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You can find the complete list of my published work in NIH MyBibliography
* indicates co-first authored papers
Giannini H, Kan M*, Cosgriff C, Morley M, Miano T, Narayanan N, Ittner C, Turner A, Esperanza M, Erlich M, et al. Whole blood transcriptomics reveals sepsis mortality-associated changes in neutrophil degranulation. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2026 Feb 21. Online ahead of print. PMID: 41738283
Kan M, Diwadkar AR, Shuai H, Joo J, Wang AL, Ong MS, Sordillo JE, et al. Multiomics analysis identifies BIRC3 as a novel glucocorticoid response-associated gene. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Jun;149(6):1981-1991. PMID: 34971648
Kan M, Sun M, Jiang X, Diwadkar AR, Parikh V, Cao G, Gebski E, Jester W, Lan B, Panettieri RA Jr, Koziol-White C, Lu Q, Himes BE. CEBPD modulates the airway smooth muscle transcriptomic response to glucocorticoids. Respir Res. 2022 Jul 28;23(1):193. PMID: 35902923
Kan M, Koziol-White C, Shumyatcher M, Johnson M, Jester W, Panettieri RA Jr, Himes BE. Airway Smooth Muscle-Specific Transcriptomic Signatures of Glucocorticoid Exposure. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2019 61(1):110-120. PMID: 30694689
Wang Z, Zhan Q, Yang S, Zhou Z, Kan M, Zhai T, Shen L. An interpretable Graph-Regularized Optimal Transport Framework for Diagonal Single-Cell Integrative Analysis. Gigascience. 2026 Jan 21. PMID: 41661124
Lien Y, Kan M, Leite R, Garifallou J, Himes B, Winn V, Parry S, Strauss J, Simmons R. Race and fetal sex differences in placental lipid metabolism associated with spontaneous early preterm birth. Biol Reprod. 2025 Apr 17. PMID: 40244074
Kan M, Diwadkar AR, Saxena S, Shuai H, Joo J, Himes BE. REALGAR: a web app of integrated respiratory omics data. Bioinformatics. 2022 Sep 15;38(18):4442-4445. PMID: 35863045
Xu Y, Zhang Y, Garcia-Canaveras JC, Guo L, Kan M, Yu S, Blair IA, Rabinowitz JD, X Yang. Chaperone-mediated autophagy regulates the pluripotency of embryonic stem cells. Science. 2020 Jul 24;369(6502):397-403. PMID: 32703873
Diwadkar AR, Kan M, Himes BE. Facilitating Analysis of Publicly Available ChIP-Seq Data for Integrative Studies. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2020 Mar 4;2019:371-379. Received AMIA 2019 Distinguished Paper Award. PMID: 32308830
Kan M, Shumyatcher M, Diwadkar AR, Soliman G, Himes BE. Integration of Transcriptomic Data Identifies Global and Cell-Specific Asthma-Related Gene Expression Signatures. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Dec 5;2018:1338-1347. Finalist of AMIA Student Paper Award. PMID: 30815178
Kan M, Luis R. Saraiva L, Hwang L-D, Lowenthal E, Himes B, Mennella J. Genome-wide Association Study of the Taste and Hedonic Ratings of the Low-Calorie Sweetener Acesulfame Potassium. Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 1;15(1):22121. PMID: 40594245
Mennella JA, Kan M*, Lowenthal ED, Saraiva LR, Mainland JD, Himes BE, Pepino MY. Genetic Variation and Sensory Perception of a Pediatric Formulation of Ibuprofen: Can a Medicine Taste Too Good for Some?. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Aug 22;24(17). PMID: 37685855
Joo J, Mak ACY Mak, Xiao S, Sleiman PM, Hu D, Huntsman S, Eng C, Kan M, Diwakar AR, et al. Genome-wide association study in minority children with asthma implicates DNAH5 in bronchodilator responsiveness. Sci Rep. 2022 Jul 22;12(1):12514. PMID: 35869121
Dahlin A, Sordillo JE, Ziniti J, Iribarren C, Lu M, Weiss ST, Tantisira KG, Lu Q, Kan M, Himes BE, et al. Large-scale, multiethnic genome-wide association study identifies novel loci contributing to asthma susceptibility in adults. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2019 143(4):1633-1635. PMID: 30578877
Panganiban R, Sun M, Dahlin A, Park H, Kan M, Himes BE, et al. A functional splicing variant associated with decreased asthma risk abolishes the ability of gasdermin B (GSMDB) to induce epithelial cell pyroptosis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2018 142(5):1469-1478. PMID: 29330013
Espinoza DA, Zrzavy T, Breville G, Thebault S, Marefi A, Mexhitaj I, Yamashita LD, Kan M, et al. Paediatric cerebrospinal fluid immune profiling distinguishes paediatric-onset multiple sclerosis from other paediatric-onset acute neurological disorders. EBioMedicine. 2026 Jan:123:106088. PMID: 41494243
Kan M, Auer PL, Wang GT, Bucasas KL, Hooker S, Rodriguez A, Li B, Ellis J, Cupples LA, Chen YD, et al. Rare variant associations with waist-to-hip ratio in European-American and African-American women from the NHLBI-Exome Sequencing Project. Eur J Hum Genet. 2016 24(8):1181-7. PMID: 26757982
He Z, O’Roak BJ, Smith JD, Wang G, Hooker S, Santos-Cortez RL, Li B, Kan M, Krumm N, Nickerson DA, et al. Rare-variant extensions of the transmission disequilibrium test: application to autism exome sequence data. Am J Hum Genet. 2014 94:33-46. PMID: 24360806
Zhang L, Kan M*, Zhang M, Yu S, Xie H, Gu Z, Wang H, Zhao S, Zhou G, Song H, Zheng C. Multiregion sequencing reveals intratumor heterogeneity of driver mutations in TP53-driven non-small cell lung cancer. Int J Cancer. 2017 140(1):103-10. PMID: 27646734
Liu F, Zhou Y, Zhou D, Kan M, Niu X, Zhang Z, Zhang D, Tao L, He L, Zhang L, Liu Y. Whole DNA methylome profiling in lung cancer cells before and after epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition. Diagnosis Pathology. 2014 9:66. PMID: 24655585
Wu C, Zhang D, Kan M*, Lv Z, Zhu A, et al. The draft genome of the large yellow croaker reveals well-developed innate immunity. Nat Commun. 2014 5:5227. PMID: 25407894
Weng X, Zhang H, Kan M*, Ye J, Liu F, et al. Leukocyte telomere length is associated with advanced age-related macular degeneration in the Han Chinese population. 2015. Exp Gerontol 69:36-40. PMID: 25959250
Kan M, Weng X, Wang T, Liu F, Ye J, et al. No evidence of association between variant rs2075650 in lipid metabolism-related locus APOE/TOMM40 and advanced age-related macular degeneration in Han Chinese population. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2015 240:230-234. PMID: 25304313
Kan M, Liu F, Weng X, Ye J, Wang T, et al. Association study of newly identified age-related macular degeneration susceptible loci SOD2, MBP, and C8orf42 in Han Chinese population. Diagn Pathol. 2014 9:73. PMID: 24667176
Qian D, Kan M*, Weng X, Huang Y, Zhou C, et al. Common variant rs10033900 near the complement factor I gene is associated with age-related macular degeneration risk in Han Chinese population. Eur J Hum Genet. 2014 22:1417-1419. PMID: 24642830
Zheng Y, Kan M*, Yu L, Niu X, Zhou D, He L, Lu S, Liu Y. GPC5 rs2352028 polymorphism and risk of lung cancer in Han Chinese. 2012 Cancer Invest 30:13-19. PMID: 22236185
Kan MY, Zhou DZ, Zhang D, Zhang Z, Chen Z, et al. Two susceptible diabetogenic variants near/in MTNR1B are associated with fasting plasma glucose in a Han Chinese cohort. Diabet Med. 2010 27:598-602. PMID: 20536959
Kan M, Himes B. Insights into Glucocorticoid Responses Derived from Omics Studies. Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Feb;218:107674. PMID: 32910934
Kan M, Shumyatcher M, Himes B. Using omics approaches to understand pulmonary diseases. Respir Res. 2017 18(1):149. PMID: 28774304
Kan M, Himes BE. Genetics and Pharmacogenetics of Asthma. Precision Therapy in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Gomez JL, Himes BE, Kaminski N (eds). 1st ed. Springer, New York, NY. 2020. Chapter 3: 25-37p.