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Peter Kannu

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Associate ProfessorMedical Genetics DeptUniversity of Alberta

Peter Kannu

Associate Professor

Medical Genetics Dept

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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50 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (1 CFI, 1 CIHR), most recently in 2021.

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136

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Research

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Bone Fracture Repair Met Receptor Mouse Models Osteofibrous Dysplasia Cell Division Dna Replication Dwarfism

Latest papers

Phase 3 Trial of Oral Infigratinib in Children with Achondroplasia
New England Journal of Medicine · 2026
A next-generation episignature for Kabuki syndrome enables fine mapping of the impact of KMT2D variants to inform precision medicine.
American journal of human genetics · 2026
A Phase 3 Trial of Vosoritide in Children with Hypochondroplasia
NEJM Evidence · 2026

All 403 publications

Latest funding

Recommendations for the Design, Maintenance, and Utilization of Rare Disease Patient Registries: Guidance for Patient Partners, Clinicians, Researchers, and Other Knowledge Users
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$566,100
Human chondrodysplasia research laboratory
CFI · 2021 · Principal investigator
$160,000
Undiagnosed systemic inflammatory disease - a Canadian Roadmap for Genomic sequencing
CIHR · 2017 · Nominated PI
$20,000

All 3 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 403 publications.

Phase 3 Trial of Oral Infigratinib in Children with Achondroplasia

Ravi Savarirayan, Julie Hoover-Fong, Melita Irving, Paul Arundel, Josep Maria De Bergua, Philippe M. Campeau, Toby Candler, Benjamin T. Cocanougher, Valérie Cormier‐Daire, Thomas Edouard, Svein O. Fredwall, Paul Harmatz, Daniel Hoernschemeyer, Henrik U. Irgens, Saumya Jamuar, Peter Kannu, Janet M. Legare, Antonio Leiva-Gea, Helen McDevitt, Roberta Onesimo, John Phillips, Mariana del Pino, Marie‐Eve Robinson, Massimiliano Rossi, Mars Skae, Leanne M. Ward, Klane K. White, Jane Schmidt, Ted Lystig, Ariana Salvatici, et al. (34 authors)

New England Journal of Medicine20263 citations

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2604565 PMID: 42370681

A next-generation episignature for Kabuki syndrome enables fine mapping of the impact of KMT2D variants to inform precision medicine.

Wang M, Helal S, Torabi-Marashi A, Goodman S, Kallurkar P, Truong TK, Mizrahi-Powell E, Evrony GD, Chacon-Fonseca I, Valenzuela Palafoll I, Kannu P, Piton A, Chitayat D, Boerkoel CF, Mendoza-Londono R, Ortigoza-Escobar JD, Kwint M, Rots D, Kleefstra T, Wojcik MH, Scherer SW, Hon-Yin Chung B, Ko JM, Bjornsson HT, Harris JR, Choufani S, Weksberg R

American journal of human genetics20261 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.04.010 PMID: 42134323

A Phase 3 Trial of Vosoritide in Children with Hypochondroplasia

Andrew Dauber, Ravi Savarirayan, Philippe M. Campeau, Ricki Carroll, Moira Cheung, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Josep Maria De Bergua, Thomas Edouard, Michaela Veronika Gonfiantini, Julie Hoover-Fong, Peter Kannu, Yutaka Kinoshita, Takuo Kubota, Roberto Mendoza‐Londono, Noriyuki Namba, Yasuhisa Ohata, Roberta Onesimo, Katja Palm, Carlos E. Prada, Rachel Reynaud, Massimiliano Rossi, Oliver Semler, Kei Takasawa, Roberto Bassi, Sajda Ghani, Alice Huntsman Labed, Dane Osmond, Ian Sabir, Jeanette White, Mohamad Maghnie

NEJM Evidence2026

DOI: 10.1056/evidoa2600257 PMID: 42713641

Palovarotene impact on fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP): data from month 48 of the phase III MOVE trial.

Pignolo RJ, Hsiao EC, Al Mukaddam M, Baujat G, Berglund SK, Cheung AM, De Cunto C, Delai P, Haga N, Kannu P, Mancilla EE, Marino R, Shih F, Strahs A, Kaplan FS

JBMR plus2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1093/jbmrpl/ziag141 PMID: 42770123

De novo variants in the poly(rC)-binding protein gene PCBP1 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder

Wallid Deb, Thomas Besnard, Florence Desprez, Benjamin Cogné, Laura Do Souto Ferreira, Virginie Vignard, Sylviane Marouillat, Louis Januel, Svetlana Gorokhova, Tiffany Busa, Victor Morel, Benjamin Dauriat, Vincent des Portes, Eyyüp Üçtepe, Ozlem Akgun Dogan, Ahmet Yeşilyurt, Yasemin Alanay, Anne M. Slavotinek, Yu An, Hane Lee, Jessy Hary, Peter Kannu, Taryn B. Athey, Ingrid M.B.H. van de Laar, Marjon A. van Slegtenhorst, PATRICIA DICKSON, Rachel Slaugh, Fadi F. Hamdan, Jean-François Soucy, Jacques L. Michaud, et al. (58 authors)

Molecular Psychiatry2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41380-026-03877-w PMID: 42749777

Variants leading to ELAVL2 haploinsufficiency cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with prominent cognitive, behavioral, and neurological features.

Boon M, Mulligan MR, Verseput JJA, Šakić B, Schreurs P, Coll-Tané M, Accogli A, Alderman E, Athey T, Boerkoel C, Boni A, Caumes R, Gerkes E, Haase S, Jaillard S, Jeffries L, Kannu P, Konstantino M, Lévy J, Lokchine A, Massink M, Samra NN, Oegema R, Scala M, Schieving J, Schwartzmann S, Sczakiel HL, Smol T, Striano P, Verloes A, Begtrup A, Pfundt R, Franke B, Klein M, Schenck A, Bicknell LS, de Vries BBA

American journal of human genetics2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.07.007 PMID: 42556336

Sequence variants in HECTD1 result in a variable neurodevelopmental disorder

Gazelle Zerafati‐Jahromi, Elias Oxman, Hieu D. Hoang, Wu‐Lin Charng, Tanvitha Kotla, Weimin Yuan, Keito Ishibashi, Sonia Sebaoui, Kathryn Luedtke, Bryce Winrow, Rebecca D. Ganetzky, Anna Ruiz, Carmen Manso-Basúz, Nino Spataro, Pekka Kannus, Taryn B. T. Athey, Christina Peroutka, Caitlin Barnes, Richard Sidlow, George Anadiotis, Kari Magnussen, Irene Valenzuela, Alejandro Moles‐Fernández, Seth Berger, Christina Lee Grant, Éric Vilain, Gudny Anna Arnadottir, Patrick Sulem, Telma S. Sulem, Kāri Stefánsson, et al. (54 authors)

The American Journal of Human Genetics20254 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2025.01.001 PMID: 39879987

Barriers and facilitators to designing, maintaining, and utilizing rare disease patient registries: a scoping review protocol.

Stratton C, Taylor A, Konstantinidis M, McNiven V, Kannu P, Gill P, Stedman I, Veroniki AA, Offringa M, Potter B, Wong-Rieger D, Adams J, Hodgkinson K, Elliott AM, Neville A, Faughnan M, Dyack S, Zhelnov P, Daly-Cyr J, McGowan J, Straus S, Smith M, Rosella L, Tricco AC

JBI evidence synthesis20252 citations

DOI: 10.11124/jbies-24-00091 PMID: 39428992

Think classical homocystinuria if the genetic test did not confirm Marfan syndrome: Late diagnosis and phenotypic variability in adult siblings with classical homocystinuria

Randa Sultan, Jordan Urlacher, Taryn B. T. Athey, Pekka Kannus, Peter Seres, Saadet Mercimek‐Andrews

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2025.101261 PMID: 41142853

Corrigendum to CERT1 mutations perturb human development by disrupting sphingolipid homeostasis

Charlotte Julie Caroline Gehin, Museer A. Lone, Winston Lee, Laura Capolupo, Sylvia Ho, Adekemi M. Adeyemi, Erica H. Gerkes, Alexander P.A. Stegmann, Estrella López Martín, Eva Bermejo, Beatriz Martínez–Delgado, Christiane Zweier, Cornelia S. Kraus, Bernt Popp, Vincent Strehlow, Daniel Gräfe, Ina Knerr, Eppie R. Jones, Stefano Zamuner, Luciano A. Abriata, Vidya Kunnathully, Brandon E. Moeller, Anthony Vocat, Samuel Rommelaere, Jean-Philippe Bocquete, Evelyne Ruchti, Greta Limoni, Marine Van Campenhoudt, Samuel Bourgeat, Petra Henklein, et al. (85 authors)

Journal of Clinical Investigation2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1172/jci200195 PMID: 41178725

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Peter Kannu

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Phase 3 Trial of Oral Infigratinib in Children with Achondroplasia

A next-generation episignature for Kabuki syndrome enables fine mapping of the impact of KMT2D variants to inform precision medicine.

A Phase 3 Trial of Vosoritide in Children with Hypochondroplasia

Palovarotene impact on fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP): data from month 48 of the phase III MOVE trial.

De novo variants in the poly(rC)-binding protein gene PCBP1 cause a neurodevelopmental disorder

Variants leading to ELAVL2 haploinsufficiency cause a neurodevelopmental disorder with prominent cognitive, behavioral, and neurological features.

Sequence variants in HECTD1 result in a variable neurodevelopmental disorder

Barriers and facilitators to designing, maintaining, and utilizing rare disease patient registries: a scoping review protocol.

Think classical homocystinuria if the genetic test did not confirm Marfan syndrome: Late diagnosis and phenotypic variability in adult siblings with classical homocystinuria

Corrigendum to CERT1 mutations perturb human development by disrupting sphingolipid homeostasis

Recommendations for the Design, Maintenance, and Utilization of Rare Disease Patient Registries: Guidance for Patient Partners, Clinicians, Researchers, and Other Knowledge Users

Human chondrodysplasia research laboratory

Undiagnosed systemic inflammatory disease - a Canadian Roadmap for Genomic sequencing

Frequent collaborators

Saija Kontulainen

Roberto Mendoza-Londono

Andrew Howard

Greg Costain

Gregory Costain

Philippe Campeau

Elena Pope

Christian Marshall

Angela Cheung

Angela Cheung

Rosanna Weksberg

Ronald Cohn

Kym Boycott

Ashish Marwaha

Grace Yoon

David Chitayat

Aliya Khan

Sebastien Perreault

Taila Hartley

Erika Tavares

Jennifer Harrington

Andreas Schulze

Ajoy Vincent

Oana Caluseriu

Vanda McNiven

Stephen Scherer

Sebastien Jacquemont

Rebekah Jobling

Hernan Gonorazky

Andrea Guerin

Lauren Badalato

Elise Heon

Mahendranath Moharir

Ted Young

David Croitoru

Ronald Laxer

Rob Rottapel

Jennifer Stimec

Arun Reginald

Neal Sondheimer