John Okello

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A three-gene DNA methylation biomarker accurately classifies early stage prostate cancer.

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Palak G Patel Thomas Wessel Atsunari Kawashima John B A Okello Tamara Jamaspishvili Karl-Philippe Guérard Laura Lee Anna Ying-Wah Lee Nathan E How Dan Dion Eleonora Scarlata Chelsea L Jackson Suzanne Boursalie Tanya Sack Rachel Dunn Madeleine Moussa Karen Mackie/ Audrey Ellis Elizabeth Marra Joseph Chin Khurram Siddiqui Khalil Hetou Lee-Anne Pickard Vinolia Arthur-Hayward Glenn Bauman Simone Chevalier Fadi Brimo Paul C Boutros Jacques Lapointe PhD John M S Bartlett Robert J Gooding David M Berman

Prostate 2019 Oct 21;79(14):1705-1714. Epub 2019 Aug 21.

Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pros.23895DOI Listing
October 2019

Reliability and performance of commercial RNA and DNA extraction kits for FFPE tissue cores.

Authors:
Palak G Patel Shamini Selvarajah Karl-Philippe Guérard John M S Bartlett Jacques Lapointe David M Berman John B A Okello Paul C Park

PLoS One 2017 22;12(6):e0179732. Epub 2017 Jun 22.

Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179732PLOS
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5480995PMC
September 2017

Preparation of Formalin-fixed Paraffin-embedded Tissue Cores for both RNA and DNA Extraction.

Authors:
Palak G Patel Shamini Selvarajah Suzanne Boursalie Nathan E How Joshua Ejdelman Karl-Philippe Guerard John M Bartlett Jacques Lapointe Paul C Park John B A Okello David M Berman

J Vis Exp 2016 08 21(114). Epub 2016 Aug 21.

Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, Queen's University; Division of Cancer Biology & Genetics, Queen's Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University;

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3791/54299DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5091935PMC
August 2016

Genetic consequences of population expansions and contractions in the common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) since the Late Pleistocene.

Authors:
Céline Stoffel Christophe Dufresnes John B A Okello Christian Noirard Pierre Joly Silvester Nyakaana Vincent B Muwanika Nicolas Alcala Séverine Vuilleumier Hans R Siegismund Luca Fumagalli

Mol Ecol 2015 May 22;24(10):2507-20. Epub 2015 Apr 22.

Department of Ecology and Evolution, Laboratory for Conservation Biology, University of Lausanne, Biophore Building, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.13179DOI Listing
May 2015

The episode of genetic drift defining the migration of humans out of Africa is derived from a large east African population size.

Authors:
Nuha Elhassan Eyoab Iyasu Gebremeskel Mohamed Ali Elnour Dan Isabirye John Okello Ayman Hussien Dominic Kwiatksowski Jibril Hirbo Sara Tishkoff Muntaser E Ibrahim

PLoS One 2014 20;9(5):e97674. Epub 2014 May 20.

Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.

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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0097674PLOS
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4028218PMC
February 2015

Quantitative assessment of the sensitivity of various commercial reverse transcriptases based on armored HIV RNA.

Authors:
John B A Okello Linda Rodriguez Debi Poinar Kirsten Bos Andrew L Okwi Gabriel S Bimenya Nelson K Sewankambo Kenneth R Henry Melanie Kuch Hendrik N Poinar

PLoS One 2010 Nov 10;5(11):e13931. Epub 2010 Nov 10.

Department of Anthropology, McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978101PMC
November 2010

Comparison of methods in the recovery of nucleic acids from archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded autopsy tissues.

Authors:
John B A Okello Jaymi Zurek Alison M Devault Melanie Kuch Andrew L Okwi Nelson K Sewankambo Gabriel S Bimenya Debi Poinar Hendrik N Poinar

Anal Biochem 2010 May 15;400(1):110-7. Epub 2010 Jan 15.

McMaster Ancient DNA Centre, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S4L9, Canada.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2010.01.014DOI Listing
May 2010

Where sociality and relatedness diverge: the genetic basis for hierarchical social organization in African elephants.

Authors:
George Wittemyer John B A Okello Henrik B Rasmussen Peter Arctander Silvester Nyakaana Iain Douglas-Hamilton Hans R Siegismund

Proc Biol Sci 2009 Oct 15;276(1672):3513-21. Epub 2009 Jul 15.

Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, 1474 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.0941DOI Listing
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2817196PMC
October 2009

Population genetic structure of savannah elephants in Kenya: conservation and management implications.

Authors:
John B A Okello Charles Masembe Henrik B Rasmussen George Wittemyer Patrick Omondi Onesmas Kahindi Vincent B Muwanika Peter Arctander Iain Douglas-Hamilton Silvester Nyakaana Hans R Siegismund

J Hered 2008 Sep-Oct;99(5):443-52. Epub 2008 May 13.

Molecular Biology Laboratory, Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, PO Box 7298, Kampala, Uganda.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esn028DOI Listing
September 2008