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Yaohua Yang

University of Virginia Cancer CenterORCID 0000-0002-3815-7172Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 4 Approach:statistical model· 4 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 3 Approach:benchmark study· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 2 Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Research Focus:fine-mapping· 2 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintJun 12, 2026

Deconvolution-based cell-type specific DNA methylation-wide and transcriptome-wide association studies identify risk CpG sites and genes associated with colorectal cancer risk

Qing Li, Lili Xu, Jifeng Wang…·Xingyi Guo

The paper uses deconvolution to identify cell-type-specific DNA methylation and gene expression associations with colorectal cancer risk, finding 178 CpG sites and 68 genes across 26 new loci.

DOI 10.64898/2026.06.11.26355460

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Genetic & Genomic MedicineThe American Journal of Human GeneticsPeer-reviewedDec 2, 2025

Large-scale integration of omics and electronic health records to identify potential risk protein biomarkers and therapeutic drugs for cancer prevention

Qing Li, Qingyuan Song, Zhishan Chen…·Xingyi Guo

This study integrates large-scale omics and electronic health records to identify risk proteins and drugs for cancer prevention, finding 101 novel proteins and three drugs associated with reduced colorectal cancer risk.

4 citations

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintNov 5, 2023

Large-scale alternative polyadenylation (APA)-wide association studies to identify putative susceptibility genes in human common cancers

Xingyi Guo, Jie Ping, Yaohua Yang…·Wei Zheng

The paper identifies 58 risk genes associated with common cancers by linking genetically predicted APA levels to cancer risk using GWAS data.

DOI 10.1101/2023.11.05.23298125

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintAug 9, 2023

Integrating genome and epigenome data to identify tissue-specific DNA methylation biomarkers for cancer risk

Yaohua Yang, Yaxin Chen, Shuai Xu…·Jirong Long

The paper identifies tissue-specific DNA methylation biomarkers for cancer risk by integrating genome and epigenome data from the GTEx consortium and GWAS data.

2 citations

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