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Overview

Jin Billy Li is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and focuses primarily on research within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Cancer Research, and Parasitology.

The topics addressed in their research cover a range of RNA-related areas and immune system functions. These include:

  • RNA regulation and disease
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Interferon and immune responses
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Jin Billy Li has published extensively in multiple scientific venues. The most frequent places where their work appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Cell Reports
  • Circulation
  • Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology

Recent papers by Jin Billy Li include:

  • RNA editing underlies genetic risk of common inflammatory diseases, 2022, Nature
  • Adar RNA editing-dependent and -independent effects are required for brain and innate immune functions in Drosophila, 2020, Nature Communications
  • ADAR1p150 prevents MDA5 and PKR activation via distinct mechanisms to avert fatal autoinflammation, 2023, Molecular Cell
  • Unbiased Identification of trans Regulators of ADAR and A-to-I RNA Editing, 2020, Cell Reports
  • IRE1α silences dsRNA to prevent taxane-induced pyroptosis in triple-negative breast cancer, 2024, Cell

Their work has involved collaboration with several frequently co-authoring researchers, including Qin Li, Shi-Bin Hu, Tao Sun, Carl R. Walkley, and Hongchao Guo.

Best Publications

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

    F Aguet;AN Barbeira;R Bonazzola;A Brown

  • Targeted and genome-scale strategies reveal gene-body methylation signatures in human cells.

    Madeleine Price Ball;Jin Billy Li;Yuan Gao;Je-Hyuk Lee

  • 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

  • Comparative Genomics Identifies a Flagellar and Basal Body Proteome that Includes the BBS5 Human Disease Gene

    Jin Billy Li;Jantje M Gerdes;Courtney J Haycraft;Yanli Fan

  • RNA editing by ADAR1 prevents MDA5 sensing of endogenous dsRNA as nonself

    Brian J. Liddicoat;Robert Piskol;Alistair M. Chalk;Alistair M. Chalk;Gokul Ramaswami

  • Dynamic landscape and regulation of RNA editing in mammals

    Meng How Tan;Qin Li;Raghuvaran Shanmugam;Robert Piskol

  • Multiplex amplification of large sets of human exons

    Gregory J Porreca;Kun Zhang;Kun Zhang;Jin Billy Li;Bin Xie

  • Genome-Wide Identification of Human RNA Editing Sites by Parallel DNA Capturing and Sequencing

    Jin Billy Li;Erez Y. Levanon;Jung-Ki Yoon;John Aach

  • A-to-I RNA editing occurs at over a hundred million genomic sites, located in a majority of human genes.

    Lily Bazak;Ami Haviv;Michal Barak;Jasmine Jacob-Hirsch;Jasmine Jacob-Hirsch

  • RADAR: a rigorously annotated database of A-to-I RNA editing

    Gokul Ramaswami;Jin Billy Li

  • The Genomic Landscape and Clinical Relevance of A-to-I RNA Editing in Human Cancers.

    Leng Han;Lixia Diao;Shuangxing Yu;Xiaoyan Xu;Xiaoyan Xu

  • Versatile design and synthesis platform for visualizing genomes with Oligopaint FISH probes

    Brian J. Beliveau;Eric F. Joyce;Nicholas Apostolopoulos;Feyza Yilmaz

  • Identifying RNA editing sites using RNA sequencing data alone

    Gokul Ramaswami;Rui Zhang;Robert Piskol;Liam P Keegan

  • Accurate identification of human Alu and non- Alu RNA editing sites

    Gokul Ramaswami;Wei Lin;Robert Piskol;Meng How Tan

  • Reliable Identification of Genomic Variants from RNA-Seq Data

    Robert Piskol;Gokul Ramaswami;Jin Billy Li

  • Scalable gene synthesis by selective amplification of DNA pools from high-fidelity microchips

    Sriram Kosuri;Nikolai Eroshenko;Nikolai Eroshenko;Emily M LeProust;Michael Super

  • Enhanced specificity and efficiency of the CRISPR/Cas9 system with optimized sgRNA parameters in Drosophila.

    Xingjie Ren;Zhihao Yang;Jiang Xu;Jin Sun

  • Effect of predicted protein-truncating genetic variants on the human transcriptome

    Manuel A. Rivas;Matti Pirinen;Donald F. Conrad;Monkol Lek

  • Precise RNA editing by recruiting endogenous ADARs with antisense oligonucleotides

    Tobias Merkle;Sarah Merz;Philipp Reautschnig;Andreas Blaha

  • Corrigendum: Targeted and genome-scale strategies reveal gene-body methylation signatures in human cells

    Madeleine P Ball;Jin Billy Li;Yuan Gao;Je-Hyuk Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Rui Zhang
Rui Zhang National University of Singapore
Carl R. Walkley
Carl R. Walkley Hudson Institute of Medical Research
Daniel G. MacArthur
Daniel G. MacArthur Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Stephen B. Montgomery
Stephen B. Montgomery Stanford University
George M. Church
George M. Church Harvard University
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis University of Geneva
Eric R. Gamazon
Eric R. Gamazon Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Kun Zhang
Kun Zhang University of California, San Diego

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