Linyan Meng
PhD
AVP, Clinical Reporting
Dr. Linyan Meng serves as the AVP of Clinical Reporting at Baylor Genetics. In her current role, her primary specialties are universal carrier screening, whole-exome sequencing, and targeted genotyping analysis. In addition to her role at BG, Dr. Meng is the Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).
Dr. Meng earned her PhD in Molecular and Human Genetics from BCM in Houston, TX. Following her PhD, Dr. Meng completed her two-year ABMGG fellowship in Clinical Molecular Genetics at BCM.
Dr. Meng’s research has been published in several prestigious international journals, including Nature, JAMA Pediatrics, American Journal of Human Genetics, PloS Genetics, and Human Molecular Genetics.
Position
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, United States
Sr. Division Director
NGS/Molecular/CGI
Baylor Genetics
Houston, TX, United States
Education
PhD from Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
BS from Peking University
Beijing, China
Publications
Clinical exome sequencing uncovers a high frequency of Mendelian disorders in infants with stroke: A retrospective analysis
Clinical exome sequencing uncovers a high frequency of Mendelian disorders in infants with stroke: A retrospective analysis. Chen, C. A., Lattier, J., Kumar, R. D., Meng, L., Liu, P., Miyake, C. Y., Worley, K. C., Bi, W., & Lalani, S. R. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 2022 Sep 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.62967.
Contribution of uniparental disomy in a clinical trio exome cohort of 2,675 patients
Contribution of uniparental disomy in a clinical trio exome cohort of 2675 patients. Wang L, Liu P, Bi W, Sim T, Wang X, Walkiewicz M, Leduc MS, Meng L, Xia F, Eng CM, Yang Y, Yuan B, Dai H. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2021 Sep 29; e1792. PMID: 34587367.
CNVs cause autosomal recessive genetic diseases with or without involvement of SNV/indels
CNVs cause autosomal recessive genetic diseases with or without involvement of SNV/indels. Yuan B, Wang L, Liu P, Shaw C, Dai H, Cooper L, Zhu W, Anderson SA, Meng L, Wang X, Wang Y, Xia F, Xiao R, Braxton A, Peacock S, Schmitt E, Ward PA, Vetrini F, He W, Chiang T, Muzny D, Gibbs RA, Beaudet AL, Breman AM, Smith J, Cheung SW, Bacino CA, Eng CM, Yang Y, Lupski JR, Bi W. Genet Med. 2020 Jun 24. PMID: 32576985
Reanalysis of Clinical Exome Sequencing Data
Reanalysis of Clinical Exome Sequencing Data. Liu P, Meng L, Normand EA, Xia F, Song X, Ghazi A, Rosenfeld J, Magoulas PL, Braxton A, Ward P, Dai H, Yuan B, Bi W, Xiao R, Wang X, Chiang T, Vetrini F, He W, Cheng H, Dong J, Gijavanekar C, Benke PJ, Bernstein JA, Eble T, Eroglu Y, Erwin D, Escobar L, Gibson JB, Gripp K, Kleppe S, Koenig MK, Lewis AM, Natowicz M, Mancias P, Minor L, Scaglia F, Schaaf CP, Streff H, Vernon H, Uhles CL, Zackai EH, Wu N, Sutton VR, Beaudet AL, Muzny D, Gibbs RA, Posey JE, Lalani S, Shaw C, Eng CM, Lupski JR, Yang Y. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jun 20; 380(25):2478-2480. PMID: 31216405
Clinical exome sequencing for fetuses with ultrasound abnormalities and a suspected mendelian disorder
Normand, E. A., Braxton, A., Nassef, S., Ward, P. A., Vetrini, F., He, W., Patel, V., Qu, C., Westerfield, L. E., Stover, S., Dharmadhikari, A. V., Muzny, D. M., Gibbs, R. A., Dai, H., Meng, L., Wang, X., Xiao, R., Liu, P., Bi, W., Xia, F., … Yang, Y. (2018). Clinical exome sequencing for fetuses with ultrasound abnormalities and a suspected Mendelian disorder. Genome Medicine, 10(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-018-0582-x. PMID: 30266093.
Use of exome sequencing for infants in intensive care units: Ascertainment of severe single-gene disorders and effect on medical management
Meng, L., Pammi, M., Saronwala, A., Magoulas, P., Ghazi, A. R., Vetrini, F., Zhang, J., He, W., Dharmadhikari, A. V., Qu, C., Ward, P., Braxton, A., Narayanan, S., Ge, X., Tokita, M. J., Santiago-Sim, T., Dai, H., Chiang, T., Smith, H., Azamian, M. S., … Lalani, S. R. (2017). Use of Exome Sequencing for Infants in Intensive Care Units: Ascertainment of Severe Single-Gene Disorders and Effect on Medical Management. JAMA Pediatrics, 171(12), e173438. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.3438. PMID: 28973083.
Best practices for the interpretation and reporting of clinical whole genome sequencing
Austin-Tse, C. A., Jobanputra, V., Perry, D. L., Bick, D., Taft, R. J., Venner, E., Gibbs, R. A., Young, T., Barnett, S., Belmont, J. W., Boczek, N., Chowdhury, S., Ellsworth, K. A., Guha, S., Kulkarni, S., Marcou, C., Meng, L., Murdock, D. R., Rehman, A. U., Spiteri, E., … Medical Genome Initiative* (2022). Best practices for the interpretation and reporting of clinical whole genome sequencing. NPJ genomic medicine, 7(1), 27. PMID: 35395838.
A clinical survey of mosaic single nucleotide variants in disease-causing genes detected by exome sequencingx
A clinical survey of mosaic single nucleotide variants in disease-causing genes detected by exome sequencing. Ye Cao, Mari J Tokita, Edward S Chen, Rajarshi Ghosh, Tiansheng Chen, Yanming Feng, Elizabeth Gorman, Federica Gibellini, Patricia A Ward, Alicia Braxton, Xia Wang, Linyan Meng, Rui Xiao, Weimin Bi, Fan Xia, Christine M Eng, Yaping Yang, Tomasz Gambin, Chad Shaw, Pengfei Liu, Pawel Stankiewicz. Genome Med. 2019 Jul 26;11(1):48. PMID: 31349857
Copy number variant and runs of homozygosity detection by microarrays enabled more precise molecular diagnoses in 11,020 clinical exome cases
Copy number variant and runs of homozygosity detection by microarrays enabled more precise molecular diagnoses in 11,020 clinical exome cases. Avinash V Dharmadhikari, Rajarshi Ghosh, Bo Yuan, Pengfei Liu, Hongzheng Dai, Sami Al Masri, Jennifer Scull, Jennifer E Posey, Allen H Jiang, Weimin He, Francesco Vetrini, Alicia A Braxton, Patricia Ward, Theodore Chiang, Chunjing Qu, Shen Gu, Chad A Shaw, Janice L Smith, Seema Lalani, Pawel Stankiewicz, Sau-Wai Cheung, Carlos A Bacino, Ankita Patel, Amy M Breman, Xia Wang, Linyan Meng, Rui Xiao, Fan Xia, Donna Muzny, Richard A Gibbs, Arthur L Beaudet, Christine M Eng, James R Lupski, Yaping Yang, Weimin Bi. Genome Med. 2019 May 17;11(1):30. PMID: 31101064
Interchromosomal template-switching as a novel molecular mechanism for imprinting perturbations associated with Temple syndrome
Interchromosomal template-switching as a novel molecular mechanism for imprinting perturbations associated with Temple syndrome. Claudia MB Carvalho, Zeynep Coban-Akdemir, Hadia Hijazi, Bo Yuan, Matthew Pendleton, Eoghan Harrington, John Beaulaurier, Sissel Juul, Daniel J Turner, Rupa S Kanchi, Shalini N Jhangiani, Donna M Muzny, Richard A Gibbs, Pawel Stankiewicz, John W Belmont, Chad A Shaw, Sau Wai Cheung, Neil A Hanchard, V Reid Sutton, Patricia I Bader, James R Lupski. Genome Med. 2019 Apr 23;11(1):25. . PMID: 31014393
Clinical validity of expanded carrier screening: Evaluating the gene-disease relationship in more than 200 conditions
Clinical validity of expanded carrier screening: Evaluating the gene-disease relationship in more than 200 conditions. Marie Balzotti, Linyan Meng, Dale Muzzey, Katherine Johansen Taber, Kyle Beauchamp, Myriad Genetics Curation Team, Baylor Genetics Curation Team, Rebecca Mar-Heyming, Bethany Buckley, Krista Moyer. Hum Mutat. 2020 Aug; 41(8): 1365–1371. PMID: 32383249
A clinical survey of mosaic single nucleotide variants in disease-causing genes detected by exome sequencing
Ye Cao, Mari J. Tokita, Edward S. Chen, Rajarshi Ghosh, Tiansheng Chen, Yanming Feng, Elizabeth Gorman, Federica Gibellini, Patricia A. Ward, Alicia Braxton, Xia Wang, Linyan Meng, Rui Xiao, Weimin Bi, Fan Xia, Christine M. Eng, Yaping Yang, Tomasz Gambin, Chad Shaw, Pengfei Liu & Pawel Stankiewicz (2019). A clinical survey of mosaic single nucleotide variants in disease-causing genes detected by exome sequencing. Genome Med 11, 12. PMID: 31349857
A Recurrent De Novo Variant in NACC1 Causes a Syndrome Characterized by Infantile Epilepsy, Cataracts, and Profound Developmental Delay
Schoch K, Meng L, Szelinger S, Bearden DR, Stray-Pedersen A, Busk OL, Stong N, Liston E, Cohn RD, Scaglia F, Rosenfeld JA, Tarpinian J, Skraban CM, Deardorff MA, Friedman JN, Akdemir ZC, Walley N, Mikati MA, Kranz PG, Jasien J, McConkie-Rosell A, McDonald M, Wechsler SB, Freemark M, Kansagra S, Freedman S, Bali D, Millan F, Bale S, Nelson SF, Lee H, Dorrani N; UCLA Clinical Genomics Center.; Undiagnosed Diseases Network., Goldstein DB, Xiao R, Yang Y, Posey JE, Martinez-Agosto JA, Lupski JR, Wangler MF, Shashi V. A Recurrent De Novo Variant in NACC1 Causes a Syndrome Characterized by Infantile Epilepsy, Cataracts, and Profound Developmental Delay. Am J Hum Genet. 100(2):343-351, 2017. PMID: 28132692
Homozygous variants in pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase 2 (PYCR2) in patients with progressive microcephaly and hypomyelinating leukodystrophy
Meng L, Donti T, Xia F, Niu Z, Al Shamsi A, Hertecant J, Al-Jasmi F, Gibson JB, Nagakura H, Zhang J, He W, Eng C, Yang Y, Elsea SH. Homozygous variants in pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase 2 (PYCR2) in patients with progressive microcephaly and hypomyelinating leukodystrophy. Am J Med Genet A. 2017 Feb;173(2):460-470. PMID: 27860360
Linyan Meng
PhD
AVP, Clinical Reporting
Dr. Linyan Meng serves as the AVP of Clinical Reporting at Baylor Genetics. In her current role, her primary specialties are universal carrier screening, whole-exome sequencing, and targeted genotyping analysis. In addition to her role at BG, Dr. Meng is the Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM).
Dr. Meng earned her PhD in Molecular and Human Genetics from BCM in Houston, TX. Following her PhD, Dr. Meng completed her two-year ABMGG fellowship in Clinical Molecular Genetics at BCM.
Dr. Meng’s research has been published in several prestigious international journals, including Nature, JAMA Pediatrics, American Journal of Human Genetics, PloS Genetics, and Human Molecular Genetics.
Position
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, United States
Sr. Division Director
NGS/Molecular/CGI
Baylor Genetics
Houston, TX, United States
Education
PhD from Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
BS from Peking University
Beijing, China
Publications
Clinical exome sequencing uncovers a high frequency of Mendelian disorders in infants with stroke: A retrospective analysis
Clinical exome sequencing uncovers a high frequency of Mendelian disorders in infants with stroke: A retrospective analysis. Chen, C. A., Lattier, J., Kumar, R. D., Meng, L., Liu, P., Miyake, C. Y., Worley, K. C., Bi, W., & Lalani, S. R. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 2022 Sep 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.62967.
Contribution of uniparental disomy in a clinical trio exome cohort of 2,675 patients
Contribution of uniparental disomy in a clinical trio exome cohort of 2675 patients. Wang L, Liu P, Bi W, Sim T, Wang X, Walkiewicz M, Leduc MS, Meng L, Xia F, Eng CM, Yang Y, Yuan B, Dai H. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2021 Sep 29; e1792. PMID: 34587367.
CNVs cause autosomal recessive genetic diseases with or without involvement of SNV/indels
CNVs cause autosomal recessive genetic diseases with or without involvement of SNV/indels. Yuan B, Wang L, Liu P, Shaw C, Dai H, Cooper L, Zhu W, Anderson SA, Meng L, Wang X, Wang Y, Xia F, Xiao R, Braxton A, Peacock S, Schmitt E, Ward PA, Vetrini F, He W, Chiang T, Muzny D, Gibbs RA, Beaudet AL, Breman AM, Smith J, Cheung SW, Bacino CA, Eng CM, Yang Y, Lupski JR, Bi W. Genet Med. 2020 Jun 24. PMID: 32576985
Reanalysis of Clinical Exome Sequencing Data
Reanalysis of Clinical Exome Sequencing Data. Liu P, Meng L, Normand EA, Xia F, Song X, Ghazi A, Rosenfeld J, Magoulas PL, Braxton A, Ward P, Dai H, Yuan B, Bi W, Xiao R, Wang X, Chiang T, Vetrini F, He W, Cheng H, Dong J, Gijavanekar C, Benke PJ, Bernstein JA, Eble T, Eroglu Y, Erwin D, Escobar L, Gibson JB, Gripp K, Kleppe S, Koenig MK, Lewis AM, Natowicz M, Mancias P, Minor L, Scaglia F, Schaaf CP, Streff H, Vernon H, Uhles CL, Zackai EH, Wu N, Sutton VR, Beaudet AL, Muzny D, Gibbs RA, Posey JE, Lalani S, Shaw C, Eng CM, Lupski JR, Yang Y. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jun 20; 380(25):2478-2480. PMID: 31216405
Clinical exome sequencing for fetuses with ultrasound abnormalities and a suspected mendelian disorder
Normand, E. A., Braxton, A., Nassef, S., Ward, P. A., Vetrini, F., He, W., Patel, V., Qu, C., Westerfield, L. E., Stover, S., Dharmadhikari, A. V., Muzny, D. M., Gibbs, R. A., Dai, H., Meng, L., Wang, X., Xiao, R., Liu, P., Bi, W., Xia, F., … Yang, Y. (2018). Clinical exome sequencing for fetuses with ultrasound abnormalities and a suspected Mendelian disorder. Genome Medicine, 10(1), 74. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-018-0582-x. PMID: 30266093.
Use of exome sequencing for infants in intensive care units: Ascertainment of severe single-gene disorders and effect on medical management
Meng, L., Pammi, M., Saronwala, A., Magoulas, P., Ghazi, A. R., Vetrini, F., Zhang, J., He, W., Dharmadhikari, A. V., Qu, C., Ward, P., Braxton, A., Narayanan, S., Ge, X., Tokita, M. J., Santiago-Sim, T., Dai, H., Chiang, T., Smith, H., Azamian, M. S., … Lalani, S. R. (2017). Use of Exome Sequencing for Infants in Intensive Care Units: Ascertainment of Severe Single-Gene Disorders and Effect on Medical Management. JAMA Pediatrics, 171(12), e173438. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.3438. PMID: 28973083.
Best practices for the interpretation and reporting of clinical whole genome sequencing
Austin-Tse, C. A., Jobanputra, V., Perry, D. L., Bick, D., Taft, R. J., Venner, E., Gibbs, R. A., Young, T., Barnett, S., Belmont, J. W., Boczek, N., Chowdhury, S., Ellsworth, K. A., Guha, S., Kulkarni, S., Marcou, C., Meng, L., Murdock, D. R., Rehman, A. U., Spiteri, E., … Medical Genome Initiative* (2022). Best practices for the interpretation and reporting of clinical whole genome sequencing. NPJ genomic medicine, 7(1), 27. PMID: 35395838.
A clinical survey of mosaic single nucleotide variants in disease-causing genes detected by exome sequencingx
A clinical survey of mosaic single nucleotide variants in disease-causing genes detected by exome sequencing. Ye Cao, Mari J Tokita, Edward S Chen, Rajarshi Ghosh, Tiansheng Chen, Yanming Feng, Elizabeth Gorman, Federica Gibellini, Patricia A Ward, Alicia Braxton, Xia Wang, Linyan Meng, Rui Xiao, Weimin Bi, Fan Xia, Christine M Eng, Yaping Yang, Tomasz Gambin, Chad Shaw, Pengfei Liu, Pawel Stankiewicz. Genome Med. 2019 Jul 26;11(1):48. PMID: 31349857
Copy number variant and runs of homozygosity detection by microarrays enabled more precise molecular diagnoses in 11,020 clinical exome cases
Copy number variant and runs of homozygosity detection by microarrays enabled more precise molecular diagnoses in 11,020 clinical exome cases. Avinash V Dharmadhikari, Rajarshi Ghosh, Bo Yuan, Pengfei Liu, Hongzheng Dai, Sami Al Masri, Jennifer Scull, Jennifer E Posey, Allen H Jiang, Weimin He, Francesco Vetrini, Alicia A Braxton, Patricia Ward, Theodore Chiang, Chunjing Qu, Shen Gu, Chad A Shaw, Janice L Smith, Seema Lalani, Pawel Stankiewicz, Sau-Wai Cheung, Carlos A Bacino, Ankita Patel, Amy M Breman, Xia Wang, Linyan Meng, Rui Xiao, Fan Xia, Donna Muzny, Richard A Gibbs, Arthur L Beaudet, Christine M Eng, James R Lupski, Yaping Yang, Weimin Bi. Genome Med. 2019 May 17;11(1):30. PMID: 31101064
Interchromosomal template-switching as a novel molecular mechanism for imprinting perturbations associated with Temple syndrome
Interchromosomal template-switching as a novel molecular mechanism for imprinting perturbations associated with Temple syndrome. Claudia MB Carvalho, Zeynep Coban-Akdemir, Hadia Hijazi, Bo Yuan, Matthew Pendleton, Eoghan Harrington, John Beaulaurier, Sissel Juul, Daniel J Turner, Rupa S Kanchi, Shalini N Jhangiani, Donna M Muzny, Richard A Gibbs, Pawel Stankiewicz, John W Belmont, Chad A Shaw, Sau Wai Cheung, Neil A Hanchard, V Reid Sutton, Patricia I Bader, James R Lupski. Genome Med. 2019 Apr 23;11(1):25. . PMID: 31014393
Clinical validity of expanded carrier screening: Evaluating the gene-disease relationship in more than 200 conditions
Clinical validity of expanded carrier screening: Evaluating the gene-disease relationship in more than 200 conditions. Marie Balzotti, Linyan Meng, Dale Muzzey, Katherine Johansen Taber, Kyle Beauchamp, Myriad Genetics Curation Team, Baylor Genetics Curation Team, Rebecca Mar-Heyming, Bethany Buckley, Krista Moyer. Hum Mutat. 2020 Aug; 41(8): 1365–1371. PMID: 32383249
A clinical survey of mosaic single nucleotide variants in disease-causing genes detected by exome sequencing
Ye Cao, Mari J. Tokita, Edward S. Chen, Rajarshi Ghosh, Tiansheng Chen, Yanming Feng, Elizabeth Gorman, Federica Gibellini, Patricia A. Ward, Alicia Braxton, Xia Wang, Linyan Meng, Rui Xiao, Weimin Bi, Fan Xia, Christine M. Eng, Yaping Yang, Tomasz Gambin, Chad Shaw, Pengfei Liu & Pawel Stankiewicz (2019). A clinical survey of mosaic single nucleotide variants in disease-causing genes detected by exome sequencing. Genome Med 11, 12. PMID: 31349857
A Recurrent De Novo Variant in NACC1 Causes a Syndrome Characterized by Infantile Epilepsy, Cataracts, and Profound Developmental Delay
Schoch K, Meng L, Szelinger S, Bearden DR, Stray-Pedersen A, Busk OL, Stong N, Liston E, Cohn RD, Scaglia F, Rosenfeld JA, Tarpinian J, Skraban CM, Deardorff MA, Friedman JN, Akdemir ZC, Walley N, Mikati MA, Kranz PG, Jasien J, McConkie-Rosell A, McDonald M, Wechsler SB, Freemark M, Kansagra S, Freedman S, Bali D, Millan F, Bale S, Nelson SF, Lee H, Dorrani N; UCLA Clinical Genomics Center.; Undiagnosed Diseases Network., Goldstein DB, Xiao R, Yang Y, Posey JE, Martinez-Agosto JA, Lupski JR, Wangler MF, Shashi V. A Recurrent De Novo Variant in NACC1 Causes a Syndrome Characterized by Infantile Epilepsy, Cataracts, and Profound Developmental Delay. Am J Hum Genet. 100(2):343-351, 2017. PMID: 28132692
Homozygous variants in pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase 2 (PYCR2) in patients with progressive microcephaly and hypomyelinating leukodystrophy
Meng L, Donti T, Xia F, Niu Z, Al Shamsi A, Hertecant J, Al-Jasmi F, Gibson JB, Nagakura H, Zhang J, He W, Eng C, Yang Y, Elsea SH. Homozygous variants in pyrroline-5-carboxylate reductase 2 (PYCR2) in patients with progressive microcephaly and hypomyelinating leukodystrophy. Am J Med Genet A. 2017 Feb;173(2):460-470. PMID: 27860360