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  • Regulatory Variants:

    Uncovering Regulatory Variants Related with Diseases
  • Clinical Genome Informatics:

    We focus on developing several NGS products, databases, genome repositories, and products to interpret personal genome including complex and medallion diseases
  • Resilience Project:

    identified unexpected heroes in over 600,000 individuals
  • Personalized cancer therapy project:

    built a pipeline to sequence, analyze, and interpret tumor samples and created clinical reports to recommend personalized therapeutics, clinical trials and vaccine for patients with a wide variety of tumor types
  • Disease network:

    build disease networks through integrating genetic, EMR, and literature
  • Diagnostic/Prognostic assay development:

    developing methods to integrate and translate various molecular measurements in the public repositories into biomarkers for the diagnosis of disease
  • ActiVar:

    Drug target, risk factor, and disease risk profile identification from comprehensive disease variants from Hadoop-based text mining, curation, and public repositories from curated databases
  • ClinLabGeneticis.t:

    ClinLabGeneticist is disease-agnostic and can be used to explore variants associated with various rare genetic disorders although it could also work, with some adjustments, for germline cancer assessments
  • About Our Lab

    We have been working on translational bioinformatics and personalized medicine from four directions. 1). To integrate genome sequencing, exome sequencing, and RNA-Seq data to drive personalized cancer therapy. 2). To predict personal risk of disease through integrating genome sequencing, electronic medical records, and environmental factors. 3) To integrate and translate various molecular measurements in the public repositories into biomarkers for the diagnosis of disease. 4). To discover the causal variants, pathway, and mechanism to illustrate human disease through integrative genomics.

  • Recent Publications

    • Cheng WY, Hakenberg J, Li SD, Chen R. DIVAS: a centralized genetic variant repository representing 150,000 individuals from multiple disease cohorts.Bioinformatics. 2015 Sep 12. pii: btv511. [Epub ahead of print]
    • Jinlian Wang, Jun Liao, Jinglan Zhang, Wei-Yi Cheng, Jörg Hakenberg, Meng Ma, Bryn D. Webb, Rajasekar Ramasamudram-chakravarthi, Lisa Karger, Lakshmi Mehta, Ruth Kornreich, George A. Diaz, Shuyu Li, Lisa Edelmann and Rong Chen.ClinLabGeneticist: a tool for clinical management of genetic variants from whole exome sequencing in clinical genetic laboratories.Genome Medicine 2015, 7:77
    • Luo W, Obeidat M, Di Narzo AF, Chen R, Sin DD, Paré PD, Hao K. Airway Epithelial Expression Quantitative Trait Loci Reveal Genes Underlying Asthma and Other Airway Diseases.Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2015 Jun 23. [Epub ahead of print]
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  • News

    • DIVAS: a centralized genetic variant repository representing 150,000 individuals from multiple disease cohorts.
      Posted: 16 Sep 15
    • ClinLabGeneticist: a tool for clinical management of genetic variants from whole exome sequencing in clinical genetic laboratories
      Posted: 28 Jul 15

About the Lab

Our reseach focuses on translational bioinformatics, integrating genomic, genetic, phenotypic, clinical, and environmental data to identify diagnostics biomarkers and therapeutical drugs, and drive personalized medicine.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Chen has been leading the collaborative efforts to drive personalized medicine and clinical diagnosis using genome and exome sequencing and integrative genomics.

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