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Li H, Melnyk JE, Fu BXH, Shrestha R, Zhang M, Sjöström M, Feng S, Anderson JA, Han W, Chesner LN, Shin HJ, Farsh T, Suarez HJ, Nath S, Chou J, Das R, Egusa EA, Calvert M, Kishishita A, Barpanda A, Zhu J, Maheshwari A, Chen WS, Alshalalfa M, Winters A, Hua JT, Liu T, Davicioni E, Wiita AP, Stohr BA, Siddiqui J, Huang B, Small EJ, Shokat KM, Nelson PS, Quigley DA, Wasmuth EV, Gilbert LA, Feng FY. Genome-scale CRISPR screens identify PTGES3 as a direct modulator of androgen receptor function in advanced prostate cancer. Nat Genet. 2025 Dec;57(12):3027-3038. doi: 10.1038/s41588-025-02388-8. Epub 2025 Nov 5. PMID: 41193657; PMCID: PMC12695660.

Likasitwatanakul P, Besonen C, Tsai AK, Sadeghipour N, Elliott A, Arafa AT, Passow R, Chesner L, Felices M, Kennedy PR, Patnaik A, Narayan V, Hamrick J, Sena LA, Zorko NA, Hwang JH, Antonarakis ES. HLA class I expression shapes the tumor immune microenvironment and influences prognosis in prostate cancer. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2026 Jun;29(2):425-434. doi: 10.1038/s41391-025-01045-9. Epub 2025 Oct 25. PMID: 41139148; PMCID: PMC12980528.

Chesner LN, Polesso F, Graff JN, Hawley JE, Smith AK, Lundberg A, Das R, Shenoy T, Sjöström M, Zhao F, Hu YM, Linder S, Chen WS, Hawkins RM, Shrestha R, Zhu X, Foye A, Li H, Kim LM, Bhalla M, O'loughlin T, Kuzuoglu-Ozturk D, Hua JT, Badura ML, Wilkinson S, Trostel SY, Bergman AM, Ruggero D, Drake CG, Sowalsky AG, Fong L, Cooperberg MR, Zwart W, Guan X, Ashworth A, Xia Z, Quigley DA, Gilbert LA, Feng FY, Moran AE. Androgen Receptor Inhibition Increases MHC Class I Expression and Improves Immune Response in Prostate Cancer. Cancer Discov. 2025 Mar 3;15(3):481-494. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-24-0559. PMID: 39652470; PMCID: PMC11873725.

Miyahira AK, Sharifi M, Chesner LN, El-Kenawi A, Haas R, Sena LA, Tewari AK, Pienta KJ, Soule HR. Personalized Medicine: Leave no Patient Behind; Report From the 2024 Coffey-Holden Prostate Cancer Academy Meeting. Prostate. 2025 Feb;85(3):211-226. doi: 10.1002/pros.24826. Epub 2024 Nov 27. PMID: 39604057.

Shrestha R, Chesner LN, Zhang M, Zhou S, Foye A, Lundberg A, Weinstein AS, Sjöström M, Zhu X, Moreno-Rodriguez T, Li H; SU2C/PCF West Coast Prostate Cancer Dream Team; Alumkal JJ, Aggarwal R, Small EJ, Lupien M, Quigley DA, Feng FY. An Atlas of Accessible Chromatin in Advanced Prostate Cancer Reveals the Epigenetic Evolution during Tumor Progression. Cancer Res. 2024 Sep 16;84(18):3086-3100. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-24-0890. PMID: 38990734; PMCID: PMC12248187.

Zhao SG, Bootsma M, Zhou S, Shrestha R, Moreno-Rodriguez T, Lundberg A, Pan C, Arlidge C, Hawley JR, Foye A, Weinstein AS, Sjöström M, Zhang M, Li H, Chesner LN, Rydzewski NR, Helzer KT, Shi Y; West Coast Dream Team Consortium; Lynch M, Dehm SM, Lang JM, Alumkal JJ, He HH, Wyatt AW, Aggarwal R, Zwart W, Small EJ, Quigley DA, Lupien M, Feng FY. Integrated analyses highlight interactions between the three-dimensional genome and DNA, RNA and epigenomic alterations in metastatic prostate cancer. Nat Genet. 2024 Aug;56(8):1689-1700. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01826-3. Epub 2024 Jul 17. PMID: 39020220; PMCID: PMC11319208.

Sjöström M, Zhao SG, Levy S, Zhang M, Ning Y, Shrestha R, Lundberg A, Herberts C, Foye A, Aggarwal R, Hua JT, Li H, Bergamaschi A, Maurice-Dror C, Maheshwari A, Chen S, Ng SWS, Ye W, Petricca J, Fraser M, Chesner L, Perry MD, Moreno-Rodriguez T, Chen WS, Alumkal JJ, Chou J, Morgans AK, Beer TM, Thomas GV, Gleave M, Lloyd P, Phillips T, McCarthy E, Haffner MC, Zoubeidi A, Annala M, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Witte ON, Fong L, Bose R, Huang FW, Luo J, Bjartell A, Lang JM, Mahajan NP, Lara PN, Evans CP, Tran PT, Posadas EM, He C, Cui XL, Huang J, Zwart W, Gilbert LA, Maher CA, Boutros PC, Chi KN, Ashworth A, Small EJ, He HH, Wyatt AW, Quigley DA, Feng FY. The 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Landscape of Prostate Cancer. Cancer Res. 2022 Nov 2;82(21):3888-3902. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-22-1123. PMID: 36251389; PMCID: PMC9627125.

Das R, Sjöström M, Shrestha R, Yogodzinski C, Egusa EA, Chesner LN, Chen WS, Chou J, Dang DK, Swinderman JT, Ge A, Hua JT, Kabir S, Quigley DA, Small EJ, Ashworth A, Feng FY, Gilbert LA. An integrated functional and clinical genomics approach reveals genes driving aggressive metastatic prostate cancer. Nat Commun. 2021 Jul 29;12(1):4601. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24919-7. PMID: 34326322; PMCID: PMC8322386.

Zhao SG, Chen WS, Li H, Foye A, Zhang M, Sjöström M, Aggarwal R, Playdle D, Liao A, Alumkal JJ, Das R, Chou J, Hua JT, Barnard TJ, Bailey AM, Chow ED, Perry MD, Dang HX, Yang R, Moussavi-Baygi R, Zhang L, Alshalalfa M, Laura Chang S, Houlahan KE, Shiah YJ, Beer TM, Thomas G, Chi KN, Gleave M, Zoubeidi A, Reiter RE, Rettig MB, Witte O, Yvonne Kim M, Fong L, Spratt DE, Morgan TM, Bose R, Huang FW, Li H, Chesner L, Shenoy T, Goodarzi H, Asangani IA, Sandhu S, Lang JM, Mahajan NP, Lara PN, Evans CP, Febbo P, Batzoglou S, Knudsen KE, He HH, Huang J, Zwart W, Costello JF, Luo J, Tomlins SA, Wyatt AW, Dehm SM, Ashworth A, Gilbert LA, Boutros PC, Farh K, Chinnaiyan AM, Maher CA, Small EJ, Quigley DA, Feng FY. The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer. Nat Genet. 2020 Aug;52(8):778-789. doi: 10.1038/s41588-020-0648-8. Epub 2020 Jul 13. PMID: 32661416; PMCID: PMC7454228.

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