Projects

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WIDGeT consortium project

Accelerate the development of gene therapies using viral vectors derived from adeno-associated viruses (AAV) for the treatment of podocytopathies

A tool to genotype coding VNTR in ADTKD-MUC1

VNtyper: a tool to genotype MUC1 VNTR using SRS data

Splice modulation therapy development using XLAS organoid models

Characterizing XLAS organoid model with intronic variations and ASO therapy development

Publications

  • Using VNtyper from Whole Exome Sequencing Data to Detect Pathogenic Variants in the MUC1 Gene. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2024.
    Hassan Saei, Cécile Masson, Vincent Morinière, Jessica Kachmar, Laurence Heidet, Olivier Gribouval, Corinne Antignac, Guillaume Dorval
  • A wave of deep intronic mutations in X-linked Alport syndrome. Kidney International 2023.
    Marie Boisson, Christelle Arrondel, Nicolas Cagnard, Vincent Morinière, Zaïna Aït Arkoub, Hassan Saei, Laurence Heidet, Jessica Kachmar, Aurélie Hummel, Bertrand Knebelmann, Marie-Noëlle Bonnet-Dupeyron, Bertrand Isidor, Hassane Izzedine, Eric Legrand, Philippe Couarch, Olivier Gribouval, Christine Bole-Feysot, Mélanie Parisot, Patrick Nitschké, Corinne Antignac, Guillaume Dorval
  • VNtyper enables accurate alignment-free genotyping of MUC1 coding VNTR using short-read sequencing data in autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease. iScience 2023.
    Hassan Saei, Vincent Morinière, Laurence Heidet, Olivier Gribouval, Said Lebbah, Frederic Tores, Manon Mautret-Godefroy, Bertrand Knebelmann, Stéphane Burtey, Vincent Vuiblet, Corinne Antignac, Patrick Nitschké, Guillaume Dorval
  • Comprehensive transcriptome mining identified the gene expression signature and differentially regulated pathways of the late-onset preeclampsia. Pregnancy Hypertension 2021.
    Hassan Saei, Ali Govahi, Ameneh Abiri, Maryam Eghbali, Maryam Abiri
  • Whole-Exome Sequencing Uncovers Novel Causative Variants and Additional Findings in Three Patients Affected by Glycogen Storage Disease Type VI and Fanconi−Bickel Syndrome. Frontiers in Genetics 2021.
    Maryam Eghbali, Kiyana Sadat Fatemi, Shadab Salehpour, Maryam Abiri, Hassan Saei, Saeed Talebi, Nasrin Alipour Olyaei, Vahid Reza Yassaee, Mohammad Hossein Modarressi
  • Maple syrup urine disease mutation spectrum in a cohort of 40 consanguineous patients and insilico analysis of novel mutations. Metabolic Brain Disease 2019.
    Maryam Abiri, Hassan Saei, Maryam Eghbali, Razieh Karamzadeh, Tina Shirzadeh, Zohreh Sharifi, Sirous Zeinali

Presentations

2024

  • Highly sensitive varinat detection in VNTR is possible with exome sequencing: the example of MUC1-related nephropathy

    May 31, 2024, European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG)
    Berlin, Germany Details PDF

  • Clinically boosted exome-sequencing is necessary for accurate and highly sensitive genetic diagnosis of ADTKD-MUC1

    May 23, 2024, 61 ERA Congress
    Stockholm, Sweden Details PDF

  • Developing and characterizing X-linked Alport syndrome kidney organoid model with deep-intronic variation for drug discovery

    Apr 2, 2024, ASMB Workshop on Basement Membranes (Travel Award Winner)
    Manchester, UK Details

2023

  • Genotyping coding VNTR in MUC1 gene in ADTKD using SRS data

    Jul 21, 2023, NephGen Symposium 2023 (Poster Prize Winner)
    Freiburg, Germany Details PDF

  • Deep-intronic variants in the X-linked Alport syndrome: From detection to therapeutic hopes

    May 23, 2023, 14th Binomial Podocyte Conference (Early Career Researcher Travel Award Winner)
    PA, USA Details

2018

  • Homozygosity mapping in maple syrup urine disease from Iran: Identification and in silico analysis of novel mutations

    Jun 18, 2018, European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG)
    Milan, Italy Details

Contact

  • hassan.saeiahan@gmail.com
  • Office 516-B1, Inserm UMR 1163, Institut Imagine, 24 boulevard de Montparnasse, 75015 Paris, France