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Li LabYan Li, Principal Investigator

Publications

Apr 2026

Proinsulin regulators identified with CRISPR screen and in vivo mouse QTL mapping

Sisi Lai, Mark P. Keller, Jinglin Zhang, Zhou Fang, Ying Xie, Chen Weng, Saixian Zhang, Shanshan Zhang, ..., Peidong Gao, Luxin Ke, Yuntong Wang, Yan Li

Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71726-z

2026

Map functional insulators with cross-platform Hi-C meta-analysis

Jian Cui, Wanying Xu, Xiuyuan Lang, Shanshan Zhang, Leina Lu, Xiaoxiao Liu, Yan Li, Fulai Jin

Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.26.656183 · PMID: 40501564

Oct 2025

A comprehensive benchmark of single-cell Hi-C embedding tools

Dylan Plummer, Xiuyuan Lang, Shanshan Zhang, Yan Li, Jing Li, Fulai Jin

Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64186-4 · PMID: 41087414

Jul 2025

The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network

Tim H. H. Coorens, Ji Won Oh, Yujin Angelina Choi, Nam Seop Lim, Boxun Zhao, Adam Voshall, Alexej Abyzov, Lucinda Antonacci-Fulton, ..., Yan Li, et al.

Nature · DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09096-7 · PMID: 40604182

Oct 2024

Heterogeneous enhancer states orchestrate β cell responses to metabolic stress

Liu Wang, Jie Wu, Madeline Sramek, S. M. Bukola Obayomi, Peidong Gao, Yan Li, Aleksey V. Matveyenko, Zong Wei

Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53717-0 · PMID: 39472434

Sep 2023

Single cell multiomic analysis reveals diabetes-associated β-cell heterogeneity driven by HNF1A.

Chen Weng, Anniya Gu, Shanshan Zhang, Leina Lu, Luxin Ke, Peidong Gao, Xiaoxiao Liu, Yuntong Wang, ..., Jiajia Xi, Sisi Lai, Konstantin Leskov, Yan Li

Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41228-3 · PMID: 37669939

Jul 2022

DeepLoop robustly maps chromatin interactions from sparse allele-resolved or single-cell Hi-C data at kilobase resolution.

Shanshan Zhang, Dylan Plummer, Leina Lu, Jian Cui, Wanying Xu, Miao Wang, Xiaoxiao Liu, Nachiketh Prabhakar, ..., Yan Li, et al.

Nature Genetics · DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01116-w · PMID: 35817982

Aug 2021

INFIMA leverages multi-omics model organism data to identify effector genes of human GWAS variants.

Chenyang Dong, Shane P Simonett, Sunyoung Shin, Donnie S Stapleton, Kathryn L Schueler, Gary A Churchill, Leina Lu, Xiaoxiao Liu, ..., Yan Li, et al.

Genome Biology · DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02450-8 · PMID: 34425882

Nov 2020

Single-cell lineage analysis reveals extensive multimodal transcriptional control during directed beta-cell differentiation.

Chen Weng, Jiajia Xi, Haiyan Li, Jian Cui, Anniya Gu, Sisi Lai, Konstantin Leskov, Luxin Ke, ..., Yan Li

Nature Metabolism · DOI: 10.1038/s42255-020-00314-2 · PMID: 33257854

Oct 2020

Aberrant methylation underlies insulin gene expression in human insulinoma.

Esra Karakose, Huan Wang, William Inabnet, Rajesh V Thakker, Steven Libutti, Gustavo Fernandez-Ranvier, Hyunsuk Suh, Mark Stevenson, ..., Yan Li, Xiaoxiao Liu, et al.

Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18839-1 · PMID: 33060578

Sep 2020

TWO-SIGMA: A novel two-component single cell model-based association method for single-cell RNA-seq data.

Eric Van Buren, Ming Hu, Chen Weng, Fulai Jin, Yan Li, Di Wu, Yun Li

Genetic Epidemiology · DOI: 10.1002/gepi.22361 · PMID: 32989764

Jun 2020

Robust Hi-C Maps of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Reveal the Function of Non-coding Genome in Neural Development and Diseases.

Leina Lu, Xiaoxiao Liu, Wei-Kai Huang, Paola Giusti-Rodríguez, Jian Cui, Shanshan Zhang, Wanying Xu, Zhexing Wen, ..., Yan Li, et al.

Molecular Cell · DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.06.007 · PMID: 32592681

Apr 2020

Myt Transcription Factors Prevent Stress-Response Gene Overactivation to Enable Postnatal Pancreatic β Cell Proliferation, Function, and Survival.

Ruiying Hu, Emily Walker, Chen Huang, Yanwen Xu, Chen Weng, Gillian E Erickson, Anastasia Coldren, Xiaodun Yang, ..., Yan Li, et al.

Developmental Cell · DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.04.003 · PMID: 32359405

Oct 2019

Exploring the Trans-Cleavage Activity of CRISPR-Cas12a (cpf1) for the Development of a Universal Electrochemical Biosensor.

Yifan Dai, Rodrigo A Somoza, Liu Wang, Jean F Welter, Yan Li, Arnold I Caplan, Chung Chiun Liu

Angewandte Chemie · DOI: 10.1002/anie.201910772 · PMID: 31568601

Mar 2019

Single-Cell Heterogeneity Analysis and CRISPR Screen Identify Key β-Cell-Specific Disease Genes.

Zhou Fang, Chen Weng, Haiyan Li, Ran Tao, Weihua Mai, Xiaoxiao Liu, Leina Lu, Sisi Lai, ..., Yan Li

Cell Reports · DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.02.043 · PMID: 30865899

Aug 2018

Chemical Screening Identifies Enhancers of Mutant Oligodendrocyte Survival and Unmasks a Distinct Pathological Phase in Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease.

Matthew S Elitt, H Elizabeth Shick, Mayur Madhavan, Kevin C Allan, Benjamin L L Clayton, Chen Weng, Tyler E Miller, Daniel C Factor, ..., Yan Li, et al.

Stem Cell Reports · DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.07.015 · PMID: 30146490

Dec 2017

Therapeutic targeting of ependymoma as informed by oncogenic enhancer profiling.

Stephen C Mack, Kristian W Pajtler, Lukas Chavez, Konstantin Okonechnikov, Kelsey C Bertrand, Xiuxing Wang, Serap Erkek, Alexander Federation, ..., Sisi Lai, Yan Li, et al.

Nature · DOI: 10.1038/nature25169 · PMID: 29258295

Apr 2015

Epigenetic priming of enhancers predicts developmental competence of hESC-derived endodermal lineage intermediates.

Allen Wang, Feng Yue, Yan Li, Ruiyu Xie, Thomas Harper, Nisha A Patel, Kayla Muth, Jeffrey Palmer, et al.

Cell Stem Cell · DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2015.02.013 · PMID: 25842977

Feb 2015

Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes.

Anshul Kundaje, Wouter Meuleman, Jason Ernst, Misha Bilenky, Angela Yen, Alireza Heravi-Moussavi, Pouya Kheradpour, Zhizhuo Zhang, et al.

Nature · DOI: 10.1038/nature14248 · PMID: 25693563

Dec 2014

CRISPR reveals a distal super-enhancer required for Sox2 expression in mouse embryonic stem cells.

Yan Li, Chloe M Rivera, Haruhiko Ishii, Fulai Jin, Siddarth Selvaraj, Ah Young Lee, Jesse R Dixon, Bing Ren

PLOS One · DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114485 · PMID: 25486255

Oct 2013

A high-resolution map of the three-dimensional chromatin interactome in human cells.

Fulai Jin, Yan Li, Jesse R Dixon, Siddarth Selvaraj, Zhen Ye, Ah Young Lee, Chia-An Yen, Anthony D Schmitt, et al.

Nature · DOI: 10.1038/nature12644 · PMID: 24141950

May 2013

Epigenomic analysis of multilineage differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.

Wei Xie, Matthew D Schultz, Ryan Lister, Zhonggang Hou, Nisha Rajagopal, Pradipta Ray, John W Whitaker, Shulan Tian, ..., Yan Li, et al.

Cell · DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.04.022 · PMID: 23664764

Mar 2013

RFECS: a random-forest based algorithm for enhancer identification from chromatin state.

Nisha Rajagopal, Wei Xie, Yan Li, Uli Wagner, Wei Wang, John Stamatoyannopoulos, Jason Ernst, Manolis Kellis, et al.

PLOS Computational Biology · DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002968 · PMID: 23526891

Apr 2012

Topological domains in mammalian genomes identified by analysis of chromatin interactions.

Jesse R Dixon, Siddarth Selvaraj, Feng Yue, Audrey Kim, Yan Li, Yin Shen, Ming Hu, Jun S Liu, et al.

Nature · DOI: 10.1038/nature11082 · PMID: 22495300

Sep 2011

Enhancers

Fulai Jin, Yan Li, Bing Ren, Rama Natarajan

Transcription · DOI: 10.4161/trns.2.5.17712 · PMID: 22231119

Mar 2011

PU.1 and C/EBP(alpha) synergistically program distinct response to NF-kappaB activation through establishing monocyte specific enhancers.

Fulai Jin, Yan Li, Bing Ren, Rama Natarajan

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017214108 · PMID: 21402921

Jul 2008

Role of the histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase, SET7/9, in the regulation of NF-kappaB-dependent inflammatory genes. Relevance to diabetes and inflammation.

Yan Li, Marpadga A Reddy, Feng Miao, Narkunaraja Shanmugam, Jiing-Kuan Yee, David Hawkins, Bing Ren, Rama Natarajan

The Journal of Biological Chemistry · DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M802800200 · PMID: 18650421

Nov 2007

Proinflammatory effects of advanced lipoxidation end products in monocytes.

Narkunarajaa Shanmugam, James L Figarola, Yan Li, Piotr M Swiderski, Samual Rahbar, Rama Natarajan

Diabetes · DOI: 10.2337/db07-1204 · PMID: 18003754