Publications
PNPLA3 polymorphisms and liver aminotransferase levels in a Mexican American population. Clin Invest Med. 2012 ;35(4):E237-45.
. Population-based risk factors for elevated alanine aminotransferase in a South Texas Mexican-American population. Arch Med Res. 2012 ;43(6):482-8.
. Quantitative trait loci affecting liver fat content in mice. G3 (Bethesda). 2012 ;2(9):1019-25.
. REGγ is associated with multiple oncogenic pathways in human cancers. BMC Cancer. 2012 ;12:75.
. Residual plasmatic activity of ADAMTS13 is correlated with phenotype severity in congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Blood. 2012 ;120(2):440-8.
. The role of drinking water sources, consumption of vegetables and seafood in relation to blood arsenic concentrations of Jamaican children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders. Sci Total Environ. 2012 ;433:362-70.
. Serum prostate specific antigen changes in cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) on a high sugar high fat diet. Prostate. 2012 ;72(5):469-75.
. SINE retrotransposons cause epigenetic reprogramming of adjacent gene promoters. Mol Cancer Res. 2012 ;10(10):1332-42.
. Statistical guidance for experimental design and data analysis of mutation detection in rare monogenic mendelian diseases by exome sequencing. PLoS One. 2012 ;7(2):e31358.
. Strict evolutionary conservation followed rapid gene loss on human and rhesus Y chromosomes. Nature. 2012 ;483(7387):82-6.
. Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome. Nature. 2012 ;486(7402):207-14.
A systematic survey of loss-of-function variants in human protein-coding genes. Science. 2012 ;335(6070):823-8.
. Targeting Thyroid Receptor b in Estrogen Receptor Negative Breast Cancer. Cancer Research; 2012. p. P4-08-09.
. Transcriptional enhancers in protein-coding exons of vertebrate developmental genes. PLoS One. 2012 ;7(5):e35202.
. Treponema pallidum infection in the wild baboons of East Africa: distribution and genetic characterization of the strains responsible. PLoS One. 2012 ;7(12):e50882.
. TWIST represses estrogen receptor-alpha expression by recruiting the NuRD protein complex in breast cancer cells. Int J Biol Sci. 2012 ;8(4):522-32.
. Using whole-genome sequence data to predict quantitative trait phenotypes in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genet. 2012 ;8(5):e1002685.
. WDR35 mutation in siblings with Sensenbrenner syndrome: a ciliopathy with variable phenotype. Am J Med Genet A. 2012 ;158A(11):2917-24.
. WDR62 missense mutation in a consanguineous family with primary microcephaly. Am J Med Genet A. 2012 ;158A(3):622-5.
. Whole genome sequence of Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum, strain Mexico A, suggests recombination between yaws and syphilis strains. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012 ;6(9):e1832.
. Whole genome sequences of three Treponema pallidum ssp. pertenue strains: yaws and syphilis treponemes differ in less than 0.2% of the genome sequence. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012 ;6(1):e1471.
. . Activation of multiple proto-oncogenic tyrosine kinases in breast cancer via loss of the PTPN12 phosphatase. Cell. 2011 ;144(5):703-18.
. Association between somatostatin receptor 5 gene polymorphisms and pancreatic cancer risk and survival. Cancer. 2011 ;117(13):2863-72.
. Association studies for next-generation sequencing. Genome Res. 2011 ;21(7):1099-108.
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