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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  ·  14 Oct 2025  ·  doi:10.1038/s41467-025-64186-4

2023

Single cell multiomic analysis reveals diabetes-associated β-cell heterogeneity driven by HNF1A.
Chen Weng, Anniya Gu, Shanshan Zhang, Leina Lu, Luxin Ke, …, Sisi Lai, Konstantin Leskov, Kyle Yuan, Fulai Jin, Yan Li
Nature communications  ·  05 Sep 2023  ·  pubmed:37669939

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, …, Divyaa Srinivasan, Peter Fraser, Yan Li, Jing Li, Fulai Jin
Nature genetics  ·  11 Jul 2022  ·  pubmed:35817982

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, …, Fulai Jin, Yan Li, Alan D Attie, Mark P Keller, Sündüz Keleş
Genome biology  ·  23 Aug 2021  ·  pubmed:34425882

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, Fulai Jin, Yan Li
Nature metabolism  ·  30 Nov 2020  ·  pubmed:33257854
Aberrant methylation underlies insulin gene expression in human insulinoma.
Esra Karakose, Huan Wang, William Inabnet, Rajesh V Thakker, Steven Libutti, …, Carmen Argmann, Eric E Schadt, Andrew F Stewart, Donald K Scott, Luca Lambertini
Nature communications  ·  15 Oct 2020  ·  pubmed:33060578
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  ·  29 Sep 2020  ·  pubmed:32989764
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, …, Patrick F Sullivan, Hongjun Song, Guo-Li Ming, Yan Li, Fulai Jin
Molecular cell  ·  26 Jun 2020  ·  pubmed:32592681
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, …, Appakalai N Balamurugan, Christopher V E Wright, Yan Li, Roland Stein, Guoqiang Gu
Developmental cell  ·  30 Apr 2020  ·  pubmed:32359405

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 (International ed. in English)  ·  17 Oct 2019  ·  pubmed:31568601
Single-Cell Heterogeneity Analysis and CRISPR Screen Identify Key β-Cell-Specific Disease Genes.
Zhou Fang, Chen Weng, Haiyan Li, Ran Tao, Weihua Mai, …, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, Yun Li, Yanxin Pei, Fulai Jin, Yan Li
Cell reports  ·  12 Mar 2019  ·  pubmed:30865899

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, …, Angela M Lager, Yan Li, Fulai Jin, Drew J Adams, Paul J Tesar
Stem cell reports  ·  23 Aug 2018  ·  pubmed:30146490

2017

Therapeutic targeting of ependymoma as informed by oncogenic enhancer profiling.
Stephen C Mack, Kristian W Pajtler, Lukas Chavez, Konstantin Okonechnikov, Kelsey C Bertrand, …, Peter C Scacheri, Stefan M Pfister, Marcel Kool, Michael D Taylor, Jeremy N Rich
Nature  ·  20 Dec 2017  ·  pubmed:29258295

2015

Epigenetic priming of enhancers predicts developmental competence of hESC-derived endodermal lineage intermediates.
Allen Wang, Feng Yue, Yan Li, Ruiyu Xie, Thomas Harper, …, Dieter K Lam, Jeffrey C Raum, Doris A Stoffers, Bing Ren, Maike Sander
Cell stem cell  ·  02 Apr 2015  ·  pubmed:25842977
Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes.
Anshul Kundaje, Wouter Meuleman, Jason Ernst, Misha Bilenky, Angela Yen, …, Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Bing Ren, John A Stamatoyannopoulos, Ting Wang, Manolis Kellis
Nature  ·  19 Feb 2015  ·  pubmed:25693563

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  ·  08 Dec 2014  ·  pubmed:25486255

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, Celso A Espinoza, Bing Ren
Nature  ·  20 Oct 2013  ·  pubmed:24141950
Epigenomic analysis of multilineage differentiation of human embryonic stem cells.
Wei Xie, Matthew D Schultz, Ryan Lister, Zhonggang Hou, Nisha Rajagopal, …, Michael Q Zhang, Wei Wang, James A Thomson, Joseph R Ecker, Bing Ren
Cell  ·  09 May 2013  ·  pubmed:23664764
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, Bing Ren
PLoS computational biology  ·  14 Mar 2013  ·  pubmed:23526891

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, Bing Ren
Nature  ·  11 Apr 2012  ·  pubmed:22495300

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  ·  14 Mar 2011  ·  pubmed:21402921
Enhancers: multi-dimensional signal integrators.
Fulai Jin, Yan Li, Bing Ren, Rama Natarajan
Transcription  ·  01 Jan 2011  ·  pubmed:22231119

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  ·  23 Jul 2008  ·  pubmed:18650421

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  ·  14 Nov 2007  ·  pubmed:18003754