Developmental Genetics and Genomics in Mammals
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Yasin and Aki presented at the WashU MRC annual symposium
Received NHGRI R00 grant!
Truly appreciate all the support from NIH and WashU during this tough situation.
Welcome Xiaoqi & Celebrating our inaugural lab lunch!
DBBS student Xiaoqi Luo joined the lab for a rotation. We had the inaugural lab lunch at Saigon cafe!
Welcome Shiori!
Dr. Shiori Kinoshita joined our lab as a postdoc, focusing on uncovering the genetic mechanisms behind pregnancy complications using genomics and computational analysis.
Enhancers are non-coding gene regulatory elements that regulate the spatial and temporal specificity of gene expression.
Our lab’s goal is to understand the function of enhancers in placental and skeletal development, disease, and evolution using functional genomics and mouse genetics.
–Questions
Over 90% of disease-associated variants identified in Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) are located in non-coding regions. How do these mutations contribute to disease development?
Mammalian limb skeletal structure displays remarkable diversity across species. Which gene regulatory elements are responsible for these species-specific differences?
