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Robert C. Wirka

Stanford MedicineORCID 0000-0001-9131-9508Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 5 Approach:statistical model· 5 Assay:ATAC-seq· 3 Research Focus:differential expression· 3 Organism:human· 3 Assay:scRNA-seq· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:mouse· 2

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Paul P. ChengiD· 5 shared Quanyi ZhaoiD· 5 shared Thomas QuertermousiD· 5 shared Trieu NguyeniD· 5 shared Juyong Brian KimiD· 4 shared Milos PjaniciD· 3 shared Ramendra Krishna KunduiD· 3 shared Anshul Bharat KundajeiD· 2 shared

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GenomicsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedMar 17, 2026

Vascular smooth muscle cell atherosclerosis trajectories characterized at single cell resolution identify causal transcriptomic and epigenomic mechanisms of disease risk

Daniel Yuhang Li, Soumya Kundu, Paul P. Cheng…·Thomas Quertermous

The paper characterizes atherosclerosis trajectories in vascular smooth muscle cells using single-cell data and identifies causal transcriptomic and epigenomic mechanisms of CAD risk.

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mousescRNA-seq

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Cell BiologyCell GenomicsPeer-reviewedOct 15, 2025

A cell and transcriptome atlas of human arterial vasculature

Quanyi Zhao, Albert J Pedroza, Disha Sharma…·Paul P. Cheng

This study creates a transcriptomic and spatial atlas of human arterial segments, revealing cell-type and segment-specific heterogeneity linked to vascular disease risk.

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humanscRNA-seq

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GenomicsGenome biologyPeer-reviewedJun 8, 2020

Quantitative trait loci mapped for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility and chromosomal looping in coronary artery smooth muscle cells reveal molecular mechanisms of coronary disease loci

Quanyi Zhao, Michael Dacre, Trieu Nguyen…·Thomas Quertermous

The paper maps QTLs for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility, and chromosomal looping in coronary artery smooth muscle cells and links them to CAD GWAS loci.

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humanChIP-seq

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GenomicsCirculationPeer-reviewedMay 22, 2020

The environment-sensing aryl-hydrocarbon receptor inhibits the chondrogenic fate of modulated smooth muscle cells in atherosclerotic lesions

Juyong Brian Kim, Quanyi Zhao, Trieu Nguyen…·Thomas Quertermous

The paper investigates the role of AHR in atherosclerosis by showing it suppresses chondrogenic fate of modulated smooth muscle cells in lesions.

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mousebulk RNA-seq

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintOct 13, 2019

LncRNA de novo discovery reveals noncoding RNAs as major molecular mechanism associating coronary artery disease GWAS variants with causal genes to confer disease risk

Milos Pjanic, Quanyi Zhao, Paul P. Cheng…·Thomas Quertermous

The paper identifies noncoding RNAs as key mediators linking coronary artery disease GWAS variants to causal genes.

DOI 10.1101/785980

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