Program

Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Program

The overall mission of the HCC Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics Program (CG&E) is to advance and accelerate our understanding of the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that promote tumorigenesis, then apply this knowledge to improve prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

Recent, High-Impact Publications

  • Analysing long-read CRISPR experiments with CRISPRLungo.

    Hwang GH, Vyshedskiy B, Barry T, Zeng J, Levesque S, Manis JP, Shimamura A, Bauer DE, Pinello L

    Nature Biomedical Engineering 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Changes in the transcriptome and synthetic lethal dependencies following mutant expression reveal profound tissue specificity.

    Martin TD, Choi MY, McBride JC, Elledge SJ

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2026; 123(36):e2614664123.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Automated prototyping of genetic codes.

    Radford F, Sapers N, Burgess HM, Ort L, Budnik B, Church GM

  • LINE-1 insertion intermediates recombine with one another or with DNA breaks to form genome rearrangements.

    Mendez-Dorantes C, Kalinowski JC, Burn A, Schofield P, Law CT, Isik E, Burns KH

    Nature Communications 2026; 17(1).PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Conserved neuronal-like and secretory programs define the spatial architecture of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.

    Karam J, Hoffman SE, Garza A, Gui D, Hoffman HI, Titchen BM, Tanaka Y, Pimenta E, Pappa T, Valderrabano L, Bi K, Gillani R, Brais L, Shannon E, Hornick JL, Park J, Chan J, Van Allen EM

    The Journal of clinical investigation 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • Virome-wide ubiquitin ligase discovery reveals diverse mechanisms of immune evasion.

    Glassman CR, Baek K, Hou G, Zeng Q, Nardone C, Juergens KB, Fujimura E, O'Leary CN, Li MZ, Paulo JA, Fischer ES, Ding S, Harper JW, Elledge SJ

    Science (New York, N.Y.) 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • A compendium of next-generation patient-derived models for diverse cancers.

    ElHarouni D, Al-Jazrawe M, Choi S, Dede M, Hinoue T, Misek SA, Noh H, Zanella L, Tseng YY, Francies HE, Plenker D, Kyi CW, Perez-Mayoral J, Stine MJ, Tonsing-Carter E, Agarwal R, Zenklusen JC, Clinton JM, Shelton JM, Chu TR, Hooper WF, Loinaz X, Keskula P, Tagle J, Kuhlers PC, Tercan B, Boj SF, Vasciaveo A, Tomassoni L, Crawford JM, Walsh S, Sinai C, Bhatia S, Sridevi P, Patel H, Cerone MA, , Ellrott K, Kuo CJ, Elemento O, Beyaz S, Corbo V, Spector DL, Beroukhim R, Ferguson ML, Cherniack AD, Laird PW, Robine N, McPherson A, Hoadley KA, Garnett MJ, Tuveson DA, Califano A, Spellman PT, Ligon KL, Gerhard DS, Staudt LM, Boehm JS

  • A Bayesian framework for longitudinal EHR and genetic discovery.

    Urbut SM, Ding Y, Nakao T, Koyama S, Misra A, Jiang X, Harish A, Gaffney L, Hornsby WE, Smoller JW, Gusev A, Natarajan P, Parmigiani G

  • Chromatin topology and distal elements underlie divergent cell-type-specific regulation of 9p21 locus cell cycle genes.

    Torlai Triglia E, Miller TE, Durand NC, Kim KL, Casaní-Galdón S, D'Antonio J, Javed N, Paz Hernandez A, Raman A, Cruz AJ, Issner R, Choudhary A, Aguet F, Verga J, Chan M, Ramanathan V, Li CM, Hecht V, Hansen AS, Aryee MJ, Epstein CB, Kelley DR, Najm FJ, Shoresh N, Ardlie K, Hendrickson DG, Ruby JG, Bernstein BE, Gaskell E

    Cell Genomics 2026; 101304.PubMed(opens in new window)
  • A viral ORFeome library for systems-level genetic dissection of host-pathogen interactions.

    Fujimura E, O'Leary CN, Li MZ, Roberts RA, Glassman CR, Paulo JA, Jiang H, Abdelfattah NS, Wooten EC, Mirman Z, Harper JW, Cole PA, Elledge SJ

  • SIRT7 regulates dosage compensation and safeguards the female X chromosome.

    Simonet NG, Thackray JK, Kesner B, Guitart-Solanes A, Serra F, Espinosa-Alcantud M, Lappala A, Marín-Gual L, Marín-García C, Weissbein U, Castelló-García J, Bauer M, Wang D, Rovirosa L, Tischfield J, Serrano L, Payer B, Ruiz-Herrera A, Vazquez BN, Javierre BM, Vaquero A, Lee JT

  • SPACE-seq integrates spatial transcriptomics and lineage tracing in native tissues.

    Jia Y, Sun D, Weir JA, Liu X, Russell AJC, Kim Y, Thom N, Marrero G, Kumar V, Chen F, Camargo FD

    Cell stem cell 2026.PubMed(opens in new window)

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