Robert E Ferrell
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Recent Articles
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DNA "fingerprinting" and the genetic management of a captive chimpanzee population (Pan troglodytes)
Ely J, Alford P, Ferrell R
Am J Primatol
. 2020 Jan;
24(1):39-54.
PMID: 31952396
DNA fingerprinting probes are cloned sequences which simultaneously detect a large number of similar hypervariable loci in the target DNA. The resulting highly polymorphic pattern visualized on an autoradiograph allows...
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Walsh C, Lim A, Marsland A, Ferrell R, Manuck S
Brain Behav Immun
. 2019 Jan;
78:21-30.
PMID: 30639698
Growing evidence links extremes of self-reported sleep duration with higher circulating markers of inflammatory disease risk, although not all findings are consistent. Extremes of sleep duration also associate with activation...
3.
Orlova E, Yeh A, Shi M, Firek B, Ranganathan S, Whitcomb D, et al.
Hum Genet
. 2018 Nov;
138(1):37-47.
PMID: 30392061
Appendicitis affects 9% of Americans and is the most common diagnosis requiring hospitalization of both children and adults. We performed a genome-wide association study of self-reported appendectomy with 18,773 affected...
4.
Ferrell R, Iyengar S
Am J Hum Biol
. 2017 May;
5(4):415-424.
PMID: 28548410
Non-insulin-dependent mellitus (NIDDM) is a common, multifactorial disease with a significant genetic component to disease susceptibility. Biometrical analysis of family data has consistently found evidence of the action of a...
5.
Chakraborty R, Deka R, Jin L, Ferrell R
Am J Hum Biol
. 2017 May;
4(3):387-397.
PMID: 28524310
Because of their high degree of polymorphisms, the variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci have become extremely useful in studies involving gene mapping, determination of identity and relatedness of...
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Ferrell R
Am J Hum Biol
. 2017 May;
1(5):545-553.
PMID: 28514073
Physiological differences between human populatios, manifest as apparent adaptation to extreme environments, as differences in patterna of growth and development, and as differences in prevalence of common disease, are a...
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Jones G, Tromp G, Kuivaniemi H, Gretarsdottir S, Baas A, Giusti B, et al.
Circ Res
. 2016 Dec;
120(2):341-353.
PMID: 27899403
Rationale: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a complex disease with both genetic and environmental risk factors. Together, 6 previously identified risk loci only explain a small proportion of the heritability...
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Schwantes-An T, Zhang J, Chen L, Hartz S, Culverhouse R, Chen X, et al.
Behav Genet
. 2015 Sep;
46(2):151-69.
PMID: 26392368
The mu1 opioid receptor gene, OPRM1, has long been a high-priority candidate for human genetic studies of addiction. Because of its potential functional significance, the non-synonymous variant rs1799971 (A118G, Asn40Asp)...
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Telch M, Beevers C, Rosenfield D, Lee H, Reijntjes A, Ferrell R, et al.
World Psychiatry
. 2015 Jun;
14(2):198-206.
PMID: 26043338
Exposure to war zone stressors is common, yet only a minority of soldiers experience clinically meaningful disturbance in psychological function. Identification of biomarkers that predict vulnerability to war zone stressors...
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Oberlin L, Manuck S, Gianaros P, Ferrell R, Muldoon M, Jennings J, et al.
Neuropsychology
. 2015 Mar;
29(5):693-702.
PMID: 25730733
Objective: Elevated blood pressure and the Apolipoprotein ε4 allele (APOE ε4) are independent risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. We sought to determine whether the combined presence of the APOE ε4...