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Overview

Thomas A. Drake is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research intersects multiple disciplines, predominantly focusing on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with important contributions in subfields such as Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Healthcare cost, quality, practices
  • Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism

Drake has contributed to a range of scholarly publications, appearing in journals such as Clinical Chemistry, SSRN Electronic Journal, Applied Clinical Informatics, UNC Libraries, and Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM).

Recent published articles include:

  • "Twitter COVID Data Analysis," 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Displaying Cost and Completion Time for Reference Laboratory Test Orders-A Randomized Controlled Trial," 2022, Applied Clinical Informatics
  • "Genetic Control of Obesity and Gut Microbiota Composition in Response to High-Fat, High-Sucrose Diet in Mice," 2020, UNC Libraries
  • "A-111 "Activation" Of macro-ast by pyridoxal phosphate supplementation," 2024, Clinical Chemistry
  • "A-300 Comparative Analysis of Serology Test Performance: Evaluation of Elecsys Platform for Hepatitis Markers," 2024, Clinical Chemistry

Frequent collaborators include Eran Fermon, Tanajah Grant, Joao Gallo-Lima, Javonte Howard, and Shohei Ikoma, highlighting a network of coauthors with whom Drake has published multiple works.

Best Publications

  • Genetics of gene expression surveyed in maize, mouse and man

    Eric E. Schadt;Stephanie A. Monks;Thomas A. Drake;Aldons J. Lusis

  • Selective cellular expression of tissue factor in human tissues. Implications for disorders of hemostasis and thrombosis.

    T A Drake;J H Morrissey;T S Edgington

  • An integrative genomics approach to infer causal associations between gene expression and disease

    Eric E Schadt;John Lamb;Xia Yang;Jun Zhu

  • Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Gene Expression in Human Liver

    Eric E. Schadt;Cliona Molony;Eugene Chudin;Ke-Ke Hao

  • Variations in DNA elucidate molecular networks that cause disease

    Yanqing Chen;Jun Zhu;Pek Yee Lum;Xia Yang

  • Tissue-specific expression and regulation of sexually dimorphic genes in mice

    Xia Yang;Eric E. Schadt;Susanna Wang;Hui Wang

  • Sex differences and hormonal effects on gut microbiota composition in mice

    Elin Org;Margarete Mehrabian;Brian W. Parks;Petia Shipkova

  • Genetic Control of Obesity and Gut Microbiota Composition in Response to High-Fat, High-Sucrose Diet in Mice

    Brian W. Parks;Elizabeth Nam;Elin Org;Emrah Kostem

  • Integrating Genetic and Network Analysis to Characterize Genes Related to Mouse Weight

    Anatole Ghazalpour;Sudheer Doss;Bin Zhang;Susanna Wang

  • Expression of tissue factor, thrombomodulin, and E-selectin in baboons with lethal Escherichia coli sepsis.

    T. A. Drake;J. Cheng;Al Chang;F. B. Taylor

  • Oxygenated Carotenoid Lutein and Progression of Early Atherosclerosis The Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study

    James H. Dwyer;Mohamad Navab;Kathleen M. Dwyer;Kholood Hassan

  • Concept, Design and Implementation of a Cardiovascular Gene-Centric 50 K SNP Array for Large-Scale Genomic Association Studies

    Brendan J. Keating;Sam Tischfield;Sam Tischfield;Sarah S. Murray;Tushar Bhangale

  • Weighted gene coexpression network analysis strategies applied to mouse weight

    Tova F. Fuller;Anatole Ghazalpour;Jason E. Aten;Thomas A. Drake

  • Cis-acting expression quantitative trait loci in mice

    Sudheer Doss;Eric E. Schadt;Thomas A. Drake;Aldons J. Lusis

  • A high-resolution association mapping panel for the dissection of complex traits in mice

    Brian J. Bennett;Charles R. Farber;Luz Orozco;Hyun Min Kang

  • Genetic and environmental control of host-gut microbiota interactions

    Elin Org;Brian W W Parks;Jong Wha J Joo;Benjamin Emert

  • Validation of candidate causal genes for obesity that affect shared metabolic pathways and networks.

    Xia Yang;Joshua L Deignan;Hongxiu Qi;Jun Zhu

  • Minimally oxidized low-density lipoprotein induces tissue factor expression in cultured human endothelial cells.

    T. A. Drake;K. Hannani;H. H. Fei;S. Lavi

  • Functional tissue factor is entirely cell surface expressed on lipopolysaccharide-stimulated human blood monocytes and a constitutively tissue factor-producing neoplastic cell line.

    Thomas A. Drake;Wolfram Ruf;James H. Morrissey;Thomas S. Edgington

  • Pathology of atheromatous lesions in inbred and genetically engineered mice. Genetic determination of arterial calcification.

    Jian-Hua Qiao;Pei-Zhen Xie;Michael C. Fishbein;Jorg Kreuzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Aldons J. Lusis
Aldons J. Lusis University of California, Los Angeles
Eric E. Schadt
Eric E. Schadt Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Margarete Mehrabian
Margarete Mehrabian University of California, Los Angeles
Eleazar Eskin
Eleazar Eskin University of California, Los Angeles
Hillel Laks
Hillel Laks University of California, Los Angeles
Charles R. Farber
Charles R. Farber University of Virginia
Xia Yang
Xia Yang University of California, Los Angeles
Bin Zhang
Bin Zhang Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Steve Horvath
Steve Horvath University of California, Los Angeles
Hyun Min Kang
Hyun Min Kang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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