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Lei Kang

University of Virginia

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Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Assay:scATAC-seq· 1

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Kexin XuiD· 2 shared Apeksha N. AgarwaliD· 1 shared Chongzhi ZangiD· 1 shared Divyaa SrinivasaniD· 1 shared Dong Min LeeiD· 1 shared Eva CoreyiD· 1 shared Hongpan ZhangiD· 1 shared Huihui YeiD· 1 shared

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m6A-Driven Intratumoral Cholesterol Biosynthesis Fuels Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Progression

Jihoon Lee, Zhao Zhang, Juyeong Hong, Ji-Hoon Jeong, Huihui Ye, Divyaa Srinivasan, Lei Kang, Santosh Lamichhane, Nicolas A. Amselle, Kayode Abidemi John, Matthew T. Hinds, Apeksha N. Agarwal, Dong Min Lee, Songmi Han, Martine P. Roudier, , Kexin Xu

This study identifies a functional cooperation between nuclear pore complexes and m6A signaling that promotes castration-resistant prostate cancer by linking mRNA export to cholesterol biosynthesis and androgen production.

bioRxiv · Sep 28, 2026 · PreprintCancer Biology

BARTsc identifies key transcriptional regulators from single-cell omics data

Hongpan Zhang, Lei Kang, Jingyi Wang, Kathleen Liang, Zhenjia Wang, Kexin Xu, Chongzhi Zang

BARTsc identifies key transcriptional regulators from single-cell omics data by integrating ChIP-seq profiles and outperforms existing methods in multiple biological systems.

bioRxiv · Feb 25, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics