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CYCLE 4 (September  2019 – August 2024)

  1. Cruz A, Dickerson F, Pulling KR, Garcia K, Gachupin FC, Hsu CH, Chipollini J, Lee BR, Batai K. Impacts of Neighborhood Characteristics and Surgical Treatment Disparities on Overall Mortality in Stage I Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 12;19(4):2050. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19042050. PMID: 35206240; PMCID: PMC8872003.
  2. Tsutsumi E, Stricklin J, Peterson EA, Schroeder JA, Kim S. Cxcl10 Chemokine Induces Migration of ING4-Deficient Breast Cancer Cells via a Novel Cross Talk Mechanism between the Cxcr3 and Egfr Receptors. Mol Cell Biol. 2022 Feb 17;42(2):e0038221. doi: 10.1128/MCB.00382-21. Epub 2021 Dec 6. PMID: 34871062.
  3. Gachupin FC, Lee BR, Chipollini J, Pulling KR, Cruz A, Wong AC, Valencia CI, Hsu CH, Batai K. Renal Cell Carcinoma Surgical Treatment Disparities in American Indian/Alaska Natives and Hispanic Americans in Arizona. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 21;19(3):1185. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031185. PMID: 35162208; PMCID: PMC8834853.
  4. Valencia CI, Gachupin FC, Molina Y, Batai K. Interrogating Patterns of Cancer Disparities by Expanding the Social Determinants of Health Framework to Include Biological Pathways of Social Experiences. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 21;19(4):2455. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19042455. PMID: 35206642; PMCID: PMC8872134.
  5. Bokulich NA, Łaniewski P, Adamov A, Chase DM, Caporaso JG, Herbst-Kralovetz MM. Multi-omics data integration reveals metabolome as the top predictor of the cervicovaginal microenvironment. PLoS Comput Biol. 2022 Feb 23;18(2):e1009876. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009876. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35196323.
  6. Behar-Horenstein LS, Suiter S, Snyder F, Laurila K. Consensus Building to Inform Common Evaluation Metrics for the Comprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) Program. J Cancer Educ. 2021 Nov 6. doi: 10.1007/s13187-021-02103-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34741221.
  7. Harris, R.B.; Brown, H.E.; Begay, R.L.; Sanderson, P.R.; Chief, C.; Monroy, F.P.; Oren, E. Helicobacter pylori Prevalence and Risk Factors in Three Rural Indigenous Communities of Northern Arizona. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 797. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020797
  8. Arambula Solomon TG, Jones D, Laurila K, Ritchey J, Cordova-Marks FM, Hunter AU, Villanueva B. Using the Community Readiness Model to Assess American Indian Communities Readiness to Address Cancer Prevention and Control Programs. J Cancer Educ. 2021 Nov 29. doi: 10.1007/s13187-021-02100-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34841496.
  9. Wu Z, Han Y, Caporaso JG, Bokulich N, Mohamadkhani A, Moayyedkazemi A, Hua X, Kamangar F, Wan Y, Suman S, Zhu B, Hutchinson A, Dagnall C, Jones K, Hicks B, Shi J, Malekzadeh R, Abnet CC, Pourshams A, Vogtmann E. Cigarette Smoking and Opium Use in Relation to the Oral Microbiota in Iran. Microbiol Spectr. 2021 Oct 31;9(2):e0013821. doi: 10.1128/Spectrum.00138-21. Epub 2021 Sep 15. PMID: 34523990; PMCID: PMC8557864.
  10. Quinonez-Zanabria E, Valencia CI, Asif W, Zeng J, Wong AC, Cruz A, Chipollini J, Lee BR, Gachupin FC, Hsu CH, Batai K. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Preoperative Surgical Wait Time and Renal Cell Carcinoma Tumor Characteristics. Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Sep 8;9(9):1183. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9091183. PMID: 34574957; PMCID: PMC8471651.
  11. Bordeaux SJ, Baca AW, Begay RL, Gachupin FC, Caporaso JG, Herbst-Kralovetz MM, Lee NR. Designing Inclusive HPV Cancer Vaccines and Increasing Uptake among Native Americans-A Cultural Perspective Review. Curr Oncol. 2021 Sep 24;28(5):3705-3716. doi: 10.3390/curroncol28050316. PMID: 34590604; PMCID: PMC8482231.
  12. Jones CW, Morales CG, Eltiste SL, Yanchik-Slade FE, Lee NR, Nilsson BL. Capacity for increased surface area in the hydrophobic core of β-sheet peptide bilayer nanoribbons. J Pept Sci. 2021 Sep;27(9):e3334. doi: 10.1002/psc.3334. Epub 2021 Jun 20. PMID: 34151480; PMCID: PMC8349901.
  13. Yazzie D, Tallis K, Curley C, Sanderson PR, Eddie R, Shin S, Behrens TK, George C, Antone-Nez R, Jumbo-Rintila S, Begay GA, de Heer HD. The Navajo Nation Healthy Diné Nation Act: A Description of Community Wellness Projects Funded by a 2% Tax on Minimal-to-No-Nutritious-Value Foods. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2021 May 13:10.1097/PHH.0000000000001371. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001371. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34016908; PMCID: PMC8589869.
  14. Dillon MR, Bolyen E, Adamov A, Belk A, Borsom E, Burcham Z, Debelius JW, Deel H, Emmons A, Estaki M, Herman C, Keefe CR, Morton JT, Oliveira RRM, Sanchez A, Simard A, Vázquez-Baeza Y, Ziemski M, Miwa HE, Kerere TA, Coote C, Bonneau R, Knight R, Oliveira G, Gopalasingam P, Kaehler BD, Cope EK, Metcalf JL, Robeson Ii MS, Bokulich NA, Caporaso JG. Experiences and lessons learned from two virtual, hands-on microbiome bioinformatics workshops. PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Jun 24;17(6):e1009056. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009056. PMID: 34166363; PMCID: PMC8224931.
  15. Williamson HJ, Armin JS, Stakely E, Nasimi B, Joseph DH, Meyers J, Baldwin JA. Community-Engaged Research to Address Health Disparities of Indigenous Women With Disabilities. Ann Int Occup Ther. 2021;4(3):e158-e165. doi: 10.3928/24761222-20201202-02. Epub 2021 May 21. PMID: 34676309; PMCID: PMC8528383.
  16. Samtani G, Bassford TL, Williamson HJ, Armin JS. Are Researchers Addressing Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Among People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the U.S.? A Scoping Review. Intellect Dev Disabil. 2021 Apr 1;59(2):141-154. doi: 10.1352/1934-9556-59.2.141. PMID: 33793784.
  17. Vogtmann E, Han Y, Caporaso JG, Bokulich N, Mohamadkhani A, Moayyedkazemi A, Hua X, Kamangar F, Wan Y, Suman S, Zhu B, Hutchinson A, Dagnall C, Jones K, Hicks B, Shi J, Malekzadeh R, Abnet CC, Pourshams A. Oral microbial community composition is associated with pancreatic cancer: A case-control study in Iran. Cancer Med. 2020 Jan;9(2):797-806. doi: 10.1002/cam4.2660. Epub 2019 Nov 21. PMID: 31750624; PMCID: PMC6970053.
  18. Magdaleno C, House T, Pawar JS, Carvalho S, Rajasekaran N, Varadaraj A. Fibronectin assembly regulates lumen formation in breast acini. J Cell Biochem. 2021 May;122(5):524-537. doi: 10.1002/jcb.29885. Epub 2021 Jan 13. PMID: 33438770; PMCID: PMC8016724.
  19. Chen CY, Lee W, Renhowe PA, Jung J, Montfort WR. Solution structures of the Shewanella woodyi H-NOX protein in the presence and absence of soluble guanylyl cyclase stimulator IWP-051. Protein Sci. 2021 Feb;30(2):448-463. doi: 10.1002/pro.4005. Epub 2020 Dec 10. PMID: 33236796; PMCID: PMC7784750.
  20. Valencia CI, Asmar S, Hsu CH, Gachupin FC, Wong AC, Chipollini J, Lee BR, Batai K. Renal Cell Carcinoma Health Disparities in Stage and Mortality among American Indians/Alaska Natives and Hispanic Americans: Comparison of National Cancer Database and Arizona Cancer Registry Data. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Feb 27;13(5):990. doi: 10.3390/cancers13050990. PMID: 33673457; PMCID: PMC7956712.
  21. Bycura D, Santos AC, Shiffer A, Kyman S, Winfree K, Sutliffe J, Pearson T, Sonderegger D, Cope E, Caporaso JG. Impact of Different Exercise Modalities on the Human Gut Microbiome. Sports (Basel). 2021 Jan 21;9(2):14. doi: 10.3390/sports9020014. PMID: 33494210; PMCID: PMC7909775.
  22. Batai K, Hooker S, Kittles RA. Leveraging genetic ancestry to study health disparities. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2021 Jun;175(2):363-375. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24144. Epub 2020 Sep 16. PMID: 32935870; PMCID: PMC8246846.
  23. Batai K, Sanderson PR, Hsu CH, Joshweseoma L, Russell D, Joshweseoma L, Ojeda J, Burhansstipanov L, Brown SR, Ami D, Saboda K, Harris RB. Factors Associated with Cancer Screening Among Hopi Men. J Cancer Educ. 2020 Oct 20:10.1007/s13187-020-01900-4. doi: 10.1007/s13187-020-01900-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33083892; PMCID: PMC8560009.
  24. Magdaleno C, Dixon L, Rajasekaran N, Varadaraj A. HIFα independent mechanisms in renal carcinoma cells modulate divergent outcomes in fibronectin assembly mediated by hypoxia and CoCl2. Sci Rep. 2020 Oct 29;10(1):18560. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-75756-5. PMID: 33122751; PMCID: PMC7596723.
  25. Bea JW, de Heer H’, Kinslow B, Valdez L, Yazzie E, Curley P, Dalgai S, Schwartz AL. Perceptions of Cancer Causes, Prevention, and Treatment Among Navajo Cancer Survivors. J Cancer Educ. 2020 Jun;35(3):493-500. doi: 10.1007/s13187-019-01487-5. PMID: 30756323; PMCID: PMC6690813.
  26. Bhatt IS, Dias R, Washnik N, Wang J, Guthrie O, Skelton M, Lane J, Wilder J. Association Analysis of Candidate Gene Polymorphisms and Audiometric Measures of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Young Musicians. Otol Neurotol. 2020 Jun;41(5):e538-e547. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000002615. PMID: 32176153; PMCID: PMC7343220.
  27. Gachupin FC, Garcia CA, Romero MD. An American Indian Patient Experience. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2019 Nov;30(4S):62-65. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2019.0116. PMID: 31735719; PMCID: PMC7524544.
  28. Chief C, Sanderson PR, Willeto AAA, Yazzie A, McKinley A, Monroy FP, Harris RB, Oren E. “Nobody Is Talking About It”: Diné (Navajo) Communities Speak About Stomach Cancer and Helicobacter pylori Infections. J Cancer Educ. 2020 Jul 22. doi: 10.1007/s13187-020-01831-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32700241.
  29. Rock T, Ingram JC. Traditional Ecological Knowledge Policy Considerations for Abandoned Uranium Mines on Navajo Nation. Hum Biol. 2020 Nov 17;92(1):19-26. doi: 10.13110/humanbiology.92.1.01. PMID: 33231023; PMCID: PMC8477793.
  30. Gachupin FC, Ingram JC, Laurila KA, Lluria-Prevatt MC, Tefuel-Shone NI, Briehl MM. NACP: Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention. Cancer Health Disparities. 2020.
  31. Batai K, Harb-De la Rosa A, Zeng J, Chipollini JJ, Gachupin FC, Lee BR. Racial/ethnic disparities in renal cell carcinoma: Increased risk of early-onset and variation in histologic subtypes. Cancer Med. 2019 Nov;8(15):6780-6788. doi: 10.1002/cam4.2552. Epub 2019 Sep 11. PMID: 31509346; PMCID: PMC6826053.
  32. Łaniewski P, Ilhan ZE, Herbst-Kralovetz MM. The microbiome and gynaecological cancer development, prevention and therapy. Nat Rev Urol. 2020 Apr;17(4):232-250. doi: 10.1038/s41585-020-0286-z. Epub 2020 Feb 18. PMID: 32071434.
  33. Jani C. Ingram, Lindsey Jones, Jonathan Credo*, Tommy Rock. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A38, 031003 (2020); doi: 10.1116/1.5142283 View Online Export Citation Cross Mark Submitted: 11 December 2019 · Accepted: 25 February 2020 · Published Online: 20 March 2020
  34. Ken Batai, Alfredo Harb‐De la Rosa, Jiping Zeng, Juan J. Chipollini, Francine C. Gachupin, Benjamin R. Lee. Racial/ethnic disparities in renal cell carcinoma: Increased risk of early‐onset and variation in histologic subtypes. Cancer Med. 2019 Nov;8(15):6780-6788. doi: 10.1002/cam4.2552. Epub 2019 Sep 11. PMID: 31509346 PMCID:PMC6826053
  35. Muzny CA, Łaniewski P, Schwebke JR, Herbst-Kralovetz MM. Curr Opin Infect Dis. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases: February 2020 – Volume 33 – Issue 1 – p 59-65. Host-vaginal microbiota interactions in the pathogenesis of bacterial vaginosis. doi: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000620
  36. Emily Vogtmann, Yongli Han, J. Gregory Caporaso, Nicholas Bokulich, Ashraf Mohamadkhani, Alireza Moayyedkazemi, Xing Hua, Farin Kamangar, Yunhu Wan, Shalabh Suman, Bin Zhu, Amy Hutchinson, Casey Dagnall, Kristine Jones, Belynda Hicks, Jianxin Shi, Reza Malekzadeh, Christian C. Abnet, Akram Pourshams. Oral microbial community composition is associated with pancreatic cancer: A case‐control study in Iran. Received: 25 July 2019 |Revised: 15 September 2019 |Accepted: 11 October 2019 DOI:
  37. T. Rock, R. Camplain, N.I. Teufel-Shone, J.C. Ingram. Traditional Sheep Consumption by Navajo People in Cameron, Arizona. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Oct 30;16(21). pii: E4195. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214195. PMCID: PMC6862166 PMID: 31671510

  38. Armin JS, Williamson HJ, Begay A, Etcitty J, Attakai A, Russell K, Baldwin JA.
    Adapting a Cancer Screening Education Program for Native American Women with Disabilities.
    Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jul 29;19(15):9280. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159280. PMID: 35954636; PMCID: PMC9368495.

  39. Armin JS, Williamson HJ, Rothers J, Lee MS, Baldwin JA.
    An Adapted Cancer Screening Education Program for Native American Women With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers: Protocol for Feasibility and Acceptability Testing.
    JMIR Res Protoc. 2023 Feb 13;12:e37801. doi: 10.2196/37801. PMID: 36780214; PMCID: PMC9972207.

  40. Atwell B, Chen CY, Christofferson M, Montfort WR, Schroeder J.
    Sorting nexin-dependent therapeutic targeting of oncogenic epidermal growth factor receptor.
    Cancer Gene Ther. 2023 Feb;30(2):267-276. doi: 10.1038/s41417-022-00541-7. PMID: 36253541; PMCID: PMC9935382.

  41. Badgandi HB, Weichsel A, Montfort WR.
    Nitric oxide delivery and heme-assisted S-nitrosation by the bedbug nitrophorin.
    J Inorg Biochem. 2023 Sep;246:112263. doi: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2023.112263. PMID: 37290359; PMCID: PMC10332259.

  42. Bailey KS, Brown HE, Lekic V, Pradeep K, Merchant JL, Harris RB.
    Helicobacter pylori treatment knowledge, access and barriers: A cross-sectional study.
    Helicobacter. 2023 Apr;28(2):e12954. doi: 10.1111/hel.12954. PMID: 36748455.

  43. Batai K, Sanderson PR, Joshweseoma L, Burhansstipanov L, Russell D, Joshweseoma L, Hsu CH.
    Formative Assessment to Improve Cancer Screenings in American Indian Men: Native Patient Navigator and mHealth Texting.
    Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 May 27;19(11):6546. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19116546. PMID: 35682130; PMCID: PMC9180909.

  44. Bea JW, Charley B, Lane T, Kinslow B, de Heer H, Yazzie E, Yellowhair J, Hudson J, Wertheim BC, Schwartz AL.
    Formative Evaluation and Adaptation of a Navajo Cancer Survivor Physical Activity Intervention to Serve a Broader Native American Cancer Survivor Community.
    Health Promot Pract. 2022 Nov 26:15248399221131318. doi: 10.1177/15248399221131318. PMID: 36433816; PMCID: PMC10213142.

  45. Bea JW, de Heer H, Lane T, Charley B, Yazzie E, Yellowhair J, et al.
    Restoring Balance: A Physical Activity Intervention for Native American Cancer Survivors and Their Familial Support Persons.
    Exercise Sport and Movement; 2023. PMCID: PMC10508873 (Embargoed until April 1, 2024).

  46. Cordova-Marks FM, Carson WO, Monetathchi A, Little A, Erdrich J.
    Native and Indigenous Populations and Gastric Cancer: A Worldwide Review.
    Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 29;19(9):5437. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095437. PMID: 35564831; PMCID: PMC9100179.

  47. Curley C, Eddie R, Tallis K, Lane TS, Yazzie D, Sanderson PR, Lorts C, Shin S, Behrens TK, George C, Antone-Nez R, Ashley C, de Heer HD.
    The Navajo Nation Healthy Diné Nation Act: Community Support of a 2% Tax on Unhealthy Foods.
    J Public Health Manag Pract. 2023 Sep-Oct;29(5):622-632. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001753. PMID: 37253351; PMCID: PMC10363222.

  48. Ding L, Sheriff S, Sontz RA, Merchant JL.
    Schlafen4+-MDSC in Helicobacter-induced gastric metaplasia reveals role for GTPases.
    Front Immunol. 2023 Jun 2;14:1139391. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1139391. PMID: 37334372; PMCID: PMC10272601.

  49. Eddie R, Curley C, Yazzie D, Francisco S, Antone-Nez R, Begay GA, Sanderson PR, George C, Shin S, Jumbo-Rintila S, Teufel-Shone N, Baldwin J, de Heer HD.
    Practicing Tribal Sovereignty Through a Tribal Health Policy: Implementation of the Healthy Diné Nation Act on the Navajo Nation.
    Prev Chronic Dis. 2022 Nov 23;19:E78. doi: 10.5888/pcd19.220106. PMID: 36417292; PMCID: PMC9717698.

  50. Gachupin FC, Caston E, Chavez C, Bernal J, Cager P, Harris D, et al.
    Primary Disease Prevention for Southwest American Indian Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Camp in a Box.
    Front Sociol. 2021 Mar 9;6:611972. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.611972. PMID: 33869562; PMCID: PMC8022461.

  51. Garcia DO, Valdez LA, Aceves B, Bell ML, Rabe BA, Villavicencio EA, Marrero DG, Melton F, Hooker SP.
    mHealth-Supported Gender- and Culturally Sensitive Weight Loss Intervention for Hispanic Men With Overweight and Obesity: Single-Arm Pilot Study.
    JMIR Form Res. 2022 Sep 21;6(9):e37637. doi: 10.2196/37637. PMID: 36129735; PMCID: PMC9536522.

  52. Godfrey TM, Villavicencio EA, Barra K, Sanderson PR, Shea K, Sun X, Garcia DO.
    Advancing Liver Cancer Prevention for American Indian Populations in Arizona: An Integrative Review.
    Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 10;19(6):3268. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19063268. PMID: 35328956; PMCID: PMC8948724.

  53. Smith MS, Teufel-Shone N.
    Editorial: Indigenous knowledge and chronic disease prevention among the first people of North America.
    Front Public Health. 2023 May 24;11:1150221. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1150221. PMID: 37293612; PMCID: PMC10246768.

CYCLE 3 (Sep 2014 – Aug 2019)

  1. Weichsel A, Kievenaar JA, *Curry R, Croft JT, Montfort WR. Protein Sci. 2019 Oct;28(10):1830-1839. doi: 10.1002/pro.3707. Epub 2019 Aug 27.
    Instability in a coiled-coil signaling helix is conserved for signal transduction in soluble guanylyl cyclase. DOI: 10.1002/pro.3707
  2. *Jonathan Credo, Jaclyn Torkelson, Tommy Rock, Jani C. Ingram. (2019) Quantification of Elemental Contaminants in Unregulated Water across Western Navajo Nation, Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Jul 31;16(15). pii: E2727. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16152727
  3. *Bolyen E, Rideout JR, Dillon MR, Bokulich NA, Abnet C, Al-Ghalith GA, Alexander H, Alm EJ, Arumugam M, Asnicar F, Bai Y, Bisanz JE, Bittinger K, Brejnrod A, Brislawn CJ, Brown CT, Callahan BJ, Caraballo-Rodríguez AM, *Chase J, Cope E, Da Silva R, Diener C, Dorrestein PC, Douglas GM, Durall DM, Duvallet C, Edwardson CF, Ernst M, Estaki M, Fouquier J, Gauglitz JM, Gibbons SM, Gibson DL, Gonzalez A, *Gorlick K, Guo J, Hillmann B, Holmes S, Holste H, Huttenhower C, Huttley G, Janssen S, Jarmusch AK, Jiang L, Kaehler B, Kang KB, *Keefe CR, Keim P, Kelley ST, Knights D, Koester I, Kosciolek T, *Kreps J, Langille MG, Lee J, Ley R, Liu Y, Loftfield E, Lozupone C, Maher M, Marotz C, Martin B, McDonald D, McIver LJ, Melnik AV, Metcalf JL, Morgan SC, Morton J, *Naimey AT, Navas-Molina JA, Nothias LF, Orchanian SB, Pearson T, Peoples SL, Petras D, Preuss ML, Pruesse E, Rasmussen LB, Rivers A, Robeson, II MS, Rosenthal P, Segata N, Shaffer M, *Shiffer A, Sinha R, Song SJ, Spear JR, Swafford AD, Thompson LR, Torres PJ, Trinh P, Tripathi A, Turnbaugh PJ, Ul-Hasan S, van der Hooft JJ, Vargas F, Vázquez-Baeza Y, Vogtmann E, von Hippel M, Walters W, Wan Y, Wang M, Warren J, Weber KC, Williamson CH, Willis AD, Xu ZZ, Zaneveld JR, Zhang Y, Zhu Q, Knight R, Caporaso JG. Reproducible, interactive, scalable, and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2. Nature Biotechnology volume 37, pages 852–857 (2019) doi: 10.1038/s41587-019-0209-9.
  4. Bokulich NA, Maldonado J, Kang DW, Krajmalnik-Brown R, Caporaso JG. (2019) Rapidly Processed Stool Swabs Approximate Stool Microbiota Profiles. mSphere. Apr 10;4(2). pii: e00208-19. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00208-19. PMID: 30971445 PMCID: PMC6458435
  5. Selmin OI, Donovan MG, Skovan B, Paine-Murieta GD, Romagnolo DF. (2019) Arsenic-induced ESR1 and BRCA1 CpG promoter methylation in MCF7 breast cancer cells and mouse mammary gland xenografts associate with resistance to tamoxifen. Int J Oncol. 2019 Mar; 54(3):869-878. doi: 10.3892/ijo.2019.4687. Epub 2019 Jan 15. PMID: 30664189 PMCID: PMC6365020
  6. A Florea, HE Brown, RB Harris and E Oren. Ethnic Disparities in Gastric Cancer Presentation and Screening Practice in US: Analysis of 1997-2010 Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results-Medicare Data. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention (Published online first March 26, 2019 DOI:1158/1055-9965.EPI-18-0471–
  7. de Heer HD, Bea JW, Kinslow B, Thuraisingam R, Valdez L, Yazzie E, Schwartz AL. (2019) Development of a culturally relevant physical activity intervention for Navajo cancer survivors: The Physical Activity Among Native American Cancer Survivors Study. Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice. 2 (1). ACCEPTED
  8. Teufel-Shone N, Schwartz AL, Hardy LJ, de Heer HD, Williamson HJ, Dunn DJ, Polingyumptewa K, Chief C. Supporting New Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public health 2019, 16(1), 44; PMCID: PMC6338906 PMID: 30585213
  9. Bea J, de Heer  HD, Kinslow B, Valdez L, Yazzie E, Curley, P, Dalgai, S, and Schwartz, AL.. Perceptions of cancer causes, prevention, and treatment among Navajo cancer survivors. Journal of Cancer Education. Ref.:  Ms. No. JCED-D-18-00365R3 (accepted 2/1/2019) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-019-01487-5 First Online 12 February 2019
  10. Pearson, T., Caporaso, J., Yellowhair, M., Bokulich, N., Padi, M., Roe D., Wertheim, B., Martinez, J., Bilagody, C., Hornstra, H., Alberts, D., Lance, P., Thompson, P. (2019) Effects of Ursodeoxycholic Acid on the gut microbiome and colorectal adenoma development. Cancer Medicine 2019 Feb;8(2):617-628. PMCID:PMC6382922
  11. Selmin, O.I., Donovan, M.G., Skovan, B., Paine-Murieta, G.D., Romagnolo, D.F. (2019) Arsenic-induced BRCA1 CpG promoter methylation associates with downregulation of ERalpha and resistance to tamoxifen in MCF7 breast cancer cells and mouse mammary tumor xenografts. International Journal of Oncology. 54(3):869-878. doi: 10.3892/ijo.2019.4687. Epub 2019 Jan 15.PMCID:PMC6365020
  12. Batai, K., Harb-De la Rosa, A., Lwin, A., Chaus, F., Gachupin, F. C., Price, E., and Lee, B. R. (2019) Racial and ethnic disparities in renal cell carcinoma: an analysis of clinical characteristics. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, 2019 Feb;17(1):e195-e202. doi: 10.1016/j.clgc.2018.10.012. Epub 2018 Oct 27.l PMCID: PMC6348034.
  13. Meisel JS, Nasko DJ, Brubach B, Cepeda-Espinoza V, Chopyk J, Corrada-Bravo H, Fedarko M, Ghurye J, Javkar K, Olson ND, Shah N, Allard SM, Bazinet AL, Bergman NH, Brown A, Caporaso JG, Conlan S, DiRuggiero J, Forry SP, Hasan NA, Kralj J, Luethy PM, Milton DK, Ondov BD, Preheim S, Ratnayake S, Rogers SM, Rosovitz MJ, Sakowski EG, Schliebs NO, Sommer DD, Ternus KL, Uritskiy G, Zhang SX, Pop M, Treangen TJ. (2018) Current progress and future opportunities in applications of bioinformatics for biodefense and pathogen detection: report from the Winter Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up, College Park, MD, January 10, 2018. Microbiome. Nov 5;6(1):197. doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0582-5. PMID: 30396371 PMCID: PMC6219074
  14. Batai K, Gachupin FC, Estrada AL, Garcia DO, Gomez J, Kittles RA (2018) Patterns of Cancer Related Health Disparities in Arizona. Cancer Health Disparities 2:e1-e20. doi:10.9777/chd.2018.10019.
  15. Martinez JA, Yang J, Wertheim BC, Roe DJ, Schriewer A, Lance P, Alberts DS, Hammock BD, Thompson PA. (2018) Celecoxib use and circulating oxylipins in a colon polyp prevention trial. PLoS One. 2018 Apr 26;13(4):e0196398. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196398. eCollection 2018. PMID: 29698447 PMCID: PMC5919576
  16. Bolyen, E., Rideout, J. R., Chase, J., Pitman, T. A., Shiffer, A., Mercurio, W., Dillon, M. R., and Caporaso, J. G. (2018) An introduction to applied bioinformatics: a free, open, and interactive text. Journal of Open Source Education, 1(5), 27, PMCID:PMC6343836.
  17. Bokulich, N. A., Dillon, M. R., Zhang, Y., Rideout, J. R., Bolyen, E., Li, H., Albert, P. S. and Caporaso, J. G. (2018) q2-longitudinal: Longitudinal and paired-sample analyses of microbiome data. mSystems, 3(6): e00219-18. PMCID: PMC6247016
  18. Bokulich, N. A., Dillon, M. R., Bolyen, E., Kaehler, B. D., Huttley, G. A. and Caporaso, J. G. (2018) q2-sample-classifier: machine-learning tools for microbiome classification and regression. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(30), 934, NIHMS 1003366 https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.00934
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  20. Bea, J. W., Hsu, C. H., Blew, R. M., Irving, A. P., Caan, B. J., Kwan, M. L., Abraham, I., Going, S. B. (2017) Use of iDXA spine scans to evaluate total and visceral abdominal fat. American Journal of Human Biology. 30(1) Epub. PMCID: PMC5785430
  21. Schwartz, A. L., de Heer, H. D., and Bea, J. W. (2017) Initiating exercise interventions to promote wellness in cancer patients and survivors. Oncology, 31(10), 711-717. PMCID:PMC6361522
  22. Huenneke, L. F., Stearns, D. M., Martinez, J. D., Laurila, K. (2017) Key strategies for building research capacity of University faculty members. Innovative Higher Education, 42, 421–435. PMCID: PMC5722023
  23. Sanderson, P., Gene, E., Scranton, Willeto, A. A. A., Joshweseoma, L., Hardy, L. J. (2018) A southwestern tribal perspective on traditional and commercial tobacco. Cancer Health Disparities, 1, e1-e10.; NIHMS1003827; doi:10.9777/chd.2018.10004 –
  24. Yellowhair, M., Romanotto, M. R., Stearns, D. M., Lantz, C. R. (2018) Uranyl acetate induced DNA single strand breaks and AP sites in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, 349, 29 – 38. PMCID: PMC5972677
  25. Bokulich, N. A., Kaehler, B. D., Rideout, R., Dillon, M., Bolyen, E., Knight, R., Huttley, G. A., Caporaso, J. G. (2018) Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier plugin. Microbiome, 6, 90. PMCID: PMC5956843
  26. Bea, J. W., de Heer, H., Valdez, L., Kinslow, B., Yazzie, E., Lee, M. C., Pearl Nez, P., Dalgai, S., Schwartz, A. (2018) Physical activity among Navajo cancer survivors: a qualitative study. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 25, 54-73. PMID: 29889948; PMCID: PMC6322393
  27. Gilbert, J, Blaser, M, Caporaso, JG, Jansson, J, Lynch, SV, and Knight, R. (2018) Current understanding of the human microbiome. Nature Medicine 24, 392-400. doi: 10.1038/nm.4517. PMID:29634682; NIHMS1003429
  28. Janoušek, V., Yanchukov, A., Karn R. C. and Laukaitis C. M. (2016) The role of retrotransposons in gene family expansions in the human and mouse genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution, 8(9), 2632-2650. PMCID: PMC5631067
  29. Cordova, F. M., Harris, R. B., Teufel-Shone, N. I., Nisson, P. L., Joshweseoma, L. Brown, S. R., Sanderson, P. R., Ami, D., Saboda, K., Mastergeorge, A. M. and Gerald, L. B. (2016) Caregiving on the Hopi reservation: findings from the 2012 Hopi survey of cancer and chronic disease. Journal of Community Health, 41(6), 1177-1186. PMCID: PMC6482028
  30. Chung, A. G., Belone, P. M., Bímová, B. V., Karn, R. C. and Laukaitis, C. M. (2017) Studies of an androgen-binding protein knockout corroborate a role for salivary ABP in mouse communication. Genetics, 205(4), 1517-1527. PMCID: PMC5378110
  31. Schwartz, A. L. (2017) Exercise for Breast Cancer Survivors – 3rd Edition, Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics
  32. Jim, V., LaViolette C., Briehl, M. M. and Ingram, J. C. (2017) Spatial distribution of uranium in mice kidneys detected by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Journal of Applied Bioanalysis, 3(3), 43-38. PMCID: PMC5699501
  33. Pezer, Z., Chung, A. G., Karn, R. C. and Laukaitis, C. M. (2017) Analysis of copy number variation in the Abp gene regions of two house mouse subspecies suggests divergence during the gene family expansions. Genome Biology & Evolution, 9(6), evx099. PMCID: PMC5513543
  34. Bokulich, N.A., Rideout, J.R., Mercurio, W.G., Shiffer, A., Wolfe, B., Maurice, C.F., Dutton, R.J., Turnbaugh, P.J., Knight, R., Caporaso, J.G. (2016) mockrobiota: a public resource for microbiome bioinformatics benchmarking. mSystems. 1(5). pii: e00062-16. PMCID: PMC5080401
  35. Karn, R. C. and Laukaitis, C. M. (2015) Comparative proteomics of mouse tears and saliva: Evidence from large protein families for functional adaptation. Proteomes, 3(3), 283-297. PMCID: PMC5217377
  36. Laurila, K., Ingram, J. C., Briehl, M. M. and Trotter, R. T. (2015) Weaving the web: evaluation strategies to help Native-American undergraduate research training programs navigate students to success. CURQ on the Web, 35(3), 4. PMCID: PMC4671630
  37. Brown, S. R., Joshweseoma, L., Saboda, K., Sanderson, P., Ami, D. and Harris, R. (2015) Cancer screening on the Hopi reservation: a model for success in a Native American community. Journal of Community Health, 40(6), 1165-1172. PMCID: PMC4704091
  38. Huynh, J. and Laukaitis, C. (2016) Panel testing reveals nonsense and missense CDH1 mutations in families without hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. Medical Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 4(2), 232-236. PMCID: PMC4799867
  39. Bea, J., de Heer, H. D. and Schwartz, A. (2016) Chapter 17: Symptom management and weight gain for cancer patients. In: Cancer Supportive Care. (Eds.: Alberts, A., Weihs,K. & Lluria-Prevatt, M.). Springer International Publishing, pp. 241-269. Print ISBN 978-3-319-24812-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24814-1 BOOK CHAPTER
  40. Romagnolo, D. F., Daniels, K. D., Grunwald, J. T., Ramos, S. A., Propper, C. R. and Selmin, O. I. (2016) Epigenetics of breast cancer: modifying role of environmental and bioactive food compounds. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, 60, 1310–1329. PMCID: PMC5580834
  41. Bea, J. W., Blew, R. M., Going, S. B., Hsu, C.-H., Lee, M. C., Lee, V. R., Caan, B. J., Kwan, M. L. and Lohman, T. G. (2016) Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry spine scans to determine abdominal fat in post-menopausal women. American Journal of Human Biology. 28(6), 918-926. PMCID: PMC5121041
  42. Campbell, N. R. and Ingram, J. C. (2014) Characterization of 234U/238U activity ratios and potential inorganic uranium complexation species in unregulated water sources in the southwest region of the Navajo reservation. In Water Reclamation and Sustainability. (pp. 77-94) Elsevier Inc. ISBN: 978-0-12-411645-0. BOOK CHAPTER
  43. Karn, R. C., Chung, A. G. and Laukaitis, C. M. (2014) Did androgen-binding protein paralogs undergo neo- and/or subfunctionalization as the Abp gene region expanded in the mouse genome? PLoS ONE, 9(12), e115454. PMCID: PMC4274081
  44. Trotter II, R. T., Laurila, K., Alberts, D. and Huenneke, L. F. (2015) A diagnostic evaluation model for complex research partnerships with community engagement: the partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention (NACP) model. Evaluation and Program Planning, 48, 10-20. PMCID: PMC4293028
  45. Wilson, J., Zuniga, M. C., Yazzie, F. and Stearns, D. M. (2015) Synergistic cytotoxicity and DNA strand breaks in cells and plasmid DNA exposed to uranyl acetate and ultraviolet radiation. Journal of Applied Toxicology, 35(4), 338-349. PMCID: PMC4428325
  46. Schwartz, A.L., Biddle-Newberry, M. and de Heer, H. D. (2015) Randomized trial of exercise and an online recovery tool to improve rehabilitation outcomes of cancer survivors, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 43(2), 143-149. PMCID: PMC4678001
  47. Briehl, M. M. (2015) Oxygen in human health from life to death – An approach to teaching redox biology and signaling to graduate and medical students. Redox Biology, 5, 124–139. PMCID: PMC4412967

 

CYCLE 2 (Sep 2009 – Aug 2014)

  1. Purohit, R., Weichsel, A. and Montfort, W. R. (2013) Crystal structure of the Alpha subunit PAS domain from soluble guanylyl cyclase. Protein Science, 22(10), 1439–1444. PMCID: PMC3795502
  2. Karn, R. C., Chung, A. G. and Laukaitis, C. M. (2013) Shared and unique proteins in human, mouse and rat saliva proteomes: footprints of functional adaptation. Proteomes, 1(3), 275-289. PMCID: PMC4051352
  3. Wilson, J., Young, A., Civitello, E. R. and Stearns, D. M. (2014) Analysis of heat-labile sites generated by reactions of depleted uranium and ascorbate in plasmid DNA. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 19(1), 45-57. PMCID: PMC3880606
  4. Purohit, R., Fritz, B. G., The, J., Issaian, A., Weichsel, A., David, C. L., Campbell, E., Hausrath, A. C., Rassouli-Taylor, L., Garcin, E. D., Gage, M. J. and Montfort W. R. (2014) YC-1 binding to the beta subunit of soluble guanylyl cyclase overcomes allosteric inhibition by the alpha subunit. Biochemistry, 53(1), 101-114. PMCID: PMC3914721
  5. Gustafson, H. L., Yao, S., Goldman, B. H., Lee, K., Spier, C. M., LeBlanc, M. L., Rimsza, L. M., Cerhan, J. R., Habermann, T. M., Link, B. K., Maurer, M. J., Slager, S. L., Persky, D. O., Miller, T. P., Fisher, R. I., Ambrosone, C. B. and Briehl, M. M. (2014) Genetic polymorphisms in oxidative stress related genes are associated with outcomes following treatment for aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. American Journal of Hematology, 89(6), 639-645. PMCID: PMC4137041
  6. Asselin, S. and Ingram, J. C. (2014) Uranium leaching from contaminated soil utilizing rhamnolipid, EDTA and citric acid. Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2014, 462514. PMCID: PMC5699500
  7. Briehl, M. M., Tome, M. E., Wilkinson, S. T., Jaramillo, M. C. and Lee, K. (2014) Mitochondria and redox homoeostasis as chemotherapeutic targets. Biochemical Society Transactions, 42(4), 939-944. PMCID: PMC5564327
  8. Nelson-Moseke, A. C., Jeter, J. M., Cui, H., Roe, D. J., Chambers, S. K. and Laukaitis, C. M. (2013) An unusual BRCA mutation distribution in a high risk cancer genetics clinic. Familial Cancer, 12(1), 83-87. PMCID: PMC3563940
  9. Ma, W. K., Hendrix, R., Stewart, C., Campbell, E. V., Lavarias, M., Morris, K. and Gage, M. J. (2013) FlgM proteins from different bacteria exhibit different structural characteristics. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1834(4), 808-816. PMCID: PMC3650836
  10. Janoušek, V., Karn, R. C. and Laukaitis, C. M. (2013) The role of retrotransposons in gene family expansions: insights from the mouse Abp gene family. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13:107. PMCID: PMC3669608
  11. Ramanathan, S., Mazzalupo, S., Boitano, S. and Montfort, W. R. (2011) Thrombospondin-1 and angiotensin II inhibit soluble guanylyl cyclase through an increase in intracellular calcium concentration. Biochemistry, 50(36), 7787-7799. PMCID: PMC3168727
  12. George, S. A., Whittaker, A. M. and Stearns, D. M. (2011) Photoactivated uranyl ion produces single strand breaks in plasmid DNA. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 24(11), 1830-1832. PMCID: PMC3224808
  13. Fricker, A., Park, C. and Gage, M. (2012) Changes in rotational diffusion as a function of protein size and crowding conditions. Current Chemical Research, 2(1), 21-27.
  14. Brown, S. R., Joshweseoma, L., Flood, T. and Coe, K. (2010) Process for determining the cancer burden of the Hopi tribe. Public Health Reports, 125(6), 793-800. PMCID: PMC2966660
  15. Kaochar, S., Shanks, L. and Weinert, T. (2010) Checkpoint genes and Exo1 regulate nearby inverted repeat fusions that form dicentric chromosomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(50), 21605-21610. PMCID: PMC3003031
  16. Paek, A. L., Jones, H., Kaochar, S. and Weinert, T. (2010) The role of replication bypass pathways in dicentric chromosome formation in budding yeast. Genetics, 186(4), 1161-1173. PMCID: PMC2998301
  17. Heintze, E., Aguilera, C., Davis, M., Fricker, A., Li, Q., Martinez, J. and Gage, M. J. (2011) Toxicity of depleted uranium complexes is independent of p53 activity. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 105(2), 142-148. PMCID: PMC3018829
  18. Robinson, M. S., Zhao, M., Zack, L., Brindley, C., Portz, L., Quarterman, M., Long, X and Herckes, P. (2011) Characterization of PM5 collected during broadcast and slash-pile prescribed burns of predominately ponderosa pine forests in northern Arizona. Atmospheric Environment, 45(12), 2087-2094. PMCID: PMC3101022
  19. Brown, S. R., Nuno, T., Joshweseoma, L., Begay, R. C., Goodluck, C. and Harris, R. B. (2011) Impact of a community-based breast cancer screening program on Hopi women. Preventive Medicine, 52(5), 390-393. PMCID: PMC3113717
  20. Paek, A. L., Kaochar, S., Jones, H., Elezaby, A., Shanks, L. and Weinert, T. (2009) Fusion of nearby inverted repeats by a replication-based mechanism leads to formation of dicentric and acentric chromosomes that cause genome instability in budding yeast. Genes & Development, 23(24), 2861-2875. PMCID: PMC2800083
  21. Sanderson, P. R., Teufel-Shone, N. I., Baldwin, J. A., Sandoval, N. and Robinson, F. (2010) Breast cancer education for Navajo women: a pilot study evaluating a culturally relevant video. Journal of Cancer Education, 25(2), 217-223. PMCID: PMC2881164

 

CYCLE 1 (Sep 2002 – Aug 2008 & Bridge year Sep 2008 – Aug 2009)

  1. Webber, T., Gurung, S., Saul, J., Baker, T., Spatara, M., Freyer, M., Robinson, A. S. and Gage, M. J. (2009) The C-terminus of the P22 tailspike protein acts as an independent oligomerization domain for monomeric proteins. Biochemical Journal, 419(3), 595–602. PMCID: PMC4561578
  2. Webber, T. M., Allen, A. C., Ma, W. K., Molloy, R. G., Kettelkamp, C. N., Dow, C. A. and Gage, M. J. (2009) Conformational detection of p 53’s oligomeric state by FIAsH fluorescence. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 384(1), 66-70. PMCID: PMC2743378
  1. Somogyi, A., Pasilis, S. P. and Pemberton, J. E. (2007) Electrospray ionization of uranyl-citrate complexes: adduct formation and ion-molecule reactions in 3D ion trap and ion cyclotron resonance trapping instruments. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 265(2-3), 281-294. 1016/j.ijms.2007.02.050
  2. Raymond-Whish, S., Mayer, L. P., O’Neal, T., Martinez, A., Sellers, M., Christian, P. J., Marion, S. L., Begay, C., Propper, C. R., Hoyer, P. B. and Dyer, C. A. (2007) Drinking water with uranium below the U.S. EPA water standard causes estrogen receptor–dependent responses in female mice. Environmental Health Perspectives, 115(12), 1711-1716. PMCID: PMC2137136
  3. Pasilis, S. P. and Pemberton, J. E. (2008) Spectroscopic investigation of uranyl(VI) and citrate coadsorption to Al2O3. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta., 72(2), 277-287. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2007.09.036.
  4. Robinson, M. S., Anthony, T. R., Littau, S. R., Herckes, P., Nelson, X., Poplin, G. S. and Burgess, J. L. (2008) Occupational PAH exposure during prescribed pile burns. Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 52(6), 497-508. PMCID: PMC2732184
  5. Stearns, D. M., Yazzie, M., Bradley, A. S., Coryell, V. H., Shelley, J. T., Ashby, A., Aslund, C. S. and Lantz, R. C. (2005) Uranyl acetate induces hprt mutations and uranium–DNA adducts in Chinese hamster ovary EM9 cells. Mutagenesis, 20(6), 417-423. PMID: 16195314 DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gei056
  6. Robinson, F., Sandoval, J., Baldwin, J. and Sanderson, P. (2005) Breast cancer education for Native American women: creating culturally relevant communications. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 9(6), 689-692. PMCID: PMC6080625
  7. Coryell, V. H. and Stearns, D. M. (2006) Molecular analysis of hprt mutations generated in Chinese hamster ovary EM9 cells by uranyl acetate, by hydrogen peroxide, and spontaneously. Molecular Carcinogenesis, 45, 60-72. PMID: 16299811 DOI: 10.1002/mc.20155
  8. Pasilis, S. P., Somogyi, A., Herrmann, K. and Pemberton J.E. (2006) Ions generated from uranyl nitrate solutions by electrospray ionization (ESI) and detected with Fourier transform ion-cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 17(2), 230-240. PMID 16418004
  9. Yazzie, M., Gamble, S. L., Civitello, E. R. and Stearns, D. M. (2003) Uranyl acetate causes DNA single strand breaks in vitro in the presence of ascorbate (vitamin C). Chemical Research in Toxicology, 16(4), 524-530. PMID:12703969 DOI:10.1021/tx025685q