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Sarah R. Athans

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer CenterORCID 0000-0003-1079-0010Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Assay:ChIP-seq· 1 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Tumor SETDB1 expression predicts worse overall survival for bladder cancer patients

Sarah R. Athans, Meegan Young, Han Yu, Bhavisha Doshi, Ellen Karasik, Shuhei Ueshima, Jia Fang, Anna Woloszynska‐Read

This study shows that high SETDB1 protein expression in bladder cancer is linked to shorter overall survival and specific tumor features.

bioRxiv · Oct 27, 2026 · PreprintCancer Biology

STAG2 Maintains Chromatin Compartmentalization and Represses Regulatory Element Contact to Promote Oncogenic Signaling in Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer

Sarah R. Athans, Jiaojiao Zhou, Xiaozhuo Liu, Eduardo Cortes Gomez, Bhavisha Doshi, Justine J. Jacobi, Aimee B. Stablewski, Sofía Lage-Vickers, Pablo Sanchis, Pía Valacco, Dean G. Tang, Geraldine Gueron, Tao Liu, Anna Woloszynska‐Read

This study identifies STAG2's role in regulating chromatin architecture and gene expression in muscle invasive bladder cancer, revealing its context-specific activation and repression of genes involved in oncogenic signaling.

bioRxiv · Jun 11, 2026 · PreprintCancer Biology