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Dr. Loughran's current research includes: current research includes: • R01 grant from the NIH’s National Cancer Institute to identify and characterize the LGL leukemia virus and understand how it might cause leukemia; •…
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My research lies in the areas of statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology with an emphasis on 1) analysis of genome-wide association studies in the multi-ethnic cohort studies, 2) gene-based analysis…
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Specific Research Ongoing in the McNamara lab Discovery of a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the human ID3 gene that is functionally relevant and associated with vascular disease in humans. The…
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My laboratory's research focus involves the application of modern genomics and bioinformatics approaches to unravel complex and rare cardiovascular diseases. By integrating large-scale human genetic association and whole genome sequencing…
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Our laboratory studies macromolecular structures with an aim toward an in-depth understanding of structure-function relationships. X-ray diffraction analysis is our primary research tool, but we also employ other physical and…
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Tyrosine phosphorylation is a protein modification that can occur during or after translation of a protein.The phosphate addition to a tyrosine residue, regulated by tyrosine kinases and phosphatases, can result…
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All the way up to the 20th century, the human genome has been optimized to survive in environments characterized by fluctuations between periods of feast and famine. These survivor-genomes clash…
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Identification of Factors and Mechanisms that Regulate the Stability of Late Stage Atherosclerotic Lesions and the Probability of Thromboembolic Events Including a Heart Attack or StrokeAtherothrombosis, resulting from rupture or…
