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Publications · 56 papers · 2000 to 2025

Peer-reviewed research on
federated health data.

Papers by the Lifebit team and by researchers working on Lifebit, from The Lancet Oncology to the first multi-party federation of Trusted Research Environments.

57 publications
11 with Lifebit authors
1 in The Lancet Oncology, 2025
Frontiers in Genetics · 2022 Democratizing clinical-genomic data: how federated platforms can promote benefits sharing
Zenodo · 2022 Multi-party Trusted Research Environment federation
The Lancet Oncology · 2025 Clinical potential of whole-genome data linked to mortality statistics in patients with breast cancer 2,445 tumors · 100,000 Genomes Project · Genomics England, run on Lifebit DOI 10.1016/S1470-2045(25)00400-0

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Clinical potential of whole-genome data linked to mortality statistics in patients with breast cancer in the UK: a retrospective analysis

Daniella Black, Helen Ruth Davies, Gene Ching Chiek Koh, Lucia Chmelova, Marko Cubric, Georgia Chalivelaki Chan, Andrea Degasperi, Jan Czarnecki, Ping Jing Toong, Yasin Memari, James Whitworth, Salome Jingchen Zhao, Yogesh Kumar, Shadi Basyuni, Giuseppe Rinaldi, Scott Shooter, Vladyslav Dembrovskyi, Rosie Davies, Maria Chatzou Dunford, Ellen Copson, Carlo Palmieri, Åke Borg, John Ambrose, Catey Bunce, Alona Sosinsky, Prabhu Arumugam, Matthew Arthur Brown, Johan Staaf, Nicholas Turner, Serena Nik-Zainal

The Lancet Oncology (2025) · DOI 10.1016/S1470-2045(25)00400-0

Lifebit research · Genomics

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DNAAF1 links heart laterality with the AAA+ ATPase RUVBL1 and ciliary intraflagellar transport

Verity L Hartill, Glenn van de Hoek, Mitali P Patel, Rosie Little, Christopher M Watson, Ian R Berry, Amelia Shoemark, Dina Abdelmottaleb, Emma Parkes, Chiara Bacchelli, Katarzyna Szymanska, Nine V Knoers, Peter J Scambler, Marius Ueffing, Karsten Boldt, Robert Yates, Paul J Winyard, Beryl Adler, Eduardo Moya, Louise Hattingh, Anil Shenoy, Claire Hogg, Eamonn Sheridan, Ronald Roepman, Dominic Norris, Hannah M Mitchison, Rachel H Giles, Colin A Johnson

Hum Mol Genet. 2018 Feb 1;27(3):529-545 · DOI 10.1093/hmg/ddx422

Genomics

2017

Mutations in EXTL3 Cause Neuro-immuno-skeletal Dysplasia Syndrome

Machteld M Oud, Paul Tuijnenburg, Maja Hempel, Naomi van Vlies, Zemin Ren, Sacha Ferdinandusse, Machiel H Jansen, René Santer, Jessika Johannsen, Chiara Bacchelli, Marielle Alders, Rui Li, Rosalind Davies, Lucie Dupuis, Catherine M Cale, Ronald J A Wanders, Steven T Pals, Louise Ocaka, Chela James, Ingo Müller, Kai Lehmberg, Tim Strom, Hartmut Engels, Hywel J Williams, Phil Beales, Ronald Roepman, Patricia Dias, Han G Brunner, Jan-Maarten Cobben, Christine Hall, Taila Hartley, Polona Le Quesne Stabej, Roberto Mendoza-Londono, E Graham Davies, Sérgio B de Sousa, Davor Lessel, Heleen H Arts, Taco W Kuijpers

Am J Hum Genet. 2017 Feb 2;100(2):281-296 · DOI 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.01.013

Genomics

Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Presenting Before the Age of 2 years

Jochen Kammermeier, Robert Dziubak, Matilde Pescarin, Suzanne Drury, Heather Godwin, Kate Reeve, Sibongile Chadokufa, Bonita Huggett, Sara Sider, Chela James, Nikki Acton, Elena Cernat, Marco Gasparetto, Gabi Noble-Jamieson, Fevronia Kiparissi, Mamoun Elawad, Phil L Beales, Neil J Sebire, Kimberly Gilmour, Holm H Uhlig, Chiara Bacchelli, Neil Shah

J Crohns Colitis. 2017 Jan;11(1):60-69 · DOI 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjw118

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2016

Genome and transcriptome analysis of the Mesoamerican common bean and the role of gene duplications in establishing tissue and temporal specialization of genes

Vlasova A, Capella-Gutiérrez S, Rendón-Anaya M, Hernández-Oñate M, Minoche AE, Erb I, Câmara F, Prieto-Barja P, Corvelo A, Sanseverino W, Westergaard G, Dohm JC, Pappas GJ Jr, Saburido-Alvarez S, Kedra D, Gonzalez I, Cozzuto L, Gómez-Garrido J, Aguilar-Morón MA, Andreu N, Aguilar OM, Garcia-Mas J, Zehnsdorf M, Vázquez MP, Delgado-Salinas A, Delaye L, Lowy E, Mentaberry A, Vianello-Brondani RP, García JL, Alioto T, Sánchez F, Himmelbauer H, Santalla M, Notredame C, Gabaldón T, Herrera-Estrella A, Guigó R

Genome Biol. 2016 Feb 25;17:32 · DOI 10.1186/s13059-016-0883-6

Lifebit research · Genomics

STAG3 truncating variant as the cause of primary ovarian insufficiency

Polona Le Quesne Stabej, Hywel J Williams, Chela James, Mehmet Tekman, Horia C Stanescu, Robert Kleta, Louise Ocaka, Francesco Lescai, Helen L Storr, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Chiara Bacchelli, Gerard S Conway, GOSgene

Eur J Hum Genet. 2016 Jan;24(1):135-8 · DOI 10.1038/ejhg.2015.107

Genomics

Seizures Due to a KCNQ2 Mutation: Treatment with Vitamin B6

Emma S Reid, Hywel Williams, Polona Le Quesne Stabej, Chela James, Louise Ocaka, Chiara Bacchelli, Emma J Footitt, Stewart Boyd, Maureen A Cleary, Philippa B Mills, Peter T Clayton

JIMD Rep. 2016;27:79-84 · DOI 10.1007/8904_2015_460

Clinical

The use of whole-exome sequencing to disentangle complex phenotypes

Hywel J Williams, John R Hurst, Louise Ocaka, Chela James, Caroline Pao, Estelle Chanudet, Francesco Lescai, Horia C Stanescu, Robert Kleta, GOSgene; Elisabeth Rosser, Chiara Bacchelli, Philip Beales

Eur J Hum Genet. 2016 Feb;24(2):298-301 · DOI 10.1038/ejhg.2015.121

Genomics

2015

Third Report on Chicken Genes and Chromosomes 2015

Schmid M, Smith J, Burt DW, Aken BL, Antin PB, Archibald AL, Ashwell C, Blackshear PJ, Boschiero C, Brown CT, Burgess SC, Cheng HH, Chow W, Coble DJ, Cooksey A, Crooijmans RPMA, Damas J, Davis RVN, de Koning D-J, Delany ME, Derrien T, Desta TT, Dunn IC, Dunn M, Ellegren H, Eöry L, Erb I, Farré M, Fasold M, Fleming D, Flicek P, Fowler KE, Frésard L, Froman DP, Garceau V, Gardner PP, Gheyas AA, Griffin DK, Groenen MAM, Haaf T, Hanotte O, Hart A, Häsler J, Hedges SB, Hertel J, Howe K, Hubbard A, Hume DA, Kaiser P, Kedra D, Kemp SJ, Klopp C, Kniel KE, Kuo R, Lagarrigue S, Lamont SJ, Larkin DM, Lawal RA, Markland SM, McCarthy F, McCormack HA, McPherson MC, Motegi A, Muljo SA, Münsterberg A, Nag R, Nanda I, Neuberger M, Nitsche A, Notredame C, Noyes H, O’Connor R, O’Hare EA, Oler AJ, Ommeh SC, Pais H, Persia M, Pitel F, Preeyanon L, Prieto Barja P, Pritchett EM, Rhoads DD, Robinson CM, Romanov MN, Rothschild M, Roux P-F, Schmidt CJ, Schneider A-S, Schwartz MG, Searle SM, Skinner MA, Smith CA, Stadler PF, Steeves TE, Steinlein C, Sun L, Takata M, Ulitsky I, Wang Q, Wang Y, Warren WC, Wood JMD, Wragg D, Zhou H

Cytogenet Genome Res 2015;145:78-179 · DOI 10.1159/000430927

Lifebit research · Genomics

2014

Mutation of SALL2 causes recessive ocular coloboma in humans and mice

Daniel Kelberman, Lily Islam, Jörn Lakowski, Chiara Bacchelli, Estelle Chanudet, Francesco Lescai, Aara Patel, Elia Stupka, Anja Buck, Stephan Wolf, Philip L Beales, Thomas S Jacques, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Alki Liasis, Ordan J Lehmann, Jürgen Kohlhase, Ken K Nischal, Jane C Sowden

Hum Mol Genet. 2014 May 15;23(10):2511-26 · DOI 10.1093/hmg/ddt643

Genomics

Mutations in SNX14 cause a distinctive autosomal-recessive cerebellar ataxia and intellectual disability syndrome

Anna C Thomas, Hywel Williams, Núria Setó-Salvia, Chiara Bacchelli, Dagan Jenkins, Mary O’Sullivan, Konstantinos Mengrelis, Miho Ishida, Louise Ocaka, Estelle Chanudet, Chela James, Francesco Lescai, Glenn Anderson, Deborah Morrogh, Mina Ryten, Andrew J Duncan, Yun Jin Pai, Jorge M Saraiva, Fabiana Ramos, Bernadette Farren, Dawn Saunders, Bertrand Vernay, Paul Gissen, Anna Straatmaan-Iwanowska, Frank Baas, Nicholas W Wood, Joshua Hersheson, Henry Houlden, Jane Hurst, Richard Scott, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Gudrun E Moore, Sérgio B Sousa, Philip Stanier

Am J Hum Genet. 2014 Nov 6;95(5):611-21 · DOI 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.007

Genomics

Perinatal systemic gene delivery using adeno-associated viral vectors

Rajvinder Karda, Suzanne M K Buckley, Citra N Mattar, Joanne Ng, Giulia Massaro, Michael P Hughes, Manju A Kurian, Julien Baruteau, Paul Gissen, Jerry K Y Chan, Chiara Bacchelli, Simon N Waddington, Ahad A Rahim

Front Mol Neurosci. 2014 Nov 14;7:89 · DOI 10.3389/fnmol.2014.00089

Clinical

Principles of regulatory information conservation between mouse and human

Cheng Y, Ma Z, Kim BH, Wu W, Cayting P, Boyle AP, Sundaram V, Xing X, Dogan N, Li J, Euskirchen G, Lin S, Lin Y, Visel A, Kawli T, Yang X, Patacsil D, Keller CA, Giardine B; mouse ENCODE Consortium, Kundaje A, Wang T, Pennacchio LA, Weng Z, Hardison RC, Snyder MP

Nature 515, 371–375, Nov 2014 · DOI 10.1038/nature13985

Genomics

2013

ARNT2 mutation causes hypopituitarism, post-natal microcephaly, visual and renal anomalies

Emma A Webb, Angham AlMutair, Daniel Kelberman, Chiara Bacchelli, Estelle Chanudet, Francesco Lescai, Cynthia L Andoniadou, Abdul Banyan, Al Alsawaid, Muhammad T Alrifai, Mohammed A Alahmesh, M Balwi, Seyedeh N Mousavy-Gharavy, Biljana Lukovic, Derek Burke, Mark J McCabe, Tessa Kasia, Robert Kleta, Elia Stupka, Philip L Beales, Dorothy A Thompson, W Kling Chong, Fowzan S Alkuraya, Juan-Pedro Martinez-Barbera, Jane C Sowden, Mehul T Dattani

Brain. 2013 Oct;136(Pt 10):3096-105 · DOI 10.1093/brain/awt218

Genomics

2012

Characterization and validation of insertions and deletions in 173 patient exomes

Francesco Lescai, Silvia Bonfiglio, Chiara Bacchelli, Estelle Chanudet, Aoife Waters, Sanjay M Sisodiya, Dalia Kasperavičiūtė, Julie Williams, Denise Harold, John Hardy, Robert Kleta, Sebahattin Cirak, Richard Williams, John C Achermann, John Anderson, David Kelsell, Tom Vulliamy, Henry Houlden, Nicholas Wood, Una Sheerin, Gian Paolo Tonini, Donna Mackay, Khalid Hussain, Jane Sowden, Veronica Kinsler, Justyna Osinska, Tony Brooks, Mike Hubank, Philip Beales, Elia Stupka

PLoS One. 2012;7(12):e51292 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0051292

Genomics

2011

DICER1 syndrome: clarifying the diagnosis, clinical features and management implications of a pleiotropic tumor predisposition syndrome

Ingrid Slade, Chiara Bacchelli, Helen Davies, Anne Murray, Fatemeh Abbaszadeh, Sandra Hanks, Rita Barfoot, Amos Burke, Julia Chisholm, Martin Hewitt, Helen Jenkinson, Derek King, Bruce Morland, Barry Pizer, Katrina Prescott, Anand Saggar, Lucy Side, Heidi Traunecker, Sucheta Vaidya, Paul Ward, P Andrew Futreal, Gordan Vujanic, Andrew G Nicholson, Neil Sebire, Clare Turnbull, John R Priest, Kathryn Pritchard-Jones, Richard Houlston, Charles Stiller, Michael R Stratton, Jenny Douglas, Nazneen Rahman

J Med Genet. 2011 Apr;48(4):273-8 · DOI 10.1136/jmg.2010.083790

Clinical

2009

Relevance of biallelic versus monoallelic TNFRSF13B mutations in distinguishing disease-causing from risk-increasing TNFRSF13B variants in antibody deficiency syndromes

Ulrich Salzer, Chiara Bacchelli, Sylvie Buckridge, Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Stephanie Jennings, Vassilis Lougaris, Astrid Bergbreiter, Tina Hagena, Jennifer Birmelin, Alessandro Plebani, A David B Webster, Hans-Hartmut Peter, Daniel Suez, Helen Chapel, Andrew McLean-Tooke, Gavin P Spickett, Stephanie Anover-Sombke, Hans D Ochs, Simon Urschel, Bernd H Belohradsky, Sanja Ugrinovic, Dinakantha S Kumararatne, Tatiana C Lawrence, Are M Holm, Jose L Franco, Ilka Schulze, Pascal Schneider, E Michael Gertz, Alejandro A Schäffer, Lennart Hammarström, Adrian J Thrasher, H Bobby Gaspar, Bodo Grimbacher

Blood. 2009 Feb 26;113(9):1967-76 · DOI 10.1182/blood-2008-02-141937

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