Genome-wide association study of circadian rhythmicity in 71,500 UK biobank participants and polygenic association with mood instability

A Ferguson, LM Lyall, J Ward, RJ Strawbridge… - …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Circadian rhythms are fundamental to health and are particularly important for
mental wellbeing. Disrupted rhythms of rest and activity are recognised as risk factors for …

Multiple functional variants in long-range enhancer elements contribute to the risk of SNP rs965513 in thyroid cancer

H He, W Li, S Liyanarachchi, M Srinivas… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
The [A] allele of SNP rs965513 in 9q22 has been consistently shown to be highly associated
with increased papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) risk with an odds ratio of∼ 1.8 as determined …

Super-enhancer-associated MEIS1 promotes transcriptional dysregulation in Ewing sarcoma in co-operation with EWS-FLI1

L Lin, M Huang, X Shi, A Mayakonda, K Hu… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
As the second most common malignant bone tumor in children and adolescents, Ewing
sarcoma is initiated and exacerbated by a chimeric oncoprotein, most commonly, EWS-FLI1 …

Pbx3 and Meis1 cooperate through multiple mechanisms to support Hox-induced murine leukemia

MP Garcia-Cuellar, J Steger, E Füller… - …, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hox homeobox transcription factors drive leukemogenesis efficiently only in the presence of
Meis or Pbx proteins. Here we show that Pbx3 and Meis1 need to dimerize to support Hox …

Distinct and opposite effects of leukemogenic Idh and Tet2 mutations in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

J Fortin, MF Chiang, C Meydan, J Foox… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Mutations in IDH1, IDH2, and TET2 are recurrently observed in myeloid neoplasms. IDH1
and IDH2 encode isocitrate dehydrogenase isoforms, which normally catalyze the …

ANP32A regulates histone H3 acetylation and promotes leukemogenesis

X Yang, B Lu, X Sun, C Han, C Fu, K Xu, M Wang, D Li… - Leukemia, 2018 - nature.com
Deregulation of key regulators of histone modification is important in the initiation and
progression of human leukemia. Acidic leucine-rich nuclear phosphoprotein-32A (ANP32A) …

PU. 1 is essential for MLL leukemia partially via crosstalk with the MEIS/HOX pathway

J Zhou, J Wu, B Li, D Liu, J Yu, X Yan, S Zheng, J Wang… - Leukemia, 2014 - nature.com
Mixed lineage leukemia (MLL) fusion proteins directly activate the expression of key
downstream genes such as MEIS1, HOXA9 to drive an aggressive form of human leukemia …

RLS-associated MEIS transcription factors control distinct processes in human neural stem cells

V Kittke, C Zhao, DD Lam, P Harrer, W Krezel… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
MEIS1 and MEIS2 encode highly conserved homeodomain transcription factors crucial for
developmental processes in a wide range of tissues, including the brain. They can execute …

Informative gene selection and the direct classification of tumors based on relative simplicity

Y Chen, L Wang, L Li, H Zhang, Z Yuan - BMC bioinformatics, 2016 - Springer
Background Selecting a parsimonious set of informative genes to build highly generalized
performance classifier is the most important task for the analysis of tumor microarray …

Alcohol consumption modulates host defense in rhesus macaques by altering gene expression in circulating leukocytes

T Barr, T Girke, S Sureshchandra… - The Journal of …, 2016 - journals.aai.org
Several lines of evidence indicate that chronic alcohol use disorder leads to increased
susceptibility to several viral and bacterial infections, whereas moderate alcohol …