Specialty / Expertise

Genomics

Research Interests

Current Research Projects

Research Staff

Training

Dr. Dorschner received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Clinical Molecular genetics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Selected Publications:

Dorschner MO, Shafer A, Weaver M, Goldy J, Haydock A, Lee K, Neri F, Sabo PJ, Humbert R and
Stamatoyannopoulos JA. (2006) High-throughput quantitative chromatin profiling.

The ENCODE Project Consortium. (2007). Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome. Nature 447(7146): 799-816.

Schoenborn JR, Dorschner MO, Sekimata M, Santer D, Fitzpatrick DR, Stamatoyannopoulos JA and Wilson CB. (2007). Comprehensive epigenetic profiling identifies multiple distal regulatory elements directing transcription of the gene encoding interferon-gamma. Nat. Immunol. 8(7): 732-42.

Sabo PJ, Kuehn MS, Thurman R, Grant C, Johnson B, Johnson S, Kao H, Yu M, Goldy J, Weaver M, Singer M, Richmond T, Dorschner MO, Navas P, Green R, Noble WS and Stamatoyannopoulos JA. (2006). Genome-scale mapping of DNase I sensitivity in vivo using tiling DNA microarrays. Nature Methods. 3(7):511-518.

Sabo PJ, Hawrylycz M, Wallace JC, Humbert R, Yu M, Shafer A, Kawamoto J, Hall R, Mack J, Dorschner MO, McArthur M and Stamatoyannopoulos JA. (2004) Discovery of functional noncoding elements by digital analysis of chromatin structure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 101(48):16837-42.