Walter Patrick Devine, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Pathology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Molecular Genetic Pathology University of California, San Francisco 06/2018
• Residency Anatomic Pathology University of California, San Francisco 06/2008
• MD Medicine Stanford Medical School 06/2006
• PhD Biochemistry Stanford Medical School 06/2004
• BS/MS Biology and Music Stanford University 06/1996

Publications (35)

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Granulosa Cell TumorImmunotherapySertoli-Leydig Cell TumorEmbryonic Stem CellsNucleotidyltransferasesOvarian NeoplasmsHeartGastrulationAstrocytomaMolecular Targeted TherapyHydrops FetalisChitinMesodermEndometrial Stromal TumorsBody Patterning

• TANC1::HTRA1 fusion in schwannomas.
  Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2026 Caliskan I, Mirchia K, Devine WP, Pekmezci M
• A disrupted compartment boundary underlies abnormal cardiac patterning and congenital heart defects.
  Nature cardiovascular research 2025 Kathiriya IS, Dominguez MH, Rao KS, Muncie-Vasic JM, Devine WP, Hu KM, Hota SK, Garay BI, Quintero D, Goyal P, Matthews MN, Thomas R, Sukonnik T, Miguel-Perez D, Winchester S, Brower EF, Forjaz A, Wu …
• MultiSite Assembly of Gateway Induced Clones (MAGIC): a flexible cloning toolbox for use in vertebrate model systems.
  Development (Cambridge, England) 2025 Gillespie WB, Zhang Y, Ruiz OE, Cerda J, Ortiz-Guzman J, Sherman M, Turner WD, Largoza G, Mosser LE, Fujimoto E, Chien CB, Kwan KM, Arenkiel BR, Devine WP, Wythe JD
• Genomic Profiling of Intraocular Leiomyomas Reveals Recurrent Copy Number Alterations.
  Translational vision science & technology 2025 Tang V, Chou Y, Demirkesen C, Bloomer MM, Crawford JB, Sarici AM, Shields C, Eagle RC, Iacob CE, Devine WP, Milman T, Pekmezci M
• Genetic diseases underlying a spectrum of fetal effusions.
  American journal of obstetrics and gynecology 2025 Gulrajani NB, Lianoglou BR, Tick K, Sahin-Hodoglugil NN, Hodoglugil U, Devine P, Van Ziffle J, Norton ME, Sparks TN

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• Fetal Intracranial Hemorrhage due to Uniparental Disomy and Unmasked MPL-Related Congenital Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia.
  Prenatal diagnosis 2024 Gano D, Glenn OA, Rand L, Heraty K, Devine P, Norton ME, Sparks TN
• TFG::ALK fusion in ALK positive large B-cell lymphoma: a case report and review of literature.
  Frontiers in oncology 2023 Xiao A, Shahmarvand N, Nagy A, Kumar J, Van Ziffle J, Devine P, Huang F, Lezama L, Li P, Ohgami RS
• Loss of p16 expression is a sensitive marker of CDKN2A homozygous deletion in malignant meningiomas.
  Acta neuropathologica 2023 Tang V, Lu R, Mirchia K, Van Ziffle J, Devine P, Lee J, Phillips JJ, Perry A, Raleigh DR, Lucas CG, Solomon DA
• Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Reveals Divergent Clonal Evolution in Components of Composite Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma-Ganglioglioma.
  Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 2022 Lucas CG, Davidson CJ, Alashari M, Putnam AR, Whipple NS, Bruggers CS, Mendez JS, Cheshier SH, Walker JB, Ramani B, Cadwell CR, Sullivan DV, Lu R, Mirchia K, Van Ziffle J, Devine P, Goldschmidt E, …
• The utility of pathologic examination and comprehensive phenotyping for accurate diagnosis with perinatal exome sequencing.
  Prenatal diagnosis 2022 Swanson K, Norton ME, Lianoglou BR, Jelin AC, Hodoglugil U, Van Ziffle J, Devine P, Sparks TN
• Further description of two patients with biallelic variants in NADSYN1 in association with cardiac and vertebral anomalies.
  American journal of medical genetics. Part A 2022 Kortbawi H, Ames E, Pritchard A, Devine P, van Ziffle J, Slavotinek A
• APOBEC Mutational Signature and Tumor Mutational Burden as Predictors of Clinical Outcomes and Treatment Response in Patients With Advanced Urothelial Cancer.
  Frontiers in oncology 2022 Natesan D, Zhang L, Martell HJ, Jindal T, Devine P, Stohr B, Espinosa-Mendez C, Grenert J, Van Ziffle J, Joseph N, Umetsu S, Onodera C, Turski M, Chan E, Desai A, Aggarwal R, Wong A, Porten S, Chou J,…
• Activating NTRK2 and ALK receptor tyrosine kinase fusions extend the molecular spectrum of pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas of early childhood: a diagnostic overlap with infant-type hemispheric glioma.
  Acta neuropathologica 2021 Lucas CG, Abdullaev Z, Bruggers CS, Mirchia K, Whipple NS, Alashari MM, Lowichik A, Cheshier S, Phillips JJ, Devine P, Solomon DA, Quezado M, Aldape KD, Perry A
• Segmental overgrowth and aneurysms due to mosaic PDGFRB p.(Tyr562Cys).
  American journal of medical genetics. Part A 2021 Chenbhanich J, Hu Y, Hetts S, Cooke D, Dowd C, Devine P, UCLA Clinical Genomics Center, Russell B, Kang SHL, Chang VY, Abla AA, Cornett P, Yeh I, Lee H, Martinez-Agosto JA, Frieden IJ, Shieh JT
• De novo variants in SNAP25 cause an early-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathy.
  Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 2020 Klöckner C, Sticht H, Zacher P, Popp B, Babcock HE, Bakker DP, Barwick K, Bonfert MV, Bönnemann CG, Brilstra EH, Care4Rare Canada Consortium, Chung WK, Clarke AJ, Devine P, Donkervoort S, Fraser JL, …
• Exome Sequencing for Prenatal Diagnosis in Nonimmune Hydrops Fetalis.
  The New England journal of medicine 2020 Sparks TN, Lianoglou BR, Adami RR, Pluym ID, Holliman K, Duffy J, Downum SL, Patel S, Faubel A, Boe NM, Field NT, Murphy A, Laurent LC, Jolley J, Uy C, Slavotinek AM, Devine P, Hodoglugil U, Van …
• NTRK fusion cervical sarcoma: a report of three cases, emphasising morphological and immunohistochemical distinction from other uterine sarcomas, including adenosarcoma.
  Histopathology 2020 Rabban JT, Devine WP, Sangoi AR, Poder L, Alvarez E, Davis JL, Rudzinski E, Garg K, Bean GR
• Pediatric bithalamic gliomas have a distinct epigenetic signature and frequent EGFR exon 20 insertions resulting in potential sensitivity to targeted kinase inhibition.
  Acta neuropathologica 2020 Mondal G, Lee JC, Ravindranathan A, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Tran QT, Allen SJ, Barreto J, Gupta R, Doo P, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Devine P, Grenert JP, Samuel D, Li R, Metrock LK, Jin LW, Antony R, …
• Hydra: A mixture modeling framework for subtyping pediatric cancer cohorts using multimodal gene expression signatures.
  PLoS computational biology 2020 Pfeil J, Sanders LM, Anastopoulos I, Lyle AG, Weinstein AS, Xue Y, Blair A, Beale HC, Lee A, Leung SG, Dinh PT, Shah AT, Breese MR, Devine WP, Bjork I, Salama SR, Sweet-Cordero EA, Haussler D, Vaske …
• Gliomas arising in the setting of Li-Fraumeni syndrome stratify into two molecular subgroups with divergent clinicopathologic features.
  Acta neuropathologica 2020 Sloan EA, Hilz S, Gupta R, Cadwell C, Ramani B, Hofmann J, Kline CN, Banerjee A, Reddy A, Oberheim Bush NA, Chang S, Braunstein S, Chang EF, Raffel C, Gupta N, Sun PP, Kim JYH, Moes G, Alva E, Li R, …
• Targeted Therapy and Checkpoint Immunotherapy in Lung Cancer.
  Surgical pathology clinics 2020 Ruiz-Cordero R, Devine WP
• Practical roles for molecular diagnostic testing in ovarian adult granulosa cell tumour, Sertoli-Leydig cell tumour, microcystic stromal tumour and their mimics.
  Histopathology 2020 Rabban JT, Karnezis AN, Devine WP
• Clinicopathologic and molecular features of intracranial desmoplastic small round cell tumors.
  Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2019 Lee JC, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Ferris SP, Cham EM, Zucker J, Cooney T, Gilani A, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Trembath D, Mafra M, Chiang J, Ellison DW, Cho SJ, Horvai AE, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Devine …
• Next-Generation Sequencing of Retinoblastoma Identifies Pathogenic Alterations beyond RB1 Inactivation That Correlate with Aggressive Histopathologic Features.
  Ophthalmology 2019 Afshar AR, Pekmezci M, Bloomer MM, Cadenas NJ, Stevers M, Banerjee A, Roy R, Olshen AB, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C, Devine WP, Grenert JP, Bastian BC, Solomon DA, Damato BE
• Myxoid glioneuronal tumor, PDGFRA p.K385-mutant: clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic features.
  Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2019 Lucas CG, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Whipple N, Oberheim Bush NA, Cooney T, Chang S, McDermott M, Berger M, Cham E, Sun PP, Putnam A, Zhou H, Bollo R, Cheshier S, Poppe MM, Fung KM, Sung S, Glenn C, Fan X, …
• Recurrent non-canonical histone H3 mutations in spinal cord diffuse gliomas.
  Acta neuropathologica 2019 Sloan EA, Cooney T, Oberheim Bush NA, Buerki R, Taylor J, Clarke JL, Torkildson J, Kline C, Reddy A, Mueller S, Banerjee A, Butowski N, Chang S, Mummaneni PV, Chou D, Tan L, Theodosopoulos P, …
• TP53 structural variants in metastatic prostatic carcinoma.
  PloS one 2019 Sirohi D, Devine P, Grenert JP, van Ziffle J, Simko JP, Stohr BA
• Heart enhancers with deeply conserved regulatory activity are established early in zebrafish development.
  Nature communications 2018 Yuan X, Song M, Devine P, Bruneau BG, Scott IC, Wilson MD
• Identification of high-risk human papillomavirus and Rb/E2F pathway genomic alterations in mutually exclusive subsets of colorectal neuroendocrine carcinoma.
  Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc 2018 Shamir ER, Devine WP, Pekmezci M, Umetsu SE, Krings G, Federman S, Cho SJ, Saunders TA, Jen KY, Bergsland E, Jones K, Kim GE, Kakar S, Chiu CY, Joseph NM
• A novel reporter allele for monitoring Dll4 expression within the embryonic and adult mouse.
  Biology open 2018 Herman AM, Rhyner AM, Devine WP, Marrelli SP, Bruneau BG, Wythe JD
• Early patterning and specification of cardiac progenitors in gastrulating mesoderm.
  eLife 2014 Devine WP, Wythe JD, George M, Koshiba-Takeuchi K, Bruneau BG
• ETS factors regulate Vegf-dependent arterial specification.
  Developmental cell 2013 Wythe JD, Dang LT, Devine WP, Boudreau E, Artap ST, He D, Schachterle W, Stainier DY, Oettgen P, Black BL, Bruneau BG, Fish JE
• Refractory lower gastrointestinal bleeding from portal hypertensive colopathy.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2008 Ozgediz D, Devine P, Garcia-Aguilar J, Balibrea JM
• Requirement for chitin biosynthesis in epithelial tube morphogenesis.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005 Devine WP, Lubarsky B, Shaw K, Luschnig S, Messina L, Krasnow MA
• Cortical neurons require Otx1 for the refinement of exuberant axonal projections to subcortical targets.
  Neuron 1999 Weimann JM, Zhang YA, Levin ME, Devine WP, Brûlet P, McConnell SK