Recent Publications

  • Justin T. Roberts, Elvera A. Cooper, Connor J. Favreau, Jacob S. Howell, Lee G. Lane, James E. Mills, Derrick C. Newman, Tabitha J. Perry, Meaghan E. Russell, Brittany M. Wallace, Glen M. Borchert. Continuing Analysis of MicroRNA Origins: Formation from Transposable Element Insertions and Noncoding RNA Mutations. Mobile Genetic Elements. Nov/Dec 2013; 3:e27755; http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/mge.27755
  • Wang, B., Zhang, S.G., Wang, X.F., Tan, M., Xi, Y. (2012) Testing for differentially-expressed microRNAs with errors-in-variables nonparametric regression. PLoS ONE. 7(5):e37537.
  • Li, X., Gao, L., Cui, Q., Gary, B., Dyness, D.L., Taylor, W., Shevde-Samant, L.R., Samant, R.S., Dean-Colomb, W., Piazza, G.A., Xi, Y. (2012) Sulindac inhibits tumor cell invasion by suppressing NF-kappaB mediated transcription of microRNAs. Oncogene. In press. doi: 10.1038/onc.2011.655. 
  • Teresa J. Filshtein and Craig O. Mackenzie, Maurice D. Dale, Paul S. Dela-Cruz, Dale M. Ernst, Edward A Frankenberger, Chunyan He, Kaylee L. Heath, Andria S. Jones, Daniel K. Jones, Edward R. King, Maggie B. Maher, Travis J. Mitchell, Rachel R. Morgan, Sirisha Sirobhushanam, Scott D. Halkyard, Kiran B. Tiwari, David Rubin, Erik D Larson, Glen M. Borchert. OrbID: MicroRNA Origin Based microRNA target identification. Mobile Genetic Elements. May/June 2012, 2:3.
  • Li, X., Zhang, J., Gao, L., McClellan, S., Finan, M., Butler, T.W., Owen, L.B., Piazza, G.A., Xi, Y. (2012) MiR-181 mediates cell differentiation by interrupting the Lin28 and let-7 feedback circuit. Cell Death Differ. 19(3):378-386  
  • Li, X., Wainscott, C., Xi, Y. (2011) MicroRNA provides insight for understanding esophageal cancer. Thoracic Cancer. 2(4): 134-142.  
  • Wang, B., Wang, XF., Xi, Y. (2011) Normalizing bead-based microRNA expression data: a measurement error model-based approach. Bioinformatics. 27(11):1506-1512  
  • Glen M Borchert, Nathaniel W Holton, Erik D Larson. Repression of human Activation Induced cytidine Deaminase by miR-93 and miR-155. BMC Cancer. 2011 Aug 11:347.
  • Glen M. Borchert, Nathaniel W. Holton, Jonathan D. Williams, William L. Hernan, Ian P. Bishop, Joel A. Dembosky, James E. Elste, Nathaniel S. Gregoire, Jee-Ah Kim, Wesley W. Koehler, Joe C. Lengerich, Arianna A. Medema, Marilyn A. Nguyen, Geoffrey D. Ower, Michelle A. Rarick, Brooke N. Strong, Nicholas J. Tardi, Nathan M. Tasker, Darren J. Wozniak, Craig Gatto and Erik D. Larson.  Comprehensive analysis of microRNA genomic loci identifies pervasive repetitive-element origins. Mobile Genetic Elements. 2011 May/June: 1(1): 8-17.
  • Kumar, R., Xi, Y. (2011) MicroRNAs, epigenetic machinery, and lung cancer. Thoracic Cancer. 2(2): 35-44  
  • Wang, B., Howell, P., Bruheim, S., Ju, J., Owen, L., Fodstad,O., Xi, Y. (2011) Systematic evaluation of three microRNA profiling platforms: microarray, beads array, and quantitative real-time PCR array. PLoS ONE. 6(2):e17167.
  • Howell, P., Li, X., Riker, AI., Xi, Y. (2010) MicroRNA in Melanoma. Ochsner J. 10(2):83-92.  
  • Wang, B., Wang, XF., Howell, P., Qian, X., Huang, K., Riker, A.l., Ju, J., Xi, Y. (2010) A personalized microRNA microarray normalization method using a logistic regression model. Bioinformatics 26(2): 228-234.
  • GM Borchert, Gilmore BL, Spengler RM, Xing Y, Lanier W, Bhattacharya D, Davidson BL. Adenosine deamination in human transcripts generates novel microRNA binding sites. Human Molecular Genetics. 2009 18(24):4801-4807.
  • GM Borchert, W Lanier and BL Davidson. RNA polymerase III transcribes human microRNAs. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 2006 Dec;13(12):1097-101.