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Laurel Ball

Medical Resident/Fellow

Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery | College of Medicine

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Peer Reviewed Publications

Sun, Chen; Kathuria, Kunal; Emery, Sarah B; Kim, ByungJun; Burbulis, Ian E; Shin, Joo Heon ; Weinberger, Daniel R; Moran, John V; Kidd, Jeffrey M; Mills, Ryan E; McConnell, Michael J 2024. Mapping recurrent mosaic copy number variation in human neurons. Nature communications, 15 1, 4220

Chung, Changuk; Yang, Xiaoxu; Bae, Taejeong; Vong, Keng Ioi; Mittal, Swapnil; Donkels, Catharina; Westley Phillips, H; Li, Zhen; Marsh, Ashley P L; Breuss, Martin W; Ball, Laurel L; Garcia, Camila Araújo Bernardino; George, Renee D; Gu, Jing; Xu, Mingchu; Barrows, Chelsea; James, Kiely N; Stanley, Valentina; Nidhiry, Anna S; Khoury, Sami; Howe, Gabrielle; Riley, Emily; Xu, Xin; Copeland, Brett; Wang, Yifan; Kim, Se Hoon; Kang, Hoon-Chul; Schulze-Bonhage, Andreas; Haas, Carola A; Urbach, Horst; Prinz, Marco; Limbrick, David D; Gurnett, Christina A; Smyth, Matthew D; Sattar, Shifteh; Nespeca, Mark; Gonda, David D; Imai, Katsumi; Takahashi, Yukitoshi; Chen, Hsin-Hung; Tsai, Jin-Wu; Conti, Valerio; Guerrini, Renzo; Devinsky, Orrin; Silva, Wilson A; Machado, Helio R; Mathern, Gary W; Abyzov, Alexej; Baldassari, Sara; Baulac, Stéphanie ; Gleeson, Joseph G 2023. Comprehensive multi-omic profiling of somatic mutations in malformations of cortical development. Nature genetics, ,

Crawford, Kayva L; Ball, Laurel L; Kalavacherla, Sandhya; Greene, Jacqueline J; Nguyen, Quyen T; Orosco, Ryan K 2023. Race and sex demographics in the surgical management of facial nerve palsy. Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology, 8 3, 639-644

Garrison, McKinzie A; Jang, Yeongjun; Bae, Taejeong; Cherskov, Adriana; Emery, Sarah B; Fasching, Liana; Jones, Attila; Moldovan, John B; Molitor, Cindy; Pochareddy, Sirisha; Peters, Mette A; Shin, Joo Heon; Wang, Yifan; Yang, Xiaoxu; Akbarian, Schahram; Chess, Andrew; Gage, Fred H; Gleeson, Joseph G; Kidd, Jeffrey M; McConnell, Michael; Mills, Ryan E; Moran, John V; Park, Peter J; Sestan, Nenad; Urban, Alexander E; Vaccarino, Flora M; Walsh, Christopher A; Weinberger, Daniel R; Wheelan, Sarah J; Abyzov, Alexej 2023. Genomic data resources of the Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network for neuropsychiatric diseases. Scientific data, 10 1, 813

Maury, Eduardo A; Sherman, Maxwell A; Genovese, Giulio; Gilgenast, Thomas G; Kamath, Tushar; Burris, S J; Rajarajan, Prashanth; Flaherty, Erin; Akbarian, Schahram; Chess, Andrew; McCarroll, Steven A; Loh, Po-Ru; Phillips-Cremins, Jennifer E; Brennand, Kristen J; Macosko, Evan Z; Walters, James T R; O'Donovan, Michael; Sullivan, Patrick ; Sebat, Jonathan; Lee, Eunjung A; Walsh, Christopher A 2023. Schizophrenia-associated somatic copy-number variants from 12,834 cases reveal recurrent NRXN1 and ABCB11 disruptions. Cell genomics, 3 8, 100356

Rodin, Rachel E; Dou, Yanmei; Kwon, Minseok; Sherman, Maxwell A; D'Gama, Alissa M; Doan, Ryan N; Rento, Lariza M; Girskis, Kelly M; Bohrson, Craig L; Kim, Sonia N; Nadig, Ajay; Luquette, Lovelace J; Gulhan, Doga C ; Park, Peter J; Walsh, Christopher A 2023. Author Correction: The landscape of somatic mutation in cerebral cortex of autistic and neurotypical individuals revealed by ultra-deep whole-genome sequencing. Nature neuroscience, 26 10, 1833

Yang, Xiaoxu; Xu, Xin; Breuss, Martin W; Antaki, Danny; Ball, Laurel L; Chung, Changuk; Shen, Jiawei; Li, Chen; George, Renee D; Wang, Yifan; Bae, Taejeong; Cheng, Yuhe; Abyzov, Alexej; Wei, Liping; Alexandrov, Ludmil B; Sebat, Jonathan L ; Gleeson, Joseph G 2023. Control-independent mosaic single nucleotide variant detection with DeepMosaic. Nature biotechnology, ,

Appiah, M., Ball, L., Ikediobi, O., & Daniels, B. 2022. A New Skin-Colored Nodule in a Patient with Cushing’s Disease: Melanocytic Schwannoma SKIN The Journal of Cutaneous Medicine, 6 1, 73

Breuss, Martin W; Yang, Xiaoxu; Schlachetzki, Johannes C M; Antaki, Danny; Lana, Addison J; Xu, Xin; Chung, Changuk; Chai, Guoliang; Stanley, Valentina; Song, Qiong; Newmeyer, Traci F; Nguyen, An; O'Brien, Sydney; Hoeksema, Marten A; Cao, Beibei; Nott, Alexi; McEvoy-Venneri, Jennifer; Pasillas, Martina P; Barton, Scott T; Copeland, Brett R; Nahas, Shareef; Van Der Kraan, Lucitia; Ding, Yan ; Glass, Christopher K; Gleeson, Joseph G 2022. Somatic mosaicism reveals clonal distributions of neocortical development. Nature, 604 7907, 689-696

Ball, Laurel L; Velasquez, Stephanie A; Al Jammal, Omar M; White, Andrew A; Akuthota, Praveen 2021. Atypical eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis with spontaneous aspirin reactivity and immunoglobulin E-mediated anaphylaxis. Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 127 4, 506-507

Bernstein, Jeffrey D; Ball, Laurel L; Nardone, Zachary B; Watson, Deborah 2021. A virtual sub-internship for otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. Laryngoscope investigative otolaryngology, 6 5, 952-957

Pang, John; Nguyen, Nam; Luebeck, Jens; Ball, Laurel; Finegersh, Andrey; Ren, Shuling; Nakagawa, Takuya; Flagg, Mitchell; Sadat, Sayed; Mischel, Paul S; Xu, Guorong; Fisch, Kathleen; Guo, Theresa; Cahill, Gabrielle; Panuganti, Bharat; Bafna, Vineet; Califano, Joseph 2021. Extrachromosomal DNA in HPV-Mediated Oropharyngeal Cancer Drives Diverse Oncogene Transcription. Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, 27 24, 6772-6786

Wang, Yifan; Bae, Taejeong; Thorpe, Jeremy; Sherman, Maxwell A; Jones, Attila G; Cho, Sean; Daily, Kenneth; Dou, Yanmei; Ganz, Javier; Galor, Alon; Lobon, Irene; Pattni, Reenal; Rosenbluh, Chaggai; Tomasi, Simone; Tomasini, Livia; Yang, Xiaoxu; Zhou, Bo; Akbarian, Schahram; Ball, Laurel L; Bizzotto, Sara; Emery, Sarah B; Doan, Ryan; Fasching, Liana; Jang, Yeongjun; Juan, David; Lizano, Esther; Luquette, Lovelace J; Moldovan, John B; Narurkar, Rujuta; Oetjens, Matthew T; Rodin, Rachel E; Sekar, Shobana; Shin, Joo Heon; Soriano, Eduardo; Straub, Richard E; Zhou, Weichen; Chess, Andrew; Gleeson, Joseph G; Marquès-Bonet, Tomas; Park, Peter J; Peters, Mette A; Pevsner, Jonathan; Walsh, Christopher A; Weinberger, Daniel R ; Vaccarino, Flora M; Moran, John V; Urban, Alexander E; Kidd, Jeffrey M; Mills, Ryan E; Abyzov, Alexej 2021. Comprehensive identification of somatic nucleotide variants in human brain tissue. Genome biology, 22 1, 92

Yang, Xiaoxu; Breuss, Martin W; Xu, Xin; Antaki, Danny; James, Kiely N; Stanley, Valentina; Ball, Laurel L; George, Renee D; Wirth, Sara A; Cao, Beibei; Nguyen, An; McEvoy-Venneri, Jennifer; Chai, Guoliang; Nahas, Shareef; Van Der Kraan, Lucitia; Ding, Yan; Sebat, Jonathan; Gleeson, Joseph G 2021. Developmental and temporal characteristics of clonal sperm mosaicism. Cell, 184 18, 4772-4783.e15

Breuss, Martin W; Antaki, Danny; George, Renee D; Kleiber, Morgan; James, Kiely N; Ball, Laurel L; Hong, Oanh; Mitra, Ileena; Yang, Xiaoxu; Wirth, Sara A; Gu, Jing; Garcia, Camila A B; Gujral, Madhusudan; Brandler, William M; Musaev, Damir; Nguyen, An; McEvoy-Venneri, Jennifer; Knox, Renatta; Sticca, Evan; Botello, Martha Cristina Cancino; Uribe Fenner, Javiera; Pérez, Maria Cárcel; Arranz, Maria; Moffitt, Andrea B; Wang, Zihua; Hervás, Amaia; Devinsky, Orrin; Gymrek, Melissa; Sebat, Jonathan; Gleeson, Joseph G 2020. Autism risk in offspring can be assessed through quantification of male sperm mosaicism. Nature medicine, 26 1, 143-150

Garcia, Camila A B; Carvalho, Simone C S; Yang, Xiaoxu; Ball, Laurel L; George, Renee D; James, Kiely N; Stanley, Valentina; Breuss, Martin W; Thomé, Ursula; Santos, Marcelo V; Saggioro, Fabiano P; Neder Serafini, Luciano; Silva, Wilson A; Gleeson, Joseph G; Machado, Hélio R 2020. mTOR pathway somatic variants and the molecular pathogenesis of hemimegalencephaly. Epilepsia open, 5 1, 97-106

Pelorosso, Cristiana; Watrin, Françoise; Conti, Valerio; Buhler, Emmanuelle; Gelot, Antoinette; Yang, Xiaoxu; Mei, Davide; McEvoy-Venneri, Jennifer; Manent, Jean-Bernard; Cetica, Valentina; Ball, Laurel L; Buccoliero, Anna Maria; Vinck, Antonin; Barba, Carmen; Gleeson, Joseph G; Guerrini, Renzo; Represa, Alfonso 2019. Somatic double-hit in MTOR and RPS6 in hemimegalencephaly with intractable epilepsy. Human molecular genetics, 28 22, 3755-3765