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Jin Jen is affiliated with Bristol Myers Squibb in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cancer Research, Genetics, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's research interests encompass a variety of topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications, Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Jin Jen has published extensively in several venues, with multiple works appearing in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, Nature Biotechnology, and PLoS ONE. Other frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and the Proceedings on CD-ROM - International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Scientific Meeting and Exhibition.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "Integrating genomic features for non-invasive early lung cancer detection," 2020, Nature
  • "Performance assessment of DNA sequencing platforms in the ABRF Next-Generation Sequencing Study," 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • "RNA-Seq Reveals Differences in Expressed Tumor Mutation Burden in Colorectal and Endometrial Cancers with and without Defective DNA-Mismatch Repair," 2021, Journal of Molecular Diagnostics
  • "Direct comparison of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays with targeted large gene panels," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "LPCAT1-TERT fusions are uniquely recurrent in epithelioid trophoblastic tumors and positively regulate cell growth," 2021, PLoS ONE

Jin Jen frequently collaborates with coauthors Bruce W. Eckloff, Krzysztof Kłodowski, Minghao Zhang, Daniel Scoffings, and Christopher T. Rodgers, each with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Clues to the pathogenesis of familial colorectal cancer

    Lauri A. Aaltonen;Päivi Peltomäki;Fredrick S. Leach;Pertti Sistonen

  • Mutations of a mutS homolog in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer

    Fredrick S. Leach;Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Nickolas Papadopoulos;Bo Liu

  • The Molecular Basis of Turcot's Syndrome

    Stanley R. Hamilton;bo Liu;Ramon E. Parsons;Nickolas Papadopoulos

  • Hypermutability and mismatch repair deficiency in RER+ tumor cells

    Ramon Parsons;Guo Min Li;Matthew J. Longley;Woei horng Fang;Woei horng Fang

  • Facile Detection of Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Tumors and Bodily Fluids

    Makiko S. Fliss;Henning Usadel;Otávia L. Caballero;Li Wu

  • Molecular diagnosis of familial adenomatous polyposis

    Kenneth W. Kinzler;Bert Vogelstein

  • Frequent Inactivation of PTEN/MMAC1 in Primary Prostate Cancer

    P Cairns;K Okami;S Halachmi;N Halachmi

  • Clinical and pathological characteristics of sporadic colorectal carcinomas with DNA replication errors in microsatellite sequences

    Hoguen Kim;Jin Jen;Bert Vogelstein;Stanley R. Hamilton

  • Analysis of human transcriptomes

    Victor E Velculescu;Stephen L Madden;Lin Zhang;Alex E Lash

  • Mismatch repair gene defects in sporadic colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability

    Bo Liu;Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Sanford Markowitz;James K.V. Willson

  • Allelic Loss of Chromosome 18q and Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer

    Jin Jen;Hoguen Kim;Steven Piantadosi;Zong Fan Liu

  • Hypermethylation-associated inactivation indicates a tumor suppressor role for p15INK4B

    James G. Herman;Jin Jen;Adrian Merlo;Stephen B. Baylin

  • Gene expression signature of cigarette smoking and its role in lung adenocarcinoma development and survival.

    Maria Teresa Landi;Tatiana Dracheva;Melissa Rotunno;Jonine D. Figueroa

  • Molecular determinants of dysplasia in colorectal lesions.

    Jin Jen;Steve M. Powell;Nickolas Papadopoulos;Kelly J. Smith

  • Gene Promoter Hypermethylation in Tumors and Serum of Head and Neck Cancer Patients

    Montserrat Sanchez-Cespedes;Manel Esteller;Li Wu;Homaira Nawroz-Danish

  • MiR-21 is an EGFR-regulated anti-apoptotic factor in lung cancer in never-smokers

    Masahiro Seike;Akiteru Goto;Tetsuya Okano;Tetsuya Okano;Elise D. Bowman

  • Deletion of p16 and p15 Genes in Brain Tumors

    Jin Jen;J. W. Harper;S. H. Bigner;D. D. Bigner

  • AIS is an oncogene amplified in squamous cell carcinoma

    Kenji Hibi;Barry Trink;Meera Patturajan;William H. Westra

  • Molecular Detection of Tumor Cells in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid From Patients With Early Stage Lung Cancer

    Steven A. Ahrendt;John T. Chow;Li-Hua Xu;Stephen C. Yang

  • Detecting Colorectal Cancer in Stool With the Use of Multiple Genetic Targets

    Seung Myung Dong;Giovanni Traverso;Constance M Johnson;Li Geng

Frequent Co-Authors

David Sidransky
David Sidransky Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Ping Yang
Ping Yang Mayo Clinic
Bert Vogelstein
Bert Vogelstein Johns Hopkins University
William H. Westra
William H. Westra Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bruce W. Eckloff
Bruce W. Eckloff Mayo Clinic
William D. Travis
William D. Travis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Curtis C. Harris
Curtis C. Harris National Institutes of Health
Zhifu Sun
Zhifu Sun Mayo Clinic
Sarah Lincoln
Sarah Lincoln Mayo Clinic

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