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Overview

James K V Willson is affiliated with The University of Texas at Dallas in the United States. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields primarily within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and computer science. The scope of their work frequently intersects with genomics, phylogenetic studies, and bioinformatics, contributing to the understanding of genetic diversity, population structure, and complex network analysis techniques.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science

Key subfields of their research incorporate:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Plant Science

The researcher's primary topics of work cover:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations

James K V Willson has published several papers, notably:

  • DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition (2021, Systematic Biology)
  • DISCO+QR: rooting species trees in the presence of GDL and ILS (2023, Bioinformatics Advances)
  • Comparing Methods for Species Tree Estimation With Gene Duplication and Loss (2021, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • DISCO+QR: Rooting Species Trees in the Presence of GDL and ILS (2023, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • Axioms for Distanceless Graph Partitioning (2023, arXiv [Cornell University])

The researcher frequently collaborates with:

  • Tandy Warnow
  • Mrinmoy Saha Roddur
  • Baqiao Liu
  • Yasamin Tabatabaee
  • Paul Zaharias

Publications by James K V Willson have appeared in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Systematic Biology
  • Bioinformatics Advances
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • PLOS complex systems.

Best Publications

  • Consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers

    Tobias Sjoblom;Sian Jones;D. Williams Parsons;Laura D. Wood

  • High frequency of mutations of the PIK3CA gene in human cancers

    Yardena Samuels;Zhenghe Wang;Alberto Bardelli;Natalie Silliman

  • Genomic landscapes of human breast and colorectal cancers

    Laura D. Wood;Williams D. Parsons;Sian Jones;Jimmy Lin

  • Inactivation of the Type II TGF-β Receptor in Colon Cancer Cells with Microsatellite Instability

    Sanford D Markowitz;Jing Wang;Lois Myeroff;Ramon Parsons

  • Suppression of human colorectal carcinoma cell growth by wild-type p53.

    Suzanne J. Baker;Sanford D Markowitz;Eric R. Fearon;James K V Willson

  • Incidence and functional consequences of hMLH1 promoter hypermethylation in colorectal carcinoma

    James G. Herman;Asad Umar;Kornelia Polyak;Jeremy R. Graff

  • Mutations of mitotic checkpoint genes in human cancers

    Daniel P. Cahill;Christoph Lengauer;Jian Yu;Gregory J. Riggins

  • p53 gene mutations occur in combination with 17p allelic deletions as late events in colorectal tumorigenesis.

    Suzanne J. Baker;Antonette C. Preisinger;J. M. Jessup;Christos Paraskeva

  • Somatic mutations of the mitochondrial genome in human colorectal tumours

    Kornelia Polyak;Kornelia Polyak;Yunbo Li;Hong Zhu;Christoph Lengauer

  • Microsatellite instability and mutations of the transforming growth factor β type II receptor gene in colorectal cancer

    Ramon Parsons;Lois L. Myeroff;Bo Liu;James K. V. Willson

  • Glucose deprivation contributes to the development of KRAS pathway mutations in tumor cells.

    Jihye Yun;Carlo Rago;Ian Cheong;Ray Pagliarini;Ray Pagliarini

  • Mismatch repair gene defects in sporadic colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability

    Bo Liu;Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Sanford Markowitz;James K.V. Willson

  • Evaluation of candidate tumour suppressor genes on chromosome 18 in colorectal cancers.

    Sam Thiagalingam;Christoph Lengauer;Frederick S. Leach;Mieke Schutte

  • Deletion of p16 and p15 Genes in Brain Tumors

    Jin Jen;J. W. Harper;S. H. Bigner;D. D. Bigner

  • Mutational analysis of the tyrosine phosphatome in colorectal cancers.

    Zhenghe Wang;Dong Shen;D. Williams Parsons;Alberto Bardelli

  • Mutational analysis of the tyrosine kinome in colorectal cancers

    Alberto Bardelli;D. Williams Parsons;Natalie Silliman;Janine Ptak

  • Mutations of GTBP in genetically unstable cells.

    Nickolas Papadopoulos;Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Bo Liu;Ramon Parsons

  • The APC gene product in normal and tumor cells.

    Kelly J. Smith;Karen A. Johnson;Tracy M. Bryan;David E. Hill

  • Mutational Inactivation of Transforming Growth Factor β Receptor Type II in Microsatellite Stable Colon Cancers

    William M. Grady;Lois L. Myeroff;Sandra E. Swinler;Ashwani Rajput

  • Colorectal cancer: mutations in a signalling pathway.

    D. Williams Parsons;Tian Li Wang;Yardena Samuels;Alberto Bardelli;Alberto Bardelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanford D. Markowitz
Sanford D. Markowitz Case Western Reserve University
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
Michael G. Brattain
Michael G. Brattain University of Nebraska Medical Center
Kenneth W. Kinzler
Kenneth W. Kinzler Johns Hopkins University
Weili Wu
Weili Wu The University of Texas at Dallas
Stanton L. Gerson
Stanton L. Gerson Case Western Reserve University
Ding-Zhu Du
Ding-Zhu Du The University of Texas at Dallas
Christoph Lengauer
Christoph Lengauer Johns Hopkins University
Ramon Parsons
Ramon Parsons Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Victor E. Velculescu
Victor E. Velculescu Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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