2020
Social regulation of inflammation related gene expression in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
Brown K, Diez-Roux A, Smith J, Needham B, Mukherjee B, Ware E, Liu Y, Cole S, Seeman T, Kardia S. Social regulation of inflammation related gene expression in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2020, 117: 104654. PMID: 32387875, PMCID: PMC7685527, DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104654.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGene expressionMulti-Ethnic Study of AtherosclerosisGene set enrichment testGene Ontology databaseGene expression dataMulti-Ethnic StudyLifetime discriminationStudy of AtherosclerosisDifferential gene expressionInflammation-related genesExpression dataGene setsChronic burdenSocial factorsGene transcriptionRelated gene expressionOntology databaseGenesInflammatory responseTranscriptionGlobal analysisElastic net penalized regressionAdverse social factorsGlobal expressionExpression of inflammation-related genes
2016
Decreased Anti-Tumor Cytotoxic Immunity among Microsatellite-Stable Colon Cancers from African Americans
Basa R, Davies V, Li X, Murali B, Shah J, Yang B, Li S, Khan M, Tian M, Tejada R, Hassan A, Washington A, Mukherjee B, Carethers J, McGuire K. Decreased Anti-Tumor Cytotoxic Immunity among Microsatellite-Stable Colon Cancers from African Americans. PLOS ONE 2016, 11: e0156660. PMID: 27310868, PMCID: PMC4911070, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156660.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGranzyme B+ cellsColorectal cancerCytotoxic immunityB+ cellsAnti-tumor cytotoxic T lymphocytesColon cancerMicrosatellite-stable colon cancerCytotoxic T lymphocytesIL-17 expressionWilcoxon rank sum testProtection to patientsAfrican American colorectal cancerRank sum testTwo-sample Wilcoxon rank-sum testCD57+CD8+Invasive borderCytotoxic markersNo significant differenceT lymphocytesColon tumorsDescriptive summary statisticsImmune biomarkersTumor samplesImmune cytotoxicity