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Contact
information:
Telephone: (514) 398-8150
e-mail address: elena.torban@mcgill.ca
website:
http://nephrology.mcgill.ca
Projects for Thesis
Supervision:
1. The role of the planar cell polarity (PCP)
pathway in nephrotic syndrome.
2. Planar cell polarity pathway and ciliary
diseases in human and mice.
3. Development of the new PCP mouse models of
the human and brain diseases.
Recent
Publications:
Torban,, E., Patenaude, A.M., Leclerc, S., Rakowiecki, S.,
Gauthier, S., Andelfinger, G., Epstein, D.J. and Gros, P. (2008)
Genetic interaction between Vangl1 and Vangl2 during neural tube
formation and for planar cell polarity. PNAS 105(9): 3449-3454.
Kibar, Z.,
Torban, E., McDearmid, D.R., Mathieu, M., Kirillova, I., De
Marco, P., Merello, E., Hayes, J.M., Wallingford, J.B., Drapeau, P.,
Capra, V. and Gros, P. (2007)
Mutations in Vangl1 associated with neural tube defects in humans. NEJM
356(14): 1432-1437.
Torban, E.,
Wang, H.J., Patenaude, A.M., Riccomagno, M., Daniels, E., Epstein, D.
and Gros, P. (2006)
Tissue, cellular, and sub-cellular localization of the Vangl2 protein in
mouse development: effect of the Loop-tail mutations. Gene Expression
Patterns 7(3): 346-354.
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