Publications in collaboration with other investigators.
Valles-Ayoub Y, Esfandiarifard S, No D, Sinai P, Khokher Z, Kohan M, Kahen T, Darvish D. Wolman Disease (LIPA p.G87V) Genotype Frequency in People of Iranian-Jewish Ancestry. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers. 2011 Feb 3.
Saechao C, Valles-Ayoub Y, Esfandiarifard S, Haghighatgoo A, No D, Shook S, Mendell JR, Rosales-Quintero X, Felice KJ, Morel CF, Pietruska M, Darvish D. Novel GNE Mutations in Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy Patients of Non-Middle Eastern Descent. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers. 2010 Jan 10.
Haghighatgoo A, Valles-Ayoub Y, Saechao C, Esfandiarifard S, Martinez SL, Pietruszka M, Darvish D. MTHFR C677T Genotype Frequency in Patients of Middle Eastern Descent as Determined by Real-Time PCR and Melting Curve Analysis. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers. 2009 Jul 13.
Jay C, Nemunaitis G, Nemunaitis J, Senzer N, Hinderlich S, Darvish D, Ogden J, Eager J, Tong A, Maples P. Preclinical Assessment of wt GNE Gene Plasmid for Management of Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy 2 (HIBM2). Gene Regulation and Systems Biology, Jun 20, 2008, 2008(2):243-252.
Valles-Ayoub Y, Saechao C, Haghighatgoo A, Neshat
MS, Esfandiarifard S, Pietruszka M, Darvish D. Validation of GNE:p.M712T Identification by Melting Curve Analysis. Genet Test. 2008 Spring;12(1):101-9. PMID: 18373408.
Galeano B, Klootwijk R, Manoli I, Sun M, Ciccone C, Darvish D, Starost MF, Zerfas PM, Hoffmann VJ, Hoogstraten-Miller S, Krasnewich DM, Gahl WA, Huizing M. Mutation in the key enzyme of sialic acid biosynthesis causes severe glomerular proteinuria and is rescued by N-acetylmannosamine. J Clin Invest. 2007 Jun;117(6):1585-94. PMID: 17549255.
Moore SA, Shilling CJ, Westra S, Wall C, Wicklund MP, Stolle C, Brown CA, Michele DE, Piccolo F, Winder TL, Stence A, Barresi R, King N, King W, Florence J, Campbell KP, Fenichel GM, Stedman H, Kissel JT, Griggs RC, Pandya S, Mathews KD, Pestronk A, Serrano C, Darvish D, Mendell JR. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy in the United States. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2006 Oct;65(10):995-1003.
Fisher J, Towfighi, J, Darvish D, Simmons Z. A Case of Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy: 1 Patient, 2 Novel Mutations. Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease. June 2006, 7(4):179-184.
Gottlieb E, Ciccone C, Darvish D, Naiem S, Dalakas MC, Savelkoul PJ, Krasnewich DM, Gahl WA, Huizing M. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms within the Dystroglycan Gene in Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy. Mol Genet Metab. 2005 Sep-Oct;86(1-2):244-9. PMID: 16112887.
Watts GD, Wymer J, Kovach MJ, Mehta SG, Mumm S, Darvish D, Pestronk A, Whyte MP, Kimonis VE. Inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget disease of bone and frontotemporal dementia is caused by mutant valosin-containing protein. Nat Genet. 2004 Apr;36(4):377-81. Epub 2004 Mar 21. PMID: 15034582.
Darvish D. Magnesium (Mg++), and other dietary modifications for patients affected with IBM2 (MIM:600737), a review of pathology. Med Hypotheses, Jan 2003. PMID: 12450772.
Darvish D, Vahedifar P, Huo Y. 4 novel mutations associated with autosomal recessive inclusion body myopathy (MIM:600737). Mol Genet Metab, Nov 2002. PMID: 12409274.