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Overview

Fengtang Yang is affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with a total of 142 publications. Within these areas, Yang has focused extensively on Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Plant Science as primary subfields of study, along with contributions in Cancer Research and Ecology.

The main topics of Yang's work include chromosomal and genetic variations, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and genetic diversity and population structure. Additional significant research themes address RNA modifications and cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Among Yang's recent papers are:

  • "Database Resources of the National Genomics Data Center, China National Center for Bioinformation in 2021" (2020), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Combinatorial CRISPR screen identifies fitness effects of gene paralogues" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Population Structure, Stratification, and Introgression of Human Structural Variation" (2020), published in Cell
  • "Werner Helicase Is a Synthetic-Lethal Vulnerability in Mismatch Repair-Deficient Colorectal Cancer Refractory to Targeted Therapies, Chemotherapy, and Immunotherapy" (2021), published in Cancer Discovery
  • "Evidence for multi-copy Mega-NUMTs in the human genome" (2020), published in Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent coauthors with whom Yang has collaborated include Beiyuan Fu, M.A. Ferguson-Smith, Jianing Xu, Sandra Louzada, and Cleusa Yoshiko Nagamachi.

Yang's publications are often featured in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • BMC Genomics

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Global variation in copy number in the human genome

    Richard Redon;Shumpei Ishikawa;Karen R. Fitch;Lars Feuk

  • The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome.

    Kerstin Howe;Matthew D. Clark;Carlos F. Torroja;Carlos F. Torroja;James Torrance

  • Massive Genomic Rearrangement Acquired in a Single Catastrophic Event during Cancer Development

    Philip J. Stephens;Chris D. Greenman;Beiyuan Fu;Fengtang Yang

  • Paired-end mapping reveals extensive structural variation in the human genome.

    Jan O. Korbel;Alexander Eckehart Urban;Jason P. Affourtit;Brian Godwin

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Signatures of mutation and selection in the cancer genome

    Graham R. Bignell;Chris D. Greenman;Helen Davies;Adam P. Butler

  • Human blood vessel organoids as a model of diabetic vasculopathy

    Reiner A. Wimmer;Alexandra Leopoldi;Martin Aichinger;Nikolaus Wick

  • A complete comparative chromosome map for the dog, red fox, and human and its integration with canine genetic maps.

    F. Yang;P.C.M. O'Brien;B.S. Milne;A.S. Graphodatsky

  • Evolutionary routes and KRAS dosage define pancreatic cancer phenotypes

    Sebastian Mueller;Thomas Engleitner;Thomas Engleitner;Roman Maresch;Roman Maresch;Magdalena Zukowska

  • Shieldin complex promotes DNA end-joining and counters homologous recombination in BRCA1-null cells.

    Harveer Dev;Harveer Dev;Ting-Wei Will Chiang;Chloe Lescale;Inge de Krijger

  • Genome Sequencing and Analysis of the Tasmanian Devil and Its Transmissible Cancer

    Elizabeth P. Murchison;Ole B. Schulz-Trieglaff;Zemin Ning;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences

    G David Poznik;Yali Xue;Fernando L Mendez;Thomas F Willems

  • Establishment of porcine and human expanded potential stem cells

    Xuefei Gao;Xuefei Gao;Monika Nowak-Imialek;Monika Nowak-Imialek;Xi Chen;Dongsheng Chen

  • Copy number variation and evolution in humans and chimpanzees.

    George H. Perry;Fengtang Yang;Tomas Marques-Bonet;Carly Murphy

  • A comparative study of karyotypes of muntjacs by chromosome painting

    F. Yang;N. P. Carter;L. Shi;M. A. Ferguson-Smith

  • Establishment of mouse expanded potential stem cells

    Jian Yang;David J. Ryan;Wei Wang;Jason Cheuk-Ho Tsang

  • Transmissible Dog Cancer Genome Reveals the Origin and History of an Ancient Cell Lineage

    Elizabeth P. Murchison;Elizabeth P. Murchison;David C. Wedge;Ludmil B. Alexandrov;Beiyuan Fu

  • CRISPR/Cas9 somatic multiplex-mutagenesis for high-throughput functional cancer genomics in mice

    Julia Weber;Julia Weber;Rupert Öllinger;Mathias Friedrich;Ursula Ehmer

  • Sixteen diverse laboratory mouse reference genomes define strain-specific haplotypes and novel functional loci

    Jingtao Lilue;Jingtao Lilue;Anthony G Doran;Anthony G Doran;Ian T Fiddes;Monica Abrudan

Frequent Co-Authors

Beiyuan Fu
Beiyuan Fu Wellcome Sanger Institute
Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith
Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith University of Cambridge
Alexander S. Graphodatsky
Alexander S. Graphodatsky Novosibirsk State University
Patricia C. M. O’Brien
Patricia C. M. O’Brien University of Cambridge
Terence J. Robinson
Terence J. Robinson Stellenbosch University
Chris Tyler-Smith
Chris Tyler-Smith Wellcome Sanger Institute
Thomas M. Keane
Thomas M. Keane European Bioinformatics Institute
Nigel P. Carter
Nigel P. Carter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
Charles Lee
Charles Lee The Jackson Laboratory

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