Dr Helen Butler

Project Manager

 

Helen has worked within the group since 2001, having obtained a PhD at Reading University (1999) in plant genetics. Her role within the group has focused on project management liasing with users of the OGC services from project conception through to completion. Having previously worked with the array team, Helen has recently transferred to the sequencing division. 

 

Recent Publications

Helen T. Butler, Donald R. Warden, Eva Hogervorst, Jiannis Ragoussis, A. David Smith, Donald J. Lehmann, (2010) Association of the aromatase gene with Alzheimer's disease in women. Neuroscience Letters 468 202-206 [PMID: 19879925]

Maestrini E, Pagnamenta AT, Lamb JA, Bacchelli E, Sykes NH, Sousa I, Toma C, Barnby G, Butler H, Winchester L, Scerri TS, Minopoli F, Reichert J, Cai G, Buxbaum JD, Korvatska O, Schellenberg GD, Dawson G, Bildt AD, Minderaa RB, Mulder EJ, Morris AP, Bailey AJ, Monaco AP. (2009) High-density SNP association study and copy number variation analysis of the AUTS1 and AUTS5 loci implicate the IMMP2L-DOCK4 gene region in autism susceptibility. Mol Psychiatry Apr 28. [Epub ahead of print] [PMID: 19401682]

Colella S, Yau C, Taylor JM, Mirza G, Butler H, Clouston P, Bassett AS, Seller A, Holmes CC, Ragoussis J (2007) QuantiSNP: an Objective Bayes Hidden-Markov Model to detect and accurately map copy number variation using SNP genotyping data. Nucleic Acids Res. 35(6): 2013-25 [PMID: 17341461]

Butler H., and Ragoussis J. (2008). BeadArray-Based Genotyping. Methods Mol Biol 439: 53-74 [PMID: 18370095]

Yamazaki K, McGovern D, Ragoussis J, Paolucci M, Butler H, Jewell D, Takazoe M, Tanaka T, Ichimori T, Saito S, Sekine A, Iida A, Takahashi A, Tsunoda T, Lathrop M and Nakamura Y (2005) single nucleotide polymorphisms in TNFSF15 confer susceptibility to Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Hum Mol Genet 14: 3499-506. [PMID: 16221758]

Lehmann D. J., Hogervorst E., Warden D. R., Smith A. D., Butler H. T., and Ragoussis J. (2004). The androgen receptor CAG repeat and serum testosterone in the risk of Alzheimer's disease in men. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 75: 163-4. [PMID: 14707333]