Erika Gedvilaite, MS

Senior Laboratory Technician
The Luis Diaz Jr. Lab
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Erika Gedvilaite, MS

Senior Laboratory Technician
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Erika Gedvilaite, MS

I am assisting in the development and validation of hybridization capture based NGS assay to help detect and monitor CH mutations in MSK population that have an increased chance of developing hematological cancers. In addition, I have also been working on finding ways to induce higher cell free DNA (cfDNA) shedding in blood, which would allow to detect cancer variants at higher sensitivity, specificity and allow for testing at minimal residual disease levels.

Publications

Wang, N., Y. Zhang, E. Gedvilaite, J. Loh, T. Lin, X. Liu, C. Liu, D. Kumar, R. Donnelly, K. Raymond, E. H. Schuchman, D. E. Sleat, P. Lobel, and J. Xing (2017) Using whole-exome sequencing to investigate the genetic bases for lysosomal storage diseases of unknown etiology. Human Mutation 38: 1491–1499.

Willsey, A. J., T. V. Fernandez, D. Yu, R. A. King, A. Dietrich, J. Xing, S. J. Sanders, J. D. Mandell, A. Y. Huang, P. Richer, L. Smith, S. Dong, K. E. Samocha, Tourette International Collaborative Genetics (TIC Genetics) (including E. Gedvilaite), Tourette Syndrome Association International Consortium for Genetics (TSAICG), B. M. Neale, G. Coppola, C. A. Mathews, J. A. Tischfield, J. M. Scharf, M. W. State, and G. A. Heiman (2017) De novo coding variants are strongly associated with Tourette Disorder. Neuron 94: 486–499.

Rustagi, N., A. Zhou, W. S. Watkins, E. Gedvilaite, S. Wang, N. Ramesh, D. Muzny, R. A. Gibbs, L. B. Jorde, F. Yu, and J. Xing (2017) Extremely low-coverage whole genome sequencing in South Asians captures population genomics information. BMC Genomics 18:396.

Sleat, D. E., Gedvilaite, E., Zhang, Y., Lobel, P., & Xing, J. (2016). Analysis of large-scale whole exome sequencing data to determine the prevalence of genetically-distinct forms of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. Gene, 593(2), 284-291.

Ross J., E. Gedvilaite, J. A. Badner, C. Erdman, S. Barondes, L. Baird, N. Matsunami, M. Leppert, J. Xing, and W. Byerley(2016) A Rare Variant in CACNA1D segregates with 7 Bipolar I cases in a large pedigree. Molecular Neuropsychiatry 2:145-150.