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Overview

Barrett J. Rollins is affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States and is active in research fields related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, cancer research, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, pathology and forensic medicine, and physiology.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on cancer genomics and diagnostics, lung cancer treatments and mutations, genetic factors in colorectal cancer, epigenetics and DNA methylation, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, RNA modifications in cancer, and histiocytic disorders and treatments.

Recent publications authored by or involving Barrett J. Rollins include:

  • Genomic Characterization of de novo Metastatic Breast Cancer, 2020, Clinical Cancer Research
  • MatchMiner: an open-source platform for cancer precision medicine, 2022, npj Precision Oncology
  • Genomic analysis of early-stage lung cancer reveals a role for TP53 mutations in distant metastasis, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis: NACHO update on progress, chaos, and opportunity on the path to rational cures, 2024, Cancer
  • Table of Contents, 2021, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Rollins frequently collaborates with a group of researchers, sharing four or more joint publications with the following co-authors:

  • Priti Kumari
  • Ethan Cerami
  • Laura E. MacConaill
  • Neal I. Lindeman
  • Bruce E. Johnson

Their publications are distributed across diverse scientific venues, including Clinical Cancer Research, npj Precision Oncology, Scientific Reports, Cancer, and the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Each venue features at least one publication by Rollins.

Best Publications

  • The β-Chemokine Receptors CCR3 and CCR5 Facilitate Infection by Primary HIV-1 Isolates

    Hyeryun Choe;Michael Farzan;Ying Sun;Nancy Sullivan

  • Absence of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 Reduces Atherosclerosis in Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor–Deficient Mice

    Long Gu;Yoshikatsu Okada;Steven K. Clinton;Craig Gerard

  • Chemokines and disease.

    Craig Gerard;Barrett J. Rollins

  • AACR project genie: Powering precision medicine through an international consortium

    S. M. Sweeney;E. Cerami;A. Baras;T. J. Pugh

  • Revised classification of histiocytoses and neoplasms of the macrophage-dendritic cell lineages.

    Jean-François Emile;Oussama Abla;Sylvie Fraitag;Annacarin Horne

  • Abnormalities in Monocyte Recruitment and Cytokine Expression in Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1–deficient Mice

    Bao Lu;Barbara J. Rutledge;Long Gu;Joseph Fiorillo

  • Recurrent BRAF mutations in Langerhans cell histiocytosis

    Gayane Badalian-Very;Gayane Badalian-Very;Jo-Anne Vergilio;Jo-Anne Vergilio;Barbara A. Degar;Barbara A. Degar;Laura E. MacConaill

  • Mice deficient in tumor necrosis factor-alpha are resistant to skin carcinogenesis.

    Robert J. Moore;David M. Owens;Gordon Stamp;Caroline Arnott

  • Control of TH2 polarization by the chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein-1.

    Long Gu;Susan Tseng;Renée M. Horner;Carmen Tam

  • MCP-1 deficiency reduces susceptibility to atherosclerosis in mice that overexpress human apolipoprotein B

    Jennifa Gosling;Sarah Slaymaker;Long Gu;Susan Tseng

  • Absence of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1 in Mice Leads to Decreased Local Macrophage Recruitment and Antigen-Specific T Helper Cell Type 1 Immune Response in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

    DeRen Huang;Jintang Wang;Pia Kivisakk;Barrett J. Rollins

  • CCL2/Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 Regulates Inflammatory Responses Critical to Healing Myocardial Infarcts

    Oliver Dewald;Pawel Zymek;Kim Winkelmann;Anna Koerting

  • An animal model of age-related macular degeneration in senescent Ccl-2- or Ccr-2-deficient mice.

    Jayakrishna Ambati;Akshay Anand;Stefan Fernandez;Eiji Sakurai

  • Inflammatory Chemokine Transport and Presentation in HEV: A Remote Control Mechanism for Monocyte Recruitment to Lymph Nodes in Inflamed Tissues

    Roger T. Palframan;Steffen Jung;Guiying Cheng;Wolfgang Weninger

  • Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 Accelerates Atherosclerosis in Apolipoprotein E-Deficient Mice

    Robert J. Aiello;Patricia-Ann K. Bourassa;Saralyn Lindsey;Weifan Weng

  • Cytokine-activated human endothelial cells synthesize and secrete a monocyte chemoattractant, MCP-1/JE

    B. J. Rollins;T. Yoshimura;E. J. Leonard;J. S. Pober

  • Cloning and expression of JE, a gene inducible by platelet-derived growth factor and whose product has cytokine-like properties

    Barrett J. Rollins;Elizabeth D. Morrison;Charles D. Stiles

  • Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1: a potential regulator of monocyte recruitment in inflammatory disease

    Barrett J. Rollins

  • Whole-exome sequencing and clinical interpretation of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tumor samples to guide precision cancer medicine

    Eliezer M Van Allen;Nikhil Wagle;Petar Stojanov;Danielle L Perrin

  • Recombinant human MCP-1/JE induces chemotaxis, calcium flux, and the respiratory burst in human monocytes

    Barrett J. Rollins;Alfred Walz;Marco Baggiolini

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles D. Stiles
Charles D. Stiles Harvard University
Neal I. Lindeman
Neal I. Lindeman Brigham and Women's Hospital
Geoffrey I. Shapiro
Geoffrey I. Shapiro Harvard University
Israel F. Charo
Israel F. Charo University of California, San Francisco
William A. Kuziel
William A. Kuziel The University of Texas at Austin
Azra H. Ligon
Azra H. Ligon Brigham and Women's Hospital
Levi A. Garraway
Levi A. Garraway Roche (United States)
Irene M. Ghobrial
Irene M. Ghobrial Harvard University
Philip W. Kantoff
Philip W. Kantoff Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Mark D. Fleming
Mark D. Fleming Boston Children's Hospital

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