Publications by authors named "Daina Eiser"

Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. Both rare and common germline variants contribute to PDAC risk.

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  • Identified noncoding driver mutations in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by mapping accessible chromatin regions and histone modifications in pancreatic cell lines and tissues, integrating this data with whole-genome mutations from 506 PDAC cases.
  • *From 3,614 noncoding somatic mutations (NCSMs) found, 178 were shown to significantly affect gene activity, highlighting their potential role in cancer progression.
  • *Further experiments pinpointed specific genes impacted by these mutations, with a focus on one gene (KLF9) that showed reduced expression due to interference from NCSMs, establishing it as a possible PDAC driver gene.
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Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. Both rare and common germline variants contribute to PDAC risk.

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Host restriction factors play key roles in innate antiviral defense, but it remains poorly understood which of them restricts HIV-1 in vivo. Here, we used single-cell transcriptomic analysis to identify host factors associated with HIV-1 control during acute infection by correlating host gene expression with viral RNA abundance within individual cells. Wide sequencing of cells from one participant with the highest plasma viral load revealed that intracellular viral RNA transcription correlates inversely with expression of the gene , which encodes prothymosin α.

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Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have discovered 20 risk loci in the human genome where germline variants associate with risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in populations of European ancestry. Here, we fine-mapped one such locus on chr16q23.1 (rs72802365, p = 2.

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