Laura K Conlin, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, Division of Genomic Diagnostics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
716C Abramson Research Building
34th and Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
716C Abramson Research Building
34th and Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 267-426-7885
Email:
conlinl@chop.edu
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.
Permanent linkBS (Chemistry with a minor in Biological Sciences)
Carnegie Mellon University, 2000.
PhD (Genetics and Gene Regulation)
University of Pennsylvania, 2007.
Selected Publications
Guess T, Wheeler FC, Yenemandra A, Schilit SLP, Anderson HS, Bone KM, Carstens B, Conlin L, Dulik MC, Dupont BR, Fanning E, Gardner JA, Haag M, Hilton BA, Johnson J, Kogan J, Murry J, Polonis K, Quigley DI, Repnikova EA, Rowsey RA, Spinner N, Stoeker M, Thurston V, Wiley M, Zhang L.: A multi-center analysis of individuals with a 47,XXY/46,XX karyotype. Genetics in Medicine 26(10), July 2024.Luo M, Wong D, Zelley K, Wu J, Schubert J, Denenberg EH, Fanning EA, Chen J, Gallo D, Golenberg N, Patel M, Conlin LK, Maxwell KN, Wertheim GB, Surrey LF, Zhong Y, Brodeur GM, MacFarland SP, Li MM.: Identification of TP53 germline variants in pediatric patients undergoing tumor testing: strategy and prevalence. Journal of the National Cancer Institute May 2024.
Wild KT, Conlin L, Blair J, Manfredi M, Hamilton TE, Muir A, Zackai EH, Nace G, Partridge EA, Devine M, Reynolds T, Rintoul NE, Hedrick HL, Spinner N, Krantz ID.: Genomic Contributors to Esophageal Atresia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula: A 12 Year Retrospective Review. Journal of Pediatrics 271: 114060, April 2024.
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.