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Caroline Andrews, M.S., Research Study Coordinator
Caroline Andrews, M.S., is the laboratory's Research Coordinator and joined the Engle lab in June 2001. Caroline came to Children's Hospital from England where most recently she was employed as Research & Information Executive at Epilepsy Research Foundation in London with responsibility of coordinating & organizing scientific meetings and establishing scientific contacts. Prior to this Caroline gained her MS in Forensic Science from Strathclyde University, Scotland, in 1992 and has since worked at several research laboratories in London.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:Original Reports
1. Pahlevan AA, Wright DJ, Andrews C, George KM, Small PL, Foxwell BM. The inhibitory action of Mycobacterium ulcerans soluble factor on monocyte/T cell cytokine production and NF-kappa B function. J Immunol. 1999;163(7):3928-35.
2. Denys A, Udalova IA, Smith C, Williams LM, Ciesielski CJ, Campbell J, Andrews C, Kwaitkowski D, Foxwell BM. Evidence for a dual mechanism for IL-10 suppression of TNF-alpha production that does not involve inhibition of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase or NF-kappa B in primary human macrophages. J Immunol. 2002;168(10):4837-45.
3. Richens A, Andrews C, Clinical practice: antimalarial prophylaxis in patients with epilepsy [corrected]. Epilepsy Res. 2002;51(1-2):1-4.
4. Al-Baradie R, Yamada K, St Hilaire C, Chan WM, Andrews C, McIntosh N, Nakano M, Martonyi EJ, Raymond WR, Okumura S, Okihiro MM, Engle EC. Duane radial ray syndrome (Okihiro syndrome) maps to 20q13 and results from mutations in SALL4, a new member of the SAL family. Am J Hum Genet. 2002;71(5):1195-9.
5. Uyama E, Yamada K, Kawano H, Chan WM, Andrews C, Yoshioka M, Uchino M, Engle EC. A Japanese family with FEOM1-linked congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles type 1 associated with spinal canal stenosis and refinement of the FEOM1 critical region. Neuromuscul Disord. 2003;13(6):472-8.
6. Yamada K, Andrews C, Chan WM, McKeown CA, Magli A, de Berardinis T, Loewenstein A, Lazar M, O'Keefe M, Letson R, London A, Ruttum M, Matsumoto N, Saito N, Morris L, Del Monte M, Johnson RH, Uyama E, Houtman WA, de Vries B, Carlow TJ, Hart BL, Krawiecki N, Shoffner J, Vogel MC, Katowitz J, Goldstein SM, Levin AV, Sener EC, Ozturk BT, Akarsu AN, Brodsky MC, Hanisch F, Cruse RP, Zubcov AA, Robb RM, Roggenkäemper P, Gottlob I, Kowal L, Battu R, Traboulsi EI, Franceschini P, Newlin A, Demer JL, Engle EC. Heterozygous mutations of the kinesin KIF21A in congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles type 1 (CFEOM1). Nat Genet. 2003;35(4):318-21.
7. Jen JC, Chan WM, Bosley TM, Wan J, Carr JR, Rüb U, Shattuck D, Salamon G, Kudo LC, Ou J, Lin DD, Salih MA, Kansu T, Al Dhalaan H, Al Zayed Z, MacDonald DB, Stigsby B, Plaitakis A, Dretakis EK, Gottlob I, Pieh C, Traboulsi EI, Wang Q, Wang L, Andrews C, Yamada K, Demer JL, Karim SS, Alger JR, Geschwind DH, Deller T, Sicotte NL, Nelson SF, Baloh RW, Engle EC. Mutations in a Human ROBO Gene Disrupt Hindbrain Axon Pathway Crossing and Morphogenesis. Science. 2004 Apr:
8. Yamada K, Chan WM, Andrews C, Bosley TM, Sener EC, Zwaan JT, Mullaney PB, Ozturk BT, Akarsu AN, Sabol LJ, Demer JL, Sullivan TJ, Gottlob I, Roggenkaemper P, Mackey DA, De Uzcategui CE, Uzcategui N, Ben-Zeev B, Traboulsi EI, Magli A, de Berardinis T, Gagliardi V, Awasthi-Patney S, Vogel MC, Rizzo JF 3rd, Engle EC. Identification of KIF21A mutations as a rare cause of congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles type 3 (CFEOM3).Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2004 Jul;45(7):2218-23.

9. Tischfield MA, Bosley TM, Salih MA, Alorainy IA, Sener EC, Nester MJ, Oystreck DT, Chan WM, Andrews C, Erickson RP, Engle EC. Homozygous HOXA1 mutations disrupt human brainstem, inner ear, cardiovascular and cognitive development. Nat Genet. 2005 Sep 11.
10. Yamada K, Hunter DG, Andrews C, Engle EC. A novel KIF21A mutation in a patient with CFEOM1 and Marcus Gunn jaw winking. Arch Ophthalmol. 2005 Sep;123(9):1254-9. Review.

Reviews/Clinical Reports, Educational Studies:
1. Andrews CV, Yamada K, Engle EC . Congenital Fibrosis of the Extraocular Muscles. In: GeneReviews at GeneTests: Medical Genetics Information Resource [database online]. Copyright, University of Washington, Seattle, 1997-2004. Available at http://www.genetests.org. 2004;

Contact Information:

Caroline Andrews, M.S.
Research Coordinator
Division of Genetics, Enders 550
Children's Hospital
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617-355-7311
Fax: 617-730-0253
E-mail: Caroline Andrews

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