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DNA methylation-based immune cell deconvolution in solid tumors

Cong Liang, Xiaoqing Yu, Bo Li, Y. Ann Chen, Jose R. Conejo-Garcia, Xuefeng Wang

Subdivision of ancestral scale genetic program underlies origin of feathers and avian scutate scales

Jacob M. Musser, Gunter P. Wagner, Cong Liang, Frank A. Stabile, Alison Cloutier, Allan J. Baker, and Richard O. Prum

Pulications

[5] Kshitiz, Afzal, J., Maziarz, J. D., Hamidzadeh, A., Liang, C. , ..., Levchenko, A., Wagner, G. P. (2019). The Evolution of Placental Invasion and Cancer Metastasis are Causally Linked. To appear in Nat. Ecol. Evol., available on biorxiv.
[4] Stewart, T. A., Liang, C., Cotney, J. L., Noonan, J. P., Sanger, T. J., & Wagner, G. P. (2019). Evidence against tetrapod-wide digit identities and for a limited frame shift in bird wings. Nat. Commun., 10(1), 3244. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11215-8
[3] Erkenbrack, E. M., Maziarz, J. D., Griffith, O. W., Liang, C., Chavan, A. R., Nnamani, M. C., & Wagner, G. P. (2018). The mammalian decidual cell evolved from a cellular stress response. PLOS Biol. , 16(8), e2005594. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005594
[2] Liang, C., Musser, J. M., Cloutier, A., Prum, R. O., & Wagner, G. P. (2018). Pervasive Correlated Evolution in Gene Expression Shapes Cell and Tissue Type Transcriptomes. Genome Biol. Evol., 10(2), 538-552. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evy016
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