Selected publications

Bretherick KL, Hanna CW, Currie LM, Fluker MR, Hammond GL, Robinson WP. Estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphisms are associated with idiopathic premature ovarian failure. Fertil Steril. 2007 Aug 11;


Robinson WP, Slee J, Smith N, Murch A, Watson SK, Lam WL, McFadden DE. Placental mesenchymal dysplasia associated with fetal overgrowth and mosaic deletion of the maternal copy of 11p15.5.

Bretherick KL, Metzger DL, Chanoine JP, Panagiotopoulos C, Watson SK, Lam WL, Fluker MR, Brown CJ, Robinson WP. Skewed X-chromosome inactivation is associated with primary but not secondary ovarian failure. Am J Med Genet A. 2007 May 1;143(9):945-51

Robinson WP, McGillivray B, Friedman JM. Pregnancy and postnatal outcome of mosaic isochromosome 20q. Prenat Diagn. 2006 Dec 27;27(2):143-145

Hirschfeld AF, Jiang R, Robinson WP, McFadden DE, Turvey SE. Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphisms and idiopathic chromosomally normal miscarriage. Hum Reprod. 2007 Feb;22(2):440-443. Epub 2006 Sep 18.

McFadden DE, Robinson WP. Phenotype of triploid embryos. J Med Genet. 2006 Jul;43(7):609-12. Epub 2005 Oct 19.

Robinson WP, Lauzon JL, Innes AM, Lim K, Arsovska S, McFadden DE. Origin and outcome of pregnancies affected by androgenetic/biparental chimerism. Hum Reprod. 2006 Dec 21; 

Langlois S, Yong PJ, Yong SL, Barrett I, Kalousek DK, Miny P, Exeler R, Morris K, Robinson WP.Postnatal follow-up of prenatally diagnosed trisomy 16 mosaicism. Prenat Diagn. 2006 Jun;26(6):548-58. Abstract

Bretherick K, Gair J, Robinson WP. The association of skewed X chromosome inactivation with aneuploidy in humans. Cytogenet Genome Res. 2005;111(3-4):260-5. Review. Abstract

Gair JL, Arbour L, Rupps R, Jiang R, Bruyere H, Robinson WP. Recurrent trisomy 21: four cases in three generations. Clin Genet. 2005 Nov;68(5):430-5. Abstract

Bretherick KL, Fluker MR, Robinson WP. FMR1 repeat sizes in the gray zone and high end of the normal range are associated with premature ovarian failure. Hum Genet. 2005 Aug;117(4):376-82. Epub 2005 Jun 2.Abstract

Kaiser-Rogers KA, McFadden DE, Livasy CA, Dansereau J, Jiang R, Knops JF, Lefebvre L, Rao KW, Robinson WP (2005) Androgenetic/biparental mosaicism causes placental mesenchymal dysplasia.J Med Genet. 2005 May 20; Abstract

Robinson WP, McGillivray B, Lewis ME, Arbour L, Barrett I, Kalousek DK (2005) Prenatally detected trisomy 20 mosaicism.Prenat Diagn. 2005 Mar;25(3):239-44. Abstract

Hatakeyama C, Anderson CL, Beever CL, Penaherrera MS, Brown CJ, Robinson WP. (2004) The dynamics of X-inactivation skewing as women age. Clin Genet. 2004 Oct;66(4):327-32. Abstract

Tang SS, Gao H, Robinson WP, Ho Yuen B, Ma S. (2004) An association between sex chromosomal aneuploidy in sperm and an abortus with 45,X of paternal origin: possible transmission of chromosomal abnormalities through ICSI. Hum Reprod. 19(1):147-51. Abstract

Peñaherrera MS, Ma S, Ho YB, Brown CJ, Robinson WP (2003) X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) patterns in placental tissues of a paternally derived bal t(X;20) case. Am J Med Genet 118A(1):29-34 Abstract

Yong PJ, Barrett IJ, Kalousek DK and Robinson WP (2003) Prenatal diagnosis and pathogenesis of trisomy 16 mosaicism. J Med Genet 40(3):175-82. (Abstract)

Beever CL, Stephenson MD, Penaherrera MS, Jiang RH, Kalousek DK, Hayden M, Field L, Brown CJ, Robinson WP (2003) Skewed X chromosome inactivation is associated with trisomy in women ascertained on recurrent spontaneous abortion or chromosomally abnormal pregnancies. Am J Hum Genet (Abstract)

Robinson WP,Barrett IJ, Kuchinka B,  Peñaherrera MS, Bruyere H, Best R, Pediera D, MCFadden DE, Langlois SL, Kalousek DK. (2002) Origin of amnion and implications for evaluation of the fetal genotype in cases of mosaicism.  Prenat Diag 22:1078-87. (Abstract)

McFadden DE, Jiang RH, Langlois S, Robinson WP (2002) Dispermy – origin of diandric triploidy. Hum Reprod 17:3037-38 (Abstract)

Yong PJ, Marion SA, Kalousek DK, Robinson WP (2002) Evidence for imprinting on chromosome 16: the effect of uniparental disomy on the outcome of mosaic trisomy 16 pregnancies. Am J Med Genet 112(2):123-32 (Abstract)

Robinson, WP, Beever C, Brown CJ, Stephenson MD (2001) Skewed X-inactivation in recurrent spontaneous abortion (2001) Seminars in Reproductive Medicine 19:175-182 (Abstract)

Lam R; Ma, S; Robinson WP; Theresa Chan T; Basil Ho Yuen, BH (2001) Cytogenetic Investigation of Fetuses and Infants Derived from Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection. Fertility and Sterility 76(6):1272-5. (Abstract)

Robinson WP, McFadden DE, Stephenson, MS (2001) Origin of Recurrent Aneuploidy Am J Hum Genet 69:1245-54 (Abstract)

Bruyère H., Rupps R, Kuchinka B, Friedman JM, Robinson WP (2000)Recurrent trisomy 21 in a couple with a child presenting trisomy 21 mosaicism and maternal uniparental disomy for chromosome 21 in the euploid cell line. Am J Med Genet Sep 4;94(1):35-41. (Abstract)

MS Peñaherrera, IJ Barrett , CJ Brown, S Langlois, S-L. Yong, S. Lewis, H. Bruyère, P. Howard-Peebles, D.K Kalousek, W.P. Robinson (2000) An association between skewed X-chromosome inactivation in diploid fetal tissues and abnormal outcome in mosaic trisomies predominantly confined to the placenta. Clin Genet 58(6):436-46. (Abstract)

Robinson WP (2000) Mechanisms leading to uniparental disomy and their clinical consequences. Bioessays 22:452-459(Abstract)

Brown CJ, Robinson WP (2000) The causes and consequences of random and non-random X chromosome inactivation in humans. Clin Genet. 2000 Nov;58(5):353-63. (Abstract)

Robinson WP, Bernasconi F, Lau A, McFadden DE (1999) Origin of trisomy: the effect of ascertainment. Am J Med Genet 84:34-42 (Abstract)

Robinson WP, Kuchinka BD, Bernasconi F, Petersen MB, Schulze A, Brøndum-Nielsen K, Christian SL, et al. (1998) Maternal meiosis I nondisjunction of chromosome 15: dependence of the maternal age effect on level of recombination. Hum Mol Genet 7:1011-1020 (Abstract)

Robinson WP, Barrett IJ , Bernard L, Bernasconi F, Wilson RD, Best R, Howard-Peebles PN, Langlois S, Kalousek DK. (1997) A meiotic origin of trisomy in confined placental mosaicism is correlated with presence of fetal uniparental disomy, high levels of trisomy in trophoblast and increased risk of fetal IUGR. Am J Hum Genet 60:917-927 (Abstract)

Lau AW, Brown CJ, Penaherrera M, Langlois S, Kalousek DK, Robinson WP (1997) Skewed X-chromosome inactivation is common in fetuses or newborns associated with confined placental mosaicism. Am J Hum Genet 61:1353-61 (Abstract)