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Eduardo Calpena Corpas
PhD
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
"Rare diseases are rare, but rare disease patients are numerous"
Rare diseases awakened my interest for Human Genetics and since that, I have been involved in projects for identifying new genes involved in Mendelian Genetic Disorders and for the discovery of genetic modifiers.
I performed my PhD studies ('The genetic and cellular bases of inherited peripheral neuropathies') at the Genetics and Genomics of Neuromuscular Diseases Unit, Principe Felipe Research Center (CIPF) and the Biomedical Institute (IBV'CSIC, Spanish Research Council) in Valencia (Spain).
As a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Clinical Genetics group, my main objective is to identify new disease genes in craniofacial disorders, and for that, we are using Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) technologies.
Recent publications
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Recurrent de novo missense variants across multiple histone H4 genes underlie a neurodevelopmental syndrome.
Journal article
Tessadori F. et al, (2022), Am J Hum Genet
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Dissection of contiguous gene effects for deletions around ERF on chromosome 19.
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Calpena E. et al, (2021), Hum Mutat, 42, 811 - 817
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TAOK1 is associated with neurodevelopmental disorder and essential for neuronal maturation and cortical development.
Journal article
van Woerden GM. et al, (2021), Hum Mutat
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Unexpected role of SIX1 variants in craniosynostosis: expanding the phenotype of SIX1-related disorders.
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Calpena E. et al, (2021), J Med Genet
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SMAD6 variants in craniosynostosis: genotype and phenotype evaluation.
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Calpena E. et al, (2020), Genet Med, 22, 1498 - 1506