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Erika Tavares

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Toronto

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Erika Tavares

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
14 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2018.

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Research

Epidemiology Nutrition Obesity Pediatrics Vitamin D

Latest papers

Biallelic Pathogenic Variants in PYGM Impair Retinal Glycogenolysis Causing a Range of Phenotypes.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science · 2026
Gene therapy outcomes in young patients with RPE65-retinal degeneration.
Canadian journal of ophthalmology. Journal canadien d'ophtalmologie · 2026
Retinal Pigment Epitheliopathy due to Sub-Optimal Recycling of Vitamin A (RESORVA): A Novel RDH11 -Related Phenotype.
Clinical genetics · 2026

All 30 publications

Latest funding

CoMFORT (Cow's Milk Fat Obesity pRevention Trial)
CIHR · 2018 · Principal investigator
$867,349

All 1 grants and awards

30 publications.

Biallelic Pathogenic Variants in PYGM Impair Retinal Glycogenolysis Causing a Range of Phenotypes.

Hussein R, Tayyib A, Lin S, Parameswarappa D, Mehta M, Mohla A, Ahmed K, Tumber A, Tavares E, Schiff ER

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science2026

DOI: 10.1167/iovs.67.11.18

Gene therapy outcomes in young patients with RPE65-retinal degeneration.

Stephenson KAJ, Alsalamah AK, Tumber A, Mercer GD, Ballios BG, Muni RH, Tavares E, Kertes PJ, Vincent A, Héon E

Canadian journal of ophthalmology. Journal canadien d'ophtalmologie2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcjo.2026.01.016 PMID: 41679721

Retinal Pigment Epitheliopathy due to Sub-Optimal Recycling of Vitamin A (RESORVA): A Novel RDH11 -Related Phenotype.

Stephenson KAJ, Shao Z, Tumber A, Tavares E, Ahmed K, Higginbotham EJ, Marshall CR, Maynes JT, Rajala A, Rajala RVS, Héon E, Vincent A

Clinical genetics2026

DOI: 10.1111/cge.70128 PMID: 41459630

A novel phenotype-guided genome analysis pipeline for variant discovery.

Ahmed L, Tavares E, Li JM, Ahmed K, Mehta M, Eileen C, Ah-Sen G, Osman R, Green-Sanderson K, Dvaladze A, Nimmo G, Deshwar AR, Paton T, Casallo G, Marshall CR, Heon E, Vincent A

NPJ genomic medicine2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41525-026-00557-0 PMID: 41904215

Epigenomic alterations and neural development anomalies in induced pluripotent stem cells from sporadic Alzheimer's disease.

Katbe A, Hanna R, Flamier A, Serhani D, Hamam R, Barabino A, Tavares E, Héon É, Bernier G

Development (Cambridge, England)2026

DOI: 10.1242/dev.204910 PMID: 41293951

CEP76 impairment at the centrosome-cilium interface contributes to a spectrum of ciliopathies.

Khan K, Tavares E, Bishara K, Ozanturk A, Qebibo L, Frangakis S, Calame DG, Meunier I, Bocquet B, Ploski R, Al Khateeb MA, Marafi D, Mansard L, Damaj L, Lewis RA, Ullah F, Arbogast T, Ogden JP, Harion M, Willems M, Zaki MS, Bartolomaeus T, Roux AF, Lupski JR, Rydzanicz M, Jamra RA, Ramond F, Heon E, Burglen L, Davis EE

Science advances2025

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adw3717 PMID: 41105778

Novel BBS1 deletion and BBS9 nonsense pathogenic variant in Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

Li JM, Tavares E, Duncan JL, Vincent A, Héon E

Ophthalmic genetics2025

DOI: 10.1080/13816810.2024.2434039 PMID: 39618083

Defective IFT57 underlies a novel cause of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

Nitoiu A, Zhang Q, Tavares E, Li JM, Ahmed K, Green-Sanderson K, Rashid M, Morcos SM, Maynes JT, Campos EI, Sheffield VC, Vincent A, Héon E

Human molecular genetics2025

DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaf058 PMID: 40273360

Autosomal-dominant macular dystrophy linked to a chromosome 17 tandem duplication.

Adele R, Hussein R, Tavares E, Ahmed K, Di Scipio M, Charish J, Liang M, Monis S, Tumber A, Chen X, Paton TA, Roslin NM, Eileen C, Ivakine E, Sunny NE, Wilson MD, Campos E, Rajala RV, Maynes JT, Monnier PP, Paterson AD, Héon E, Vincent A

JCI insight2024

DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.178768 PMID: 39436697

Factors associated with research participation in a large primary care practice-based pediatric cohort: Results from the TARGet Kids! longitudinal cohort study.

Li X, Keown-Stoneman CDG, Borkhoff CM, Wong PD, Arafeh D, Tavares E, Thadani S, Maguire JL, Birken CS, TARGet Kids! Collaboration

PloS one2023

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284192 PMID: 37040376

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Erika Tavares

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Biallelic Pathogenic Variants in PYGM Impair Retinal Glycogenolysis Causing a Range of Phenotypes.

Gene therapy outcomes in young patients with RPE65-retinal degeneration.

Retinal Pigment Epitheliopathy due to Sub-Optimal Recycling of Vitamin A (RESORVA): A Novel RDH11 -Related Phenotype.

A novel phenotype-guided genome analysis pipeline for variant discovery.

Epigenomic alterations and neural development anomalies in induced pluripotent stem cells from sporadic Alzheimer's disease.

CEP76 impairment at the centrosome-cilium interface contributes to a spectrum of ciliopathies.

Novel BBS1 deletion and BBS9 nonsense pathogenic variant in Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

Defective IFT57 underlies a novel cause of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

Autosomal-dominant macular dystrophy linked to a chromosome 17 tandem duplication.

Factors associated with research participation in a large primary care practice-based pediatric cohort: Results from the TARGet Kids! longitudinal cohort study.

CoMFORT (Cow's Milk Fat Obesity pRevention Trial)

Frequent collaborators

Matteo DiScipio

Evgueni Ivakine

Mary Aglipay

Jonathon Maguire

Catherine Birken

Evelyn Constantin

Lili-Naz Hazrati

Melanie Barwick

Peter Wong

Evelyn Constantin

Patricia Li

Birgit Ertl-Wagner

Birgit Ertl-Wagner

dana arafeh

Anna Heath

Eric Campos

Jennifer Jenkins

Anne Junker

Patricia Li

Kevin Thorpe

Jess Haines

Asim Ali

Magdalena Janus

Peter Kannu

Mark Tarnopolsky

Andreas Laupacis