R. Alan Harris, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics

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rharris1@bcm.edu

Education

Postdoc, Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College Of Medicine, Houston, 2009

Ph.D., Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College Of Medicine, Houston, 2007

M.A., Biological Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1996

B.A., Anthropology, Geology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 1990

Publications

2017
Larsen PA, Harris RA, Liu Y, Murali SC, C Campbell R, Brown AD, et al.. Hybrid de novo genome assembly and centromere characterization of the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus). BMC Biol. 2017;15(1):110.

Prall TM, Graham ME, Karl JA, Wiseman RW, Ericsen AJ, Raveendran M, et al.. Improved full-length killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor transcript discovery in Mauritian cynomolgus macaques. Immunogenetics. 2017;69(5):325-339.

2016
Pew BK, Harris RA, Sbrana E, Guaman MCuevas, Shope C, Chen R, et al.. Structural and transcriptomic response to antenatal corticosteroids in an Erk3-null mouse model of respiratory distress. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016;215(3):384.e1-384.e89.

Xue C, Raveendran M, Harris RA, Fawcett GL, Liu X, White S, et al.. The population genomics of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) based on whole-genome sequences. Genome Res. 2016;26(12):1651-1662.

2015
Yuan B, Liu P, Gupta A, Beck CR, Tejomurtula A, Campbell IM, et al.. Comparative Genomic Analyses of the Human NPHP1 Locus Reveal Complex Genomic Architecture and Its Regional Evolution in Primates. PLoS Genet. 2015;11(12):e1005686.

2014
Carbone L, Harris RA, Gnerre S, Veeramah KR, Lorente-Galdos B, Huddleston J, et al.. Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes. Nature. 2014;513(7517):195-201.

Harris RA, Tardif SD, Vinar T, Wildman DE, Rutherford JN, Rogers J, et al.. Evolutionary genetics and implications of small size and twinning in callitrichine primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014;111(4):1467-72.

2011
Fawcett GL, Raveendran M, Deiros DRio, Chen D, Yu F, Harris RA, et al.. Characterization of single-nucleotide variation in Indian-origin rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). BMC Genomics. 2011;12:311.

2009
Hampton OA, Hollander PDen, Miller CA, Delgado DA, Li J, Coarfa C, et al.. A sequence-level map of chromosomal breakpoints in the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line yields insights into the evolution of a cancer genome. Genome Res. 2009;19(2):167-77.

2008
Majewski T, Lee S, Jeong J, Yoon D-S, Kram A, Kim M-S, et al.. Understanding the development of human bladder cancer by using a whole-organ genomic mapping strategy. Lab Invest. 2008;88(7):694-721.

2007
Harris RA, Rogers J, Milosavljevic A. Human-specific changes of genome structure detected by genomic triangulation. Science. 2007;316(5822):235-7.

Gibbs RA, Rogers J, Katze MG, Bumgarner R, Weinstock GM, Mardis ER, et al.. Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genome. Science. 2007;316(5822):222-34.

2006
Scherer SE, Muzny DM, Buhay CJ, Chen R, Cree A, Ding Y, et al.. The finished DNA sequence of human chromosome 12. Nature. 2006;440(7082):346-51.

Raveendran M, Harris RA, Milosavljevic A, Johnson Z, Shelledy W, Cameron J, et al.. Designing new microsatellite markers for linkage and population genetic analyses in rhesus macaques and other nonhuman primates. Genomics. 2006;88(6):706-710.

Muzny DM, Scherer SE, Kaul R, Wang J, Yu J, Sudbrak R, et al.. The DNA sequence, annotation and analysis of human chromosome 3. Nature. 2006;440(7088):1194-8.

2005
Milosavljevic A, Harris RA, Sodergren EJ, Jackson AR, Kalafus KJ, Hodgson A, et al.. Pooled genomic indexing of rhesus macaque. Genome Res. 2005;15(2):292-301.