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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - National Institutes of Health Director's Pioneer Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Andrew P. Feinberg is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, oncology, and physiology.

The main research topics covered by Feinberg include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Feinberg's scholarly output includes several recent papers such as:

  • "Extracellular fluid viscosity enhances cell migration and cancer dissemination," 2022, published in Nature
  • "Epigenetics as a mediator of plasticity in cancer," 2023, published in Science
  • "Statistical mechanics meets single-cell biology," 2021, published in Nature Reviews Genetics
  • "Autism-Associated DNA Methylation at Birth From Multiple Tissues Is Enriched for Autism Genes in the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation," 2021, published in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • "Human brain region-specific variably methylated regions are enriched for heritability of distinct neuropsychiatric traits," 2021, published in Genome Biology

Frequent co-authors working with Feinberg include:

  • Michael A. Koldobskiy
  • Adrian Idrizi
  • Rakel Tryggvadóttir
  • Kasper D. Hansen
  • Jordi Abante

Feinberg has published most prolifically in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Toxicological Sciences
  • Blood

The scope of Feinberg's work is interdisciplinary, combining approaches from genetics and molecular biology with applications in oncology, physiology, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

In recognition of contributions to science, Feinberg has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Best Publications

  • A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity

    Andrew P. Feinberg;Bert Vogelstein

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

    F Aguet;AN Barbeira;R Bonazzola;A Brown

  • Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues.

    Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups

  • Minfi: A flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the analysis of Infinium DNA Methylation microarrays

    Martin J. Aryee;Andrew E. Jaffe;Hector Corrada-Bravo;Christine Ladd-Acosta

  • Hypomethylation distinguishes genes of some human cancers from their normal counterparts.

    Andrew P. Feinberg;Bert Vogelstein

  • The history of cancer epigenetics.

    Andrew P. Feinberg;Benjamin Tycko

  • Epigenetic memory in induced pluripotent stem cells

    K. Kim;A. Doi;B. Wen;K. Ng

  • The human colon cancer methylome shows similar hypo- and hypermethylation at conserved tissue-specific CpG island shores.

    Rafael A. Irizarry;Christine Ladd-Acosta;Bo Wen;Zhijin Wu

  • The epigenetic progenitor origin of human cancer

    Andrew P. Feinberg;Rolf Ohlsson;Steven Henikoff

  • Phenotypic plasticity and the epigenetics of human disease

    Andrew P. Feinberg

  • DNMT1 and DNMT3b cooperate to silence genes in human cancer cells.

    Ina Rhee;Kurtis E. Bachman;Ben Ho Park;Kam Wing Jair

  • Differential methylation of tissue- and cancer-specific CpG island shores distinguishes human induced pluripotent stem cells, embryonic stem cells and fibroblasts.

    Akiko Doi;In Hyun Park;Bo Wen;Peter Murakami

  • DNA methylation age of blood predicts all-cause mortality in later life.

    Riccardo E Marioni;Riccardo E Marioni;Sonia Shah;Allan F McRae;Brian H Chen

  • Increased methylation variation in epigenetic domains across cancer types

    Kasper Daniel Hansen;Winston Timp;Winston Timp;Héctor Corrada Bravo;Héctor Corrada Bravo;Sarven Sabunciyan

  • Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics.

    Alvaro N. Barbeira;Scott P. Dickinson;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Jiamao Zheng

  • Association of In Vitro Fertilization with Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome and Epigenetic Alterations of LIT1 and H19

    Michael R. DeBaun;Emily L. Niemitz;Andrew P. Feinberg

  • Epigenome-wide association data implicate DNA methylation as an intermediary of genetic risk in rheumatoid arthritis

    Yun Liu;Martin J Aryee;Leonid Padyukov;M Daniele Fallin;M Daniele Fallin

  • Hypomethylation of DNA from benign and malignant human colon neoplasms.

    Susan E. Goelz;Bert Vogelstein;Stanley R. Hamilton;Andrew P. Feinberg

  • A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity

    A. P. Feinberg

  • Epigenetic silencing of tumour suppressor gene p15 by its antisense RNA

    Wenqiang Yu;David Gius;Patrick Onyango;Kristi Muldoon-Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Kasper D. Hansen
Kasper D. Hansen Johns Hopkins University
Rafael A. Irizarry
Rafael A. Irizarry Harvard University
M. Daniele Fallin
M. Daniele Fallin Johns Hopkins University
Martin J. Aryee
Martin J. Aryee Harvard University
Maxwell P. Lee
Maxwell P. Lee National Institutes of Health
John Goutsias
John Goutsias Johns Hopkins University
Michael R. DeBaun
Michael R. DeBaun Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Rolf Ohlsson
Rolf Ohlsson Karolinska Institute
Lisa A. Croen
Lisa A. Croen Kaiser Permanente
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University

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