University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Contact: taras.oleksyk@upr.edu
Professional Preparation
Uzhgorod National University, Uzhgorod, Ukraine
B.S. 06/92
Biology
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
M.S. 12/95
Biology
The University of Georgia
Ph.D. 12/01
Toxicology
NIH, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD
Postdoctoral Fellowship
09/01–04/04
Genetic Epidemiology
Publications
| 1. Oleksyk, T.K., S.Shrestha, A.Truelove, S.J. O’Brien, and M.W. Smith. Association of extended IL10 haplotypes with HIV progression to AIDS. Genes and Immunity, In press., 2009 | |
| 2. Volfovsky N., Oleksyk, T.K., K.C. Cruz, A.L. Truelove, R.M. Stephens, and M.W. Smith. Chimpanzee chromosome 23 vs. human 22: genomic insertion, deletion and ancestral indel polymorphisms. BMC Genomics, 10:51, 2009 | |
| 3. Kopp, J.B., Smith, M.W, Johnson, R, Freedman, B.I., Bowden, D.W., Oleksyk, T.K., McKenzie, L.M., Ahuja, T.S., Cho, M.E., Dart, R.A., Kimmel, P.L., Korbet, S.M., Michael, D.M., Mokryzcki, M.H., Schelling, J.R., Simon, E., Trachtman, H., David Vlahov, D., Hiroshi Kajiyama, K., Nelson, G.W., and Winkler C.A. Genome wide admixture mapping identifies MYH9 as a major effect risk gene for FSGS in African-Americans. Nature Genetics, 40(10):1175-84, 2008 | |
| 4. Truelove A.L., T.K. Oleksyk, S. Shrestha, C.L. Thio, J.J. Goedert, S.M. Donfield, D.L. Thomas, S.J. O’Brien, M.W. Smith. Hepatitis B viral persistence is associated with polymorphisms in the IL10 and IL20 region. International Journal of Immunogenetics, 35(3):255-64, 2008 | |
| 5. Oleksyk, T. K., K. Zhao, S. J. O’Brien, and M.W. Smith. Identifying selected regions from heterozygosity and divergence using a light-coverage genomic dataset from two human populations PLoS ONE, 3(3): e1712, 2008 |