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Scott T. Younger, PhD

TitleDirector of Disease Gene Engineering, Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine
InstitutionChildren's Mercy Kansas City
DepartmentPediatrics
Address2401 Gillham Rd
Kansas City MO 64108
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0002-6237-445X Additional info
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    TitleResearch Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    InstitutionUniversity of Kansas Medical Center
    DepartmentPediatrics

    TitleResearch Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
    InstitutionUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City
    DepartmentPediatrics


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    UT Southwestern Medical CenterPhD2011Cell and Molecular Biology
    Harvard UniversityFellowship2016Functional Genomics

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    The vast majority of rare diseases in children are thought to result from underlying variations in the sequence of their DNA. However, distinguishing the specific genetic variants that cause disease and deciphering their functional consequences remains a major challenge. The Younger Lab integrates a series of research programs (i.e. Variant Identification, Variant Prioritization, Genetic Modeling, and Functional Profiling) to accelerate the process of translating the clinical detection of genetic variants into meaningful and actionable biological discoveries.

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    1. Arce FT, Younger S, Gaber AA, Mascarenhas JB, Rodriguez M, Dudek SM, Garcia JGN. Lamellipodia dynamics and microrheology in endothelial cell paracellular gap closure. Biophys J. 2023 12 19; 122(24):4730-4747. PMID: 37978804.
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    2. Farrow E, Jay A, Means J, Younger S, Biswell R, Koseva B, Thiffault I, Pastinen T, Pappas K, Toriello H. Case of CLPB deficiency solved by HiFi long read genome sequencing and RNAseq. Am J Med Genet A. 2023 12; 191(12):2908-2912. PMID: 37548286.
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    3. Cheung WA, Johnson AF, Rowell WJ, Farrow E, Hall R, Cohen ASA, Means JC, Zion TN, Portik DM, Saunders CT, Koseva B, Bi C, Truong TK, Schwendinger-Schreck C, Yoo B, Johnston JJ, Gibson M, Evrony G, Rizzo WB, Thiffault I, Younger ST, Curran T, Wenger AM, Grundberg E, Pastinen T. Direct haplotype-resolved 5-base HiFi sequencing for genome-wide profiling of hypermethylation outliers in a rare disease cohort. Nat Commun. 2023 05 29; 14(1):3090. PMID: 37248219.
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    4. McQuerry JA, Mclaird M, Hartin SN, Means JC, Johnston J, Pastinen T, Younger ST. Massively parallel identification of functionally consequential noncoding genetic variants in undiagnosed rare disease patients. Sci Rep. 2022 05 09; 12(1):7576. PMID: 35534523.
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    5. Cohen ASA, Farrow EG, Abdelmoity AT, Alaimo JT, Amudhavalli SM, Anderson JT, Bansal L, Bartik L, Baybayan P, Belden B, Berrios CD, Biswell RL, Buczkowicz P, Buske O, Chakraborty S, Cheung WA, Coffman KA, Cooper AM, Cross LA, Curran T, Dang TTT, Elfrink MM, Engleman KL, Fecske ED, Fieser C, Fitzgerald K, Fleming EA, Gadea RN, Gannon JL, Gelineau-Morel RN, Gibson M, Goldstein J, Grundberg E, Halpin K, Harvey BS, Heese BA, Hein W, Herd SM, Hughes SS, Ilyas M, Jacobson J, Jenkins JL, Jiang S, Johnston JJ, Keeler K, Korlach J, Kussmann J, Lambert C, Lawson C, Le Pichon JB, Leeder JS, Little VC, Louiselle DA, Lypka M, McDonald BD, Miller N, Modrcin A, Nair A, Neal SH, Oermann CM, Pacicca DM, Pawar K, Posey NL, Price N, Puckett LMB, Quezada JF, Raje N, Rowell WJ, Rush ET, Sampath V, Saunders CJ, Schwager C, Schwend RM, Shaffer E, Smail C, Soden S, Strenk ME, Sullivan BR, Sweeney BR, Tam-Williams JB, Walter AM, Welsh H, Wenger AM, Willig LK, Yan Y, Younger ST, Zhou D, Zion TN, Thiffault I, Pastinen T. Genomic answers for children: Dynamic analyses of >1000 pediatric rare disease genomes. Genet Med. 2022 06; 24(6):1336-1348. PMID: 35305867.
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    6. Lin S, Larrue C, Scheidegger NK, Seong BKA, Dharia NV, Kuljanin M, Wechsler CS, Kugener G, Robichaud AL, Conway AS, Mashaka T, Mouche S, Adane B, Ryan JA, Mancias JD, Younger ST, Piccioni F, Lee LH, Wunderlich M, Letai A, Tamburini J, Stegmaier K. An In Vivo CRISPR Screening Platform for Prioritizing Therapeutic Targets in AML. Cancer Discov. 2022 02; 12(2):432-449. PMID: 34531254.
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    7. Dai C, Rennhack JP, Arnoff TE, Thaker M, Younger ST, Doench JG, Huang AY, Yang A, Aguirre AJ, Wang B, Mun E, O'Connell JT, Huang Y, Labella K, Talamas JA, Li J, Ilic N, Hwang J, Hong AL, Giacomelli AO, Gjoerup O, Root DE, Hahn WC. SMAD4 represses FOSL1 expression and pancreatic cancer metastatic colonization. Cell Rep. 2021 07 27; 36(4):109443. PMID: 34320363.
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    8. Xia S, Yu W, Menden H, Younger ST, Sampath V. FOXC2 Autoregulates Its Expression in the Pulmonary Endothelium After Endotoxin Stimulation in a Histone Acetylation-Dependent Manner. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021; 9:657662. PMID: 34017833.
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    9. Malone CF, Dharia NV, Kugener G, Forman AB, Rothberg MV, Abdusamad M, Gonzalez A, Kuljanin M, Robichaud AL, Conway AS, Dempster JM, Paolella BR, Dumont N, Hovestadt V, Mancias JD, Younger ST, Root DE, Golub TR, Vazquez F, Stegmaier K. Selective Modulation of a Pan-Essential Protein as a Therapeutic Strategy in Cancer. Cancer Discov. 2021 09; 11(9):2282-2299. PMID: 33883167.
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    10. Marinaccio C, Suraneni P, Celik H, Volk A, Wen QJ, Ling T, Bulic M, Lasho T, Koche RP, Famulare CA, Farnoud N, Stein B, Schieber M, Gurbuxani S, Root DE, Younger ST, Hoffman R, Gangat N, Ntziachristos P, Chandel NS, Levine RL, Rampal RK, Challen GA, Tefferi A, Crispino JD. LKB1/STK11 Is a Tumor Suppressor in the Progression of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms. Cancer Discov. 2021 06; 11(6):1398-1410. PMID: 33579786.
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    11. Hartin SN, Means JC, Alaimo JT, Younger ST. Expediting rare disease diagnosis: a call to bridge the gap between clinical and functional genomics. Mol Med. 2020 11 25; 26(1):117. PMID: 33238891.
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    12. Borys SM, Younger ST. Identification of functional regulatory elements in the human genome using pooled CRISPR screens. BMC Genomics. 2020 Jan 31; 21(1):107. PMID: 32005150.
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    13. Dempster JM, Pacini C, Pantel S, Behan FM, Green T, Krill-Burger J, Beaver CM, Younger ST, Zhivich V, Najgebauer H, Allen F, Gon?alves E, Shepherd R, Doench JG, Yusa K, Vazquez F, Parts L, Boehm JS, Golub TR, Hahn WC, Root DE, Garnett MJ, Tsherniak A, Iorio F. Agreement between two large pan-cancer CRISPR-Cas9 gene dependency data sets. Nat Commun. 2019 12 20; 10(1):5817. PMID: 31862961.
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    14. Harris IS, Endress JE, Coloff JL, Selfors LM, McBrayer SK, Rosenbluth JM, Takahashi N, Dhakal S, Koduri V, Oser MG, Schauer NJ, Doherty LM, Hong AL, Kang YP, Younger ST, Doench JG, Hahn WC, Buhrlage SJ, DeNicola GM, Kaelin WG, Brugge JS. Deubiquitinases Maintain Protein Homeostasis and Survival of Cancer Cells upon Glutathione Depletion. Cell Metab. 2019 05 07; 29(5):1166-1181.e6. PMID: 30799286.
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    15. Oser MG, Fonseca R, Chakraborty AA, Brough R, Spektor A, Jennings RB, Flaifel A, Novak JS, Gulati A, Buss E, Younger ST, McBrayer SK, Cowley GS, Bonal DM, Nguyen QD, Brulle-Soumare L, Taylor P, Cairo S, Ryan CJ, Pease EJ, Maratea K, Travers J, Root DE, Signoretti S, Pellman D, Ashton S, Lord CJ, Barry ST, Kaelin WG. Cells Lacking the RB1 Tumor Suppressor Gene Are Hyperdependent on Aurora B Kinase for Survival. Cancer Discov. 2019 02; 9(2):230-247. PMID: 30373918.
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    16. Piccioni F, Younger ST, Root DE. Pooled Lentiviral-Delivery Genetic Screens. Curr Protoc Mol Biol. 2018 01 16; 121:32.1.1-32.1.21. PMID: 29337374.
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    17. Najm FJ, Strand C, Donovan KF, Hegde M, Sanson KR, Vaimberg EW, Sullender ME, Hartenian E, Kalani Z, Fusi N, Listgarten J, Younger ST, Bernstein BE, Root DE, Doench JG. Orthologous CRISPR-Cas9 enzymes for combinatorial genetic screens. Nat Biotechnol. 2018 Feb; 36(2):179-189. PMID: 29251726.
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    18. Younger ST, Rinn JL. p53 regulates enhancer accessibility and activity in response to DNA damage. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Sep 29; 45(17):9889-9900. PMID: 28973438.
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    19. Younger ST, Rinn JL. Silent pericentromeric repeats speak out. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 08; 112(49):15008-9. PMID: 26582791.
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    20. Shechner DM, Hacisuleyman E, Younger ST, Rinn JL. Multiplexable, locus-specific targeting of long RNAs with CRISPR-Display. Nat Methods. 2015 Jul; 12(7):664-70. PMID: 26030444.
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    21. Younger ST, Kenzelmann-Broz D, Jung H, Attardi LD, Rinn JL. Integrative genomic analysis reveals widespread enhancer regulation by p53 in response to DNA damage. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 May 19; 43(9):4447-62. PMID: 25883152.
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    22. Younger ST, Corey DR. Identification and validation of miRNA target sites within nontraditional miRNA targets. Methods Mol Biol. 2015; 1206:53-67. PMID: 25240886.
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    23. Younger ST, Rinn JL. 'Lnc'-ing enhancers to MYC regulation. Cell Res. 2014 Jun; 24(6):643-4. PMID: 24777251.
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    24. Younger ST, Corey DR. Transcriptional regulation by miRNA mimics that target sequences downstream of gene termini. Mol Biosyst. 2011 Aug; 7(8):2383-8. PMID: 21589992.
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    25. Younger ST, Corey DR. Transcriptional gene silencing in mammalian cells by miRNA mimics that target gene promoters. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jul; 39(13):5682-91. PMID: 21427083.
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    26. Chu Y, Yue X, Younger ST, Janowski BA, Corey DR. Involvement of argonaute proteins in gene silencing and activation by RNAs complementary to a non-coding transcript at the progesterone receptor promoter. Nucleic Acids Res. 2010 Nov; 38(21):7736-48. PMID: 20675357.
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    27. Yue X, Schwartz JC, Chu Y, Younger ST, Gagnon KT, Elbashir S, Janowski BA, Corey DR. Transcriptional regulation by small RNAs at sequences downstream from 3' gene termini. Nat Chem Biol. 2010 Aug; 6(8):621-9. PMID: 20581822.
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    28. Younger ST, Corey DR. The puzzle of RNAs that target gene promoters. Chembiochem. 2009 May 04; 10(7):1135-9. PMID: 19301312.
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    29. Younger ST, Pertsemlidis A, Corey DR. Predicting potential miRNA target sites within gene promoters. Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 2009 Jul 15; 19(14):3791-4. PMID: 19423343.
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    30. Schwartz JC, Younger ST, Nguyen NB, Hardy DB, Monia BP, Corey DR, Janowski BA. Antisense transcripts are targets for activating small RNAs. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2008 Aug; 15(8):842-8. PMID: 18604220.
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    31. Janowski BA, Younger ST, Hardy DB, Ram R, Huffman KE, Corey DR. Activating gene expression in mammalian cells with promoter-targeted duplex RNAs. Nat Chem Biol. 2007 Mar; 3(3):166-73. PMID: 17259978.
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