PEOPLE

Jill R. Murrell, PhD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Contact InformationDivision of Genomic Diagnostics Lab
Dept. of Pathology & Lab Medicine
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3615 Civic Center Blvd., 716 ARC


Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Office: 215-590-3264
Fax: 215-590-2156

Email: murrellj@email.chop.edu

Education

BA Ball State University, 1986
PhD Indiana University, 1992

Specialty Certification

Diplomate, Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics, American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, 2017
Diplomate, Clinical Cytogenetics and Genomics,
American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, 2019

Postgraduate Training

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1992-1995
American Board of Medical Genetics & Genomics (ABMGG), Children Hospital of Philadelphia, 2015-2018
Chief Fellow, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2017-2018

Awards and Honors

Memberships and Professional Organizations

American Society of Human Genetics, 1987 - Present
National Institute of Aging (NIA) Site Visit, 1999 - 1999
National Institute of Aging (NIA) Study Section, 2001 - 2013
Biomedical Research Committee, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2005 - 2012
Medical Research Council, UK, 2005 - 2011
Indiana University-Perdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Research Support Fund, 2006 - 2011
National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke (NINDS) Study Section, 2007 - 2007
Association for Frontotemporal Dementias (AFTD), 2008 - Present
National Institute on Aging, 2009 - 2015
Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, 2009 - 2015
CTSI Pre-doctoral Grants, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2010 - 2012
Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) Laden Fellowship, 2010 - 2015
Alzheimer’s Association International Research Grant Program, 2011 - 2015
Emory Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC), 2012 - 2012
International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias, 2012 - 2015
Prinses Beatrix Spierfonds, 2014 - 2014
Florida Health Grants, 2014 - 2014
Association of Molecular Pathologists, 2014 - Present
DRIVE Grant Mechanism, Indiana University School of Medicine, 2015 - 2015
University of Kansas COBRE Center for Molecular Analysis of Disease Pathways (CMADP) Grants, 2015 - 2015
Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies, 2016 - 2016
Association for Molecular Pathologists, 2017 - Present
American College of Medical Genetics, 2017 - Present
National Institute of Aging, 2018 - 2019
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Document Development Committee on Nucleic Acid Sequencing (MM09), 2019 - 2021
Association of Molecular Pathologists, 2019 - Present

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Selected Publications

Tau filaments with the Alzheimer fold in human MAPT mutants V337M and R406W

Qi C, Lovestam S, Murzin AG, Peak-Chew S, Franco C, Bogdani M, Latimer C, Murrell JR, Cullinane PW, Jaunmuktane Z, Bird TD, Ghetti B, Scheres SHW, Goedert M., Nat Struct Mol Biol, 2025, PMID:40044789

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Heterozygous UBR5 variants result in a neurodevelopmental syndrome with developmental delay, autism, and intellectual disability

Sabeh P, Dumas SA, Maios C, Daghar H, Korzeniowski M, Rousseau J, Lines M, Guerin A, Millichap JJ, Landsverk M, Grebe T, Lindstrom K, Strober J, Ait Mouhoub T, Zweier C, Steinraths M, Hebebrand M, Callewaert B, Abou Jamra R, Kautza-Lucht M, Wegler M, Kruszka P, Kumps C, Banne E, Waberski MB, Dieux A, Raible S, Krantz I, Medne L, Pechter K, Villard L, Guerrini R, Bianchini C, Barba C, Mei D, Blanc X, Kallay C, Ranza E, Yang XR, O'Heir E, Donald KA, Murugasen S, Bruwer Z, Calikoglu M, Mathews JM, Lesieur-Sebellin M, Baujat G, Derive N, Pierson TM, Murrell JR, Shillington A, Ormieres C, Rondeau S, Reis A, Fernandez-Jaen A, Au PYB, Sweetser DA, Briere LC, Couque N, Perrin L, Schymick J, Gueguen P, Lefebvre M, Van Andel M, Juusola J, Antonarakis SE, Parker JA, Burnett BG, Campeau PM., Am J Hum Genet 112(1): , 2025

PSMD11 loss-of-function variants correlate with a neurobehavioral phenotype, obesity, and increased interferon response.

Deb W, Rosenfelt C, Vignard V, Papendorf JJ, Möller S, Wendlandt M, Studencka-Turski M, Cogné B, Besnard T, Ruffier L, Toutain B, Poirier L, Cuinat S, Kritzer A, Crunk A, diMonda J, Vengoechea J, Mercier S, Kleinendorst L, van Haelst MM, Zuurbier L, Sulem T, Katrínardóttir H, Friðriksdóttir R, Sulem P, Stefansson K, Jonsdottir B, Zeidler S, Sinnema M, Stegmann APA, Naveh N, Skraban CM, Gray C, Murrell JR, Isikay S, Pehlivan D, Calame DG, Posey JE, Nizon M, McWalter K, Lupski JR, Isidor B, Bolduc FV, Bézieau S, Krüger E, Küry S, Ebstein F., Am J Hum Genet 111(7): , 2024

Fetus with multiple congenital anomaly syndrome caused by novel variant in ATP1A2

Burrill N, Khalek N, Cristancho AG, Coleman B, Murrell J, Moldenhauer JS, Prenat Diagn, 2024

Comprehensive Gene Panel Testing for Hearing Loss in Children: Understanding Factors Influencing Diagnostic Yield

Yamamoto N, Balciuniene J, Hartman T, Diaz-Miranda MA, Bedoukian E, Devkota B, Lawrence A, Golenberg N, Patel M, Tare A, Chen R, Schindler E, Choi J, Kaur M, Charles S, Chen J, Fanning EA, Dechene E, Cao K, Jill MR, Rajagopalan R, Bayram Y, Dulik MC, Germiller J, Conlin LK, Krantz ID, Luo M., J Pediatr 262(): 113620, 2023, PMID:37473993

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Mutation deltaK281 in MAPT causes Pick's disease.

Schweighauser M, Garringer HJ, Klingstedt T, Nilsson KPR, Masuda-Suzukake M, Murrell JR, Risacher SL, Vidal R, Scheres SHW, Goedert M, Ghetti B, Newell KL., Acta Neuropathol. 146(2): 211-226, 2023

Monoallelic intragenic POU3F2 variants lead to neurodevelopmental delay and hyperphagic obesity, confirming the gene's candidacy in 6q16.1 deletions

Schönauer R, Jin W, Findeisen C, Valenzuela I, Devlin LA, Murrell J, Bedoukian EC, Pöschla L, Hantmann E, Riedhammer KM, Hoefele J, Platzer K, Biemann R, Campeau PM, Münch J, Heyne H, Hoffmann A, Ghosh A, Sun W, Dong H, Noé F, Wolfrum C, Woods E, Parker MJ, Neatu R, Le Guyader G, Bruel AL, Perrin L, Spiewak H; Genomics England Research Consortium; Missotte I, Fourgeaud M, Michaud V, Lacombe D, Paolucci SA, Buchan JG, Glissmeyer M, Popp B, Blüher M, Sayer JA, Halbritter J., Am J Hum Genet. 110(6): 998-1007, 2023

Retrospective identification of patients with SRRM2-related neurodevelopmental disorder in a single tertiary children's hospital

Regan-Fendt KE, Rippert AL, Medne L, Skraban CM, DeJesse J, Gray C, Reichert SL, Staropoli NP, Reynoso Santos FJ, Krantz ID, Murrell JR and Izumi K., Am J Med Genet A, 2023, PMID:37212523

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Human germline heterozygous gain-of-function STAT6 variants cause severe allergic disease

Sharma M, Leung D, Momenilandi M, Jones LCW, Pacillo L, James AE, Murrell JR, Delafontaine S, Maimaris, Vaseghi-Shanjani M, Del Bel KL, Lu HY, Chua GT, Di Cesare S, Fornes O, Liu Z, Di Matteo G, Fu MP, Amodio D, Tam IYS, Chan GSW, Sharma AA, Dalmann J, van der Lee R, Blanchard-Rohner G, Lin S, Philippot Q, Richmond PA, Lee JJ, Matthews A, Seear M, Turvey AK, Philips RL, Brown-Whitehorn TF, Gray CJ, Izumi K, Treat JR, Wood KH, Lack J, Khleborodova A, Niemela JE, Yang X, Liang R, Kui L, Wong CSM, Poon GWK, Hoischen A, van der Made Ci, Yang J, Chan KW, Sou Da Rosa Duque J, Lee PPW, Ho MHK, Chung BHY, Le HTM, Yang W, Rohani P, Fouladvand A,Rokni-Zadeh H, Changi-Ashtiani M, Miryounesi M, Puel A, Shahrooei M, Finocchi A, Rossi P, Rivalta B, Cifaldi C, Novelli A, Passarelli C, Arasi S, Bullens D, Sauer K, Claeys T, Biggs CM, Morris EC, Rosenzweig SD, O'Shea JJ, Wasserman WW, Bedford HM, van Karnebeek CDM, Palma P, Burns SO, Meyts I, Casanova J-L, Lyons JJ, Parvaneh N, Van Nguyen AT, Cancrini C, Heimall J, Ahmed H, McKinnon ML, Lau YL, Béziat V, Turvey SE, J Exp Med, 2023, PMID:36884218

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Examining the factors impacting molecular diagnosis during clinical exome sequencing re-analysis

Chan AJS, Wood KH, Knoblauch J, Pechter K, Cao K, Wang J, Murrell JR, Conlin LK, American Journal of Human Genetics, 2022