Marlin Touma*

Email: MTouma@mednet.ucla.edu

Publications:

Ganguly A, Ghosh S, Shin BC, Touma M, Wadehra M, Devaskar SU. Gestational exposure to air pollutants perturbs metabolic and placenta-fetal phenotype. Reprod Toxicol. 2024 Jul 16; 128:108657. view on PubMed

Zodanu GKE, Hwang JH, Mehta Z, Sisniega C, Barsegian A, Kang X, Biniwale R, Si MS, Satou GM, Halnon N, Grody WW, Van Arsdell GS, Nelson SF, Touma M. High-Throughput Genomics Identify Novel FBN1/2 Variants in Severe Neonatal Marfan Syndrome and Congenital Heart Defects. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 May 17; 25(10). view on PubMed

Liu X, Li B, Wang S, Zhang E, Schultz M, Touma M, Monteiro Da Rocha A, Evans SM, Eichmann A, Herron T, Chen R, Xiong D, Jaworski A, Weiss S, Si MS. Stromal Cell-SLIT3/Cardiomyocyte-ROBO1 Axis Regulates Pressure Overload-Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy. Circ Res. 2024 Mar 29; 134(7):913-930. view on PubMed

Hwang J, Kang X, Wolf C, Touma M. Mapping Chromatin Occupancy of Ppp1r1b-lncRNA Genome-Wide Using Chromatin Isolation by RNA Purification (ChIRP)-seq. Cells. 2023 12 08; 12(24). view on PubMed

Hwang J, Kang X, Wolf C, Touma M. Mapping Chromatin Occupancy of Ppp1r1b-lncRNA Genome-Wide Using Chromatin Isolation by RNA Purification (ChIRP)-seq. bioRxiv. 2023 Nov 05. view on PubMed

Sono R, Larrinaga TM, Huang A, Makhlouf F, Kang X, Su J, Lau R, Arboleda VA, Biniwale R, Fishbein GA, Khanlou N, Si MS, Satou GM, Halnon N, Van Arsdell GS, Gregorio CC, Nelson S, Touma M. Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Homozygote Nonsense Variants in LMOD2 Gene Causing Infantile Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Cells. 2023 05 23; 12(11). view on PubMed

Mehta Z, Touma M. Post-Transcriptional Modification by Alternative Splicing and Pathogenic Splicing Variants in Cardiovascular Development and Congenital Heart Defects. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jan 13; 24(2). view on PubMed

Trieu T, Mach P, Bunn K, Huang V, Huang J, Chow C, Nakano H, Fajardo VM, Touma M, Ren S, Wang Y, Nakano A. A novel murine model of atrial fibrillation by diphtheria toxin-induced injury. Front Physiol. 2022; 13:977735. view on PubMed

Yang JO, Shaybekyan H, Zhao Y, Kang X, Fishbein GA, Khanlou N, Alejos JC, Halnon N, Satou G, Biniwale R, Lee H, Van Arsdell G, Nelson SF, Touma M, UCLA Clinical Genomics Center, UCLA Congenital Heart Defects-BioCore Faculty. Case Report: Whole Exome Sequencing Identifies Compound Heterozygous Variants in TSFM Gene Causing Juvenile Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021; 8:798985. view on PubMed

Zhao Y, Wang LK, Eskin A, Kang X, Fajardo VM, Mehta Z, Pineles S, Schmidt RJ, Nagiel A, Satou G, Garg M, Federman M, Reardon LC, Lee SL, Biniwale R, Grody WW, Halnon N, Khanlou N, Quintero-Rivera F, Alejos JC, Nakano A, Fishbein GA, Van Arsdell GS, Nelson SF, Touma M. Recessive ciliopathy mutations in primary endocardial fibroelastosis: a rare neonatal cardiomyopathy in a case of Alstrom syndrome. J Mol Med (Berl). 2021 11; 99(11):1623-1638. view on PubMed

Yokota T, Li J, Huang J, Xiong Z, Zhang Q, Chan T, Ding Y, Rau C, Sung K, Ren S, Kulkarni R, Hsiai T, Xiao X, Touma M, Minamisawa S, Wang Y. p38 Mitogen-activated protein kinase regulates chamber-specific perinatal growth in heart. J Clin Invest. 2020 10 01; 130(10):5287-5301. view on PubMed

Touma M. COVID-19: molecular diagnostics overview. J Mol Med (Berl). 2020 07; 98(7):947-954. view on PubMed

Zhao Y, Kang X, Barsegian A, He J, Guzman A, Lau RP, Biniwale R, Wadhra M, Reemtsen B, Garg M, Halnon N, Quintero-Rivera F, Grody WW, UCLA Congenital Heart Defects BioCore Faculty, Van Arsdell G, Nelson SF, Touma M. Gene-environment regulation of chamber-specific maturation during hypoxemic perinatal circulatory transition. J Mol Med (Berl). 2020 07; 98(7):1009-1020. view on PubMed

Spyropoulos F, Vitali SH, Touma M, Rose CD, Petty CR, Levy P, Kourembanas S, Christou H. Echocardiographic markers of pulmonary hemodynamics and right ventricular hypertrophy in rat models of pulmonary hypertension. Pulm Circ. 2020 Apr-Jun; 10(2):2045894020910976. view on PubMed

Kang X, Zhao Y, Van Arsdell G, Nelson SF, Touma M. Ppp1r1b-lncRNA inhibits PRC2 at myogenic regulatory genes to promote cardiac and skeletal muscle development in mouse and human. RNA. 2020 04; 26(4):481-491. view on PubMed

Zhao Y, Kang X, Gao F, Guzman A, Lau RP, Biniwale R, Wadehra M, Reemtsen B, Garg M, Halnon N, Quintero-Rivera F, Van Arsdell G, Coppola G, Nelson SF, Touma M, UCLA Congenital Heart Defects BioCore Faculty. Gene-environment regulatory circuits of right ventricular pathology in tetralogy of fallot. J Mol Med (Berl). 2019 12; 97(12):1711-1722. view on PubMed

Touma M. Fetal Mouse Cardiovascular Imaging Using a High-frequency Ultrasound (30/45MHZ) System. J Vis Exp. 2018 05 05; (135). view on PubMed

Touma M, Kang X, Gao F, Zhao Y, Cass AA, Biniwale R, Xiao X, Eghbali M, Coppola G, Reemtsen B, Wang Y. Wnt11 regulates cardiac chamber development and disease during perinatal maturation. JCI Insight. 2017 09 07; 2(17). view on PubMed

Touma M, Reemtsen B, Halnon N, Alejos J, Finn JP, Nelson SF, Wang Y. A Path to Implement Precision Child Health Cardiovascular Medicine. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2017; 4:36. view on PubMed

Touma M, Kang X, Zhao Y, Cass AA, Gao F, Biniwale R, Coppola G, Xiao X, Reemtsen B, Wang Y. Decoding the Long Noncoding RNA During Cardiac Maturation: A Roadmap for Functional Discovery. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2016 Oct; 9(5):395-407. view on PubMed

Ganguly A, Touma M, Thamotharan S, De Vivo DC, Devaskar SU. Maternal Calorie Restriction Causing Uteroplacental Insufficiency Differentially Affects Mammalian Placental Glucose and Leucine Transport Molecular Mechanisms. Endocrinology. 2016 Oct; 157(10):4041-4054. view on PubMed

Lluri G, Huang V, Touma M, Liu X, Harmon AW, Nakano A. Hematopoietic progenitors are required for proper development of coronary vasculature. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2015 Sep; 86:199-207. view on PubMed

Briot A, Jaroszewicz A, Warren CM, Lu J, Touma M, Rudat C, Hofmann JJ, Airik R, Weinmaster G, Lyons K, Wang Y, Kispert A, Pellegrini M, Iruela-Arispe ML. Repression of Sox9 by Jag1 is continuously required to suppress the default chondrogenic fate of vascular smooth muscle cells. Dev Cell. 2014 Dec 22; 31(6):707-21. view on PubMed

Nakashima Y, Yanez DA, Touma M, Nakano H, Jaroszewicz A, Jordan MC, Pellegrini M, Roos KP, Nakano A. Nkx2-5 suppresses the proliferation of atrial myocytes and conduction system. Circ Res. 2014 Mar 28; 114(7):1103-13. view on PubMed

Xiao XG, Touma M, Wang Y. Decoding the noncoding transcripts in human heart failure. Circulation. 2014 Mar 04; 129(9):958-60. view on PubMed

Touma M, Joshi M, Connolly MC, Grant PE, Hansen AR, Khwaja O, Berry GT, Kinney HC, Poduri A, Agrawal PB. Whole genome sequencing identifies SCN2A mutation in monozygotic twins with Ohtahara syndrome and unique neuropathologic findings. Epilepsia. 2013 May; 54(5):e81-5. view on PubMed

Christou H, Reslan OM, Mam V, Tanbe AF, Vitali SH, Touma M, Arons E, Mitsialis SA, Kourembanas S, Khalil RA. Improved pulmonary vascular reactivity and decreased hypertrophic remodeling during nonhypercapnic acidosis in experimental pulmonary hypertension. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2012 May 01; 302(9):L875-90. view on PubMed