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Genetics - Graduate Program

Houston, Texas

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics - Graduate Program
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Student Publications and Abstracts

Aimee Anderson

  • Anderson AE, Haines TR, Robinson DP, Butcher DT, Sadikovic B, Rodenhiser DI (2001). Sodium bisulfite analysis of the methylation status of DNA from small portions of paraffin slides. Biotechniques 31(5): 1004, 1006, 1008. [Pub Med]

Dustin Baldridge

  • Baldridge D, Schwarze U, Morello R, Lennington J, Bertin TK, Pace JM, Pepin MG, Weis M, Eyre DR, Walsh J, Lambert D, Green A, Robinson H, Michelson M, Houge G, Lindman C, Martin J, Ward J, Lemyre E, Mitchell JJ, Krakow D, Rimoin DL, Cohn DH, Byers PH, Lee B (2008). CRTAP and LEPRE1 mutations in recessive osteogenesis imperfecta. Hum. Mutat. 29(12): 1435-42. [Pub Med]
  • Pal T, Napierala D, Becker TA, Loscalzo M, Baldridge D, Lee B, Sutphen R (2007). The presence of germ line mosaicism in cleidocranial dysplasia. Clin. Genet. 71(6): 589-91. [Pub Med]

Monica Buchanan

  • Liu X, Buchanan ME, Han KA, Davis RL (2009). The GABAA receptor RDL suppresses the conditioned stimulus pathway for olfactory learning. J. Neurosci. 29(5): 1573-9. [Pub Med]

Patricia Celestino

  • Celestino PB, de Carvalho LR, de Freitas LM, Dorella FA, Martins NF, Pacheco LG, Miyoshi A, Azevedo V (2004). Update of microbial genome programs for bacteria and archaea. Genet. Mol. Res. 3(3): 421-31. [Pub Med]

Christopher Chen

  • Chen CY, Barron JA, Ringeisen BR (2006). Cell patterning without chemical surface modification: Cell–cell interactions between printed bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC) on a homogeneous cell-adherent hydrogel. Applied Surface Science 252: 8641-8645.
  • Marsh MP, Campos SK, Baker ML, Chen CY, Chiu W, Barry MA (2006). Cryoelectron Microscopy of Protein IX-Modified Adenoviruses Suggests a New Position for the C Terminus of Protein IX. J Virol. 80(23):11881-6. [Pub Med]

Erica Homan

  • Nolan VG, Ma Q, Cohen HT, Adewoye A, Rybicki AC, Baldwin C, Mahabir RN, Homan EP, Wyszynski DF, Fabry ME, Nagel RL, Farrer LA, Steinberg MH (2007). "Estimated glomerular filtration rate in sickle cell anemia is associated with polymorphisms of bone morphogenetic protein receptor 1B." Am. J. Hematol. 82(3): 179-84. [Pub Med]

Patricia Fonseca

  • Lee B, Fonseca P, Napierala D (2008). RUNX2 and Cleidocranial Dysplasia. In Epstein CJ, Erickson RP, Wynshaw-Boris AJ (Eds.) Inborn Errors of Development: the molecular basis of clinical disorders in morphogenesis, 2nd edition (pp. 331-339). Oxford University Press.
  • Bowman TV, McCooey AJ, Merchant AA, Ramos CA, Fonseca P, Poindexter A, Bradfute SB, Oliveira DM, Green R, Zheng Y, Jackson KA, Chambers SM, McKinney-Freeman SL, Norwood KG, Darlington G, Gunaratne PH, Steffen D, Goodell MA (2006). Differential mRNA processing in hematopoietic stem cells. Stem Cells 24(3): 662-70. [Pub Med]
  • Bi W, Saifi GM, Shaw CJ, Walz K, Fonseca P, Wilson M, Potocki L, Lupski JR (2004). Mutations of RAI1, a PHD-containing protein, in nondeletion patients with Smith-Magenis syndrome. Hum. Genet. 115(6): 515-24. [Pub Med]
  • Walz K, Caratini-Rivera S, Bi W, Fonseca P, Mansouri DL, Lynch J, Vogel H, Noebels JL, Bradley A, Lupski JR (2003). Modeling del(17)(p11.2p11.2) and dup(17)(p11.2p11.2) contiguous gene syndromes by chromosome engineering in mice: phenotypic consequences of gene dosage imbalance. Mol. Cell Biol. 23(10): 3646-55. [Pub Med]
  • Stankiewicz P, Inoue K, Bi W, Walz K, Park SS, Kurotaki N, Shaw CJ, Fonseca P, Yan J, Lee JA, Khajavi M, Lupski JR (2003). Genomic disorders: genome architecture results in susceptibility to DNA rearrangements causing common human traits. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol. 68: 445-54. [Pub Med]

Juliette Kahle

  • Bowman AB, Lam YC, Jafar-Nejad P, Chen HK, Richman R, Samaco RC, Fryer JD, Kahle JJ, Orr HT, Zoghbi HY (2007). Duplication of Atxn1l suppresses SCA1 neuropathology by decreasing incorporation of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-1 into native complexes. Nat. Genet. 39(3): 373-9. [Pub Med]

Anupama Khare

  • Khare A, Santorelli LA, Strassmann JE, Queller DC, Kuspa A, Shaulsky G (2009). Cheater-resistance is not futile. Nature. 461(7266): 980-2. [Pub Med]
  • Khare A, Shaulsky G (2006). First among equals: competition between genetically identical cells. Nat. Rev. Genet. 7(7): 577-83. [Pub Med]

Dominik Satory

  • Prakash R, Satory D, Dray E, Papusha A, Scheller J, Kramer W, Krejci L, Klein H, Haber JE, Sung P, Ira G (2009). Yeast Mph1 helicase dissociates Rad51-made D-loops: implications for crossover control in mitotic recombination. Genes Dev. 23(1): 67-79. [Pub Med]

Rodney Samaco

  • Samaco RC, Hogart A, LaSalle JM (2005). Epigenetic overlap in autism-spectrum neurodevelopmental disorders: MECP2 deficiency causes reduced expression of UBE3A and GABRB3. Hum. Mol. Genet. 14(4): 483-92 [Pub Med]
  • Braunschweig D, Simcox T, Samaco RC, LaSalle JM (2004). X-Chromosome inactivation ratios affect wild-type MeCP2 expression within mosaic Rett syndrome and Mecp2-/+ mouse brain. Hum. Mol. Genet. 13(12): 1275-86. [Pub Med]
  • Samaco RC, Nagarajan RP, Braunschweig D, LaSalle JM (2004). Multiple pathways regulate MeCP2 expression in normal brain development and exhibit defects in autism-spectrum disorders. Hum. Mol. Genet. 13(6): 629-39. [Pub Med]
  • Balmer D, Arredondo J, Samaco RC, LaSalle JM (2002). MECP2 mutations in Rett syndrome adversely affect lymphocyte growth, but do not affect imprinted gene expression in blood or brain. Hum. Genet. 110(6): 545-52. [Pub Med]

Olga Sirin

  • Chambers SM, Boles NC, Lin KY, Tierney MP, Bowman TV, Bradfute SB, Chen AJ, Merchant AA, Sirin O, Weksberg DC, Merchant MG, Fisk CJ, Shaw CA, Goodell MA (2007). Hematopoietic fingerprints: an expression database of stem cells and their progeny. Cell Stem Cell 1(5): 578-91. [Pub Med]
  • Sirin O, Lin KY, Goodell MA. Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells (2008). In Templeton NS (Ed.) Gene and Cell Therapy: Therapeutic Mechanisms and Strategies, 3rd Edition (pp. 695-712). CRC Press.
  • Sirin O, Park F (2003). Regulating gene expression using self-inactivating lentiviral vectors containing the mifepristone-inducible system. Gene 323: 67-77. [Pub Med]

George Souroullas

  • Souroullas GP, Salmon JM, Sablitzky F, Curtis DJ, Goodell MA (2009). Adult Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells Require Either Lyl1 or Scl for Survival. Cell Stem Cell 4(2): 180-6. [Pub Med]
  • Diamond TL, Souroullas G, Weiss KK, Lee KY, Bambara RA, Dewhurst S, Kim B (2003). Mechanistic understanding of an altered fidelity simian immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase mutation, V148I, identified in a pig-tailed macaque. J. Biol. Chem. 278(32): 29913-24. [Pub Med]

Anjana Srivatsan

  • Srivatsan A, Wang JD (2008). Control of bacterial transcription, translation and replication by (p)ppGpp. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 11(2): 100-5. [Pub Med]
  • Srivatsan A, Han Y, Peng J, Tehranchi AK, Gibbs R, Wang JD, Chen R (2008). High-precision, whole-genome sequencing of laboratory strains facilitates genetic studies. PLoS Genet. 4(8): e1000139. [Pub Med]
  • Yu D, Keene AC, Srivatsan A, Waddell S, Davis RL (2005). Drosophila DPM neurons form a delayed and branch-specific memory trace after olfactory classical conditioning. Cell 123(5): 945-57. [Pub Med]

Zhu Zhu

  • Zhu Z, Chung WH, Shim EY, Lee SE, Ira G (2008). Sgs1 helicase and two nucleases Dna2 and Exo1 resect DNA double-strand break ends. Cell 134(6): 981-94. [Pub Med]

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