School of Medicine Publications and Presentations
Open access research published by the UTRGV School of Medicine-affiliated faculty, residents, fellows, and students. For all publications, please visit this page.
Submissions from 2017
Examining the Prevalence Rates of Preexisting Maternal Medical Conditions and Pregnancy Complications by Source: Evidence to Inform Maternal and Child Research, Candace A. Robledo, Edwina H. Yeung, Pauline Mendola, Rajeshwari Sundaram, Nansi S. Boghossian, Erin M. Bell, and Charlotte Druschel
Fast Genome-Wide QTL Association Mapping on Pedigree and Population Data, Hua Zhou, John Blangero, Thomas D. Dyer, Kei-hang K. Chan, Kenneth Lange, and Eric M. Sobel
Transcriptome sequencing study implicates immune-related genes differentially expressed in schizophrenia: new data and a meta-analysis, Alan R. Sanders, Eugene I. Drigalenko, Jubao Duan, Jessica Freda, Harald H. H. Goring, and Pablo V. Gejman
Targeted disruption of TC-PTP in the proliferative compartment augments STAT3 and AKT signaling and skin tumor development, Hyunseung Lee, Mihwa Kim, Minwoo Baek, Liza D. Morales, Ik-Soon Jang, Thomas J. Slaga, John DiGiovanni, and Dae Joon Kim
Faculty development in family medicine education: what is needed?, Brian Johnson, William Edward Cayley, Bich-May Nguyen, Paul Larson, Maria del C Colon-Gonzalez, Christine Gibson, and Ann Evensen
A Murine Model to Study Epilepsy and SUDEP Induced by Malaria Infection, Paddy Ssentongo, Anna E. Robuccio, Godfrey Thuku, Derek G. Sim, Ali Nabi, Fatemeh Bahari, Balaji Shanmugasundaram, Myles W. Billard, Andrew Geronimo, and Frank Gilliam
Analysis of whole exome sequencing with cardiometabolic traits using family-based linkage and association in the IRAS Family Study, Keri L. Tabb, Jacklyn N. Hellwege, Nicholette D. Palmer, Latchezar Dimitrov, Satria Sajuthi, Kent D. Taylor, Maggie C.Y. NG, Gregory A. Hawkins, Yii-Der Ida Chen, and John Blangero
Serum phosphatidylinositol as a biomarker for bipolar disorder liability, Emma E. M. Knowles, Peter J. Meikle, Kevin Huynh, Harald H. H. Goring, Rene L. Olvera, Samuel R. Mathias, Ravi Duggirala, Laura Almasy, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, and David C. Glahn
Sympathetic nervous system activity and anti-lipolytic response to iv-glucose load in subcutaneous adipose tissue of obese and obese type 2 diabetic subjects, Uwe Schumann, Christopher P. Jenkinson, Andreas Alt, Martina Zügel, Jürgen M. Steinacker, and Marion Flechtner-Mors
The effect size of type 2 diabetes mellitus on tuberculosis drug resistance and adverse treatment outcomes, Lucia Monserrat Perez-Navarro, Blanca I. Restrepo, Francisco Javier Fuentes-Dominguez, Ravi Duggirala, Jaime Morales-Romero, Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga, Iñaki Comas, and Roberto Zenteno-Cuevas
Investigating resting-state functional connectivity in the cervical spinal cord at 3T, Falk Eippert, Yazhuo Kong, Anderson M. Winkler, Jesper L. Andersson, Jürgen Finsterbusch, Christian Büchel, Jonathan C. Brooks, and Irene Tracey
ADAM19: A Novel Target for Metabolic Syndrome in Humans and Mice, Lakshini Weerasekera, Caroline Rudnicka, Qing-Xiang Sang, Joanne E. Curran, Matthew P. Johnson, Eric K. Moses, Harald H. H. Goring, John Blangero, Jana Hricova, Markus Schlaich, and Vance B. Matthews
Lipidomics in the Study of Hypertension in Metabolic Syndrome, Hemant Kulkarni, Manju Mamtani, John Blangero, and Joanne E. Curran
Combined genome-wide linkage and targeted association analysis of head circumference in autism spectrum disorder families, M. Woodbury-Smith, D. A. Bilder, J. Morgan, L. Jerominski, T. Darlington, Thomas D. Dyer, A. D. Paterson, and H. Coon
Cordycepin induces apoptosis by caveolin-1-mediated JNK regulation of Foxo3a in human lung adenocarcinoma, Jong Cheon Joo, Jung-Hoo Hwang, Eunbi Jo, Young-Rang Kim, Dae Joon Kim, Kyung-Bok Lee, Soo Jung Park, and Ik-Soon Jang
Cynomolgus macaques naturally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi-I exhibit an overall mixed pro-inflammatory/modulated cytokine signature characteristic of human Chagas disease, Danielle Marquete Vitelli-Avelar, Renato Sathler-Avelar, Armanda Moreira Mattoso-Barbosa, Nicolas Gouin, Marcelo Perdigão-de-Oliveira, Leydiane Valério-Dos-Reis, Ronaldo Peres Costa, and Silvana Maria Elói-Santos
miRNA nanotherapeutics for cancer, Aditya Ganju, Sheema Khan, Bilal B. Hafeez, Stephen Behrman, Murali M. Yallapu, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Meena Jaggi
Molecular Profiling of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Hypothalamic Neurones Provides Developmental Insights into Genetic Loci for Body Weight Regulation, L. Yao, Y. Liu, Satish Kumar, Joanne E. Curran, John Blangero, Y. Chen, and Donna M. Lehman
Reproducibility of tract-based white matter microstructural measures using the ENIGMA-DTI protocol, Ashley Acheson, S Andrea Wijtenburg, Laura M. Rowland, Anderson M. Winkler, Charles W. Mathias, L Elliot Hong, Neda Jahanshad, Binish Patel, Nancy L. Thompson, and Stephen A. McGuire
Novel genetic loci associated with hippocampal volume, Derrek P. Hibar, Hieab H. H. Adams, Neda Jahanshad, Ganesh Chauhan, Jason L. Stein, Edith Hofer, Miguel E. Renteria, Joshua C. Bis, Laura Almasy, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravi Duggirala, and Harald H. H. Goring
Genetic variation underlying renal uric acid excretion in Hispanic children: the Viva La Familia Study, Geetha Chittoor, Karin Haack, Nitesh R. Mehta, Sandra Laston, Shelley A. Cole, Anthony G. Comuzzie, Nancy F. Butte, and V. Saroja Voruganti
In silico CD4+, CD8+ T-cell and B-cell immunity associated immunogenic epitope prediction and HLA distribution analysis of Zika virus, Essam Mohammed Janahi, Anupam Dhasmana, Vandana Srivastava, Aditya Narayan Sarangi, Sana Raza, Jamal M. Arif, Madan Lal Brahma Bhatt, Mohtashim Lohani, Mohammaed Y. Areeshi, Anand Murari Saxena, and Shafiul Haque
Parkinsonian motor impairment predicts personality domains related to genetic risk and treatment outcomes in schizophrenia, Juan L. Molina, María Calvó, Eduardo Padilla, Mara Balda, Gabriela González Alemán, Néstor V. Florenzano, Gonzalo Guerrero, Danielle Kamis, and Beatriz Molina Rangeon
Association of Cardiometabolic Genes with Arsenic Metabolism Biomarkers in American Indian Communities: The Strong Heart Family Study (SHFS), Poojitha Balakrishnan, Dhananjay Vaidya, Nora Franceschini, V. Saroja Voruganti, Matthew O. Gribble, Karin Haack, Sandra Laston, Jason G. Umans, Kevin A. Francesconi, and Walter Goessler
Autocrine and Paracrine Secretion of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor in the Pre-Hypoxic Diabetic Retina, Jeffery G. Grigsby, Donald M. Allen, Ana S. Ferrigno, Sandeep Vellanki, Cindy E. Pouw, Whitney A. Hejny, and Andrew Tsin
Chemical Modification of Ginsenoside on Cell Viability and Cytokine Secretion, Brandi Betts-Obregon, Magaly Salinas, Dale Oladunni, George R. Negrete, and Andrew Tsin
Cordycepin induces human lung cancer cell apoptosis by inhibiting nitric oxide mediated ERK/Slug signaling pathway, Jung-Hoo Hwang, Soo Kyung Park, Won Gyo Ko, Seong-Mun Kang, Da Bin Lee, Junho Bang, Byunghun Lee, Byung-Joo Park, Chung-Beum Wee, and Dae Joon Kim
Effects of Conjugated Linoleic Acid and Metformin on Insulin Sensitivity in Obese Children: Randomized Clinical Trial, Nayely Garibay-Nieto, Gloria Queipo-García, Flor Alvarez, Mayra Bustos, Erendira Villanueva, Fernando Ramírez, Mireya León, Estibalitz Laresgoiti-Servitje, Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga, and Ravi Duggirala
Genome-wide meta-analysis of 241,258 adults accounting for smoking behaviour identifies novel loci for obesity traits, Anne E. Justice, Thomas W. Winkler, Mary F. Feitosa, Misa Graff, Virginia A. Fisher, Kristin Leonard, Kristin Young, Llilda Barata, Xuan Deng, John Blangero, and Joanne E. Curran
Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex, Tulio Guadalupe, Samuel R. Mathias, Theo G. M. vanErp, Christopher D. Whelan, Marcel P. Zwiers, Yoshinari Abe, Lucija Abramovic, Ingrid Agartz, Ole A. Andreassen, and John Blangero
Impact of Palliative Care Screening and Consultation in the ICU: A Multihospital Quality Improvement Project, Robert J. Zalenski, Spencer S. Jones, Cheryl Courage, Denise R. Waselewsky, Anna S. Kostaroff, David Kaufman, Afzal Beemath, John Brofman, James W. Castillo, and Hicham Krayem
In silico study of RxLR effectors of Phytophthora infestans HP-10-31, A2 mating type potato late blight pathogen, Youvika Singh, Virupaksh U. Patil, Anupam Dhasmana, Swarup K. Chakraborty, Pradeep K. Shukla, and Shashi Rawat
Interhospital Transfer Before Thrombectomy Is Associated With Delayed Treatment and Worse Outcome in the STRATIS Registry (Systematic Evaluation of Patients Treated With Neurothrombectomy Devices for Acute Ischemic Stroke), Michael T. Froehler, Jeffrey L. Saver, Osama O. Zaidat, Reza Jahan, and Ameer E. Hassan
Lack of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Urban Roof Rats (Rattus rattus) at a Texas Facility Housing Naturally Infected Nonhuman Primates, Carolyn L. Hodo, Nicole R. Bertolini, John C. Bernal, John L. VandeBerg, and Sarah A. Hamer
Multiethnic genome-wide meta-analysis of ectopic fat depots identifies loci associated with adipocyte development and differentiation, Audrey Y. Chu, Xuan Deng, Virginia A. Fisher, Alexander Drong, Yang Zhang, Mary F. Feitosa, Ching-Ti Liu, Olivia Weeks, Audrey C. Choh, Qing Duan, and Thomas D. Dyer
The antihypertensive MTHFR gene polymorphism rs17367504-G is a possible novel protective locus for preeclampsia, Liv Cecilie V. Thomsen, Nina S. McCarthy, Phillip E. Melton, Gemma Cadby, and Rigmor Austgulen
The application of half-life in clinical decision making: Comparison of the pharmacokinetics of extended-release topiramate (USL255) and immediate-release topiramate, Barry E. Gidal, Annie M. Clark, Bob Anders, and Frank G. Gilliam
The genetic basis of the comorbidity between cannabis use and major depression, Karen Hodgson, Laura Almasy, Emma E. M. Knowles, Jack W. Kent Jr., Joanne E. Curran, Thomas D. Dyer, Harald H. H. Goring, Rene L. Olvera, Mary D. Woolsey, Ravindranath Duggirala, Peter T. Fox, John Blangero, and David C. Glahn
The Intracranial Aneurysm Gene THSD1 Connects Endosome Dynamics to Nascent Focal Adhesion Assembly, Yan-Ning Rui, Zhen Yu, Xiaoqian Fang, Miriam R. Menezes, Julien Balzeau, Airu Niu, John P. Hagan, and Dong H. Kim
The little big genome: the organization of mitochondrial DNA, Iraselia Garcia, Edith Jones, Manuel Ramos, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, and Robert Gilkerson
Time related effects on functional brain connectivity after serotonergic and cholinergic neuromodulation, Bernadet L. Klaassens, Serge A. Rombouts, Anderson M. Winkler, Helene C. van Gorsel, Jeroen van der Grond, and Joop M A van Gerven
VITAMIN D RECEPTOR GENE BSM1 POLYMORPHISM AND RISK OF BREAST CANCER, Sana Raza, Roshan Jahan, Anupam Dhasmana, Madan Lal Brahma Bhatt, Mohtashim Lohani, and Jamal M. Arif
Submissions from 2016
Evolution of the Genotype-to-Phenotype Map and the Cost of Pleiotropy in Mammals, Arthur Porto, Ryan Schmelter, John L. VandeBerg, Gabriel Marroig, and James M. Cheverud
Heterochronicity of white matter development and aging explains regional patient control differences in schizophrenia, Peter Kochunov, Habib Ganjgahi, Anderson M. Winkler, Sinead Kelly, Dinesh Shukla, Xiaoming Du, Neda Jahanshad, Laura Rowland, Hemalatha Sampath, and Binish Patel
THSD1 (Thrombospondin Type 1 Domain Containing Protein 1) Mutation in the Pathogenesis of Intracranial Aneurysm and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Teresa Santiago-Sim, Xiaoqian Fang, Morgan L. Hennessy, Stephen V. Nalbach, Steven R. DePalma, Ming Sum Lee, Steven C. Greenway, Barbara McDonough, and Georgene W. Hergenroeder
A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape, Janina S. Ried, Janina Jeff M., Audrey Y. Chu, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer E. Huffman, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Gemma Cadby, Niina Eklund, and John Blangero
Multidimensional heritability analysis of neuroanatomical shape, Tian Ge, Martin Reuter, Anderson M. Winkler, Avram J. Holmes, Phil H. Lee, Lee S. Tirrell, Joshua L. Roffman, Randy L. Buckner, Jordan W. Smoller, and Mert R. Sabuncu
Cucurbitacin D exhibits potent anticancer activity in cervical cancer, Mohammed Sikander, Bilal B. Hafeez, Shabnam Malik, Abdulrhman Alsayari, Fathi T. Halaweish, Murali M. Yallapu, Subhash C. Chauhan, and Meena Jaggi
A threshold of transmembrane potential is required for mitochondrial dynamic balance mediated by DRP1 and OMA1, Edith Jones, Norma Gaytan, Iraselia Garcia, Alan Herrera, Manuel Ramos, Divya Agarwala, Maahrose Rana, Wendy Innis-Whitehouse, Erin Schuenzel, and Robert Gilkerson
Faster permutation inference in brain imaging, Anderson M. Winkler, Gerard R. Ridgway, Gwenaëlle Douaud, Thomas E. Nichols, and Stephen M. Smith
Genetic loci for Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen-1 are associated with risk of multiple sclerosis, Yuan Zhou, Gu Zhu, Jac C. Charlesworth, Steve Simpson Jr, Rohina Rubicz, Harald H. H. Goring, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, and Matthew P. Johnson
Lack of Association between SLC30A8 Variants and Type 2 Diabetes in Mexican American Families, Hemant Kulkarni, Manju Mamtani, Juan M. Peralta, Vincent P. Diego, Thomas D. Dyer, Harald H. H. Goring, Laura Almasy, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Michael C. Mahaney, Ravindranath Duggirala, Joanne E. Curran, and John Blangero
Prediction of Neurocognitive Deficits by Parkinsonian Motor Impairment in Schizophrenia: A Study in Neuroleptic-Naïve Subjects, Unaffected First-Degree Relatives and Healthy Controls From an Indigenous Population, Juan L. Molina, Gabriela González Alemán, Néstor Florenzano, Eduardo Padilla, María Calvó, Gonzalo Guerrero, Danielle Kamis, Lee Stratton, Juan Toranzo, and Gabriel A. de Erausquin
Constrained multivariate association with longitudinal phenotypes, Phillip E. Melton, Juan M. Peralta, and Laura Almasy
Finding potential cis-regulatory loci using allele-specific chromatin accessibility as weights in a kernel-based variance component test, Juan M. Peralta, Marcio A. Almeida, Lawrence J. Abraham, Eric K. Moses, and John Blangero
Shared Genetic Factors Influence Head Motion During MRI and Body Mass Index, Karen Hodgson, Russell A. Poldrack, Joanne E. Curran, Emma Knowles, Samuel R. Mathias, Harald H. H. Goring, Rene L. Olvera, Peter T. Fox, Laura Almasy, Ravi Duggirala, and John Blangero
A comprehensive tractography study of patients with bipolar disorder and their unaffected siblings, Emma Sprooten, Jennifer Barrett, D Reese McKay, Emma E. Knowles, Samuel R. Mathias, Anderson M. Winkler, Margaret S. Brumbaugh, Stefanie Landau, Lindsay Cyr, Peter Kochunov, and David C. Glahn
Gene Expression Differences Between Offspring of Long-Lived Individuals and Controls in Candidate Longevity Regions: Evidence for PAPSS2 as a Longevity Gene, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Sumbul Chai, Jeffery R. O'Connell, Joanne E. Curran, John Blangero, Braxton D. Mitchell, Alan R. Shuldiner, and Coleen M. Damcott
Genetic Analysis Workshop 19: methods and strategies for analyzing human sequence and gene expression data in extended families and unrelated individuals, Corinne D. Engelman, Celia M T Greenwood, Julia N. Bailey, Rita M. Cantor, Jack W. Kent Jr, Inke R. König, Justo Lorenzo Bermejo, Phillip E. Melton, Stephanie A. Santorico, and Laura Almasy
Healthcare hashtag index development: Identifying global impact in social media, Luís Pinho-Costa, Kenneth Yakubu, Kyle Hoedebecke, Liliana Laranjo, Christofer Patrick Reichel, and Maria C. Colon-Gonzalez
Novel Genetic Loci Underlying Human Intracranial Volume Identified through Genome-Wide Association, Hieab HH Adams, Derrek P. Hibar, Vincent Chouraki, Jason L. Stein, Paul A. Nyquist, Miguel E. Rentería, Stella Trompet, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravi Duggirala, and Harald HH Goring
The effects of resistance exercise and oral nutritional supplementation during hemodialysis on indicators of nutritional status and quality of life, Geovana Martin-Alemañy, Rafael Valdez-Ortiz, Guadalupe Olvera-Soto, Irma Gomez-Guerrero, Guillermo Aguire-Esquivel, Guillermo Cantu-Quintanilla, Juan Carlos Lopez Alvarenga, Paola Miranda-Alatriste, and Angeles Espinosa-Cuevas
N-Acetylcysteine in Combination with IGF-1 Enhances Neuroprotection against Proteasome Dysfunction-Induced Neurotoxicity in SH-SY5Y Cells, Benxu Cheng, Pinki Anand, Anxiu Kuang, Feroz Akhtar, and Virginia L. Scofield
Distribution of Six Polymorphisms in Two Communities with a Historical High Incidence of Diabetes and Obesity in Yucatan, Mexico, Miriam Givisay Domínguez-Cruz, María de Lourdes Muñoz, Armando Totomoch-Serra, María Guadalupe García-Escalante, Nina Valadez-González, Doris Pinto-Escalante, and Alvaro Diaz-Badillo
Methylation of SOCS3 is inversely associated with metabolic syndrome in an epigenome-wide association study of obesity, Omar Ali, Diana Cerjak, Jack W. Kent Jr, Roland James, John Blangero, Melanie A. Carless, and Yi Zhang
The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes, Christian Fuchsberger, Jason Flannick, Tanya M. Teslovich, Anubha Mahajan, Vineeta Agarwala, Kyle J. Gaulton, Joanne E. Curran, Satish Kumar, John Blangero, and Ravi Duggirala
Cordycepin promotes apoptosis by modulating the ERK-JNK signaling pathway via DUSP5 in renal cancer cells, Jung-Hoo Hwang, Jong Cheon Joo, Dae Joon Kim, Eunbi Jo, Hwa-Seung Yoo, Kyung-Bok Lee, Soo Jung Park, and Ik-Soon Jang
Genetic Variants in Toll-Like Receptor 4 Gene and Their Association Analysis with Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Mexican American Families, Farook Thameem, Sobha Puppala, Vidya S. Farook, Balakuntalam S. Kasinath, John Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, and Hanna E. Abboud
Genome-wide significant loci for addiction and anxiety, Karen Hodgson, Laura Almasy, Emma E. M. Knowles, Jack W. Kent Jr., Joanne E. Curran, Thomas D. Dyer, Harald H. H. Goring, Rene L. Olvera, Peter T. Fox, Godfrey D. Pearlson, J. H. Krystal, Ravindranath Duggirala, John Blangero, and David C. Glahn
Preterm birth and air pollution: Critical windows of exposure for women with asthma, Pauline Mendola, Maeve Wallace, Beom Seuk Hwang, Danping Liu, Candace Robledo, and Tuija Männistö
PSMA targeted docetaxel-loaded superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for prostate cancer, Prashanth K. B. Nagesh, Nia R. Johnson, Vijaya K. N. Boya, Pallabita Chowdhury, Shadi F. Othman, Vahid Khalilzad-Sharghi, Bilal B. Hafeez, Aditya Ganju, Sheema Khan, Stephen Behrman, Nadeem Zafar, Subhash C. Chauhan, Meena Jaggi, and Murali M. Yallapu
Reproductive health knowledge among African American women enrolled in a clinic-based randomized controlled trial to reduce psychosocial and behavioral risk, Project DC-HOPE, Uba Backonja, Candace Robledo, Maeve Wallace, Katrina F. Flores, and Michele Kiely
The integration of quantitative genetics, paleontology, and neontology reveals genetic underpinnings of primate dental evolution, Leslea J. Hlusko, Christopher A. Schmitt, Tesla A. Monson, Marianne F. Brasil, and Michael Mahaney
Air pollution exposure and preeclampsia among US women with and without asthma, Pauline Mendola, Maeve Wallace, Danping Liu, Candace Robledo, Tuija Männistö, and Katherine Grantz
Prosaposin is a regulator of progranulin levels and oligomerization, Alexandra M. Nicholson, NiCole A. Finch, Marcio Almeida, Ralph B. Perkerson, Marka van Blitterswijk, Aleksandra Wojtas, Basar Cenik, Laura Almasy, Thomas D. Dyer, Juan M. Peralta, Joanne E. Curran, Donna M. Lehman, Ravindranath Duggirala, and John Blangero
Teaching Ethics in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Vignette-Based Curriculum, Arden D. Dingle, Sandra DeJong, Vishal Madaan, and Lee Ascherman
Progressive Bidirectional Age-Related Changes in Default Mode Network Effective Connectivity across Six Decades, Karl Li, Angela R. Laird, Larry R. Price, D. Reese McKay, John Blangero, David C. Glahn, and Peter T. Fox
Complete genome sequence of the cold-active bacteriophage VMY22 from Bacillus cereus, Kunhao Qin, Benxu Cheng, Shengting Zhang, Nan Wang, Yuan Fang, Qi Zhang, Anxiu Kuang, Lianbing Lin, Xiuling Ji, and Yunlin Wei
The Arg59Trp variant in ANGPTL8 (betatrophin) is associated with total and HDL-cholesterol in American Indians and Mexican Americans and differentially affects cleavage of ANGPTL3, Robert L. Hanson, Fatjon Leti, Darwin Tsinajinnie, Sayuko Kobes, Sobha Puppala, Joanne E. Curran, Laura Almasy, Donna M. Lehman, John Blangero, Ravi Duggirala, and Johanna K. DiStefano
Utility of Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Generation, Satish Kumar, Joanne E. Curran, David C. Glahn, and John Blangero
Interactions Between Alcohol Metabolism Genes and Religious Involvement in Association With Maximum Drinks and Alcohol Dependence Symptoms, Karen G. Chartier, Danielle M. Dick, Laura Almasy, Grace Chan, Fazil Aliev, Marc A. Schuckit, Denise M. Scott, John Kramer, Kathleen K. Bucholz, and Laura J. Bierut
Investigation of Genetic Variation Underlying Central Obesity amongst South Asians, William R. Scott, Weihua Zhang, Marie Loh, Sian-Tsung Tan, Benjamin Lehne, Uzma Azfal, Juan M. Peralta, Richa Saxena, Sarju Ralhan, and Gurpreet S. Wander
Preeclampsia does not share common risk alleles in 9p21 with coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes, Tea Kaartokallio, A. Inkeri LokkiM, Hanna Peterson, Katja Kivinen, Leena Hiltunen, Elina Salmela, Tuuli Lappalainen, Paula Maanselkä, Sanna Heino, and Matthew P. Johnson
Tissue-specific conditional PKCε knockout mice: a model to precisely reveal PKCε functional role in initiation, promotion and progression of cancer, Bilal B. Hafeez, Louise Meske, Ashok Singh, Anupama Singh, Weixiong Zhong, Patricia Powers, Manorama John, Anne E. Griep, and Ajit K. Verma
A unique patient with epilepsy with cinematographic visual hallucinations, Alexis E. Nelson, Frank G. Gilliam, Jayant Acharya, and Sabina Miranda
Genome-wide association studies suggest sex-specific loci associated with abdominal and visceral fat, Yun Ju Sung, L. Pérusse, M. A. Sarzynski, M. Fornage, S. Sidney, B. Sternfeld, T. Rice, J. G. Terry, D. R. Jacobs Jr., John Blangero, and Joanne E. Curran
GWAS and transcriptional analysis prioritize ITPR1 and CNTN4 for a serum uric acid 3p26 QTL in Mexican Americans, Geetha Chittoor, Jack W. Kent Jr., Marcio Almeida, Sobha Puppala, Vidya S. Farook, Shelley A. Cole, Karin Haack, Harald H. H. Goring, Jean W. MacCluer, Joanne E. Curran, Melanie A. Carless, Matthew P. Johnson, Eric K. Moses, Laura Almasy, Michael C. Mahaney, Donna M. Lehman, Ravindranath Duggirala, Anthony G. Comuzzie, John Blangero, and Venkata Saroja Voruganti
Non-parametric combination and related permutation tests for neuroimaging, Anderson M. Winkler, Matthew A. Webster, Jonathan C. Brooks, Irene Tracey, Stephen M. Smith, and Thomas E. Nichols
Serum Vitamin D Concentrations in Baboons (Papio spp.) during Pregnancy and Obesity, Natalia E. Schlabritz-Loutsevitch, Anthony G. Comuzzie, Michael Mahaney, Gene B. Hubbard, Edward J. Dick Jr, Mehmet Kocak, Sonali Gupta, Maira Carrillo, Mauro Schenone, Arnold Postlethwaite, and Andrzej Slominski
Ultraviolet radiation-induced tumor necrosis factor alpha, which is linked to the development of cutaneous SCC, modulates differential epidermal microRNAs expression, Ashok Singh, Estelle Willems, Anupama Singh, Bilal B. Hafeez, Irene M. Ong, Suresh L. Mehta, and Ajit K. Verma
Soluble Forms of Intercellular and Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecules Independently Predict Progression to Type 2 Diabetes in Mexican American Families, Hemant Kulkarni, Manju Mamtani, Juan M. Peralta, Marcio Almeida, Thomas D. Dyer, Harald H. H. Goring, Matthew P. Johnson, Ravindranath Duggirala, Michael C. Mahaney, Rene L. Olvera, Laura Almasy, David C. Glahn, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, and John Blangero
Ipsilesional anodal tDCS enhances the functional benefits of rehabilitation in patients after stroke, Claire Allman, Ugwechi Amadi, Anderson M. Winkler, Leigh Wilkins, Nicola Filippini, Udo Kischka, Charlotte J. Stagg, and Heidi Johansen-Berg
Furanodiene alters mitochondrial function in doxorubicin-resistant MCF-7 human breast cancer cells in an AMPK-dependent manner, Zhang-Feng Zhong, Wen Tan, William W. Qiang, Virginia L. Scofield, Ke Tian, Chun-Ming Wang, Wen-An Qiang, and Yi-Tao Wang
NMDA receptor internalization down-regulates NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic responses through the inhibition of remaining (non-internalized) surface NMDA receptors, Xian-Min Yu, Xiao-Qian Fang, and Xing-Hong Jiang
Physical activity and FTO genotype by physical activity interactive influences on obesity, Joon Young Kim, Jacob T. DeMenna, Sobha Puppala, Geetha Chittoor, Jennifer Schneider, Ravindranath Duggirala, Lawrence J. Mandarino, Gabriel Q. Shaibi, and Dawn K. Coletta
Curcumin Nanoformulation for Cervical Cancer Treatment, Mohd S. Zaman, Neeraj Chauhan, Murali M. Yallapu, Rishi K. Gara, Diane M. Maher, Sonam Kumari, Mohammed Sikander, Sheema Khan, Nadeem Zafar, Meena Jaggi, and Subhash C. Chauhan
Filtering genetic variants and placing informative priors based on putative biological function, Stefanie Friedrichs, Dörthe Malzahn, Elizabeth W. Pugh, Marcio Almeida, Xiao Qing Liu, and Julia N. Bailey
A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants, Lars G. Fritsche, Wilmar Igl, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, Felix Grassmann, Sebanti Sengupta, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Kathryn P. Burdon, Scott J. Hebbring, Matthew P. Johnson, and John Blangero
Analysis of SLC16A11 Variants in 12,811 American Indians: Genotype-Obesity Interaction for Type 2 Diabetes and an Association With RNASEK Expression, Michael Traurig, Robert L. Hanson, Alejandra Marinelarena, Sayuko Kobes, Paolo Piaggi, Shelley A. Cole, Joanne E. Curran, John Blangero, Harald H. H. Goring, and Satish Kumar
Genome-wide Linkage on Chromosome 10q26 for a Dimensional Scale of Major Depression, Emma E. M. Knowles, Jack W. Kent Jr., D. Reese McKay, Emma Sprooten, Samuel R. Mathias, Joanne E. Curran, Melanie A. Carless, Marcio A.A. de Almeida, Harald H. H. Goring, Thomas D. Dyer, Rene L. Olvera, Peter T. Fox, Ravindranath Duggirala, Laura Almasy, John Blangero, and David C. Glahn