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Yin Shen, PhD

Title	Assistant Professor
Institution	University of California San Francisco
Department	Neurology
Address	513 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA 94143
Phone	415-502-3403
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Biography

Education and Training

UCLA

Ph.D.

Human Genetics

Awards and Honors

	2016 -	2018	AFAR new investigator award in Alzheimer's disease
	2016 -	2019	UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences Innovation Award

Overview

Interests

Gene Regulation, 3D genome structure, Genetics, Genomics, Stem Cell Biology, Neurological Diseases.

Research

Research Activities and Funding

Development of massively parallel reporter assays that use cognate promoters
NIH/NHGRI 1R21HG010065May 1, 2018 - Apr 30, 2020
Role: Principle Investigator

Transcriptional regulation of BEST1 in retina pigment epithelium.
NIH R01EY027789Sep 30, 2017 - Jun 30, 2022
Role: Principal Investigator

Functional characterization of Alzheimer's disease associated genetic variants
NIH/NIA R01AG057497Sep 30, 2017 - May 31, 2022
Role: Principal Investigator

High throughput CRISPR-mediated functional validation of regulatory elements
NIH/NHGRI UM1HG009402Feb 1, 2017 - Jan 31, 2021
Role: Principal Investigator

ORNG Applications

Websites

In The News

Bibliographic

Publications

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Emmerson E, May AJ, Nathan S, Cruz-Pacheco N, Lizama CO, Maliskova L, Zovein AC, Shen Y, Muench MO, Knox SM. SOX2 regulates acinar cell development in the salivary gland. Elife. 2017 06 17; 6. PMID: 28623666.

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Diao Y, Fang R, Li B, Meng Z, Yu J, Qiu Y, Lin KC, Huang H, Liu T, Marina RJ, Jung I, Shen Y, Guan KL, Ren B. A tiling-deletion-based genetic screen for cis-regulatory element identification in mammalian cells. Nat Methods. 2017 Jun; 14(6):629-635. PMID: 28417999.

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He Y, Gorkin DU, Dickel DE, Nery JR, Castanon RG, Lee AY, Shen Y, Visel A, Pennacchio LA, Ren B, Ecker JR. Improved regulatory element prediction based on tissue-specific local epigenomic signatures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 02 28; 114(9):E1633-E1640. PMID: 28193886.

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Diao Y, Li B, Meng Z, Jung I, Lee AY, Dixon J, Maliskova L, Guan KL, Shen Y, Ren B. A new class of temporarily phenotypic enhancers identified by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genetic screening. Genome Res. 2016 Mar; 26(3):397-405. PMID: 26813977; PMCID: PMC4772021.

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Dixon JR, Jung I, Selvaraj S, Shen Y, Antosiewicz-Bourget JE, Lee AY, Ye Z, Kim A, Rajagopal N, Xie W, Diao Y, Liang J, Zhao H, Lobanenkov VV, Ecker JR, Thomson JA, Ren B. Chromatin architecture reorganization during stem cell differentiation. Nature. 2015 Feb 19; 518(7539):331-6. PMID: 25693564; PMCID: PMC4515363.

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Yue F, Cheng Y, Breschi A, Vierstra J, Wu W, Ryba T, Sandstrom R, Ma Z, Davis C, Pope BD, Shen Y, Pervouchine DD, Djebali S, Thurman RE, Kaul R, Rynes E, Kirilusha A, Marinov GK, Williams BA, Trout D, Amrhein H, Fisher-Aylor K, Antoshechkin I, DeSalvo G, See LH, Fastuca M, Drenkow J, Zaleski C, Dobin A, Prieto P, Lagarde J, Bussotti G, Tanzer A, Denas O, Li K, Bender MA, Zhang M, Byron R, Groudine MT, McCleary D, Pham L, Ye Z, Kuan S, Edsall L, Wu YC, Rasmussen MD, Bansal MS, Kellis M, Keller CA, Morrissey CS, Mishra T, Jain D, Dogan N, Harris RS, Cayting P, Kawli T, Boyle AP, Euskirchen G, Kundaje A, Lin S, Lin Y, Jansen C, Malladi VS, Cline MS, Erickson DT, Kirkup VM, Learned K, Sloan CA, Rosenbloom KR, Lacerda de Sousa B, Beal K, Pignatelli M, Flicek P, Lian J, Kahveci T, Lee D, Kent WJ, Ramalho Santos M, Herrero J, Notredame C, Johnson A, Vong S, Lee K, Bates D, Neri F, Diegel M, Canfield T, Sabo PJ, Wilken MS, Reh TA, Giste E, Shafer A, Kutyavin T, Haugen E, Dunn D, Reynolds AP, Neph S, Humbert R, Hansen RS, De Bruijn M, Selleri L, Rudensky A, Josefowicz S, Samstein R, Eichler EE, Orkin SH, Levasseur D, Papayannopoulou T, Chang KH, Skoultchi A, Gosh S, Disteche C, Treuting P, Wang Y, Weiss MJ, Blobel GA, Cao X, Zhong S, Wang T, Good PJ, Lowdon RF, Adams LB, Zhou XQ, Pazin MJ, Feingold EA, Wold B, Taylor J, Mortazavi A, Weissman SM, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Snyder MP, Guigo R, Gingeras TR, Gilbert DM, Hardison RC, Beer MA, Ren B. A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome. Nature. 2014 Nov 20; 515(7527):355-64. PMID: 25409824.

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Huang K, Shen Y, Xue Z, Bibikova M, April C, Liu Z, Cheng L, Nagy A, Pellegrini M, Fan JB, Fan G. A panel of CpG methylation sites distinguishes human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Reports. 2014 Jan 14; 2(1):36-43. PMID: 24511466; PMCID: PMC3916755.

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Hon GC, Rajagopal N, Shen Y, McCleary DF, Yue F, Dang MD, Ren B. Epigenetic memory at embryonic enhancers identified in DNA methylation maps from adult mouse tissues. Nat Genet. 2013 Oct; 45(10):1198-206. PMID: 23995138; PMCID: PMC4095776.

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An encyclopedia of mouse DNA elements (Mouse ENCODE). Genome Biol. 2012 Aug 13; 13(8):418. PMID: 22889292; PMCID: PMC3491367.

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Shen Y, Yue F, McCleary DF, Ye Z, Edsall L, Kuan S, Wagner U, Dixon J, Lee L, Lobanenkov VV, Ren B. A map of the cis-regulatory sequences in the mouse genome. Nature. 2012 Aug 02; 488(7409):116-20. PMID: 22763441; PMCID: PMC4041622.

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Yu M, Hon GC, Szulwach KE, Song CX, Zhang L, Kim A, Li X, Dai Q, Shen Y, Park B, Min JH, Jin P, Ren B, He C. Base-resolution analysis of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in the mammalian genome. Cell. 2012 Jun 08; 149(6):1368-80. PMID: 22608086; PMCID: PMC3589129.

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Dixon JR, Selvaraj S, Yue F, Kim A, Li Y, Shen Y, Hu M, Liu JS, Ren B. Topological domains in mammalian genomes identified by analysis of chromatin interactions. Nature. 2012 Apr 11; 485(7398):376-80. PMID: 22495300; PMCID: PMC3356448.

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Hunkapiller J, Shen Y, Diaz A, Cagney G, McCleary D, Ramalho-Santos M, Krogan N, Ren B, Song JS, Reiter JF. Polycomb-like 3 promotes polycomb repressive complex 2 binding to CpG islands and embryonic stem cell self-renewal. PLoS Genet. 2012; 8(3):e1002576. PMID: 22438827; PMCID: PMC3305387.

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Wang A, Huang K, Shen Y, Xue Z, Cai C, Horvath S, Fan G. Functional modules distinguish human induced pluripotent stem cells from embryonic stem cells. Stem Cells Dev. 2011 Nov; 20(11):1937-50. PMID: 21542696; PMCID: PMC3202894.

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Shen Y, Fouse SD, Fan G. Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling: the mDIP-chip technology. Methods Mol Biol. 2009; 568:203-16. PMID: 19582429.

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Shen Y, Matsuno Y, Fouse SD, Rao N, Root S, Xu R, Pellegrini M, Riggs AD, Fan G. X-inactivation in female human embryonic stem cells is in a nonrandom pattern and prone to epigenetic alterations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Mar 25; 105(12):4709-14. PMID: 18339804; PMCID: PMC2290804.

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Fouse SD, Shen Y, Pellegrini M, Cole S, Meissner A, Van Neste L, Jaenisch R, Fan G. Promoter CpG methylation contributes to ES cell gene regulation in parallel with Oct4/Nanog, PcG complex, and histone H3 K4/K27 trimethylation. Cell Stem Cell. 2008 Feb 07; 2(2):160-9. PMID: 18371437; PMCID: PMC3070208.

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Shen Y, Chow J, Wang Z, Fan G. Abnormal CpG island methylation occurs during in vitro differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. Hum Mol Genet. 2006 Sep 01; 15(17):2623-35. PMID: 16870691.

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Fan G, Martinowich K, Chin MH, He F, Fouse SD, Hutnick L, Hattori D, Ge W, Shen Y, Wu H, ten Hoeve J, Shuai K, Sun YE. DNA methylation controls the timing of astrogliogenesis through regulation of JAK-STAT signaling. Development. 2005 Aug; 132(15):3345-56. PMID: 16014513.

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