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Overview

Henry H.Q. Heng is affiliated with Wayne State University in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research encompasses 55 publications primarily within this broad area of study, with significant focus on molecular biology, genetics, cancer research, cell biology, and plant science.

Key topics in their research include:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Among recent scholarly works are the following papers:

  • Genome chaos: Creating new genomic information essential for cancer macroevolution (2020, Seminars in Cancer Biology)
  • Genome Chaos, Information Creation, and Cancer Emergence: Searching for New Frameworks on the 50th Anniversary of the "War on Cancer" (2021, Genes)
  • Origins and Consequences of Chromosomal Instability: From Cellular Adaptation to Genome Chaos-Mediated System Survival (2020, Genes)
  • Two-phased evolution: Genome chaos-mediated information creation and maintenance (2021, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology)
  • Karyotype coding: The creation and maintenance of system information for complexity and biodiversity (2021, Biosystems)

Frequent publication venues for Heng's work include:

  • Methods in Molecular Biology
  • Genes
  • Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
  • Biosystems
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Collaborative research is an important aspect of Heng's output, with frequent co-authors including Julie Heng, Eric Heng, Jing Christine Ye, Kezhong Zhang, and Christine J. Ye. These collaborations span various papers, indicating active interdisciplinary connections.

In addition to journal articles, Heng has contributed to academic books, including a publication by Frontiers Media titled Somatic Genomic Mosaicism & Human Disease in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Structure and chromosomal localization of the human constitutive endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene.

    P. A. Marsden;H. H. Q. Heng;S. W. Scherer;R. J. Stewart

  • A human gene that shows identity with the gene encoding the angiotensin receptor is located on chromosome 11

    Brian F. O'Dowd;Michael Heiber;Audrey Chan;Henry H.Q. Heng

  • Identification of Sonic hedgehog as a candidate gene responsible for holoprosencephaly

    E. Belloni;M. Muenke;E. Roessler;G. Traverso

  • Specific and redundant functions of Gli2 and Gli3 zinc finger genes in skeletal patterning and development.

    R. Mo;A. M. Freer;D. L. Zinyk;M. A. Crackower

  • High-resolution mapping of mammalian genes by in situ hybridization to free chromatin.

    H. H. Q. Heng;J. Squire;Lap-Chee Tsui

  • Cloning and mapping of a cDNA for methionine synthase reductase, a flavoprotein defective in patients with homocystinuria

    D. Leclerc;A. Wilson;R. Dumas;C. Gafuik

  • Modes of DAPI banding and simultaneous in situ hybridization

    Henry H. Q. Heng;Lap-Chee Tsui

  • Identification and cloning of three novel human G protein-coupled receptor genes GPR52, ΨGPR53 and GPR55: GPR55 is extensively expressed in human brain

    Marek Sawzdargo;Tuan Nguyen;Dennis K Lee;Kevin R Lynch

  • Discovery of three novel G-protein-coupled receptor genes

    Brian F. O'Dowd;Tuan Nguyen;Adriano Marchese;Regina Cheng

  • HDAC4, a human histone deacetylase related to yeast HDA1, is a transcriptional corepressor

    Audrey H. Wang;Nicholas R. Bertos;Marko Vezmar;Nadine Pelletier

  • Structure and mapping of the human beta-defensin HBD-2 gene and its expression at sites of inflammation.

    Lide Liu;Lina Wang;Hong Peng Jia;Chengquan Zhao

  • The human β-defensin-1 and α-defensins are encoded by adjacent genes : Two peptide families with differing disulfide topology share a common ancestry

    Lide Liu;Chengquan Zhao;Henry H.Q. Heng;Tomas Ganz

  • Human Chromosome 7: DNA Sequence and Biology

    Stephen W. Scherer;Joseph Cheung;Jeffrey R. MacDonald;Lucy R. Osborne

  • Chromatin loops are selectively anchored using scaffold/matrix-attachment regions.

    Henry H. Q. Heng;Sandra Goetze;Christine J. Ye;Guo Liu

  • Cloning and Chromosomal Mapping of Three Novel Genes, GPR9, GPR10, and GPR14, Encoding Receptors Related to Interleukin 8, Neuropeptide Y, and Somatostatin Receptors

    Adriano Marchese;Michael Heiber;Tuan Nguyen;Henry H.Q. Heng

  • Cloning, expression, and chromosomal localization of the human uridine nucleotide receptor gene.

    Tuan Nguyen;Laurie Erb;Gary A. Weisman;Adriano Marchese

  • Rad51 immunocytology in rat and mouse spermatocytes and oocytes.

    Peter B. Moens;David J. Chen;Zhiyuan Shen;Nadine Kolas

  • Overexpression of Cyclin D1 Promotes Tumor Cell Growth and Confers Resistance to Cisplatin-Mediated Apoptosis in an Elastase-myc Transgene–Expressing Pancreatic Tumor Cell Line

    Hector Biliran;Yong Wang;Sanjeev Banerjee;Haiming Xu

  • Stochastic cancer progression driven by non-clonal chromosome aberrations.

    Henry H Q Heng;Joshua B. Stevens;Gou Liu;Steven W. Bremer

  • Chromosomal instability (CIN): what it is and why it is crucial to cancer evolution

    Henry H. Heng;Steven W. Bremer;Joshua B. Stevens;Steven D. Horne

Frequent Co-Authors

Lap-Chee Tsui
Lap-Chee Tsui University of Toronto
Susan R. George
Susan R. George University of Toronto
Brian F. O'Dowd
Brian F. O'Dowd Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Tuan V. Nguyen
Tuan V. Nguyen University of Technology Sydney
Stephen W. Scherer
Stephen W. Scherer University of Toronto
Peter B. Moens
Peter B. Moens York University
Kevin R. Lynch
Kevin R. Lynch University of Virginia
Stephen A. Krawetz
Stephen A. Krawetz Wayne State University
Thomas Liehr
Thomas Liehr Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ben F. Koop
Ben F. Koop University of Victoria

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