Kiran Polavarapu

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Dr. Kiran Polavarapu completed his PhD in 2019 at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in India. He is an M.B.B.S (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) graduate who shifted his focus to research in neuromuscular disorders and neurogenetics. His PhD work involved developing next generation sequencing (NGS)-based tests for detection of both copy number variations and point mutations in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He further worked on analysing NGS data and genotype-phenotype correlations of various inherited neuromuscular disorders in India including Limb-Girgle Muscular Dystrophy, congenital myopathies, hereditary neuropathies, and Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome. He was part of a monthly neuromuscular disease specialty clinic run by Professor Atchayaram Nalini (neuromuscular specialist) at NIMHANS and was involved in clinical evaluation and genetic counselling of patients with inherited neuromuscular disorders. His research interest is in primary muscle disorders and neuromuscular genetics. He recently joined the Lochmüller Lab as a postdoctoral fellow and is looking forward to continuing research in neuromuscular genetics and Congenital Myathenic Syndrome.

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Laurie, S, Steyaert, W, de Boer, E, Polavarapu, K, Schuermans, N, Sommer, AK et al.. Publisher Correction: Genomic reanalysis of a pan-European rare-disease resource yields new diagnoses. Nat Med. 2025. PMID:40537530

Oommen, AT, Baskar, D, Polavarapu, K, Vengalil, S, Nashi, S, Preethish-Kumar, V et al.. Myofibrillar Myopathy: Clinico-Genetic Spectrum From a Neuromuscular Center in South India. J Clin Neuromuscul Dis. 2025.26 (4)167-175 PMID:40512964

Arjun, K, Inbaraj, G, Meghana, A, Preethish-Kumar, V, John, AP, Polavarapu, K et al.. Cardiac dysregulation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: An ECG analysis. J Electrocardiol. 2025.91 154015 PMID:40339309

Vengalil, S, Boddu, V, Kulanthaivelu, K, Baskar, D, Nashi, S, Pruthi, N et al.. In-Depth Understanding of Hirayama Disease: Dural Detachment Beyond Cervical Spine. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2025. PMID:40260871

Srivastava, K, Baskar, D, Vengalil, S, Nashi, S, Menon, D, Ganji, SR et al.. Novel Variant of the Desert Hedgehog Gene in an Indian Patient of 46, XY Gonadal Dysgenesis with Peripheral Neuropathy. Neurol India. 2025.73 (2)352-355 PMID:40176231

Steyaert, W, Sagath, L, Demidov, G, Yépez, VA, Esteve-Codina, A, Gagneur, J et al.. Unraveling undiagnosed rare disease cases by HiFi long-read genome sequencing. Genome Res. 2025.35 (4)755-768 PMID:40138663

Chawla, T, Baskar, D, Polavarapu, K, Preethish-Kumar, V, Nashi, S, Vengalil, S et al.. Muscle MRI Pattern in Dysferlinopathy and its Correlation with Dysferlin Gait. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2025.28 (2)182-188 PMID:40079678

Baskar, D, Vengalil, S, Polavarapu, K, Preethish-Kumar, V, Nashi, S, Arunachal, G et al.. Titinopathies: Phenotype - genotype heterogeneity in an Indian cohort. J Neuromuscul Dis. 2025.12 (3)364-371 PMID:40033712

Baskar, D, Christopher, R, Arunachal, G, Anudeep, DDS, Mounika, A, Sangeeth, TA et al.. Acute myeloneuropathy due to Glutaric aciduria-1: Expanding the phenotypic spectrum. Glob Med Genet. 2025.12 (2)100036 PMID:40027240

Baskar, D, Ganji, SR, Thomas, A, Polavarapu, K, Nandeesh, BN, Sanka, SB et al.. MICU1 related myopathy - a rare report from India. J Neuromuscul Dis. 2024.11 (6)1295-1299 PMID:39973469

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