Stefanida Shliaga

A stepwise short- and long-read whole genome sequencing strategy resolves previous genetically unresolved inherited retinal disease cases

This paper reanalyzes short-read WGS data and applies long-read WGS to improve genetic diagnosis of inherited retinal disease cases that were previously unresolved.

De novo and inherited dominant variants in U4 and U6 snRNAs cause retinitis pigmentosa

The paper identifies de novo and inherited variants in U4 and U6 snRNAs causing retinitis pigmentosa and shows their impact on snRNP biogenesis.

EDSpliCE, a CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing platform to rescue splicing, effectively corrects inherited retinal dystrophy-associated splicing defects

EDSpliCE corrects splicing defects in inherited retinal dystrophy using CRISPR-Cas9 with a single gRNA and exonuclease, showing effective splicing rescue in minigene assays and patient-derived fibroblasts.