ELife: Defining function of wild-type and three patient specific TP53 mutations in a zebrafish model of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (Ignatius Lab, Houghton Lab, Libich Lab, Chen, Tomlinson)

June 2, 2023

 Jiangfei Chen Kunal Baxi Amanda E Lipsitt Nicole Rae Hensch Long Wang Prethish Sreenivas Paulomi Modi Xiang Ru Zhao Antoine Baudin Daniel G Robledo Abhik Bandyopadhyay Aaron Sugalski Anil K Challa Dias Kurmashev Andrea R Gilbert Gail E Tomlinson Peter Houghton Yidong Chen Madeline N Hayes Eleanor Y Chen David S Libich Myron S Ignatius [...]

JCO Oncology Practice: Disparities in Cancer Genetic Testing and Variants of Uncertain Significance in the Hispanic Population of South Texas (Tomlinson Lab, Ignatius Lab)

May 12, 2022

 Stephanie Soewito, BS, MS1; Rachel Wyatt, MS2; Emily Berenson, MS2; Natalie Poullard, MS, MA3; Shawn Gessay, MS2,3,4; Lindsey Mette, MS, MPH2,3,5; Elena Marin, CHW6; Kristin Shelby, BA6; Elise Alvarez, BA3; Byeong Yeob Choi, PhD7; Clarissa Aviles, MSHS6; Anna Maria Pulido-Saldivar, MPH6,8; Pamela M. Otto, MD9; Ismail Jatoi, MD3,10; Chethan Ramamurthy, MD3; Myron Ignatius, PhD6; Virginia G. Kaklamani, MD, DSc3; and Gail E. Tomlinson, MD, PhD2,3,6 PURPOSE: Racial and ethnic disparities have included [...]

Gail Tomlinson, MD, PhD To receive $1.95M CPRIT Grant

February 22, 2022

 Division Chief, Pediatrics Hematology/OncologyCo-Director, Population Science Program, and PreventionGreehey Distinguished Chair in the Genetics of Cancer "CPRIT has also awarded $1.95 million to Dr. Gail E. Tomlinson, a professor of pediatrics in the Long School of Medicine who occupies the Greehey Distinguished Chair in Genetics and Cancer. That funding will support the screening of children [...]

Urologic Oncology: Prevalence of pathogenic germline cancer risk variants in testicular cancer patients: Identifying high risk groups (Tomlinson)

January 19, 2022

 ChethanRamamurthyM.D.a‡Amin H.NassarM.D.bc‡SarahAbou AlaiwiM.D.bcElioAdibM.D.bcElie W.AklM.D.cShanYangPh.D.dEdward D.EsplinM.D., Ph.D.dMichael A.LissM.D.aGail E.TomlinsonM.D.eGuru P.SonpavdeM.D.b Highlights • Testicular cancer patients are at risk for carrying germline pathogenic variants. • Risk factors for germline variants include having another primary malignancy or a family history of testicular cancer. • A subset of patients with testicular cancer may particularly benefit from genetic evaluation. Abstract Background [...]

Journal of Clinical & Translational Science: Examining access to care in clinical genomic research and medicine: Experiences from the CSER Consortium (Tomlinson)

December 13, 2021

 Amanda M. Gutierrez Jill O. Robinson, Simon M. Outram, Hadley S. Smith, Stephanie A. Kraft, Katherine E. Donohue, Barbara B. Biesecker, Kyle B. Brothers, Flavia Chen, Benyam Hailu, Lucia A. Hindorff, Hannah Hoban, Rebecca L. Hsu, Sara J. Knight, Barbara A. Koenig, Katie L. Lewis, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Julianne M. O’Daniel, Sonia Okuyama, Gail E. [...]

Cambridge Core: Examining Access to Care in Clinical Genomic Research and Medicine: Experiences from the CSER Consortium (Tomlinson)

September 21, 2021

Amanda M. Gutierrez[Opens in a new windo Jill O. Robinson, Simon M. Outram, Hadley S. Smith, Stephanie A. Kraft, Katherine E. Donohue, Barbara B. Biesecker, Kyle B. Brothers, Flavia Chen, Benyam Hailu, Lucia A. Hindorff, Hannah Hoban, Rebecca L. Hsu, Sara J. Knight, Barbara A. Koenig, Katie L. Lewis, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Julianne M. O’Daniel, […]

UT Health SA Newsroom: Caring for Brianna: VHL (von Hippel-Lindau disease) Dream Team springs into action (Tomlinson)

September 14, 2021

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The following article is meant to raise awareness of von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL) and to help the public learn about state-of-the-art VHL care available in San Antonio. The Mays Cancer Center is recognized as a VHL Clinical Care Center by the VHL Alliance. Media contact: Will Sansom, (210) 567-2579, sansom@uthscsa.edu […]

Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies: Bloom syndrome in a Mexican-American family with rhabdomyosarcoma: evidence of a Mexican founder mutation (Bishop, Chen, Tomlinson)

April 9, 2021

Erin H. Sybouts1,2,11, Adam D. Brown1,2,8,11, Maria G. Falcon-Cantrill3,9,11, Martha H. Thomas1,10, Thomas DeNapoli4,5, Julie Voeller5,6, Yidong Chen1,7, Gail E. Tomlinson1,3 and Alexander J.R. Bishop1,2 Abstract Bloom syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder with less than 300 cases reported in the literature. Bloom syndrome is characterized by chromosome instability, physical stigmata, growth deficiency, immunodeficiency, and […]