News

Researchers led by UNC Lineberger member Jenny Ting, PhD, have made new discoveries that could lead to new drug targets for treating multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease. Their findings were published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Brain inflammation is a key component of multiple sclerosis,...

UNC Lineberger researchers Charles M. Perou, PhD, Katherine Hoadley, PhD, and Melissa Troester, PhD, co-authored a large, multi-institutional study designed to understand a gap in mortality for black and white women with breast cancer by beginning to unravel the germline genetic variations and tumor biological differences. This is the first...

Department of Genetics faculty and collaborators published seventeen papers during the first two weeks of May 2017. Comparison of Breast Cancer Molecular Features and Survival by African and European Ancestry in The Cancer Genome Atlas. Huo D, Hu H, Rhie SK, Gamazon ER, Cherniack AD, Liu J, Yoshimatsu TF, Pitt...

Department of Genetics faculty and collaborators published thirteen papers during the second half of April 2017. Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African ancestry anthropometry genetics consortium. Ng MCY, Graff M, Lu Y, Justice AE, Mudgal P,...

New UNC vice chancellor for research loves when graduate students challenge his ideas. According to Terry Magnuson, Ph.D., science is difficult— but graduate students make it fun. Magnuson, the new vice chancellor for research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says the most enjoyable part of conducting...

Department of Genetics faculty and collaborators published nine papers during the first half of April 2017. Energy balance modulation impacts epigenetic reprogramming, ERα and ERβ expression and mammary tumor development in MMTV-neu transgenic mice. Rossi EL, Dunlap SM, Bowers LW, Khatib SA, Doerstling SS, Smith LA, Sharma MA, , Holley...

Locus Biosciences, a precision medicine company spun out of NC State University has appointed Dr. Daniel Pomp (Research Professor, UNC Department of Genetics and Nutrition) to its science advisory board. Locus Biosciences, a precision medicine company spun out of NC State University has appointed Dr. Daniel Pomp (Research Professor, UNC...

Department of Genetics faculty and collaborators published eleven papers during the second half of March 2017. Association analyses of East Asian individuals and trans-ancestry analyses with European individuals reveal new loci associated with cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Spracklen CN Chen P, Kim YJ, Wang X, Cai H, Li S, Long...

Department of Genetics faculty and collaborators published nine papers during the first half of March 2017. A Reverse Genetics Platform That Spans the Zika Virus Family Tree. Widman DG, Young E, Yount BL, Plante KS, Gallichotte EN, Carbaugh DL, Peck KM, Plante J, Swanstrom J, Heise MT, Lazear HM, Baric...

The faculty of the Department of Genetics published five papers during the second half of February 2017. A purified MAA-based ELISA is a useful tool for determining anti-MAA antibody titer with high sensitivity. Shimomoto T, Collins LB, Yi X, Holley DW, Zhang Z, Tian X, Uchida K, Wang C, Hörkkö...