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Center for Precision Environmental Health

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Center for Precision Environmental Health Research

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Understanding the interplay between genes and environment represents a primary focus of the center. Precision environmental health research leverages next-generation sequencing tools and large-scale databases, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, to increase the understanding of disease pathogenesis and how it adversely affects human health.

The coordination of genetics, environmental health, and data science will not only explain how individuals differ in their susceptibility to disease, but also improve the ability of environmental health scientists to translate big data represented by these databases into information that will further their research. By bridging these disciplines, members of the center hope to increase understanding of susceptibility to disease as it relates to individuals and populations.

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2020

Katz TA, Grimm SL, Kaushal A, Dong J, Treviño LS, Jangid RK, Gaitán AV, Bertocchio JP, Guan Y, Robertson MJ, Cabrera RM, Finegold MJ, Foulds CE, Coarfa C, Walker CL. 2020. Hepatic tumor formation in adult mice developmentally exposed to organotin. Environ Health Perspect. Jan;128(1):17010. doi: 10.1289/EHP5414. Epub 2020 Jan 15. PMID: 31939706

Cao X, Tian T, Steele JW, Cabrera RM, Aguiar-Pulido V, Wadhwa S, Bhavani N, Bi P, Gargurevich NH, Hoffman EN, Cai CQ, Marini NJ, Yang W, Shaw GM, Elizabeth Ross M, Finnell RH, Lei Y. 2020.  Loss of RAD9B impairs early neural development and contributes to the risk for human spina bifida.  Hum Mutat. Apr;41(4):786-799 PMID: 31898828

2019

Msaouel P, Hong AL, Mullen EA, Atkins MB, Walker CL, Lee CH, Carden MA, Genovese G, Linehan WM, Rao P, Merino MJ, Grodman H, Dome JS, Fernandez CV, Geller JI, Apolo AB, Daw NC, Hodges HC, Moxey-Mims M, Wei D, Bottaro DP, Staehler M, Karam JA, Rathmell WK, Tannir NM. 2019.  Updated recommendations on the diagnosis, management, and clinical trial eligibility criteria for patients with renal medullary carcinoma. Clin Genitourin Cancer 17(1):1-6. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30287223

Carugo A, Minelli R, Sapio L, Soeung M, Carbone F, Robinson FS, Tepper J, Chen Z, Lovisa S, Svelto M, Amin S, Srinivasan S, Del Poggetto E, Loponte S, Puca F, Dey P, Malouf GG, Su X, Li L, Lopez-Terrada D, Rakheja D, Lazar AJ, Netto GJ, Rao P, Sgambato A, Maitra A, Tripathi DN, Walker CL, Karam JA, Heffernan TP, Viale A, Roberts CWM, Msaouel P, Tannir NM, Draetta GF, Genovese G. 2019.  p53 is a master regulator of proteostasis in SMARCB1-deficient malignant rhabdoid tumors. Cancer Cell 35(2):204-220. PMID: 30753823

Kim SE, Lei Y, Hwang SH, Wlodarczyk BJ, Mukhopadhyay S, Shaw GM, Ross ME, Finnell RH. 2019. Dominant negative GPR161 rare variants are risk factors of human spina bifida.
Hum Mol Genet. Jan 15;28(2):200-208. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddy339. PMID: 30256984

Cabrera RM, Souder JP, Steele JW, Yeo L, Tukeman G, Gorelick DA and Finnell RH. 2019.  The antagonism of folate receptor by dolutegravir: developmental toxicity reduction by supplemental folic acid. AIDS. Nov 1;33(13):1967-1976.. PMID: 31259764

Stossi F, Dandekar RD, Johnson H, Lavere P, Foulds CE, Mancini MG, Mancini MA. 2019. PLoS One. Tributyltin chloride (TBT) induces RXRA down-regulation and lipid accumulation in human liver cells.  Nov 11;14(11):e0224405. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224405. eCollection 2019. PMID: 31710612

Smith EA and Hodges HC. 2019. The spatial and genomic hierarchy of tumor ecosystems revealed by single-cell technologies. Trends in Cancer 5(7): 411-425.

Hao Y, England J, Bellucci L, Paci E, Hodges HC, Taylor S, Maillard RA. 2019. Activation of PKA via asymmetric allosteric coupling of structurally conserved cyclic nucleotide binding domains. Nature Communications 10(1): 3984.

2018

Msaouel P, Tannir NM, Walker CL. 2018. A model linking sickle cell hemoglobinopathies and SMARCB1 loss in renal medullary carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res 24(9):2044-2049. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29440190

Kim J, Lei Y, Guo J, Kim SE, Wlodarczyk BJ, Cabrera RM, Lin YL, Nilsson TK, Zhang T, Ren A, Wang L, Yuan Z, Zheng YF, Wang HY, Finnell RH. 2018. Formate rescues neural tube defects caused by mutations in Slc25a32. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. May 1;115(18):4690-4695. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800138115. Epub 2018 Apr 16. PMID: 29666258

Chen Z, Lei Y, Zheng Y, Aguiar-Pulido V, Ross ME, Peng R, Jin L, Zhang T, Finnell RH and Wang H.  2018.  Threshold for neural tube defect risk by accumulated singleton loss-of-function variants. Cell Res. 28(10):1039-1041. PMID: 29976953

Hodges HC, Stanton BZ, Cermakova K, Chang CY, Miller EL, Kirkland JG, Ku WL, Veverka V, Zhao K, Crabtree GR. 2018.  Dominant-negative SMARCA4 mutants alter the accessibility landscape of tissue-unrestricted enhancers. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology 25(1): 61-72.

Cermakova K, Hodges HC. 2018. Next-Generation drugs and probes for chromatin biology: from targeted protein degradation to phase separation. Molecules 23(8): 1958.

Sharma S, Cermakova K, De Rijck J, Demeulemeester J, Fabry M, El Ashkar S, Van Belle S, Lepsik M, Tesina P, Duchoslav V, Novak P, Hubalek M, Srb P, Christ F, Rezacova P, Hodges HC, Debyser Z, Veverka V.  2018. Affinity switching of the LEDGF/p75 IBD interactome is governed by kinase-dependent phosphorylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115(30): 7053-7062.

England JP, Hao Y, Bai L, Glick V, Hodges HC, Taylor SS and Maillard RA. 2018. Switching of the folding-energy landscape governs the allosteric activation of protein kinase A. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115(32): 7478-7485.

2017

Beckermann KE, Sharma D, Chaturvedi S, Msaouel P, Abboud MR, Allory Y, Bourdeaut F, Calderaro J, de Cubas AA, Derebail VK, Hong AL, Naik RP, Malouf GG, Mullen EA, Reuter VE, Roberts CWM, Walker CL, Wood CG, DeBaun MR, Van Poppel H, Tannir NM, Rathmell WK. 2017. Renal Medullary Carcinoma: Establishing Standards in Practice. J Oncol Pract 13(7):414-421. PMID: 28697319

Lu H-C, Tan Q, Rousseaux MWC, Kim J-Y, Wan Y-W, Yeh S-Y, Patel JM, Liu X, Lee Y, Fryer JD, Han J, Finnell RH, Lei Y, Jimenez MEZ, Cho M, Ahimaz P, Kwame A-Y, Lehalle D, Nolwenn J-M, Mosca-Boidron A-L, Thevenon J, Cousins M, Bro D, Lanpher B, Klee E, Liu Z, Schaaf C and  Zoghbi HY.  2017.  Regionally distinct roles of ATXN1-CIC complex in ADHD and autism.  Nature Genetics 49:527-536. PMID: 28288114. PMCID: PMC5374026

Toriyama Ma, Toriyama Mi., Wallingford JB and Finnell RH.  2017.  Folate-Dependent methylation of septins governs ciliogenesis during neural tube closure.  FASEB J. 31(8):3622-3635.  PMID: 28432198. PMC5503710

Foulds CE, Treviño LS, York B, Walker CL. 2017. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and fatty liver disease. Nat Rev Endocrinol. Aug;13(8):445-457. doi: 10.1038/nrendo.2017.42. Epub 2017 May 19. Review. PMID: 28524171