Publications

Zheng Y , Ahmad K, Henikoff S (2025). Total whole-arm chromosome losses predict malignancy in human cancer. PNAS.

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Henikoff S, Zheng Y , Paranal R, Xu Y, Greene J, Henikoff J, Russell Z, Szulzewsky F, Thirimanne H, Kugel S, Holland E, Ahmad K (2025). ⭐⭐⭐RNA Polymerase II at histone genes predicts outcome in human cancer⭐⭐⭐. Science.

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Fiorenza S, Zheng Y , Purushe J, Bock T, Sarthy J, Janssens D, Sheih A, Kimble E, Kirchmeier D, Phi T, Gauthier J, Hirayama A, Riddell S, Wu Q, Gottardo R, Maloney D, Yang J, Henikoff S, Turtle C (2024). Histone marks identify novel transcription factors that parse CAR-T subset-of-origin, clinical potential and expansion. Nature Communications.

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Fiorenza S, Zheng Y , Sarthy J, Sheih A, Kimble E, Kirchmeier D, Janssens D, Phi T, Gauthier J, Hirayama A, Wu Q, Gottardo R, Riddell S, Maloney D, Henikoff S, Turtle C (2023). Histone Methylation Mark Analyses Distinguish Carts Manufactured from Distinct Sources and Uncover Novel Transcription Factors Associated with In Vivo Function of Carts after Infusion into DLBCL Patients That Are Not Identified By RNA-Seq. Blood.

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Savonen C, Zheng Y , Henikoff S, Ahmad K (2023). CUT&RUN and CUT&Tag. Choosing Genomics Tools.

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Germanos AA, Arora S, Zheng Y , Goddard ET, Coleman IM, Ku AT, Wilkinson S, Amezquita RA, Zager M, Long A, Yang YC, Bielas J, Gottardo R, Ghajar C, Nelson P, Sowalsky A, Setty M, Hsieh A (2022). Defining cellular population dynamics at single cell resolution during prostate cancer progression. eLife.

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Chour T, Hirayama A, Zheng Y , Sheih A, Zhuang S, Wilson A, Wu V, Gottardo R, Turtle C, Gardner R, Newell E (2022). Cellular profiling of leukapheresis and infusion products of patients enrolled in CD19 CAR T cell therapy identifies biomarkers associated with clinical outcomes. Cancer Research.

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Cheng J, Clayton J, Acemel R, Zheng Y , Taylor R, Keles S, Harley J, Quail E, Gómez-Skarmeta J, Ulgiati D (2022). Regulatory architecture of the RCA gene cluster captures an intragenic TAD boundary and enhancer elements in B cells. Frontiers in Immunology.

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Shen S, Zheng Y , Keles S (2022). scGAD: single-cell gene associating domain scores for exploratory analysis of scHi-C data. Bioinformatics.

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Zheng Y , Shen S, Keles S (2022). Normalization and de-noising of single-cell Hi-C data with BandNorm and scVI-3D. Genome Biology.

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Hirayama AV, Zheng Y , Dowling MR, Sheih A, Phi TD, Kirchmeier DR, Chucka AW, Gauthier J, Maloney DG, Gottardo R, Turtle CJ (2021). Long-Term Follow-up and Single-Cell Multiomics Characteristics of Infusion Products in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Treated with CD19 CAR-T Cells. Blood.

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Zheng Y , Zhou P, Keles S (2021). FreeHi-C Spike-in Simulations for Benchmarking Differential Chromatin Interaction Detection. Methods.

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Wu S, Furlan S, Mihalas A, Kaya-Okur H, Feroze H, Emerson S, Zheng Y , Carson K, Cimino P, Keene C, Holland E, Sarthy J, Gottardo R, Ahmad K, Henikoff S, Patel A (2021). Single-cell CUTTag analysis of chromatin modifications in differentiation and tumor progression. Nature Biotechnology.

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Huang K, Wu Y, Shin J, Zheng Y , Siahpirani A, Lin Y, Ni Z, Chen J, You J, Keleş S, Wang D, Roy S, Lu Q (2021). Transcriptome-wide transmission disequilibrium analysis identifies novel risk genes for autism spectrum disorder. PLOS Genetics.

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Vitanza N, Biery M, Myers C, Ferguson E, Zheng Y , Girard E, Przystal J, Park G, Noll A, Pakiam F, Winter C, Morris S, Sarthy J, Cole B, Leary S, Crane C, Lieberman N, Mueller S, Nazarian J, Gottardo R, Brusniak M, Mhyre A, Olson J (2021). Optimal therapeutic targeting by HDAC inhibition in biopsy-derived treatment-naïve diffuse midline glioma models. Neuro-Oncology.

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Liao R, Zheng Y , Liu X, Zhang Y, Seim G, Tanimura N, Wilson G, Hematti P, Coon J, Fan J, Xu J, Keleş S, Bresnick E (2020). Discovering How Heme Controls Genome Function Through Heme-omics. Cell Reports.

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The ENCODE Project Consortium, Snyder MP, Gingeras TR, Moore JE, Weng Z, Gerstein MB, Ren B, Hardison RC, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Graveley BR, Feingold EA, Pazin MJ (2020). Perspectives on ENCODE. Nature.

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The ENCODE Project Consortium, Admin (2020). Expanded Encyclopedias of DNA Elements in the Human and Mouse Genomes. Nature.

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Zheng Y , Keleş S (2020). FreeHi-C simulates high-fidelity Hi-C data for benchmarking and data augmentation. Nature Methods.

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Zheng Y , Ahmad K, Henikoff K (2020). CUTTag Data Processing and Analysis Tutorial. Protocols.io.

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Soukup AA, Zheng Y , Mehta C, Liu P, Hofmann I, Zhou Y, Zhang J, Choi K, Johnson KD, Keles S, Bresnick EH (2019). Single-nucleotide human disease mutation inactivates a blood-regenerative GATA2 enhancer. Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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Zheng Y , Ay F, Keleş S (2019). Generative modeling of multi-mapping reads with mHi-C advances analysis of Hi-C studies. eLife.

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Tanimura N, Liao R, Wilson GM, Dent MR, Cao M, Burstyn JN, Hematti P, Liu X, Zhang Y, Zheng Y , Keleş S, Xu J, Coon J, Bresnick E (2018). GATA/Heme Multi-omics Reveals a Trace Metal-dependent Cellular Differentiation Mechanism. Developmental Cell.

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Zeng X, Li B, Welch R, Rojo C, Zheng Y , Dewey CN, Keleş S (2015). Perm-seq: Mapping Protein-DNA Interactions in Segmental Duplication and Highly Repetitive Regions of Genomes with Prior-enhanced Read Mapping. PLOS Computational Biology.

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