Research Summary
Dr. Halushka’s laboratory is currently working to identify biomarkers of sudden cardiac death and expression patterns of microRNAs in tissues and cells. MicroRNAs are key post-translational regulators of genes. He is interested in determining how microRNAs are altered in human diseases.
His laboratory is also involved in a number of collaborative projects relating to cardiovascular diseases such as sudden cardiac death, cardiac citrullination and neonatal lupus.
Lab
Lab Website: Halushka Laboratory
Selected Publications
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Consensus statement on surgical pathology of the aorta from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology and the Association For European Cardiovascular Pathology: II. Noninflammatory degenerative diseases - nomenclature and diagnostic criteria. Halushka MK, Angelini A, Bartoloni G, Basso C, Batoroeva L, Bruneval P, Buja LM, Butany J, d'Amati G, Fallon JT, Gallagher PJ, Gittenberger-de Groot AC, Gouveia RH, Kholova I, Kelly KL, Leone O, Litovsky SH, Maleszewski JJ, Miller DV, Mitchell RN, Preston SD, Pucci A, Radio SJ, Rodriguez ER, Sheppard MN, Stone JR, Suvarna SK, Tan CD, Thiene G, Veinot JP, van der Wal AC. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2016 May-Jun;25(3):247-57. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2016.03.002. Epub 2016 Mar 12. Review. PMID: 27031798
Myocarditis is rare in COVID-19 autopsies: cardiovascular findings across 277 postmortem examinations. Halushka MK, Vander Heide RS. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2021 Jan-Feb;50:107300. doi:10.1016/j.carpath.2020.107300. Epub 2020 Oct 23. PMID: 33132119
miRge3.0: a comprehensive microRNA and tRF sequencing analysis pipeline. Patil AH, Halushka MK. NAR Genom Bioinform. 2021 Jul 21;3(3):lqab068. doi: 10.1093/nargab/lqab068. eCollection 2021 Sep. PMID: 34308351
Extracellular vesicle microRNA transfer in cardiovascular disease. Das S, Halushka MK. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2015 Jul-Aug;24(4):199-206. doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2015.04.007. Epub 2015 Apr 28. Review. PMID: 25958013
A draft map of the human proteome. Kim MS, Pinto SM, Getnet D, Nirujogi RS, Manda SS, Chaerkady R, Madugundu AK, Kelkar DS, Isserlin R, Jain S, Thomas JK, Muthusamy B, Leal-Rojas P, Kumar P, Sahasrabuddhe NA, Balakrishnan L, Advani J, George B, Renuse S, Selvan LD, Patil AH, Nanjappa V, Radhakrishnan A, Prasad S, Subbannayya T, Raju R, Kumar M, Sreenivasamurthy SK, Marimuthu A, Sathe GJ, Chavan S, Datta KK, Subbannayya Y, Sahu A, Yelamanchi SD, Jayaram S, Rajagopalan P, Sharma J, Murthy KR, Syed N, Goel R, Khan AA, Ahmad S, Dey G, Mudgal K, Chatterjee A, Huang TC, Zhong J, Wu X, Shaw PG, Freed D, Zahari MS, Mukherjee KK, Shankar S, Mahadevan A, Lam H, Mitchell CJ, Shankar SK, Satishchandra P, Schroeder JT, Sirdeshmukh R, Maitra A, Leach SD, Drake CG, Halushka MK, Prasad TS, Hruban RH, Kerr CL, Bader GD, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Gowda H, Pandey A. Nature. 2014 May 29;509(7502):575-81. doi: 10.1038/nature13302. PMID: 24870542
