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Monika Tutaj

Research Scientist II

Institution: Medical College of Wisconsin
Department: Physiology
Program: Genetics

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Publications (28)

  • Advancing cell-free DNA as a biomarker of damage to heart caused by ionizing radiation. (Wallisch E, Tomita-Mitchell A, Liang HL, Szabo A, Lenarczyk M, Kwitek A, Smith JR, Tutaj M, Baker JE) J Radiat Res 2025 May 23;66(3):329-340 PMID: 40304705 PMCID: PMC12100473 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105006519967 04/30/2025    
  • Establishing the hybrid rat diversity program: a resource for dissecting complex traits. (Dwinell MR, Takizawa A, Tutaj M, Malloy L, Schilling R, Endsley A, Demos WM, Smith JR, Wang SJ, De Pons J, Kundurthi A, Geurts AM, Kwitek AE) Mamm Genome 2025 Mar;36(1):25-37 PMID: 39907792 PMCID: PMC11880076 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85217741215 02/05/2025    
  • Standardized pipelines support and facilitate integration of diverse datasets at the Rat Genome Database. (Smith JR, Tutaj MA, Thota J, Lamers L, Gibson AC, Kundurthi A, Gollapally VR, Brodie KC, Zacher S, Laulederkind SJF, Hayman GT, Wang SJ, Tutaj M, Kaldunski ML, Vedi M, Demos WM, De Pons JL, Dwinell MR, Kwitek AE) Database (Oxford) 2025 Jan 22;2025 PMID: 39841812 PMCID: PMC11753291 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85216608239 01/22/2025       1 Citation
  • Chromatin State Maps of Blood Pressure-Relevant Renal Segments Reveal Potential Regulatory Role for SNPs. (Ray A, Yang C, Stelloh C, Tutaj M, Liu P, Liu Y, Qiu Q, Auer PL, Lin CW, Widlansky ME, Geurts AM, Cowley AW Jr, Liang M, Kwitek AE, Greene AS, Rao S) Hypertension 2025 Mar;82(3):476-488 PMID: 39723540 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85213707759 12/26/2024    
  • A revamped rat reference genome improves the discovery of genetic diversity in laboratory rats. (de Jong TV, Pan Y, Rastas P, Munro D, Tutaj M, Akil H, Benner C, Chen D, Chitre AS, Chow W, Colonna V, Dalgard CL, Demos WM, Doris PA, Garrison E, Geurts AM, Gunturkun HM, Guryev V, Hourlier T, Howe K, Huang J, Kalbfleisch T, Kim P, Li L, Mahaffey S, Martin FJ, Mohammadi P, Ozel AB, Polesskaya O, Pravenec M, Prins P, Sebat J, Smith JR, Solberg Woods LC, Tabakoff B, Tracey A, Uliano-Silva M, Villani F, Wang H, Sharp BM, Telese F, Jiang Z, Saba L, Wang X, Murphy TD, Palmer AA, Kwitek AE, Dwinell MR, Williams RW, Li JZ, Chen H) Cell Genom 2024 Apr 10;4(4):100527 PMID: 38537634 PMCID: PMC11019364 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85189630510 03/28/2024       10 Citations
  • The Rat Genome Database: Genetic, Genomic, and Phenotypic Data Across Multiple Species. (Laulederkind SJF, Hayman GT, Wang SJ, Kaldunski ML, Vedi M, Demos WM, Tutaj M, Smith JR, Lamers L, Gibson AC, Thorat K, Thota J, Tutaj MA, de Pons JL, Dwinell MR, Kwitek AE) Curr Protoc 2023 Jun;3(6):e804 PMID: 37347557 PMCID: PMC10335880 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85162756259 06/22/2023       6 Citations
  • A revamped rat reference genome improves the discovery of genetic diversity in laboratory rats. (de Jong TV, Pan Y, Rastas P, Munro D, Tutaj M, Akil H, Benner C, Chen D, Chitre AS, Chow W, Colonna V, Dalgard CL, Demos WM, Doris PA, Garrison E, Geurts AM, Gunturkun HM, Guryev V, Hourlier T, Howe K, Huang J, Kalbfleisch T, Kim P, Li L, Mahaffey S, Martin FJ, Mohammadi P, Ozel AB, Polesskaya O, Pravenec M, Prins P, Sebat J, Smith JR, Solberg Woods LC, Tabakoff B, Tracey A, Uliano-Silva M, Villani F, Wang H, Sharp BM, Telese F, Jiang Z, Saba L, Wang X, Murphy TD, Palmer AA, Kwitek AE, Dwinell MR, Williams RW, Li JZ, Chen H) bioRxiv 2023 Sep 28 PMID: 37214860 PMCID: PMC10197727 05/22/2023    
  • Rare disease research resources at the Rat Genome Database. (Kaldunski ML, Smith JR, Brodie KC, De Pons JL, Demos WM, Gibson AC, Hayman GT, Lamers L, Laulederkind SJF, Thorat K, Thota J, Tutaj MA, Tutaj M, Vedi M, Wang SJ, Zacher S, Dwinell MR, Kwitek AE) Genetics 2023 Aug 09;224(4) PMID: 37119810 PMCID: PMC10411567 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85167481442 04/30/2023       3 Citations
  • Divergent risky decision-making and impulsivity behaviors in Lewis rat substrains with low genetic difference. (Gabriel DBK, Liley AE, Franks HT, Minnes GL, Tutaj M, Dwinell MR, de Jong TV, Williams RW, Mulligan MK, Chen H, Simon NW) Behav Neurosci 2023 Aug;137(4):254-267 PMID: 37104777 PMCID: PMC10524952 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85158841983 04/27/2023       2 Citations
  • 2022 updates to the Rat Genome Database: a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) resource. (Vedi M, Smith JR, Thomas Hayman G, Tutaj M, Brodie KC, De Pons JL, Demos WM, Gibson AC, Kaldunski ML, Lamers L, Laulederkind SJF, Thota J, Thorat K, Tutaj MA, Wang SJ, Zacher S, Dwinell MR, Kwitek AE) Genetics 2023 May 04;224(1) PMID: 36930729 PMCID: PMC10474928 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85159551813 03/18/2023       25 Citations
  • Ontological Analysis of Coronavirus Associated Human Genes at the COVID-19 Disease Portal. (Wang SJ, Brodie KC, De Pons JL, Demos WM, Gibson AC, Hayman GT, Hill ML, Kaldunski ML, Lamers L, Laulederkind SJF, Nalabolu HS, Thota J, Thorat K, Tutaj MA, Tutaj M, Vedi M, Zacher S, Smith JR, Dwinell MR, Kwitek AE) Genes (Basel) 2022 Dec 07;13(12) PMID: 36553571 PMCID: PMC9777590 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85144670256 12/24/2022       2 Citations
  • Body Composition and Metabolic Changes in a Lyon Hypertensive Congenic Rat and Identification of Ercc6l2 as a Positional Candidate Gene. (Clark KC, Wagner VA, Holl KL, Reho JJ, Tutaj M, Smith JR, Dwinell MR, Grobe JL, Kwitek AE) Front Genet 2022;13:903971 PMID: 35812759 PMCID: PMC9263446 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85134024483 07/12/2022       1 Citation
  • MOET: a web-based gene set enrichment tool at the Rat Genome Database for multiontology and multispecies analyses. (Vedi M, Nalabolu HS, Lin CW, Hoffman MJ, Smith JR, Brodie K, De Pons JL, Demos WM, Gibson AC, Hayman GT, Hill ML, Kaldunski ML, Lamers L, Laulederkind SJF, Thorat K, Thota J, Tutaj M, Tutaj MA, Wang SJ, Zacher S, Dwinell MR, Kwitek AE) Genetics 2022 Apr 04;220(4) PMID: 35380657 PMCID: PMC8982048 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85128160560 04/06/2022       8 Citations
  • Harmonizing model organism data in the Alliance of Genome Resources. (Alliance of Genome Resources Consortium) Genetics 2022 Apr 04;220(4) PMID: 35380658 PMCID: PMC8982023 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85128598390 04/06/2022       21 Citations
  • The Rat Genome Database (RGD) facilitates genomic and phenotypic data integration across multiple species for biomedical research. (Kaldunski ML, Smith JR, Hayman GT, Brodie K, De Pons JL, Demos WM, Gibson AC, Hill ML, Hoffman MJ, Lamers L, Laulederkind SJF, Nalabolu HS, Thorat K, Thota J, Tutaj M, Tutaj MA, Vedi M, Wang SJ, Zacher S, Dwinell MR, Kwitek AE) Mamm Genome 2022 Mar;33(1):66-80 PMID: 34741192 PMCID: PMC8570235 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85118526605 11/07/2021       13 Citations
  • The Year of the Rat: The Rat Genome Database at 20: a multi-species knowledgebase and analysis platform. (Smith JR, Hayman GT, Wang SJ, Laulederkind SJF, Hoffman MJ, Kaldunski ML, Tutaj M, Thota J, Nalabolu HS, Ellanki SLR, Tutaj MA, De Pons JL, Kwitek AE, Dwinell MR, Shimoyama ME) Nucleic Acids Res 2020 Jan 08;48(D1):D731-D742 PMID: 31713623 PMCID: PMC7145519 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85077666371 11/13/2019       115 Citations
  • Alliance of Genome Resources Portal: unified model organism research platform. (Alliance of Genome Resources Consortium) Nucleic Acids Res 2020 Jan 08;48(D1):D650-D658 PMID: 31552413 PMCID: PMC6943066 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85075966316 09/26/2019       122 Citations
  • Rat Genome Databases, Repositories, and Tools. (Laulederkind SJF, Hayman GT, Wang SJ, Hoffman MJ, Smith JR, Bolton ER, De Pons J, Tutaj MA, Tutaj M, Thota J, Dwinell MR, Shimoyama M) Methods Mol Biol 2019;2018:71-96 PMID: 31228152 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85068143710 06/23/2019       16 Citations
  • Rat Genome Assemblies, Annotation, and Variant Repository. (Tutaj M, Smith JR, Bolton ER) Methods Mol Biol 2019;2018:43-70 PMID: 31228151 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85068168181 06/23/2019       6 Citations
  • Predicting instances of pathway ontology classes for pathway integration. (Wang LL, Thomas Hayman G, Smith JR, Tutaj M, Shimoyama ME, Gennari JH) J Biomed Semantics 2019 Jun 13;10(1):11 PMID: 31196182 PMCID: PMC6567466 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85067289748 06/15/2019       2 Citations
  • Integrated curation and data mining for disease and phenotype models at the Rat Genome Database. (Wang SJ, Laulederkind SJF, Zhao Y, Hayman GT, Smith JR, Tutaj M, Thota J, Tutaj MA, Hoffman MJ, Bolton ER, De Pons J, Dwinell MR, Shimoyama M) Database (Oxford) 2019 Jan 01;2019 PMID: 30753478 PMCID: PMC6369425 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85061482732 02/13/2019       2 Citations
  • A Primer for the Rat Genome Database (RGD). (Laulederkind SJF, Hayman GT, Wang SJ, Smith JR, Petri V, Hoffman MJ, De Pons J, Tutaj MA, Ghiasvand O, Tutaj M, Thota J, Dwinell MR, Shimoyama M) Methods Mol Biol 2018;1757:163-209 PMID: 29761460 PMCID: PMC6487669 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85047123695 05/16/2018       11 Citations
  • Epicutaneous (EC) immunization with myelin basic protein (MBP) induces TCRalphabeta+ CD4+ CD8+ double positive suppressor cells that protect from experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). (Tutaj M, Szczepanik M) J Autoimmun 2007 Jun;28(4):208-15 PMID: 17442539 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-34248523279 04/20/2007       43 Citations
  • [Mechanisms involved in the regulation of immune response in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice]. (Tutaj M, Szczepanik M) Postepy Hig Med Dosw (Online) 2006;60:571-83 PMID: 17115007 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-39049185125 11/23/2006       4 Citations
  • [Experimental methods in the treatment of multiple sclerosis--new possibilities and hopes]. (Szczepanik M, Tutaj M, Filipczak-Bryniarska I, Bryniarski K) Przegl Lek 2005;62(2):115-8 PMID: 16095157 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-25444495285 08/13/2005    
  • Epicutaneously induced TGF-beta-dependent tolerance inhibits experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. (Szczepanik M, Tutaj M, Bryniarski K, Dittel BN) J Neuroimmunol 2005 Jul;164(1-2):105-14 PMID: 15899524 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-20444467157 05/19/2005       47 Citations
  • Epicutaneous immunization induces alphabeta T-cell receptor CD4 CD8 double-positive non-specific suppressor T cells that inhibit contact sensitivity via transforming growth factor-beta. (Szczepanik M, Bryniarski K, Tutaj M, Ptak M, Skrzeczynska J, Askenase PW, Ptak W) Immunology 2005 May;115(1):42-54 PMID: 15819696 PMCID: PMC1782121 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-17844410676 04/12/2005       56 Citations
  • Epicutaneous application of protein antigens incorporated into cosmetic cream induces antigen-nonspecific unresponsiveness in mice and affects the cell-mediated immune response. (Ptak W, Szczepanik M, Bryniarski K, Tutaj M, Ptak M) Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2002 May;128(1):8-14 PMID: 12037396 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-0036277913 05/31/2002       31 Citations
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