Publications

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1.     Xuan Liu, Chen Yang, Liying Pei, Umamaheswari Muniasamy, Gleb Chaykun, Mei Shan Ong, Mario Octavianus Ihsan, Rijan Gurung, Boxiang Liu, Vitaly A Sorokin (2026) Endothelial tenascin signaling preserves VSMCs contractile phenotype in the human arterial wall in type II diabetes mellitus. Journal of Translational Medicine [paper]

2.     Chang Xu, Shibo Liu, Yang Heng, Chen Yang, Yuan Cao,Junbin Gao, Songren Wei, Dongmei Jia, Diyan Liang, Yong Ma, Siok-Bian Ng, Hechen Li, Xiuwei Zhang, Yun Gong, Hui Shen, Hongwen Deng, Ao Chen, Xun Xu, Sha Liao, Qinghua Jiang, Boxiang Liu. (2026) Integration and annotation of spatial multi-omic data with DIRAC. Nature Methods (IF=51.7) [accepted]

3.     Jianhua Yin, Yuhui Zheng, Zhuoli Huang, Wenwen Zhou, Yue Yuan, Pengfei Cai, Yong Bai, Shichen Yang, Yue Gao, Shanshan Duan, Yang Wang, Zekai Xu, Wenxi Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Yilin Wei, Yaling Huang, Ying Liu, Weikai Wang, Tao Yang, Zhongjin Zhang, Xiaoya Chen, Xiru Zhang, Jingzhi Lv, Fupeng Li, Yan Zhang, Guodan Zeng, Xue Wang, Wen Ma, Guixue Hou, Shijie Hao, Chang Liu, Yiwei Lai, Panhong Liu, Bo Wang, Yuxiang Li, Wenwei Zhang, Peng Gao, Jun Xie, Miguel A Esteban, Ying Gu, Xin Liu, Jiansong Ji, Ting Qi, Boxiang Liu, Hua Wang, Yi Zhao, Xiao Yang, Xiangdong Wang, Runsheng Chen, Jian Yang, Ye Yin, Jian Wang, Yanan Cao, Xun Xu, Longqi Liu, Xin Jin, Chuanyu Liu. (2026). Chinese immune multi-omics atlas. Science [paper]

4.     Yichao Zhou, Sarah Sumner, Temidayo Adeluwa, Lisha Zhu, Sofia Salazar-Magaña, Hyunki Kim, Saideep Gona, Festus Nyasimi, Rohit Kulkarni, Joseph Powell, Ravi Madduri, Boxiang Liu, Mengjie Chen, Hae Kyung Im. (2026). Protocol to perform cell-type-specific transcriptome-wide association study using scPrediXcan framework. STAR Protocols [paper]

5.     Chenwei Tang, Quan Sun, Xinyue Zeng, Xiaoyu Yang, Fei Liu, Jinying Zhao, Yin Shen, Boxiang Liu, Jia Wen, Yun Li. (2025). Cell-type specific inference from bulk RNA-sequencing data by integrating single cell reference profiles via EPIC-unmix. Genome Biology [paper]

6.     Fei Liu, Junbin Gao, Yi Lin, Haiyue Meng, Wei Wang, Yujiao Luo, Yuan Cao, Wenjing Wang, Fei Guan, Peizhe Wang, Jin Tang, Hae Kyung Im, Xiaoquan Wen, Boxiang Liu*. (2025). Mitigating inconsistencies in GWAS follow-up analyses with LocusCompare2. Nature Genetics (IF=38.33) [paper]

7.     Wenjing Wang, Wei Lin Liew, Shiqi Huang, Edmund Chan, Amelia Li Min Tan, Chi Tian, Yihan Tong, Yuntian Zhang, Fei Liu, Yixian Qin, Sean Jun Leong Ou, Suresh Anand Sadananthan, Sambasivam Sendhil Velan, Kavita Venkataraman, Sarah R Langley, Petretto Enrico, Shawn Hoon, Kwang Wei Tham, Yap Seng Chong, Yung Seng Lee, Melvin Khee-Shing Leow, Xueling Sim, Chin Meng Khoo, E Shyong Tai, Eric Yin Hao Khoo, Mei Hui Liu*, Boxiang Liu*. (2025). Impact of Polymorphisms on Gene Expression and Splicing in Response to Exercise and Diet-induced Weight-loss in Human Skeletal Muscle Tissues. Cell Genomics [paper]

8.     Yichao Zhou, Temidayo Adeluwa, Lisha Zhu, Sofia Salazar-Magaña, Sarah Sumner, Hyunki Kim, Saideep Gona, Festus Nyasimi, Rohit Kulkarni, Joseph E Powell, Ravi Madduri, Boxiang Liu, Mengjie Chen, Hae Kyung Im. (2025). scPrediXcan integrates deep learning methods and single-cell data into a cell-type-specific transcriptome-wide association study framework. Cell Genomics [paper]

9.     Anne Loft, Margo P Emont, Ada Weinstock, Adeline Divoux, Adhideb Ghosh, Allon Wagner, Ann V Hertzel, Babukrishna Maniyadath, Bart Deplancke, Boxiang Liu, Camilla Scheele, et al., Vissarion Efthymiou, Wenjing Wang, Yihan Tong, Yu-Hua Tseng, Susanne Mandrup, Evan D Rosen. (2025). Towards a consensus atlas of human and mouse adipose tissue at single-cell resolution. Nature Metabolism [paper]

10.  Kian Hong Kock, Le Min Tan, Kyung Yeon Han, Yoshinari Ando, Damita Jevapatarakul, Ankita Chatterjee, Quy Xiao Xuan Lin, Eliora Violain Buyamin, Radhika Sonthalia, Deepa Rajagopalan, Yoshihiko Tomofuji, et al., Murim Choi, Boxiang Liu, Arindam Maitra, Manop Pithukpakorn, Bhoom Suktitipat, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Yukinori Okada, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Piero Carninci, John C. Chambers, Chung-Chau Hon, Ponpan Matangkasombut, Varodom Charoensawan, Partha P. Majumder, Jay W. Shin, Woong-Yang Park, Shyam Prabhakar. (2025). Asian diversity in human immune cells. Cell (IF=66.85) [paper]

11.  Chi Tian, Yuntian Zhang, Yihan Tong, Kian Hong Kock, Donald Yuhui Sim, Fei Liu, Jiaqi Dong, Zhixuan Jing, Wenjing Wang, Junbin Gao, Le Min Tan, Kyung Yeon Han, Yoshihiko Tomofuji, et al., Yukinori Okada, Woong-Yang Park, Jay W. Shin, Xavier Roca, Shyam Prabhakar, Boxiang Liu*. (2024). Single-cell RNA-seq links cell-type-specific regulation of splicing with complex diseases. Nature Genetics (IF=38.33) [paper] [on the cover] [Nature Collection] [Nature Genetics Research Briefing]

12.  Foozhan Tahmasebinia, Yinglu Tang, Rushi Tang, Yi Zhang, Will Bonderer, Maisa de Oliveira, Bretton Laboret, Songjie Chen, Ruiqi Jian, Lihua Jiang, Michael Snyder, Chun-Hong Chen, Yawei Shen, Qing Liu, Boxiang Liu*, Zhihao Wu*. (2025). The 40S ribosomal subunit recycling complex modulates mitochondrial dynamics and endoplasmic reticulum - mitochondria tethering at mitochondrial fission/fusion hotspots. Nature Communications (IF = 14.7) [paper]

13.  Rongzhuo Long, Ziyu Guo, Da Han, Boxiang Liu, Xudong Yuan, Guangyong Chen, Pheng-Ann Heng, Liang Zhang. (2024). siRNADiscovery: a graph neural network for siRNA efficacy prediction via deep RNA sequence analysis. Briefings in Bioinformatics [paper]

14.  Yoshihiko Tomofuji, Ryuya Edahiro, Kyuto Sonehara, Yuya Shirai, Kian Hong Kock, Qingbo S. Wang, Shinichi Namba, Jonathan Moody, Yoshinari Ando, Akari Suzuki, Tomohiro Yata, Kotaro Ogawa, Tatsuhiko Naito, Ho Namkoong, Quy Xiao Xuan Lin, Eliora Violain Buyamin, Le Min Tan, Radhika Sonthalia, Kyung Yeon Han, Hiromu Tanaka, Ho Lee, Asian Immune Diversity Atlas Network, Japan COVID-19 Task Force, The BioBank Japan Project, Tatsusada Okuno, Boxiang Liu, Koichi Matsuda, Koichi Fukunaga, Hideki Mochizuki, Woong-Yang Park, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Chung-Chau Hon, Jay W. Shin, Shyam Prabhakar, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Yukinori Okada (2024). Quantification of escape from X chromosome inactivation with single-cell omics data reveals heterogeneity across cell types and tissues. Cell Genomics [paper]

15.  Yuxuan Hu, Chengtao Pu, Boxiang Liu, Liang Zhang. (2024). The rational design of mRNA vaccine: From empirical method to artificial intelligence-based design. Chinese Science Bulletin [paper]

16.  He Zhang, Liang Zhang, Ang Lin, Congcong Xu, Ziyu Li, Kaibo Liu, Boxiang Liu, Xiaopin Ma, Fanfan Zhao, Huiling Jiang, Chunxiu Chen, Haifa Shen, Hangwen Li, David H. Mathews, Yujian Zhang, Liang Huang. (2023). Algorithm for Optimized mRNA Design Improves Stability and Immunogenicity. Nature [paper] [Nature News]

17.  Hyun-Jung Kim, Paul Cheng, Stanislao Travisano, Chad Weldy, João P. Monteiro, Ramendra Kundu, Trieu Nguyen, Disha Sharma, Huitong Shi, Yi Lin, Boxiang Liu, Saptarsi Haldar, Simon Jackson, Thomas Quertermous. (2023). Molecular mechanisms of coronary artery disease risk at the PDGFD locus. Nature Communications [paper]

18.  Mayank Dalakoti, Roger Foo, RESET Consortium (including Boxiang Liu). (2023). Redirecting immune, lipid, and metabolic drivers of early cardiovascular disease: the RESET cohort study and randomized trial. European Heart Journal [paper]

19.  Boxiang Liu1*, Yanjun Li1, Liang Zhang. (2022). Analysis and Visualization of Spatial Transcriptomic Data. Frontiers in Genetics [paper]

20.  Yunpeng Huang, Zhihui Wan, Yinglu Tang, Junxuan Xu, Bretton Laboret, Sree Nallamothu, Chenyu Yang, Boxiang Liu, Rongze Olivia Lu, Bingwei Lu, Juan Feng, Jing Cao, Susan Hayflick, Bing Zhou, Zhihao Wu. (2022). Pantothenate Kinase 2 Intertwines with PINK1 and Regulates Mitochondrial Quality Control. Nature Communications [paper]

21.  Sizhen Li, He Zhang, Liang Zhang, Kaibo Liu, Boxiang Liu, David H. Mathews, Liang Huang (2021). LinearTurboFold: Linear-Time RNA Structural Alignment and Conserved Structure Prediction with Applications to Coronaviruses. PNAS [paper]

22.  Xingyu Cai, Yuchen Bian, Jiaji Huang, Boxiang Liu, Jiahong Yuan, Kenneth Church. (2021 SSPF: a Simple and Scalable Parameter Free Clustering Method. International Conference on Data Mining Workshops [paper]

23.  Kenneth Church and Boxiang Liu. (2021). Multiword Expressions, Acronyms and Opportunities for Improving Deep Nets. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. [paper]

24.  Yingmei Li, Dina Polyak, Layton Lamsam, Ian David Connolly, Eli Johnson, Lina Khav Khoeur, Stephanie Andersen, Monica Granucci, Geoff Stanley, Boxiang Liu, Seema Nagpal, Melanie Hayden Gephart. (2021). Comprehensive RNA analysis of CSF reveals a role for CEACAM6 in lung cancer leptomeningeal metastases. npj Precision Oncology. [paper]

25.  Alvaro N Barbeira, Rodrigo Bonazzola, Eric R Gamazon, Yanyu Liang, YoSon Park, Sarah Kim-Hellmuth, Gao Wang, Zhuoxun Jiang, Dan Zhou, Farhad Hormozdiari, Boxiang Liu, Abhiram Rao, Andrew R Hamel, Milton D Pividori, François Aguet, Lisa Bastarache, Daniel M Jordan, Marie Verbanck, Ron Do, Matthew Stephens, Kristin Ardlie, Mark McCarthy, Stephen B Montgomery, Ayellet Segré, Christopher D Brown, Tuuli Lappalainen, Xiaoquan Wen, Hae Kyung Im, GTEx GWAS Working Group, GTEx Consortium. (2020). Exploiting the GTEx resources to decipher the mechanisms at GWAS loci. Genome Biology. [paper]

26.  Boxiang Liu*, Liang Huang. (2021). ParaMed: A Parallel Corpus for English-Chinese Translation in the Biomedical Domain. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. [paper]

27.  Boxiang Liu*, Kaibo Liu, He Zhang, Liang Zhang, Yuchen Bian, Liang Huang. (2020). CoV-Seq, a New Tool for SARS-CoV-2 Genome Analysis and Visualization: Development and Usability Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. [paper]

28.  Quanyi Zhao, Michael Dacre, Trieu Nguyen, Milos Pjanic, Boxiang Liu, Dharini Iyer, Paul Cheng, Robert Wirka, Juyong Brian Kim, Hunter B Fraser, Thomas Quertermous (2020). Molecular mechanisms of coronary disease revealed using quantitative trait loci for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility, and chromosomal looping. Genome Biology. [paper]

29.  M Ryan Corces, Anna Shcherbina, Soumya Kundu, Michael J Gloudemans, Laure Frésard, Jeffrey M Granja, Bryan H Louie, Tiffany Eulalio, Shadi Shams, S Tansu Bagdatli, Maxwell R Mumbach, Boxiang Liu, Kathleen S Montine, William J Greenleaf, Anshul Kundaje, Stephen B Montgomery, Howard Y Chang, Thomas J Montine. (2020). Single-cell epigenomic analyses implicate candidate causal variants at inherited risk loci for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Nature Genetics. [paper]

30.  Md Bahadur Badsha1, Rui Li1, Boxiang Liu1, Yang I Li, Min Xian, Nicholas E Banovich, Audrey Qiuyan Fu. (2020). Imputation of single-cell gene expression with an autoencoder neural network. Quantitative Biology. [paper]

31.  Brunilda Balliu, Matthew Durrant, Olivia de Goede, Nathan Abell, Xin Li, Boxiang Liu, Michael J. Gloudemans, Naomi L. Cook, Kevin S. Smith, David A. Knowles, Mauro Pala, Francesco Cucca, David Schlessinger, Siddhartha Jaiswal, Chiara Sabatti, Lars Lind, Erik Ingelsson & Stephen B. Montgomery. (2019). Genetic dysregulation of gene expression and splicing during a ten-year period of human aging. Genome Biology [paper]

32.  Boxiang Liu*, and Stephen B. Montgomery*. Identifying causal variants and genes using functional genomics in specialized cell types and contexts. (2019). Human Genetics. [paper]

33.  Laure Frésard, Craig Smail, Nicole M. Ferraro, Nicole A. Teran, Xin Li, Kevin S. Smith, Devon Bonner, Kristin D. Kernohan, Shruti Marwaha, Zachary Zappala, Brunilda Balliu, Joe R. Davis, Boxiang Liu, Cameron J. Prybol, Jennefer N. Kohler, Diane B. Zastrow, Chloe M. Reuter, Dianna G. Fisk, Megan E. Grove, Jean M. Davidson, Taila Hartley, Ruchi Joshi, Benjamin J. Strober, Sowmithri Utiramerur, Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Care4Rare Canada Consortium, Lars Lind, Erik Ingelsson, Alexis Battle, Gill Bejerano, Jonathan A. Bernstein, Euan A. Ashley, Kym M. Boycott, Jason D. Merker, Matthew T. Wheeler & Stephen B. Montgomery. (2019). Identification of rare-disease genes in diverse undiagnosed cases using whole blood transcriptome sequencing and large control cohorts. Nature Medicine. [paper]

34.  Zhongdong Liu, Boxiang Liu, Gaowei Chen. (2019). Retrospective analysis of the development history of the Chinese food additive standards system based on the CODEX principles. npj Science of Food. [paper]

35.  Xia Zhang, Huaijian Tang, Gaowei Chen, Linran Qiao, Jinlong Li, Boxiang Liu, Zhongdong Liu, Mengxing Li, Xu Liu (2019) Growth performance and nutritional profile of mealworms reared on corn stover, soybean meal, and distillers’ grains. European Food Research and Technology [paper]

36.  Boxiang Liu1*, Michael J. Gloudemans1, Abhiram S. Rao, Erik Ingelsson, and Stephen B. Montgomery*. (2019). Abundant associations with gene expression complicate GWAS follow-up. Nature Genetics, 51(5), 768-769. [paper]

37.  Mengfei Wan, Zhongdong Liu, Yongfu Chen, Caiyuan Lu, Kechang Li, Fahe Wang, Xiaomei Wang, Boxiang Liu. (2019). Preparation of pure gum raw materials-low brown algae application. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. [paper]

38.  Robert C. Wirka, Dhananjay Wagh, David T. Paik, Milos Pjanic, Trieu Nguyen, Clint L. Miller, Ramen Kundu, Manabu Nagao, John Coller, Tiffany K. Koyano, Robyn Fong, Y. Joseph Woo, Boxiang Liu, Stephen B. Montgomery, Joseph C. Wu, Kuixi Zhu, Rui Chang, Melissa Alamprese, Michelle D. Tallquist, Juyong B. Kim & Thomas Quertermous. (2019). Atheroprotective roles of smooth muscle cell phenotypic modulation and the TCF21 disease gene as revealed by single-cell analysis. Nature Medicine. [paper]

39.  Boxiang Liu1, Melissa A. Calton1, Nathan S. Abell, Gillie Benchorin, Michael J. Gloudemans, Ming Chen, Jane Hu, Xin Li, Brunilda Balliu, Dean Bok, Stephen B. Montgomery, Douglas Vollrath. (2019). Genetic analyses of human fetal retinal pigment epithelium gene expression suggest ocular disease mechanisms. Communications Biology. [paper]

40.  Alvaro N. Barbeira, Scott P. Dickinson, Rodrigo Bonazzola, Jiamao Zheng, Heather E. Wheeler, Jason M. Torres, Eric S. Torstenson, Kaanan P. Shah, Tzintzuni Garcia, Todd L. Edwards, Eli A. Stahl, Laura M. Huckins, GTEx Consortium (incl. Boxiang Liu), Dan L. Nicolae, Nancy J. Cox, Hae Kyung Im. (2018). Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics. Nature Communications [paper]

41.  Vivek Nanda, Ting Wang, Milos Pjanic, Boxiang Liu, Trieu Nguyen, Ljubica Perisic Matic, Ulf Hedin, Simon Koplev, Lijiang Ma, Oscar Franzén, Arno Ruusalepp, Eric E. Schadt, Johan L. M. Björkegren, Stephen B. Montgomery, Michael P. Snyder, Thomas Quertermous, Nicholas J. Leeper, Clint L. Miller (2018). Functional Regulatory Mechanism of Smooth Muscle Cell-Restricted LMOD1 Coronary Artery Disease Locus. PLOS Genetics. [paper]

42.  Bina Kakusa, Summer Han, Sonya Aggarwal, Boxiang Liu, Gordon Li, Scott Soltys and Melanie Hayden Gephart. (2018). Clinical Factors Associated with Mortality Within Three Months After Radiosurgery of Small, Asymptomatic Brain Metastases from Non-small Cell Lung Cancer. Journal of Neuro-Oncology. [paper]

43.  Dharini Iyer, Quanyi Zhao, Robert Wirka, Ameay Naravane, Trieu Nguyen, Boxiang Liu, Manabu Nagao, Paul Cheng, Clint L. Miller, Juyong Brian Kim, Milos Pjanic, Thomas Quertermous. (2018). Coronary artery disease genes SMAD3 and TCF21 promote opposing interactive genetic programs that regulate smooth muscle cell differentiation and disease risk. PLOS Genetics. [paper]

44.  Boxiang Liu, Milos Pjanic, Ting Wang, Trieu Nguyen, Michael Gloudemans, Abhiram Rao, Victor G. Castano, Sylvia Nurnberg, Daniel J Rader, Susannah Elwyn, Erik Ingelsson, Stephen B Montgomery, Clint L Miller, Thomas Quertermous. (2018). Genetic regulatory mechanisms of smooth muscle cells map to coronary artery disease risk loci. American Journal of Human Genetics. [paper]

45.  Boxiang Liu*, and Thomas Quertermous. (2017). Approximating the sum of independent non-identical binomial random variables. R Journal [paper]

46.  Li, Yingmei1, Boxiang Liu1, Ian David Connolly1, Bina Wasunga Kakusa, Wenying Pan, Seema Nagpal, Stephen B. Montgomery, and Melanie Hayden Gephart. (2018). Recurrently mutated genes differ between leptomeningeal and solid lung cancer brain metastases. Journal of Thoracic Oncology. [paper]

47.  Boxiang Liu, Nadine Hussami, Avanti Shrikumar, Tyler Shimko, Salil Bhate, Scott Longwell, Stephen Montgomery, and Anshul Kundaje. (2017) A multi-modal neural network for learning cis and trans regulation of stress response in yeast. NeurIPS Machine Learning in Computational Biology Workshop [paper]

48.  Juyong Brian Kim, Milos Pjanic, Trieu Nguyen, Clint L Miller, Dharini Iyer, Boxiang Liu, Ting Wang, Olga Sazonova, Ivan Carcamo-Orive, Ljubica Perisic Matic, Lars Maegdefessel, Ulf Hedin, Thomas Quertermous. (2017). TCF21 and the environmental sensor aryl-hydrocarbon receptor cooperate to activate a pro-inflammatory gene expression program in coronary artery smooth muscle cells. PLOS Genetics. [paper]

49.  GTEx Consortium (including Boxiang Liu). (2017). Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues. Nature. [paper][Nature News] Note: GTEx Consortium is a multi-institutional collaboration with 200+ authors. Boxiang Liu is involved with the eQTL Manuscript Working Group and Statistical Methods Group

50.  Xin Li, Yungil Kim, Emily K. Tsang, Joe R. Davis, Farhan N. Damani, Colby Chiang, Gaelen T. Hess, Zachary Zappala, Benjamin J. Strober, Alexandra J. Scott, Amy Li, Andrea Ganna, Michael C. Bassik, Jason D. Merker, GTEx Consortium (including Boxiang Liu), Ira M. Hall, Alexis Battle & Stephen B. Montgomery (2017). The impact of rare variation on gene expression across tissues. Nature [paper]

51.  Meng How Tan, Qin Li, Raghuvaran Shanmugam, Robert Piskol, Jennefer Kohler, Amy N. Young, Kaiwen Ivy Liu, Rui Zhang, Gokul Ramaswami, Kentaro Ariyoshi, Ankita Gupte, Liam P. Keegan, Cyril X. George, Avinash Ramu, Ni Huang, Elizabeth A. Pollina, Dena S. Leeman, Alessandra Rustighi, Y. P. Sharon Goh, GTEx Consortium (including Boxiang Liu), Ajay Chawla, Giannino Del Sal, Gary Peltz, Anne Brunet, Donald F. Conrad, Charles E. Samuel, Mary A. O’Connell, Carl R. Walkley, Kazuko Nishikura & Jin Billy Li. (2017). Dynamic landscape and regulation of RNA editing in mammals. Nature. [paper]

52.  Taru Tukiainen, Alexandra-Chloé Villani, Angela Yen, Manuel A. Rivas, Jamie L. Marshall, Rahul Satija, Matt Aguirre, Laura Gauthier, Mark Fleharty, Andrew Kirby, Beryl B. Cummings, Stephane E. Castel, Konrad J. Karczewski, François Aguet, Andrea Byrnes, GTEx Consortium (including Boxiang Liu), Tuuli Lappalainen, Aviv Regev, Kristin G. Ardlie, Nir Hacohen & Daniel G. MacArthur. (2017) Landscape of X chromosome inactivation across human tissues. Nature. [paper]

53.  Halit Ongen, Andrew A Brown, Olivier Delaneau, Nikolaos I Panousis, Alexandra C Nica, GTEx Consortium (including Boxiang Liu), Emmanouil T Dermitzakis (2017). Estimating the causal tissues for complex traits and diseases. Nature Genetics [paper]

54.  Beryl B. Cummings, Jamie L. Marshall, Taru Tukiainen, Monkol Lek, Sandra Donkervoort, A. Reghan Foley, Veronique Bolduc, Leigh B. Waddell, Sarah A. Sandaradura, Gina L. O’Grady, Elicia Estrella, Hemakumar M. Reddy, Fengmei Zhao, Ben Weisburd, Konrad J. Karczewski, Anne H. O’Donnell-Luria, Daniel Birnbaum, Anna Sarkozy, Ying Hu, Hernan Gonorazky, Kristl Claeys, Himanshu Joshi, Adam Bournazos, Emily C. Oates, Roula Ghaoui, Mark R. Davis, Nigel G. Laing, Ana Topf, Genotype-Tissue Expression Consortium (including Boxiang Liu), Peter B. Kang, Alan H. Beggs, Kathryn N. North, Volker Straub, James J. Dowling, Francesco Muntoni, Nigel F. Clarke, Sandra T. Cooper, Carsten G. Bönnemann, and Daniel G. MacArthur. (2017). Improving genetic diagnosis in Mendelian disease with transcriptome sequencing. Science Translational Medicine [paper]

55.  Colby Chiang, Alexandra J Scott, Joe R Davis, Emily K Tsang, Xin Li, Yungil Kim, Tarik Hadzic, Farhan N Damani, Liron Ganel, GTEx Consortium (including Boxiang Liu), Stephen B Montgomery, Alexis Battle, Donald F Conrad, Ira M Hall. (2017). The impact of structural variation on human gene expression. Nature Genetics [paper]

56.  Fan Yang, Jiebiao Wang, The GTEx Consortium (including Boxiang Liu), Brandon L. Pierce, Lin S. Chen. (2017). Identifying cis-mediators for trans-eQTLs across many human tissues using genomic mediation analysis. Genome Research [paper]

57.  Ashis Saha, Yungil Kim, Ariel D.H. Gewirtz, Brian Jo, Chuan Gao, Ian C. McDowell, The GTEx Consortium (including Boxiang Liu), Barbara E. Engelhardt, Alexis Battle. (2017). Co-expression networks reveal the tissue-specific regulation of transcription and splicing. Genome Research [paper]

58.  Zhihao Wu, Yan Wang, Junghyun Lim, Boxiang Liu, Yanping Li, Rasika Vartak, Trisha Stankiewicz, Stephen Montgomery, Bingwei Lu. (2017). Ubiquitination of ABCE1 by NOT4 in Response to Mitochondrial Damage Links Co-translational Quality Control to PINK1-Directed Mitophagy. Cell Metabolism. [paper]