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Department of Biochemistry profile

Professor Mik Black

PositionProfessor
DepartmentDepartment of Biochemistry
QualificationsBSc(Hons) MS PhD
Research summaryBioinformatics, cancer genomics, data science, statistics
TeachingBIOC352, GENE315, GENE360, GENE412, STAT435, QGEN401, BIOC461

Research

Professor Black is a member of the Centre for Translational Cancer Research, and his research focuses on the development of methods for the analysis of genomic data, with a strong emphasis on cancer and other human diseases. A common theme is the use of techniques that allow high-dimensional and often very disparate data sets to be combined in ways that provide new insights into disease development and progression:
Centre for Translational Cancer Research

This research is highly collaborative, and Mik works closely with a number of Otago research groups, as well as with long-standing national and international collaborators at the University of Auckland, the Institute of Environmental Science and Research, Wake Forest University Medical School, and Moffitt Cancer Center.

In addition to his own work, Mik has been heavily involved in establishing national research infrastructure in high performance computing through the NZ eScience Infrastructure, and in genomics and bioinformatics through Genomics Aotearoa, where he is the Chair of the Bioinformatics Leadership Team:
NZ eScience Infrastructure
Genomics Aotearoa

Publications

Taylor, M. F., Black, M. A., Hampton, M. B., & Ledgerwood, E. C. (2023). Insights into H2O2-induced signaling in Jurkat cells from analysis of gene expression. Free Radical Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10715762.2023.2165073

Mehta, S., Wright, D., Black, M. A., Merrie, A., Anjomshoaa, A., Munro, F., Reeve, A., McCall, J., & Print, C. (2022). Impact of clinical data veracity on cancer genomic research. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkac070

Bougen-Zhukov, N., Decourtye-Espiard, L., Mitchell, W., Redpath, K., Perkinson, J., Godwin, T., Black, M. A., & Guilford, P. (2022). E-cadherin-deficient cells are sensitive to the multikinase inhibitor dasatinib. Cancers, 14, 1609. doi: 10.3390/cancers14071609

Gardner, P. P., Paterson, J. M., McGimpsey, S., Ashari-Ghomi, F., Umu, S. U., Pawlik, A., Gavryushkin, A., & Black, M. A. (2022). Sustained software development, not number of citations or journal choice, is indicative of accurate bioinformatic software. Genome Biology, 23, 56. doi: 10.1186/s13059-022-02625-x

Decourtye-Espiard, L., Bougen-Zhukov, N., Godwin, T., Brew, T., Schulpen, E., Black, M. A., & Guilford, P. (2021). E-cadherin-deficient epithelial cells are sensitive to HDAC inhibitors. Cancers, 14(1), 175. doi: 10.3390/ cancers14010102

Taylor, M. F., Black, M. A., Hampton, M. B., & Ledgerwood, E. C. (2023). Insights into H2O2-induced signaling in Jurkat cells from analysis of gene expression. Free Radical Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10715762.2023.2165073

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Bougen-Zhukov, N., Decourtye-Espiard, L., Mitchell, W., Redpath, K., Perkinson, J., Godwin, T., Black, M. A., & Guilford, P. (2022). E-cadherin-deficient cells are sensitive to the multikinase inhibitor dasatinib. Cancers, 14, 1609. doi: 10.3390/cancers14071609

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Gardner, P. P., Paterson, J. M., McGimpsey, S., Ashari-Ghomi, F., Umu, S. U., Pawlik, A., Gavryushkin, A., & Black, M. A. (2022). Sustained software development, not number of citations or journal choice, is indicative of accurate bioinformatic software. Genome Biology, 23, 56. doi: 10.1186/s13059-022-02625-x

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Mehta, S., Wright, D., Black, M. A., Merrie, A., Anjomshoaa, A., Munro, F., Reeve, A., McCall, J., & Print, C. (2022). Impact of clinical data veracity on cancer genomic research. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkac070

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Aiderus, A., Newberg, J. Y., Guzman-Rojas, L., Contreras-Sandoval, A. M., Meshey, A. L., Jones, D. J., … Black, M. A., … Mann, M. B. (2021). Transposon mutagenesis identifies cooperating genetic drivers during keratinocyte transformation and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma progression. PLoS Genetics, 17(8), e1009094. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009094

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Decourtye-Espiard, L., Bougen-Zhukov, N., Godwin, T., Brew, T., Schulpen, E., Black, M. A., & Guilford, P. (2021). E-cadherin-deficient epithelial cells are sensitive to HDAC inhibitors. Cancers, 14(1), 175. doi: 10.3390/ cancers14010102

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Muradova, E., Patel, N., Sell, B., Bittencourt, B. B., Ojeda, S. S., Adelmann, C. H., … Black, M. A., … Tsai, K. Y. (2021). Non-invasive assessment of epidermal genomic markers of UV exposure in skin. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 141(1), 124-131.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2020.05.093

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Pinkney, H. R., Black, M. A., & Diermeier, S. D. (2021). Single-cell RNA-seq reveals heterogeneous lncRNA expression in xenografted triple-negative breast cancer cells. Biology, 10(10), 987. doi: 10.3390/biology10100987

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Pullikuth, A. K., Routh, E. D., Zimmermann, K. D., Chifman, J., Chou, J. W., Soike, M. H., … Black, M. A., … Miller, L. D. (2021). Bulk and single-cell profiling of breast tumors identifies TREM-1 as a dominant immune suppressive marker associated with poor outcomes. Frontiers in Oncology, 11, 734959. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2021.734959

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Wiggins, G. A. R., Black, M. A., Dunbier, A., Merriman, T. R., Pearson, J. F., & Walker, L. C. (2021). Variable expression quantitative trait loci analysis of breast cancer risk variants. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 7192. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-86690-5

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Wiggins, G. A. R., Black, M. A., Dunbier, A., Morley-Bunker, A. E., kConFab Investigators, Pearson, J. F., & Walker, L. C. (2021). Increased gene expression variability in BRCA1-associated and basal-like breast tumours. Breast Cancer Research & Treatment, 189, 363-375. doi: 10.1007/s10549-021-06328-y

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Eom, J., Park, S. M., Feisst, V., Chen, C.-J. J., Mathy, J. E., McIntosh, J. D., … Black, M. A., … Dunbar, P. R. (2020). Distinctive subpopulations of stromal cells are present in human lymph nodes infiltrated with melanoma. Cancer Immunology Research, 8(8), 1-14. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.Cir-19-0796

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Lasham, A., Fitzgerald, S. J., Knowlton, N., Robb, T., Tsai, P., Black, M. A., … Mehta, S. Y., Harris, G., … Print, C. G. (2020). A predictor of early disease recurrence in patients with breast cancer using a cell-free RNA and protein liquid biopsy. Clinical Breast Cancer, 20(2), 108-116. doi: 10.1016/j.clbc.2019.07.003

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Zou, D., Day, R., Cocadiz, J. A., Parackal, S., Mitchell, W., Black, M. A., … Jackson, C., & Guilford, P. (2020). Circulating tumor DNA is a sensitive marker for routine monitoring of treatment response in advanced colorectal cancer. Carcinogenesis, 41(11), 1507-1517. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgaa102

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Bougen-Zhukov, N., Nouri, Y., Godwin, T., Taylor, M., Hakkaart, C., Single, A., Brew, T., Permina, E., Chen, A., Black, M. A., & Guilford, P. (2019). Allosteric AKT inhibitors target synthetic lethal vulnerabilities in E-cadherin-deficient cells. Cancers, 11(9), 1359. doi: 10.3390/cancers11091359

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Godwin, T. D., Kelly, S. T., Brew, T. P., Bougen-Zhukov, N. M., Single, A. B., Chen, A., Stylianou, C. E., … Currie, S. K., Telford, B. J., Beetham, H. G., … Black, M. A., & Guilford, P. J. (2019). E-cadherin-deficient cells have synthetic lethal vulnerabilities in plasma membrane organisation, dynamics and function. Gastric Cancer, 22(2), 273-286. doi: 10.1007/s10120-018-0859-1

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Norton, S. E., Ward-Hartstonge, K. A., McCall, J. L., Leman, J. K. H., Taylor, E. S., Munro, F., Black, M. A., … Kemp, R. A. (2019). High-dimensional mass cytometric analysis reveals an increase in effector regulatory T cells as a distinguishing feature of colorectal tumors. Journal of Immunology, 202, 1871-1884. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1801368

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Parackal, S., Zou, D., Day, R., Black, M., & Guilford, P. (2019). Comparison of Roche Cell-Free DNA collection Tubes® to Streck Cell-Free DNA BCT®s for sample stability using healthy volunteers. Practical Laboratory Medicine, 16, e00125. doi: 10.1016/j.plabm.2019.e00125

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Todd, E. V., Ortega-Recalde, O., Liu, H., Lamm, M. S., Rutherford, K. M., Cross, H., Black, M. A., Kardailsky, O., … Hore, T. A., … Gemmell, N. J. (2019). Stress, novel sex genes, and epigenetic reprogramming orchestrate socially controlled sex change. Science Advances, 5(7), eaaw7006. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw7006

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Aiderus, A., Black, M. A., & Dunbier, A. K. (2018). Fatty acid oxidation is associated with proliferation and prognosis in breast and other cancers. BMC Cancer, 18, 805. doi: 10.1186/s12885-018-4626-9

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Bilton, T. P., Schofield, M. R., Black, M. A., Chagné, D., Wilcox, P. L., & Dodds, K. G. (2018). Accounting for errors in low coverage high-throughput sequencing data when constructing genetic maps using biparental outcrossed populations. Genetics, 209(1), 65-76. doi: 10.1534/genetics.117.300627

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Campbell, H., Fleming, N., Roth, I., Mehta, S., Wiles, A., Williams, G., … Munro, F., McNoe, L., Black, M., McCall, J., Slatter, T. L., … Braithwaite, A. W. (2018). Δ133p53 isoform promotes tumour invasion and metastasis via interleukin-6 activation of JAK-STAT and RhoA-ROCK signalling. Nature Communications, 9(1), 254. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02408-0

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Craig, H. J. B., Stachowicz, K., Black, M., Parry, M., Burke, C. R., Meier, S., & Amer, P. R. (2018). Genotype by environment interactions in fertility traits in New Zealand dairy cows. Journal of Dairy Science, 101, 10991-11003. doi: 10.3168/jds.2017-14195

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Lacey, C. J., Doudney, K., Bridgman, P. G., George, P. M., Mulder, R. T., Zarifeh, J. J., Kimber, B., Cadzow, M. J., Black, M. A., Merriman, T. R., … Pearson, J. F., Cameron, V. A., & Kennedy, M. A. (2018). Copy number variants implicate cardiac function and development pathways in earthquake-induced stress cardiomyopathy. Scientific Reports, 8, 7548. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-25827-5

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Lawrence, B., Blenkiron, C., Parker, K., Tsai, P., Fitzgerald, S., Shields, P., … Black, M., … Robinson, B., … Carroll, R., … Morrin, H., … Jackson, C., … Print, C. (2018). Recurrent loss of heterozygosity correlates with clinical outcome in pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer. npj Genomic Medicine, 3, 18. doi: 10.1038/s41525-018-0058-3

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Lee, S. L. J., Horsfield, J. A., Black, M. A., Rutherford, K., & Gemmell, N. J. (2018). Identification of sex differences in zebrafish (Danio rerio) brains during early sexual differentiation and masculinisation using 17α-methyltestoterone. Biology of Reproduction, 99(2), 446-460. doi: 10.1093/biolre/iox175

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Newberg, J. Y., Black, M. A., Jenkins, N. A., Copeland, N. G., Mann, K. M., & Mann, M. B. (2018). SB Driver Analysis: A Sleeping Beauty cancer driver analysis framework for identifying and prioritizing experimentally actionable oncogenes and tumor suppressors. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(16), e94. doi: 10.1093/nar/gky450

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Stovall, W. R., Taylor, H. R., Black, M., Grosser, S., Rutherford, K., & Gemmell, N. J. (2018). Genetic sex assignment in wild populations using genotyping‐by‐sequencing data: A statistical threshold approach. Molecular Ecology Resources, 18(2), 179-190. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12767

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Taylor, E. S., McCall, J. L., Shen, S., Girardin, A., Munro, F. M., Black, M. A., Ward-Hartstonge, K. A., & Kemp, R. A. (2018). Prognostic roles for IL-2-producing and CD69+ T cell subsets in colorectal cancer patients. International Journal of Cancer, 143(8), 2008-2016. doi: 10.1002/ijc.31598

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Thomas, A., Routh, E. D., Pullikuth, A., Jin, G., Su, J., Chou, J. W., … Black, M. A., … Miller, L. D. (2018). Tumor mutational burden is a determinant of immune-mediated survival in breast cancer. OncoImmunology, 7(10), e1490854. doi: 10.1080/2162402X.2018.1490854

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Tomek, P., Gore, S. K., Potts, C. L., Print, C. G., Black, M. A., Hallermayr, A., … Ching, L.-M. (2018). Imprinted and ancient gene: A potential mediator of cancer cell survival during tryptophan deprivation. Cell Communication & Signaling, 16, 88. doi: 10.1186/s12964-018-0301-7

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Ariazi, E. A., Taylor, J. C., Black, M. A., Nicolas, E., Slifker, M. J., Azzam, D. J., & Boyd, J. (2017). A new role for ERα: Silencing via DNA methylation of basal, stem cell, and EMT genes. Molecular Cancer Research, 15(2). doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.mcr-16-0283

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Lee, S. L. J., Horsfield, J. A., Black, M. A., Rutherford, K., Fisher, A., & Gemmell, N. J. (2017). Histological and transcriptomic effects of 17α-methyltestosterone on zebrafish gonad development. BMC Genomics, 18, 557. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-3915-z

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McInnes, T., Zou, D., Rao, D. S., Munro, F. M., Phillips, V. L., McCall, J. L., Black, M. A., Reeve, A. E., & Guilford, P. J. (2017). Genome-wide methylation analysis identifies a core set of hypermethylated genes in CIMP-H colorectal cancer. BMC Cancer, 17, 228. doi: 10.1186/s12885-017-3226-4

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Muthukaruppan, A., Lasham, A., Blenkiron, C., Woad, K. J., Black, M. A., Knowlton, N., … Shelling, A. N. (2017). Gene expression profling of breast tumours from New Zealand patients. New Zealand Medical Journal, 130(1464), 40-56. Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

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Muthukaruppan, A., Lasham, A., Woad, K. J., Black, M. A., Blenkiron, C., Miller, L. D., Harris, G., … Findlay, M. P., … Print, C. G. (2017). Multimodal assessment of estrogen receptor mRNA profiles to quantify estrogen pathway activity in breast tumors. Clinical Breast Cancer, 17(2), 139-153. doi: 10.1016/j.clbc.2016.09.001

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Cadzow, M., Merriman, T. R., Boocock, J., Dalbeth, N., Stamp, L. K., Black, M. A., … Wilcox, P. L. (2016). Lack of direct evidence for natural selection at the candidate thrifty gene locus, PPARGC1A. BMC Medical Genetics, 17, 80. doi: 10.1186/s12881-016-0341-z

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Jenkins, G. M., Goddard, M. E., Black, M. A., Brauning, R., Auvray, B., Dodds, K. G., … McEwan, J. C. (2016). Copy number variants in the sheep genome detected using multiple approaches. BMC Genomics, 17, 441. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-2754-7

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Mann, K. M., Newberg, J. Y., Black, M. A., Jones, D. J., Amaya-Manzanares, F., Guzman-Rojas, L., … McNoe, L. A., Selvanesan, L., … Mann, M. B. (2016). Analyzing tumor heterogeneity and driver genes in single myeloid leukemia cells with SBCapSeq. Nature Biotechnology, 34(9), 962-972. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3637

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Miller, L. D., Chou, J. A., Black, M. A., Print, C., Chifman, J., Alistar, A., … Marincola, F. M. (2016). Immunogenic subtypes of breast cancer delineated by gene classifiers of immune responsiveness. Cancer Immunology Research, 4(7). doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-15-0149

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Nguyen, H. T., Boocock, J., Merriman, T. R., & Black, M. A. (2016). SRBreak: A read-depth and split-read framework to identify breakpoints of different events inside simple copy-number variable regions. Frontiers in Genetics, 7, 160. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00160

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Rangel, R., Lee, S.-C., Ban, K. H.-K., Guzman-Rojas, L., Mann, M. B., Newberg, J. Y., … McNoe, L. A., Selvanesan, L., … Black, M. A., … Copeland, N. G. (2016). Transposon mutagenesis identifies genes that cooperate with mutant Pten in breast cancer progression. PNAS, 113(48), E7749-E7758. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1613859113

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Smith, L. M., Parr-Brownlie, L. C., Duncan, E. J., Black, M. A., Gemmell, N. J., Dearden, P. K., & Reynolds, J. N. J. (2016). Striatal mRNA expression patterns underlying peak dose L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in the 6-OHDA hemiparkinsonian rat. Neuroscience, 324, 238-251. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.03.012

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Taylor, E. S., McCall, J. L., Girardin, A., Munro, F. M., Black, M. A., & Kemp, R. A. (2016). Functional impairment of infiltrating T cells in human colorectal cancer. OncoImmunology, 5(11), e1234573. doi: 10.1080/2162402X.2016.1234573

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Todd, E. V., Black, M. A., & Gemmell, N. J. (2016). The power and promise of RNA-seq in ecology and evolution. Molecular Ecology, 25(6), 1224-1241. doi: 10.1111/mec.13526

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Ahmadi, O., Stringer, M. D., Black, M. A., & McCall, J. L. (2015). Clinico-pathological factors influencing lymph node yield in colorectal cancer and impact on survival: Analysis of New Zealand Cancer Registry data. Journal of Surgical Oncology, 11(4), 451-458. doi: 10.1002/jso.23848

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Boocock, J., Chagné, D., Merriman, T. R., & Black, M. A. (2015). The distribution and impact of common copy-number variation in the genome of the domesticated apple, Malus x domestica Borkh. BMC Genomics, 16(1), 848. doi: 10.1186/s12864-015-2096-x

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Liu, H., Lamm, M. S., Rutherford, K., Black, M. A., Godwin, J. R., & Gemmell, N. J. (2015). Large-scale transcriptome sequencing reveals novel expression patterns for key sex-related genes in a sex-changing fish. Biology of Sex Differences, 6, 26. doi: 10.1186/s13293-015-0044-8

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Mann, M. B., Black, M. A., Jones, D. J., Ward, J. M., Yew, C. C. K., Newberg, J. Y., … Jenkins, N. A. (2015). Transposon mutagenesis identifies genetic drivers of BrafV600E melanoma. Nature Genetics, 47(5), 486-495. doi: 10.1038/ng.3275

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Sawaya, S., Boocock, J., Black, M. A., & Gemmell, N. J. (2015). Exploring possible DNA structures in real-time polymerase kinetics using Pacific Biosciences sequencer data. BMC Bioinformatics, 16, 21. doi: 10.1186/s12859-014-0449-0

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Topless, R. K., Flynn, T. J., Cadzow, M., Stamp, L. K., Dalbeth, N., Black, M. A., & Merriman, T. R. (2015). Association of SLC2A9 genotype with phenotypic variability of serum urate in pre-menopausal women. Frontiers in Genetics, 6, 313. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00313

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Ahmadi, O., Stringer, M. D., Black, M. A., & McCall, J. L. (2014). Influence of age and site of disease on lymph node yield in colorectal cancer. New Zealand Medical Journal, 127(1395). Retrieved from http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal

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Alistar, A., Chou, J. W., Nagalla, S., Black, M. A., D'Agostino, R., & Miller, L. (2014). Dual roles for immune metagenes in breast cancer prognosis and therapy prediction. Genome Medicine, 6(10), 80. doi: 10.1186/s13073-014-0080-8

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Batt, C., Phipps-Green, A. J., Black, M. A., Cadzow, M., Merriman, M. E., Topless, R., … Harrison, A., Highton, J., … Stamp, L., … Merriman, T. R. (2014). Sugar-sweetened beverage consumption: A risk factor for prevalent gout with SLC2A9 genotype-specific effects on serum urate and risk of gout. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 73(12), 2101-2106. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-203600

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Cadzow, M., Boocock, J., Nguyen, H. T., Wilcox, P., Merriman, T. R., & Black, M. A. (2014). A bioinformatics workflow for detecting signatures of selection in genomic data. Frontiers in Genetics, 5, 293. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00293

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Chen, A., Beetham, H., Black, M. A., Priya, R., Telford, B. J., Guest, J., Wiggins, G. A. R., Godwin, T. D., … Guilford, P. J. (2014). E-cadherin loss alters cytoskeletal organization and adhesion in non-malignant breast cells but is insufficient to induce an epithelial-mesenchymal transition. BMC Cancer, 14, 552. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-552

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Dubouzet, J. G., Donaldson, L., Black, M. A., McNoe, L., Liu, V., & Lloyd-Jones, G. (2014). Heterologous hybridisation to a Pinus microarray: Profiling of gene expression in Pinus radiata saplings exposed to ethephon. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science, 44, 21. doi: 10.1186/s40490-014-0021-8

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Kenny, L. C., Black, M. A., Poston, L., Taylor, R., Myers, J. E., Baker, P. N., … North, R. A. (2014). Early pregnancy prediction of preeclampsia in nulliparous women, combining clinical risk and biomarkers: The Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) international cohort study. Hypertension, 64(3), 644-652. doi: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.114.03578

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Nguyen, H. T., Merriman, T. R., & Black, M. A. (2014). The CNVrd2 package: Measurement of copy number at complex loci using high-throughput sequencing data. Frontiers in Genetics, 5, 248. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00248

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Roberts, R. L., Wallace, M. C., Wright, D. F. B., Cadzow, M., Dalbeth, N., Jones, P. B., Stamp, L. K., Harrison, A. A., Black, M. A., & Merriman, T. R. (2014). Frequency of CYP2C9 polymorphisms in Polynesian people and potential relevance to management of gout with benzbromarone. Joint Bone Spine, 81(2), 160-163. doi: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2013.07.006

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Tannock, G. W., Taylor, C., Lawley, B., Loach, D., Gould, M., Dunn, A. C., McLellan, A. D., Black, M. A., McNoe, L., Dekker, J., … Collett, M. A. (2014). Altered transcription of murine genes induced in the small bowel by administration of probiotic strain Lactobacillus rhamnosus HN001. Applied & Environmental Microbiology, 80(9), 2851-2859. doi: 10.1128/aem.00336-14

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Butler, M. I., Stockwell, P. A., Black, M. A., Day, R. C., Lamont, I. L., & Poulter, R. T. M. (2013). Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae from recent outbreaks of kiwifruit bacterial canker belong to different clones that originated in China. PLoS ONE, 8(2), e57464. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057464

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Cappello, S., Gray, M. J., Badouel, C., Lange, S., Einsiedler, M., Srour, M., … Jenkins, Z. A., Morgan, T., Preitner, N., … Black, M. A., Markie, D., … Robertson, S. P. (2013). Mutations in genes encoding the cadherin receptor-ligand pair DCHS1 and FAT4 disrupt cerebral cortical development. Nature Genetics, 45(11), 1300-1308. doi: 10.1038/ng.2765

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Girardin, A., McCall, J., Black, M. A., Edwards, F., Phillips, V., Taylor, E. S., Reeve, A. E., & Kemp, R. A. (2013). Inflammatory and regulatory T cells contribute to a unique immune microenvironment in tumor tissue of colorectal cancer patients. International Journal of Cancer, 132(8), 1842-1850. doi: 10.1002/ijc.27855

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Nagalla, S., Chou, J. W., Willingham, M. C., Ruiz, J., Vaughn, J. P., Dubey, P., … Black, M. A., & Miller, L. D. (2013). Interactions between immunity, proliferation and molecular subtype in breast cancer prognosis. Genome Biology, 14, R34. doi: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-4-r34

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Sawaya, S., Bagshaw, A., Buschiazzo, E., Kumar, P., Chowdhury, S., Black, M. A., & Gemmell, N. (2013). Microsatellite tandem repeats are abundant in human promoters and are associated with regulatory elements. PLoS ONE, 8(2), e54710. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054710

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tan Nguyen, H., Merriman, T. R., & Black, M. A. (2013). CNVrd, a read-depth algorithm for assigning copy-number at the FCGR Locus: Population-specific tagging of copy number variation at FCGR3B. PLoS ONE, 8(4), e63219. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063219

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Trevarton, A. J., Mann, M. B., Knapp, C., Araki, H., Wren, J. D., Stones-Havas, S., Black, M. A., & Print, C. G. (2013). MelanomaDB: A web tool for integrative analysis of melanoma genomic information to identify disease-associated molecular pathways. Frontiers in Oncology, 3, 184. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2013.00184

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Xu, H., Black, M. A., & Craig, B. A. (2013). Evaluating accuracy of diagnostic tests with intermediate results in the absence of a gold standard. Statistics in Medicine, 32(15), 2571-2584. doi: 10.1002/sim.5695

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Caldon, C. E., Sergio, C. M., Kang, J., Muthukaruppan, A., Boersma, M. N., Stone, A., … Black, M. A., … Musgrove, E. A. (2012). Cyclin E2 overexpression is associated with endocrine resistance but not insensitivity to CDK2 inhibition in human breast cancer cells. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 11(7), 1488-1499. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.mct-11-0963

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Debono, R., Topless, R., Markie, D., Black, M. A., & Merriman, T. R. (2012). Analysis of the DISC1 translocation partner (11q14.3) in genetic risk of schizophrenia. Genes, Brain & Behavior, 11(7), 859-963. doi: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2012.00832.x

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Lasham, A., Samuel, W., Cao, H., Patel, R., Mehta, R., Stern, J. L., … Woolley, A. G., … Black, M. A., Shelling, A. N., Print, C. G., & Braithwaite, A. W. (2012). YB-1, the E2F Pathway, and regulation of tumor cell growth. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 104(2), 133-146. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djr512

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Lee, Y. F., Miller, L. D., Chan, X. B., Black, M. A., Pang, B., Ong, C. W., … Desai, K. V. (2012). JMJD6 is a driver of cellular proliferation and motility and a marker of poor prognosis in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research, 14(3), R85. doi: 10.1186/bcr3200

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Mann, K. M., Ward, J. M., Yew, C. C. K., Kovochich, A., Dawson, D. W., Black, M. A., … Copeland, N. G. (2012). Sleeping Beauty mutagenesis reveals cooperating mutations and pathways in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. PNAS, 109(16), 5934-5941. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1202490109

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Pilbrow, A. P., Folkersen, L., Pearson, J. F., Brown, C. M., McNoe, L., Wang, N. M., … Black, M. A., Troughton, R. W., Richards, A. M., … Cameron, V. A. (2012). The chromosome 9p21.3 coronary heart disease risk allele is associated with altered gene expression in normal heart and vascular tissues. PLoS ONE, 7(6), e39574. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039574

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Wu, S. H., Black, M. A., North, R. A., & Rodrigo, A. G. (2012). A Bayesian model for classifying all differentially expressed proteins simultaneously in 2D PAGE gels. BMC Bioinformatics, 13, 137. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-13-137

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Kalamorz, F., Keis, S., McMillan, D. G. G., Olsson, K., Stanton, J.-A., Stockwell, P., Black, M. A., … Cook, G. M. (2011). Draft genome sequence of the thermoalkaliphilic Caldalkalibacillus thermarum strain TA2.A1. Journal of Bacteriology, 193(16), 4290-4291. doi: 10.1128/jb.05035-11

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Kemp, R. A., Black, M. A., McCall, J., Yoon, H.-S., Phillips, V., Anjomshoaa, A., & Reeve, A. E. (2011). T cell subpopulations in lymph nodes may not be predictive of patient outcome in colorectal cancer. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, 30, 78. doi: 10.1186/1756-9966-30-78

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Linterman, K. S., Palmer, D. N., Kay, G. W., Barry, L. A., Mitchell, N. L., McFarlane, R. G., Black, M. A., … Hughes, S. M. (2011). Lentiviral-mediated gene transfer to the sheep brain: Implications for gene therapy in Batten disease. Human Gene Therapy, 22(8), 1011-1020. doi: 10.1089/hum.2011.026

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McCowan, L. M. E., North, R. A., Kho, E. M., Black, M. A., Chan, E. H. Y., & Dekker, G. A. (2011). Paternal contribution to small for gestational age babies: A multicenter prospective study. Obesity, 19(5), 1035-1039. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.279

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Miller, L. D., Coffman, L. G., Chou, J. W., Black, M. A., Bergh, J., Agostino, Jr, R. D., … Torti, F. M. (2011). An iron regulatory gene signature predicts outcome in breast cancer. Cancer Research, 71(21), 6728-6737. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.can-11-1870

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Nixon, G., Blattner, K., Dawson, J., Dovey, S., Black, M. A., Wilkins, G., Dunn, A. C., & McLellan, A. D. (2011). Streptokinase antibodies in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome in three rural New Zealand populations. Journal of Clinical Pathology, 64, 426-429. doi: 10.1136/jcp.2010.085837

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North, R. A., McCowan, L. M. E., Dekker, G. A., Poston, L., Chan, E. H. Y., Stewart, A. W., Black, M. A., … Kenny, L. C. (2011). Clinical risk prediction for pre-eclampsia in nulliparous women: Development of model in international prospective cohort. BMJ, 342, d1875. doi: 10.1136/bmj.d1875

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Seed, P. T., Chappell, L. C., Black, M. A., Poppe, K. K., Hwang, Y.-C., Kasabov, N., … North, R. A. (2011). Prediction of preeclampsia and delivery of small for gestational age babies based on a combination of clinical risk factors in high-risk women. Hypertension in Pregnancy, 30(1), 58-73. doi: 10.3109/10641955.2010.486460

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Soon, W. W., Miller, L. D., Black, M. A., Dalmasso, C., Chan, X. B., Pang, B., … Liu, E. T. (2011). Combined genomic and phenotype screening reveals secretory factor SPINK1 as an invasion and survival factor associated with patient prognosis in breast cancer. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 3(8), 451-464. doi: 10.1002/emmm.201100150

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Ariazi, E. A., Brailoiu, E., Yerrum, S., Shupp, H. A., Slifker, M. J., Cunliffe, H. E., Black, M. A., … Jordan, V. C. (2010). The G protein-coupled receptor GPR30 inhibits proliferation of estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells. Cancer Research, 70(3), 1184-1194. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-3068

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Nasri, S., Anjomshoaa, A., Song, S., Guilford, P., McNoe, L., Black, M., Phillips, V., Reeve, A., & Humar, B. (2010). Oligonucleotide array outperforms SNP array on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded clinical samples. Cancer Genetics & Cytogenetics, 198(1), 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cancergencyto.2009.12.002

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Anjomshoaa, A., Nasri, S., Humar, B., McCall, J. L., Chatterjee, A., Yoon, H.-S., McNoe, L., Black, M. A., & Reeve, A. E. (2009). Slow proliferation as a biological feature of colorectal cancer metastasis. British Journal of Cancer, 101(5), 822-828. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605229

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Atkinson, K. R., Blumenstein, M., Black, M. A., Wu, S. H., Kasabov, N., Taylor, R. S., … on behalf of the SCOPE Consortium. (2009). An altered pattern of circulating apolipoprotein E3 isoforms is implicated in preeclampsia. Journal of Lipid Research, 50, 71-80. doi: 10.1194/jlr.M800296-JLR200

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Blumenstein, M., McMaster, M. T., Black, M. A., Wu, S., Prakash, R., Cooney, J., … North, R. A. (2009). A proteomic approach identifies early pregnancy biomarkers for preeclampsia: Novel linkages between a predispositon to preeclampsia and cardiovascular disease. Proteomics, 9(11), 2929-2945. doi: 10.1002/pmic.200800625

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Jacobs, G. H., Chen, A., Stevens, S. G., Stockwell, P. A., Black, M. A., Tate, W. P., & Brown, C. M. (2009). Transterm: A database to aid the analysis of regulatory sequences in mRNAs. Nucleic Acids Research, 37(Database issue), D72-D76. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn763

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Kho, E. M., McCowan, L. M. E., North, R. A., Roberts, C. T., Chan, E., Black, M. A., … on behalf of the SCOPE Consortium. (2009). Duration of sexual relationship and its effect on preeclampsia and small for gestational age perinatal outcome. Journal of Reproductive Immunology, 82(1), 66-73. doi: 10.1016/j.jri.2009.04.011

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Wu, S. H., Black, M. A., North, R. A., Atkinson, K. R., & Rodrigo, A. G. (2009). A statistical model to identify differentially expressed proteins in 2D PAGE gels. PLoS Computational Biology, 5(9), e1000509. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000509

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Anjomshoaa, A., Lin, Y.-H., Black, M. A., McCall, J. L., Humar, B., Song, S., Fukuzawa, R., Yoon, H.-S., … van Rij, A., Thompson-Fawcett, M., & Reeve, A. E. (2008). Reduced expression of a gene proliferation signature is associated with enhanced malignancy in colon cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 99, 966-973. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604560

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John, T., Black, M. A., Toro, T. T., Leader, D., Gedye, C. A., Davis, I. D., Guilford, P. J., & Cebon, J. S. (2008). Predicting clinical outcome through molecular profiling in stage III melanoma. Clinical Cancer Research, 14(16), 5173-5180.

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Pilbrow, A. P., Ellmers, L. J., Black, M. A., Moravec, C. S., Sweet, W. E., Troughton, R. W., Richards, A. M., Frampton, C. M., & Cameron, V. A. (2008). Genomic selection of reference genes for real-time PCR in human myocardium. BMC Medical Genomics, 1, 64. doi: 10.1186/1755-8794-1-64

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Song, S., & Black, M. A. (2008). Microarray-based gene set analysis: A comparison of current methods. BMC Bioinformatics, 9, 502. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-502

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Willis, A. L., Tran, N. L., Chatigny, J. M., Charlton, N., Vu, H., Brown, S. A. N., Black, M. A., … Cunliffe, H. E. (2008). The fibroblast growth factor-inducible 14 receptor is highly expressed in HER2-positive breast tumors and regulates breast cancer cell invasive capacity. Molecular Cancer Research, 6(5), 725-734. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-08-0005

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Lin, Y.-H., Friederichs, J., Black, M. A., Mages, J., Rosenberg, R., Guilford, P. J., Phillips, V., Thompson-Fawcett, M., … van Rij, A., Yoon, H.-S., McCall, J. L., … Reeve, A. E. (2007). Multiple gene expression classifiers from different array platforms predict poor prognosis of colorectal cancer. Clinical Cancer Research, 13(2), 498-507. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-2734

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Naot, D., Bava, U., Matthews, B., Callon, K. E., Gamble, G. D., Black, M., … Reid, I. R. (2007). Differential gene expression in cultured osteoblasts and bone marrow stromal cells from patients with Paget's disease of bone. Journal of Bone & Mineral Research, 22(2), 298-309. doi: 10.1359/JBMR.061108

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