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Assaf C. Bester

Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyORCID 0000-0002-5490-2187Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Assay:CRISPR screen· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Dvir AraniD· 2 shared Tahleel Ali-Nasser· 2 shared Carolina Khoury· 1 shared David MeiriiD· 1 shared Joshua M. HazaniD· 1 shared Miryam SteinbergiD· 1 shared Nisrine Lahoud-Jeries· 1 shared Ornit Bhonkar· 1 shared

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Paralogous lncRNAs CYTOR and MORRBID share a conserved trans acting function in MEK ERK signaling

Tahleel Ali-Nasser, Carolina Khoury, Susie Altalef Mishaan, Ornit Bhonkar, Zhongyang Lin, Youfen Qian, Nisrine Lahoud-Jeries, Dvir Aran, Assaf C. Bester

The paper shows CYTOR and MORRBID lncRNAs share a conserved trans-acting function in MEK-ERK signaling, despite transcriptional divergence.

bioRxiv · Jul 24, 2026 · PreprintGenetics

Integration of transcription regulation and functional genomic data reveals lncRNA SNHG6's role in hematopoietic differentiation and leukemia

Joshua M. Hazan, Raziel Amador, Tahleel Ali-Nasser, Tamar Lahav, Stav Roni Shotan, Miryam Steinberg, Ziv Cohen, Dvir Aran, David Meiri, Yehuda G. Assaraf, Roderic Guigó, Assaf C. Bester

The paper develops a machine learning model to identify functional lncRNAs and validates SNHG6's role in hematopoietic differentiation and leukemia.

Journal of Biomedical Science · Feb 28, 2024Peer-reviewedGenetics