Meningeal lymphatic dysfunction exacerbates traumatic brain injury pathogenesis

by Ashley C. Bolte, Arun B. Dutta, Mariah E. Hurt, Igor Smirnov, Michael A. Kovacs, Celia A. McKee, Hannah E. Ennerfelt, Daniel Shapiro, Bao H. Nguyen, Elizabeth L. Frost, Catherine R. Lammert, Jonathan Kipnis, John R. Lukens
Published 2020-09-01

Astrocytes promote a protective immune response to brain Toxoplasma gondii infection via IL-33-ST2 signaling.

by Katherine M Still, Samantha J Batista, Carleigh A O'Brien, Oyebola O Oyesola, Simon P Früh, Lauren M Webb, Igor Smirnov, Michael A Kovacs, Maureen N Cowan, Nikolas W Hayes, Jeremy A Thompson, Elia D Tait Wojno, Tajie H Harris
Published 2020-10-01

Massively parallel reporter assays of melanoma risk variants identify MX2 as a gene promoting melanoma

by Jiyeon Choi, Tongwu Zhang, Andrew Vu, Julien Ablain, Matthew M. Makowski, Leandro M. Colli, Mai Xu, Rebecca C. Hennessey, Jinhu Yin, Harriet Rothschild, Cathrin Gräwe, Michael A. Kovacs, Karen M. Funderburk, Myriam Brossard, John Taylor, Bogdan Pasaniuc, Raj Chari, Stephen J. Chanock, Clive J. Hoggart, Florence Demenais, Jennifer H. Barrett, Matthew H. Law, Mark M. Iles, Kai Yu, Michiel Vermeulen, Leonard I. Zon, Kevin M. Brown
Published 2020-06-01

Meta-analysis of GWA studies provides new insights on the genetic architecture of skin pigmentation in recently admixed populations

by Frida Lona-Durazo, Natalia Hernandez-Pacheco, Shaohua Fan, Tongwu Zhang, Jiyeon Choi, Michael A. Kovacs, Stacie K. Loftus, Phuong Le, Melissa Edwards, Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, Celeste Eng, Scott Huntsman, Donglei Hu, Enrique Javier Gómez-Cabezas, Lilia Caridad Marín-Padrón, Jonas Grauholm, Ole Mors, Esteban G. Burchard, Heather L. Norton, William J. Pavan, Kevin M. Brown, Sarah Tishkoff, Maria Pino-Yanes, Sandra Beleza, Beatriz Marcheco-Teruel, Esteban J. Parra
Published 2019-07-01