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Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published fourteen papers during June 3-16, 2018.

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Returning negative results to individuals in a genomic screening program: lessons learned.

Butterfield RM, Evans JP, Rini C, Kuczynski KJ, Waltz M, Cadigan RJ, Goddard KAB, Muessig KR, Henderson GE.

Genet Med. 2018 Jun 6. doi: 10.1038/s41436-018-0061-1. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 29875426

High-Resolution Maps of Mouse Reference Populations.

Simecek P, Forejt J, Williams RW, Shiroishi T, Takada T, Lu L, Johnson TE, Bennett B, Deschepper CF, Scott-Boyer MP, Pardo-Manuel de Villena F, Churchill GA.

G3 (Bethesda). 2017 Oct 5;7(10):3427-3434. doi: 10.1534/g3.117.300188.

PMID: 28839117

Prenatal exome sequencing in anomalous fetuses: new opportunities and challenges.

Vora NL, Powell B, Brandt A, Strande N, Hardisty E, Gilmore K, Foreman AKM, Wilhelmsen K, Bizon C, Reilly J, Owen P, Powell CM, Skinner D, Rini C, Lyerly AD, Boggess KA, Weck K, Berg JS, Evans JP.

Genet Med. 2017 Nov;19(11):1207-1216. doi: 10.1038/gim.2017.33. Epub 2017 May 18.

PMID: 28518170

Common Disease Is More Complex Than Implied by the Core Gene Omnigenic Model.

Wray NR, Wijmenga C, Sullivan PF, Yang J, Visscher PM.

Cell. 2018 Jun 14;173(7):1573-1580. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.051. Review.

PMID: 29906445

Integrated Molecular Characterization of Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.

Shen H, Shih J, Hollern DP, Wang L, Bowlby R, Tickoo SK, Thorsson V, Mungall AJ, Newton Y, Hegde AM, Armenia J, Sánchez-Vega F, Pluta J, Pyle LC, Mehra R, Reuter VE, Godoy G, Jones J, Shelley CS, Feldman DR, Vidal DO, Lessel D, Kulis T, Cárcano FM, Leraas KM, Lichtenberg TM, Brooks D, Cherniack AD, Cho J, Heiman DI, Kasaian K, Liu M, Noble MS, Xi L, Zhang H, Zhou W, ZenKlusen JC, Hutter CM, Felau I, Zhang J, Schultz N, Getz G, Meyerson M, Stuart JM; Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, Akbani R, Wheeler DA, Laird PW, Nathanson KL, Cortessis VK, Hoadley KA.

Cell Rep. 2018 Jun 12;23(11):3392-3406. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.05.039.

PMID: 29898407

Epigenome-wide association in adipose tissue from the METSIM cohort.

Orozco LD, Farrell C, Hale C, Rubbi L, Rinaldi A, Civelek M, Pan C, Lam L, Montoya D, Edillor C, Seldin M, Boehnke M, Mohlke KL, Jacobsen S, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Lusis AJ, Pellegrini M.

Hum Mol Genet. 2018 Jun 9. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddy205. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.

PMID: 29893869

A Reversible Epigenetic Link between Obesity and Cancer Risk.

Bultman SJ.

Trends Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Jun 5. pii: S1043-2760(18)30109-7. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2018.05.004. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 29884327

Age-associated Changes in the Respiratory Epithelial Response to Influenza Infection.

Chason KD, Jaspers I, Parker J, Sellers S, Brighton LE, Hunsucker SA, Armistead PM, Fischer WA 2nd.

J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2018 Jun 7. doi: 10.1093/gerona/gly126. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 29878083

A survey of microRNA single nucleotide polymorphisms identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci in a case-control, population-based study of African-American women.

Bensen JT, Graff M, Young KL, Sethupathy P, Parker J, Pecot CV, Currin K, Haddad SA, Ruiz-Narváez EA, Haiman CA, Hong CC, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Zhu Q, Liu S, Yao S, Bandera EV, Rosenberg L, Lunetta KL, Ambrosone CB, Palmer JR, Troester MA, Olshan AF.

Breast Cancer Res. 2018 Jun 5;20(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s13058-018-0964-4.

PMID: 29871690

Augmented outcome-weighted learning for estimating optimal dynamic treatment regimens.

Liu Y, Wang Y, Kosorok MR, Zhao Y, Zeng D.

Stat Med. 2018 Jun 5. doi: 10.1002/sim.7844. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 29873099

Elevated levels of adrenomedullin in eutopic endometrium and plasma from women with endometriosis.

Matson BC, Quinn KE, Lessey BA, Young SL, Caron KM.

Fertil Steril. 2018 Jun 2. pii: S0015-0282(18)30075-X. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.02.004. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 29871794

Identification of clonal hematopoiesis mutations in solid tumor patients undergoing unpaired next-generation sequencing assays.

Coombs CC, Gillis NK, Tan X, Berg JS, Ball MC, Balasis ME, Montgomery ND, Bolton K, Parker JS, Mesa TE, Yoder SJ, Hayward MC, Patel NM, Richards KL, Walko CM, Knepper TC, Soper JT, Weiss J, Grilley-Olson JE, Kim WY, Earp S, Levine R, Papaemmanuil E, Zehir A, Hayes DN, Padron E.

Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Jun 4. pii: clincanres.1201.2018. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-1201. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 29866652

Emerging roles of atypical chemokine receptor 3 (ACKR3) in normal development and physiology.

Quinn KE, Mackie DI, Caron KM.

Cytokine. 2018 Sep;109:17-23. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2018.02.024.

PMID: 29903572

CHD4 and the NuRD complex directly control cardiac sarcomere formation.

Wilczewski CM, Hepperla AJ, Shimbo T, Wasson L, Robbe ZL, Davis IJ, Wade PA, Conlon FL.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jun 11. pii: 201722219. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1722219115. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 29891665