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Lei Peng

National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

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Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Distilling Direct Effects via Conditional Differential Gene Expression Analysis

Jiaqi Gu, Andrew J. Skelton, James Staley, Pierce Oran Popson, Lei Peng, Xiaoyu Song, Juliet K. Knowles, Zihuai He

The paper introduces conditional differential gene expression analysis to distinguish direct from mediated gene effects in RNA sequencing data, finding most differentially expressed genes are not directly causal.

bioRxiv · Sep 29, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics

Tadr Is an Axonal Histidine Transporter Required for Visual Neurotransmission in Drosophila

Yongchao Han, Lei Peng, Tao Wang

The paper identifies TADR as a histidine transporter essential for histamine synthesis and visual neurotransmission in Drosophila.

eLife · Mar 1, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience