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RANJAN DEKA
Professor
DEKAR@UCMAIL.UC.EDU
558-5989
331 KETTERING
 
Education
 Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, India B.S. 1970 Biology
Dibrugarh University M.S. 1972 Anthropology
Dibrugarh University Ph.D. 1976 Human Genetics
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany Post-Doc. 1985-87 Human Genetics
  
Awards
 1973-1976 University Grants Commission Doctoral Fellowship, New Delhi, India
1984 Fellowship from Deutscher Akademischer Austausdienst, Germany (Federal Republic)
1985-1987 Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany (Federal Republic)
  
Research
 1976-1978 Assistant Anthropologist, Anthropological Survey of India
1978-1987 Lecturer/Reader, Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, India
1985-1987 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Department of Human Genetics, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
1987-1990 Research Associate, Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1990-1996 Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1996-1997 Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, PA
1997-present Professor, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, OH
  
Publications
  Deka R, Shriver MD, Yu LM, Jin L, Aston CE, Chakraborty R, Ferrell RE. 1994. Conservation of human chromosome 13 polymorphic microsatellite (CA)n repeats in chimpanzees. Genomics 22:226-230.

Finegold DN, Armitage MM, Gailiani M, Matise TC, Pandian MR, Perry YM, Deka R, Ferrell. 1994. Preliminary localization of a gene for autosomal dominant hypoparathyroidism to chromosome 3q13.1. Pediatr Res 36:1-4.

Deka R, Jin L, Shriver MD, Yu LM, DeCroo S, Hundrieser J, Bunker CH, Ferrell RE, Chakraborty R. 1995. Population genetics of dinucleotide (dC-dA)n.(dG-dT)n polymorphisms in world populations. Am J Hum Genet 56:461-474.

Vanyukov MM, Moss HB, Yu LM, Tarter RE, Deka R. 1995. Preliminary evidence for an association of a dinucleotide repeat polymorphism at the MAO-A gene with early onset alcoholism/substance abuse. Am J Med Genet (Neuropsychiatric Genet) 60:122-126.

Shriver MD, Jin L, Boerwinkle E, Deka R, Ferrell RE, Chakraborty R. 1995. A novel measure of genetic distance for ighly polymorphic tandem repeat loci. Mol Biol Evol 12:914-920.

Deka R, Miki T, Yin S-J, McGarvey ST, Shriver MD, Bunker CH, Raskin S, Hundrieser J, Ferrell RE, Chakraborty R. 1995. Normal CAG repeat variation at the DRPL locus in world populations. Am J Hum Genet 57:508-511.

Deka R, Shriver MD, Yu LM, Ferrell RE, Chakraborty R. 1995. Intra- and inter-population diversity at short tandem repeat loci in diverse populations of the world. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on DNA Finger Printing, Hyerabad, India, December 13-16, 1994. Electrophoresis 16:1659-1664.

Yamagata H, Miki T, Nakagawa M, Johnson K, Deka R, Ogihara T. 1996. Association of CTG repeats and the 1 kb Alu insertion/deletion polymorphism at the myotonin protein kinase gene in the Japanese population suggests a common Eurasian origin of the myotonic dystrophy mutation. Hum Genet 97:145-147.

Deka R, Majumder PP, Shriver MD, Stivers D, Zhong Y, Yu LM, Barrantes R, Yin S-J, Miki T, Hundrieser J, Bunker CH, McGarvey ST, Sakallah S, Ferrell RE, Chakraborty R. 1996. Distribution and evolution of CTG repeats at the myotonin protein kinase gene in human populations. Genome Research 6:142-154.

Vanyukov MM, Moss HB, Yu LM, Deka R. 1995. A dinucleotide repeat polymorphism at the gene for monoamine oxidase A and measures of aggressiveness. Psychiatry Res. 59:35-41.

Kimmel M, Chakraborty R, Stivers DN, Deka R. 1996. Dynamics of repeat polymorphisms under forward-backward mutation model: Within- and between-population variability at microsatellite loci. Genetics 143:549-555.

Chakraborty R, Stivers DN, Deka R, Yu LM, Shriver MD, Ferrell RE. 1996. Segregation distortion of CTG repeats at the myotonic dystrophy locus. Am J Hum Genet 59:109-118.

Albarran C, Garcia O, Deka R, Alonso A, Martin P, Sancho M, Stivers DN, Chakraborty R. 1996. Analysis of D1S80 VNTR allele polymorphisms and association with a nearby flanking sequence polymorphism in two Spanish populations. In: “Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics” (eds. A. Carracedo, B. Brinkmann, W. Bar) Springer-Verlag; Berlin, pp 151-153.

Deka R, Jin L, Shriver MD, Saha N, Barrantes R, Chakraborty R, Ferrell RE. 1996. Dispersion of human Y chromosome haplotypes based on five microsatellites in global populations. Genome Research 6:1177-1184.

Chakraborty R, Kimmel M, Stivers DN, Davison LJ, Deka R. 1997. Relative mutation rates at di-, tri- and tetranucleotide repeats. Proc Natl Acad Sci, USA 94:1041-1046.

Shriver MD, Smith MW, Jin L, Marcini A, Akey JM, Deka R, Ferrell RE. 1997. Ethnic affiliation estimation using population-specific DNA markers. Am J Hum Genet 60:957-964.

Shriver MD, Jin L, Ferrell RE, Deka R. 1997. Microsatellite data support an early population expansion in Africa. Genome Research 7:586-591.

Polanski A, Chakraborty R, Kimmel M, Deka R. 1998. Dynamic balance of segregation distortion and selection maintains normal allele sizes at the myotonic dystrophy locus. Math Biosci 147:93-112.

Pogue-Geile M, Ferrell RE, Deka R, Debski T, Manuck S. 1998. Human novelty-seeking personality traits and dopamine D4 receptor polymorphisms: A twin and genetic association study. Am J Med Genet (Neuropsychiatric Genetics) 81:44-48.

Parra EJ, Marcini E, Akey J, Martinson J, Batzer MA, Cooper R, Forrester T, Allison DB, Deka R, Ferrell RE, Shriver MD. 1998. Estimating African-American admixture proportions by use of population-specific alleles. Am J Hum Genet 63:1839-1851.

Deka R, Guangyun S, Smelser D, Chunhua S, Zhong Y, Chakraborty R. 1999 Patterns of instability of expanded CAG repeats at the ERDA1 locus in general populations. Am J Hum Genet 65:192-198.

Deka R, Zhong Y, Kimmel M, Chakraborty R. 1999. Rate and directionality of mutations and effects of allele-size constraints at anonymous, gene-associated and disease-causing trinucleotide loci. Mol Biol Evol 16:116-1177.

Parra EJ, Shriver MD, Soemantri AG, McGarvey ST, Hundrieser J, Saha N, Tay JSH, Deka R. 1999. Analysis of five Y-specific microsatellite loci in Asian populations. Am J Phys Anthrop 110:1-16.

Parra EJ, Saha N, Soemantri AG, McGarvey ST, Hundrieser J, Shriver MD, Deka R. Genetic variation at nine autosomal microsatellite loci in Asian populations. Hum Biol (in press)

Deka R, Shriver MD, Yu LM, Heidreich EM, McGarvey ST, Bunker CH, Miki T, Yin S-H, Raskin S, Barrantes R, Ferrell RE, Chakraborty R. Genetic variation at 23 microsatellite loci in 16 human populations. J Genet (in press)
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