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Faculty Detail    
Name ANDREW J CARROLL, III
  
Campus Address KAUL 314 Zip 0024
Phone  (205) 934-0665
E-mail  acarroll@genetics.uab.edu
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Faculty Appointment(s)
Appointment Type Department Division Rank
Primary  Genetics Chair Office  Genetics Chair Office Professor

Graduate Biomedical Sciences Affiliations
Integrative Biomedical Sciences 

Biographical Sketch 
B.S., Biology, University of Southern Mississippi, 1971 M.S., Human Genetics, University of Southern Mississippi, 1975 Ph.D. Medical Genetics, University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1979



Research/Clinical Interest
Title
Cancer Cytogenetics, Chromosome Polymorphisms, Clinical Cytogenetics
Description
My research is primarily focused on the identification of chromosome abnormalities which are characteristic of specific types of tumors. My laboratory served as the reference cytogenetics laboratory for the Pediatric Oncology Group (POG) from 1986-2000. The POG was a cooperative group whose member institutions treated approximately 40% of the pediatric cancer in North America each year. During those 14 years we performed diagnostic karyotyping on over 8000 children with acute leukemia and identified a large number of recurring translocations which characterize specific subtypes of myeloid and lymphoid acute leukemias. We have identified a number of karyotype subgroups which are associated with particular biologic feature and/or with treatment outcome and, in collaboration with other investigators, have identified the genes which are disrupted in several of these recurrent, leukemia-specific translocations. This work is continuing in collaboration with the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) which was formed in 2000 by the merging of POG with the three other North American children’s cancer cooperative groups. A second major focus of the laboratory is the development and utilization of molecular cytogenetic techniques, such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to facilitate the research of other UAB investigators. We have collaborated in the development of a sensitive FISH technique using peroxidase-mediated deposition of flurochrome tyramides (T-FISH) to develop a method to detect HIV viral load in the PBMC’s of infected patients. We routinely provide technical support to investigators who wish to localize unique sequence clones across the human genome.

Selected Publications 
Publication PUBMEDID
201. Dreyer ZE, Dinndorf PA, Camitta B, Sather H, La MK, Devidas M, Hilden JM, Heerema NA, Sanders JE, McGlennen R, Willman CL, Carroll AJ, Behm F, Smith FO, Woods WG, Godder K, Reaman GH. Analysis of the Role of Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation in Infants With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in First Remission and MLL Gene Rearrangements: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group. J Clin Oncol (in press).  21135279 
200. Schwind S, Maharry K, Radmacher MD, Mrózek K, Holland KB, Margeson D, Whitman SP, Hickey C, Becker H, Metzeler KH, Paschka P, Baldus CD, Liu S, Garzon R, Powell BL, Kolitz JE, Carroll AJ, Caligiuri MA, Larson RA, Marcucci G, Bloomfield CD. Prognostic Significance of Expression of a Single MicroRNA, miR-181a, in Cytogenetically Normal Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Cancer and Leukemia Group B Study. J Clin Oncol28:5257-64, 2010  21079133 
199. Byer SJ, Eckert JM, Brossier NM, Clodfelder-Miller BJ, Turk AN, Carroll AJ, Kappes JC, Zinn KR, Prasain JK, Carroll SL. Tamoxifen inhibits malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor growth in an estrogen receptor-independent manner. Neuro Oncol (in press).  21075781 
198. Schwind S, Marcucci G, Maharry K, Radmacher MD, Mrózek K, Holland KB, Margeson D, Becker H, Whitman SP, Wu YZ, Metzeler KH, Powell BL, Kolitz JE, Carter TH, Moore JO, Baer MR, Carroll AJ, Caligiuri MA, Larson RA, Bloomfield CD. BAALC and ERG expression levels are associated with outcome and distinct gene and microRNA expression profiles in older patients with de novo cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study. Blood 116:5660-9, 2010.  20841507 
197. Harvey RC, Mullighan CG, Wang X, Dobbin KK, Davidson GS, Bedrick EJ, Chen IM, Atlas SR, Kang H, Ar K, Wilson CS, Wharton W, Murphy M, Devidas M, Carroll AJ, Borowitz MJ, Bowman WP, Downing JR, Relling M, Yang J, Bhojwani D, Carroll WL, Camitta B, Reaman GH, Smith M, Hunger SP, Willman CL. Identification of novel cluster groups in pediatric high-risk B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia with gene expression profiling: correlation with genome-wide DNA copy number alterations, clinical characteristics, and outcome. Blood 116:4874-84, 2010.  20699438 
196. Whitman SP, Maharry K, Radmacher MD, Becker H, Mrózek K, Margeson D, Holland KB, Wu YZ, Schwind S, Metzeler KH, Wen J, Baer MR, Powell BL, Carter TH, Kolitz JE, Wetzler M, Moore JO, Stone RM, Carroll AJ, Larson RA, Caligiuri MA, Marcucci G, Bloomfield CD. FLT3 internal tandem duplication associates with adverse outcome and gene- and microRNA-expression signatures in patients 60 years of age or older with primary cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study. Blood 116:3622-6, 2010.   20656931 
195. Becker H, Marcucci G, Maharry K, Radmacher MD, Mrózek K, Margeson D, Whitman SP, Paschka P, Holland KB, Schwind S, Wu YZ, Powell BL, Carter TH, Kolitz JE, Wetzler M, Carroll AJ, Baer MR, Moore JO, Caligiuri MA, Larson RA, Bloomfield CD. Mutations of the Wilms tumor 1 gene (WT1) in older patients with primary cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study. Blood 116:788-92, 2010.  20442368 
194. Maloney KW, Carroll WL, Carroll AJ, Devidas M, Borowitz MJ, Martin PL, Pullen J, Whitlock JA, Willman CL, Winick NJ, Camitta BM, Hunger SP. Down syndrome childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia has a unique spectrum of sentinel cytogenetic lesions that influences treatment outcome: a report from the Children's Oncology Group. Blood 116:1045-50, 2010.   20442364 
192. Marcucci G, Maharry K, Wu YZ, Radmacher MD, Mrózek K, Margeson D, Holland KB, Whitman SP, Becker H, Schwind S, Metzeler KH, Powell BL, Carter TH, Kolitz JE, Wetzler M, Carroll AJ, Baer MR, Caligiuri MA, Larson RA, Bloomfield CD. IDH1 and IDH2 gene mutations identify novel molecular subsets within de novo cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study. J Clin Oncol. 28(14):2348-55, 2010.  20368543 
193. Harvey RC, Mullighan CG, Chen IM, Wharton W, Mikhail FM, Carroll AJ, Kang H, Liu W, Dobbin KK, Smith MA, Carroll WL, Devidas M, Bowman WP, Camitta BM, Reaman GH, Hunger SP, Downing JR, Willman CL. Rearrangement of CRLF2 is associated with mutation of JAK kinases, alteration of IKZF1, Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, and a poor outcome in pediatric B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood 115:5312-21, 2010.   20139093 
191. Becker H, Marcucci G, Maharry K, Radmacher MD, Mrózek K, Margeson D, Whitman SP, Wu YZ, Schwind S, Paschka P, Powell BL, Carter TH, Kolitz JE, Wetzler M, Carroll AJ, Baer MR, Caligiuri MA, Larson RA, Bloomfield CD. Favorable prognostic impact of NPM1 mutations in older patients with cytogenetically normal de novo acute myeloid leukemia and associated gene- and microRNA-expression signatures: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study. J Clin Oncol. 28(4):596-604, 2010.  20026798 
190. Mullighan CG, Collins-Underwood JR, Phillips LA, Loudin MG, Liu W, Zhang J, Ma J, Coustan-Smith E, Harvey RC, Willman CL, Mikhail FM, Meyer J, Carroll AJ, Williams RT, Cheng J, Heerema NA, Basso G, Pession A, Pui CH, Raimondi SC, Hunger SP, Downing JR, Carroll WL, Rabin KR. Rearrangement of CRLF2 in B-progenitor- and Down syndrome-associated acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nat Genet. 41(11):1243-6, 2009.  19838194