Journal club: old tricks and fresh approaches

SM McGlacken-Byrne, M O'Rahelly… - Archives of Disease in …, 2020 - ep.bmj.com
Journal club is a long-standing pedagogy within clinical practice and education. While
journal clubs throughout the world traditionally follow an established format, new approaches …

The emerging spectrum of fetal acetylcholine receptor antibody-related disorders (FARAD)

NM Allen, M O'Rahelly, B Eymard, M Chouchane… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In utero exposure to maternal antibodies targeting the fetal acetylcholine receptor isoform (fAChR)
can impair fetal movement, leading to arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC). Fetal …

[HTML][HTML] Hypomorphism in human NSMCE2 linked to primordial dwarfism and insulin resistance

…, V Saudek, D Savage, S O'Rahilly… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes are essential for maintaining
chromatin structure and regulating gene expression. Two the three known SMC complexes, …

Disclosing the diagnosis of Down syndrome: the experience of 50 Irish parents

AM Smith, M O'Rahelly, O Flanagan - Archives of disease in childhood, 2019 - adc.bmj.com
Communicating the diagnosis of Down syndrome (DS) to parents in a kind and sensitive
manner is essential. The aim of our study was to evaluate parental experience of this discussion …

Long-Term Outcomes of Offspring of Mothers with Fetal Acetylcholine Receptor Antibodies

NM Allen, M O'Rahelly, B Eymard… - ANNALS OF …, 2023 - lirias.kuleuven.be
The emerging spectrum of fetal acetylcholine receptor antibody-related disorders (FARAD)
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Genetic defects in human pericentrin are associated with severe insulin resistance and diabetes

…, JJ Nolan, M O'Driscoll, M Bober, S O'Rahilly… - Diabetes, 2011 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE Genetic defects in human pericentrin (PCNT), encoding the centrosomal protein
pericentrin, cause a form of osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism that is sometimes reported …

[HTML][HTML] Autopsy and pre-mortem diagnostic discrepancy review in an Irish tertiary PICU

M O'Rahelly, M McDermott, M Healy - European Journal of Pediatrics, 2021 - Springer
Our study had two objectives: (1) to review ante- and post-mortem diagnoses and assign a
Goldman error classification and (2) establish autopsy rates within our centre. We performed …

Early onset neonatal E. coli sepsis

M O'Rahelly, A Smith, R Drew, N McCallion - 2019 - repository.rcsi.com
This was a retrospective case-control study over 14 years comparing characteristics of
neonates who developed E.coli bacteraemia with matched infant controls whose mothers were …

[HTML][HTML] Early diagnosis of Werner's syndrome using exome-wide sequencing in a single, atypical patient

…, M O'Driscoll, C Smith, S O'Rahilly… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Genetic diagnosis of inherited metabolic disease is conventionally achieved through
syndrome recognition and targeted gene sequencing, but many patients receive no specific …

Genome-wide association study and functional characterization identifies candidate genes for insulin-stimulated glucose uptake

…, NJ Wareham, KL Mohlke, E Wheeler, S O'Rahilly… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Distinct tissue-specific mechanisms mediate insulin action in fasting and postprandial states.
Previous genetic studies have largely focused on insulin resistance in the fasting state, …