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    Genetic diversity of naturalized cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) in Puerto Rico

    Identification of genetically diverse cacao with disease resistance, high productivity, and desirable organoleptic traits is vitally important to the agricultural crop’s long-term sustainability. Environmental...

    S . Cosme, H. E. Cuevas, D. Zhang, T. K. Oleksyk, B. M. Irish in Tree Genetics & Genomes (2016)

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    Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the critically endangered Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata)

    The Puerto Rican parrot (Amazona vittata) is one of the most endangered avian species in the world. Its dramatic decline to near extinction in 1975 was thwarted only by the establishment of two captive breeding p...

    Y. Afanador, J. Velez-Valentín, R. Valentín de la Rosa in Conservation Genetics Resources (2014)

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    Extended IL10 haplotypes and their association with HIV progression to AIDS

    Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a pleiotropic cytokine with both immunosuppressive and immunostimulatory functions. Its roles in infections and autoimmunity may have resulted in selective pressures on polymorphisms ...

    T K Oleksyk, S Shrestha, A L Truelove, J J Goedert, S M Donfield in Genes & Immunity (2009)

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    Single nucleotide polymorphisms and haplotypes in the IL10 region associated with HCV clearance

    Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an infectious blood-borne pathogen that usually persists as a chronic infection. However, approximately 15% of the time, patients can clear the virus, indicating that host difference...

    T K Oleksyk, C L Thio, A L Truelove, J J Goedert, S M Donfield in Genes & Immunity (2005)