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Sandya Liyanarachchi is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Genetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Oncology, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Social Media in Health Education

Sandya Liyanarachchi has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Assessing thyroid cancer risk using polygenic risk scores, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • GWAS of thyroid stimulating hormone highlights pleiotropic effects and inverse association with thyroid cancer, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A Truncating Germline Mutation of TINF2 in Individuals with Thyroid Cancer or Melanoma Results in Longer Telomeres, 2020, Thyroid
  • Multiethnic genome-wide association study of differentiated thyroid cancer in the EPITHYR consortium, 2021, International Journal of Cancer
  • Transcriptome analysis discloses dysregulated genes in normal appearing tumor-adjacent thyroid tissues from patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma, 2021, Scientific Reports

The venues frequently publishing their work are:

  • Thyroid
  • Nature Communications
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of the Endocrine Society
  • The American Journal of Gastroenterology

In collaboration, Sandya Liyanarachchi has frequently coauthored with the following researchers:

  • Matthew D. Ringel
  • Pamela Brock
  • Huiling He
  • Albert de la Chapelle
  • Daniel F. Comiskey

Best Publications

  • The role of microRNA genes in papillary thyroid carcinoma

    Hulling He;Krystian Jazdzewski;Wei Li;Sandya Liyanarachchi

  • Prevalence and Spectrum of Germline Cancer Susceptibility Gene Mutations Among Patients With Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer.

    Rachel Pearlman;Wendy L Frankel;Benjamin Swanson;Weiqiang Zhao

  • A dynamic knockout reveals that conformational fluctuations influence the chemical step of enzyme catalysis

    Gira Bhabha;Jeeyeon Lee;Damian C. Ekiert;Jongsik Gam

  • Gene expression and functional evidence of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in papillary thyroid carcinoma invasion

    Vasily Vasko;Allan V. Espinosa;William Scouten;Huiling He

  • Polymorphic mature microRNAs from passenger strand of pre-miR-146a contribute to thyroid cancer

    Krystian Jazdzewski;Sandya Liyanarachchi;Michal Swierniak;Janusz Pachucki

  • The polymorphism rs944289 predisposes to papillary thyroid carcinoma through a large intergenic noncoding RNA gene of tumor suppressor type

    Jaroslaw Jendrzejewski;Huiling He;Hanna S. Radomska;Wei Li

  • Role of cancer-associated stromal fibroblasts in metastatic colon cancer to the liver and their expression profiles.

    Hidewaki Nakagawa;Sandya Liyanarachchi;Ramana V Davuluri;Herbert Auer

  • Mutations in U4atac snRNA, a Component of the Minor Spliceosome, in the Developmental Disorder MOPD I

    Huiling He;Sandya Liyanarachchi;Keiko Akagi;Rebecca Nagy

  • Combinatorial Analysis of Transcription Factor Partners Reveals Recruitment of c-MYC to Estrogen Receptor-α Responsive Promoters

    Alfred S.L. Cheng;Victor X. Jin;Meiyun Fan;Laura T. Smith

  • Acute myeloid leukemia with complex karyotypes and abnormal chromosome 21: Amplification discloses overexpression of APP, ETS2, and ERG genes

    Claudia D. Baldus;Sandya Liyanarachchi;Krzysztof Mrózek;Herbert Auer

  • A susceptibility locus for papillary thyroid carcinoma on chromosome 8q24

    Huiling He;Rebecca Nagy;Sandya Liyanarachchi;Hong Jiao

  • Papillary and Follicular Thyroid Carcinomas Show Distinctly Different Microarray Expression Profiles and Can Be Distinguished by a Minimum of Five Genes

    Micheala A. Aldred;Ying Huang;Sandya Liyanarachchi;Natalia S. Pellegata

  • Epigenetic Profiling in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Reveals Novel Methylation Targets

    Laura J. Rush;Aparna Raval;Pauline Funchain;Amy J. Johnson

  • Identification of Novel Genetic Loci Associated with Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies and Clinical Thyroid Disease

    Marco Medici;Eleonora Porcu;Giorgio Pistis;Alexander Teumer

  • Prognostic DNA Methylation Biomarkers in Ovarian Cancer

    Susan H. Wei;Curtis Balch;Curtis Balch;Henry H. Paik;Yoo Sung Kim;Yoo Sung Kim

  • Glioma Cell Migration on Three-dimensional Nanofiber Scaffolds Is Regulated by Substrate Topography and Abolished by Inhibition of STAT3 Signaling

    Paula A. Agudelo-Garcia;Jessica K. De Jesus;Shante P. Williams;Michal O. Nowicki

  • Amnionless, essential for mouse gastrulation, is mutated in recessive hereditary megaloblastic anemia

    Stephan M. Tanner;Maria Aminoff;Fred A. Wright;Sandya Liyanarachchi

  • Gene expression profiling identifies MMP-12 and ADAMDEC1 as potential pathogenic mediators of pulmonary sarcoidosis.

    Elliott D. Crouser;Daniel A. Culver;Kenneth S. Knox;Mark W. Julian

  • Xenoestrogen-induced epigenetic repression of microRNA-9-3 in breast epithelial cells.

    Pei Yin Hsu;Daniel E. Deatherage;Benjamin A T Rodriguez;Sandya Liyanarachchi

  • A genome-wide association study yields five novel thyroid cancer risk loci.

    Julius Gudmundsson;Gudmar Thorleifsson;Jon K. Sigurdsson;Lilja Stefansdottir

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert de la Chapelle
Albert de la Chapelle The Ohio State University
Ramana V. Davuluri
Ramana V. Davuluri Stony Brook University
Clara D. Bloomfield
Clara D. Bloomfield The Ohio State University
Tim H M Huang
Tim H M Huang The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Matthew D. Ringel
Matthew D. Ringel The Ohio State University
Victor X. Jin
Victor X. Jin Medical College of Wisconsin
Pearlly S. Yan
Pearlly S. Yan The Ohio State University
Kenneth P. Nephew
Kenneth P. Nephew Indiana University
Guido Marcucci
Guido Marcucci City Of Hope National Medical Center
Kari Stefansson
Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

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