for psychosis. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 1598: 67-93, 2012.

Nguyen L, Diskin S, Capasso M, Wang K, Diamond M, Glessner J, Kim C, Attiyeh E, Mosse Y, Cole K, Iolascon A, Devoto M, Hakonarson H, Li H, Maris J: Phenotype restricted genome-wide association study using a gene-centric approach identifies three low-risk neuroblastoma susceptibility loci. PLoS Genetics 7: e1002026, 2011.

Wang K, Diskin SJ, Zhang H, Attiyeh EF, Winter C, Hou C, Schnepp RW, Diamond M, Bosse K, Mayes PA, Glessner J, Kim C, Frackelton E, Garris M, Wang Q, Glaberson W, Chiavacci R, Nguyen L, Jagannathan J, Saeki N, Sasaki H, Grant SFA, Iolascon A, Mosse YP, Cole KA, Li H, Devoto M, McGrady PW, London WB, Capasso M, Rahman N, Hakonarson H, Maris JM: Integrative genomics identifies LMO1 as a neuroblastoma oncogene. Nature 469: 216-220, 2011.

Elia J, Glessner J, Wang K, Takahashi N, Shtir C, Hadley D, Sleiman P, Zhang H, Kim C, Robison R, Lyon G, Flory J, Bradfield J, Imielinski M, Hou C, Frackelton E, Chiavacci R, Sakurai T, Rabin C, Middleton F, Thomas K, Garris M, Mentch F, Freitag C, Steinhausen H, Todorov A, Reif A, Rothenberger A, Franke B, Mick E, Roeyers H, Buitelaar J, Lesch K, Banaschewski T, Ebstein R, Mulas F, Oades R, Sergeant J, Sonuga-Barke E, Renner T, Romanos M, Romanos J, Warnke A, Walitza S, Meyer J, Pálmason H, Seitz C, Loo S, Smalley S, Biederman J, Kent L, Asherson P, Anney R, Gaynor J, Shaw P, Devoto M, White P, Grant S, Buxbaum J, Rapoport J, Williams N, Nelson S, Faraone S, Hakonarson, H.: Genome wide copy number variation study associates metabotropic glutamate receptor gene networks with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Nat Genet 44: 78-84, 2011.

Guo T, McDonald McGinn D, Blonska A, Shanske A, Bassett A, Chow E, Bowser M, Sheridan M, Beemer F, Devriendt K, Swillen A, Breckpot J, Digilio MC, Marino B, Dallapiccola B, Carpenter C, Zheng X, Johnson J, Chung J, Higgins AM, Philip N, Simon T, Coleman K, Heine-Suner D, Rosell J, Kates W, Devoto M, Goldmuntz E, Zackai E, Wang T, Shprintzen R, Emanuel B, Morrow B, and the International Chromosome 22q11.2 Consortium: Genotype and cardiovascular phenotype correlations with TBX1 in 1,022 velo-cardiofacial/DiGeorge/22q11.2 deletion syndrome patients. Hum Mutat 32: 1278-1289, 2011.

Devoto M, Specchia C, Laudenslager M, Longo L, Hakonarson H, Maris J, Mossé Y: : Genome-wide linkage analysis to identify genetic modifiers of ALK mutation penetrance in familial neuroblastoma. Hum Hered 71: 135-139, 2011.

Elia J, Gai X, Xie HM, Perin JC, Wang L, Geiger E, Glessner JT, D’arcy M, deBeradinis R, Frackelton E, Kim C, Lantieri F, Muganga BM, Wang L, Takeda T, Rappaport EF, Grant SFA, Berrettini W, Devoto M, Shaikh TH, Hakonarson H, White PS: Rare structural variants found in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are preferentially associated with neurodevelopmental genes. Mol Psychiatry Page: (In Press), 2010.

Lantieri F, Glessner JT, Hakonarson H, Elia J, Devoto M: Analysis of GWAS top hits in ADHD suggests association to two polymorphisms located in genes expressed in the cerebellum. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 153B: 1127-1133, 2010.

Feldman G, Dalsey C, Fertala K, Azimi D, Fortina P, Devoto M, Pacifici M, Parvizi J: Identification of a 4 Mb region on chromosome 17q21 linked to developmental dysplasia of the hip in one 18-member, multigeneration family. Otto Aufranc Award. Clin Orthop Relat Res 468: 337-44, 2010.

Sleiman PMA, Flory J, Imielinski M, Bradfield JP, Annaiah K, Willis-Owen SAG, Wang K, Rafaels NM, Michel S, Bonnelykke K, Zhang H, Kim CE, Frackelton EC, Glessner JT, Hou C, Otieno FG, Santa E, Thomas K, Smith RM, Glaberson WR, Garris M, Chiavacci RM, Beaty TH, Ruczinski I, Orange J, Allen J, Spergel JM, Grundmeier R, Mathias RA, Christie JD, von Mutius E, Cookson WOC, Kabesch M, Moffatt MF, Grunstein MM, Barnes KC, Devoto M, Magnusson M, Li H, Grant SFA, Bisgaard H, Hakonarson H: Variants of DENND1B associated with asthma in children. N Engl J Med Page: (In Press), 2010.

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