Pr Carol Wise

Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Texas, United States of America
Genetics, Laureate 2002, 2011, 2024

Dr. Carol Wise is Director of the Scottish Rite for Children Center for Translational Research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW).

Her research focuses on identifying the genetic determinants and underlying mechanisms of pediatric musculoskeletal disorders. A particular area of interest is scoliosis, which strikes millions of children worldwide, particularly girls, as they are growing.

Dr. Wise’s research has identified multiple genetic risk factors for scoliosis and highlights a sexually-dimorphic signaling pathway in spinal cartilage.
She also helped found the International Consortium for Spinal Genetics, Development, and Disease as part of her commitment to promoting collaborative scoliosis research

Publications

Gao X, Gordon D, Zhang D, Browne R, Helms C, Gillum J, Weber S, Devroy S, Swaney S, Dobbs M, Morcuende J, Sheffield V, Lovett M, Bowcock A, Herring J, Wise C. CHD7 gene polymorphisms are associated with susceptibility to idiopathic scoliosis. Am J Hum Genet. 2007; 80(5):957-65. PMID: 17436250

Gao X, Gotway G, Rathjen K, Johnston C, Sparagana S, Rios J, Wise CA. High-density microarray and genomic analyses of patients presenting with unexplained early onset scoliosis, Spine Deformity 2014; 2 (5): 324-32. PMID 25401082

Sharma S, Londono D, Eckalbar WL, Gao X, Zhang D, Mauldin K, Kou I, Takahashi A, Matsumoto M, Kamiya N, Murphy KK, Cornelia R; TSRHC Scoliosis Clinical Group; Japan Scoliosis Clinical Research Group, Herring JA, Burns D, Ahituv N, Ikegawa S, Gordon D, Wise CA. A PAX1 enhancer locus is associated with susceptibility to idiopathic scoliosis in females. Nat Commun. 2015; 6:6452. PMID: 25784220

Giampietro PF, Pourquie O, Raggio C, Ikegawa S, Turnpenny PD, Gray R, Dunwoodie SL, Gurnett CA, Alman B, Cheung K, Kusumi K, Hadley-Miller N, Wise CA. Summary of the first inaugural joint meeting of the International Consortium for scoliosis genetics and the International Consortium for vertebral anomalies and scoliosis, March 16–18,2017, Dallas, Texas. Amer J Med Genetics. 2018; 176(1): 253-256. PMID: 29159998

Ogura Y, Takeda K, Kou I, Khanshour A, Grauers A, Zhou H, Liu G, Fan YH, Zhou T, Wu Z, Takahashi Y, Matsumoto M; Japan Scoliosis Clinical Research Group (JSCRG); Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children Clinical Group (TSRHCCG), Einarsdottir E, Kere J, Huang D, Qiu G, Xu L, Qiu Y, Wise CA, Song YQ, Wu N, Su P, Gerdhem P, Watanabe K, Ikegawa S. An international meta-analysis confirms the association of BNC2 with adolescent idiopathic Scoliosis. Scientific Reports. 2018: 8(1): 4730. PMID: 29549362

Kou I, Watanabe K, Takahashi Y, Momozawa Y, Khanshour A, Grauers A, Zhou H, Liu G, Fan YH, Takeda K, Ogura Y, Zhou T, Iwasaki Y, Kubo M, Wu Z, Matsumoto M, Japan Scoliosis Clinical Research Group, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children Clinical Group, Einarsdottir E, Kere J, Huang D, Qiu G, Qiu Y, Wise CA, Song YQ, Su P, Gerdhem P, Ikegawa S. A multi-ethnic meta-analysis confirms the association of rs6570507 with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Scientific Reports 2018; 8(1):11575. PMID: 30069010

Khanshour A, Kou I, Fan Y, Einarsdottir E, Makki N, Kidane YH, Kere J, Grauers A, Johnson TA, Paria N, Patel C, Singhania R, Kamiya N, Takeda K, Otomo N, Watanabe K, Luk KDK, Cheung KMC, Herring JA, Rios JJ, Ahituv N, Gerdhem P, Gurnett CA, Song Y, Ikegawa S and Wise CA. Genome-wide meta-analysis and replication studies in multiple ethnicities identify novel adolescent idiopathic scoliosis susceptibility loci. Hum Mol Genet 2018; 27(22): 3986-3998. PMID: 30395268

Wise CA, Ushiki A, Khanshour A, Kidane YH, Makki N, Gurnett CA, Gray RS, Rios JJ, Ahituv N, Solnica-Krezel L. The cartilage matrisome in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Bone Res. 2020;8(13). PMID: 32195011

Makki N, Zhao J, Liu Z, Eckalbar WL, Ushiki A, Khanshour AM, Wu Z, Gray RS, Wise CA, Ahituv N. Genomic characterization of the adolescent idiopathic scoliosis associated transcriptome and regulome. Hum Mol Genet. 2021; 29(22):3606-3615.PMID: 33179741

Yu H, Khanshour AM, Ushiki A, Otomo N, Koike Y, Einarsdottir E, Fan Y, Antunes L, Kidane YH, Cornelia T, Sheng R, Zhang Y, Pei J, Grishin NV, Evers BM, Yin Cheung JP, Herring JA, Terao C, Song YQ, Gurnett CA, Gerdhem P, Ikegawa S, Rios JJ, Ahituv N, Wise CA. Association of genetic variation in COL11A1 with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. eLife. 2024; PMID: 38277211

Ushiki A, Sheng RR, Zhang Y, Zhao J, Nobuhara M, Murray E, Ruan X, Rios JJ, Wise CA, Ahituv N. Deletion of Pax1 scoliosis-associated regulatory elements leads to a female-biased tail abnormality. Cell Rep. 2024; 43(3):113907. PMID: 38461417