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Christopher P. Austin, M.D.

Senior Advisor to the Director for Translational Research

Selected Publications

Comprehensive Mouse Knockout Project Consortium 2004. The Knockout Mouse Project: A comprehensive plan for placing knockouts of all mouse genes and associated phenotype data into the public domain. Nature Genetics, 36: 921 - 924. 2004. [PubMed]

Austin, CP. The impact of the completed human genome sequence on development of novel therapeutics for human disease. Annu Rev Med, 55:1–13. 2004 [PubMed]

Austin CP. The completed human genome: Implications for chemical biology. Curr Opin Chem Biol, 7:511–515. 2003. [PubMed]

Morris JA, Kandpal G, Ma L, Austin CP. DISC1(Disrupted-In-Schizophrenia 1) is a centrosome-associated protein that interacts with MAP1A, MIPT3, ATF4/5, and NUDEL Hum Mol Genet, 12:1591-1608. 2003. [PubMed]

Ma L, Liu Y, Ky B, Shughrue PJ, Austin CP, and Morris JA. Cloning and characterization of DISC1, the mouse orthologue of DISC1 (Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1). Genomics, 80: 662-672. 2002. [PubMed]

Figueroa DJ, Morris JA, Ma L, Kandpal G, Chen E, Li Y-M, Austin CP. Presenilin-dependent gamma-secretase activity modulates neurite outgrowth. Neurobiol Dis, 9: 49-60. 2002. [PubMed]

Liu Q, Guan X-M, Martin WJ, McDonald TP, Clements MK, Jiang Q, Zeng Z, Jacobson M, Williams DL, Yu H, Bomford D, Figueroa DJ, Mallee J, Wang R, Evans J, Gould R, Austin CP. Identification and characterization of novel mammalian neuropeptide FF-like peptides that attenuate morphine-induced antinociception. J Biol Chem, 276: 36961-36969. 2001. [PubMed]

Gerhold D, Lu M, Xu J, Austin CP, Caskey CT, Rushmore T. Monitoring expression of genes involved in drug metabolism and toxicology using DNA microarrays. Physiol Genomics, 5:161-170. 2001. [PubMed]

Zhang K, Kniazeva M, Han M, Li W, Yu Z, Yang Z, Li Y, Metzker ML, Allikmets R, Zack DJ, Kakuk LE, Lagali PS, Wong PW, MacDonald IM, Sieving PA, Figueroa DJ, Austin CP, Gould RJ, Ayyagari R, Petrukhin K. A 5-bp deletion in ELOVL4 is associated with two related forms of autosomal dominant macular dystrophy. Nat Genet, 27: 89-93. 2001. [PubMed]

Figueroa DJ, Hess JF, Ky B, Brown SD, Sandig V, Hermanowski-Vosatka A, Twells RCJ, Todd JA, Austin CP. Expression of the type I diabetes-associated gene LRP5 in macrophages, Vitamin A system cells, and the islets of Langerhans suggests multiple potential roles in diabetes. J Histochem Cytochem,48: 1357-1368. 2000. [PubMed]

Bai C, Connolly B, Metzker M, Liu X, Hilliard CA, Galloway SM, Sandig V, Liu Q, Austin CP, Caskey CT. Overexpression of a new member of tumor necrosis factor receptor family in gastrointestinal tract tumors and its location in a four-gene cluster. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 97: 1230-1235. 2000. [PubMed]

Austin CP, Holder, DJ, Ma, L, Mixson, and Caskey, CT. Mapping of hKCa3 to chromosome 1q21 and investigation of linkage of CAG polymorphism to schizophrenia. Molecular Psychiatry, 4: 261-266. 1999. [PubMed]

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