Andreas D. Baxevanis, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for Computational Bioscience
Office of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health
Director, Bioinformatics and Scientific Programming Core
Associate Investigator, Genome Technology Branch

Selected Publications

Ryan JF, Mazza ME, Pang K, Matus DQ, Baxevanis AD, Martindale MQ, Finnerty JR. Pre-bilaterian origins of the Hox cluster and the Hox code: evidence from the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. PLoS ONE ,2:e153. 2007. [PubMed]

Ryan JF, Baxevanis AD. Hox, Wnt, and the evolution of the primary body axis: insights from the early-divergent phyla. Biol Direct, 2:37. 2007. [PubMed]

McBride CM, Alford SH, Reid RJ, Larson EB, Baxevanis AD, Brody LC. Putting science over supposition in the arena of personalized genomics. Nat Genet, 40:939-942. 2008. [PubMed]

McBride CM, Alford SH, Reid RJ, Larson EB, Baxevanis AD, Brody LC. Characteristics of Users of Online Personalized Genomic Risk Assessments: Implications for Physician-Patient Interactions. Genet Med, 11:582-587. 2009. [PubMed]

Alford SH, McBride CM, Reid RJ, Larson EB, Baxevanis AD, Brody, LC. Participation in Genetic Testing Research Varies by Social Group. Public Health Genomics, 14(2):85-93. 2010. [PubMed]

Kaphingst KA, McBride CM, Wade C, Alford SA, Brody LC, Baxevanis AD. Consumers' use of web-based information and their decisions about multiplex genetic susceptibility testing. J Med Internet Res, 12:e41. 2010. [PubMed]

Ryan JR, Pang K, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Mullkin JC, Martindale MQ, Baxevanis AD. The Homeodomain Complement of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi Suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera Diverged Prior to the ParaHoxozoa. EvoDevo, 1:9. 2010. [PubMed]

Pang K, Ryan JF, NIH Intramural Sequencing Program, Mullikin JC, Baxevanis AD, Martindale MQ. Genomic Insights into Wnt Signalling in an Early Diverging Metazoan, the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. EvoDevo, 1:10. 2010. [PubMed]

Reitzel AM, Pang K, Ryan JF, Mullikin JC, Martindale MQ, Baxevanis AD, Tarrant AM. Nuclear Receptors from the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi Lack a Zinc-Finger DNA-Binding Domain: Lineage-Specific Loss or Ancestral Condition in the Emergence of the Nuclear Receptor Superfamily? EvoDevo, 2:3. 2011. [PubMed]

Pang K, Ryan JF, Baxevanis AD, Martindale MQ. Evolution of the TGF-beta Signaling Pathway and its Potential Role in the Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leydyi. PLoS ONE, 6:e24152. 2011. [PubMed]

Pett W, Ryan JF, Pang K, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Martindale MQ, Baxevanis AD, Lavrov DV. Extreme Mitochondrial Evolution in the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi: Insights from mtDNA and the Nuclear Genome. Mitochondrial DNA, 22:130-142. 2011. [PubMed]

Koch BJ, Ryan JF, Baxevanis AD. The diversification of the LIM superclass at the base of the metazoa increased subcellular complexity and promoted multicellular specialization. PLoS One, 7:e33261. 2012. [PubMed]

Kaphingst KA, McBride CM, Wade C, Alford SH, Reid R, Larson E, Baxevanis AD, Brody, LC. Patient Understanding of and Responses to Multiplex Genetic Susceptibility Test Results. Genet Med, 04/05/2012. [PubMed]

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Books and Guides

Wolfsberg T.G., Wetterstrand K.A., Guyer M.S., Collins F.S., and Baxevanis A.D. A User's Guide to the Human Genome II. Nature Genetics: Supplement 35: 1-79. 2003. [Full Text]

Baxevanis, A.D, Ouellette B.F.F. (Eds). Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins, 3rd ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

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Last Updated: May 8, 2012