MassGenomics

Dan Koboldt is a staff scientist in the Medical Genomics group of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The views expressed on this site, including blog posts and static pages, do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Genome Institute at Washington University, the Washington University School of Medicine, or Washington University in St. Louis. His primary focus is the development of pipelines to detect polymorphisms in traditional and next-generation sequence data. He received bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and French from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a master’s degree in Biology from Washington University.

Dan Koboldt’s Publications

Koboldt DC, Larson DE, Chen K, Ding L, & Wilson RK (2012). Massively parallel sequencing approaches for characterization of structural variation. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 838, 369-84 PMID: 22228022

Timothy A Graubert, Dong Shen, Li Ding, Theresa Okeyo-Owuor, Cara L Lunn, Jin Shao, Kilannin Krysiak, Christopher C Harris, Daniel C Koboldt, David E Larson, Michael D McLellan, David J Dooling, Rachel M Abbott, Robert S Fulton, Heather Schmidt, Joelle Kalicki-Veizer, Michelle O’Laughlin, Marcus Grillot, Jack Baty, Sharon Heath, John L Frater, Talat Nasim, Daniel C Link, Michael H Tomasson, Peter Westervelt, John F DiPersio, Elaine R Mardis, Timothy J Ley, Richard K Wilson & Matthew J Walter. (2011). Recurrent mutations in the U2AF1 splicing factor in myelodysplastic syndromes. Nature Genetics. Published online: 11 December 2011. doi:10.1038/ng.1031

Larson, DE., Harris, CC., Chen, K., Koboldt, DC., Abbott, TE., Dooling, DJ., Ley, TJ., Mardis, ER., Wilson, RK., & Ding, L. (2011). SomaticSniper: Identification of Somatic Point Mutations in Whole Genome Sequencing Data. Bioinformatics, Online : doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr665

Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network (2011). Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma. Nature, 474 (7353), 609-15 PMID: 21720365

Marth GT, Yu F, Indap AR, Garimella K, et al & the 1000 Genomes Project (2011). The functional spectrum of low-frequency coding variation. Genome biology, 12 (9) PMID: 21917140

Ross JA, Koboldt DC, Staisch JE, Chamberlin HM, Gupta BP, Miller RD, Baird SE, & Haag ES (2011). Caenorhabditis briggsae recombinant inbred line genotypes reveal inter-strain incompatibility and the evolution of recombination. PLoS genetics, 7 (7) PMID: 21779179

Bowne SJ, Humphries MM, Sullivan LS, Kenna PF, Tam LC, Kiang AS, Campbell M, Weinstock GM, Koboldt DC, Ding L, Fulton RS, Sodergren EJ, et al (2011). A dominant mutation in RPE65 identified by whole-exome sequencing causes retinitis pigmentosa with choroidal involvement. European journal of human genetics : EJHG, 19 (10) PMID: 21938004

Link DC, Schuettpelz LG, Shen D, Wang J, Walter MJ, Kulkarni S, Payton JE, Ivanovich J, Goodfellow PJ, Le Beau M, Koboldt DC, Dooling DJ, Fulton RS, et al (2011). Identification of a novel TP53 cancer susceptibility mutation through whole-genome sequencing of a patient with therapy-related AML. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 305 (15), 1568-76 PMID: 21505135

Ley, T., Ding, L., Walter, M., McLellan, M., Lamprecht, T., Larson, D., Kandoth, C., Payton, J., Baty, J., Welch, J., Harris, C., Lichti, C., Townsend, R., Fulton, R., Dooling, D., Koboldt, D., et al. (2010). DNMT3A Mutations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
New England Journal of Medicine DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1005143

Ding L, Wendl MC, Koboldt DC, & Mardis ER (2010). Analysis of next-generation genomic data in cancer: accomplishments and challenges. Human Molecular Genetics, 19 (R2):R188-96. PMID: 20843826

Sudmant PH, Kitzman JO, Antonacci F, Alkan C, Malig M, Tsalenko A, Sampas N, Bruhn L, Shendure J, 1000 Genomes Project, & Eichler EE (2010). Diversity of human copy number variation and multicopy genes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330 (6004), 641-6 PMID: 21030649

The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium (2010). A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing. Nature, 467 (7319), 1061-1073 DOI: 10.1038/nature09534

Bowne SJ, Sullivan LS, Koboldt DC, Ding L, Fulton R, Abbott RM, Sodergren EJ, Birch DG, Wheaton DH, Heckenlively JR, Liu Q, Pierce EA, Weinstock GM, & Daiger SP (2010). Identification of Disease-Causing Mutations in Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa (adRP) Using Next-Generation DNA Sequencing. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science PMID: 20861475

Fehniger, T., Wylie, T., Germino, E., Leong, J., Magrini, V., Koul, S., Keppel, C., Schneider, S., Koboldt, D., Sullivan, R., Heinz, M., Crosby, S., Nagarajan, R., Ramsingh, G., Link, D., Ley, T., & Mardis, E. (2010). Next-generation sequencing identifies the natural killer cell microRNA transcriptome Genome Research DOI: 10.1101/gr.107995.110

Ramsingh G, Koboldt DC, Trissal M, Chiappinelli KB, Wylie T, Koul S, Chang LW, Nagarajan R, Fehniger TA, Goodfellow P, Magrini V, Wilson RK, Ding L, Ley TJ, Mardis ER, & Link DC (2010). Complete characterization of the microRNAome in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia. Blood PMID: 20876853

Koboldt DC, Ding L, Mardis ER & Wilson RK. (2010). Challenges of sequencing human genomes. Briefings in Bioinformatics DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbq016

Ding L, Ellis MJ, Li S, Larson DE, Chen K, Wallis JW, Harris CC, McLellan MD, Fulton RS, Fulton LL, Abbott RM, Hoog J, Dooling DJ, Koboldt DC, et al. (2010). Genome remodelling in a basal-like breast cancer metastasis and xenograft. Nature, 464 (7291), 999-1005 PMID: 20393555

Koboldt DC and Miller RD (2010). Identification of polymorphic markers for genetic mapping. Genomics: Essential Methods, In Press.

Koboldt DC, Staisch J, Thillainathan B, Haines K, Baird SE, Chamberlin HM, Haag ES, Miller RD, & Gupta BP (2010). A toolkit for rapid gene mapping in the nematode Caenorhabditis briggsae. BMC genomics, 11 (1) PMID: 20385026

Voora D, Koboldt DC, King CR, Lenzini PA, Eby CS, Porche-Sorbet R, Deych E, Crankshaw M, Milligan PE, McLeod HL, Patel SR, Cavallari LH, Ridker PM, Grice GR, Miller RD, & Gage BF (2010). A polymorphism in the VKORC1 regulator calumenin predicts higher warfarin dose requirements in African Americans. Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 87 (4), 445-51 PMID: 20200517

Zhang Q, Ding L, Larson DE, Koboldt DC, McLellan MD, Chen K, Shi X, Kraja A, et al (2009). CMDS: a population-based method for identifying recurrent DNA copy number aberrations in cancer from high-resolution data. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) PMID: 20031968

Mardis ER, Ding L, Dooling DJ, Larson DE, McLellan MD, Chen K, Koboldt DC, et al (2009). Recurring mutations found by sequencing an acute myeloid leukemia genome. The New England journal of medicine, 361 (11), 1058-66 PMID: 19657110

Koboldt DC, Chen K, Wylie T, Larson DE, McLellan MD, Mardis ER, Weinstock GM, Wilson RK, & Ding L (2009). VarScan: variant detection in massively parallel sequencing of individual and pooled samples. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 25 (17), 2283-5 PMID: 19542151

Ley TJ, Mardis ER, Ding L, Fulton B, McLellan MD, Chen K, Dooling D, Dunford-Shore BH, McGrath S, Hickenbotham M, Cook L, Abbott R, Larson DE, Koboldt DC, et al (2008). DNA sequencing of a cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukaemia genome. Nature, 456 (7218), 66-72 PMID: 18987736

Ding L, Getz G, Wheeler DA, Mardis ER, McLellan MD, Cibulskis K, Sougnez C, et al (2008). Somatic mutations affect key pathways in lung adenocarcinoma. Nature, 455 (7216), 1069-75 PMID: 18948947

Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network (2008). Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways. Nature, 455 (7216), 1061-8 PMID: 18772890

International HapMap Consortium (2007). A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs. Nature, 449 (7164), 851-61 PMID: 17943122

Sabeti PC, Varilly P, Fry B, et al (2007). Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations. Nature, 449 (7164), 913-8 PMID: 17943131

Hillier LW, Miller RD, Baird SE, Chinwalla A, Fulton LA, Koboldt DC, & Waterston RH (2007). Comparison of C. elegans and C. briggsae genome sequences reveals extensive conservation of chromosome organization and synteny. PLoS biology, 5 (7) PMID: 17608563

Stanley SL Jr, Frey SE, Taillon-Miller P, Guo J, Miller RD, Koboldt DC, Elashoff M, Christensen R, Saccone NL, & Belshe RB (2007). The immunogenetics of smallpox vaccination. The Journal of infectious diseases, 196 (2), 212-9 PMID: 17570108

Koboldt DC, Miller RD, & Kwok PY (2006). Distribution of human SNPs and its effect on high-throughput genotyping. Human mutation, 27 (3), 249-54 PMID: 16425292

The International HapMap Consortium (2005). A haplotype map of the human genome. Nature, 437 (7063), 1299-1320 PMID: 16255080

Miller RD, Phillips MS, et al (2005). High-density single-nucleotide polymorphism maps of the human genome. Genomics, 86 (2), 117-26 PMID: 15961272

Other Writing by Dan Koboldt

Dan Koboldt is also the author of Get Your Baby to Sleep, a resource to help new parents whose baby won’t sleep with advice on dressing a newborn for bed, establishing a sleep routine, getting a sick infant to sleep, and baby sleep safety.