April Hill, Ph. D.

Current address:

April Hill
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Fairfield University
email: ahill@FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU

Post Doctoral

1995-1997
Joslin Diabetes Center
Harvard University

Dissertation Title:

Genetic linkage analysis of Hereditary Multiple Exostoses and the molecular characterization of the Langer-Giedion region of human chromosome 8 for identification of expressed sequences. May, 1995.

Publications:

D. E. Wells, A. Hill, X. Lin, J. Ahn, N. Brown, and M. J. Wagner. (1997) Identification of novel mutations in the human EXT1 tumor suppressor gene. Human Genetics 99: 612-615

H-J. Luedecke, J. Ahn, X. Lin, A. Hill, M.J. Wagner, L. Schomburg, B. Horstemke, and D.E. Wells. (1997) Genomic organization and promoter structure of the Human EXT1 gene. Genomics 40: 351-354.

A. Hill, Y. Harada, E. Takahashi, M. J. Wagner and D. E. Wells. (1997) FRA8E localizes close to the EXT1 gene and to 2 overlapping LGS deletion end points at 8q24.11 Cytogenetics Cell Genetics.78:56-57.

E. Shore, A. Cook, G. Hahn, F. Kaplan, J. Wozney, M.J. Wagner and D.E. Wells. (1995) BMP1 Sublocalizes on human chromosome 8: Molecular anatomy and orthopaedic implications. Clin. Ortho. Rel. Res. 311: 199-209.

J. Hou, J. Parrish, J. Siegel, M. Sapru, Y. Wang, A. Hill, H. Northrup, F.F.B. Elder, E. A. Haan, H. Ludecke, B. Horstemke, M.J. Wagner and D.E. Wells. (1995) A YAC contig spanning the LGS region on human chromosome 8: Sublocalization of EXTI and TRPSI. Genomics 29:87-97.

W.Wuyts, S Ramlakhan, W.V. Hul, J. T. Hecht, A.M.W. van der Ouweland, W.R. Raskin, F.C. Hofstede, E. Reyniers, D.E. Wells, B. deVries, E. U. Conrad, A. Hill, D. Zalatayev, J. Weissenbach, M.J. Wagner, E, Bakker, D.J.J. Halley and P.J. Willems. (1995) Refinement of the multiple exostoses locus (EXT2) to a 3 cM interval on chromosome 11. Am. J. Human Genet. 57: 382-387.

X. Lin, J. Ahn,A. Hill, M.J. Wagner, H-J. Luedecke, B. Horstemke.D.E. Wells (1995) The human hereditary multiple exostoses type 1 gene spans 350 kb within the LGS chromosomal region in 8q24.1. American Journal of Human Genetics 57:A1259.abstract

A. Cook, W. Raskind, S. Blanton, R. Pauli, R. Gregg, C. Francomano, E. Conrad, G. Schmale, G. Schellenberg, E. Wijman, J. Hecht, D.E. Wells and M. Wagner, (1993) Genetic Heterogeneity in families with Hereditary Multiple Exostoses. American Journal of Human Genetics 53: 71-79.

D.E. Wells, J. Parrish, J. Hou, M. Sapru, Y. Wang, J. Gu,A. Cook, S. Blanton, W. Raskind, H. Ludecke, B. Horstemke, and M. J. Wagner. (1993) YAC and cosmid contig maps of chromosome 8. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 64:145.abstract

A. Cook, D.E. Wells and M.J. Wagner. (1993) Testing for loss of heterozygosity in patients with trichorhinophalangeal syndrome I and Langer-Giedion syndrome. American Journal of Human Genetics 53:1147.abstract

D. Brown, A. Cook, M. Wagner and D.E. Wells. (1992) Closely linked H2B genes in the marine copepod, Tigriopus californicus indicate a recent duplication/gene conversion event. DNA Sequence 2:387-396.

A. Cook,, J. Hecht, S. Blanton, R. Pauli, R. Gregg, C. Francomano, W. Raskind, E. Conrad, G. Schmale, G. Schellenberg, E. Wijman, D.E. Wells and M. Wagner. (1992) Possible genetic heterogeneity in families with Hereditary Multiple Exostoses. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 51:1424.abstract

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