School of Medicine

Bioinformatics and Computational Medicine Program

 

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

2022

  1. Kuchi, A, Wu, J., Fuloria, J, Hicks, C. 2022. Landscape of Molecular Crosstalk Perturbation between Lung Cancer and COVID-19. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6):3454.. PMID: 35329141.

2021

  1. Hayes M, Nguyen A, Islam R, Butler C, Tran E, Mullins D, Hicks C. 2021. HolistIC: leveraging Hi-C and whole genome shotgun sequencing for double minute chromosome discovery. Bioinformatics. 2021 Dec 9.. PMID: 34888626.
  2. Dean, M., Ochoa, J., Sanchez-Pino, M., Zabaleta, J., Garai, J., Del Valle, L., Wyczechowska, D., Baiamonte, L., Philbrook, P., Majumder, R., Vander Heide, R., Dunkenberger, L., Thylur, R., Nossaman, B., Roberts, W., Chapple, A., Wu, J., Hicks, C., Collins, J., Luke, B., Johnson, R., Koul, H., Rees, C., Morris, C., Garcia-Diaz, J., and Ochoa, A. 2021. Severe COVID-19 Is Characterized by an Impaired Type I Interferon Response and Elevated Levels of Arginase Producing Granulocytic Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells. Frontiers in Immunology, 12, p.2726.. PMID: 34341659.
  3. Zhang, L., Hsieh, M.C., Rennert, L., Neroda, P., Wu, X.C., Hicks, C., Wu, J., and Gimbel, R. 2021. Diagnosis-to-surgery interval and survival for different histologies of stage I-IIA lung cancer. Translational Lung Cancer Research, 10(7).. PMID: 34430346.
  4. Zhang, L., Hsieh, M.C., Allison, C., Devane, M., Hicks, C., Yu, Q., Shi, L., Wu, J., and Wu, X.C. 2021. Racial differences in the risk of second primary bladder cancer following radiation therapy among localized prostate cancer patients. Cancer Epidemiology, 73.. PMID: 34146916.
  5. Neroda, P., Hsieh, M.C., Wu, X.C., Cartmell, K., Mayo, R., Wu, J., Hicks, C., and Zhang, L. 2021. Racial Disparity and Social Determinants in Receiving Timely Surgery Among Stage I-IIIA Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Patients in a U.S. Southern State. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, p.709.. PMID: 34150706.
  6. Mamidi, T., Wu, J., and Hicks, C. 2021. Elucidation of the Genomic-Epigenomic Interaction Landscape of Aggressive Prostate Cancer. BioMed Research International, 2021:6641429. PMID: 33511206.
  7. Wu J., Hicks, C. 2021. Breast Cancer Type Classification Using Machine Learning. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(2). PMID: 33498339.
  8. Hicks C., Elnaggar J, and Wu J. 2021. Integrating GWAS with Gene Expression Data to Map the Landscape of Luminal Androgen Receptor and Mesenchymal Subtypes of Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Journal of Oncology Research and Therapy (ISSN: 2574-710X), 6: 10103.

2020

  1. Hull, R., Mbele, M., Makhafola, T., Hicks, C., Wang, S., Reis, R., Mehrotra, R., Mkhize‑Kwitshana, Z., Hussain, S., Kibiki, G., Bates, D., and Dlamini, Z. 2020. A multinational review: Oesophageal cancer in low to middle‑income countries (Review). Oncology Letters. PMID: 32802164.
  2. Wu, J., Mamidi, T., Zhang, L., and Hicks, C. 2020. Delineation of the Germline and Somatic Mutation Interaction Landscape in Triple-Negative and Non-Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. International Journal of Genomics, 2020. PMID: 32724790.
  3. Hull, R., Mbele, M., Makhafola, T., Hicks, C., Wang, S., Reis, R., Mehrotra, R., Mkhize‑Kwitshana, Z., Kibiki, G., Bates, D., and Dlamini, Z. 2020. Cervical cancer in low and middle‑income countries (Review). Oncology Letters 20(3), pp.2058-2074. PMID: 32782524.
  4. Wu, J., Mamidi, T., Zhang, L., and Hicks, C. 2020. Unraveling the Genomic-Epigenomic Interaction Landscape in Triple Negative and Non-Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Cancers, 12(6), p.1559. PMID: 32545594.
  5. Chen, Z., Edwards, A., Hicks, C., and Zhang, K. 2020. Inferring Personalized and Race-Specific Causal Effects of Genomic Aberrations on Gleason Scores: A Deep Latent Variable Model. Frontiers in Oncology, 10, p.272. PMID: 32231997.

2019

  1. Mamidi, T., Wu, J., and Hicks, C. 2019. Integrating germline and somatic variation information using genomic data for the discovery of biomarkers in prostate cancer. BMC cancer, 19(1), p.229. PMID: 30871495.
  2. Wu, J., Mamidi, T., Zhang, L., and Hicks, C. 2019. Integrating Germline and Somatic Mutation Information for the Discovery of Biomarkers in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(6), p.1055. PMID: 30909550.
  3. Mamidi, T., Wu, J., and Hicks, C. 2019. Interactions between germline and somatic mutated genes in aggressive prostate cancer. Prostate cancer, 2019. PMID: 31007957.
  4. Wu, J., Mamidi, T., Zhang, L., and Hicks, C. 2019. Deconvolution of the Genomic and Epigenomic Interaction Landscape of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. Cancers, 11(11), p.1692. PMID: 31683572.
  5. Mamidi, T., Wu, J., and Hicks, C. 2019. Mapping the Germline and Somatic Mutation Interaction Landscape in Indolent and Aggressive Prostate Cancers. Journal of Oncology, 2019. PMID: 31814827.
  6. Nicklow, E., Mamidi, T., Wu, J., Tsien, F., and Hicks, C. 2019. Transcriptome Analysis of Molecular Signatures and Pathways Modulating White Blood Cell Count in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 20(1), p.14693-14704.
  7. Elnaggar, J., Tsien, F., Miele, L., Hicks, C., Yates, C., and Davis, M. 2019. An Integrative Genomics Approach for Associating Genetic Susceptibility with the Tumor Immune Microenvironment in Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 15(1), p.1-12. PMID: 23423317.
  8. Pedersen, K., Pulliam, C., Patel, A., Del Piero, F., Watanabe, T., Wankhade, U., Shankar, K., Hicks, C., and Ronis, M. 2019. Liver tumorigenesis is promoted by a high saturated fat diet specifically in male mice and is associated with hepatic expression of the proto-oncogene Agap2 and enrichment of the intestinal microbiome with Coprococcus. Carcinogenesis, 40(2), p.349-359. PMID: 30325408.

2018

  1. Campbell, N., Weitzenkamp, D., Campbell, I., Schmidt, R., Hicks, C., Morgan, M., Irwin, D., and Tentler, J. 2018. " Omics" data integration and functional analyses link Enoyl-CoA hydratase, short chain 1 to drug refractory dilated cardiomyopathy.. BMC Medical Genomics, 11(1). PMID: 30541556.
  2. Mamidi, T., Wu, J., Tchounwou, P., Miele, L., and Hicks, C. 2018. Whole genome transcriptome analysis of the association between obesity and triple-negative breast cancer in Caucasian women. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(11), p.2338. PMID: 30360534.
  3. Pannuti, A., Filipovic, A., Hicks, C., Lefkowitz, E., Ptacek, T., Stebbing, J., and Miele, L. 2018. Novel putative drivers revealed by targeted exome sequencing of advanced solid tumors. PloS one, 13(3). PMID: 29570743.

2017

  1. Umrigar, A., Musso, A., Mercer, D., Hurley, A., Glausier, C., Bakeer, M., Marble, M., Hicks, C., and Tsien, F. 2017. Delayed diagnosis of a patient with Usher syndrome 1C in a Louisiana Acadian family highlights the necessity of timely genetic testing for the diagnosis and management of congenital hearing loss. SAGE open medical case reports, 5. PMID: 29276601.
  2. Ramani, R., Megason, G., Schallheim, J., Karlson, C., Vijayakumar, V., Vijayakumar, S., and Hicks, C. 2017. Integrative Analysis of MicroRNA-Mediated Gene Signatures and Pathways Modulating White Blood Cell Count in Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Biomarker insights, 12. PMID: 28469402.
  3. Hicks, C., Ramani, R., Sartor, O., Bhalla, R., Miele, L., Dlamini, Z., and Gumede, N. 2017. An integrative genomics approach for associating genome-wide association studies information with localized and metastatic prostate Cancer phenotypes. Biomarker insights, 12. PMID: 28469398.

2016

  1. Seijo, E., Lima, D., Iriabho, E., Almeida, J., Monico, J., Echeverri, M., Gutierrez, S., Flores, I., Lee, J.H., Fisher, K., Grizzle, W., Sica, G., Butler, C., Hicks, C., Meade, C., Sodeke, S., Moroz, K., Coppola, D., and Munoz-Antonia, T. 2016. Construction and Validation of a Multi-Institutional Tissue Microarray of Invasive Ductal Carcinoma From Racially and Ethnically Diverse Populations. Cancer Control, 23(4), p.383-389. PMID: 27842327.
  2. Hicks, C., Sitthi-Amorn, J., Douglas, J., Ramani, R., Miele, L., Vijayakumar, V., Karlson, C., Chipeta, J., and Megason, G. 2016. Molecular analysis of central nervous system disease spectrum in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology, 10, p.5. PMID: 26997880.
  3. Vijayakumar, V., Collier, A., Ruan, C., Zhang, X., Lowery, R., Barr, J., Hicks, C., Megason, G., and Vijayakumar, S. 2016. Multimodality imaging in pediatric osteosarcoma in the era of image gently and image wisely campaign with a close look at the CT scan radiation dose. Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology, 38(3), p.227-231. PMID: 26583624.