Masaki Mori

The paper investigates the tumor-suppressive role of c-MAF in colorectal cancer by analyzing its expression and effects in mouse models and human samples.

A large-scale GWAS in 212,453 Japanese individuals identified 45 novel susceptibility loci for 22 diseases, highlighting the importance of non-European population studies.

This study uses blastocyst complementation to model human hereditary pancreatitis in mice, showing that PRSS1 mutations lead to trypsin activation, mimicking the human disease phenotype.

This study shows the Lin28a/let-7 pathway regulates Hox gene expression during axial patterning by modulating Polycomb complex occupancy in vertebrates.