Publications

1. Mason TE, Ricks-Santi L, Chen W, Apprey V, Joykutty J, Ahaghotu C, Kittles R, Bonney G, Dunston GM.  Association of CD14 variant with prostate cancer in African American men. Prostate.2010 Feb 15;70(3):262-9
2. Ricks-Santi L, Mason T,  Apprey V, Ahaghotu C,  McLaughlin A,  Josie D,  Bonney G, Dunston GM, Pro72Arg polymorphism and prostate cancer in men of African descent. Prostate. 2010 Dec 1;70 (16):1739-45.
3. L. Ricks-Santi, Lara Sucheston, Yang Yang, Jo L Freudenheim, Claudine Isaacs, Marc D. Schwartz , Ramona Dumitrescu, Catalin Marian, Jing Nie, Dominica Vito, Stephen Edge, Peter G. Shields. Association of Rad51 polymorphism with DNA repair in BRCA1 Mutation Carriers and Sporadic Breast Cancer Risk. BMC Cancer. 2011 Jun 27;11:278. PMID: 21708019
4. James Lindesay, Tshela E Mason, Luisel Ricks-Santi, William Hercules, Philip Kurian, Georgia M Dunston. A New Biophysical Metric for Interrogating the Information Content in Human Genome Sequence Variation: Proof of Concept. Physics Archives. 2011 August 17, 2011
5. James Lindesay, Tshela E Mason, Luisel Ricks-Santi, William Hercules, Philip Kurian, Georgia M Dunston. A New Biophysical Metric for Interrogating the Information Content in Human Genome Sequence Variation: Proof of Concept. Journal of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research. Accepted November 29, 2011     
6. L. Ricks-Santi, V. Apprey, T. Mason, B. Wilson, M. Abbas, W. Hernandez, S. Hooker, M. Doura, C. AhaghotuG. Bonney G. Dunston, R. Kittles. Identification of genetic risk associated with prostate cancer using Ancestry Informative Markers Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases , (17 July 2012) | doi:10.1038/pcan.2012.19
7. Yasmine M. Kanaan, Desta Beyene, Mohammad Daremipouran, Augustine Mireku-Boateng, Robert Williams, Aaron Jackson, Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, George E. Bonney, Victor Apprey, Marlon G. Daniel, Anthony Wutoh, JoyAnn Phillips Rohan, Luisel Ricks-Santi and Robert L. Copeland Jr. Association of Cumulative Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure with Prostate Cancer Risk in a Case-control Study of African-American Men. The Open Prostate Cancer Journal, 2012, 5, 8-14
8. L. Ricks-Santi, J. Nie, C. Marian, H. Ochs-Balcom, M. Trevisan, S. Edge, J. Freudenheim, P. Shields. BRCA1 polymorphisms and breast cancer epidemiology in the Western New York Exposures and Breast Cancer (WEB) study Genet Epidemiol. 2013 Jul;37(5):504-11. doi:  10.1002/gepi.21730. Epub 2013 May 14. PMID: 23674270
9. Ashwini K. Esnakula, Luisel J. Ricks-Santi,  Yasmine M. Kanaan, Robert L. DeWitty, Wayne A.I. Frederick, Lori L. Wilson, Victor Apprey, Bert Gold, Julie Sawitzke, Kate M. Im, Tammey J. Naab. Strong association of fascin expression with triple negative breast cancer and basal-like phenotype in African-American women. J Clin Pathol. 2013 Aug 28. doi: 10.1136/jclinpath-2013-201698; PMID: 23986556
10. Luisel Ricks-Santi, et al. “Self-Reported Family History of Cancer Associated with Breast Tumor Clinicopathological features“. Accepted with minor revisions to the Journal of the Community Genetics November 2013.
11. Gao X, McDonald JT, Naidu M, Hahnfeldt P, Hlatky L, A Proposed Quantitative Index for Assessing the Potential Contribution of Reprogramming to Cancer Stem Cell Kinetics, Stem Cells International, vol. 2014, Article ID 249309, 8 pages, 2014.
12. Sasi SP, Song J, Park D, Enderling H, McDonald JT, Gee H, Garrity B, Shtifman A, Yan X, Walsh KX, Natarajan M, Kishore R, Goukassian DA. TNF-TNFR2/p75 Signaling Inhibits Early and Increases Delayed Non-Targeted Effects in Bone Marrow-Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry.  In Press, accepted April 7, 2014.
13. McDonald JT, Briggs C, Szelag H, Peluso M, Schneider D, Perepletchikov A, Lakka Klement, Tuerk I, Hlatky L. Chronic Low Dose-Rate Radiation Down-Regulates Transcription Related to Mitosis and Chromosomal Movement Similar to Acute High Dose in Prostate Cells. International Journal of Radiation Biology, 90(3):231-40; 2014. PMID: 24397407
14. Beheshti A, Pinzer BR, McDonald JT, Stampanoni M, Hlatky L. Early Tumor Development Captured Through Non-Destructive, High Resolution Differential Phase Contrast X-ray Imaging. Radiation Research, 180(5):448-54; 2013. PMID: 24125488
15. Gao X, McDonald JT, Hlatky L, Enderling H. Acute and fractionated irradiation differentially modulate glioma stem cell division. Cancer Research, 73(5):1481-90; March 2013. PMID: 23269274
16. McDonald JT, Kim K, Norris AJ, Vlashi E, Phillips TM, Lagadec C, Della Donna L, Ratikan J, Szelag H, Hlatky L, McBride WH. Ionizing Radiation Activates the Nrf2 Antioxidant Response. Cancer Research, 70(21):8886-95; 2010. PMID: 20940400
17. Kim K, Pollard JM, Norris AJ, McDonald JT, Sun Y, Micewicz E, Pettijohn K, Damoiseaux R, Iwamoto KS, Sayre JW, Price BD, Gatti RA, McBride WH. High Throughput Screening Identifies Two Classes of Antibiotics as Radioprotectors: Tetracyclines and Fluoroquinolones. Clinical Cancer Research, 15(23); 2009. PMID: 19920105
18. Vlashi E, Kim K, Lagadec C, Della Donna L, McDonald JT, Eghbali M, Sayre JW, Stefani E, McBride WH, Pajonk F. In Vivo Imaging, Tracking, and Targeting of Cancer Stem Cells. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 101(5):350-359; 2009. PMID: 19244169
19. Brush J, Lipnick SL, Phillips T, Sitko J, McDonald JT, McBride WH. Molecular mechanisms of late normal tissue injury. Seminars in Radiation Oncology, 17(2):121-130; 2006. PMID: 17395042
20. Pursell Z, McDonald JT, Mathews CK, Kunkel T. Trace amounts of 8-oxo-dGRP in mitochondrial dNTP pools reduce DNA polymerase gamma replication fidelity. Nucleic Acids Research, 36(7):2174-2181; 2008. PMID: 18276636
21. McDonald JT, West WG, Kearfott KJ. An Evaluation of the Kearny Fallout Meter (KFM), a Radiation Detector Constructed of Commonly Available Household Materials. Health Physics Journal, 87(S2):S52-S57; 2004. PMID: 15551780