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R. Keith Humphries is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans several main fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with substantial work also in Medicine. Within these broad areas, their subfields of study cover Molecular Biology, Hematology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, and Immunology.

The scientist's work focuses on several key topics, including Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Protein Degradation and Inhibitors, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments, RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications, and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research.

R. Keith Humphries has published in a range of scientific journals, with the most frequent venues being Blood (5 publications), Leukemia (3 publications), Haematologica (2 publications), Experimental Hematology (2 publications), and Nature Communications (1 publication).

Recent papers include:

  • "The miR-185/PAK6 axis predicts therapy response and regulates survival of drug-resistant leukemic stem cells in CML" (2020, Blood)
  • "Effective drug treatment identified by in vivo screening in a transplantable patient-derived xenograft model of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia" (2020, Leukemia)
  • "Meis1 establishes the pre-hemogenic endothelial state prior to Runx1 expression" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "Transcriptional control of leukemogenesis by the chromatin reader SGF29" (2023, Blood)
  • "Elucidating the importance and regulation of key enhancers for human MEIS1 expression" (2022, Leukemia)

Frequent co-authors of R. Keith Humphries include Anagha Deshpande, Ping Xiang, John G. Doench, Aniruddha J. Deshpande, and Aly Karsan.

Best Publications

  • Somatic mutations altering EZH2 (Tyr641) in follicular and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas of germinal-center origin

    Morin Rd;Johnson Na;Severson Tm;Mungall Aj

  • HOXB4-INDUCED EXPANSION OF ADULT HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS EX VIVO

    Jennifer Antonchuk;Guy Sauvageau;R.Keith Humphries;R.Keith Humphries

  • Identification of miR-145 and miR-146a as mediators of the 5q– syndrome phenotype

    Daniel T Starczynowski;Florian Kuchenbauer;Bob Argiropoulos;Sandy Sung

  • Overexpression of HOXB4 in hematopoietic cells causes the selective expansion of more primitive populations in vitro and in vivo.

    G Sauvageau;U Thorsteinsdottir;C J Eaves;H J Lawrence

  • Targeted disruption of SHIP leads to hemopoietic perturbations, lung pathology, and a shortened life span

    Cheryl D. Helgason;Jacqueline E. Damen;Patty Rosten;Rewa Grewal

  • Correction of Sickle Cell Disease in Transgenic Mouse Models by Gene Therapy

    Robert Pawliuk;Karen A. Westerman;Mary E. Fabry;Emmanuel Payen

  • Somatic mutations at EZH2 Y641 act dominantly through a mechanism of selectively altered PRC2 catalytic activity, to increase H3K27 trimethylation.

    Damian B. Yap;Damian B. Yap;Justin Chu;Tobias Berg;Matthieu Schapira

  • Pyrimidoindole derivatives are agonists of human hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal

    Iman Fares;Jalila Chagraoui;Yves Gareau;Stéphane Gingras

  • Mice bearing a targeted interruption of the homeobox gene HOXA9 have defects in myeloid, erythroid, and lymphoid hematopoiesis.

    H. Jeffrey Lawrence;H. Jeffrey Lawrence;H. Jeffrey Lawrence;Cheryl D. Helgason;Cheryl D. Helgason;Cheryl D. Helgason;Guy Sauvageau;Guy Sauvageau;Guy Sauvageau;Stephen Fong;Stephen Fong;Stephen Fong

  • High-throughput analysis of single hematopoietic stem cell proliferation in microfluidic cell culture arrays

    Véronique Lecault;Michael VanInsberghe;Sanja Sekulovic;David J H F Knapp

  • The src homology 2-containing inositol phosphatase (SHIP) is the gatekeeper of mast cell degranulation

    Michael Huber;Cheryl D. Helgason;Jacqueline E. Damen;Ling Liu

  • The Lin28b–let-7–Hmga2 axis determines the higher self-renewal potential of fetal haematopoietic stem cells

    Michael R. Copley;Sonja Babovic;Claudia Benz;David J. H. F. Knapp

  • Differential expression of Hox, Meis1, and Pbx1 genes in primitive cells throughout murine hematopoietic ontogeny.

    Nicolas Pineault;Cheryl D Helgason;H.Jeffrey Lawrence;R.Keith Humphries;R.Keith Humphries

  • HOXB4 overexpression mediates very rapid stem cell regeneration and competitive hematopoietic repopulation

    Jennifer Antonchuk;Guy Sauvageau;R.Keith Humphries;R.Keith Humphries

  • The Role of HOX Homeobox Genes in Normal and Leukemic Hematopoiesis

    H. Jeffrey Lawrence;Guy Sauvageau;R. Keith Humphries;Corey Largman

  • The AML1-ETO fusion gene and the FLT3 length mutation collaborate in inducing acute leukemia in mice

    Christina Schessl;Vijay P.S. Rawat;Monica Cusan;Aniruddha Deshpande

  • Transfer of the human telomerase reverse transcriptase(TERT) gene into T lymphocytes results in extension of replicative potential

    Nathalie Rufer;Marco Migliaccio;Jennifer Antonchuk;R. Keith Humphries

  • Polycomb group gene rae28 is required for sustaining activity of hematopoietic stem cells.

    Hideaki Ohta;Akihisa Sawada;Ji Yoo Kim;Sadao Tokimasa

  • Loss of expression of the Hoxa-9 homeobox gene impairs the proliferation and repopulating ability of hematopoietic stem cells

    H. Jeffrey Lawrence;Julie Christensen;Stephen Fong;Yu-Long Hu

  • In vitro and in vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells

    Guy Sauvageau;Norman N Iscove;R Keith Humphries;R Keith Humphries

Frequent Co-Authors

Connie J. Eaves
Connie J. Eaves University of British Columbia
Michael Heuser
Michael Heuser Hannover Medical School
Hans Peter Kiem
Hans Peter Kiem Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Guy Sauvageau
Guy Sauvageau University of Montreal
Cheryl D. Helgason
Cheryl D. Helgason BC Cancer Research Centre
Gerald Krystal
Gerald Krystal BC Cancer Agency
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia
Ryan D. Morin
Ryan D. Morin Simon Fraser University
Martin Hirst
Martin Hirst University of British Columbia
Xiaoyan Jiang
Xiaoyan Jiang University of British Columbia

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