Ronald M. Adkins

TL;DR: A phylogenetic study comprising 53 genera sequenced for four nuclear genes, GHR, BRCA1, RAG1, and c-myc, totaling up to 6400 nucleotides presents a revised classification for this largest but most unsettled mammalian superfamily.

TL;DR: The authors' results strongly supported monophyly of the Sahulian Old Endemic rodents and its sister relationship to the Philippine old endemics of the Chrotomys division, and support for the consensus topology increased with more (even conflicting) data.

TL;DR: At birth, there are significantly different DNA methylation levels between African Americans and Caucasians at a subset of CpG dinucleotides, suggesting that some of the epigenetic precursors to cancer exist at birth and that these differences partially explain the different incidence rates of specific cancers between the races.

TL;DR: The first cladistic analysis sampling multiple representatives of most major groups based on DNA sequence for three nuclear and one mitochondrial fragments suggests that nuclear genes may be more useful even for relatively recent divergences (< 10MYA).

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis of over 4600 aligned nucleotide sequences from two nuclear genes, growth hormone receptor and BRCA1, provided congruent phylogenies depicting relationships among the major lineages of rodents.