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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peggy J. Farnham is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Genetics. Farnham's work covers a range of topics including Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, and Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, among others.

The scientist has published extensively, contributing to journals such as Cancer Research, UNC Libraries, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Biology, and PLoS ONE. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Large-scale manipulation of promoter DNA methylation reveals context-specific transcriptional responses and stability" (2022, Genome Biology)
  • "Characterization of the ZFX family of transcription factors that bind downstream of the start site of CpG island promoters" (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • "Genome-wide analysis of HOXC4 and HOXC6 regulated genes and binding sites in prostate cancer cells" (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • "TENET 2.0: Identification of key transcriptional regulators and enhancers in lung adenocarcinoma" (2020, PLoS Genetics)
  • "Variants in ZFX are associated with an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder with recurrent facial gestalt" (2024, The American Journal of Human Genetics)

Farnham's research topics span key themes such as:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • FOXO transcription factor regulation
  • Cancer-related gene regulation
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Frequent collaborators in Farnham's work include Suhn K. Rhie, Zhifei Luo, Shannon Schreiner, Charles M. Nicolet, and Maheen Iqbal.

Farnham's publications commonly appear in the following venues:

  • Cancer Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Genome Biology
  • PLoS ONE

In recognition of their contributions, Peggy J. Farnham was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

    Anshul Kundaje;Wouter Meuleman;Wouter Meuleman;Jason Ernst

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • Functional Demarcation of Active and Silent Chromatin Domains in Human HOX Loci by Noncoding RNAs

    John L. Rinn;Michael Kertesz;Jordon K. Wang;Sharon L. Squazzo

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

    Jill E. Moore;Michael J. Purcaro;Henry E. Pratt;Charles B. Epstein

  • ChIP-seq guidelines and practices of the ENCODE and modENCODE consortia

    Stephen G. Landt;Georgi K. Marinov;Anshul Kundaje;Pouya Kheradpour

  • The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium

    Bradley E Bernstein;John A Stamatoyannopoulos;Joseph F Costello;Bing Ren

  • Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data

    Mark B Gerstein;Anshul Kundaje;Manoj Hariharan;Stephen G Landt

  • A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

    Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

  • Expression cloning of a cDNA encoding a retinoblastoma-binding protein with E2F-like properties

    William G. Kaelin;Wilhelm Krek;William R. Sellers;James A. DeCaprio

  • T-bet Regulates the Terminal Maturation and Homeostasis of NK and Vα14i NKT Cells

    Michael J Townsend;Amy S Weinmann;Jennifer L Matsuda;Rachelle Salomon

  • Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome

    Manolis Kellis;Barbara Wold;Michael P. Snyder;Bradley E. Bernstein

  • Comparison of sequencing-based methods to profile DNA methylation and identification of monoallelic epigenetic modifications

    R Alan Harris;Ting Wang;Cristian Coarfa;Raman P. Nagarajan

  • Insights from genomic profiling of transcription factors.

    Peggy J. Farnham

  • Silencing of human polycomb target genes is associated with methylation of histone H3 Lys 27

    Antonis Kirmizis;Stephanie M. Bartley;Andrei Kuzmichev;Raphael Margueron

  • Isolating human transcription factor targets by coupling chromatin immunoprecipitation and CpG island microarray analysis

    Amy S. Weinmann;Pearlly S. Yan;Matthew J. Oberley;Tim Hui Ming Huang

  • Composition and histone substrates of polycomb repressive group complexes change during cellular differentiation.

    Andrei Kuzmichev;Raphael Margueron;Alejandro Vaquero;Tanja S. Preissner

  • Use of chromatin immunoprecipitation to clone novel E2F target promoters.

    Amy S. Weinmann;Stephanie M. Bartley;Theresa Zhang;Michael Q. Zhang

  • Identification of unknown target genes of human transcription factors using chromatin immunoprecipitation

    Amy S Weinmann;Peggy J Farnham

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor X. Jin
Victor X. Jin Medical College of Wisconsin
Martin Hirst
Martin Hirst University of British Columbia
Roland D. Green
Roland D. Green Roche (Switzerland)
Joseph F. Costello
Joseph F. Costello University of California, San Francisco
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia
Bradley E. Bernstein
Bradley E. Bernstein Broad Institute
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Zhiping Weng
Zhiping Weng University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Ting Wang
Ting Wang Washington University in St. Louis

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