Staff Profile - Faculty of Medical Sciences

Sharon Foster

Senior Biobank Technician Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource

Email: sharon.foster@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 1212
Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 1101
Address: Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource
Ageing Reseach Laboratories
Edwardson Building
Institute of Neuroscience
Newcastle University
Campus for Ageing and Health
Newcastle
NE4 5PL

Publications

Klinge L, Laval S, Keers S, Haldane F, Straub V, Barresi R, Bushby K. From T-tubule to sarcolemma: Damage-induced dysferlin translocation in early myogenesis. FASEB Journal 2007, 21(8), 1768-1776.
Andrews R, Ressiniotis T, Turnbull DM, Birch M, Keers S, Chinnery PF, Griffiths PG. The role of mitochondrial haplogroups in primary open angle glaucoma. British Journal of Ophthalmology 2006, 90(4), 488-490.
Ressiniotis T, Griffiths PG, Keers SM, Chinnery PF, Birch M. A polymorphism at codon 31 of gene p21 is not associated with primary open angle glaucoma in Caucasians. BMC Ophthalmology 2005, 5(1), 5.
Howell N, Kubacka I, Keers SM, Turnbull DM, Chinnery PF. Co-segregation and heteroplasmy of two coding-region mtDNA mutations within a matrilineal pedigree. Human Genetics 2005, 116(1-2), 28-32.
Craig K, Keers SM, Walls TJ, Curtis A, Chinnery PF. Minimum prevalence of spinocerebellar ataxia 17 in the north east of England. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 2005, 239(1), 105-109.
Ressiniotis T, Griffiths PG, Birch M, Keers SM, Chinnery PF. Apolipoprotein E promoter polymorphisms do not have a major influence on the risk of developing primary open angle glaucoma. Molecular Vision 2004, 10, 805-807.
Chinnery PF, Keers SM, Holden MJ, Ramesh V, Dalton A. Infantile hereditary spastic paraparesis due to codominant mutations in the spastin gene. Neurology 2004, 63(4), 710-712.
Craig K, Keers SM, Archibald K, Curtis A, Chinnery PF. Molecular Epidemiology of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6. Annals of Neurology 2004, 55(5), 752-755.
Ressiniotis T, Griffiths PG, Birch M, Keers S, Chinnery PF. Primary open angle glaucoma is associated with a specific p53 gene haplotype. Journal of Medical Genetics 2004, 41(4), 296-298.
Ressiniotis T, Griffiths PG, Birch M, Keers S, Chinnery PF. The Role of Apolipoprotein E Gene Polymorphisms in Primary Open-angle Glaucoma. Archives of Ophthalmology 2004, 122(2), 258-261.
Britton S, Freeman T, Vafiadaki E, Keers S, Harrison R, Bushby K, Bashir R. The third human FER-1-like protein is highly similar to dysferlin. Genomics 2000, 68(3), 313-321.
R. Bashir,S. Keers,T. Strachan,R. Passos-Bueno,M. Zatz,J. Weissenbach,D. Le Paslier,M. Meisler,K. Bushby. Genetic and physical mapping at the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy locus (LGMD2B) on chromosome 2p. Genomics 1996, 33(1), 46-52.
K. Bushby,R. Bashir,S. Keers,S. Britton,M. Zatz,M. R. Passos-Bueno,M. Lovett,I. Mahjneh,G. Marconi,T. Strachan. The molecular biology of LGMD2B--towards the identification of the LGMD gene on chromosome 2p13. Neuromuscul Disord 1996, 6(6), 491-2.
M. R. Passos-Bueno,R. Bashir,E. S. Moreira,M. Vainzof,S. K. Marie,L. Vasquez,P. Iughetti,E. Bakker,S. Keers,A. Stephenson,et al. Confirmation of the 2p locus for the mild autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy gene (LGMD2B) in three families allows refinement of the candidate region. Genomics 1995, 27(1), 192-5.
R. Bashir,T. Strachan,S. Keers,A. Stephenson,I. Mahjneh,G. Marconi,L. Nashef,K. M. Bushby. A gene for autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy maps to chromosome 2p. Hum Mol Genet 1994, 3(3), 455-7.