Mersha Lab

Gautam, Y; Afanador, Y; Abebe, T; Lopez, JE; Mersha, TB. Genome-wide analysis revealed sex-specific gene expression in asthmatics. Human Molecular Genetics. 2019; 28:2600-2614.

Hardy, DS; Racette, SB; Garvin, JT; Gebrekristos, HT; Mersha, TB. Ancestry specific associations of a genetic risk score, dietary patterns and metabolic syndrome: a longitudinal ARIC study. BMC Medical Genomics. 2021; 14.

Mendy, A; Wu, X; Keller, JL; Fassler, CS; Apewokin, S; Mersha, TB; Xie, C; Pinney, SM. Air pollution and the pandemic: Long-term PM2.5 exposure and disease severity in COVID-19 patients. Respirology. 2021; 26:1181-1187.

Stevens, ML; Mersha, TB; Zhang, Z; Kothari, A; Khurana Hershey, GK. Skin depletion of Kif3a resembles the pediatric atopic dermatitis transcriptome profile. Human Molecular Genetics. 2021.

Mersha, TB; Qin, K; Beck, AF; Ding, L; Huang, B; Kahn, RS. Genetic ancestry differences in pediatric asthma readmission are mediated by socioenvironmental factors. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2021; 148:1210-1218.e4.

Chidambaran, V; Mersha, TB. A step towards understanding disparities - linking race, ancestry, epigenetics and pain. Epigenomics. 2021; 13:1791-1796.

Beyene, J; Harrar, SW; Altaye, M; Astatkie, T; Awoke, T; Shkedy, Z; Mersha, TB. A Roadmap for Building Data Science Capacity for Health Discovery and Innovation in Africa. Frontiers in Public Health. 2021; 9.

Proper, SP; Azouz, NP; Mersha, TB. Achieving Precision Medicine in Allergic Disease: Progress and Challenges. Frontiers in Immunology. 2021; 12.

Johansson, E; Mersha, TB. Genetics of Food Allergy. Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America. 2021; 41:301-319.

Correa-Agudelo, E; Mersha, TB; Branscum, AJ; Mackinnon, NJ; Cuadros, DF. Identification of Vulnerable Populations and Areas at Higher Risk of COVID-19-Related Mortality during the Early Stage of the Epidemic in the United States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18.

Mersha, TB; Afanador, Y; Johansson, E; Proper, SP; Bernstein, JA; Rothenberg, ME; Hershey, GK K. Resolving Clinical Phenotypes into Endotypes in Allergy: Molecular and Omics Approaches. Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology. 2021; 60:200-219.

Brandt, EB; Mersha, TB. Environmental Determinants of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Current Allergy and Asthma Reports. 2021; 21.

Mendy, A; Wu, X; Keller, JL; Fassler, CS; Apewokin, S; Mersha, TB; Xie, C; Pinney, SM. Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and hospitalization in COVID-19 patients. Respiratory Medicine. 2021; 178.

Jones, DE; Park, JS; Gamby, K; Bigelow, TM; Mersha, TB; Folger, AT. Mental Health Epigenetics: A Primer With Implications for Counselors. 2021; 11:102-121.

Ping-I, H; Shu, H; Mersha, TB. Comparing DNA methylation profiles across different tissues associated with the diagnosis of pediatric asthma. Scientific Reports. 2020; 10.

Chen, S; Ghandikota, S; Gautam, Y; Mersha, TB. MI-MAAP: marker informativeness for multi-ancestry admixed populations. BMC Bioinformatics. 2020; 21.

Mersha, TB; Beck, AF. The social, economic, political, and genetic value of race and ethnicity in 2020. Human Genomics. 2020; 14.

Ghosh, D; Jonathan, A; Mersha, TB. COVID-19 pandemic: The African paradox. Journal of Global Health. 2020; 10.

Adejare, AA; Gautam, Y; Madzia, J; Mersha, TB. Unraveling racial disparities in asthma emergency department visits using electronic healthcare records and machine learning. The Journal of asthma research. 2020; 1-15.

Ghosh, D; Ding, L; Bernstein, JA; Mersha, TB. The Utility of Resolving Asthma Molecular Signatures Using Tissue-Specific Transcriptome Data. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 2020; 10:4049-4062.

Gautam, Y; Afanador, Y; Ghandikota, S; Mersha, TB. Comprehensive functional annotation of susceptibility variants associated with asthma. Human Genetics. 2020; 139:1037-1053.

Chen, S; Ghandikota, S; Gautam, Y; Mersha, TB. AllergyGenDB: A literature and functional annotation-based omics database for allergic diseases. Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2020; 75:1789-1793.

Brandt, EB; Beck, AF; Mersha, TB. Air pollution, racial disparities, and COVID-19 mortality. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2020; 146:61-63.

Cao, X; Ding, L; Mersha, TB. Joint variable selection and network modeling for detecting eQTLs. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 2020; 19.

Dang, AT; Chundi, PK; Mousa, NA; Beyer, AI; Chansakulporn, S; Venter, C; Mersha, TB; Assa'ad, AH. The effect of age, sex, race/ethnicity, health insurance, and food specific serum immunoglobulin E on outcomes of oral food challenges. World Allergy Organization Journal. 2020; 13.

Hardy, DS; Garvin, JT; Mersha, TB; Racette, SB. Ancestry specific associations of FTO gene variant and metabolic syndrome: A longitudinal ARIC study. Medicine (United States). 2020; 99.

Mersha, T; Gautam, Y; Caldwell, J; Rothenberg, M. Genome-wide admixture and association analyses identify novel eosinophilic esophagitis-associated loci in African American ancestry. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2020; 145.

Wathen, MJ; Gautam, Y; Ghandikota, S; Rao, MB; Mersha, TB. LEI: A Novel Allele Frequency-Based Feature Selection Method for Multi-ancestry Admixed Populations. Scientific Reports. 2019; 9.

Mersha, T; Hershey, G. Precision Medicine in Allergic Disorders. In: Burks W; Holgate ST; O'Hehir RE; Broide DH; Bacharier LB; Hershey GK; Peebles, Jr RS, Ed. Middleton's Allergy 2-Volume Set: Principles and Practice. New York: Elsevier; 2019.

Gautam, Y; Ghandikota, S; Chen, S; Mersha, TB. PAMAM: Power analysis in multiancestry admixture mapping. Genetic Epidemiology. 2019; 43:831-843.

Johansson, H; Mersha, TB; Brandt, EB; Hershey, GK K. Interactions between environmental pollutants and genetic susceptibility in asthma risk. Current Opinion in Immunology. 2019; 60:156-162.

Gautam, Y; Afanador, Y; Abebe, T; Lopez, JE; Mersha, TB. Genome-wide analysis revealed sex-specific gene expression in asthmatics. Human Molecular Genetics. 2019; 28:2600-2614.

Motz, RT; Tanksley, P; Liu, H; Mersha, TB; Barnes, JC. Every contact leaves a trace: contact with the criminal justice system, life outcomes, and the intersection with genetics. Current Opinion in Psychology. 2019; 27:82-87.

Ghosh, D; Bernstein, JA; Hershey, GK K; Rothenberg, ME; Mersha, TB. Leveraging Multilayered "Omics " Data for Atopic Dermatitis: A Road Map to Precision Medicine. Frontiers in Immunology. 2018; 9.

Apewokin, S; Andersen, HM; Medlin, S; Mersha, T; Weiss, A; Haslam, D; Davies, SM. 1574. Cancer Chemotherapy May Induce Acquisition of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Antibiotic-Naïve Cancer Patients. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2018; 5:s491-s491.

Ghandikota, S; Hershey, GK K; Mersha, TB. GENEASE: real time bioinformatics tool for multi-omics and disease ontology exploration, analysis and visualization. Computer Applications in the Biosciences. 2018; 34:3160-3168.

Harding, K; Biks, GA; Adefris, M; Loehr, J; Gashaye, KT; Tilahun, B; Volynski, M; Garg, S; Abebaw, Z; Dessie, K; et al. A mobile health model supporting Ethiopia's eHealth strategy. Digital Medicine. 2018; 4:54-65.

Kim, Y; Hao, J; Gautam, Y; Mersha, TB; Kang, M. DiffGRN: differential gene regulatory network analysis. International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics. 2018; 20:362-379.

Gautam, Y; Altaye, M; Xie, C; Mersha, TB. AdmixPower: Statistical Power and Sample Size Estimation for Mapping Genetic Loci in Admixed Populations. Genetics. 2017; 207:873-882.

Harding, K; Mersha, TB; Webb, FJ; Vassalotti, JA; Nicholas, SB. Current State and Future Trends to Optimize the Care of African Americans with End-Stage Renal Disease. American Journal of Nephrology. 2017; 46:156-164.

Harding, K; Mersha, TB; Vassalotti, JA; Webb, FJ; Nicholas, SB. Current State and Future Trends to Optimize the Care of Chronic Kidney Disease in African Americans. American Journal of Nephrology. 2017; 46:176-186.

Harding, K; Mersha, TB; Pham, P; Waterman, AD; Webb, FJ; Vassalotti, JA; Nicholas, SB. Health Disparities in Kidney Transplantation for African Americans. American Journal of Nephrology. 2017; 46:165-175.

Johansson, E; Myers, JM B; Martin, LJ; He, H; Pilipenko, V; Mersha, T; Weirauch, M; Salomonis, N; Ryan, P; LeMasters, GK; et al. KIF3A genetic variation is associated with pediatric asthma in the presence of eczema independent of allergic rhinitis. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2017; 140:595-598.e5.