Taryn Athey

Taryn Athey is a Canadian Certified Genetic Counsellor and Assistant Clinical Professor for the Medical Genetics Department.  She has a BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics from the University of Guelph, an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Guelph, and an MSc in Genetic Counselling from the University of Manitoba.  She has an interest in rare disease, neurofibromatosis, and connective tissue disorders.
  1. R Sultan, J Urlacher, T Athey, P Kannu, P Seres, S Mercimek-Andrews. (2025).  Think classical homocystinuria if the genetic test did not confirm Marfan syndrome: Late diagnosis and phenotypic variability in adult siblings with classical homocystinuria. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports 45, 101261.
  2. G Zerafati-Jahromi, et al. (2025). Sequence variants in HECTD1 result in a variable neurodevelopmental disorder. The American Journal of Human Genetics 112 (3), 537-553.
  3. Karina C Silveira, Anastasia Ambrose, Taryn Athey, Sherryl Taylor, Saadet Mercimek‐Andrews, Peter Kannu. (2024). Dissecting CASK: Novel splice site variant associated with male MICPCH phenotype. Clinical Genetics 106 (6), 764-768.
  4. A Beke, K da Costa Silveira, T Athey, P Kannu. (2023). Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia with joint laxity type 2: Aggregating the literature and reporting on the life of a 66‐year‐old man. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics. 193, 188-192.
  5. A Mainali, T Athey, et al. (2023). Diagnostic yield of clinical exome sequencing in adulthood in medical genetics clinics. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A 191 (2), 510-517.
  6. Anastasia Ambrose, Melissa Sheehan, Shalini Bahl, Taryn Athey, Shailly Ghai-Jain, Alicia Chan, Saadet Mercimek-Andrews. (2022). Outcomes of mitochondrial long chain fatty acid oxidation and carnitine defects from a single center metabolic genetics clinic.  Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 17 (1), 360.
  7. G Silver, S Bahl, D Cordeiro, A Thakral, T Athey, S Mercimek-Andrews. (2021). Prevalence of congenital disorders of glycosylation in childhood epilepsy and effects of anti-epileptic drugs on the transferrin isoelectric focusing test. Genes 12 (8), 1227.