Cambridge Institute for Medical Research

Professor Geoff Woods

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Key Publications

• Reimann F, Cox J….Gribble F, Woods CG. Pain perception is altered by a nucleotide polymorphism in SCN9A. PNAS. 2010 – In the press
• Thornton GK, Woods CG. Primary microcephaly: do all roads lead to Rome? Trends Genet. 2009 Nov;25(11):501-10.
• Jacoby M, Cox JJ, Gayral S, Hampshire DJ, Ayub M, Blockmans M, Pernot E, Kisseleva MV, Compère P, Schiffmann SN, Gergely F, Riley JH, Pérez-Morga D, Schurmans S, Woods CG. INPP5E mutations cause primary cilium signaling defects, ciliary instability and ciliopathies in human and mouse. Nat Genet. 2009 Sep;41(9):1027-31.
• Cox J, Reimann F, Nicholas AK, Thornton G, Roberts E, Springell K, Karbani G, Jafri H, Mannan J, Raashid Y, Al-Gazali L, Hamamy H, Valente EM, Gorman S, Williams R, McHale DP, Wood JN, Gribble F, Woods CG. SCN9A channelopathy cause a congenital inability to experience pain. Nature. 2006 444:894-8.
• Basto R, Lau J, Vinogradova T, Gardiol A, Woods CG, Khodjakov A, Raff JW. Flies without Centrioles. Cell. 2006 125:1375-86.
• Woods CG, Cox J, Springell K, Hampshire DJ, Mohamed MD, McKibbin M, Stern R, Raymond FL, Sandford R, Malik Sharif S, Karbani G, Ahmed M, Bond J, Clayton D, Inglehearn CF. Quantification of homozygosity in consanguineous individuals with autosomal recessive disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2006; 78:889-96.
• Woods CG, Bond J, Enard W. Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly (MCPH): a review of clinical, molecular, and evolutionary findings. Am J Hum Genet. 2005;76:717-28.
• Bond J, Roberts E, Springell K, Lizarraga SB, Scott S, Higgins J, Hampshire DJ, Morrison EE, Leal GF, Silva EO, Costa SM, Baralle D, Raponi M, Karbani G, Rashid Y, Jafri H, Bennett C, Corry P, Walsh CA, Woods CG. A centrosomal mechanism involving CDK5RAP2 and CENPJ controls brain size. Nat Genet. 2005;37:353-5.
• Bond J, Roberts E, Mochida GH, Hampshire D, Scott S, Askham JM, Springell K, Mahadevan M, Crow Y, Markham AF, Walsh CA, Woods CG. ASPM is a major determinant of cerebral cortical size. Nature Genetics. 2002:32;316-20.