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58
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18358
World Ranking
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National Ranking
1438

Overview

Yi-Lin Yan is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research activity spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, and Oncology.

Their recent research outputs emphasize topics related to bladder and urothelial cancer treatments, ferroptosis and cancer prognosis, epigenetics and DNA methylation, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, cancer-related gene regulation, RNA modifications in cancer, and cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers.

Among their recent publications are:

  • CBX7 suppresses urinary bladder cancer progression via modulating AKR1B10-ERK signaling (2021, Cell Death and Disease)
  • Identification of glycogene-type and validation of ST3GAL6 as a biomarker predicts clinical outcome and cancer cell invasion in urinary bladder cancer (2020, Theranostics)
  • NLRP3 promotes immune escape by regulating immune checkpoints: A pan-cancer analysis (2022, International Immunopharmacology)
  • PDE4B Induces Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Bladder Cancer Cells and Is Transcriptionally Suppressed by CBX7 (2021, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology)
  • Downregulation of TET1 Promotes Bladder Cancer Cell Proliferation and Invasion by Reducing DNA Hydroxymethylation of AJAP1 (2020, Frontiers in Oncology)

Closely collaborating with other researchers, Yi-Lin Yan frequently coauthors papers with Bing Shen, Xiangqian Cao, Zhengnan Huang, Jinming Cai, and Chenkai Yang.

Their work is published in venues including:

  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Genetics
  • BMC Urology
  • Research Square
  • Cell Death and Disease

Best Publications

  • Preservation of Duplicate Genes by Complementary, Degenerative Mutations

    Allan Force;Michael Lynch;F. Bryan Pickett;Angel Amores

  • Zebrafish hox Clusters and Vertebrate Genome Evolution

    Angel Amores;Allan Force;Yi Lin Yan;Lucille Joly

  • Vertebrate genome evolution and the zebrafish gene map.

    John H. Postlethwait;Yi-Lin Yan;Michael A. Gates;Sally Horne

  • Zebrafish Comparative Genomics and the Origins of Vertebrate Chromosomes

    John H. Postlethwait;Ian G. Woods;Phuong Ngo-Hazelett;Yi Lin Yan

  • A Comparative Map of the Zebrafish Genome

    Ian G. Woods;Peter D. Kelly;Felicia Chu;Phuong Ngo-Hazelett

  • Subfunction partitioning, the teleost radiation and the annotation of the human genome

    John Postlethwait;Angel Amores;William Cresko;Amy Singer

  • Characterization and expression pattern of zebrafish anti-Mullerian hormone (amh) relative to sox9a, sox9b, and cyp19a1a, during gonad development

    Adriana Rodríguez-Marí;Yi-Lin Yan;Ruth A. BreMiller;Catherine Wilson

  • A pair of Sox: distinct and overlapping functions of zebrafish sox9 co-orthologs in craniofacial and pectoral fin development

    Yi-Lin Yan;John Willoughby;John Willoughby;Dong Liu;Justin Gage Crump

  • Two sox9 genes on duplicated zebrafish chromosomes: Expression of similar transcription activators in distinct sites

    Evelyn F.L. Chiang;Chin I. Pai;Mary Wyatt;Yi Lin Yan

  • MicroRNA Mirn140 modulates Pdgf signaling during palatogenesis

    Johann K Eberhart;Xinjun He;Mary E Swartz;Yi-Lin Yan

  • A zebrafish sox9 gene required for cartilage morphogenesis

    Yi Lin Yan;Craig T. Miller;Robert Nissen;Amy Singer

  • Zebrafish smoothened functions in ventral neural tube specification and axon tract formation.

    Zoltán M. Varga;Angel Amores;Katharine E. Lewis;Yi-Lin Yan

  • Wild Sex in Zebrafish: Loss of the Natural Sex Determinant in Domesticated Strains

    Catherine A. Wilson;Samantha K. High;Braedan M. McCluskey;Angel Amores

  • valentino: a zebrafish gene required for normal hindbrain segmentation.

    Cecilia B. Moens;Yi-Lin Yan;Bruce Appel;Allan G. Force

  • Two Cyp19 (P450 Aromatase) Genes on Duplicated Zebrafish Chromosomes Are Expressed in Ovary or Brain

    Evelyn Feng-Lin Chiang;Yi-Lin Yan;Yann Guiguen;John Postlethwait

  • Expression of a type II collagen gene in the zebrafish embryonic axis

    Yi-Lin Yan;Kohei Hatta;Bob Riggleman;John H. Postlethwait

  • Developmental roles of pufferfish Hox clusters and genome evolution in ray-fin fish.

    Angel Amores;Tohru Suzuki;Yi Lin Yan;Jordan Pomeroy

  • Ectopic expression of Hoxa-1 in the zebrafish alters the fate of the mandibular arch neural crest and phenocopies a retinoic acid-induced phenotype.

    D. Alexandre;J. D. W. Clarke;E. Oxtoby;Y.-L. Yan

  • Sex-Specific Recombination Rates in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

    Amy Singer;Hodel Perlman;YiLin Yan;Charlene Walker

  • Correction: Vertebrate genome evolution and the zebrafish gene map

    John Postlethwait;Yi-Lin Yan;Michael Gates;Sally Horne

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Postlethwait
John H. Postlethwait University of Oregon
Charles B. Kimmel
Charles B. Kimmel University of Oregon
Monte Westerfield
Monte Westerfield University of Oregon
Dan Larhammar
Dan Larhammar Uppsala University
Robert Fredriksson
Robert Fredriksson Uppsala University
William S. Talbot
William S. Talbot Stanford University
Bon-chu Chung
Bon-chu Chung China Medical University
Judith S. Eisen
Judith S. Eisen University of Oregon
Leonard I. Zon
Leonard I. Zon Harvard University
Helgi B. Schiöth
Helgi B. Schiöth Uppsala University

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