Publications by authors named "Hillary Elrick"

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  • The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) creates and studies mouse lines with specific gene mutations to better understand gene functions, using advanced techniques such as the Cas9 nuclease for enhanced efficiency.
  • The IMPC has produced 3313 knockout mouse lines, allowing for a comprehensive analysis of factors that influence successful gene editing in living organisms.
  • The research highlights that the essentiality of genes significantly affects the success rates in producing null alleles, and offers best practice guidelines for using Cas9 in gene engineering linked to human diseases.
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T-ALL relapse usually occurs early but can occur much later, which has been suggested to represent a de novo leukemia. However, we conclusively demonstrate late relapse can evolve from a pre-leukemic subclone harbouring a non-coding mutation that evades initial chemotherapy.

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Despite recent progress in the understanding of the genetic etiologies of rare diseases (RDs), a significant number remain intractable to diagnostic and discovery efforts. Broad data collection and sharing of information among RD researchers is therefore critical. In 2018, the Care4Rare Canada Consortium launched the project C4R-SOLVE, a subaim of which was to collect, harmonize, and share both retrospective and prospective Canadian clinical and multiomic data.

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CReSCENT: CanceR Single Cell ExpressioN Toolkit (https://crescent.cloud), is an intuitive and scalable web portal incorporating a containerized pipeline execution engine for standardized analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. While scRNA-seq data for tumour specimens are readily generated, subsequent analysis requires high-performance computing infrastructure and user expertise to build analysis pipelines and tailor interpretation for cancer biology.

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Synopsis of recent research by authors named "Hillary Elrick"

  • - Research by Hillary Elrick primarily focuses on the biological implications of genetic mutations and modifications, with significant work on genome editing technologies and their applications in understanding mouse genetics and cancer biology.
  • - One key finding involves the production of 3313 genetically engineered mouse lines that demonstrate the impact of essential genes on genome editing experiments, thereby providing a valuable resource for future genetic research.
  • - Elrick's studies also extend to the role of noncoding mutations in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), revealing how such mutations can lead to late relapses from pre-leukemic clones, and highlighting the need for comprehensive data-sharing platforms for rare disease research.