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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, Fulai Jin, et al.

Nature Communications

Oct 2025

STAG2 regulates polycomb and differentiation in urothelial precursors and bladder cancer

Youngrok Park, Wanying Xu, Tianyi Yang, Victoria Hill, Xiaoyuan He, Lisa Sadzewicz, Luke Tallon, Jung-Sik Kim, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

PLOS One · DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0333128 · PMID: 41091719

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

Oct 2025

Genome-wide meta-analyses of cross substance use disorders in diverse populations

Dongbing Lai, Michael Zhang, Nick Green, Marco Abreu, Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An, Clarissa C. Parker, Shanshan Zhang, Fulai Jin, et al.

Molecular Psychiatry · DOI: 10.1038/s41380-025-03294-5 · PMID: 41057643

Oct 2025

Regulation of epigenetics and chromosome structure by human ORC2

Zhangli Su, Mengxue Tian, Etsuko Shibata, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Tianyi Yang, Zhenjia Wang, Fulai Jin, Chongzhi Zang, et al.

Cell Reports · DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116504 · PMID: 41105516

Sep 2025

Ancestral genomic functional differences in oligodendroglia: implications for Alzheimer's disease

Aura M. Ramirez, Luciana Bertholim Nasciben, Sofia Moura, Lauren Coombs, Farid Rajabli, Brooke A. DeRosa, Patrice L. Whitehead, Larry D. Adams, ..., Wanying Xu, Fulai Jin, et al.

Alzheimer's & Dementia · DOI: 10.1002/alz.70593 · PMID: 40937943

Jul 2025

H3K79 methylation and H3K36 trimethylation synergistically regulate gene expression in pluripotent stem cells

Emmalee W. Cooke, Cheng Zeng, Suza Mohammad Nur, Yunbo Jia, Aileen Huang, Jiwei Chen, Peidong Gao, Fei Xavier Chen, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

Science Advances · DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adt8765 · PMID: 40614207

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, ..., Fulai Jin, He Li, Leina Lu, et al.

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

Mar 2025

Biomedical data and AI

Hao Xu, Shibo Zhou, Zefeng Zhu, Vincenzo Vitelli, Liangyi Chen, Ziwei Dai, Ning Yang, Luhua Lai, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

Science China Life Sciences · DOI: 10.1007/s11427-024-2859-1 · PMID: 40100542

Jul 2024

Extended genome-wide association study employing the African genome resources panel identifies novel susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease in individuals of African ancestry.

Nicholas R Ray, Brian W Kunkle, Kara Hamilton-Nelson, Jiji T Kurup, Farid Rajabli, Min Qiao, Badri N Vardarajan, Mehmet I Cosacak, ..., Wanying Xu, Fulai Jin, et al.

Alzheimer's & dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association · DOI: 10.1002/alz.13880 · PMID: 38958117

May 2024

STAG2 mutations regulate 3D genome organization, chromatin loops, and Polycomb signaling in glioblastoma multiforme.

Wanying Xu, Jung-Sik Kim, Tianyi Yang, Alvin Ya, Lisa Sadzewicz, Luke Tallon, Brent T Harris, Jann Sarkaria, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry · DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2024.107341 · PMID: 38705393

Feb 2024

magpie: A power evaluation method for differential RNA methylation analysis in N6-methyladenosine sequencing.

Zhenxing Guo, Daoyu Duan, Wen Tang, Julia Zhu, William S Bush, Liangliang Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhu, Fulai Jin, et al.

PLOS Computational Biology · DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011875 · PMID: 38346081

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, ..., Peinan Hu, Dylan Plummer, Saixian Zhang, Fulai Jin, et al.

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

May 2023

Novel correlative analysis identifies multiple genomic variations impacting ASD with macrocephaly.

Chen Fu, Justine Ngo, Shanshan Zhang, Leina Lu, Alexander Miron, Simon Schafer, Fred H Gage, Fulai Jin, et al.

Human Molecular Genetics · DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddac300 · PMID: 36519762

Apr 2023

Ancestry-related differences in chromatin accessibility and gene expression of APOE ε4 are associated with Alzheimer's disease risk.

Katrina Celis, Maria D M Muniz Moreno, Farid Rajabli, Patrice Whitehead, Kara Hamilton-Nelson, Derek M Dykxhoorn, Karen Nuytemans, Liyong Wang, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

Alzheimer's & dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association · DOI: 10.1002/alz.13075 · PMID: 37037656

Nov 2022

Easy Hi-C: A Low-Input Method for Capturing Genome Organization

Leina Lu, Fulai Jin

Methods in Molecular Biology · DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2847-8_9 · PMID: 36427146

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, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

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

Jul 2022

A locus at 19q13.31 significantly reduces the ApoE ε4 risk for Alzheimer's Disease in African Ancestry.

Farid Rajabli, Gary W Beecham, Hugh C Hendrie, Olusegun Baiyewu, Adesola Ogunniyi, Sujuan Gao, Nicholas A Kushch, Marina Lipkin-Vasquez, ..., Fulai Jin, Xiaoxiao Liu, et al.

PLOS Genetics · DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009977 · PMID: 35788729

Jan 2022

53BP1 regulates heterochromatin through liquid phase separation.

Lei Zhang, Xinran Geng, Fangfang Wang, Jinshan Tang, Yu Ichida, Arishya Sharma, Sora Jin, Mingyue Chen, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

Nature Communications · DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28019-y · PMID: 35042897

Jan 2022

Identifying differential regulatory control of APOE ɛ4 on African versus European haplotypes as potential therapeutic targets.

Karen Nuytemans, Marina Lipkin Vasquez, Liyong Wang, Derek Van Booven, Antony J Griswold, Farid Rajabli, Katrina Celis, Oded Oron, ..., Shanshan Zhang, Fulai Jin, et al.

Alzheimer's & dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association · DOI: 10.1002/alz.12534 · PMID: 34978147

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, ..., Fulai Jin, 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, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

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, ..., Xiaoxiao Liu, Fulai Jin, 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, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

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

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, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

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

Dec 2018

Integrative functional genomic analysis of human brain development and neuropsychiatric risks.

Mingfeng Li, Gabriel Santpere, Yuka Imamura Kawasawa, Oleg V Evgrafov, Forrest O Gulden, Sirisha Pochareddy, Susan M Sunkin, Zhen Li, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

Science · DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7615 · PMID: 30545854

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, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

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

Apr 2018

Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression.

Naomi R Wray, Stephan Ripke, Manuel Mattheisen, Maciej Trzaskowski, Enda M Byrne, Abdel Abdellaoui, Mark J Adams, Esben Agerbo, ..., Fulai Jin, Xiaoxiao Liu, Leina Lu, et al.

Nature Genetics · DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0090-3 · PMID: 29700475

Mar 2016

HiView: an integrative genome browser to leverage Hi-C results for the interpretation of GWAS variants.

Zheng Xu, Guosheng Zhang, Qing Duan, Shengjie Chai, Baqun Zhang, Cong Wu, Fulai Jin, Feng Yue, et al.

BMC Research Notes · DOI: 10.1186/s13104-016-1947-0 · PMID: 26969411

Nov 2015

A hidden Markov random field-based Bayesian method for the detection of long-range chromosomal interactions in Hi-C data.

Zheng Xu, Guosheng Zhang, Fulai Jin, Mengjie Chen, Terrence S Furey, Patrick F Sullivan, Zhaohui Qin, Ming Hu, et al.

Bioinformatics · DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv650 · PMID: 26543175

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

Sep 2014

5mC oxidation by Tet2 modulates enhancer activity and timing of transcriptome reprogramming during differentiation.

Gary C Hon, Chun-Xiao Song, Tingting Du, Fulai Jin, Siddarth Selvaraj, Ah Young Lee, Chia-An Yen, Zhen Ye, et al.

Molecular Cell · DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2014.08.026 · PMID: 25263596

Mar 2014

Lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation is a widely distributed active histone mark.

Lunzhi Dai, Chao Peng, Emilie Montellier, Zhike Lu, Yue Chen, Haruhiko Ishii, Alexandra Debernardi, Thierry Buchou, ..., Fulai Jin, et al.

Nature Chemical Biology · DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1497 · PMID: 24681537

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

Jun 2012

Combined gene expression and DNA occupancy profiling identifies potential therapeutic targets of t(8;21) AML.

Miao-Chia Lo, Luke F Peterson, Ming Yan, Xiuli Cong, Fulai Jin, Wei-Jong Shia, Shinobu Matsuura, Eun-Young Ahn, et al.

Blood · DOI: 10.1182/blood-2011-12-395335 · PMID: 22740448

Jun 2012

CBX3 regulates efficient RNA processing genome-wide.

Andrea Smallwood, Gary C Hon, Fulai Jin, Ryan E Henry, Joaquín M Espinosa, Bing Ren

Genome Research · DOI: 10.1101/gr.124818.111 · PMID: 22684280

Sep 2011

Identification of 67 histone marks and histone lysine crotonylation as a new type of histone modification.

Minjia Tan, Hao Luo, Sangkyu Lee, Fulai Jin, Jeong Soo Yang, Emilie Montellier, Thierry Buchou, Zhongyi Cheng, et al.

Cell · DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.08.008 · PMID: 21925322

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

Apr 2007

A yeast two-hybrid smart-pool-array system for protein-interaction mapping.

Fulai Jin, Larisa Avramova, Jing Huang, Tony Hazbun

Nature Methods · DOI: 10.1038/nmeth1042 · PMID: 17450148

Mar 2006

A pooling-deconvolution strategy for biological network elucidation.

Fulai Jin, Tony Hazbun, Gregory A Michaud, Michael Salcius, Paul F Predki, Stanley Fields, Jing Huang

Nature Methods · DOI: 10.1038/nmeth859 · PMID: 16489335

May 2005

Insights into TOR function and rapamycin response: chemical genomic profiling by using a high-density cell array method.

Michael W Xie, Fulai Jin, Heejun Hwang, Seungmin Hwang, Vikram Anand, Mara C Duncan, Jing Huang

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0500297102 · PMID: 15883373

Nov 2004

Finding new components of the target of rapamycin (TOR) signaling network through chemical genetics and proteome chips.

Jing Huang, Heng Zhu, Stephen J Haggarty, David R Spring, Heejun Hwang, Fulai Jin, Michael Snyder, Stuart L Schreiber

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0407117101 · PMID: 15539461