A platform for experimental precision medicine: The extended BXD mouse family

DG Ashbrook, D Arends, P Prins, MK Mulligan, S Roy… - Cell systems, 2021 - cell.com
The challenge of precision medicine is to model complex interactions among DNA variants,
phenotypes, development, environments, and treatments. We address this challenge by …

NMNAT2 is a druggable target to drive neuronal NAD production

JR Tribble, M Jöe, C Varricchio, A Otmani… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Maintenance of NAD pools is critical for neuronal survival. The capacity to maintain NAD
pools declines in neurodegenerative disease. We identify that low NMNAT2, the critical …

Highlights from the era of open source web-based tools

KR Anderson, JA Harris, L Ng, P Prins… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
High digital connectivity and a focus on reproducibility are contributing to an open science
revolution in neuroscience. Repositories and platforms have emerged across the whole …

The cocaine and oxycodone biobanks, two repositories from genetically diverse and behaviorally characterized rats for the study of addiction

LLG Carrette, G de Guglielmo, M Kallupi, L Maturin… - eneuro, 2021 - eneuro.org
The rat oxycodone and cocaine biobanks contain samples that vary by genotypes (by using
genetically diverse genotyped HS rats), phenotypes (by measuring addiction-like behaviors …

The expanded BXD family of mice: a cohort for experimental systems genetics and precision medicine

DG Ashbrook, D Arends, P Prins, MK Mulligan, S Roy… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
The challenge of precision medicine is to model complex interactions among DNA variants,
sets of phenotypes, and complex environmental factors and confounders. We have …

Private and sub-family specific mutations of founder haplotypes in the BXD family reveal phenotypic consequences relevant to health and disease

DG Ashbrook, T Sasani, M Maksimov, MH Gunturkun… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The BXD recombinant inbred (RI) mouse strains are the largest and most deeply
phenotyped inbred panel of vertebrate organisms. RIs allow phenoty** of isogenic …

Born to cry: A genetic dissection of infant vocalization

DG Ashbrook, S Roy, BG Clifford, T Riede… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Infant vocalizations are one of the most fundamental and innate forms of behavior
throughout avian and mammalian orders. They have a critical role in motivating parental …

Genome-wide transcriptome architecture in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness

F Xu, DG Ashbrook, J Gao, A Starlard-Davenport… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Gulf War Illness (GWI) is thought to be a chronic neuroimmune disorder caused by
in-theater exposure during the 1990–1991 Gulf War. There is a consensus that the illness is …

The influence of hypoxia on the prostate cancer proteome

JA Ross, JPC Vissers, J Nanda, GD Stewart… - Clinical Chemistry and …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Prostate cancer accounts for around 15% of male deaths in Western Europe and is the
second leading cause of cancer death in men after lung cancer. Mounting evidence …

Genetic contribution to initial and progressive alcohol intake among recombinant inbred strains of mice

MK Mulligan, W Zhao, M Dickerson, D Arends… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
We profiled individual differences in alcohol consumption upon initial exposure and during 5
weeks of voluntary alcohol intake in female mice from 39 BXD recombinant inbred strains …