Texas Biomed Staff

Sobha Puppala

Staff Scientist I | Genetics
Phone: 210-258-9770
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Summary

I obtained my basic educational training in Anthropology and Biological Anthropology at Andhra University (India) and University of Kansas. Specifically, my postdoctoral training that I had received here at Texas Biomed helped me to gain knowledge and focus on the area of research related with identification and characterization of genes contributing to normal variation in the complex traits related to health and disease.

Education

Doctoral Degree: Biological Anthropology

University of Kansas Lawrence, KS

Master's Degree: Anthropology

Andhra University Visakhapatnam , AP, India

Research Focus

I am interested in research associated with understanding the genetic basis of complex phenotypes. At present I am a Staff Scientist in this area under Dr. Ravi Duggirala. I have been actively involved with data analyses to locate susceptibility genes for various diseases like gallbladder disease, albuminuria, metabolic syndrome and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. To understand the genetic basis of complex disease phenotypes, number of variance components techniques as implemented in the program on SOLAR were used.

Publications

Evaluation of Gremlin1 (GREM1) as a candidate susceptibility gene for albuminuria-related traits in Mexican Americans with Type 2 Diabetes.

Thameem F, Puppala S, He X, Arar NH, Stern MP, Blangero J, Duggirala R, Abboud HE
Metabolism 58: 1496-1502, 2009
PubMed ID: 19577778

Genome-wide linkage scan for genes influencing plasma triglyceride levels in the Veterans Administration Genetic Epidemiology Study.

Coletta DK, Schneider J, Hu SL, Dyer TD, Puppala S, Farook VS, Arya R, Lehman DM,Blangero J, DeFronzo RA, Duggirala R, Jenkinson CP
Diabetes 58: 279-284, 2009
PubMed ID: 18931038