Epernicus: Donald R Dunbar, Ph.D.

Donald R Dunbar, Ph.D.

Position:
Bioinformatician

Centre for Cardiovascular Science

University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK)
Advisor:
John J Mullins
Degrees:

Ph.D., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Dundee (Dundee, UK)

B.Sc., Biochemistry, University of Dundee (Dundee, UK)
Past Advisors:
Research:
Gene expression, genome analysis, databases, data integration, data visualisation

Communities:

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Donald Dunbar's Publications (16)

Angiotensin-converting enzyme is a modifier of hypertensive end organ damage.
Liu X, Bellamy CO, Bailey MA, Mullins LJ, Dunbar DR, Kenyon CJ, Brooker G, Kantachuvesiri S, Maratou K, Ashek A, Clark AF, Fleming S, Mullins JJ

The Journal of biological chemistry. 2009 Jun 5;284(23):15564-72
Human dendritic cells produce TGF-beta 1 under the influence of lung carcinoma cells and prime the differentiation of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells.
Dumitriu IE, Dunbar DR, Howie SE, Sethi T, Gregory CD

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2009 Mar 1;182(5):2795-807
IUPHAR-DB: the IUPHAR database of G protein-coupled receptors and ion channels.
Harmar AJ, Hills RA, Rosser EM, Jones M, Buneman OP, Dunbar DR, Greenhill SD, Hale VA, Sharman JL, Bonner TI, Catterall WA, Davenport AP, Delagrange P, Dollery CT, Foord SM, Gutman GA, Laudet V, Neubig RR, Ohlstein EH, Olsen RW, Peters J, Pin JP, Ruffolo RR, Searls DB, Wright MW, Spedding M

Nucleic acids research. 2009 Jan;37(Database issue):D680-5
Gene expression mining in type 2 diabetes research.
Dunbar DR

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2009;560:263-71
Class III antiarrhythmic methanesulfonanilides inhibit leukocyte recruitment in zebrafish.
Brown SB, Tucker CS, Ford C, Lee Y, Dunbar DR, Mullins JJ

Journal of leukocyte biology. 2007 Jul;82(1):79-84
Cryptic loxP sites in mammalian genomes: genome-wide distribution and relevance for the efficiency of BAC/PAC recombineering techniques.
Semprini S, Troup TJ, Kotelevtseva N, King K, Davis JR, Mullins LJ, Chapman KE, Dunbar DR, Mullins JJ

Nucleic acids research. 2007;35(5):1402-10
Deficiency of G1 regulators P53, P21Cip1 and/or pRb decreases hepatocyte sensitivity to TGFbeta cell cycle arrest.
Sheahan S, Bellamy CO, Dunbar DR, Harrison DJ, Prost S

BMC cancer. 2007;7:215
Identification of a human ortholog of the mouse Dcpp gene locus, encoding a novel member of the CSP-1/Dcpp salivary protein family.
Mullins JJ, Mullins LJ, Dunbar DR, Brammar WJ, Gross KW, Morley SD

Physiological genomics. 2006 Dec 13;28(1):129-40
Sex-specific association between bipolar affective disorder in women and GPR50, an X-linked orphan G protein-coupled receptor.
Thomson PA, Wray NR, Thomson AM, Dunbar DR, Grassie MA, Condie A, Walker MT, Smith DJ, Pulford DJ, Muir W, Blackwood DH, Porteous DJ

Molecular psychiatry. 2005 May;10(5):470-8
Molecular cloning and functional expression of the human glycine transporter GlyT2 and chromosomal localisation of the gene in the human genome.
Morrow JA, Collie IT, Dunbar DR, Walker GB, Shahid M, Hill DR

FEBS letters. 1998 Nov 20;439(3):334-40
A tRNA suppressor mutation in human mitochondria.
El Meziane A, Lehtinen SK, Hance N, Nijtmans LG, Dunbar D, Holt IJ, Jacobs HT

Nature genetics. 1998 Apr;18(4):350-3
Behaviour of a population of partially duplicated mitochondrial DNA molecules in cell culture: segregation, maintenance and recombination dependent upon nuclear background.
Holt IJ, Dunbar DR, Jacobs HT

Human molecular genetics. 1997 Aug;6(8):1251-60
In situ hybridisation mapping of genomic clones for five human respiratory chain complex I genes.
Dunbar DR, Shibasaki Y, Dobbie L, Andersson B, Brookes AJ

Cytogenetics and cell genetics. 1997;78(1):21-4
Complex I deficiency is associated with 3243G:C mitochondrial DNA in osteosarcoma cell cybrids.
Dunbar DR, Moonie PA, Zeviani M, Holt IJ

Human molecular genetics. 1996 Jan;5(1):123-29
Different cellular backgrounds confer a marked advantage to either mutant or wild-type mitochondrial genomes.
Dunbar DR, Moonie PA, Jacobs HT, Holt IJ

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1995 Jul 3;92(14):6562-6
Maternally transmitted partial direct tandem duplication of mitochondrial DNA associated with diabetes mellitus.
Dunbar DR, Moonie PA, Swingler RJ, Davidson D, Roberts R, Holt IJ

Human molecular genetics. 1993 Oct;2(10):1619-24

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Donald R Dunbar, Ph.D.

Bioinformatician

Donald Dunbar's Genealogy

Donald Dunbar's Publications (16)

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