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  1. Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Recurrence and Death After Viral Clearance in an HCV-Viremic Donor to HCV-Negative Kidney Recipient

    Article • Kidney Medicine, December 2025, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  2. Variants of unknown significance are common in brushite stone formers undergoing genetic testing for nephrolithiasis

    Article • Urolithiasis, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christie Thomas

  3. Educating the Next-Generation Expert in Nephrology Genetics

    Article • Seminars in Nephrology, September 2025, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  4. Utility of Genetic Information for Management in Kidney Transplantation and Living Donation

    Article • Seminars in Nephrology, July 2025, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  5. Outcomes of High Kidney Donor Profile Index Hepatitis C Nucleic Acid Testing Positive Kidneys are Equivalent to Matched Hepatitis C Nucleic Acid Testing Negative Kidneys

    Article • Transplantation Direct, June 2025, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  6. Evaluation for genetic disease in kidney transplant candidates: A practice resource

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, February 2025, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  7. Late-onset retinal oxalosis in primary hyperoxaluria type 2

    Article • American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, December 2024, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  8. Homozygous missense variants in YKT6 result in loss of function and are associated with developmental delay, with or without severe infantile liver disease and risk for hepatocellular carcinoma

    Article • Genetics in Medicine, July 2024, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  9. APOL1 Kidney Risk Variants and Long-Term Kidney Function in Healthy Middle-Aged Black Individuals: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

    Article • Kidney Medicine, June 2024, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  10. Screening of Living Kidney Donors for Genetic Diseases: CON

    Article • Kidney360, May 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  11. Prevalence of kidney health genetic variants in adults with sickle cell nephropathy

    Article • British Journal of Haematology, May 2024, Wiley

    Christie Thomas

  12. Genetic testing in the evaluation of recipient candidates and living kidney donors

    Article • Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension, October 2023, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  13. Lost in translation: Misguided application of a laudable and well-intentioned policy

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, August 2023, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  14. A randomized controlled trial of preemptive rituximab to prevent recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis post-kidney transplant (PRI-VENT FSGS): protocol and study design

    Article • Frontiers in Nephrology, May 2023, Frontiers

    Christie Thomas

  15. Genetic evaluation of living kidney donor candidates: A review and recommendations for best practices

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, May 2023, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  16. Suspected Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease but Cerebellar Vermis Hypoplasia, Oligophrenia Ataxia, Coloboma, and Hepatic Fibrosis (COACH) Syndrome in Retrospect, A Delayed Diagnosis Aided by Genotyping and Reverse Phenotyping: A Case Report...

    Article • Nephron, January 2023, Karger Publishers

    Christie Thomas

  17. Associations of Lack of Insurance and Other Sociodemographic Traits With Follow-up After Living Kidney Donation

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, November 2022, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  18. Severely Reduced Kidney Function Assessed by a Single eGFR Determination at the Time of an Isolated Heart Transplant Does Not Predict Inevitable Posttransplant ESKD

    Article • Transplantation, October 2022, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  19. Managing the Costs of Routine Follow-up Care After Living Kidney Donation: a Review and Survey of Contemporary Experience, Practices, and Challenges

    Article • Current Transplantation Reports, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christie Thomas

  20. The U-shaped association of post-lung transplant mortality with pretransplant eGFR underscores possible limitations of creatinine-based estimation equations for risk stratification

    Article • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, September 2022, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  21. Monogenic focal segmental glomerulosclerosis: A conceptual framework for identification and management of a heterogeneous disease

    Article • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C Seminars in Medical Genetics, July 2022, Wiley

    Christie Thomas

  22. Familial hyperkalemic hypertension: hyperkalemia not hypertension defines dominant KLHL3 disease and may permit earlier recognition and tailored therapy

    Article • Journal of Nephrology, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christie Thomas

  23. Sequential genetic testing of living‐related donors for inherited renal disease to promote informed choice and enhance safety of living donation

    Article • Transplant International, November 2021, Frontiers

    Christie Thomas

  24. Integrating APOL1 Kidney-risk Variant Testing in Live Kidney Donor Evaluation: An Expert Panel Opinion

    Article • Transplantation, October 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  25. Correction: Initial experience from a renal genetics clinic demonstrates a distinct role in patient management

    Article • Genetics in Medicine, October 2021, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  26. Case Report: Severe COVID-19 in a Kidney Transplant Recipient Without Humoral Response to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine Series

    Article • Transplantation Direct, August 2021, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  27. Impact of changing renal function, while waiting for a heart transplant, on post‐transplant mortality and development of end stage kidney disease

    Article • Transplant International, May 2021, Frontiers

    Christie Thomas

  28. Donor-derived human herpesvirus 8 and development of Kaposi sarcoma among 6 recipients of organs from donors with high-risk sexual and substance use behavior

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, February 2021, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  29. Minimal Change Disease With Nephrotic Syndrome Associated With Coronavirus Disease 2019 After Apolipoprotein L1 Risk Variant Kidney Transplant: A Case Report

    Article • Transplantation Proceedings, November 2020, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  30. Infiltrating Kaposi sarcoma presenting as acute kidney injury: An unexpected consequence of deliberate hepatitis C–positive organ transplantation

    Article • Transplant Infectious Disease, October 2020, Wiley

    Christie Thomas

  31. Spontaneous remission of genetic, apparent primary, FSGS presenting with nephrotic syndrome challenges traditional notions of primary FSGS

    Article • Journal of Nephrology, August 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christie Thomas

  32. A rare case of hyporeninemic hypertension: Answers

    Article • Pediatric Nephrology, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christie Thomas

  33. A rare case of hyporeninemic hypertension: Questions

    Article • Pediatric Nephrology, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christie Thomas

  34. Initial experience from a renal genetics clinic demonstrates a distinct role in patient management

    Article • Genetics in Medicine, June 2020, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  35. Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate at Transplant Listing and Other Predictors of Post-Heart Transplant Mortality and the Development of ESRD

    Article • Transplantation, May 2020, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  36. KDOQI US Commentary on the 2017 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline on the Evaluation and Care of Living Kidney Donors

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, March 2020, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  37. Unexpected Race and Ethnicity Differences in the US National Veterans Affairs Kidney Transplant Program

    Article • Transplantation, December 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Larissa Myaskovsky, Christie Thomas

  38. Targeted broad-based genetic testing by next-generation sequencing informs diagnosis and facilitates management in patients with kidney diseases

    Article • Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, November 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christie Thomas

  39. Initial skin cancer screening for solid organ transplant recipients in the United States: Delphi method development of expert consensus guidelines

    Article • Transplant International, October 2019, Frontiers

    Christie Thomas

  40. Billing for Living Kidney Donor Care: Balancing Cost Recovery, Regulatory Compliance, and Minimized Donor Burden

    Article • Current Transplantation Reports, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christie Thomas

  41. Diagnosis of monogenic chronic kidney diseases

    Article • Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension, March 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  42. Unusual presentation of Q fever in a kidney‐pancreas transplant recipient

    Article • Transplant Infectious Disease, December 2018, Wiley

    Christie Thomas

  43. Genetic Analysis of 400 Patients Refines Understanding and Implicates a New Gene in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, October 2018, American Society of Nephrology

    Christie Thomas

  44. VEGF-A selectively inhibits FLT1 ectodomain shedding independent of receptor activation and receptor endocytosis

    Article • AJP Cell Physiology, August 2018, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  45. EGF regulation of proximal tubule cell proliferation and VEGF‐A secretion

    Article • Physiological Reports, September 2017, Wiley

    Christie Thomas

  46. Late Reoccurrence of Collapsing FSGS After Transplantation of a Living-Related Kidney Bearing APOL 1 Risk Variants Without Disease Evident in Donor Supports the Second Hit Hypothesis

    Article • Transplantation Direct, August 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  47. Has the Department of Veterans Affairs Found a Way to Avoid Racial Disparities in the Evaluation Process for Kidney Transplantation?

    Article • Transplantation, June 2017, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr. Larissa Myaskovsky, Christie Thomas

  48. Aldosterone regulates a 5ʹ variant sgk1 transcript via a shared hormone response element in the sgk1 5ʹ regulatory region

    Article • Physiological Reports, April 2017, Wiley

    Christie Thomas

  49. An Unexpected Surge in Plasma BKPyV Viral Load Heralds the Development of BKPyV-Associated Metastatic Bladder Cancer in a Lung Transplant Recipient With BKPyV Nephropathy

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, March 2017, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  50. Screening of Living Kidney Donors for Genetic Diseases Using a Comprehensive Genetic Testing Strategy

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, February 2017, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  51. Familial C3 glomerulonephritis caused by a novel CFHR5-CFHR2 fusion gene

    Article • Molecular Immunology, September 2016, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  52. Ectodomain cleavage of FLT1 regulates receptor activation and function and is not required for its downstream intracellular cleavage

    Article • Experimental Cell Research, May 2016, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  53. High-Throughput Genetic Testing for Thrombotic Microangiopathies and C3 Glomerulopathies

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, April 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  54. Light Chain Deposition Disease After Kidney Transplantation With Long Graft Survival: Case Report

    Article • Transplantation Proceedings, January 2016, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  55. BK polyoma virus infection and renal disease in non-renal solid organ transplantation

    Article • Clinical Kidney Journal, December 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christie Thomas

  56. Antiproteinuric therapy and Fabry nephropathy: factors associated with preserved kidney function during agalsidase-beta therapy

    Article • Journal of Medical Genetics, October 2015, BMJ

    Dr Bojan Vujkovac, Christie Thomas

  57. Eculizumab for rescue of thrombotic microangiopathy in PM-Scl antibody-positive autoimmune overlap syndrome

    Article • Clinical Kidney Journal, October 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christie Thomas

  58. Primary Cutaneous Polymorphic EBV-Associated Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder After a Renal Transplant and Review of the Literature

    Article • American Journal of Dermatopathology, October 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  59. Soluble C5b-9 as a Biomarker for Complement Activation in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, June 2015, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  60. Aspirin inhibits expression of sFLT1 from human cytotrophoblasts induced by hypoxia, via cyclo-oxygenase 1

    Article • Placenta, April 2015, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  61. The Challenge in Diagnosing De Novo Minimal Change Disease After Transplantation

    Article • Transplantation, February 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  62. Conversion to a sirolimus‐based regimen is associated with lower incidence of BK viremia in low‐risk kidney transplant recipients

    Article • Transplant Infectious Disease, January 2015, Wiley

    Christie Thomas

  63. N-Terminal Cleavage and Release of the Ectodomain of Flt1 Is Mediated via ADAM10 and ADAM 17 and Regulated by VEGFR2 and the Flt1 Intracellular Domain

    Article • PLOS One, November 2014, PLOS

    Christie Thomas

  64. Late-Onset BK Viral Nephropathy in a Kidney Transplant Recipient

    Article • Transplantation Proceedings, September 2014, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  65. Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Complement and Coagulation Genes in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, January 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  66. Protein kinase C regulates FLT1 abundance and stimulates its cleavage in vascular endothelial cells with the release of a soluble PlGF/VEGF antagonist

    Article • Experimental Cell Research, October 2013, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  67. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Deficiency of renal cortical EGF increases ENaC activity and contributes to salt-sensitive hypertension.

    Article • June 2013, F1000Research

    Christie Thomas

  68. Quiz Page April 2013

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, April 2013, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  69. A regulated NH2-terminal Sgk1 variant with enhanced function is expressed in the collecting duct

    Article • AJP Renal Physiology, December 2012, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  70. Case Report: Eculizumab Rescue of Severe Accelerated Antibody-Mediated Rejection After ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplant

    Article • Transplantation Proceedings, December 2012, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  71. Tailored Eculizumab Therapy in the Management of Complement Factor H–Mediated Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in an Adult Kidney Transplant Recipient: A Case Report

    Article • Transplantation Proceedings, December 2012, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  72. Secretion of Soluble Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 1 (sVEGFR1/sFlt1) Requires Arf1, Arf6, and Rab11 GTPases

    Article • PLOS One, September 2012, PLOS

    Christie Thomas

  73. Very Early Recurrence of Anti-Phospholipase A2 Receptor-Positive Membranous Nephropathy After Transplantation

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, June 2012, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  74. Coordinated DNA methylation and gene expression changes in smoker alveolar macrophages: specific effects on VEGF receptor 1 expression

    Article • Journal of Leukocyte Biology, March 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christie Thomas

  75. Pre-emptive Eculizumab and Plasmapheresis for Renal Transplant in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

    Article • Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, June 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  76. Dextran Removal by Plasmapheresis in a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipient With Dextran 40–Induced Osmotic Nephrosis

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, April 2011, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  77. Nedd4–2 interacts with occludin to inhibit tight junction formation and enhance paracellular conductance in collecting duct epithelia

    Article • AJP Renal Physiology, August 2010, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  78. Alternate processing of Flt1 transcripts is directed by conserved cis -elements within an intronic region of FLT1 that reciprocally regulates splicing and polyadenylation

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, April 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Christie Thomas

  79. Unrecognized Acute Phosphate Nephropathy in a Kidney Donor with Consequent Poor Allograft Outcome

    Article • Arabian archaeology and epigraphy, September 2009, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  80. A Recently Evolved Novel Trophoblast-Enriched Secreted Form of fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase-1 Variant Is Up-Regulated in Hypoxia and Preeclampsia

    Article • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, July 2009, Endocrine Society

    Christie Thomas

  81. Recurrent Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Associated With Factor I Mutation in a Living Related Renal Transplant Recipient

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, February 2009, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  82. An evolutionarily conserved N-terminal Sgk1 variant with enhanced stability and improved function

    Article • AJP Renal Physiology, November 2008, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  83. A genetic syndrome of chronic renal failure with multiple renal cysts and early onset diabetes

    Article • Kidney International, October 2008, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  84. Nedd4-2 isoforms ubiquitinate individual epithelial sodium channel subunits and reduce surface expression and function of the epithelial sodium channel

    Article • AJP Renal Physiology, May 2008, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  85. Serum/glucocorticoid-induced protein kinase-1 facilitates androgen receptor-dependent cell survival

    Article • Cell Death and Differentiation, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Christie Thomas

  86. Intronic polyadenylation signal sequences and alternate splicing generate human soluble Fltl variants and regulate the abundance of soluble Flt1 in the placenta

    Article • The FASEB Journal, July 2007, Wiley

    Christie Thomas

  87. Diffuse Glomerular Crescents and Peritubular Immune Deposits in a Transplant Kidney

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, July 2006, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  88. Medroxyprogesterone acetate binds the glucocorticoid receptor to stimulate α-ENaC and sgk1 expression in renal collecting duct epithelia

    Article • AJP Renal Physiology, February 2006, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  89. Nedd4–2 isoforms differentially associate with ENaC and regulate its activity

    Article • AJP Renal Physiology, August 2005, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  90. Early Postnephrectomy Donor Renal Function: Laparoscopic versus Open Procedure

    Article • Transplantation, March 2005, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  91. Dual Therapeutic Utility of Proteasome Modulating Agents for Pharmaco-gene Therapy of the Cystic Fibrosis Airway

    Article • Molecular Therapy, December 2004, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  92. cAMP-stimulated Na+transport in H441 distal lung epithelial cells: role of PKA, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and sgk1

    Article • AJP Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, October 2004, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  93. AVP-induced VIT32 gene expression in collecting duct cells occurs via trans-activation of a CRE in the 5′-flanking region of the VIT32 gene

    Article • AJP Renal Physiology, September 2004, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  94. New insights into epithelial sodium channel function in the kidney: site of action, regulation by ubiquitin ligases, serum- and glucocorticoid-inducible kinase and proteolysis

    Article • Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension, September 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Christie Thomas

  95. Transcriptional repression of the CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase gene by sphingosine

    Article • Biochemical Journal, August 2004, Portland Press Ltd.

    Christie Thomas

  96. Systemic Pseudohypoaldosteronism from Deletion of the Promoter Region of the HumanβEpithelial Na+Channel Subunit

    Article • American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, September 2002, American Thoracic Society

    Christie Thomas

  97. Lipid deprivation increases surfactant phosphatidylcholine synthesis via a sterol-sensitive regulatory element within the CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase promoter

    Article • Biochemical Journal, February 2002, Portland Press Ltd.

    Christie Thomas

  98. The  -Subunit of the Epithelial Sodium Channel Is an Aldosterone-Induced Transcript in Mammalian Collecting Ducts, and This Transcriptional Response Is Mediated via Distinct cis-Elements in the 5'-Flanking Region of the Gene

    Article • Molecular Endocrinology, April 2001, Endocrine Society

    Christie Thomas

  99. Human amiloride-sensitive epithelial Na+ channel γ subunit promoter: functional analysis and identification of a polypurine-polypyrimidine tract with the potential for triplex DNA formation

    Article • Biochemical Journal, March 2000, Portland Press Ltd.

    Christie Thomas

  100. Glucocorticoid Induction of Epithelial Sodium Channel Expression in Lung and Renal Epithelia Occurs via trans-Activation of a Hormone Response Element in the 5′-Flanking Region of the Human Epithelial Sodium Channel α Subunit Gene

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 1999, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  101. The structure of the rat amiloride-sensitive epithelial sodium channel gamma subunit gene and functional analysis of its promoter

    Article • Gene, March 1999, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas

  102. 5′ Heterogeneity in epithelial sodium channel α-subunit mRNA leads to distinct NH2-terminal variant proteins

    Article • AJP Cell Physiology, May 1998, American Physiological Society

    Christie Thomas

  103. Genomic Organization and the 5′ Flanking Region of the γ Subunit of the Human Amiloride-sensitive Epithelial Sodium Channel

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, October 1996, Elsevier

    Christie Thomas