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George W. Nelson, Ph.D.

Selected Publications

1)  Winkler CA, Nelson GW, Smith MW.
Admixture mapping comes of age.
Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 11: 65-89, 2010.
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2)  Behar DM, Rosset S, Tzur S, Selig S, Yudkovsky G, Bercovici S, Kopp JB, Winkler CA, Nelson GW, Wasser WG, Skorecki K.
African ancestry allelic variation at the MYH9 gene contributes to increased susceptibility to non-diabetic end-stage kidney disease in Hispanic Americans.
Hum. Mol. Genet. 19: 1816-27, 2010.
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3)  Genovese G, Friedman DJ, Ross MD, Lecordier L, Uzureau P, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Langefeld CD, Oleksyk TK, Uscinski Knob AL, Bernhardy AJ, Hicks PJ, Nelson GW, Vanhollebeke B, Winkler CA, Kopp JB, Pays E, Pollak MR.
Association of trypanolytic ApoL1 variants with kidney disease in African Americans.
Science. 329: 841-5, 2010.
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4)  Nelson GW, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Langefeld CD, An P, Hicks PJ, Bostrom MA, Johnson RC, Kopp JB, Winkler CA.
Dense mapping of MYH9 localizes the strongest kidney disease associations to the region of introns 13 to 15.
Hum. Mol. Genet. 19: 1805-15, 2010.
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5)  Herbeck JT, Gottlieb GS, Winkler CA, Nelson GW, An P, Maust BS, Wong KG, Troyer JL, Goedert JJ, Kessing BD, Detels R, Wolinsky SM, Martinson J, Buchbinder S, Kirk GD, Jacobson LP, Margolick JB, Kaslow RA, O'Brien SJ, Mullins JI.
Multistage genomewide association study identifies a locus at 1q41 associated with rate of HIV-1 disease progression to clinical AIDS.
J. Infect. Dis. 201: 618-26, 2010.
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6)  Kopp JB, Winkler CA, Nelson GW.
MYH9 genetic variants associated with glomerular disease: what is the role for genetic testing?.
Semin. Nephrol. 30: 409-17, 2010.
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7)  Freedman BI, Kopp JB, Langefeld CD, Genovese G, Friedman DJ, Nelson GW, Winkler CA, Bowden DW, Pollak MR.
The apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1) gene and nondiabetic nephropathy in African Americans.
J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 21: 1422-6, 2010.
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8)  Freedman BI, Edberg JC, Comeau ME, Murea M, Bowden DW, Divers J, Alarcón GS, Brown EE, McGwin G, Kopp JB, Winkler CA, Nelson GW, Illei G, Petri M, Ramsey-Goldman R, Reveille JD, Vilá LM, Langefeld CD, Kimberly RP.
The non-muscle Myosin heavy chain 9 gene (MYH9) is not associated with lupus nephritis in African Americans.
Am. J. Nephrol. 32: 66-72, 2010.
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9)  Oleksyk TK, Nelson GW, An P, Kopp JB, Winkler CA.
Worldwide distribution of the MYH9 kidney disease susceptibility alleles and haplotypes: evidence of historical selection in Africa.
PLoS ONE. 5: e11474, 2010.
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10)  Guo X, Johnson RC, Deng H, Liao J, Guan L, Nelson GW, Tang M, Zheng Y, de The G, O'Brien SJ, Winkler CA, Zeng Y.
Evaluation of nonviral risk factors for nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a high-risk population of Southern China.
Int. J. Cancer. 124: 2942-7, 2009.
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