Selected Publications

E. Trachtenberg was known as E. Titus (until 1994), and as Titus-Trachtenberg in 1994 for continuity.

1. Hsia YE, Yuen J, Hunt JA, Rattamanasay P, Hall J, Takaesu N, Titus EAB, Fujita J, Ford CA (1988) The different types of alpha-thalassemia: practical and genetic aspects. Hemoglobin 12:465-484

2. Titus EA, Hsia YE, Hunt JA (1988) Alpha-thalassemia screening reveals quadruple zeta-globin genes in a Laotian family. Hemoglobin 12:539-550

3. Titus-Trachtenberg EA, Bugawan TL, Erlich HA (1994) Identification of a novel DQB1 allele (*0609) segregating in an Ashkenazi Jewish family: Implications for DQB1 typng systems. Tissue Antigens 44:120-124

4. Titus-Trachtenberg EA, Rickards O, De Stefano GF, Erlich HA (1994) Analysis of HLA class II haplotypes reveals a novel HLA-DRB1 allele in the Cayapa Indians of Ecuador: Evidence for convergent evolution and balancing selection at position 86. Am J Hum Genet 55:160-167

5. Garber TL, Trachtenberg EA, Erlich HA, Rickards O, DeStefano GF, Watkins D (1995) HLA-B alleles of the Cayapa of Ecuador:New B39 and B15 alleles. Immunogenetics 42:19-27

6. Trachtenberg EA, Klitz W, Rickards O, De Stefano GF, Erlich HA (1995) Analysis of HLA class II linkage disequilibrium and haplotype evolution in the Cayapa Indians of Ecuador. Am J Hum Genet 57:415-424

7. Trachtenberg EA, Erlich HE (1996) DNA-based HLA typing for cord blood stem cell transplantation. J Hematotherapy 5:295-300

8. Trachtenberg EA, Keyeux G, Bernal J, Noble J, Erlich HA (1996) Results of the Expedicion Humana. II. Analysis of HLA class II alleles in three African American populations from Colombia using the PCR/SSOP: Identification of a novel DQB1*02 (*0203) allele. Tissue Antigens 48:192-198

9. Trachtenberg EA, Keyeux G, Bernal J, Rhodas C, Erlich HA (1996) Results of Expedicion Humana. I. Analysis of HLA class II (DRB1-DQA1-DQB1-DPB1) alleles  and DR-DQ haplotypes in nine Amerindian populations from Colombia. Tissue Antigens 48:174-181

10. Noreen H, Fernandez-Vina M, Selvakumar A, Petersdorf E, Trachtenberg E, Hildebrand W, Stastny P, Ng J, Hegland J, Hurley C, Setterholm M, Program NMD (1997) DNA based HLA class I typing in NMDP donor-recipient pairs: a preliminary report. American Society of Hematology 39th Annual Meeting

11. Trachtenberg EA, W K, Keyeux G, Bernal J, Erlich HA (1997) HLA Class II variation and linkage disequilibrium in nine Amerindian and three African American populations from Colombia. Results of the Expedicion Humana. In: Charron (ed) Proceedings of the 12th International Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Workshop and Conference. EDK, Paris, France, pp 200-203

12. Hayward A, Ambruso D, Battaglia F, Donlon T, Giardina P, Giller J, Hobbins J, Y.E. H, Quinones R, Shpall E, Trachtenberg EA (1998) Michrochimerism and tolerance following intrauterine transplantation and transfusion for alpha-thalassemia-1. Fetal Diagnostic Therapy 13:8-14

13. Hurley C, Hegland J, Kitajima D, Setterholm M, Winden T, Laboratories NCIaIHRDT (1998) Allele-level HLA matching in 235 unrelated donor-recipient pairs: Report of US NMDP retrospective study.  24th Annual Meeting European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Courmayeur, Italy March 22-26, 1998

14. Waine GJ, Ross A, Weist P, Erlich H, Trachtenberg E, Guanling W, McGarvey S, McManus DP (1998) HLA class II antigens are associated with resistance or susceptibility to hepatosplenic disease in a Chinese population infected with Schistosome japonicum. Int J Parasitol 28:537-542

15. Chen JJ, Hollenbach JA, Trachtenberg EA, Just JJ, Carrington M, Ronningen KS, McWeeney S, Mack SJ, Erlich HA, Thomson G (1999) Hardy-Weinberg testing for HLA class II (DRB1, DQA1, DQB1 and DPB1) loci in 26 human ethnic groups. Tissue Antigens 54:533-542

16. Salamon H, Klitz W, Easteal S, Gao X, Erlich H, Fernandez-Vina M, Trachtenberg E, McWeeney S, Nelson M, Thomson G (1999) Evolution of HLA class II molecules: allelic and amino acid site variability across populations. Genetics 152:393-400

17. Begovich AB, Klitz W, Steiner LL, Grams S, Suraj-Baker V, Hollenbach J, Trachtenberg E, Louie L, Zimmerman PA, Hill AVS, Stoneking M, Sasazuki T, Rickards O, Titanji VPK, Konenkov VI, Sartakova ML (2000) HLA-DQ haplotypes in 15 different populations. Springer

18. Mack SJ, Bugawan TL, Moonsamy PV, Erlich JA, Trachtenberg EA, Paik YK, Begovich A, Saha M, Beck HP, Stoneking M, Erlich HA (2000) Evolution of Pacific/Asian populations inferred from  HLA class II allele frequency distributions. Tissue Antigens 55:383-400

19. Schreuder GT, Hurley C, Marsh S, Lau M, Maiers M, Kollman C, Noreen H, WMDA, system WNCfH, International Cell Exchange U, US NMDP (Hegland B-L, Begovich, Fernandez-Vina, Hildebrand, Petersdorf, Scheckpeper, Statsny, Trachtenberg, Williams, Setterholm, Windon) (2000) The HLA dictionary 1999: a summary of HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1/3/4/5, -DQB1 alleles and their associations with serologically defined HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR and -DQ antigens. Hum Immunol 60:1157-1181

20. Styles LA, Hoppe C, Klitz W, Vichinsky E, Lubin B, Trachtenberg E (2000) Evidence for HLA-related susceptibility for stroke in children with sickle cell disease. Blood 95:3562-3567

21. Trachtenberg E, Yang H, Hayes E, Vinson M, Li S, Targan S, Tyan D, Erlich H, Rotter J (2000) HLA class II haplotype associations with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Jewish (Ashkenazi) and non-Jewish caucasian populations. Human Immunology 61:326-333

22. Erlich HA, Trachtenberg EA (2001) PCR-based Methods of HLA Typing. In: Carrington M, Hoelzel AR (eds) Molecular Epidemiology: A Practical Approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 181-207

23. Hickman HD, Cavett JW, Ellexson-Turner ME, Sparkman JN, Bennett TT, Turner S, Sidebottom DA, Trachtenberg EA, Confer DL, Hildebrand WH (2001) Non-conservative substitutions distinguish previously uncharacterized HLA-A molecules. Tissue Antigens 57(2):95-102

24. Hoppe C, Cheng S, Grow M, Silbergleit a, Klitz W, Trachtenberg E, Erlich H, Vichinsky E, Styles L (2001) A novel multilocus genotyping assay to identify genetic predictors of stroke in sickle cell anaemia. British Journal of Haematology 114:718-720

25. McManus DP, Ross AGP, Williams GM, Wiest P, Erlich H, Trachtenberg E, Guanling W, McGarvey S, Waine GJ (2001) HLA Class II Antigens Positively and Negatively Associated with Hepatosplenic Schistosomiasis in a Chinese Population. International Journal for Parasitology 31:674-680

26. Reed W, Lee T-H, Trachtenberg E, Vinson MK, Busch MP (2001) Detection of microchimerism by polymerase chain reaction is a function of amplification strategy. Tranfusion 41:39-44.

27. Reed W, Walters M, Trachtenberg E, Smith R, Lubin BH (2001) Sibling donor cord blood banking for childrens with sickle cell disease. Pediatric Pathology and Molecular Medicine 20:167-174

28. Trachtenberg EA, Erlich HA (2001) A Review of the Role of the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) System as a Host Immunogenetic Factor Influencing HIV Transmission and Course of Infection with Progression to AIDS. In: Korber B, Koup R, Walker B, Haynes B, Moore J, Myers G (eds) HIV Molecular Immunology Database. Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.

29. Gorry PR, Zhang C, Wu S, Kunstman K, Trachtenberg EA, Phair J, Wolinsky S, Gabuzda D (2002) Persistence of dual-tropic HIV-1 in an individual homozygous for the CCR5 delta-32 allele. Lancet 359:1832-1834

30. Reed W, Saba J, Trachtenberg E, Lee J, Lubin BH (2002) Banking of Cord Blood from Sibling Donors. In: McCurdy P (ed) Cord Blood Banking. Marcel Dekker, NY

31. Reed W, Smith R, Dekovic F, Lee JY, Saba JD, Trachtenberg E, Epstein J, Haaz S, Walters M, Lubin B (2003) Comprehensive banking of sibling donor cord blood for children with malignant and non-malignant disease. Blood 101:351-357

32. Reed W, Walters M, Trachtenberg E, Smith R, Lubin B (2003) Sibling donor cord blood banking for children with sickle cell disease. Pediatric Pathology and Molecular Medicine 20:167-174

33. Trachtenberg E, Korber B, Sollars C, Kepler T, Hraber P, Hayes E, Funkhouser R, Fugate M, Theiler J, Hsu M, Kunstman K, Wu S, Phair J, Erlich H, Wolinsky S (2003) Advantage of rare HLA supertype in HIV Disease Progression. Nature Medicine 9:928-935

34. Flomenberg N, R., Baxter-Lowe LA, Confer DL, Fernadez-Vina M, Filipovich A, Horowitz M, Hurley C, Kollman C, Anasetti C, Noreen H, Begovich A, Hildebrand W, Petersdorf E, Scmeckpeper B, Setterhelm M, Trachtenberg E, Williams T, Yunis E, Weisdorf D (2004) Impact of HLA-class I and class II allele matching on outcomes of unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation: HLA-C mismatching is associated with a strong adverse effect on transplant outcome. Blood 104:1923-1930

35. Li D-K, Odouli R, Liu L, Vinson M, Trachtenberg E (2004) Transmission of Parentally Shared HLA Alleles and the Risk of Preterm Delivery. Obstetrics and Gynecology 104:594-600

36. Walters MC, Quirolo L, Trachtenberg ET, Edwards S, Hale L, Lee J, Morton-Wiley J, Quirolo K, Robertson S, Saba J, Lubin B (2005) Sibling donor cord blood transplantation for thalassemia major: experience of the sibling donor cord blood program. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1054:206-213

37. Hraber PT, Korber BT, Wolinsky S, Erlich H, Trachtenberg E, Kepler TB (2006) HLA and HIV Infection Progression: Application of the Minimal Length Distances Principle to Statistical Genetics. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 4345:1-12

38. Hurley CK, Fernandez-Vina M, Hildebrand WH, Noreen H, Trachtenberg E, Williams TM, Baxter-Lowe LA, Begovich AB, Petersdorf E, Selvakumar A, Stastny P, Hegland J, Hartzman RJ, Carston M, Gandham S, Kollman C, Nelson G, Spellman S, Setterholm M (2007). A high degree of HLA disparity arises from limited allelic diversity: analysis of 1775 unrelated bone marrow transplant donor-recipient pairs. Human Immunology 68:30-40

39. Miller JS, Cooley S, Parham P, Farag S, Verneris M, McQueen K, Guethlein LA, Trachtenberg E, Haagenson M, Horowitz M, Klein J, Weisdorf DJ (2007) Missing KIR-ligands is associated with less relapse and increased graft versus host disease (GVHD) following unrelated donor allogeneic HCT. Blood 109:5058-5061.

40. Houtchens K, Nichols R, Ladner M, Boal H, Geraghty D, Davis L, Parham P, Trachtenberg E (2007) High-throughput Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like receptor genotyping by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry with discovery of novel alleles. Immunogenetics 59:525-537.