Featured Publications
About Our Research
We’ve doubled down on our commitment to research and teaching.
Arkana is a learning, teaching, and innovating practice with one unifying passion – to actively work toward the day that our research yields breakthroughs that make our services unnecessary. Eradicating rare and common diseases is the end game of all of our efforts because patient health is foremost in our minds every day. Read about some of our latest publications below.

All Publications
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Alzheimer’s Disease: Analyzing The Missing Heritability
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex disorder influenced by environmental and genetic factors. Recent work has identified 11 AD markers…
Read on PubMed• November 2013
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A Novel CLCN5 Mutation In A Boy With Asymptomatic Proteinuria And Focal Global Glomerulosclerosis
Dent disease is an X-linked proximal tubulopathy that typically presents with hypercalciuria, low-molecular-weight proteinuria and slow progression to endstage renal…
Read on PubMed• November 2013
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Read on PubMed
• October 2013
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Detection Of Pax2 Deletions And Duplications Using Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification
Renal coloboma syndrome (RCS) is a rare inherited disorder caused by mutations in the PAX2 gene.
Read on PubMed• October 2013
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Handling And Staging Of Renal Cell Carcinoma: The International Society Of Urological Pathology Consensus (Isup) Conference Recommendations
The International Society of Urologic Pathology 2012 Consensus Conference on renal cancer, through working group 3, focused on the issues…
Read on PubMed• October 2013
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Neuropathologic Changes Associated With Atrial Fibrillation In A Population-Based Autopsy Cohort
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with higher risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. To better understand the mechanism, we examined…
Read on PubMed• September 2013
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Validation Of Four Candidate Pancreatic Cancer Serological Biomarkers That Improve The Performance Of CA19.9
The identification of new serum biomarkers with high sensitivity and specificity is an important priority in pancreatic cancer research.
Read on PubMed• September 2013
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Distinguishing Benign From Malignant Mesothelial Cells In Effusions By Glut-1, Ema, And Desmin Expression: An Evidence-Based Approach
Distinguishing malignant mesothelioma (MM) from reactive mesothelial hyperplasia (RM) may be difficult in effusions.
Read on PubMed• August 2013
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Occurrence Of Extensive Spherical Amyloid Deposits In A Prolactin-Secreting Pituitary Macroadenoma: A Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation
Pituitary adenomas are the most common tumors of the sellar region, but the occurrence of spherical amyloid deposits in a…
Read on PubMed• August 2013
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Impact Of Elevated Plasma Serotonin On Global Gene Expression Of Murine Megakaryocytes
Serotonin (5-HT) is a biogenic amine that also acts as a mitogen and a developmental signal early in rodent embryogenesis.
Read on PubMed• August 2013
