Jennifer Scull, PhD

Personal Statement

Dr. Scull is board certified in clinical molecular genetics, with more than a decade of experience directing clinical genetics/genomics laboratories. In addition to providing quality care through molecular diagnostics, she has an interest in genetic/genomic test stewardship.  

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Carrasco, D, Magoulas, P, Scull, JC, Jarrell, JA, Lalani, SR, Wangler, MF. (2019) Digital necrosis in an infant with severe spinal muscular atrophy. Neurology Genetics. Oct 2019, 5(5) e361.

Dharmadhikari AV, Ghosh R, Yuan B, Liu P, Dai H, Al Masri S, Scull J, Posey JE, Jiang AH, He W, Vetrini F, Braxton AA, Ward P, Chiang T, Qu C, Gu S, Shaw CA, Smith JL, Lalani S, Stankiewicz P, Cheung SW, Bacino CA, Patel A, Breman AM, Wang X, Meng L, Xiao R, Xia F, Muzny D, Gibbs RA, Beaudet AL, Eng CM, Lupski JR, Yang Y, Bi W. (2019) Copy number variant and runs of homozygosity detection by microarrays enabled more precise molecular diagnoses in 11,020 clinical exome cases. Genome Medicine. May 17;11(1):20.

Liu P, Yuan B, Carvalho CM, Wuster A, Walter K, Zhang L, Gambin T, Chong Z, Campbell IM, Coban Akdemir Z, Gelowani V, Writzl K, Bacino CA, Lindsay SJ, Withers M, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Wiszniewska J, Scull J, Stankiewicz P, Jhangiani SN, Muzny DM, Zhang F, Chen K, Gibbs RA, Rautenstrauss B, Cheung SW, Smith J, Breman A, Shaw CA, Patel A, Hurles ME, Lupski JR. (2017) An organismal CNV mutator phenotype restricted to early human development. Cell. Feb 23;168(5):830-842.e7.

Feng Y, Ge X, Meng L, Scull J, Li J, Tian X, Zhang T, Jin W, Cheng H, Wang X, Tokita M, Liu P, Mei H, Wang Y, Li F, Schmitt ES, Zhang WV, Muzny D, Wen S, Chen Z, Yang Y, Beaudet AL, Liu X, Eng CM, Xia F, Wong LJ, Zhang J. (2017) The next generation of population-based spinal muscular atrophy carrier screening: comprehensive pan-ethnic SMN1 copy-number and sequence variant analysis by massively parallel sequencing. Genetics in Medicine. Aug;19(8):936-944.

Yang, Y, Muzny, DM, Xia, F, Niu Z, Person, R, Ding, Y, Ward, P, Braxton, A, Wang, M, Buhay, C, Veeraraghavan, N, Hawes, A, Chiang, T, Leduc, M, Beuten, J, Zhang, J, He, W, Scull, J, Willis, A, Landsverk, M, Craigen, WJ, Bekheirnia, MR, Stray-Pedersen, A, Liu, P, Wen, S, Alcaraz, W, Cui, H, Walkiewicz, M, Reid, J, Bainbridge, M, Patel, A, Boerwinkle, E, Beaudet, AL, Lupski, JR, Plon, SE, Gibbs, RA, Eng CM. (2014) Molecular findings among patients referred for clinical whole-exome sequencing. JAMA. Nov 12;312(18):1870-9.