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Overview

I. King Jordan is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focused interest in genetics and molecular biology as foundational fields. Their work also intersects with subfields such as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, infectious diseases, and epidemiology.

Their research outputs cover a variety of topics including genetic associations and epidemiology, epigenetics and DNA methylation, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, genomics and rare diseases, pharmacogenetics and drug metabolism, racial and ethnic identity research, and cardiac arrhythmias and treatments.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Socioeconomic deprivation and genetic ancestry interact to modify type 2 diabetes ethnic disparities in the United Kingdom (2021, EClinicalMedicine)
  • Colistin Heteroresistance Is Largely Undetected among Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales in the United States (2021, mBio)
  • An atlas of transposable element-derived alternative splicing in cancer (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Admixture-enabled selection for rapid adaptive evolution in the Americas (2020, Genome biology)
  • Genomic Diversity of Azole-Resistant Aspergillus fumigatus in the United States (2021, mBio)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with I. King Jordan include Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez, Lavanya Rishishwar, Shashwat Deepali Nagar, Shivam Sharma, and Andrew B. Conley.

Their work is often published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cardiologia Croatica, Cancer Research, mBio, and Nucleic Acids Research, highlighting a broad dissemination of findings across related biomedical journals.

Best Publications

  • Origin of a substantial fraction of human regulatory sequences from transposable elements.

    I.King Jordan;Igor B Rogozin;Galina V Glazko;Eugene V Koonin

  • Essential Genes Are More Evolutionarily Conserved Than Are Nonessential Genes in Bacteria

    I. King Jordan;Igor B. Rogozin;Yuri I. Wolf;Eugene V. Koonin

  • On the presence and role of human gene-body DNA methylation

    Daudi Jjingo;Andrew B. Conley;Soojin V. Yi;Victoria V. Lunyak

  • Origin and Evolution of Human microRNAs From Transposable Elements

    Jittima Piriyapongsa;Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez;I. King Jordan

  • A family of human microRNA genes from miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements.

    Jittima Piriyapongsa;I. King Jordan

  • A universal trend of amino acid gain and loss in protein evolution

    I. King Jordan;Fyodor A. Kondrashov;Ivan A. Adzhubei;Yuri I. Wolf

  • Dual coding of siRNAs and miRNAs by plant transposable elements

    Jittima Piriyapongsa;I. King Jordan

  • Flow-dependent epigenetic DNA methylation regulates endothelial gene expression and atherosclerosis

    Jessilyn Dunn;Haiwei Qiu;Soyeon Kim;Daudi Jjingo

  • No simple dependence between protein evolution rate and the number of protein-protein interactions: only the most prolific interactors tend to evolve slowly

    I King Jordan;Yuri I Wolf;Eugene V Koonin

  • Conservation and Coevolution in the Scale-Free Human Gene Coexpression Network

    I. King Jordan;Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez;Yuri I. Wolf;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Lineage-Specific Gene Expansions in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes

    I. King Jordan;Kira S. Makarova;John L. Spouge;Yuri I. Wolf

  • Duplicated genes evolve slower than singletons despite the initial rate increase

    I King Jordan;Yuri I Wolf;Eugene V Koonin

  • APOBEC4, a new member of the AID/APOBEC family of polynucleotide (deoxy)cytidine deaminases predicted by computational analysis

    Igor B. Rogozin;Malay K. Basu;I. King Jordan;Youri I. Pavlov

  • Retrotransposons and Their Recognition of pol II Promoters: A Comprehensive Survey of the Transposable Elements From the Complete Genome Sequence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Nathan J. Bowen;I. King Jordan;Jonathan A. Epstein;Valerie Wood

  • Evolutionary significance of gene expression divergence.

    I. King Jordan;Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Evidence for the recent horizontal transfer of long terminal repeat retrotransposon

    I. King Jordan;Lilya V. Matyunina;John F. McDonald

  • Retroviral promoters in the human genome

    Andrew B. Conley;Jittima Piriyapongsa;I. King Jordan

  • Transposable elements and the evolution of eukaryotic complexity.

    Nathan J Bowen;I King Jordan

  • Human cis natural antisense transcripts initiated by transposable elements

    Andrew B. Conley;Wolfgang J. Miller;I. King Jordan

  • Inhibition of activated pericentromeric SINE/Alu repeat transcription in senescent human adult stem cells reinstates self-renewal

    Jianrong Wang;Glenn J Geesman;Sirkka Liisa Hostikka;Michelle Atallah

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
John F. McDonald
John F. McDonald Georgia Institute of Technology
Yuri I. Wolf
Yuri I. Wolf National Institutes of Health
Leonard W. Mayer
Leonard W. Mayer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Igor B. Rogozin
Igor B. Rogozin National Institutes of Health
Joel E. Kostka
Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology
David Landsman
David Landsman National Institutes of Health
Monica M. Farley
Monica M. Farley Emory University
Stefan J. Green
Stefan J. Green University of Illinois at Chicago
Fyodor A. Kondrashov
Fyodor A. Kondrashov Institute of Science and Technology Austria

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