Researchers

This page lists BCCGN members and the research studies they are conducting through the Network with the assistance of our technology and statistics advisors.

 

 

 

Clinician(s)

Affiliation

Technology

Application

Study

Christin Fabriel Leclerc

 

Family Physician, Mackenzie Illumina SNP Genotyping Adverse Drug Reaction Study of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome as an Adverse Drug Reaction of Epilespsy Drug Lamotrigine

Jamil Bashir; Liam Brunham

Division of Cardiac Surgery, SPH Illumina SNP Genotyping Cardiology Role of MMP9 in Atrial Fibrillation
Harinder Gill; George Sandor Departments of Medical Genetics, and Cardiology C&W NimbleGen Whole Genome MicroArray Cardiology

Sub microscopic chromosomal causes of Left-Sided Congenital Heart Defects

Baljinder Salh/ Hugh Freeman Division of Gastroenterology- at UBC Hospital and Vancouver general hospital Illumina Sequencing Gastroenterology Metagenomics in Crohn's Disease: A Pilot Study
Kirsten Meagher Genetic Counsellor, C&W NimbleGen Whole Genome MicroArray Genetics De novo CNV's in adults with MR

Michelle Steinraths

Vancouver Island Medical Genetics Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization Genetics Assessment of a translocation in a patient with renal angiomyolipomas
Millan Patel Department Medical Genetics, C&W Illumina Sequencing Infectious Diseases Identification of possible viral or bacterial causes of gastroschisis
Richard Moore; Rob Holt Genome Sciences Centre Illumina Genome Analyser Infectious Diseases Detection of infectious agent expression in human samples
Robert Offer Penticton To be determined Internal Medicine Familial premature osteo arthritis of the hands and other joints
Bill Gibson Department Medical Genetics, C&W Affymetrix Gene Chips SNP Array Metabolism - Obesity Characterization of genetic disorders of body weight
Sylvia Stockler; Clara van Karnebeek Division of Biochemical Diseases, C&W Illumina Sequencing Metabolism - Intellectual Disability Treatable inborn errors of metabolism causing intellectual disability and epilepsy
Rosemarie Rupps; Neal Boerkoel Department Medical Genetics, C&W Affymetrix Gene Chip SNP Array Neurology - Ataxia Autosomal recessive ataxia with neurodegenerative disorder in two sisters
Viera Saly Neurologist, Victoria To Be Determined Neurology - CADASIL Epigenetics of CADASIL
Helen Tremlett Neurology, Department of Medicine, UBC Illumina SNP Genotyping Neurology - MS Genotype specific approaches to therapy in Multiple Sclerosis
Colin Ross CMMT Illumina SNP Genotyping Oncology - Adverse Drug Reactions Identification of pharmacogenetic markers of severe cisplatin toxicities in adult patients living with cancer
Aly Karsan Department of Diagnostic Genomics, BC Cancer Agency Illumina Sequencing Oncology - Gastro-intestinal Genomic analysis applied to GI Cancers
David Huntsman BC Cancer Agency Statistical analysis (penetrance study) Oncology - Hereditary Cancer Study of 70 hereditary gastric & breast cancer families
Wendy Robinson;

Deborah E McFadden

CMMT Illumina Infinium Methylation Arrays Pathology (Obstetrics) Epigenetic Alterations in Pregnancies with Neural Tube Defects and Trisomy 21
Patrick MacLeod Geneticist, VIHA, Vancouver Island NimbleGen Whole Genome MicroArray Pediatrics - Development Mechanism of inheritance of a new distal arthrogryposis & mental retardation syndrome
Anna Lehman; Linlea Armstrong Department Medical Genetics, C&W Affymetrix Gene Chip SNP Array Pediatrics - Development Investigating a genetic cause of Cornelia De Lange Syndrome
Neal Boerkoel Department of Medical Genetics, C&W Affymetrix Gene Chip SNP Array Pediatrics - Development Can a chromosomal balanced translocation lead to developmental delay

Farah Zahir; Jan Friedman

Department Medical Genetics, C&W Sanger Sequencing Platform Pediatrics - Development Identification of the mechanism for a deletion causing mental retardation
Christele du Souich

Department Medical Genetics, C&W

Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization Pediatrics - Development

Investigation of an inheritance mechanism for developmental delay and dysmorphic features in a family

Anna Lehman Department Medical Genetics, C&W Affymetrix Gene Chip SNP Array Pediatrics - Development An overgrowth disorder with severe language impairment associated with a maternally inherited duplication
Gabriela Horvath Departments of Pediatrics, Biochemical, Neurology Diseases,  C&W Illumina SNP Genotyping Pediatrics- Neurology and Development Identification of the gene responsible for CAPOS syndrome
Michelle Demos

Department Pediatric Neurology, C&W

Agilent Oligonucleotide Array Pediatrics - Neurology Genomic changes in children with Idiopathic Epilepsy
Rosemarie Rupps/Neal Boerkoel Department Medical Genetics, C&W Illumina SNP Genotyping Pediatrics- Psychiatry Identifying the gene for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and related psychiatric features in an AD family
James Hogg i-Capture Metagenomic sequencing, Illumina Pulmonary Disease Sequencing study of bacterial infection of COPD
Pascal Lavoie Department Neonatology, C&W Illumina SNP Genotyping

Respiratory, Immunology & Neonatology

Genetic markers in children who develop Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia