Representative peer-reviewed publications

since the group was established at MD Anderson

(see a full publication list)

Co-first author; Corresponding author

• Yuan Y, Ju YS, Kim Y, Li J, Wang Y, Yoon CJ, Yang Y, Martincorena I, Creighton CJ, Weinstein JN, Xu Y, Han L, Kim H-L, Nakagawa H, Park K, Campbell PJ, Liang H (2018)
  Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of Mitochondrial Genomes in Human Cancers
  Nature Genetics in press
• Wang Y, Xu X, Maglic D, Dill MT, Mojumdar K, Ng P, Jeong KJ,Tsang YH, Moreno D, Bhavana VH, Peng X, Ge Z, Chen H, Li J, Chen Z, Zhang H, Han L, Du D, Creighton CJ, Mills GB, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, Camargo F, Liang H (2018)
  Comprehensive Molecular Characterization of the Hippo Signaling Pathway in Cancer
  Cell Reports in press
• Zhang H, Wang Y, Li J, Chen H, He X, Liang H, Lu J (2018)
  Biosynthetic Energy Cost for Amino Acids Decreases in Cancer Evolution
  Nature Communications 9(1):4124 [PDF]
• Chen H, Li C, Zhou Z, Liang H (2018)
  Fast Evolving Human-specific Neural Enhancers are Associated with Aging-related Diseases
  Cell Systems 6(5):604-611 [PDF]
• Peng X, Xu Y, Wang Y, Hawke D, Yu S, Han L, Zhou Z, Jeong KJ, Tsang YH, Zhang M, Lu Y, Hwu P, Scott KL, Liang H, Mills GB (2018)
  A-to-I RNA Editing Contributes to Proteomic Diversity in Cancer
  Cancer Cell 33: 450-462 [PDF]
• Chen H, Li C, Peng X, Zhou Z, Weinstein JN, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, Liang H (2018)
  A Pan-Cancer Analysis of Enhancer Expression in Nearly 9000 Patient Samples
  Cell 173(2):386-399 [PDF]
• Peng X, Chen Z, Farshidfar F, Xu X, Lorenzi PL, Wang Y, Cheng F, Tan L, Mojumdar K, Du D, Ge Z, Li J, Thomas GV, Birsoy K, Liu L, Zhang H, Zhao Z, Marchand C, Weinstein JN, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, Bathe OF, Liang H (2018)
  Molecular Characterization and Clinical Relevance of Metabolic Expression Subtypes in Human Cancers
  Cell Reports 23(1):255-269 [PDF]
• Ge Z, Leighton JS, Wang Y, Peng X, Chen Z, Chen H, Sun Y, Yao F, Li J, Zhang H, Liu J, Shriver CD, Hu H, The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, Piwnica-Worms H, Ma L, Liang H (2018)
  Integrated Genomic Analysis of the Ubiquitin Pathway across Cancer Types
  Cell Reports 23(1):213-226 [PDF]
• Ng P, Li J, Jeong K, Shao S, Chen H, Tsang YH, Sengupta S, Wang Z, Bhavana VH, Tran R, Soewito S, Minussi DC, Moreno D, Kong K, Dogruluk T, Lu H, Gao J, Tokheim C, Zhou DC, Johnson AM, Zeng J, Ip C, Ju Z, Wester M, Yu S, Li Y, Vellano C, Schultz N, Karchin R, Ding L, Lu Y, Cheung L, Chen K, Shaw KR, Meric-Bernstam F, Scott KL, Yi S, Sahni N, Liang H, Mills GB (2018)
  Systematic Functional Annotation of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
  Cancer Cell 33, 450-462 [PDF]
• Deng J, Chen H, Zhou D, Zhang J, Chen Y, Liu Q, Ai D, Zhu H, Chu L, Ren W, Zhang X, Xia Y, Sun M, Zhang H, Li J, Peng X, Li L, Han L, Lin H, Cai X, Xiang J, Chen S, Sun Y, Zhang Y, Zhang J, Chen H, Zhao Y, Liu Y, Liang H, Zhao K (2017)
  Comparative genomic analysis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma between Asian and Caucasian patient populations
  Nature Communications 8(1):1533 [PDF]
• Li J, Akbani R, Zhao W, Lu Y, Weinstein JN, Mills GB, Liang H (2017)
  Explore, visualize and analyze functional cancer proteomic data using The Cancer Proteome Atlas
  Cancer Research 77(21):e51-54 [PDF]
• Wang Y, Xu X, Yu S, Jeong KJ, Zhou Z, Han L, Tsang YH, Li J, Chen H, Mangala LS, Yuan Y, Eterovic AK, Lu Y, Sood AK, Scott KL, Mills GB, Liang H (2017)
  Systematic characterization of A-to-I RNA editing hotspots in microRNAs across human cancers
  Genome Research 27(7):1112-1125 [PDF]
• Li J, Zhao W, Akbani R, Liu W, Ju Z, Ling S, Vellano CP, Roebuck P, Yu Q, Eterovic AK, Byers LA, Davies MA, Deng W, Vashisht Gopal YN, Chen G, von Euw EM, Slamon D, Conklin D, Heymach JV, Minna JD, Myers JN, Lu Y, Mills GB, Liang H (2017)
  Characterization of human cancer cell lines by reverse phase protein arrays
  Cancer Cell 31(2): 225-239 [PDF]
• Yuan Y, Liu L, Chen H, Wang Y, Xu Y, Mao H, Li J, Mills GB, Shu Y, Li L, Liang H (2016)
  Comprehensive characterization of molecular differences in cancer between male and female patients
  Cancer Cell 29(5): 711-722 [PDF]
• Chang HR, Nam S, Kook MC, Kim KT, Liu X, Yao H, Jung HR, Lemos R Jr, Seo HH, Park HS, Gim Y, Hong D, Huh I, Kim YW, Tan D, Liu CG, Powis G, Park T, Liang H, Kim YH (2016)
  HNF4α is a therapeutic target that links AMPK to WNT signaling in early-stage gastric cancer
  Gut 65(1):19-32 [PDF]
• Han L, Diao L, Yu S, Xu X, Li J, Zhang R, Yang Y , Werner HM, Eterovic KA, Yuan Y, Li J, Nair N, Minelli R, Tsang Y, Cheung LW, Jeong KJ, Roszik J, Ju Z, Woodman S, Lu Y, Scott KL, Li JB, Mills GB, Liang H (2015)
  The genomic landscape and clinical relevance of A-to-I RNA editing in human cancers
  Cancer Cell 28(5):515-528 [PDF]
• Li J, Han L, Roebuck P, Diao L, Liu L, Yuan Y, Weinstein JN, Liang H (2015)
  TANRIC: an interactive open platform to explore the function of lncRNAs in cancer
  Cancer Research 75(18):3728-37 [PDF]
• Han L, Yuan Y, Zheng S, Yang Y, Li J, Edgerton ME, Diao L, Xu Y, Verhaak RG, Liang H (2014)
  The Pan-Cancer analysis of pseudogene expression analysis reveals biologically and clinically relevant tumor subtypes
  Nature Communications 5:3963 [PDF]
  highlighted in Cancer Discovery [PDF]
• Yuan Y, Van Allen EM, Omberg L, Wagle N, Amin-Mansour A, Sokolov A, Byers LA, Xu Y, Hess KR, Diao L, Han L, Huang X, Lawrence MS, Weinstein JN, Stuart JM, Mills GB, Garraway LA, Margolin AA, Getz G, Liang H (2014)
  Assessing the clinical utility of cancer genomic and proteomic data across tumor types
  Nature Biotechnology 32 (7): 644-52 [PDF]
• Yang Y, Han L, Yuan Y, Li J, Hei N, Liang H (2014)
  Gene co-expression network analysis reveals common system-level properties of prognostic genes across cancer types
  Nature Communications 5:3231 [PDF]

• Li J, Lu Y, Akbani R, Ju Z, Roebuck PL, Liu W, Yang JY, Broom BM, Verhaak RG, Kane DW, Wakefield C, Weinstein JN, Mills GB, Liang H (2013)

  TCPA: a resource for cancer functional proteomics data

  Nature Methods 10 (11): 1046-1047 [PDF]
• Liang H , Cheung LW, Li J, Ju Z, Yu S, Stemke-Hale K, Dogruluk T, Lu Y, Liu X, Gu C, Guo W, Scherer SE, Carter H, Westin SN, Dyer MD, Verhaak RG, Zhang F, Karchin R, Liu CG, Lu KH, Broaddus RR, Scott KL, Hennessy BT, Mills GB (2012)

  Whole-exome sequencing combined with functional genomics reveals novel candidate driver cancer genes in endometrial cancer

  Genome Research 22(11): 2020-2129 [PDF]