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During the month of November, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published eight manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption. Liu C, Marioni RE, Hedman ÅK, Pfeiffer L, Tsai PC, Reynolds LM, Just AC, Duan Q, Boer CG, Tanaka...

During the last three weeks, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published 21 manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. A survey of current practices for genomic sequencing test interpretation and reporting processes in US laboratories. O’Daniel JM, McLaughlin HM, Amendola LM, Bale SJ, Berg JS,...

During the last thirty days, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published twelve manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. During the last thirty days, Genetics faculty have published twelve manuscripts on a wide variety of topics, including: impact of ovariectomy on anxiety-like behavior in mice;...

During the last two weeks of September, Genetics faculty members published seven manuscripts focused in multiple areas, including genomic terminology, clinical genomics, genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease, polygenic risk for schizophrenia, genetics of tobacco use, potential function of nuclear survival motor neuron complex and a...

The research in his lab is focused on statistical and computational methods for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing assays to facilitate biomedical and biological research. Dr. Love has a primary appointment in Biostatistics and a joint appointment in Genetics. After receiving his M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University in 2010...

Jason Whitmire, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Stanley Lemon, MD, Professor in the Department of Medicine, were senior authors on a paper titled “MAVS-dependent host species range and pathogenicity of human hepatitis A virus” published in the journal Science. The paper, published in the 15 SEP...

Charles Perou, PhD, Professor of Genetics and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the May Goldman Shaw Distinguished Professor of Molecular Oncology was corresponding author of a study that focused on finding possible drug targets in triple-negative breast cancers. The paper, titled “Genomic Profiling of Murine Mammary Tumors Identifies Potential Personalized...

Praveen Sethupathy, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, was corresponding author of a study that investigated the role of microRNAs in the mediation of intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) homeostasis. The paper titled “miR-30 Family Controls Proliferation and Differentiation of Intestinal Epithelial Cell Models by Directing a Broad...

This project will focus on identifying genetic, regulatory activity, and gene expression changes that significantly contribute to IBD at molecular and clinical levels. Terry Furey, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Biology and Shehzad Sheikh, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Member of the Multidisciplinary Center for...

This study will focus on development of a computational framework for storing, sharing and analyzing three-dimensional micron resolution images in fluorescently-labeled brain samples, with a specific focus on brain structure deficits in an autism mouse model. Jason Stein, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics with a joint appointment in the UNC...