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CURRICULUM VITAE
Yan Guo, PhD
Office Address 100A Cancer Research Facility
University of New Mexico, Comprehensive Cancer Center
Albuquerque, NM, 87131
Phone:
E-mail:
505-925-0099
CURRENT POSITIONS
Associate & Endowed Professor
Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico
Director
Bioinformatics Shared Resources, University of New Mexico
Comprehensive Cancer Center
EDUCATION
2009 Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (focused on Bioinformatics)
Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina.
2006 Master of Engineering in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of South Carolina
2003 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
2001 Minor in Japanese
University of Minnesota
WORK EXPERIENCE
10/2017 – Present Associate and Endowed Professor, Department of Internal
Medicine, University of New Mexico
10/2017 – Present Director, Bioinformatics Shared Resources, University of New
Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center
12/2012 – 09/2017 Technical Director of Bioinformatics, Vanderbilt Technologies for
Advanced Genomics Analysis and Research Design (VANGARD)
11/2011 – 09/2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt
University
06/2016 – 07/2017 Bioinformatics Consultant, Population and Precision Health Care.
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12/2009 – 10/2011 Bioinformatics System Engineer II, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer
Center
11/2007 – 11/2009 Bioinformatics System Engineer I, Functional Genomic Shared
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Resource, Vanderbilt University
05/2005 – 05/2007 Research Assistant, Bioinformatics Group at Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina
01/2001 – 08/2001 Software Engineer (Internship), National Instrument, Austin TX
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Intramural
Committees Hiring manager of bioinformatics search committee at Vanderbilt Center for
Quantitative Sciences (2012-2017)
Oversight Committee member of Vanderbilt Genetics Institute (2016-2017)
Hiring committee chair for computational biology faculty, University of
New Mexico, (2017-2018)
Hiring committee chair for chief informatics office, University of New
Mexico, Comprehensive Cancer Center, (2017-2018)
Mentees Jiang Li, MS, Bioinformatics System Engineer II (2011 – 2013)
Hui Wu, Ph.D., Bioinformatics System Engineer I (2013 – 2014)
Nikola Jovanovich (summer intern, 2014)
Quanhu Sheng, PostDoc (2012-2015)
Jie Ping, PostDoc, (2016-2017)
Yulin Dai, PostDoc, (2016-2017)
Pan Zhang, PostDoc, (2014-2017)
Shilin Zhao, PostDoc (2012-2017)
Jing Wang, PostDoc (2013-2017)
Bing Feng, Graduate Student, (2016-Present)
Jiandong Wang, Graduate Student, (2017-Present)
Hui Yu, PostDoc, PostDoc, (2017-Present)
Wei Yue, PostDoc, (2017-Present)
Mingsheng Guo, Bioinformatics Engineer (2011 – 2017 Research
Assistant Professor (2017 – Present)
Extramural
Professional Organization Member of TCGA Head and Neck Cancer work group (2011 – 2014)
Conferences Program committee member and session chair of International Conference
on Intelligent Biology and Medicine, 2013-2018.
Workshop/Tutorial Committee co-chair, International Conference on
Intelligent Biology and Medicine, 2016
Editorial Editor of Cancer Biology and Research (2013 - present)
Managing Editor of International Journal of Computational Biology and
Drug Design (2014-present)
Guest Editor for Special Issue on Advances in Computational Genomics,
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BioMed Research International (2014)
Lead Editor for Special Issue on Advances in Computational Biology and
Genomic, International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug
Design, 2014
Lead Editor for Special Issue Recent Advances in High Throughput
Sequencing Analysis, International Journal of Genomics, 2016
Lead Editor for Special Issue on Non-Coding RNA, Genes, 2017
Journal (number of reviews)
Referee Advances in Genomics and Genetics 1
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 1
Archives of Medical Science 1
Bioinformatics 6
Biological Procedures Online 1
Biomarker Insights 1
Biomedical Research International 1
BMC Genomics 2
BMC Systems Biology 1
Briefings In Bioinformatics 7
Cancer Epidemiology 1
Cancer Management and Research 1
Clinical Epigenetics 1
Current Drug Targets 1
EBioMedicine 1
Evolutionary Bioinformatics 1
Frontiers in Genetics 1
G3, Genes, Genomes, Genetics 1
Gene 1
Genetica 1
Genetic Epidemiology 3
Genome Biology 1
Genomics 2
Human Mutation 2
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 1
IEEE Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1
Immunologic Research 1
International Journal of Cancer 1
International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design 1
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics 1
International Journal of Genomics 1
International Journal of Molecular Sciences 1
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Journal of Genetics and Genome Research 1
Methods 1
Mitochondrion 1
Mitochondrial DNA 1
Nature Protocols 2
Nucleic Acid Research 5
Peer J 1
PLOS ONE 2
Scientific Reports 2
The Prostate 1
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses
1. BIOM 505 (Section 9): Introduction to Genomic Data Analysis, Spring, 2018, University of New
Mexico
2. EPID 8332: Advanced Methods for Epidemiology, (8 hours) spring 2016, Vanderbilt University
3. Center for Quantitative Sciences Summer Institute 2014-2016 (three years), Bioinformatics Course
Director (6 hours per year), Vanderbilt University
4. Advanced Biostatistics Workshop (3 hours), April 8th, 2015, National Institute of Biological
Sciences, Beijing China.
5. Advanced Biostatistics (2 hours), December 2014, National Chengkung University Taiwan.
6. BMIF 310: Foundation of Bioinformatics, (1hour per year) 2014-2015, Vanderbilt University.
7. MAGEC Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology Course: 1 lecture Title: RNA and mitochondrial
DNA sequencing, April, 2014, Vanderbilt University.
8. Graduate course: CANB 347 Cancer Systems Biology Bioinformatics section (2012- present),
Vanderbilt University (5-6 hours per year).
9. Undergraduate course: CSCI1113 (C++), Taught as teaching assistant at University of Minnesota,
2001.
Patent
1. Metabolic biomarkers for early stage chronical kidney disease detection, Zhao YY, Guo Y, Patient
Number: US 62/551,192
Award and Honor
1. Center For Quantitative Sciences, High Impact Research Award, 2017
2. Genomic Workshop Travel Grant Award, Broad Institute, 2013
Invited Talks at Conferences
1. The First Annual Meeting of Functional Proteomics in Agriculture, title: “Multi-Omics Data
Analysis”, Nanjing China, July 30th, 2017
2. ICIBM 2016, title “The Discrepancy among Single Nucleotide Variants Detected by DNA and
RNA High Throughput Sequencing Data”, Huston TX, December, 2016
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3. DNA Day 2016, title “Assessing Disease Risk Using Whole Genome Instead of Individual SNP”,
May 2016
4. Center for Quantitative Sciences, 2015 Retreat, title: “mtDNA heteroplasmy and copy number
detection”, Nashville TN, October, 2015
5. International Conference on the Frontiers of Genomic Research, title: “Finding the lost treasure of
genomic data with robust quality control”, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, December,
2014
6. 7th Annual World Cancer Congress, Title: High-throughput Sequencing in Mitochondrial DNA
Cancer Research, Nanjin, China, May 17, 2014
7. AACR 2014, Methods Workshops: Next Generation Sequencing: From Bench to Bedside, Title:
“Lost Treasures in Sequence Data”, April 5, 2014 San Diego, CA
8. International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine, Title: “Read count RNAseq data
analysis comparison”, 2013 August 11-13, Nashville TN
9. Next Generation Sequencing Congress, Title: “The Effect of Strand Bias in Illumina Sequencing
Data”. Boston, April 26-27, 2011
Seminar/workshop
1. Title: “Using Machine Learning in Biomarker Research”, Cancer Genetics, Epigenetics and
Genomics Data Talk, UNM, Feb 15, 2017
2. Title: “Bioinformatics in Biomedical Research”, The Spatiotemporal Modeling Center, February 8,
UNM, 2017
3. Title: “An Introduction to Bioinformatics”, UNM Computer Science Department Colloquium
Series, November 29, 2017
4. Title: “Bioinformatics: Perspectives and Beyond”, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, April 14,
2017
5. Title: “How Bioinformatics Helps Solve Biological Problems”, Northwest University of China,
China, March 28th, 2017
6. Title: “Bioinformatics: Perspectives and Future”, University of New Mexico, Comprehensive
Cancer Center, March 8th, 2017
7. Title: “Bioinformatics Overview and Future”, Roche Sequencing, Belmont, CA, Feb, 2017
8. Title: “An Introduction to Bioinformatics”, Abmart, Shanghai, Dec 26th, 2016
9. Title: “High Throughput Data Analysis, DNA, RNA, Microbiome Sequencing and Genotyping”,
Huston Texas, Dec 8th 2016, ICIBM 2016
10. Title: “Genotyping Data and Innovative Analyses”, National Chengkung University Taiwan, Oct
13th 2016
11. Title: “Using a Global Heterozygosity Measure for Phenotype Association Studies”, Department
of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Nov 18th, 2015
12. Title: “The advanced data mining and quality control of high throughput sequencing data”, ICIBM
2015, University of Indiana, Nov 13th, 2015
13. Title: “High quality data mining of the human genome”, Shanghai Jiaotong University, May 25th,
2015.
14. Title: “Genomic data mining and quality control”, Center For Quantitative Sciences Bioinformatics
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Retreat, November 2014
15. Title: “Advanced genomic data quality control and data mining”, University of Kentucky,
November, 2014.
16. Title: “Advanced genomic data analysis”, Center For Quantitative Sciences Bioinformatics Retreat,
October 2013
17. Title: “Sequencing data analysis and data mining”, Department of Cardiology, Vanderbilt
University, October 2013
18. Title: “Finding the lost treasures in NGS data”, Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, April 2013
19. Title: “Bioinformatics Research”, Center For Quantitative Sciences Bioinformatics Retreat, August
2012
20. Title: “Next Generation Sequencing Data Processing and Analysis”, Shanghai Center for
Bioinformatics Technology, January 2012
CONFERENCES
Abstract/Poster Presented
1. Yu H, Wei Yue, Zhao YY, Guo Y, Deep architectures are not necessary for anomaly classification
of matrix-formed omics data, ICIBM 2018
2. Yue W, Sheng Q, Samuels D, Yu H, Zhao YY, Guo Y, eQTLs are tissue-disease specific, ICIBM
2018
3. Wiese C, Xu ZQ, Zhang Y, Guo Y, Zhong J, Ramirez M, Zhu W, Kon V, Vickers K, Chronic Kidney
Disease-Associated Atherosclerosis is Attenuated by Dual Inhibition of microRNA-92a and
microRNA-489, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology 2017
4. Ormseth MJ, Solus FJ, Sheng Q, Guo Y, Ye F, Allen R, Vickers KC, Stein M, Small RNA
sequencing identifies plasma microRNA panel for rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, American
College of Rheumatology 2017
5. Ormseth MJ, Zhao S, Alle R, Solus JF, Sheng Q, Guo Y, Ye F, Ramirez MA, Vickers KC, Stein M,
Circulating microbial small RNAs are altered in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, American
College of Rheumatology 2017
6. Byram K, Solus JF, Sheng Q, Guo Y, Stein M, Ormseth MJ, Differential Plasma MicroRNA
Expression by Small RNA Sequencing in Patients with ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: A Pilot Study,
American College of Rheumatology 2017
7. Richmond BW, Guo Y, Yu C, Kendall P, Mason WR, Cogan JD, Loyd JE, A genome-wide
association study of 59 patients with fibrosing mediastinitis
8. AUA 2017, title: “The Relationship Between The Urinary Microbiome And Central Sensitization
In Women With Overactive Bladder”, May 2017
9. ARVO 2017, title: “Identification Of Hypoxia-Regulated Genes And Pathways In Mouse Retinal
Müller Cells By Rnaseq Analysis, May, 2017
10. Digestive Disease Week 2017, title “Loss Of TFF1 Activates BRD2 Through Down Regulation Of
Mir-143-3p In Gastric Cancer”
11. AACR 2017, title: “Organ-specific epigenetic reprogramming of leukemia cells: Clues to
chemoresistance.
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12. ICIBM 2016, title: “Estimating Relative Mitochondria Copy Number Using Sequencing Data”,
December, 2016
13. AACR, 2016, title: “Robust Targeted Sequencing Strategy Identifies Highly Penetrant Mutations
in Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Cases from Colon Cancer Family Registry”
14. American College of Rheumatology Meeting 2016: title: “Small Rnaseq Reveals Different Plasma
Mirna Signature In Patients With RA And SLE: A Pilot Study”, November 2016
15. ISMB 2016, title: “Nucleotide Sequence Difference between DNA-RNA and Blood-Tissue
Samples”.
16. Clinical Congress 2016, title: “Growth Differentiation Factor 15 (GDF15) Is A Novel Regulator Of
The Stem Cell-Like Phenotype In Neuroblastoma”, October, 2016,
17. Digestive Disease Week 2016, title: “Transcriptome Sequencing Identifies Potentially Functional
Gene Fusions In Esophageal Adenocarcinomas”.
18. Digestive Disease Week 2016, title: “Integrated Expression Analysis of Mouse and Human Gastric
Neoplasm Identifies Early Molecular Changes in Gastric Carcinogenesis”.
19. Digestive Disease Week 2016, title: “Characterization of miRNA networks in mouse and human
gastric cancer”.
20. 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infection, title: “Mitochondrial DNA Copy
Number and Neurocognitive Impairment in HIV-Infected Persons”
21. Digestive Disease Week 2015, Blum A, Varadan V, Guo Y, Kieber-Emmons AM, Ravi L, Chandar
AK, Canto MI, Wang JS, Shaheen NJ, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Willis J, Markowitz S, Shyr Y, Chak A,
Guda K, Title: “Discovery of Novel Gene-Fusions in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Using Next-Gen
RNA Sequencing”
22. Digestive Disease Week 2015, Varadan V, Blum A, Guo Y, Kieber-Emmons AM, Ravi L,
Kresak A, Chandar AK, Canto MI Wang JS, Shaheen NJ, Barnholtz-Sloan J, Willis J, Markowitz
S, Shyr Y, Chak A, Guda K, title: “Large-Scale Transcriptome Sequencing Identifies Two
Signaling Sub-Networks As Critical Mediators of Barrett's Carcinogenesis”
23. ICIBM 2015, title: “Precursor mRNA Abundance Estimation from total RNA sequencing”.
November, 2015
24. ICIBM 2015, title: “Mitochondria Single Nucleotide Variant among Six Blood Cell Types”.
November, 2015
25. 2016 Gastrointestinal cancers Syposium, title: “Frequent BRAF mutations in Colonic High-Grade
Neuroendocrine Carcinoma”, January 21-23, 2016
26. 14th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2015, title: “Population structure analysis across
26 ancestries using dense genetic data”, March 20-22, 2015
27. 14th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2015, title: “Practicality of Identifying
Mitochondria Variants from Exome and RNAseq data”, March 20-22, 2015
28. Digestive Disease Week 2015, title: “Large-scale Transcriptome Sequencing Identifies Two
Signaling Sub-Networks as Critical Mediators of Barrett’s Carcinogenesis”, May 17-19, 2015,
Washington DC
29. The American Society of Hemotology, title: “miRNA Predictors of Response to DNA
Methyltransferase Inhibitors”, December, 2014
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30. ISMB 2014, title: RNA Somatic Mutation Caller (RSMC): accurately identifying somatic mutation
using RNAseq data, July, 2014
31. UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2014, title: “Exon Deletion Detection”, April 11-13, Lake
Barkley, KY, 2014
32. Meharry Medical College/Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center U54 Cancer Partnership 13th annual
retreat, title: “Exon deletion detection in Notch1 of breast cancer”, Nashville, 2014
33. Recomb-Seq WorkShop, Beijing, title: “mitochondria detection using MitoSeek”, China April 11-
12, 2013
34. First Annual TCGA symposium, title: “evaluation of sequencing processing steps”, National
Harbor, Maryland, November 2012
35. Meharry Medical College/Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center U54 Cancer Partnership 10th annual
retreat, title: “The effect of radiation therapy on female child cancer patients and their offspring’s
mitochondria mutation”, Nashville, 2011
36. Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center Retreat, title: “mitochondria mutation in child cancer patients”,
May, 2012
37. 6th Workshop on Experimental Algorithms (Abstract), title: “Improving tree search in
phylogenetic reconstruction from genome rearrangement data”, June 2007 - Rome, Italy.
Conferences Attended:
1. Cancer Informatics for Cancer Centers 2017, La Jolla, CA, Oct 23-25, 2017
2. The First Annual Meeting of Functional Proteomics in Agriculture, Nanjing China, July 30th, 2017
3. 16th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2015, April 21-23, 2017, TN
4. Vanderbilt Genetics Institute Retreat, March 17, 2017, Nashville TN,
5. International Conference on Intelligent biology and Medicine, 2016, December 2016, Huston TX
6. DNA Day 2016, Dalian China, May, 2016
7. AACR 2016, New Orleans April, 2016
8. 14th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2015, March 20-22, 2015
9. International Conference on the Frontiers of Genomic Research, National Cheng Kung University,
Taiwan, December, 2014
10. 7th Annual World Cancer Congress, Nanjin, China, May 17, 2014
11. UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2014, April 11-13, Lake Barkley, KY, 2014
12. AACR 2014, April 5, 2014 San Diego, CA
13. Meharry Medical College/Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center U54 Cancer Partnership 13th annual
retreat, Nashville, 2014
14. International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine, 2013 August 11-13, Nashville
15. Recomb-Seq WorkShop, Beijing, China April 11-12, 2013
16. First Annual TCGA symposium, National Harbor, Maryland, November 2012
17. 1000 Genomes Project Community Meeting, Michigan, July 12-13, 2012
18. The 8th International R User Conference, Nashville TN, June 12th-15th, 2012
19. TCGA Head and neck Cancer Data Analysis Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC Sept, 19-20, 2012
20. International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine, 2012 April 22-24, Nashville TN
21. Illumina Nashville User Group Meeting, Nashville, September 15th, 2011, Nashville
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22. Next Generation Sequencing Congress, Boston, April 26-27, 2011,
23. Meharry Medical College/Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center U54 Cancer Partnership 10th annual
retreat, Nashville, 2011
24. 5th Hands-on Workshop Interrogating Cancer Resistance to Targeted Therapeutics with Systems
Biology August 22-24, 2011, Nashville
GRANTS/FUNDING
Primary Investigator
1. American Cancer Society-Institutional Research Grant: Identification of lncRNA eQTLs predictive
of drug response in breast cancer (2015). Amount: $30,000
2. Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Grant: lincRNA biomarkers for Breast
cancer drug response predictability (2014). Amount: $1877
3. Center for Quantitative Sciences Pilot Project: Mitochondria Mutation in Breast Cancer (2014),
amount: $10,000
4. Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Grant: Verify Notch3 regulated genes
in NSCLC cell line HCC2429 using Tagman PCR (2010), Amount: $2000
5. Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Grant: Verification of heteroplasmy in
Mitochondria (2010), Amount: $2000
6. Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Grant: Comparing FFPE and Frozen
Tumor RNAseq data quality (2011), Amount: $2000
7. Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Grant: Mitochondria Mutation in
Breast Cancer (2013), Amount: $2000
Co-Investigator
NCI P50 CA098131 (Arteaga) 09/11/08-08/31/19
SPORE in breast cancer
The overall goal of this project is to conduct multidisciplinary, mechanism-based, translational research
of the highest possible impact that will contribute meaningfully to measurable progress in breast cancer.
Role: Bioinformatician
NCI R01 CA131225 (El-Rifai) 05/01/09-08/31/19
The Role of Aurora Kinase A in Upper Gastrointestinal Adenocarcinomas
The goal of this project is to characterize the molecular function(s) of AURKA, a frequently
overexpressed gene, in order to identify its biological, diagnostic, prognostic, and possibly therapeutic
significance.
Role: Bioinformatician
NHLBI P01 HL116263 (Linton) 06/01/14-04/30/19
HDL Function in Human Disease
The major goal of this project is to define the mechanisms for HDL dysfunction in three distinct diseases
associated with increased risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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Role: Bioinformatician
NCI R01 HL127173 (Linton) 01/01/16-12/31/19
Macrophage SR-BI Regulates Autophagy, Angiogenin and tRNA-derived Small RNAs
The major goal of this project is to leverage the novel roles of SR-BI in regulating autophagy,
angiogenin and tRNA-derived small RNAs to identify potential drug targets for nucleic acid-based
therapies to treat and prevent atherosclerosis.
Role: Co-Investigator
NCI P50 CA095103 (Coffey) 05/01/0704/30/17
SPORE in GI cancer
These four projects continue to focus on transforming how we diagnose and treat individuals with
colorectal cancer and deepening our understanding of the pathobiology of colorectal neoplasia.
Role: Bioinformatician
NCI RO1 CA206563 (El-Rifai) 11/01/15-11/30/16
Molecular Functions of APE1 in Barrett’s Esophagus
This study aims to characterize the molecular functions of APE1, a frequently overexpressed gene in
esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), in order to identify its biological, diagnostic, prognostic, and
possibly therapeutic significance.
Role: Bioinformatician
NCI R01 CA177372 (El-Rifai) 08/01/13-07/31/16
The Role of MiRNA Network in Gastric Cancer
The goal of this project is to gain further understanding of the role of H. Pylori in shaping the miRNA
signature and promoting the multi-step gastric tumorigenesis in order to identify diagnostic, prognostic
and possibly therapeutic miRNA targets in gastric cancer.
Role: Bioinformatician
NIDDKD R24 DK103067 (Harris) 09/18/14-06/30/19
Novel Integrated Analyses of Human Diabetic Nephropathy
This study will utilize novel methods to study the biochemical changes to the kidney in response to
diabetic nephropathy and will investigate the underlying mechanisms responsible for these changes.
Role: Bioinformatician
NCI U54 CA163072 (Moses) 09/23/11-08/31/16
MMC, VICC &TSU: Partners in eliminating cancer disparities
This project aims to improve the effectiveness of the VICC by creating a collaborative relationship
between MMC, VICC & TSU in the areas of cancer research; training and development; education and
outreach.
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Role: Bioinformatician
NCI R21 CA201856 (Oates) 12/01/15-11/30/17
Prevention of Genomic Instability by a Scavenger of Bifunctional Electrophiles
The major goal of this project is to identify the endogenous carcinogens that are responsible for the
mutations of the genome that determine the malignant nature of these cancers.
Role: Co-Investigator
NHGRI U01 HG007674 (Phillips) 07/01/14-03/31/18
Vanderbilt Center for Undiagnosed Diseases (VCUD)
The Vanderbilt Center for Undiagnosed Disease will function in the NIH funded Network of
Undiagnosed Diseases to evaluate persons afflicted with undiagnosed illnesses and to ensure an
accurate and timely diagnosis can be made, that counseling and advice be given to the patient and care
givers, and to assist in diagnosing and treating similar patients in the whole human population.
Role: Bioinformatician
Completed Research Support
American Heart Association (Vickers) 07/01/14-06/30/16
Novel small RNA intercellular communication networks mediated by HDL
The major goal of this project is to quantify inflammatory cell tDR export to HDL in
hypercholesterolemia and to quantify the impact of inflammatory cell-originating HDL-tDRs in
recipient cells.
Role: Bioinformatician
NHGRI R03 HG008055 (Multi-PI: Ye, Samuels) 04/01/14-03/31/16
Elastic Net Analysis of Phenotype Relationships in Association Studies
The major goal of this project is to increase our understanding of the complex patterns in medical
conditions as documented in electronic medical records in order to discover how rare genetic variants
in genes for mitochondrial proteins affect health.
Role: Bioinformatician
NCI R01 CA137013 (Long) 07/01/09-05/31/13
Genome-wide copy number variation and breast cancer risk
The major goal of this project is to survey the entire human genome for copy number variations
associated with breast cancer.
Role: Bioinformatician
NCI R01 CA064277 (Zheng) 08/01/10-05/31/13
Shanghai Breast Cancer Study
The major goal of this project is to provide valuable information regarding the roles of gene-gene and
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gene-environment interaction in the etiology of breast cancer.
Role: Bioinformatician
CONTINUED EDUCATION
1. Genetic Analysis of Complex Human Diseases, University of Miami, Miller school of Medicine,
Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, May 23-26, 2011
2. 3rd NIGMS-funded Short Course on Statistical Genetics & Genomics, University of Alabama, July
8-12 2013,
3. Computational Genomics Workshop, The Center for Cell Circuits at Broad Institute, July 29-30,
2013 Boston (Travel Grant Awarded)
4. Mothur Workshop, Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities, Detroit,
December 18-20, 2013
SKILLS
Omics Data Analysis: Exome sequencing, whole genome sequencing, targeted panel sequencing, RNAseq,
total RNAseq, small RNAseq, Chip-Seq, Microbiome Sequencing, gene expression microarray, genotyping
array, methylation array, pathway network analysis, cluster heatmap analysis, genome wide association
analysis, PheWAS, Mendelian Randomization, proteomic, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis.
Programming: C, C++, Java, Microsoft .net, Perl, Shell script, R.
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapter
1. Yan Guo, Fei Ye, Margot Bjoring, AACR 2014 Education Book, chapter name: Lost Treasures in
Sequence Data, 2014 AACR.
2. Guo Y, Zhao S, Bjoring M, Han L, Big Data Analytics in Bioinformatics and Healthcare, Chapter
Name: Data Mining of High Throughput Sequencing, IGI-Global. 2014
Editorial
1. Han L, Zheng S, Lu ZX, Su, Z, Guo Y, Advances in Computational Genomics, Biomed Research
International, 2014
2. Guo Y, Sheng Q, Advances in Computational Biology and Genomics, International Journal of
Computational Biology and Drug Design, 2015
3. Guo Y, Leng H, Sheng Q, Recent Advances in High Throughput Sequencing Analysis,
International Journal of Genomics, 2017
4. Zhao Z, Liu Z, Chen K, Guo Y, Allen GI, Zhang J, Zheng W, Ruan J, The International Conference
on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) 2016: summary and innovation in genomics, BMC
Genomics, 2017
Peer-reviewed publications as first/co-first/last/corresponding author († equal contribution)
1. Bing F, Hoskings W, Zhang Y, Meng Z, Guo Y†, Tang J†, Down Syndrome Prediction/Screening
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Model Based on Deep Learning and Illumina Genotyping Array, BMC Medical Genomics, 2018
2. Guo Y, Wang J, Sheng Q, Zhao S, Zhao YY, Lehmann, BD, The Landscape of small non-coding
RNAs in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer, Genes, 2018
3. Estimating Relative Mitochondria Copy Number Using High Throughput Sequencing Data, Zhang
P, Lehmann BD, Samuels DC, Zhao S, Zhao Y, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Genomics 2017
4. Wang J, Samuels DC, Shyr Y, Guo Y, StrandScript: evaluation of Illumina genotyping array
design and strand correction, Bioinformatics, 2017
5. LI CI, Zhao Y, Samuels DC, Guo Y, Power and Sample Size Calculations for High Throughput
Sequencing Based Experiments, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2017
6. Guo Y, Zhao S, Sheng Q, Samuels DC, Shyr Y, The Discrepancy among Single Nucleotide Variants
Detected by DNA and RNA High Throughput Sequencing Data, BMC Genomics, 2017
7. Zhao S, Jing W, Samuels DC, Sheng Q, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Strategies for Processing and Quality
Control of Illumina Genotyping Arrays, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2017
8. Guo Y, Dai Y, Yu H, Zhao S, Samuels DC, Shyr Y, Improvements and Impacts of GRCh38 Human
Reference on High Throughput Sequencing Data Analysis, Genomics, 2017
9. Guo Y, Strickland SA, Li S, Mohan S, Bosompem A, Zhao S, Sheng Q, Kim AS, MicroRNAs and
tRNA-derived fragments predict the transformation of myelodysplastic syndromes to acute
myeloid leukemia, Leukemia and Lymphoma, 2017
10. Guo Y, Vickers K, Xiong Y, Zhao S, Sheng Q, Zhang P, Zhou W, Flynn CR, Comprehensive
Evaluation of Extracellular Small RNA Isolation Methods from Serum in High Throughput
Sequencing, BMC Genomic, 2017
11. Wang J, Samuels DC, Zhao S, Xiang Y, Zhao YY, Guo Y, Current research on noncoding
Ribonucleic Acid (RNA), Genes, 2017
12. Zhao S, Samuels DC, Zhao Y, Guo Y, Tri-allelic Heteroplasmies, DNA-RNA Differences and Their
Polynucleotide Tract Associations in the Mitochondrial Genome, Genomics, 2017
13. Zhang P, Lehmann BD, Shyr Y, Guo Y, The Utilization of Formalin Fixed-Paraffin-Embedded
Specimens in High Throughput Genomic Studies, International Journal of Genomics, 2017
14. Guo Y, Zhang P, Sheng Q, Zhao S, Hackett TA, lncRNA expression in the auditory forebrain
during postnatal development, Gene, 2016, PMID 27544636
15. Guo Y, Warren Andersen S, Shu XO, Michailidou K, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Garcia-Closas M, Milne
RL, Schmidt MK, Chang-Claude J, Dunning A, Bojesen SE,Ahsan H, Aittomäki K, Andrulis
IL, Anton-Culver H, Arndt V, Beckmann MW, Beeghly-Fadiel A, Benitez J, Bogdanova
NV, Bonanni B, Børresen-Dale AL, Brand J, Brauch H, Brenner H, Brüning T, Burwinkel
B, Casey G, Chenevix-Trench G, Couch FJ, Cox A, Cross SS, Czene K, Devilee P, Dörk
T, Dumont M, Fasching PA, Figueroa J, Flesch-Janys D, Fletcher O, Flyger H, Fostira F, Gammon
M, Giles GG, Guénel P, Haiman CA, Hamann U, Hooning MJ, Hopper JL,Jakubowska A, Jasmine
F, Jenkins M, John EM, Johnson N, Jones ME, Kabisch M, Kibriya M, Knight JA, Koppert
LB, Kosma VM, Kristensen V, Le Marchand L, Lee E, Li J, Lindblom A, Luben R, Lubinski
J, Malone KE, Mannermaa A, Margolin S, Marme F, McLean C, Meijers-Heijboer H, Meindl
A, Neuhausen SL,Nevanlinna H, Neven P, Olson JE, Perez JI, Perkins B, Peterlongo P, Phillips
KA, Pylkäs K, Rudolph A, Santella R, Sawyer EJ, Schmutzler RK, Seynaeve C,Shah M, Shrubsole
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MJ, Southey MC, Swerdlow AJ, Toland AE, Tomlinson I, Torres D, Truong T, Ursin G, Van Der
Luijt RB, Verhoef S, Whittemore AS,Winqvist R, Zhao H, Zhao S, Hall P, Simard J, Kraft
P, Pharoah P, Hunter D, Easton DF, Zheng W, Body Mass Index Genetic Scores and Breast Cancer
Risk: Mendelian Randomization Analyses of Data from 145,000 women of European Descent,
PLOS Medicine, 2016, PMID: 27551723
16. Samuels DC, Wang J, Ye F, He J, Levinson RT, Sheng Q, Zhao S, Capro JA, Shyr Y, Zheng W,
Guo Y, Heterozygosity Ratio, a Robust Global Genomic Measure of Autozygosity and Its
Association with Height and Disease Risk, Genetics, 2016
17. Guo Y, Xiong Y, Sheng Q, Zhao S, Flynn CR, A microRNA expression-signature for human
NAFLD progression, Journal of Gastroenterology, 2016, PMID: 26874844, PMCID:
PMC4983265
18. Sheng Q, Vickers K, Zhao S, Wang J, Samuels DC, Koues O, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Multi-Perspective
Quality Control of Illumina RNA Sequencing Data Analysis, Briefings in Functional Genomics,
2016
19. Zhang P, Samuels DC, Wang J, Zhao S, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Mitochondria Single Nucleotide Variation
across Six Blood Cell Types, Mitochondrion, 2016
20. Zhang P, Samuels DC, Zhao S, Wang J, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Practicability of Mitochondrial
Heteroplasmy Detection through an Illumina Genotyping Array, Mitochondrion, 2016
21. Sheng Q, Zhao S, Li C, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Practicability of Detecting Somatic Point Mutation from
RNA High Throughput Sequencing Data, Genomics, 2016
22. Guo Y, Wu J, Zhao S, Ye F, Su Y, Clark T, Sheng Q, Lehmann B, Shu X, Cai Q, RNA sequencing
of Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Specimens for Gene Expression Quantification and Data
Mining, International Journal of Genomics, 2016
23. Peng D†, Guo Y†, Chen H, Zhao S, El-Rifai W, Integrated Analysis Reveals Complex Associations
between Genomics and Epigenomics in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, Scientific Reports, 2017
24. Zhang P, Samuels DC, Lehmann B, Sricker T, Pietenpol J, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Mitochondria Sequence
Mapping Strategies and Practicability of Mitochondria Variant Detection from Exome and RNA
sequencing Data, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2015
25. Guo Y, Bosompem A, Sheng Q, Mohan S, Erdogan B, Ye F, Vickers KC, Sheng Q, Zhao S, Li CI,
Su PF, Jagasia M, Strickland SA, Griffith E, Kim A, Transfer RNA Detection by Small RNA Deep
Sequencing and Disease Association with Myelodysplastic Syndromes, BMC Genomics, 2015,
PMID:26400237, PMCID:PMC4581457
26. Vickers KC, Roteta, LA, Dilks H, Han L, Guo Y, Mining diverse small RNA species in the deep
transcriptome, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2015, PMID: 25435401, PMCID: PMC4362530
27. Samuels D, Han L, Li J, Sheng Q, Clark T, Yu Shyr, Guo Y, “Finding the Lost Treasures in
exome sequencing data”, Trends in Genetics, 2013 PMID: 23972387, PMCID: PMC3926691
28. Guo Y, Jing, H, Zhao S, Wu H, Sheng Q, Zhong X, Samuels DC, Shyr Y, Long J, Illumina
human exome genotyping array clustering and quality control. Nature Protocols, 2014, PMID:
25321409
29. Han L, Vickers KC, Samuels DC, Guo Y, Alternative Applications for Distinct RNA Sequencing
Strategies, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2014, PMID:25246237
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30. Wang J, Raskin L, Samuels DC, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Genome Measures used for Quality Control are
Dependent on Gene Function and Ancestry, Bioinformatics, 2014, PMID: 25297068, PMCID:
PMC4308666
31. Guo Y, Li J, Li CI, Shyr Y, Samuels DC, “MitoSeek: extracting mitochondria information and
performing high throughput mitochondria sequencing analysis”, Bioinformatics, 2013, PMID:
23471301, PMCID: PMC4492415
32. Guo Y, Zhao S, Sheng Q, Ye F, Li J, Lehmann, B, Pietenpol J, Samuels DC, Shyr Yu, Multi-
Perspective Quality Control of Illumina Exome Sequencing Data Using QC3, Genomics, 2014,
PMID 24703969
33. Guo Y, Li C, Ye F, Shyr Y, Evaluation of Read Count Based RNAseq Analysis Methods, BMC
Genomics. 2013, PMID: 24564449, PMCID: PMC4092879
34. Ye. F, Samuels, DC, Clark T, Guo, Y, High-Throughput Sequencing in Mitochondrial DNA
Research Mitochondrion. Mitochondrion, 2014, PMID: 24859348, PMCID: 4149223
35. Guo Y, Sheng Q, Ye F, Clark T, Samuels DC, “Three-Stage Quality Control Strategies for DNA
Sequencing Data”, Briefing in Bioinformatics, 2013 Sep 24. PMID: 24067931
36. Guo Y, Sheng Q, Li J, Ye F, Samuels DC, Shyr Y, Large scale comparison of gene expression
levels by microarrays and RNAseq using TCGA data, PloS ONE 2013, PMID: 23977046,
PMCID: 3748065
37. Guo Y, Li J, Li CI, Long J, Samuels DC, Shyr Y, The effect of strand bias in Illumina short-read
sequencing data, BMC Genomics, 2012 Nov 24;13:666. PMID: 23176052, PMCID:
PMC3532123
38. Guo Y, Long J, Cai Q, He J, Zheng W, Li C, Exome sequencing generates high quality data in non-
target regions, BMC Genomics, 2012 May 20;13:194. PMID: 22607156, PMCID: PMC3416685
39. Guo Y, Cai Q, Samuels DC, Ye F, Long J, Li CI, Winther JF, Tawn EJ, Stovall M, Lähteenmäki
P, Malila N,Levy S, Shaffer C, Shyr Y, Shu XO, Boice JD Jr., “The use of next generation
sequencing technology to study the effect of radiation therapy on mitochondrial DNA mutation”,
Mutation Research, 2012 May 15;744(2):154-60. PMID: 22387842, PMCID: PMC3354959
40. Guo Y, Miyagi M, Zeng R, Sheng, Q, O18Quant: A Semi-automatic Strategy for Quantitative
Analysis of High-Resolution 16O/18O Labeled Data, Biomed Research International, 2014, PMID
24901003, PMID: 24901003, PMCID: PMC4037588
41. Guo Y, Zhao S, Lehmann B, Pietenpol J, Shyr Yu, Detection of internal exon deletion with exon
Del, BMC Bioinformatics, 2014, PMID: 25322818, PMCID: PMC4288651
42. Guo Y, Bosompem A, Zhong, X, Clark T, Shyr Y, Kim A, “A comparison of MicroRNA
Sequencing Reproducibility and Noise Reduction Using mirVana and TRIzol Isolation Methods”,
Int J Comput Biol Drug Des. 2014. PMID 24878723
43. Guo Y, Su P, Li C, Zhao S, Ye F, Flynn CR, Shyr Yu, Statistical Strategies for microRNAseq Batch
Effect Reduction, Transl Cancer Res 2014;3(3):260-265. doi: 10.3978/ j.issn.2218-
676X.2014.06.05, PMID: 25258704, PMCID: PMC4171948
44. Guo Y, Zhao S, Sheng Q, Shyr Y. MultiRankSeq: Multiperspective Approach for RNAseq
Differential Expression Analysis and Quality Control, Biomedical Research International, 2014,
PMID: 24977143, PMCID: PMC4058234
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45. Guo Y, Li C, Cai Q, Shyr Y, “Very Low level Heteroplasmy mtDNA Variations Are Inherited in
Humans”, Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 2014. PMID: 24377867
46. Guo Y, Zhao S, Sheng Q, Guo M, Stricker T, Lehmann B, Pietenpol J, Samuels DC, Shyr Yu,
RNAseq by Total RNA Library Identifies Additional RNAs Compared to Poly(A) RNA library,
Biomed Research International, 2015
47. Ye F, Samuels DC, Guo Y, Detection of Mitochondrial Mutations in Cancer by Next Generation
Sequencing, Next Generation Sequencing & Applications, 2014
48. Guo Y, Zhao S, Li C, Sheng Q, Shyr Y, RNAseqPS: A Web Tool for Estimating Sample Size
and Power for RNAseq experiment, Cancer Informatics, 2014
49. Zhao S†, Guo Y†, Sheng Q, Shyr Y, Advanced Heat Map and Clustering Analysis Using
Heatmap3, Biomed Research International, 2014, PMID: 4124803
50. Guo Y, Sheng Q, Li J, Lehmann B, Bauer J, Pietenpol J, Shyr Y, “Comparative Study of Exome
Copy Number Variation Estimation Tools Using Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization as
Control”, Biomed Res Int 2013; 2013:915636. PMID: 24303503, PMCID: PMC3835197
51. Guo Y, Cai Q, Li C, Li J, Courtney R, Li CI, Zheng W, Long J, “An evaluation of allele frequency
estimation accuracy using pooled sequencing data”, Int J Comput Biol Drug Des, 2013;6(4):279-
93. PMID: 24088264, PMCID PMC4108916
52. Guo Y, Li J, Li CI, Shyr Y, “Evaluation of allele frequency estimation using pooled sequencing
data simulation”, ScientificWorldJournal 2013, 2013:895496. PMID: 23476151, PMCID:
PMC3582166
53. Guo Y, Ye F, Tang J, "Phylogenetic reconstruction with disk-covering and Bayesian approaches,"
BioInformatics and BioEngineering, BIBE 2008.
54. Liu Q†, Guo Y†, Jiang L, Long J, Zhang B, Shyr Y, “Steps to ensure accuracy in genotype and
SNP calling from Illumina sequencing data”, BMC Genomics, 2012, PMID: 23281772, PMCID:
PMC3535703
Peer-reviewed publications as co-author
55. Wang M, Chen DD, Cao G, Zhao H, Liu D, Vaziri N, Guo Y, Zhao YY, Novel inhibitors of the
cellular RAS components, Poricoic acids, target Smad3 phosphorylation and Wnt/β-catenin
pathway against renal fibrosis, British Journal of Pharmacology, 2018
56. Chen L, Su W, Che H, Chen DD, Wang M, Guo Y, Zhao YY, Proteomics for Biomarker
Identification and Clinical Application in Kidney Disease, Advances in Clinical Chemistry, 2018
57. Ma D, Tu C, Sheng Q, Yang Y, Kan Z, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Scott IC, Lou X, Dynamics of Zebrafish
Heart Regeneration Using an HPLC-ESI-MS/MS Approach, Journal of Proteome Research, 2018
58. Wang M, Chen DD, Chen L, Zhao H, Liu D, Zhang ZH, Vaziri N, Guo Y, Cao G, Zhao YY, Novel
RAS inhibitors poricoic acid ZG and poricoic acid ZH attenuate renal fibrosis via Wnt/β-catenin
pathway and targeted phosphorylation smad3 signaling, Journal of Agricultural and Food
Chemistry, 2018
59. Idrees K, Padmanabhan C, Liu E, Guo Y, Gonzalez RS, Dahlman K, Berlin J, Shi C, Frequent
BRAF Mutations Suggest a Novel Oncogenic Driver in High-Grade Colonic Neuroendocrine
Carcinoma, Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2017
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60. Greenplate A, Wang K, Tripathi R, Palma N, Ali S, Stephens P, Miller V, Shyr Y, Guo Y, Reddy N,
Kozhaya L, Unutmaz D, Chen X, Irish J, Dave, U, Genomic profiling of T cell neoplasms reveals
frequent JAK1 and JAK3 mutations with clonal evasion from targeted therapies, Journal of
Precision Oncology 2017
61. Richmond BW, Guo Y, Yu C, Kendall PL, Mason WR, Cogan JD, Loyd JE, GWAS of 58
individuals with fibrosing mediastinitis reveals possible underlying genetic susceptibility, Am J
Respir Crit Care Medicine, 2017
62. Spurlock CF, Shaginurova G, Tossberg JT, Hester JD, Chapman N, Guo Y, Crooke PS, Profiles of
long noncoding RNAs in human naïve and memory T cells, Journal of Immunology, 2017
63. Panaccione A, Guo Y, Yarbrough W, Ivanov S, Expression Profiling Of Clinical Specimens
Supports The Existence Of Neural Progenitor-Like Stem Cells In Basal Breast Cancers, Clinical
Breast Cancer, 2017, PMID: 28216417
64. Bing F, Lin Y, Zhao L, Guo Y, Friedman B, Xia R, Hu F, Liu C, Tang J, Reconstructing Yeasts
Phylogenies and Ancestors from Whole Genome Data, Scientific Report, 2017, PMID: 29123238
65. Durbin MD, Cadar AG, Williams CH, Guo Y, Bichell DP, Su Y, Hong, CC, Hypoplastic Left Heart
Syndrome Sequencing Reveals a Novel NOTCH1 Mutation in a Family with Single Ventricle
Defects, Pediatric Cardiology, 2017, PMID: 28608148
66. Jovanovic B, Sheng Q, Seitz RS, Lawrence KD, Morris SW, Thomas LR, Hout DR, Schweitzer
BL, Guo Y, Pietenpol JA, Lehmann BD, Comparison of triple-negative breast cancer molecular
subtyping using RNA from matched fresh-frozen versus formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue,
BMC Cancer, 2017, PMID: 28376728
67. Oelsner KT, Guo Y, To SB, Non AL, Barkin S, Maternal BMI as a predictor of methylation of
obesity-related genes in saliva samples from preschool-age Hispanic children at-risk for obesity,
BMC Genomics, 2017, PMID: 28068899
68. Ma Y, Cheng Z, Liu J, Torre-Healy L, Lathia JD, Nkano I, Guo Y, Thompson RC, Freeman ML,
Wang J, Inhibition of farnesyltransferase potentiates NOTCH-targeted therapy against
glioblastoma stem cells, Stem Cell Reports, 2017, PMID: 29198824
69. Absi TS, Galindo CL, Gumina RJ, Atkinson J, Guo Y, Thomasek K, Sawyer DB, Byrne JG,
Kaiser CA, Shah AS, Su YR, Petracek M, Altered ADAMTS5 Expression and Versican
Proteolysis: a possible molecular mechanism in Barlow’s Disease, the Annals of Thoracic
Surgery, 2017, PMID: 29248417
70. Ma Y, Wang L, Neitzel L, Loganathan S, Tang N, Emily C, Guo Y, Knapp S, Beauchamp R, Lee
E, Wang J, The MAPK Pathway Regulates Intrinsic Resistance to BET Inhibitors in Colorectal
Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research, 2017, PMID: 27678457
71. Su P, Mau YL, Guo Y, Li CI, Liu Q, Boice J, Shyr Y, Bivariate Poisson models with varying offsets:
An application to the paired mitochondrial DNA dataset, Statistical Applications in Genetics and
Molecular Biology, 2017, PMID: 28248637
72. Raskin L, Guo Y, Du L, Clendenning M, Rosty C, Colon Cancer Family Registry (CCFR), Lindor
NM, Gruber SB, Buchanan DD, Targeted sequencing of established and candidate colorectal cancer
genes in the Colon Cancer Family Registry Cohort, Oncotarget, 2017, PMID: 29212164
73. Blum A, Venkitachalam S, Guo Y, Kieber-Emmons AM, Ravi L, Chandar AK, Iyer PG, Canto MI,
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Wang JS, Shaheen NJ, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Markowitz SD, Willis JE, Shyr Y, Chak A, Varadan V,
Guda K, RNA Sequencing Identifies Transcriptionally Viable Gene Fusions in Esophageal
Adenocarcinomas, Cancer Research, 2016, PMID: 27503924
74. Loganathan, S, Tang N, Fleming J, Ma Y, Guo Y, Borinstein S, Chiang C, Wang J, BET
bromodomain inhibitors suppress EWS-FLI1-dependent transcription and the IGF1 autocrine
mechanism in Ewing sarcoma, Oncotarget 2016, PMID: 27259270
75. Eilertson B, Maruri F, Balckman A, Guo Y, Herrera M, van der Heijden Y, Shyr Y, Sterling T, A
Novel Resistance Mutation in eccC5 of the ESX-5 Secretion System Confers Ofloxacin Resistance
in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2016, PMID: 27261264
76. Rabacal W, Pabbisetty SK, Hoek K, Cendron D, Guo Y, Maseda D, Sebzda E, Transcription factor
KLF2 regulates homeostatic NK cell proliferation and survival, PNAS, 2016, PMID: 27114551
77. Panaccione A, Zhang Yi, Mi Y, Mitani Y, Guo Y, Prasad M, McDonald H, El-Naggar AK,
Yarbrough W, Ivanov S, Chromosomal Abnormalities and Molecular Landscape of Metastasizing
Mucinous Salivary Adenocarcinoma, Oral Oncology, PMID: 28249646
78. Strugill, E, Norris, S, Guo Y, Ohi R, Kinesin-5 inhibitor resistance is driven by kinesin-12, Journal
of Cell Biology, 2016, PMID: 27091450
79. NOTCH1 and SOX10 are Essential for Proliferation and Radiation Resistance of Cancer Stem-like
Cells in Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, Panaccione A, Chang MT, Carbone BE, Guo Y, Moskaluk CA,
Virk RK, Chirboga L, Prasad ML, Judson B, Mehra S, Yarbrough WG, Ivanov SV, Clinical Cancer
Research, 2016, PMID: 27084744
80. McCann TS, Guo Y, McDonald H, Tansey W, Antagonistic roles for Asr1 and Ubp3 in subtelomeric
gene silencing PNAS, 2016
81. Herington J, Guo Y, Reese J, Paria B, Gene profiling the window of implantation: microarray
analyses from human and rodent models, Journal of Reproductive Health and Medicine, 2016
82. Flynn CR, Albaugh VL, Cai S, Cheung-Flynn J, Williams PE, Brucker RM, Bordenstein SR, Guo
Y, Wasserman DH, Abumrad NN, Bile Diversion to the Distal Small Intestine has comparable
metabolic benefits to bariatric surgery, Nature Communications, 2015, PMID:26197299, PMCID:
PMC4518285
83. Pickup M, Hover L, Guo Y, Gorska A, Chytil A, Novitskiy S, Moses H, Owens P, Deletion of
the BMP receptor BMPR1a impairs mammary tumor formation and metastasis, Oncotarget 2015
PMID: 26274893
84. Kavanaugh G, Zhao R, Guo Y, Mohni KN, Glick G, Lacy ME, Hutson MS, Ascano M, Cortez D,
Enhancer of Rudimentary Homolog affects the replication stress response through regulation of
RNA processing, Molecular Cell Biology, PMID: 26100022
85. Carroll C, Hunley T, Guo Y, Cortez D, A Novel Splice Site Mutation in SMARCAL1 Results in
Aberrant Exon Definition in a Child with Schimke Immunoosseous Dysplasia, American Journal
of Medical Genetics, 2015. PMID: 25943327
86. Spurlock CF, Tossberg, JT, Guo Y, Sriram S, Crooke SP, Aune TM, Expression and functions of
long noncoding RNAs during human T helper cell differentiation, Nature Communications, 2015
PMID: 25621826, PMCID: PMC4333215
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87. Spurlock CF, Tossberg, JT, Guo, Y, Sriram S, Crooke PS, Aune TM, Defective structural RNA
processing in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, Genome Biology, PMID: 25885816,
PMC4403723
88. TCGA HNSCC work group, Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck
squamous cell carcinomas, Nature, 2015, PMID: 25631445
89. Goodings C, Smith E, Mathia E, Elliott, N, Cleveland S, Tripathi R, Layer J, Chen X, Guo Y,
Shyr Yu, Hamid R, Du Y, Dave, UP, Hhex is required at multiple stages of adult hematopoietic
stem and progenitor cell differentiation, Stem Cells, 2015, PMID: 25968920
90. Hoek K, Samir P, Niu X, Howard LM, Prasad N, Galassie A, Liu Q, Allos TM, Guo Y, Shyr Y,
Levy SE, Joyce S, Edwards KM, Link AJ, A Cell-based Systems Biology Assessment of Human
Blood to Monitor Immune Responses Following Influenza Vaccination, PLOS ONE, 2015, PMID
26706537
91. Di Salvo TG, Guo Y, Su YR, Clark T, Brittain E, Absi T, Maltais S, Hemnes A, Right ventricular
long noncoding RNA expression in human heart failure, Pulmonary Circulation, 2015, PMID:
25992278
92. Hackett TA, Guo Y, Clause A, Hackett NJ, Garbett K, Zhang P, Poley Daniel, Mirnics K,
Transcriptional maturation of the mouse auditory forebrain, BMC Genomics, 2015, PMID:
26271746
93. Zhang B, Jia WH, Matsuda K, Kweon SS, Matsuo K, Xiang YB, Shin A, Jee SH, Kim DH, Cai
Q, Long J, Shi J, Wen W, Yang G, Zhang Y, Li C, Li B, Guo Y, Ren Z, Ji BT, Pan ZZ,
Takahashi A, Shin MH, Matsuda F, Gao YT, Oh JH, Kim S, Ahn YO, Chan A, Chang-Claude J,
Slattery M, Gruber S, Schumacher F, Stenzel S, Casey G, Kim HR, Jeong JY, Park JW, Li HL,
Hosono S, Cho SH, Kubo M, Shu XO, Zeng YX, Zheng W, Genome-wide association study in
East Asians identifies six novel risk loci for colorectal cancer, Nature Genetics, 2014, PMCID:
PMC3679924
94. Parfenov M, Pedamallu CS, Gehlenborg N, Freeman SS, Danilova L, Bristow CA, Lee S,
Hadjipanayis AG, Ivanova EV, Wilkerson MD, Protopopov A, Yang L, Seth S, Song X, Tang J,
Ren X, Zhang J, Pantazi A, Santoso N, Xu AW, Mahadeshwar H, Wheeler DA, Haddad RI, Jung
J, Ojesina AI, Issaeva N, Yarbrough WG, Hayes DN, Grandis JR, El-Naggar, Meyerson M, Park
PJ, Chin Lynda, Seidman JG, Hammerman PS, Kucherlapati R, the Cancer Genome Atlas
Network, Characterization of HPV and host genome interactions in primary head and neck
cancers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014, 111(43):15544-15549. PMID:25313082, PMCID:
PMC4217452
95. Zhuang G, Song W, Amato K, Hwang Y, Lee K, Boothby M, Ye F, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Lin L, Carbone
D, Brantley-Sieders D, Chen J, “Effects of Cancer-Associated EPHA3 Mutations on Lung Cancer”,
JNCI, 2012 Aug 8;104(15):1182-97. PMID: 22829656, PMCID: PMC3611812
96. Powell AE, Wang Y, Li Y, Poulin EJ, Means AL, Washington MK, Higginbotham JN, Juchheim
A, Prasad N,Levy SE, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Aronow BJ, Haigis KM, Franklin JL, Coffey RJ., The pan-
ErbB negative regulator Lrig1 is an intestinal stem cell marker that functions as a tumor suppressor,
Cell, 2012 Mar 30;149(1):146-58. PMID: 22464327, PMCID: PMC3563328
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97. Saraswati S, Guo Y, Atkinson J, Young P, Prolonged hypoxia induces MCT4 expression in
MSCs resulting in a secretome that is deleterious to cardiovascular repair, Stem Cells, 2014
98. Goodings C, Tripathi R, Cleveland SM, Elliott N, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Dave, UP, Enforced
expression of E47 has differential effects on Lmo2-induced T-cell leukemias, Leukemia
Research, 2014, PMID 25499232
99. Sheng Q, Li R, Dai J, Li Q, Su Z, Guo Y, Li C, Shyr Y, Zeng R, Removing isobaric-related ions
significantly improves the peptide/protein identification sensitivity of high resolution tandem
mass spectrometry data, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2014, PMID: 25435543
100. Weeke P, Mosley JD, Hanna D, Shaffer C, Delaney JT, Wells QS, Van Driest S, Karnes JH,
Ingram C, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Norris K, Kannankeril P, Ramirez AH, Smith J, Mardis ER,
Nickerson D, George AL Jr., Roden DM, Exome Sequencing Implicates an Increased Burden of
Rare Potassium Channel Variants in the Risk of Drug-Induced Long QT Interval Syndrome,
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2014, PMID: 24561134
101. Cleveland SM, Goodings C, Tripathi RM, Elliott N, Thompson MA, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Dave, UP,
LMO2 induces T-cell leukemia with epigenetic deregulation of CD4, Experimental Hematology,
2014, PMID: 24792354
102. Mosley JD, Van Driest SL, Larkin EK, Weeke PE, Witte JS, Wells QS, Karnes JH, Guo Y,
Bastarache L, Olson LM, McCarty CA, Pacheco JA, Jarvik GP, Larson EB, Crosslin DR, Kullo
IJ, Tromp G, Kuivaniemi H, Carey DJ, Ritchie MD, Denny JC, Roden DM, Mechanistic
Phenotypes: An Aggregative Phenotyping Strategy to Identify Disease Mechanisms Using
GWAS Data, PLOS ONE, 2013. PMID: 24349080, PMCID: PMC3861317
103. Ivanov SV, Panaccione A, Brown B, Guo Y, Moskaluk CA, Wick MJ, Brown JL, Ivanova
AV, Issaeva N, El-Naggar AK, Yarbrough WG, “TrkC signaling is activated in adenoid cystic
carcinoma and requires NT-3 to stimulate invasive behavior”, Oncogene, 2013 Aug 8;32(32):3698-
710. PMID: 23027130
104. Li CI, Su P, Guo, Y, Shyr Y, Sample size calculation for differential expression analysis of RNA-
seq data under Poisson distribution, Int J Comput Biol Drug Des, 2013 6(4), 358-375, PMID:
24088268, PMCID: PMC3874726
105. Lu X, An H, Jin R, Zou M, Guo Y, Su P-F, Liu D, Shyr Y, Yarbrough WG, “PPM1A is a RelA
phosphatase with tumor suppressor-like activity”, OncoGene, 2013 Jul 1. PMID: 23812431,
PMCID: PMC3897569
106. Yan L, Womack B, Wotton D, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Dave U, Li C, Hiebert S, Brandt S, and Hamid
R, “Tgif1 regulates the quiescence and self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells”, Mol Cell Biol,
2013 Dec;33(24):4824-33. PMID: 24100014, PMCID: PMC3889555
107. Ivanov S, Panaccione A, Nonaka D, Prasad M, Boyd K, Brown B, Guo Y, Sewell A, Yarbrough
W, “Diagnostic SOX10 Gene Signatures in Salivary Adenoid Cystic and Breast Basal-like
Carcinomas”, Br J Cancer, 2013 Jul 23; 109(2): 444–451. PMID: 23799842, PMCID:
PMC3721393
108. Savani M, Guo Y, Carbone DP, Csiki I, “Sonic hedgehog pathway expression in non-small cell
lung cancer”, Ther Adv Med Oncol, 2012 Sep; 4(5): 225-33. PMID: 22942905, PMCID:
PMC3424496
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109. Yu DS, Zhao R, Hsu EL, Cayer J, Ye F, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Cortez D, “Cyclin-dependent kinase 9-
cyclin K functions in the replication stress response”, EMBO Rep, 2010 Nov;11(11):876-82. PMID:
20930849, PMCID: PMC2966956
110. Hatakeyama H, Cheng H, Wirth P, Counsell A, Marcrom S, Wood C, Pohlmann P, Gilbert J,
Murphy B, Yarbrough W, Wheeler D, Harari P, Guo Y, Shyr Y, Slebos R, Chung CH, “Regulation
of heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor by miR-212 and acquired cetuximab-resistance in head
and neck squamous cell carcinoma. PLoS ONE, 2010 Sep 13;5(9):e12702. PMID: 20856931,
PMCID: PMC2938338
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