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Overview

Barbara J. Trask is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research intersects multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on molecular biology and cancer-related fields.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, subfields of particular emphasis are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Genetics
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Immunology

Barbara J. Trask's principal research topics cover various aspects of RNA and genomics, with notable frequency in the areas of:

  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases

Some of the recent papers featuring Barbara J. Trask's contributions include:

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution, 2021, Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
  • Modeling embryo-endometrial interface recapitulating human embryo implantation, 2024, Science Advances
  • The microRNA cluster C19MC confers differentiation potential into trophoblast lineages upon human pluripotent stem cells, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Kastor and Polluks polypeptides encoded by a single gene locus cooperatively regulate VDAC and spermatogenesis, 2022, Nature Communications
  • MUC1-C Is a Common Driver of Acquired Osimertinib Resistance in NSCLC, 2023, Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Chie Kikutake
  • Yasuyuki Ohkawa
  • Naoto Kubota
  • Tomoyoshi Takenaka
  • Tomoharu Yoshizumi

Barbara J. Trask has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. Venues with multiple publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Communications Biology
  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Best Publications

  • Large-Scale Copy Number Polymorphism in the Human Genome

    Jonathan Sebat;B. Lakshmi;Jennifer Troge;Joan Alexander

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • DNA duplication associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A

    James R. Lupski;Roberto Montes de Oca-Luna;Susan Slaugenhaupt;Liu Pentao

  • Alagille syndrome is caused by mutations in human Jagged1, which encodes a ligand for Notch1

    Linheng Li;Ian D. Krantz;Yu Deng;Yu Deng;Anna Genin

  • A physical map of the human genome.

    John Douglas Mcpherson;Marco Marra;Marco Marra;La Deana Hillier;Robert H. Waterston

  • Segmental Duplications: Organization and Impact Within the Current Human Genome Project Assembly

    Jeffrey A. Bailey;Amy M. Yavor;Hillary F. Massa;Barbara J. Trask

  • The gene for the peripheral myelin protein PMP-22 is a candidate for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A.

    Patel Pi;Roa Bb;Welcher Aa;Welcher Aa;Schoener-Scott R

  • Chimpanzee and human Y chromosomes are remarkably divergent in structure and gene content

    Jennifer F. Hughes;Helen Skaletsky;Tatyana Pyntikova;Tina A. Graves

  • Human subtelomeres are hot spots of interchromosomal recombination and segmental duplication

    Elena V. Linardopoulou;Eleanor M. Williams;Yuxin Fan;Yuxin Fan;Cynthia Friedman

  • The complex structure and dynamic evolution of human subtelomeres.

    Heather C. Mefford;Barbara J. Trask

  • A random-walk/giant-loop model for interphase chromosomes.

    R K Sachs;G van den Engh;B Trask;H Yokota

  • Different evolutionary processes shaped the mouse and human olfactory receptor gene families

    Janet M. Young;Cynthia Friedman;Eleanor M. Williams;Joseph A. Ross

  • Integration of cytogenetic landmarks into the draft sequence of the human genome

    V. G. Cheung;N. Nowak;W. Jang;I. R. Kirsch

  • The Human Homolog of Rat Jagged1Expressed by Marrow Stroma Inhibits Differentiation of 32D Cells through Interaction with Notch1

    Linheng Li;Laurie A Milner;Yu Deng;Yu Deng;Mineo Iwata

  • Evidence for the organization of chromatin in megabase pair-sized loops arranged along a random walk path in the human G0/G1 interphase nucleus.

    H Yokota;G van den Engh;J E Hearst;R K Sachs

  • Cytogenetic analysis by in situ hybridization with fluorescently labeled nucleic acid probes.

    D Pinkel;J W Gray;B Trask;G van den Engh

  • Evolution of the mammalian G protein α subunit multigene family

    Thomas M. Wilkie;Debra J. Gilbert;Anne S. Olsen;Xiao-Ning Chen

  • Isolation and characterization of the cDNA encoding human DNA methyltransferase

    Ray whay Chiu Yen;Paula M. Vertino;Barry D. Nelkin;Jane J. Yu

  • Assignment of the human p27Kip1 gene to 12p13 and its analysis in leukemias.

    Jennifer A. Pietenpol;Stefan K. Bohlander;Yuko Sato;Nickolas Papadopoulos

  • MRIT, a novel death-effector domain-containing protein, interacts with caspases and BclXL and initiates cell death.

    David K. M. Han;Preet M. Chaudhary;Michael E. Wright;Cynthia Friedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Leroy Hood
Leroy Hood University of Washington
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington
Lee Rowen
Lee Rowen Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle
Chang En Yu
Chang En Yu University of Washington
Heather C. Mefford
Heather C. Mefford University of Washington
Pieter J. de Jong
Pieter J. de Jong UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Eric D. Green
Eric D. Green National Institutes of Health
Peter S. Nelson
Peter S. Nelson Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Kazutoyo Osoegawa
Kazutoyo Osoegawa Stanford University
Gerard D. Schellenberg
Gerard D. Schellenberg University of Pennsylvania

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