Marisa Medina, PhD

Education
03/2021 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
postdoctoral fellowship, - Pharmacogenetics, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
PhD, - Genetics, UC Davis
Websites

  1. Qin Y, Teker SS, La Cunza N, Tong Y, Theusch E, Yang NV, Venkatesan L, Su J, Wang X, Krauss RM, Lakkaraju A, Mattis AN, Medina MW. Loss of TMEM55B modulates lipid metabolism through dysregulated lipophagy and mitochondrial function. Cell death & disease 2026. PMID: 41513622


  2. Qin Y, Chhetri P, Theusch E, Lim G, Teker SS, Kuang YL, Aziziraftar SK, Mehraban MH, Munoz-Howell A, Saxena V, Le Guillou D, Mattis AN, Maher JJ, Medina MW. Predicting metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease risk using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells. Stem cells translational medicine 2026. PMID: 41510817


  3. Oni-Orisan A, Lu M, Peng JA, Krauss RM, Iribarren C, Medina MW. Development and Application of an Algorithm for Statin-Induced Myopathy Based on Electronic Health Record-Derived Structured Elements. Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety 2025. PMID: 41125427


  4. Haldar T, Kvale M, Yang J, Douglas MP, Coyote-Maetas W, Kachuri L, Witte JS, Iribarren C, Medina MW, Krauss RM, Yee SW, Oni-Orisan A. SLCO1B1 Functional Variants, Bilirubin, Statin-Induced Myotoxicity, and Recent Sub-Saharan African Ancestry: A Precision Medicine Health Equity Study. Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics 2025. PMID: 40047317


  5. Theusch E, Ting FY, Qin Y, Stevens K, Naidoo D, King SM, Yang NV, Orr J, Han BY, Cyster JG, Chen YI, Rotter JI, Krauss RM, Medina MW. Participant-derived cell line transcriptomic analyses and mouse studies reveal a role for ZNF335 in plasma cholesterol statin response. Genome medicine 2024. PMID: 39061094


  6. Theusch E, Ting FY, Qin Y, Stevens K, Naidoo D, King SM, Yang N, Orr J, Han BY, Cyster JG, Chen YI, Rotter JI, Krauss RM, Medina MW. Participant-derived cell line transcriptomic analyses and mouse studies reveal a role for ZNF335 in plasma cholesterol statin response. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023. PMID: 37397985


  7. Oni-Orisan A, Lu M, Peng JA, Krauss RM, Iribarren C, Medina MW. Development and application of an algorithm for statin-induced myopathy based on electronic health record-derived structured elements. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023. PMID: 37162948


  8. Qin Y, Medina MW. Mechanism of the Regulation of Plasma Cholesterol Levels by PI(4,5)P2. Advances in experimental medicine and biology 2023. PMID: 36988878


  9. Muñoz A, Theusch E, Kuang YL, Nalula G, Peaslee C, Dorlhiac G, Landry MP, Streets A, Krauss RM, Iribarren C, Mattis AN, Medina MW. Undifferentiated Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Genetic Model for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Cellular and molecular gastroenterology and hepatology 2022. PMID: 35863744


  10. Haldar T, Oni-Orisan A, Hoffmann TJ, Schaefer C, Iribarren C, Krauss RM, Medina MW, Risch N. Modest effect of statins on fasting glucose in a longitudinal electronic health record based cohort. Cardiovascular diabetology 2022. PMID: 35836181


  11. Nelson NG, Wu L, Maier MT, Lam D, Cheang R, Alba D, Huang A, Neumann DA, Hill T, Vagena E, Barsh GS, Medina MW, Krauss RM, Koliwad SK, Xu AW. A gene-diet interaction controlling relative intake of dietary carbohydrates and fats. 2022. PMID: 35051651


  12. Peaslee C, Esteva-Font C, Su T, Munoz-Howell A, Duwaerts CC, Liu Z, Rao S, Liu K, Medina M, Sneddon JB, Maher JJ, Mattis AN. Doxycycline Significantly Enhances Induction of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Endoderm by Enhancing Survival Through Protein Kinase B Phosphorylation. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2021. PMID: 33982322


  13. Lu B, Sun L, Seraydarian M, Hoffmann TJ, Medina MW, Risch N, Iribarren C, Krauss RM, Oni-Orisan A. Effect of SLCO1B1 T521C on Statin-Related Myotoxicity With Use of Lovastatin and Atorvastatin. 2021. PMID: 34114646


  14. Veturi Y, Lucas A, Bradford Y, Hui D, Dudek S, Theusch E, Verma A, Miller JE, Kullo I, Hakonarson H, Sleiman P, Schaid D, Stein CM, Edwards DRV, Feng Q, Wei WQ, Medina MW, Krauss RM, Hoffmann TJ, Risch N, Voight BF, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD. A unified framework identifies new links between plasma lipids and diseases from electronic medical records across large-scale cohorts. 2021. PMID: 34140684


  15. Theusch E, Chen YI, Rotter JI, Krauss RM, Medina MW. Genetic variants modulate gene expression statin response in human lymphoblastoid cell lines. 2020. PMID: 32787775


  16. Qin Y, Ting F, Kim MJ, Strelnikov J, Harmon J, Gao F, Dose A, Teng BB, Alipour MA, Yao Z, Crooke R, Krauss RM, Medina MW. Phosphatidylinositol-(4,5)-Bisphosphate Regulates Plasma Cholesterol Through LDL (Low-Density Lipoprotein) Receptor Lysosomal Degradation. 2020. PMID: 32188273


  17. Oni-Orisan A, Haldar T, Ranatunga DK, Medina MW, Schaefer C, Krauss RM, Iribarren C, Risch N, Hoffmann TJ. The impact of adjusting for baseline in pharmacogenomic genome-wide association studies of quantitative change. 2020. PMID: 31969989


  18. Liu K, Theusch E, Zhou Y, Ashuach T, Dose AC, Bickel PJ, Medina MW, Huang H. GeneFishing to reconstruct context specific portraits of biological processes. 2019. PMID: 31484776


  19. Kuang YL, Munoz A, Nalula G, Santostefano KE, Sanghez V, Sanchez G, Terada N, Mattis AN, Iacovino M, Iribarren C, Krauss RM, Medina MW. Evaluation of commonly used ectoderm markers in iPSC trilineage differentiation. 2019. PMID: 30999275


  20. Oni-Orisan A, Hoffmann TJ, Ranatunga D, Medina MW, Jorgenson E, Schaefer C, Krauss RM, Iribarren C, Risch N. Characterization of Statin Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Dose-Response Using Electronic Health Records in a Large Population-Based Cohort. 2018. PMID: 30354326


  21. Kim K, Theusch E, Kuang YL, Dose A, Mitchel K, Cubitt C, Chen YI, Krauss RM, Medina MW. ZNF542P is a pseudogene associated with LDL response to simvastatin treatment. 2018. PMID: 30127457


  22. Hoffmann TJ, Theusch E, Haldar T, Ranatunga DK, Jorgenson E, Medina MW, Kvale MN, Kwok PY, Schaefer C, Krauss RM, Iribarren C, Risch N. A large electronic-health-record-based genome-wide study of serum lipids. 2018. PMID: 29507422


  23. Wang YXR, Liu K, Theusch E, Rotter JI, Medina MW, Waterman MS, Huang H, Stegle O. Generalized correlation measure using count statistics for gene expression data with ordered samples. 2018. PMID: 29040382


  24. Alvarez MI, Glover LC, Luo P, Wang L, Theusch E, Oehlers SH, Walton EM, Tram TTB, Kuang YL, Rotter JI, McClean CM, Chinh NT, Medina MW, Tobin DM, Dunstan SJ, Ko DC. Human genetic variation in VAC14 regulates Salmonella invasion and typhoid fever through modulation of cholesterol. 2017. PMID: 28827342


  25. Kim MJ, Yu CY, Theusch E, Naidoo D, Stevens K, Kuang YL, Schuetz E, Chaudhry AS, Medina MW. SUGP1 is a novel regulator of cholesterol metabolism. 2016. PMID: 27206982


  26. Mitchel K, Theusch E, Cubitt C, Dosé AC, Stevens K, Naidoo D, Medina MW. RP1-13D10.2 Is a Novel Modulator of Statin-Induced Changes in Cholesterol. 2016. PMID: 27071970


  27. Luzum JA, Theusch E, Taylor KD, Wang A, Sadee W, Binkley PF, Krauss RM, Medina MW, Kitzmiller JP. Individual and Combined Associations of Genetic Variants in CYP3A4, CYP3A5, and SLCO1B1 With Simvastatin and Simvastatin Acid Plasma Concentrations. 2015. PMID: 26164721


  28. Luzum JA, Kitzmiller JP, Isackson PJ, Ma C, Medina MW, Dauki AM, Mikulik EB, Ochs-Balcom HM, Vladutiu GD. GATM polymorphism associated with the risk for statin-induced myopathy does not replicate in case-control analysis of 715 dyslipidemic individuals. 2015. PMID: 25863251


  29. Theusch E, Medina MW, Rotter JI, Krauss RM. Ancestry and other genetic associations with plasma PCSK9 response to simvastatin. 2014. PMID: 25089948


  30. Kitzmiller JP, Luzum JA, Baldassarre D, Krauss RM, Medina MW. CYP3A4*22 and CYP3A5*3 are associated with increased levels of plasma simvastatin concentrations in the cholesterol and pharmacogenetics study cohort. 2014. PMID: 25051018


  31. Kim K, Bolotin E, Theusch E, Huang H, Medina MW, Krauss RM. Prediction of LDL cholesterol response to statin using transcriptomic and genetic variation. 2014. PMID: 25316374


  32. Medina MW, Bauzon F, Naidoo D, Theusch E, Stevens K, Schilde J, Schubert C, Mangravite LM, Rudel LL, Temel RE, Runz H, Krauss RM. Transmembrane protein 55B is a novel regulator of cellular cholesterol metabolism. 2014. PMID: 25035345


  33. Brown CC, Havener TM, Medina MW, Jack JR, Krauss RM, McLeod HL, Motsinger-Reif AA. Genome-wide association and pharmacological profiling of 29 anticancer agents using lymphoblastoid cell lines. 2014. PMID: 24444404


  34. Bolotin E, Armendariz A, Kim K, Heo SJ, Boffelli D, Tantisira K, Rotter JI, Krauss RM, Medina MW. Statin-induced changes in gene expression in EBV-transformed and native B-cells. 2013. PMID: 24179175


  35. Yu CY, Theusch E, Lo K, Mangravite LM, Naidoo D, Kutilova M, Medina MW. HNRNPA1 regulates HMGCR alternative splicing and modulates cellular cholesterol metabolism. 2013. PMID: 24001602


  36. Mangravite LM, Engelhardt BE, Medina MW, Smith JD, Brown CD, Chasman DI, Mecham BH, Howie B, Shim H, Naidoo D, Feng Q, Rieder MJ, Chen YD, Rotter JI, Ridker PM, Hopewell JC, Parish S, Armitage J, Collins R, Wilke RA, Nickerson DA, Stephens M, Krauss RM. A statin-dependent QTL for GATM expression is associated with statin-induced myopathy. 2013. PMID: 23995691


  37. Medina MW, Krauss RM. Alternative splicing in the regulation of cholesterol homeostasis. 2013. PMID: 23314925


  38. Gao F, Ihn HE, Medina MW, Krauss RM. A common polymorphism in the LDL receptor gene has multiple effects on LDL receptor function. 2013. PMID: 23297366


  39. Holzinger ER, Dudek SM, Frase AT, Krauss RM, Medina MW, Ritchie MD. ATHENA: a tool for meta-dimensional analysis applied to genotypes and gene expression data to predict HDL cholesterol levels. 2013. PMID: 23424143


  40. Brown CC, Havener TM, Medina MW, Krauss RM, McLeod HL, Motsinger-Reif AA. Multivariate methods and software for association mapping in dose-response genome-wide association studies. 2012. PMID: 23234571


  41. Medina MW, Theusch E, Naidoo D, Bauzon F, Stevens K, Mangravite LM, Kuang YL, Krauss RM. RHOA is a modulator of the cholesterol-lowering effects of statin. 2012. PMID: 23166513


  42. Brown CC, Havener TM, Medina MW, Auman JT, Mangravite LM, Krauss RM, McLeod HL, Motsinger-Reif AA. A genome-wide association analysis of temozolomide response using lymphoblastoid cell lines shows a clinically relevant association with MGMT. 2012. PMID: 23047291


  43. Roden DM, Johnson JA, Kimmel SE, Krauss RM, Medina MW, Shuldiner A, Wilke RA. Cardiovascular pharmacogenomics. 2011. PMID: 21921273


  44. Medina MW, Gao F, Naidoo D, Rudel LL, Temel RE, McDaniel AL, Marshall SM, Krauss RM. Coordinately regulated alternative splicing of genes involved in cholesterol biosynthesis and uptake. 2011. PMID: 21559365


  45. Medina MW, Sangkuhl K, Klein TE, Altman RB. PharmGKB: very important pharmacogene--HMGCR. Pharmacogenetics and genomics 2011. PMID: 20084049


  46. Medina MW. The relationship between HMGCR genetic variation, alternative splicing, and statin efficacy. Discovery medicine 2010. PMID: 20587337


  47. Mangravite LM, Medina MW, Cui J, Pressman S, Smith JD, Rieder MJ, Guo X, Nickerson DA, Rotter JI, Krauss RM. Combined influence of LDLR and HMGCR sequence variation on lipid-lowering response to simvastatin. 2010. PMID: 20413733


  48. Welsh M, Mangravite L, Medina MW, Tantisira K, Zhang W, Huang RS, McLeod H, Dolan ME. Pharmacogenomic discovery using cell-based models. Pharmacological reviews 2009. PMID: 20038569


  49. Medina MW, Krauss RM. The role of HMGCR alternative splicing in statin efficacy. 2009. PMID: 20005478


  50. Medina MW, Gao F, Ruan W, Rotter JI, Krauss RM. Alternative splicing of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase is associated with plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol response to simvastatin. 2008. PMID: 18559695


  51. Krauss RM, Mangravite LM, Smith JD, Medina MW, Wang D, Guo X, Rieder MJ, Simon JA, Hulley SB, Waters D, Saad M, Williams PT, Taylor KD, Yang H, Nickerson DA, Rotter JI. Variation in the 3-hydroxyl-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme a reductase gene is associated with racial differences in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol response to simvastatin treatment. 2008. PMID: 18332269