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Yujing Jan Heng

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterORCID 0000-0002-8930-817XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genomics· 2 Biochemistry· 1

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1

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Frank John SlackiD· 2 shared Alexander GuseviD· 1 shared Alice Cristina RodriguesiD· 1 shared Andrew D. MirankeriD· 1 shared Barbara Sardella· 1 shared Bianca R. P. BrowniD· 1 shared Cristina Stewart Bittencourt BogsaniD· 1 shared David JouiD· 1 shared

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintAug 17, 2026

African Green Monkey Cerebrospinal Fluid miRNome Captures Conserved miRNAs Relevant to Human Neurodegenerative Disease

Sara Dzigurski, Rashid Al-Abri, Xiaoting Li…·Bianca R. P. Brown

The paper characterizes the miRNome of African green monkey cerebrospinal fluid, identifying conserved miRNAs relevant to human neurodegenerative diseases and highlighting species-specific variations.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.07.743104

non-human primatestatistical model

BiochemistrybioRxivPreprintJul 20, 2026

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MicroRNA spatial profiling for assessing drug efficacy in BRCA1-related triple-negative breast tumors

Omar N. Mohd, Lin Wang, Barbara Sardella…·Patrick S. Doyle

Latent Dirichlet allocation topics from hydrogel-array spatial miRNA maps of day-10 treated K14-Cre Brca1/Trp53 mouse breast tumors separated olaparib-sensitive (miR-21-dominated) from resistant (let-7a-dominated) tumors.

DOI 10.64898/2026.01.12.698824

mousespatial transcriptomics

GenomicsGenome MedicinePeer-reviewedFeb 10, 2022

Somatic mutational profiles and germline polygenic risk scores in human cancer

Yuxi Liu, Alexander Gusev, Yujing Jan Heng…·Peter Kraft

This study examines associations between somatic mutational profiles and germline polygenic risk scores in 12 cancer types, finding 17 significant links after correction.

30 citations

humanwhole-exome sequencing