Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., North Carolina State University
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  Academic Positions Outside Duke

  • Director, Bioinformatics Genomics and Computational Chemistry Core, North Carolina Central University/ Biomedical Biotechnology Research Institute . 2012 - 2020
  • Assistant Professor , North Carolina Central University. 2011 - 2030
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Obesity in children
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • North Carolina (State or Province) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Jenkins, Willysha S., Christian Richardson, Ariel Williams, and Clarlynda R. Williams-DeVane. “Creating a Metabolic Syndrome Research Resource using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.” Database (Oxford) 2020 (December 31, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baaa103.
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    • Josey, Michele J., Lauren E. McCullough, Cathrine Hoyo, and ClarLynda Williams-DeVane. “Overall gestational weight gain mediates the relationship between maternal and child obesity.” Bmc Public Health 19, no. 1 (August 7, 2019): 1062. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7349-1.
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    • Williams, Ariel, Dara Mc Dougal, Willysha Jenkins, Natasha Greene, Clarlynda Williams-DeVane, and K Sean Kimbro. “Serum miR-17 levels are downregulated in obese, African American women with elevated HbA1c.” J Diabetes Metab Disord 18, no. 1 (June 2019): 173–79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40200-019-00404-3.
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    • Parada, Humberto, Xuezheng Sun, Jodie M. Fleming, ClarLynda R. Williams-DeVane, Erin L. Kirk, Linnea T. Olsson, Charles M. Perou, Andrew F. Olshan, and Melissa A. Troester. “Race-associated biological differences among luminal A and basal-like breast cancers in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study.” Breast Cancer Res 19, no. 1 (December 11, 2017): 131. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-017-0914-6.
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    • Sharp, Gemma C., Lucas A. Salas, Claire Monnereau, Catherine Allard, Paul Yousefi, Todd M. Everson, Jon Bohlin, et al. “Maternal BMI at the start of pregnancy and offspring epigenome-wide DNA methylation: findings from the pregnancy and childhood epigenetics (PACE) consortium.” Hum Mol Genet 26, no. 20 (October 15, 2017): 4067–85. https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddx290.
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    • Moore, Jason H., Steven F. Jennings, Casey S. Greene, Lawrence E. Hunter, Andy D. Perkins, Clarlynda Williams-Devane, Donald C. Wunsch, Zhongming Zhao, and Xiuzhen Huang. “NO-BOUNDARY THINKING IN BIOINFORMATICS.” Pac Symp Biocomput 22 (2017): 646–48. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813207813_0060.
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    • George, Barbara Jane, David M. Reif, Jane E. Gallagher, ClarLynda R. Williams-DeVane, Brooke L. Heidenfelder, Edward E. Hudgens, Wendell Jones, Lucas Neas, Elaine A Cohen Hubal, and Stephen W. Edwards. “Data-driven asthma endotypes defined from blood biomarker and gene expression data.” Plos One 10, no. 2 (2015): e0117445. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117445.
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    • Pointer, Mildred A., Kianda Hicks, ClarLynda Williams-Devane, Candace Wells, and Natasha Greene. “Gender differences in preclinical markers of kidney injury in a rural north Carolina african-american cohort.” Front Public Health 3 (2015): 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00007.
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    • Williams-DeVane, Clarlynda R., David M. Reif, Elaine Cohen Hubal, Pierre R. Bushel, Edward E. Hudgens, Jane E. Gallagher, and Stephen W. Edwards. “Decision tree-based method for integrating gene expression, demographic, and clinical data to determine disease endotypes.” Bmc Syst Biol 7 (November 4, 2013): 119. https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-0509-7-119.
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    • Kimbro, Kevin Sean, James Rudd, Assefa Tesfay, Gaolin Zheng, and Clarlynda Williams-Devane. “Abstract 2992: Analysis of divergent hypoxic gene expression data in prostate cancer cell lines suggests novel tumor progression biomarkers.” Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 15, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2012-2992.
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    • Williams-Devane, ClarLynda R., Maritja A. Wolf, and Ann M. Richard. “Toward a public toxicogenomics capability for supporting predictive toxicology: survey of current resources and chemical indexing of experiments in GEO and ArrayExpress.” Toxicol Sci 109, no. 2 (June 2009): 358–71. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfp061.
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    • Williams-DeVane, ClarLynda R., Maritja A. Wolf, and Ann M. Richard. “DSSTox chemical-index files for exposure-related experiments in ArrayExpress and Gene Expression Omnibus: enabling toxico-chemogenomics data linkages.” Bioinformatics 25, no. 5 (March 1, 2009): 692–94. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp042.
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    • Richard, Ann M., and ClarLynda R. Williams. “Distributed structure-searchable toxicity (DSSTox) public database network: a proposal.” Mutat Res 499, no. 1 (January 29, 2002): 27–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0027-5107(01)00289-5.
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    • Richard, Ann M., ClarLynda R. Williams, and Neal F. Cariello. “Improving structure-linked access to publicly available chemical toxicity information.” Curr Opin Drug Discov Devel 5, no. 1 (January 2002): 136–43.
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  • Conference Papers

    • Southerland, William M., S Joshua Swamidass, Philip R. O. Payne, Laura Wiley, and ClarLynda Williams-DeVane. “The diversity and disparity in biomedical informatics (DDBI) workshop.” In Pac Symp Biocomput, 23:614–17, 2018.
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    • Richard, Ann M., Maritja A. Wolf, ClarLynda R. Williams-Devane, and Richard Judson. “CINF 1-US EPA computational toxicology programs: Central role of chemical-annotation efforts and molecular databases.” In Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 238, 2009.
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