Computational Biology and Disease Genomics Lab

(Ya Allen Cui's Lab)


Selected Publications

(The Lab member is the ^(co-)first or *(co-)corresponding author); H-index=21, Citations: 1900 (As of 10/01/2025)

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2026

  • Zhengyi Zhang, Vivien Su, Carrie B Wiese, Lijing Cheng, Dan Wang, Ya Cui, Aneesh Kallapur, Jason Kim, Xiaohui Wu, Peter H Tran, Zhenqi Zhou, David Casero, Wei Li, Andrea L Hevener, Karen Reue, Tamer Sallam. A genome-wide ATLAS of liver chromatin accessibility reveals that sex dictates diet-induced nucleosome dynamics, 2026, PLOS Biology (in press). Full text at bioRxiv

  • 2025

  • Frederick J Arnold^, Ya Cui^, Sebastian Michels, Michael R Colwin, Cameron M Stockford, Wenbin Ye, Vidhya Maheswari Jawahar, Karen Jansen-West, Julien Philippe, Ravinder Gulia, Yunzi Gou, Oliver H Tam, Sneha Menon, Wendy G Situ, Saira L Cazarez, Aryan Zandi, Kean CK Ehsani, Sierra Howard, Dennis W Dickson, Molly Gale Hammell, Mercedes Prudencio, Leonard Petrucelli, Wei Li, Albert R La Spada* . TDP-43 dysregulation of polyadenylation site selection is a defining feature of RNA misprocessing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia, 2025, The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Jun 2;135(11):e182088. Full Paper

  • Ya Cui^*, Frederick J Arnold^, Jason Sheng Li, Jie Wu, Dan Wang, Julien Philippe, Michael R Colwin, Sebastian Michels, Chaorong Chen, Tamer Sallam, Leslie M Thompson*, Albert R La Spada*, Wei Li*. Multi-omic quantitative trait loci link tandem repeat size variation to gene regulation in human brain, 2025, Nature Genetics 57, pages369–378. Full Paper

  • 2024

  • Wenbin Ye^, Jason Sheng Li^, Wei Li, Ya Cui*. Advancements and future perspectives of human tandem repeats, 2024, Science bulletin, 69(23):3633-3636.. Full Paper

  • Ya Cui^*, Wenbin Ye^, Jason Sheng Li, Jingyi Jessica Li, Eric Vilain, Tamer Sallam, Wei Li*. A genome-wide spectrum of tandem repeat expansions in 338,963 humans, 2024, Cell 57, pages369–378. Full Paper

  • 2020-2023

  • Lei Li^, Xuelian Ma^, Ya Cui^, Maxime Rotival, Wenyan Chen, Xudong Zou, Ruofan Ding, Yangmei Qin, Qixuan Wang, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Wei Li*. Immune-response 3′ UTR alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci contribute to variation in human complex traits and diseases, 2023, Nature Communications 14, Article number: 8347. Full Paper

  • Ya Cui^, Frederick J Arnold^, Fanglue Peng, Dan Wang, Jason Sheng Li, Sebastian Michels, Eric J Wagner, Albert R La Spada*, Wei Li*. Alternative polyadenylation transcriptome-wide association study identifies APA-linked susceptibility genes in brain disorders, 2023, Nature Communications 14, Article number: 583. Full Paper

  • Ya Cui^, Fanglue Peng, Dan Wang, Yumei Li, Jason Sheng Li, Lei Li, Wei Li* 3′ aQTL-atlas: an atlas of 3′ UTR alternative polyadenylation quantitative trait loci across human normal tissues, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research Pages D39–D45. Full Paper

  • Ya Cui^*, Jason Sheng Li, Wei Li* From Reads to Insights: Integrative Pipelines for Biological Interpretation of ATAC-seq Data, 2021, Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics Pages 519–521. Full Paper

  • Zhe Cui^, Ya Cui^, Yan Gao, Tao Jiang, Tianyi Zang*, Yadong Wang* Enhancement and Imputation of Peak Signal Enables Accurate Cell-Type Classification in scATAC-seq, 2021, Frontiers in Genetics Volume 12 - 2021. Full Paper

  • Ya Cui^, Zhe Cui^, Jianfeng Xu, Dapeng Hao, Jiejun Shi, Dan Wang, Hui Xiao, Xiaohong Duan, Runsheng Chen, Wei Li* NG-Circos: next-generation Circos for data visualization and interpretation, 2020, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics Volume 2, Issue 3. Full Paper

  • Before 2020

  • Full publications before 2020 can be found at Google Scholar.