Cheryl D. Cropp, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor at Samford University's McWhorter School of Pharmacy.  In addition to a Ph.D. in pharmacogenomics, Cropp has several years of experience in academia and as a clinical pharmacist. She has research expertise in finding functional genetic variants in healthy, diseased and health disparate world populations utilizing population and family data.  Cropp is particularly interested in studies that enhance the understanding of the genetic determinants involved in the efficacy of pharmacotherapy of cancer. She has ongoing research projects in the areas of genetic epidemiology, pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics.

Degrees 

• Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, University of California, San Francisco
• Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky
• B.S. Pharmacy, University of Iowa

Expertise

• Pharmacogenomics
• Pharmacokinetics
• Genetic epidemiology

Recent Publications

• Schaid DJ, McDonnell SK, FitzGerald LM, DeRycke L, Fogarty Z, Giles GG, MacInnis RJ, Southey MC, Nguyen-Dumont T, Cancel-Tassin G, Cussenot O, Whittemore AS, Sieh W, Ioannidis NM, Hsieh CL, Stanford JL, Schleutker J, Cropp CD, Carpten J, Hoegel J, Eeles R, Kote-Jarai Z, Ackerman MJ, Klein CJ, Mandal D, Cooney KA, Bailey-Wilson JE, Helfand B, Catalona WJ, Wiklund F, Riska S, Bahetti S, Larson MC, Cannon Albright L, Teerlink C, Xu J, Isaacs W, Ostrander EA, Thibodeau SN. Two-stage Study of Familial Prostate Cancer by Whole-exome Sequencing and Custom Capture Identifies 10 Novel Genes Associated with the Risk of Prostate Cancer. Eur Urol. 2021 Mar;79(3):353-361. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.07.038. Epub 2020 Aug 14. PubMed PMID: 32800727; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7881048.
• Lewis DD, Cropp CD. The Impact of African Ancestry on Prostate Cancer Disparities in the Era of Precision Medicine. Genes (Basel). 2020 Dec 8;11(12). doi: 10.3390/genes11121471. Review. PubMed PMID: 33302594; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7762993.
• Smith A, Cropp CD, Vidal G, Pritchard E, Cordero J, Simpson C, Starlard-Davenport A. Prevalence of the UGT1A1*28 promoter polymorphism and breast cancer risk among African American women in Memphis, TN. Cancer Health Disparities. 2019 Aug 19;3:e1-e12. doi: 10.9777/chd.2019.1015. PubMed PMID: 31485577; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6724729.
• Sabourin JA, Cropp CD, Sung H, Brody LC, Bailey-Wilson JE, Wilson AF. ComPaSS-GWAS: A method to reduce type I error in genome-wide association studies when replication data are not available. Genet Epidemiol. 2019 Feb;43(1):102-111. doi: 10.1002/gepi.22168. Epub 2018 Oct 18. PubMed PMID: 30334581; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6330131.
• Kraja AT, Liu C, Fetterman JL, Graff M, Have CT, Gu C, Yanek LR, Feitosa MF, Arking DE, Chasman DI, Young K, Ligthart S, Hill WD, Weiss S, Luan J, Giulianini F, Li-Gao R, Hartwig FP, Lin SJ, Wang L, Richardson TG, Yao J, Fernandez EP, Ghanbari M, Wojczynski MK, Lee WJ, Argos M, Armasu SM, Barve RA, Ryan KA, An P, Baranski TJ, Bielinski SJ, Bowden DW, Broeckel U, Christensen K, Chu AY, Corley J, Cox SR, Uitterlinden AG, Rivadeneira F, Cropp CD, Daw EW, van Heemst D, de Las Fuentes L, Gao H, Tzoulaki I, Ahluwalia TS, de Mutsert R, Emery LS, Erzurumluoglu AM, Perry JA, Fu M, Forouhi NG, Gu Z, Hai Y, Harris SE, Hemani G, Hunt SC, Irvin MR, Jonsson AE, Justice AE, Kerrison ND, Larson NB, Lin KH, Love-Gregory LD, Mathias RA, Lee JH, Nauck M, Noordam R, Ong KK, Pankow J, Patki A, Pattie A, Petersmann A, Qi Q, Ribel-Madsen R, Rohde R, Sandow K, Schnurr TM, Sofer T, Starr JM, Taylor AM, Teumer A, Timpson NJ, de Haan HG, Wang Y, Weeke PE, Williams C, Wu H, Yang W, Zeng D, Witte DR, Weir BS, Wareham NJ, Vestergaard H, Turner ST, Torp-Pedersen C, Stergiakouli E, Sheu WH, Rosendaal FR, Ikram MA, Franco OH, Ridker PM, Perls TT, Pedersen O, Nohr EA, Newman AB, Linneberg A, Langenberg C, Kilpeläinen TO, Kardia SLR, Jørgensen ME, Jørgensen T, Sørensen TIA, Homuth G, Hansen T, Goodarzi MO, Deary IJ, Christensen C, Chen YI, Chakravarti A, Brandslund I, Bonnelykke K, Taylor KD, Wilson JG, Rodriguez S, Davies G, Horta BL, Thyagarajan B, Rao DC, Grarup N, Davila-Roman VG, Hudson G, Guo X, Arnett DK, Hayward C, Vaidya D, Mook-Kanamori DO, Tiwari HK, Levy D, Loos RJF, Dehghan A, Elliott P, Malik AN, Scott RA, Becker DM, de Andrade M, Province MA, Meigs JB, Rotter JI, North KE. Associations of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Mitochondrial Variants and Genes with Seven Metabolic Traits. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Jan 3;104(1):112-138. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.12.001. Epub 2018 Dec 27. PubMed PMID: 30595373; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6323610.
• Shane B, Pangilinan F, Mills JL, Fan R, Gong T, Cropp CD, Kim Y, Ueland PM, Bailey-Wilson JE, Wilson AF, Brody LC, Molloy AM. The 677C→T variant of MTHFR is the major genetic modifier of biomarkers of folate status in a young, healthy Irish population. Am J Clin Nutr. 2018 Dec 1;108(6):1334-1341. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqy209. PubMed PMID: 30339177; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6290363.

Research Areas

• Pharmacogenomics
• Prostate cancer epidemiology
• Breast cancer epidemiology
• Health disparities