Kristy Crooks, PhD

Associate Professor, Pathology


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Department
Pathology

Publications

  • Berg JS, Foreman AK, O'Daniel JM, Booker JK, Boshe L, Carey T, Crooks KR, Jensen BC, Juengst ET, Lee K, Nelson DK, Powell BC, Powell CM, Roche MI, Skrzynia C, Strande NT, Weck KE, Wilhelmsen KC, Evans JP. A semiquantitative metric for evaluating clinical actionability of incidental or secondary findings from genome-scale sequencing. Genet Med. 2015 Aug 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26270767
  • Couser NL, Masood MM, Strande NT, Foreman AK, Crooks K, Weck KE, Lu M, Wilhelmsen KC, Roche M, Evans JP, Berg JS, Powell CM. The phenotype of multiple congenital anomalies-hypotonia-seizures syndrome 1: report and review. Am J Med Genet A. 2015 Sep;167A(9):2176-81. PubMed PMID: 25920937
  • Lee K, Berg JS, Milko L, Crooks K, Lu M, Bizon C, Owen P, Wilhelmsen KC, Weck KE, Evans JP, Garg S. High Diagnostic Yield of Whole Exome Sequencing in Participants With Retinal Dystrophies in a Clinical Ophthalmology Setting. Am J Ophthalmol. 2015 Aug;160(2):354-363.e9. PubMed PMID: 25910913
  • Amendola LM, Dorschner MO, Robertson PD, Salama JS, Hart R, Shirts BH, Murray ML, Tokita MJ, Gallego CJ, Kim DS, Bennett JT, Crosslin DR, Ranchalis J, Jones KL, Rosenthal EA, Jarvik ER, Itsara A, Turner EH, Herman DS, Schleit J, Burt A, Jamal SM, Abrudan JL, Johnson AD, Conlin LK, Dulik MC, Santani A, Metterville DR, Kelly M, Foreman AK, Lee K, Taylor KD, Guo X, Crooks K, Kiedrowski LA, Raffel LJ, Gordon O, Machini K, Desnick RJ, Biesecker LG, Lubitz SA, Mulchandani S, Cooper GM, Joffe S, Richards CS, Yang Y, Rotter JI, Rich SS, O'Donnell CJ, Berg JS, Spinner NB, Evans JP, Fullerton SM, Leppig KA, Bennett RL, Bird T, Sybert VP, Grady WM, Tabor HK, Kim JH, Bamshad MJ, Wilfond B, Motulsky AG, Scott CR, Pritchard CC, Walsh TD, Burke W, Raskind WH, Byers P, Hisama FM, Rehm H, Nickerson DA, Jarvik GP. Actionable exomic incidental findings in 6503 participants: challenges of variant classification. Genome Res. 2015 Mar;25(3):305-15. PubMed PMID: 25637381
  • Berg JS, Foreman AK, O'Daniel JM, Booker JK, Boshe L, Carey T, Crooks KR, Jensen BC, Juengst ET, Lee K, Nelson DK, Powell BC, Powell CM, Roche MI, Skrzynia C, Strande NT, Weck KE, Wilhelmsen KC, Evans JP. A semiquantitative metric for evaluating clinical actionability of incidental or secondary findings from genome-scale sequencing. Genet Med. 2016 May;18(5):467-75. PubMed PMID: 26270767
  • Haskell G, Adams M, Fan Z, Amin K, Badillo R, Zhou L, Bizon C, Chahin C, Greenwood R, Milko L, Shiloh-Malawsky Y, Crooks K, Strande N, Tennison M, Tilley C, Brandt A, Wilhelmsen K, Weck K, Evans J, Berg J. Diagnostic Utility of Exome Sequencing in the Evaluation of Neuromuscular Disorders. Neurology: Genetics. Forthcoming 2018.
  • Crooks K, Edwardsen G, O'Connor S, Powell C, Vargo D, Vora N, & Kaiser-Rogers K. Cell-free DNA testing in a trisomy 21 pregnancy with confined placental mosaicism for a cell line with trisomy for both chromosomes 18 and 21. Clinical Case Reports. 2015. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.421
  • Marchuk DS, Crooks K, Strande N, Kaiser-Rogers K, Milko LV, Brandt A, Arreola A, Tilley CR, Bizon C, Vora NL, Wilhelmsen KC, Evans JP, Berg JS. Increasing the diagnostic yield of exome sequencing by copy number variant analysis. PLoS One. 2018;13(12):e0209185. PubMed PMID: 30557390
  • Haskell GT, Adams MC, Fan Z, Amin K, Guzman Badillo RJ, Zhou L, Bizon C, Chahin N, Greenwood RS, Milko LV, Shiloh-Malawsky Y, Crooks KR, Strande N, Tennison M, Tilley CR, Brandt A, Wilhelmsen KC, Weck K, Evans JP, Berg JS. Diagnostic utility of exome sequencing in the evaluation of neuromuscular disorders. Neurol Genet. 2018 Feb;4(1):e212. PubMed PMID: 29417091
  • Saben JL, Shelton SK, Hopkinson AJ, Sonn BJ, Mills EB, Welham M, Westmoreland M, Zane R, Ginde AA, Bookman K, Oeth J, Chavez M, DeVivo M, Lakin A, Heldens J, Romero LB, Ames MJ, Roberts ER, Taylor M, Crooks K, Wicks SJ, Barnes KC, Monte AA. The Emergency Medicine Specimen Bank: An Innovative Approach To Biobanking In Acute Care. Acad Emerg Med. 2018 Sep 21. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30239069
  • Popejoy AB, Ritter DI, Crooks K, Currey E, Fullerton SM, Hindorff LA, Koenig B, Ramos EM, Sorokin EP, Wand H, Wright MW, Zou J, Gignoux CR, Bonham VL, Plon SE, Bustamante CD. The clinical imperative for inclusivity: Race, ethnicity, and ancestry (REA) in genomics. Hum Mutat. 2018 Nov;39(11):1713-1720. PubMed PMID: 30311373
  • Aquilante CL, Kao DP, Trinkley KE, Lin CT, Crooks KR, Hearst EC, Hess SJ, Kudron EL, Lee YM, Liko I, Lowery J, Mathias RA, Monte AA, Rafaels N, Rioth MJ, Roberts ER, Taylor MR, Williamson C, Barnes KC. Clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics via a health system-wide research biobank: the University of Colorado experience. Pharmacogenomics. 2020 Apr;21(6):375-386. PubMed PMID: 32077359
  • Anderson HD, Crooks KR, Kao DP, Aquilante CL. The landscape of pharmacogenetic testing in a US managed care population. Genet Med. 2020 Jul;22(7):1247-1253. PubMed PMID: 32291400
  • Schmanski A, Roberts E, Coors M, Wicks SJ, Arbet J, Weber R, Crooks K, Barnes KC, Taylor MRG. Research participant understanding and engagement in an institutional, self-consent biobank model. J Genet Couns. 2020 Sep 20. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32951257
  • Popejoy AB, Crooks KR, Fullerton SM, Hindorff LA, Hooker GW, Koenig BA, Pino N, Ramos EM, Ritter DI, Wand H, Wright MW, Yudell M, Zou JY, Plon SE, Bustamante CD, Ormond KE. Clinical Genetics Lacks Standard Definitions and Protocols for the Collection and Use of Diversity Measures. Am J Hum Genet. 2020 Jul 2;107(1):72-82. PubMed PMID: 32504544
  • . Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19. Nature. 2021 Dec;600(7889):472-477. PubMed PMID: 34237774
  • Rosenbaum JN, Berry AB, Church AJ, Crooks K, Gagan JR, López-Terrada D, Pfeifer JD, Rennert H, Schrijver I, Snow AN, Wu D, Ewalt MD. A Curriculum for Genomic Education of Molecular Genetic Pathology Fellows: A Report of the Association for Molecular Pathology Training and Education Committee. J Mol Diagn. 2021 Oct;23(10):1218-1240. PubMed PMID: 34245921
  • D'Antonio M, Nguyen JP, Arthur TD, Matsui H, D'Antonio-Chronowska A, Frazer KA. SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and COVID-19 disease severity are associated with genetic variants affecting gene expression in a variety of tissues. Cell Rep. 2021 Nov 16;37(7):110020. PubMed PMID: 34762851
  • de O da Silva LR, Oliveira P, Sardi S, Soares G, Bandeira AC, Costa RDS, Rafaels N, Campbell M, Brunetti T, Crooks K, Daya M, Teixeira MG, Carneiro VL, Barnes K, Figueiredo CA. Zika Virus Congenital Syndrome and MTOR gene variants: insights from a family of dizygotic twins. Heliyon. 2021 Apr;7(4):e06878. PubMed PMID: 33997407
  • Anderson HD, Thant TM, Kao DP, Crooks KR, Mendola ND, Aquilante CL. Pharmacogenetic testing among patients with depression in a US managed care population. Clin Transl Sci. 2022 Jul;15(7):1644-1653. PubMed PMID: 35385214
  • Wade KJ, Tisa S, Barrington C, Henriksen JC, Crooks KR, Gignoux CR, Almand AT, Steel JJ, Sitko JC, Rohrer JW, Wickert DP, Almand EA, Pollock DD, Rissland OS. Phylodynamics of a regional SARS-CoV-2 rapid spreading event in Colorado in late 2020. PLoS One. 2022;17(10):e0274050. PubMed PMID: 36194597
  • Kanai M, Elzur R, Zhou W, Daly MJ, Finucane HK. Meta-analysis fine-mapping is often miscalibrated at single-variant resolution. Cell Genom. 2022 Dec 14;2(12). PubMed PMID: 36643910
  • Wei Zhou, Masahiro Kanai, Kuan-Han H. Wu, Humaira Rasheed, Kristin Tsuo, Jibril B. Hirbo, Ying Wang, Arjun Bhattacharya, Huiling Zhao, Shinichi Namba, Ida Surakka, Brooke N. Wolford, Valeria Lo Faro, Esteban A. Lopera-Maya, Kristi Läll, Marie-Julie Favé, Juulia J. Partanen, Sinéad B. Chapman, Juha Karjalainen, Mitja Kurki, Mutaamba Maasha, Ben M. Brumpton, Sameer Chavan, Tzu-Ting Chen, Michelle Daya, Yi Ding, Yen-Chen A. Feng, Lindsay A. Guare, Christopher R. Gignoux, Sarah E. Graham, Whitney E. Hornsby, Nathan Ingold, Said I. Ismail, Ruth Johnson, Triin Laisk, Kuang Lin, Jun Lv, Iona Y. Millwood, Sonia Moreno-Grau, Kisung Nam, Priit Palta, Anita Pandit, Michael H. Preuss, Chadi Saad, Shefali Setia-Verma, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Jasmina Uzunovic, Anurag Verma, Matthew Zawistowski, Xue Zhong, Nahla Afifi, Kawthar M. Al-Dabhani, Asma Al Thani, Yuki Bradford, Archie Campbell, Kristy Crooks, Geertruida H. de Bock, Scott M. Damrauer, Nicholas J. Douville, Sarah Finer, Lars G. Fritsche, Eleni Fthenou, Gilberto Gonzalez-Arroyo, Christopher J. Griffiths, Yu Guo, Karen A. Hunt, Alexander Ioannidis, Nomdo M. Jansonius, Takahiro Konuma, Ming Ta Michael Lee, Arturo Lopez-Pineda, Yuta Matsuda, Riccardo E. Marioni, Babak Moatamed, Marco A. Nava-Aguilar, Kensuke Numakura, Snehal Patil, Nicholas Rafaels, Anne Richmond, Agustin Rojas-Muñoz, Jonathan A. Shortt, Peter Straub, Ran Tao, Brett Vanderwerff, Manvi Vernekar, Yogasudha Veturi, Kathleen C. Barnes, Marike Boezen, Zhengming Chen, Chia-Yen Chen, Judy Cho, George Davey Smith, Hilary K. Finucane, Lude Franke, Eric R. Gamazon, Andrea Ganna, Tom R. Gaunt, Tian Ge, Hailiang Huang, Jennifer Huffman, Nicholas Katsanis, Jukka T. Koskela, Clara Lajonchere, Matthew H. Law, Liming Li, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Ruth J.F. Loos, Stuart MacGregor, Koichi Matsuda, Catherine M. Olsen, David J. Porteous, Jordan A. Shavit, Harold Snieder, Tomohiro Takano, Richard C. Trembath, Judith M. Vonk, David C. Whiteman, Stephen J. Wicks, Cisca Wijmenga, John Wright, Jie Zheng, Xiang Zhou, Philip Awadalla, Michael Boehnke, Carlos D. Bustamante, Nancy J. Cox, Segun Fatumo, Daniel H. Geschwind, Caroline Hayward, Kristian Hveem, Eimear E. Kenny, Seunggeun Lee, Yen-Feng Lin, Hamdi Mbarek, Reedik Mägi, Hilary C. Martin, Sarah E. Medland, Yukinori Okada, Aarno V. Palotie, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Daniel J. Rader, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Serena Sanna, Jordan W. Smoller, Kari Stefansson, David A. van Heel, Robin G. Walters, Sebastian Zöllner, Alicia R. Martin, Cristen J. Willer, Mark J. Daly, Benjamin M. Neale, Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease, Cell Genomics, Volume 2, Issue 10, 2022, 100192, ISSN 2666-979X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100192. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X22001410) Abstract: Summary Biobanks facilitate genome-wide association studies (GWASs), which have mapped genomic loci across a range of human diseases and traits. However, most biobanks are primarily composed of individuals of European ancestry. We introduce the Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative (GBMI)—a collaborative network of 23 biobanks from 4 continents representing more than 2.2 million consented individuals with genetic data linked to electronic health records. GBMI meta-analyzes summary statistics from GWASs generated using harmonized genotypes and phenotypes from member biobanks for 14 exemplar diseases and endpoints. This strategy validates that GWASs conducted in diverse biobanks can be integrated despite heterogeneity in case definitions, recruitment strategies, and baseline characteristics. This collaborative effort improves GWAS power for diseases, benefits understudied diseases, and improves risk prediction while also enabling the nomination of disease genes and drug candidates by incorporating gene and protein expression data and providing insight into the underlying biology of human diseases and traits. Keywords: biobank; meta-analysis; genetic association studies; GWAS; phenotype harmonization; ancestry diversity
  • . A second update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19. Nature. 2023 Sep;621(7977):E7-E26. PubMed PMID: 37674002
  • Wang Y, Namba S, Lopera E, Kerminen S, Tsuo K, Läll K, Kanai M, Zhou W, Wu KH, Favé MJ, Bhatta L, Awadalla P, Brumpton B, Deelen P, Hveem K, Lo Faro V, Mägi R, Murakami Y, Sanna S, Smoller JW, Uzunovic J, Wolford BN, Willer C, Gamazon ER, Cox NJ, Surakka I, Okada Y, Martin AR, Hirbo J. Global Biobank analyses provide lessons for developing polygenic risk scores across diverse cohorts. Cell Genom. 2023 Jan 11;3(1):100241. PubMed PMID: 36777179
  • Crooks KR, Farwell Hagman KD, Mandelker D, Santani A, Schmidt RJ, Temple-Smolkin RL, Lincoln SE. Recommendations for Next-Generation Sequencing Germline Variant Confirmation: A Joint Report of the Association for Molecular Pathology and National Society of Genetic Counselors. J Mol Diagn. 2023 Jul;25(7):411-427. PubMed PMID: 37207865

Practice Locations

UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (UCH)
12605 E. 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0000

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Molecular Genetic