Recent Member Publications

• Martin VT, Fassler CS, Brunst KJ, Ying J, Teitelbaum S, Windham GC, Deardorff J, Wolff MS, Kushi LH, Biro FM, Pinney SM. Migraine and its association with pubertal maturation and behavioral traits among adolescent girls. Acta Neurol Belg. 2023 Jan 11. doi: 10.1007/s13760-022-02161-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36631631.
• Zhen Y, Ren Y, Medvedovic M, Adams DE, Wang D, Shao WH. Axl regulated survival/proliferation network and its therapeutic intervention in mouse models of glomerulonephritis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2022 Dec 28;24(1):284. PMID: 36578056. PMCID: PMC9795606.  
• Ma J, Niklewski PJ, Wang HS. Acute exposure to low-dose bisphenol A delays cardiac repolarization in female canine heart - Implication for proarrhythmic toxicity in large animals. Food Chem Toxicol. 2022 Dec 28;172:113589. PMID: 36584932.
• Merianos AL, Stone T, Jandarov RA, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Choi K. Sources of Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Their Associations with Serum Cotinine Levels among U.S. Children and Adolescents. Nicotine Tob Res. 2022 Dec 26:ntac293. PMID: 36567673.
• Sprague AC, Niu L, Jandarov R, Zhang X, Zhang G, Chen A, Šarac J, Čoklo M, Missoni S, Rudan P, Langevin SM, Deka R. Stable methylation loci are associated with systolic blood pressure in a Croatian island population. Epigenomics. 2022 Dec 1. doi: 10.2217/epi-2022-0279. Online ahead of print. PMID: 36453021.
• Zhou X, Zheng H, Fu H, Dillehay McKillip KL, Pinney SM, Liu Y. CRAG: de novo characterization of cell-free DNA fragmentation hotspots in plasma whole-genome sequencing. Genome Med. 2022 Dec 8;14(1):138. doi: 10.1186/s13073-022-01141-8. PMID: 36482487. PMCID: PMC9733064. 
• Etzel TM, Kuiper JR, Wang X, Mueller NT, Calafat AM, Cecil KM, Chen A, Lanphear BP, Yolton K, Kalkwarf HJ, Braun JM, Buckley JP. Associations of early life phthalate exposures with adolescent lipid levels and insulin resistance: The HOME Study.  Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2022 Dec 15;248:114102. PMID: 36527833.
• Ghosh D, Karim R, Zhang X, Singh U, Bernstein JA. Biologic Pathways for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria and Their Regulation By Benralizumab. Allergy. 2022 Aug 25. PMID: 36004497. Debajyoti Ghosh, PhD, Research Instructor, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, UC College of Medicine, received a CEG Pilot Projects Program award in 2021 ($30,000 Innovator award) for the project, “Elucidating the mechanism of Atopic Dermatitis induced by maternal exposure to phthalate compounds.”
• Zhang JZ, Heinsberg LW, Krishnan M, Hawley NL, Major TJ, Carlson JC, Harré Hindmarsh J, Watson H, Qasim M, Stamp LK, Dalbeth N, Murphy R, Sun G, Cheng H, Naseri T, Reupena MS, Kershaw EE, Deka R, McGarvey ST, Minster RL, Merriman TR, Weeks DE. Multivariate analysis of a missense variant in CREBRF reveals associations with measures of adiposity in people of Polynesian ancestries. Genet Epidemiol. 2022 Nov 9. PMID: 36352773.

• Conrey SC, Burrell AR, Brokamp C, Burke RM, Couch SC, Niu L, Mattison CP, Piasecki A, Payne DC, Staat MA, Morrow AL. Neighbourhood socio-economic environment predicts adiposity and obesity risk in children under two. Pediatr Obes. 2022 Dec;17(12):e12964. PMID: 36350200. 
• Mendy A, Burcham S, Merianos AL, Mersha TB, Mahabee-Gittens EM, Chen A, Yolton K.  Urinary volatile organic compound metabolites and reduced lung function in U.S. adults.  Respir Med. 2022 Nov 10;205:107053. PMID: 36399896.  
• Galiveti CR, Kuhnell D, Biesiada J, Zhang X, Kelsey KT, Takiar V, Tang AL, Wise-Draper TM, Medvedovic M, Kasper S, Langevin SM. Small extravesicular microRNA in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and its potential as a liquid biopsy for early detection. Head Neck. 2022 Oct 22. PMID: 36271833
• Bhattacharya SS, Yadav B, Yadav E, Hus A, Yadav N, Kaur P, Rosen L, Jandarov R, Yadav JS. Differential modulation of lung aquaporins among other pathophysiological markers in acute (Cl2 gas) and chronic (carbon nanoparticles, cigarette smoke) respiratory toxicity mouse models. Front Physiol. 2022 Sep 28;13:880815. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2022.880815. eCollection 2022. PMID: 36246134. PMCID: PMC9554232.
• Mohanty SK, Donnelly B, Temple H, Mowery S, Poling HM, Meller J, Malik A, McNeal M, Tiao G. Rhesus rotavirus receptor-binding site affects high mobility group box 1 release, altering the pathogenesis of experimental biliary atresia. Hepatol Commun. 2022 Oct;6(10):2702-14. PMID: 35866580.  PMCID: PMC9512450.
• Strawn JR, Xu Y, Cecil KM, Khoury J, Altaye M, Braun JM, Lanphear BP, Sjodin A, Chen A, Yolton K. Early exposure to flame retardants is prospectively associated with anxiety symptoms in adolescents: A prospective birth cohort study. Depress Anxiety. 2022 Oct 11. doi: 10.1002/da.23284. PMID: 36218051.
• Crist M, Yaniv B, Palackdharry S, Lehn MA, Medvedovic M, Stone T, Gulati S, Karivedu V, Borchers M, Fuhrman B, Crago A, Curry J, Martinez-Outschoorn U, Takiar V, Wise-Draper TM. Metformin increases natural killer cell functions in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma through CXCL1 inhibition. J Immunother Cancer. 2022 Nov;10(11): e005632. PMID: 36328378.
• Ko CI, Biesiada J, Zablon HA, Zhang X, Medvedovic M, Puga A.  The aryl hydrocarbon receptor directs the differentiation of murine progenitor blastomeres.  Cell Biol Toxicol. 2022 Aug 27. PMID: 36029422. Lead author Chia-I Ko received a $15,000 Innovator Award from the CEG Pilot Projects Program in 2020.
• Dornburg A, Mallik R, Wang Z, Bernal MA, Thompson B, Bruford EA, Nebert DW, Vasiliou V, Yohe LR, Yoder JA, Townsend JP. Placing human gene families into their evolutionary context. Hum Genomics. 2022 Nov 11;16(1):56. PMID: 36369063.
• Byun J, Han Y, Li Y, Xia J, Long E, Choi J, Xiao X, Zhu M, Zhou W, Sun R, Bossé Y, Song Z, Schwartz A, Lusk C, Rafnar T, Stefansson K, Zhang T, Zhao W, Pettit RW, Liu Y, Li X, Zhou H, Walsh KM, Gorlov I, Gorlova O, Zhu D, Rosenberg SM, Pinney S, ... Amos CI. Cross-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 61,047 cases and 947,237 controls identifies new susceptibility loci contributing to lung cancer. Nat Genet. 2022 Aug;54(8):1167-77. PMID: 35915169.

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