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Selected Publications


Circulating Tumor DNA Analysis in Patients With Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology and College of American Pathologists Joint Review.

Merker JD, Oxnard GR, Compton C, Diehn M, Hurley P, Lazar AJ, Lindeman N, Lockwood CM, Rai AJ, Schilsky RL, Tsimberidou AM, Vasalos P, Billman BL, Oliver TK, Bruinooge SS, Hayes DF, Turner NC.

J Clin Oncol. 2018 Jun 1;36(16):1631-1641. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2017.76.8671. Epub 2018 Mar 5.

PMID: 29504847

 

A Window Into Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Oncology Testing Practices.

Nagarajan R, Bartley AN, Bridge JA, Jennings LJ, Kamel-Reid S, Kim A, Lazar AJ, Lindeman NI, Moncur J, Rai AJ, Routbort MJ, Vasalos P, Merker JD.

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2017 Dec;141(12):1679-1685. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0542-CP. Epub 2017 Oct 13.

PMID: 29028368

 

Long-read genome sequencing identifies causal structural variation in a Mendelian disease. 

Merker JD, Wenger AM, Sneddon T, Grove M, Zappala Z, Fresard L, Waggott D, Utiramerur S, Hou Y, Smith KS, Montgomery SB, Wheeler M, Buchan JG, Lambert CC, Eng KS, Hickey L, Korlach J, Ford J, Ashley EA.

Genet Med. 2018 Jan;20(1):159-163. doi: 10.1038/gim.2017.86. Epub 2017 Jun 22.

PMID: 28640241

 

A novel TRIP11-FLT3 fusion in a patient with a myeloid/lymphoid neoplasm with eosinophilia.

Chung A, Hou Y, Ohgami RS, Von Gehr A, Fisk DG, Roskin KM, Li X, Gojenola L, Bangs CD, Arber DA, Fire AZ, Cherry AM, Zehnder JL, Gotlib J, Merker JD.

Cancer Genet. 2017 Oct;216-217:10-15. doi: 10.1016/j.cancergen.2017.05.001. Epub 2017 May 10.

PMID: 29025582

 

Identification of rare-disease genes using blood transcriptome sequencing and large control cohorts.

Frésard L, Smail C, Ferraro NM, Teran NA, Li X, Smith KS, Bonner D, Kernohan KD, Marwaha S, Zappala Z, Balliu B, Davis JR, Liu B, Prybol CJ, Kohler JN, Zastrow DB, Reuter CM, Fisk DG, Grove ME, Davidson JM, Hartley T, Joshi R, Strober BJ, Utiramerur S; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; Care4Rare Canada Consortium, Lind L, Ingelsson E, Battle A, Bejerano G, Bernstein JA, Ashley EA, Boycott KM, Merker JD, Wheeler MT, Montgomery SB.

Nat Med. 2019 Jun;25(6):911-919. doi: 10.1038/s41591-019-0457-8. Epub 2019 Jun 3.

PMID: 31160820

 

The impact of rare variation on gene expression across tissues.

Li X, Kim Y, Tsang EK, Davis JR, Damani FN, Chiang C, Hess GT, Zappala Z, Strober BJ, Scott AJ, Li A, Ganna A, Bassik MC, Merker JD; GTEx Consortium; Laboratory, Data Analysis &Coordinating Center (LDACC)—Analysis Working Group; Statistical Methods groups—Analysis Working Group; Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups; NIH Common Fund; NIH/NCI; NIH/NHGRI; NIH/NIMH; NIH/NIDA; Biospecimen Collection Source Site—NDRI; Biospecimen Collection Source Site—RPCI; Biospecimen Core Resource—VARI; Brain Bank Repository—University of Miami Brain Endowment Bank; Leidos Biomedical—Project Management; ELSI Study; Genome Browser Data Integration &Visualization—EBI; Genome Browser Data Integration &Visualization—UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Hall IM, Battle A, Montgomery SB.

Nature. 2017 Oct 11;550(7675):239-243. doi: 10.1038/nature24267.

PMID: 29022581

 

Additional Publications

Please view NIH bibliography to see more of Jason Merker’s publications.