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Wei Yan
Wei Yan, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Physiology & Cell Biology. Yan’s research has discovered insight into the reproductive workings of the male sex chromosome that may have significant implications for male infertility and contraception. His studies indicate that the X chromosome in developing sperm cells encodes numerous tiny ribonucleic acids called microRNAs despite the fact that that most of genes on the X chromosomes are suppressed. This observation implies that these small RNAs have critical roles in chromosome inactivation and also in sperm formation. His data confirm that these X chromosome-derived microRNAs escape the silencing effects and mange to be expressed.
CURRICULUM VITAE - Wei Yan
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