Human Genetics

Research Interests

Complex diseases, gene identification, neurological diseases, human genetics.

Publications

Oliveira, S.A., Li, Y.J., Noureddine, M.A., Züchner, S., Qin, X.J., Pericak-Vance, M.A., Vance, J.M. (2005). Identification of risk and age-at-onset genes on chromosome 1p in Parkinson disease. American Journal of Human Genetics 77 :252-64

Noureddine, M.A., Qin, X.J., Oliveira, S.A., Skelly, T.J., van der Walt, J., Hauser, M.A., Pericak-Vance, M.A., Vance, J.M., Li, Y.J. (2005). Association between the neuron-specific RNA-binding protein ELAVL4 and Parkinson disease. Human Genetics 117 :27-33

Züchner, S., Noureddine, M., Kennerson, M., Verhoeven, K., Claeys, K., de Jonghe, P., Merory, J., Oliveira, S.A., Speer, M.C., Stenger, J.E., Walizada, G., Zhu, D., Pericak-Vance, M.A., Nicholson, G., Timmerman, V., Vance, J.M. (2005). Mutations in the pleckstrin homology domain of dynamin 2 cause dominant intermediate Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Nature Genetics 37 :289-294

Oliveira, S.A., Scott, W.K., Zhang, F., Stajich, J.M., Fujiwara, K., Hauser, M., Scott, B.L., Pericak-Vance, M.A., Vance, J.M., Martin, E.R. (2004). Linkage disequilibrium and haplotype tagging polymorphisms in the Tau H1 haplotype. Neurogenetics 5 :147-155

Li, Y.-J., Oliveira, S.A., Xu, P., Martin, E.R., Stenger, J.E., Scherzer, C.R., Hauser, M.A., Scott, W.K., Small, G.W., Nance, M.A., Watts, R.L., Hubble, J.P., Koller, W.C., Pahwa, R., Stern, M.B., Hiner, B.C., Jankovic, J., Goetz, C.G., Mastaglia, F., Middleton, L.T., Roses, A.D., Saunders, A.M., Schmechel, D.E., Gullans, S.R., Haines, J.L., Gilbert, J.R., Vance, J.M., Pericak-Vance, M.A. (2003). Glutathione S-Transferase omega 1 modifies age-at-onset of Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease. Hum. Mol. Gen. 12 :3259-3267

Oliveira, S.A., Scott, W.K., Martin, E.R., Pericak-Vance, M.A., Vance, J.M. (2003). Reply to Frequency of Parkin mutations in late-onset Parkinson disease Ann. Neurol. 54 :416-417

Oliveira, S.A., Scott, W.K., Nance, M.A., Watts, R.L., Hubble, J.P., Koller, W.C., Lyons, K.E., Pahwa, R., Stern, M.B., Hiner, B.C., Jankovic, J., Ondo, W.G., Allen Jr., F., Scott, B.L., Goetz, C.G., Small, G.W., Mastaglia, F.L., Stajich, J.M., Zhang, F., Booze, M.W., Reaves, J.A., Middleton, L.T., Haines, J.L., Pericak-Vance, M.A., Vance, J.M., Martin, E.R. (2003). Association study of Parkin gene polymorphisms with idiopathic Parkinson disease. Arch. Neurol. 60 :975-980

Oliveira, S.A., Martin, E.R., Scott, W.K., Nicodemus, K.K., Small, G.W., Schmechel, D.E., Doraiswamy, P.M., Roses, A.D., Saunders, A.M., Gilbert, J.R., Haines, J.L., Vance, J.M., Pericak-Vance, M.A. (2003). The Q7R Saitohin gene polymorphism is not associated with Alzheimer disease Neurosc. Lett. 347 :143-146

Oliveira, S.A., Scott, W.K., Martin, E.R., Nance, M.A., Watts, R.L., Hubble, J.P., Koller, W.C., Pahwa, R., Stern, M.B., Hiner, B.C., Ondo, W.G., Allen Jr., F.H., Scott, B.L., Goetz, C.G., Small, G.W., Mastaglia, F., Staijich, J.M., Zhang, F., Booze, M.W., Winn, M.P., Middleton, L.T., Haines, J.L., Pericak-Vance, M.A., Vance, J.M. (2003). Parkin mutations and susceptibility alleles in late-onset Parkinson disease. Ann. Neurol. 53 :624-629

Oliveira, S.A., Park, S.H., Lee, P., Bendelac, A., Shenk, T.E. (2002). Murine cytomegalovirus m02 gene family protects against natural killer cell-mediated immune surveillance. J. Virol. 76 :885-894

Oliveira, S.A., Scott, W.K., Pericak-Vance, M.A., Vance, J.M. (2001). Dissecting a complex disease using modern techniques of molecular biology Lab. Med. 32 :594-598

Oliveira, S.A., Shenk, T.E. (2001). Murine cytomegalovirus M78 protein, a G protein-coupled receptor homologue, is a constituent of the virion and facilitates accumulation of immediate-early viral mRNA Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98 :3237-3242