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Robert B. Weiss
Researcher at University of Utah
Publications - 182
Citations - 24816
Robert B. Weiss is an academic researcher from University of Utah. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Muscular dystrophy. The author has an hindex of 66, co-authored 179 publications receiving 23455 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert B. Weiss include University of Cincinnati & RTI International.
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Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.
Robert H. Waterston,Kerstin Lindblad-Toh,Ewan Birney,Jane Rogers,Josep F. Abril,Pankaj K. Agarwal,Richa Agarwala,Rachel Ainscough,Marina Alexandersson,Peter An,Stylianos E. Antonarakis,John Attwood,Robert Baertsch,J Bailey,K F Barlow,Stephan Beck,Eric Berry,Bruce W. Birren,Toby Bloom,Peer Bork,Marc Botcherby,Nicolas Bray,Michael R. Brent,Daniel G. Brown,Daniel G. Brown,Stephen D. Brown,Carol J. Bult,John Burton,Jonathan Butler,R. D. Campbell,Piero Carninci,Simon Cawley,Francesca Chiaromonte,Asif T. Chinwalla,Deanna M. Church,Michele Clamp,C M Clee,Francis S. Collins,Lisa Cook,Richard R. Copley,Alan Coulson,Olivier Couronne,James Cuff,Val Curwen,Tim Cutts,Mark J. Daly,Robert David,Joy Davies,Kimberly D. Delehaunty,Justin Deri,Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis,Colin N. Dewey,Nicholas J. Dickens,Mark Diekhans,Sheila Dodge,Inna Dubchak,Diane M. Dunn,Sean R. Eddy,Laura Elnitski,Richard D. Emes,Pallavi Eswara,Eduardo Eyras,Adam Felsenfeld,Ginger A. Fewell,Paul Flicek,Karen Foley,Wayne N. Frankel,Lucinda Fulton,Robert S. Fulton,Terrence S. Furey,Diane Gage,Richard A. Gibbs,Gustavo Glusman,Sante Gnerre,Nick Goldman,Leo Goodstadt,Darren Grafham,Tina Graves,Eric D. Green,Simon G. Gregory,Roderic Guigó,Mark S. Guyer,Ross C. Hardison,David Haussler,Yoshihide Hayashizaki,Deana W. LaHillier,Angela S. Hinrichs,Wratko Hlavina,Timothy Holzer,Fan Hsu,Axin Hua,Tim Hubbard,Adrienne Hunt,Ian J. Jackson,David B. Jaffe,L. Steven Johnson,Matthew Jones,Thomas A. Jones,A Joy,Michael Kamal,Elinor K. Karlsson,Donna Karolchik,Arkadiusz Kasprzyk,Jun Kawai,Evan Keibler,Cristyn Kells,W. James Kent,Andrew Kirby,Diana L. Kolbe,Ian F Korf,Raju Kucherlapati,Edward J. Kulbokas,David Kulp,Tom Landers,J. P. Leger,Steven Leonard,Ivica Letunic,Rosie Levine,Jia Li,Ming Li,Christine Lloyd,Susan Lucas,Bin Ma,Donna Maglott,Elaine R. Mardis,Lucy Matthews,Evan Mauceli,John Mayer,Megan McCarthy,W. Richard McCombie,Stuart McLaren,Kirsten McLay,John Douglas Mcpherson,James Meldrim,Beverley Meredith,Jill P. Mesirov,Webb Miller,Tracie L. Miner,Emmanuel Mongin,Kate Montgomery,Michael J. Morgan,Richard Mott,James C. Mullikin,Donna M. Muzny,William E. Nash,Joanne O. Nelson,Michael N. Nhan,Robert Nicol,Zemin Ning,Chad Nusbaum,Michael J. O’Connor,Yasushi Okazaki,Karen Oliver,Emma Overton-Larty,Lior Pachter,Genís Parra,Kymberlie H. Pepin,Jane Peterson,Pavel A. Pevzner,Robert W. Plumb,Craig Pohl,Alex Poliakov,Tracy C. Ponce,Chris P. Ponting,Simon C. Potter,Michael A. Quail,Alexandre Reymond,Bruce A. Roe,Krishna M. Roskin,Edward M. Rubin,Alistair G. Rust,Ralph Santos,Victor Sapojnikov,Brian Schultz,Jörg Schultz,Matthias S. Schwartz,Scott Schwartz,Carol Scott,Steven Seaman,Steve Searle,Ted Sharpe,Andrew Sheridan,Ratna Shownkeen,Sarah Sims,Jonathan Singer,Guy Slater,Arian F.A. Smit,Douglas Smith,Brian Spencer,Arne Stabenau,Nicole Stange-Thomann,Charles W. Sugnet,Mikita Suyama,Glenn Tesler,Johanna Thompson,David Torrents,Evanne Trevaskis,John Tromp,Catherine Ucla,Abel Ureta-Vidal,Jade P. Vinson,Andrew von Niederhausern,Claire M. Wade,Melanie M. Wall,R. J. Weber,Robert B. Weiss,Michael C. Wendl,Anthony P. West,Kris A. Wetterstrand,Raymond Wheeler,Simon Whelan,Jamey Wierzbowski,David Willey,Sophie Williams,Richard K. Wilson,Eitan E. Winter,Kim C. Worley,Dudley Wyman,Shan Yang,Shiaw Pyng Yang,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Michael C. Zody,Eric S. Lander +222 more
TL;DR: The results of an international collaboration to produce a high-quality draft sequence of the mouse genome are reported and an initial comparative analysis of the Mouse and human genomes is presented, describing some of the insights that can be gleaned from the two sequences.
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Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution
Richard A. Gibbs,George M. Weinstock,Michael L. Metzker,Donna M. Muzny,Erica Sodergren,Steven E. Scherer,Graham R. Scott,David Steffen,Kim C. Worley,Paula E. Burch,Geoffrey Okwuonu,Sandra Hines,Lora Lewis,Christine Deramo,Oliver Delgado,Shannon Dugan-Rocha,George Miner,Margaret Morgan,Alicia Hawes,Rachel Gill,Robert A. Holt,Robert A. Holt,Mark Raymond Adams,Mark Raymond Adams,Peter G. Amanatides,Peter G. Amanatides,Holly Baden-Tillson,Holly Baden-Tillson,Mary Barnstead,Soo H. Chin,Cheryl A. Evans,Steve Ferriera,Steve Ferriera,Carl Fosler,A. Glodek,Zhiping Gu,Don Jennings,Cheryl L. Kraft,Cheryl L. Kraft,Trixie Nguyen,Cynthia Pfannkoch,Cynthia Pfannkoch,Cynthia Sitter,Granger G. Sutton,J. Craig Venter,J. Craig Venter,Trevor Woodage,Douglas Smith,Hong Mei Lee,Erik Gustafson,Patrick Cahill,Arnold Kana,Lynn Doucette-Stamm,Keith Weinstock,Kim Fechtel,Robert B. Weiss,Diane M. Dunn,Eric D. Green,Robert W. Blakesley,Gerard G. Bouffard,Pieter J. de Jong,Kazutoyo Osoegawa,Baoli Zhu,Marco A. Marra,Jacqueline E. Schein,Ian Bosdet,Chris Fjell,Steven J.M. Jones,Martin Krzywinski,Carrie Mathewson,Asim Sarosh Siddiqui,Natasja Wye,John Douglas Mcpherson,John Douglas Mcpherson,Shaying Zhao,Claire M. Fraser,Jyoti Shetty,Sofiya Shatsman,Keita Geer,Yixin Chen,Sofyia Abramzon,William C. Nierman,Paul Havlak,Rui Chen,K. James Durbin,Amy Egan,Yanru Ren,Xing Zhi Song,Bingshan Li,Yue Liu,Xiang Qin,Simon Cawley,Austin J. Cooney,Lisa M. D'Souza,Kirt Martin,Jia Qian Wu,Manuel L. Gonzalez-Garay,Andrew R. Jackson,Kenneth J. Kalafus,Michael P. McLeod,Aleksandar Milosavljevic,Davinder Virk,Andrei Volkov,David A. Wheeler,Zhengdong D. Zhang,Jeffrey A. Bailey,Evan E. Eichler,Eray Tüzün,Ewan Birney,Emmanuel Mongin,Abel Ureta-Vidal,Cara Woodwark,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Peer Bork,Mikita Suyama,David Torrents,Marina Alexandersson,Barbara J. Trask,Janet M. Young,Hui Huang,Huajun Wang,Heming Xing,Sue Daniels,Darryl Gietzen,Jeanette Schmidt,Kristian Stevens,Ursula Vitt,Jim Wingrove,Francisco Camara,M. Mar Albà,Josep F. Abril,Roderic Guigó,Arian F.A. Smit,Inna Dubchak,Inna Dubchak,Edward M. Rubin,Edward M. Rubin,Olivier Couronne,Olivier Couronne,Alexander Poliakov,Norbert Hubner,Detlev Ganten,Claudia Goesele,Claudia Goesele,Oliver Hummel,Oliver Hummel,Thomas Kreitler,Thomas Kreitler,Young-Ae Lee,Jan Monti,Herbert Schulz,Heike Zimdahl,Heinz Himmelbauer,Hans Lehrach,Howard J. Jacob,Susan Bromberg,Jo Gullings-Handley,Michael I. Jensen-Seaman,Anne E. Kwitek,Jozef Lazar,Dean Pasko,Peter J. Tonellato,Simon N. Twigger,Chris P. Ponting,Jose M. Duarte,Stephen Rice,Leo Goodstadt,Scott A. Beatson,Richard D. Emes,Eitan E. Winter,Caleb Webber,Petra Brandt,Gerald Nyakatura,Margaret Adetobi,Francesca Chiaromonte,Laura Elnitski,Pallavi Eswara,Ross C. Hardison,Minmei Hou,Diana L. Kolbe,Kateryna D. Makova,Webb Miller,Anton Nekrutenko,Cathy Riemer,Scott Schwartz,James Taylor,Shan Yang,Yi Zhang,Klaus Lindpaintner,T. Dan Andrews,Mario Caccamo,Michele Clamp,Laura Clarke,Valerie Curwen,Richard Durbin,Eduardo Eyras,Stephen M. J. Searle,Gregory M. Cooper,Serafim Batzoglou,Michael Brudno,Arend Sidow,Eric A. Stone,Bret A. Payseur,Guillaume Bourque,Carlos López-Otín,Xose S. Puente,Kushal Chakrabarti,Sourav Chatterji,Colin N. Dewey,Lior Pachter,Nicolas Bray,Von Bing Yap,Anat Caspi,San Diego Glenn Tesler,Pavel A. Pevzner,Santa Cruz David Haussler,Krishna M. Roskin,Robert Baertsch,Hiram Clawson,Terrence S. Furey,Angie S. Hinrichs,Donna Karolchik,W. J. Kent,Kate R. Rosenbloom,Heather Trumbower,Matt Weirauch,Matt Weirauch,David Neil Cooper,Peter D. Stenson,Bin Ma,Michael R. Brent,Manimozhiyan Arumugam,David Shteynberg,Richard R. Copley,Martin S. Taylor,Harold Riethman,Uma Mudunuri,Jane Peterson,Mark S. Guyer,Adam Felsenfeld,Susan Old,Stephen C. Mockrin,Francis S. Collins +242 more
TL;DR: This first comprehensive analysis of the genome sequence of the Brown Norway (BN) rat strain is reported, which is the third complete mammalian genome to be deciphered, and three-way comparisons with the human and mouse genomes resolve details of mammalian evolution.
Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolutionRat Genome Sequencing Project ConsortiumNature200442849352115057822
Richard A. Gibbs,George M. Weinstock,Michael L. Metzker,Donna M. Muzny,Erica Sodergren,Steven E. Scherer,Graham R. Scott,David Steffen,Kim C. Worley,Paula E. Burch,Geoffrey Okwuonu,Sandra Hines,Lora Lewis,C. DeRamo,Oliver Delgado,S. Dugan Rocha,George Miner,Margaret Morgan,Alicia Hawes,Rachel Gill,Robert A. Holt,Mark Raymond Adams,Peter G. Amanatides,H. Baden Tillson,Mary Barnstead,Soo H. Chin,Cheryl A. Evans,Steve Ferriera,Carl Fosler,A. Glodek,Gu Zp,D. Jennings,Cheryl L. Kraft,T. Nguyen,Cynthia Pfannkoch,Cynthia Sitter,Granger G. Sutton,J. C. Venter,Trevor Woodage,Douglas Smith,H. M. Lee,Erik Gustafson,Patrick Cahill,A. Kana,L. Doucette Stamm,Keith Weinstock,Kim Fechtel,Robert B. Weiss,Diane M. Dunn,Eric D. Green,Robert W. Blakesley,Gerard G. Bouffard,P. J. De Jong,Kazutoyo Osoegawa,Zhu Bl,Marco A. Marra,Jacqueline E. Schein,Ian Bosdet,Chris Fjell,Steven J.M. Jones,Martin Krzywinski,Carrie Mathewson,Asim Sarosh Siddiqui,Natasja Wye,John Douglas Mcpherson,Zhao Sy,Claire M. Fraser,Jyoti Shetty,Sofiya Shatsman,Keita Geer,Chen Yx,S. Abramzon,William C. Nierman,Paul Havlak,Rui Chen,K. J. Durbin,Amy Egan,Ren Yr,Xing Zhi Song,Li Bs,Yue Liu,Xiang Qin,Simon Cawley,Austin J. Cooney,Lisa M. D'Souza,Kirt Martin,Jia Qian Wu,M. L. Gonzalez Garay,Andrew R. Jackson,K. J. Kalafus,Michael P. McLeod,Aleksandar Milosavljevic,D. Virk,A. Volkov,David A. Wheeler,Zhang Zd,Jeffrey A. Bailey,Evan E. Eichler,Eray Tüzün,Ewan Birney,Emmanuel Mongin,A. Ureta Vidal,C. Woodwark,Evgeny M. Zdobnov,Peer Bork,Mikita Suyama,David Torrents,Marina Alexandersson,Barbara J. Trask,Janet M. Young,Hui Huang,Wang Hj,Xing Hm,Sue Daniels,Darryl Gietzen,Jeanette Schmidt,K. Stevens,Ursula Vitt,Jim Wingrove,Francisco Camara,M. Mar Albà,Josep F. Abril,Roderic Guigó,Arian F.A. Smit,Inna Dubchak,Edward M. Rubin,Olivier Couronne,Alexander Poliakov,Norbert Hubner,Detlev Ganten,C. Goesele,Oliver Hummel,Thomas Kreitler,Young-Ae Lee,Jan Monti,Herbert Schulz,Heike Zimdahl,Heinz Himmelbauer,Hans Lehrach,Howard J. Jacob,Susan Bromberg,J. Gullings Handley,M. I. Jensen Seaman,Anne E. Kwitek,Jozef Lazar,Dean Pasko,Peter J. Tonellato,Simon N. Twigger,Chris P. Ponting,Jose M. Duarte,Stephen Rice,Leo Goodstadt,Scott A. Beatson,Richard D. Emes,Eitan E. Winter,Caleb Webber,Petra Brandt,Gerald Nyakatura,M. Adetobi,Francesca Chiaromonte,Laura Elnitski,Pallavi Eswara,Ross C. Hardison,Hou Mm,Diana L. Kolbe,Kateryna D. Makova,Webb Miller,Anton Nekrutenko,Cathy Riemer,Scott Schwartz,James Taylor,Shan Yang,Yi Zhang,Klaus Lindpaintner,T. D. Andrews,Mario Caccamo,Michele Clamp,Laura Clarke,V. Curwen,Richard Durbin,Eduardo Eyras,Stephen M. J. Searle,Gregory M. Cooper,Serafim Batzoglou,Michael Brudno,Arend Sidow,Eric A. Stone,Bret A. Payseur,Guillaume Bourque,C. Lopez Otin,Xose S. Puente,Kushal Chakrabarti,Sourav Chatterji,Colin N. Dewey,Lior Pachter,Nicolas Bray,Von Bing Yap,Anat Caspi,G. Tesler,Pavel A. Pevzner,David Haussler,Krishna M. Roskin,Robert Baertsch,Hiram Clawson,Terrence S. Furey,Angie S. Hinrichs,Donna Karolchik,W. J. Kent,Kate R. Rosenbloom,Heather Trumbower,M. Weirauch,David Neil Cooper,Peter D. Stenson,Bin Ma,Michael R. Brent,Manimozhiyan Arumugam,David Shteynberg,Richard R. Copley,Martin S. Taylor,Harold Riethman,Uma Mudunuri,Jane Peterson,Mark S. Guyer,Adam Felsenfeld,Susan Old,Stephen C. Mockrin,Francis S. Collins +226 more
Abstract: The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report here the genome sequence of the Brown Norway (BN) rat strain. The sequence represents a high-quality ‘draft’ covering over 90% of the genome. The BN rat sequence is the third complete mammalian genome to be deciphered, and three-way comparisons with the human and mouse genomes resolve details of mammalian evolution. This first comprehensive analysis includes genes and proteins and their relation to human disease, repeated sequences, comparative genome-wide studies of mammalian orthologous chromosomal regions and rearrangement breakpoints, reconstruction of ancestral karyotypes and the events leading to existing species, rates of variation, and lineage-specific and lineage-independent evolutionary events such as expansion of gene families, orthology relations and protein evolution.
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The neurofibromatosis type 1 gene encodes a protein related to GAP
Gangfeng Xu,Peter O'Connell,David Viskochil,Richard M. Cawthon,Margaret Robertson,Melanie Culver,Diane M. Dunn,Jeff Stevens,Raymond F. Gesteland,Ray White,Robert B. Weiss +10 more
TL;DR: Evidence suggests that NF1 encodes a cytoplasmic GAP-like protein that may be involved in the control of cell growth by interacting with proteins such as the RAS gene product.
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A major segment of the neurofibromatosis type 1 gene: cDNA sequence, genomic structure, and point mutations.
Richard M. Cawthon,Robert B. Weiss,Gangfeng Xu,David Viskochil,Melanie Culver,Jeff Stevens,Margaret Robertson,Diane M. Dunn,Raymond F. Gesteland,Peter O'Connell,Ray White +10 more
TL;DR: The TBR gene is established as the NF1 gene and a description of a major segment of the gene is provided, indicating base pair changes in the gene.