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Lindsay Brown

PhD

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital

My current research focuses on exploring chromosome abnormalities in patients diagnosed with acute leukemia.

Acute leukemia is the most common cancer affecting children. Although the outcome of treatment has improved substantially in recent decades, there remains approximately 20 per cent of children treated for leukemia who relapse and have a poor prognosis.

My research aims to use high resolution microarray analysis to better identify the genetic changes associated with acute leukemia. I am particularly interested in determining if there are genetic alterations unique to treatment-resistant leukemia. Obtaining a detailed understanding of the genetics of acute leukemia will enable other researchers to develop targeted, personalized treatments with greater success rates and less harmful effects.

Academic Affiliations

Clinical Professor, , Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
Research Theme: Childhood Diseases

Contact Information

Location

950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5Z 4H4

(604) 875-2000 ext. 7534

lbrown5@cw.bc.ca

Dual white matter pathology in fetal holoprosencephaly featuring concurrent malformative and destructive features: A case series

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Das, S. and Brown, L. and Nikkel, S.M. and Saunders, J. and Dunham, C.

DOI: 10.1093/jnen/nlae070

Next generation of free? Points to consider when navigating sponsored genetic testing

Journal of Medical Genetics

Bartels, K. and Afonso, S. and Brown, L. and Carriles, C. and Kim, R. and Lazier, J. and Mercimek-Andrews, S. and Nelson, T.N. and Stedman, I. and Thain, E. and Vanneste, R. and Chad, L.

DOI: 10.1136/jmg-2023-109571

Genome-wide sequencing and the clinical diagnosis of genetic disease: The CAUSES study

Human Genetics and Genomics Advances

Elliott, A.M. and Adam, S. and du Souich, C. and Lehman, A. and Nelson, T.N. and van Karnebeek, C. and Alderman, E. and Armstrong, L. and Aubertin, G. and Blood, K. and Boelman, C. and Boerkoel, C. and Bretherick, K. and Brown, L. and Chijiwa, C. and Clarke, L. and Couse, M. and Creighton, S. and Watts-Dickens, A. and Gibson, W.T. and Gill, H. and Tarailo-Graovac, M. and Hamilton, S. and Heran, H. and Horvath, G. and Huang, L. and Hulait, G.K. and Koehn, D. and Lee, H.K. and Lewis, S. and Lopez, E. and Louie, K. and Niederhoffer, K. and Matthews, A. and Meagher, K. and Peng, J.J. and Patel, M.S. and Race, S. and Richmond, P. and Rupps, R. and Salvarinova, R. and Seath, K. and Selby, K. and Steinraths, M. and Stockler, S. and Tang, K. and Tyson, C. and van Allen, M. and Wasserman, W. and Mwenifumbo, J. and Friedman, J.M.

DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100108

A case series of pediatric survivors of anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma

Neuro-Oncology Advances

Ronsley, R. and Dunham, C. and Yip, S. and Brown, L. and Zuccato, J.A. and Karimi, S. and Zadeh, G. and Goddard, K. and Singhal, A. and Hukin, J. and Cheng, S.

DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdaa176

An approach to rapid characterization of DMD copy number variants for prenatal risk assessment

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Chin, H.-L. and O'Neill, K. and Louie, K. and Brown, L. and Schlade-Bartusiak, K. and Eydoux, P. and Rupps, R. and Farahani, A. and Boerkoel, C.F. and Jones, S.J.M.

DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62349

Vitamin D-binding protein deficiency and homozygous deletion of the GC gene

New England Journal of Medicine

Henderson, C.M. and Fink, S.L. and Bassyouni, H. and Argiropoulos, B. and Brown, L. and Laha, T.J. and Jackson, K.J. and Lewkonia, R. and Ferreira, P. and Hoofnagle, A.N. and Marcadier, J.L.

DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1807841

Expanding the FANCO/RAD51C associated phenotype: Cleft lip and palate and lobar holoprosencephaly, two rare findings in Fanconi anemia

European Journal of Medical Genetics

Jacquinet, A. and Brown, L. and Sawkins, J. and Liu, P. and Pugash, D. and Van Allen, M.I. and Patel, M.S.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmg.2017.12.011

Genomic and cytogenetic characterization of a balanced translocation disrupting NUP98

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Thibodeau, M.L. and Steinraths, M. and Brown, L. and Zong, Z. and Shomer, N. and Taubert, S. and Mungall, K.L. and Ma, Y.P. and Mueller, R. and Birol, I. and Lehman, A.

DOI: 10.1159/000479463

Incidental finding of paternal UPD15 in a child with a deletion of 11q21-q22.3, presenting with developmental delay, coloboma and characteristic dysmorphic features

Clinical Dysmorphology

Tucker, T. and Steinraths, M. and Oh, T. and Nelson, T.N. and Van Allen, M.I. and Brown, L. and Schlade-Bartusiak, K.

DOI: 10.1097/MCD.0000000000000108

Impact of drought on vector-borne diseases - how does one manage the risk?

Public Health

Brown, L. and Medlock, J. and Murray, V.

DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2013.09.006

Molecular characterization of a 4 409 480 bp deletion of the human X chromosome in a patient with haemophilia B

Haemophilia

Hewitt, J. and Chou, E.M.H. and Brown, L.A. and Smith, V.C. and Yong, S.-L. and Wadsworth, L.D. and Wu, J.K. and MacGillivray, R.T.A.

DOI: 10.1111/hae.12395

A cryptic familial rearrangement of 11p15.5, involving both imprinting centers, in a family with a history of short stature

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Brown, L.A. and Rupps, R. and Peaherrera, M.S. and Robinson, W.P. and Patel, M.S. and Eydoux, P. and Boerkoel, C.F.

DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.36490

Use of a care bundle in the emergency department for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A feasibility study

International Journal of COPD

McCarthy, C. and Brennan, J.R. and Brown, L. and Donaghy, D. and Jones, P. and Whelan, R. and McCormack, N. and Callanan, I. and Ryan, J. and McDonnell, T.J.

DOI: 10.2147/COPD.S52883

Uniparental disomy: Can SNP array data be used for diagnosis?

Genetics in Medicine

Tucker, T. and Schlade-Bartusiak, K. and Eydoux, P. and Nelson, T.N. and Brown, L.

DOI: 10.1038/gim.2012.35

Overwhelming support among urban Irish COPD patients for lung cancer screening by low-dose CT scan

Lung

Pallin, M. and Walsh, S. and O'Driscoll, M.F. and Murray, C. and Cahalane, A. and Brown, L. and Carter, M. and Mitchell, P. and McDonnell, T.J. and Butler, M.W.

DOI: 10.1007/s00408-012-9421-9

BPES with atypical premature ovarian insufficiency, and evidence of mitotic recombination, in a woman with trisomy X and a translocation t(3;11)(q22.3;q14.1)

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Schlade-Bartusiak, K. and Brown, L. and Lomax, B. and Bruyre, H. and Gillan, T. and Hamilton, S. and McGillivray, B. and Eydoux, P.

DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35516

A co-occurrence of osteogenesis imperfecta type VI and cystinosis

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Tucker, T. and Nelson, T. and Sirrs, S. and Roughley, P. and Glorieux, F.H. and Moffatt, P. and Schlade-Bartusiak, K. and Brown, L. and Rauch, F.

DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.35319

Identification of sister chromatids by DNA template strand sequences

Nature

Falconer, E. and Chavez, E.A. and Henderson, A. and Poon, S.S.S. and McKinney, S. and Brown, L. and Huntsman, D.G. and Lansdorp, P.M.

DOI: 10.1038/nature08644

Co-amplification of CCND1 and EMSY is associated with an adverse outcome in ER-positive tamoxifen-treated breast cancers

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Brown, L.A. and Johnson, K. and Leung, S. and Bismar, T.A. and Bentez, J. and Foulkes, W.D. and Huntsman, D.G.

DOI: 10.1007/s10549-009-0479-x

Amplification of 11q13 in ovarian carcinoma

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Brown, L.A. and Kalloger, S.E. and Miller, M.A. and Shih, L.-M. and McKinney, S.E. and Santos, J.L. and Swenerton, K. and Spellman, P.T. and Gray, J. and Gilks, C.B. and Huntsman, D.G.

DOI: 10.1002/gcc.20549

Molecular determination of the breakpoints of a 161 556 bp deletion at chromosome 13q34 that presented as severe factor VII deficiency in a neonate [7]

British Journal of Haematology

Hewitt, J. and Craven, S.J. and Brown, L.A. and Bleackley, M.R. and Ballard, J.N.M. and Smith, V.C. and Ofosu, F.A. and Huntsman, D.G. and Wadsworth, L.D. and Wu, J.K. and MacGillivray, R.T.A.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2007.06957.x

ESR1 gene amplification in breast cancer: A common phenomenon? [1]

Nature Genetics

Brown, L.A. and Hoog, J. and Chin, S.-F. and Tao, Y. and Zayed, A.A. and Chin, K. and Teschendorff, A.E. and Quackenbush, J.F. and Marioni, J.C. and Leung, S. and Perou, C.M. and Neilsen, T.O. and Ellis, M. and Gray, J.W. and Bernard, P.S. and Huntsman, D.G. and Caldas, C.

DOI: 10.1038/ng0708-806

Distribution and significance of caveolin 2 expression in normal breast and invasive breast cancer: An immunofluorescence and immunohistochemical analysis

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Savage, K. and Leung, S. and Todd, S.K. and Brown, L.A. and Jones, R.L. and Robertson, D. and James, M. and Parry, S. and Rodrigues Pinilla, S.M. and Huntsman, D. and Reis-Filho, J.S.

DOI: 10.1007/s10549-007-9718-1

Correlates of putting condoms on after sex has begun and of removing them before sex ends: A study of men attending an urban public STD clinic

American Journal of Men's Health

Yarber, W.L. and Crosby, R.A. and Graham, C.A. and Sanders, S.A. and Arno, J. and Hartzell, R.M. and McBride, K. and Milhausen, R. and Brown, L. and Legocki, L.J. and Payne, M. and Rothring, A.

DOI: 10.1177/1557988307301276

Fluorescent in situ hybridization on tissue microarrays: Challenges and solutions

Journal of Molecular Histology

Brown, L.A. and Huntsman, D.

DOI: 10.1007/s10735-006-9069-y

Amplification of EMSY, a novel oncogene on 11q13, in high grade ovarian surface epithelial carcinomas

Gynecologic Oncology

Brown, L.A. and Irving, J. and Parker, R. and Kim, H. and Press, J.Z. and Longacre, T.A. and Chia, S. and Magliocco, A. and Makretsov, N. and Gilks, B. and Pollack, J. and Huntsman, D.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2005.08.026

Genomic instability of human mammary epithelial cells overexpressing a truncated form of EMSY

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Raouf, A. and Brown, L. and Vrcelj, N. and To, K. and Kwok, W. and Huntsman, D.H. and Eaves, C.J.E.

DOI: 10.1093/jnci/dji254

NRG1 gene rearrangements in clinical breast cancer: Identification of an adjacent novel amplicon associated with poor prognosis

Oncogene

Prentice, L.M. and Shadeo, A. and Lestou, V.S. and Miller, M.A. and DeLeeuw, R.J. and Makretsov, N. and Turbin, D. and Brown, L.A. and Macpherson, N. and Yorida, E. and Cheang, M.C.U. and Bentley, J. and Chia, S. and Nielsen, T.O. and Gilks, C.B. and Lam, W. and Huntsman, D.G.

DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1208892

Assessment of Her-1, Her-2, and Her-3 expression and Her-2 amplification in advanced stage ovarian carcinoma

International Journal of Gynecological Pathology

Lee, C.-H. and Huntsman, D.G. and Cheang, M.C.U. and Parker, R.L. and Brown, L. and Hoskins, P. and Miller, D. and Gilks, C.B.

DOI: 10.1097/01.pgp.0000152026.39268.57

EMSY Links the BRCA2 Pathway to Sporadic Breast and Ovarian Cancer

Cell

Hughes-Davies, L. and Huntsman, D. and Ruas, M. and Fuks, F. and Bye, J. and Chin, S.-F. and Milner, J. and Brown, L.A. and Hsu, F. and Gilks, B. and Nielsen, T. and Schulzer, M. and Chia, S. and Ragaz, J. and Cahn, A. and Linger, L. and Ozdag, H. and Cattaneo, E. and Jordanova, E.S. and Schuuring, E. and Yu, D.S. and Venkitaraman, A. and Ponder, B. and Doherty, A. and Aparicio, S. and Bentley, D. and Theillet, C. and Ponting, C.P. and Caldas, C. and Kouzarides, T.

DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(03)00930-9

Mechanisms of monozygotic (MZ) twinning: A possible role for the cell adhesion molecule, E-cadherin

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Bamforth, F. and Brown, L. and Senz, J. and Huntsman, D.

DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.20076

CDH1 c-160a promotor polymorphism is not associated with risk of stomach cancer

International Journal of Cancer

Pharoah, P.D.P. and Oliveira, C. and Machado, J.C. and Keller, G. and Vogelsang, H. and Laux, H. and Becker, K.-F. and Hahn, H. and Paproski, S.M. and Brown, L.A. and Caldas, C. and Huntsman, D.

DOI: 10.1002/ijc.10590

Effect of manually assisted cough and mechanical insufflation on cough flow of normal subjects, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and patients with respiratory muscle weakness

Thorax

Sivasothy, P. and Brown, L. and Smith, I.E. and Shneerson, J.M.

DOI: 10.1136/thorax.56.6.438

Fabrication of a customized cuirass for patients with severe thoracic asymmetry.

The American review of respiratory disease

Shneerson, J.M. and Brown, L.

DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm/138.2.488b

Artificial ventilation by external negative pressure. A method for manufacturing cuirass shells

Physiotherapy

Brown, L. and Kinnear, W. and Sergeant, K.A. and Shneerson, J.

Current projects

Acute leukemia has been well characterized genetically, largely due to the successful implementation of cytogenetic techniques to identify large chromosomal abnormalities, the detection of which has proven important in terms of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. There has been an effort to use high resolution genomic profiling to identify novel genetic alterations that contribute to leukemogenesis.

Several microarray-based techniques for the genome-wide assessment of DNA copy number alterations (CNA) are now routinely used in the study of cancer genetics. Currently, the Cytogenetics Laboratory at C&W uses numerous cyotogenetic techniques, including karyotype, fluorescent in-situ hybridization, and more recently microarray to provide a comprehensive genomic analysis of pediatric acute leukemia. The power of microarray is that it can identify small CNA's and well as regions of copy number-neutral loss of heterozygosity (CN-LOH).

Currently, all leukemia’s are evaluated in the Cytogenetics laboratory and CMA is performed. Established clinical thresholds are used for identifying CNAs. The aim of the current research project is to furhter explore the existing data looking at much smaller CNAs (outside of the clinical thresholds) and assess CN-LOH. The use of SNP-arrays to identify somatically altered regions of the genome is anticipated to lead to the discovery of clinically relevant genes involved in leukemogenesis.

Grants

BCCH Telethon Award 2010, Discovery of novel candidate genes involved in facial clefting

A pilot project

BCCH Telethon Award 2012, Genome wide assessment of genetic alterations in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Honours & Awards

CCMG Fellowship Salary Award, UBC, 2008

Travel Fellowship for the Helene Harris Memorial Trust 11th International Forum on Ovarian Cancer, Lake Como, Italy, 2007

Linda Stevens Memorial Fund (CCMG), 2008

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Lindsay Brown

PhD

Investigator, BC Children's Hospital

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Dual white matter pathology in fetal holoprosencephaly featuring concurrent malformative and destructive features: A case series

Next generation of free? Points to consider when navigating sponsored genetic testing

Genome-wide sequencing and the clinical diagnosis of genetic disease: The CAUSES study

A case series of pediatric survivors of anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma

An approach to rapid characterization of DMD copy number variants for prenatal risk assessment

Vitamin D-binding protein deficiency and homozygous deletion of the GC gene

Expanding the FANCO/RAD51C associated phenotype: Cleft lip and palate and lobar holoprosencephaly, two rare findings in Fanconi anemia

Genomic and cytogenetic characterization of a balanced translocation disrupting NUP98

Incidental finding of paternal UPD15 in a child with a deletion of 11q21-q22.3, presenting with developmental delay, coloboma and characteristic dysmorphic features

Impact of drought on vector-borne diseases - how does one manage the risk?

Molecular characterization of a 4 409 480 bp deletion of the human X chromosome in a patient with haemophilia B

A cryptic familial rearrangement of 11p15.5, involving both imprinting centers, in a family with a history of short stature

Use of a care bundle in the emergency department for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A feasibility study

Uniparental disomy: Can SNP array data be used for diagnosis?

Overwhelming support among urban Irish COPD patients for lung cancer screening by low-dose CT scan

BPES with atypical premature ovarian insufficiency, and evidence of mitotic recombination, in a woman with trisomy X and a translocation t(3;11)(q22.3;q14.1)

A co-occurrence of osteogenesis imperfecta type VI and cystinosis

Identification of sister chromatids by DNA template strand sequences

Co-amplification of CCND1 and EMSY is associated with an adverse outcome in ER-positive tamoxifen-treated breast cancers

Amplification of 11q13 in ovarian carcinoma

Molecular determination of the breakpoints of a 161 556 bp deletion at chromosome 13q34 that presented as severe factor VII deficiency in a neonate [7]

ESR1 gene amplification in breast cancer: A common phenomenon? [1]

Distribution and significance of caveolin 2 expression in normal breast and invasive breast cancer: An immunofluorescence and immunohistochemical analysis

Correlates of putting condoms on after sex has begun and of removing them before sex ends: A study of men attending an urban public STD clinic

Fluorescent in situ hybridization on tissue microarrays: Challenges and solutions

Amplification of EMSY, a novel oncogene on 11q13, in high grade ovarian surface epithelial carcinomas

Genomic instability of human mammary epithelial cells overexpressing a truncated form of EMSY

NRG1 gene rearrangements in clinical breast cancer: Identification of an adjacent novel amplicon associated with poor prognosis

Assessment of Her-1, Her-2, and Her-3 expression and Her-2 amplification in advanced stage ovarian carcinoma

EMSY Links the BRCA2 Pathway to Sporadic Breast and Ovarian Cancer

Mechanisms of monozygotic (MZ) twinning: A possible role for the cell adhesion molecule, E-cadherin

CDH1 c-160a promotor polymorphism is not associated with risk of stomach cancer

Effect of manually assisted cough and mechanical insufflation on cough flow of normal subjects, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and patients with respiratory muscle weakness

Fabrication of a customized cuirass for patients with severe thoracic asymmetry.

Artificial ventilation by external negative pressure. A method for manufacturing cuirass shells

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