Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

The overall theme of my research program has been the identification of regions of genomic instability/changes in copy number associated with certain tumors, the discovery of novel disease susceptibility alleles, and studies of expression-based biomarkers for common disorders.

Research Areas

Recent Publications

Nishimura, W., Rowan, S., Salameh, T., Maas, R., Bonner-Weir, S., Sell, S.M, Sharma, A (2008). Preferential reduction of beta cells derived from Pax6-MafB-pathway in MafB deficient mice. Developmental Biology, 314:443-456.

T. Ptacek, C.-Y. Song, C.L. Walker, S.M. Sell (2006). Evidence for Four Distinct 7q22 Deletions in Uterine Leiomyoma, Including a Microdeletion Containing a Recently Identified Candidate Gene. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, 174:116-20 (2007).

D.C. Bittel, N. Kibiryeva, S.M. Sell, T.V. Strong, M.G. Butler (2007). Whole Genome Microarray Analysis of Gene Expression in Prader-Willi Syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A 143A:430-442.

D. Chen, S. Song, H.F. Orthner, S.M. Sell (2005). Personalized Online Information Search and Visualization. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 5:6-15.

T. Ptacek, S.M. Sell (2005). A Tiered Approach to Comparative Genomics. Briefings in Functional Genomics & Proteomics, 4:178-185.

S.M. Sell, C. Tullis, D. Stracner, C.-Y. Song, J. Gewin (2005). Minimal Deletion Interval Defined on Chromosome 7q in Uterine Leiomyoma. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, 157:76-69.

A. DelParigi, M. Tschop, M. Heiman, A.D. Salbe, B. Vozarova, S.M. Sell, J.C. Bunt, P.A. Tataranni (2002). High Circulating Ghrelin: a Potential Cause for Hyperphagia and Obesity in Prader-Willi Syndorme. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 87:5461-4.

S.M. Sell, T. White, P. Johnson, J. Johnson, E. Palmer, C. Tullis, P.R. Lugemwa (2002). An Improved Assay for Genotyping the Common Alu Insertion in the Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activation Gene PLAT. Genetic Testing, 6:67-68.

S.M. Sell, S. Patel, D. Stracner, A. Meloni (2001). Allelic Loss Analysis by Capillary Electrophoresis: an Accurate, Automated Method for Detection of Deletions in Solid Tumors. Genetic Testing, 5:267-268.

B. Yoder, S.M. Sell (2001). Jets: a Modification to Speed Flexible Oligonucleotide Array Construction. The Pharmacogenomics Journal, 1:163-165.