Journal of Translational Genetics and Genomics

Editorial Board

Honorary Editors-in-Chief

Li Jin

State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center for Genetics and Development, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: genetics and genetic epidemiology; human population genetics and genomics; computational biology

Editor-in-Chief

Sanjay Gupta

sanjay.gupta@case.edu

Department of Urology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Research Interests: urologic oncology; translational and clinical areas; prostatic and bladder diseases; biomarkers; synthetic and natural agents
Contributions:
Resistance to second generation antiandrogens in prostate cancer: pathways and mechanisms

Molecular insight: SERPINB3 and AR sensitivity might reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection and complications in prostate cancer patients receiving androgen-deprivation therapy

Dietary phytochemicals and their role in cancer chemoprevention

Role of prostate cancer stem-like cells in the development of antiandrogen resistance

New insights for drug resistance in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
Special Issue:
Phytochemicals and Cancer Chemoprevention

Genetics and Epigenetics of Prostate Cancer: from Etiology to Treatment

Associate Editors

Shrikant Anant

Department of Cancer Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA.

Research Interests: posttranscriptional gene regulation in inflammation and cancer; cancer stem cells; chemoprevention
Nathan A. Berger

Center for Science, Health, and Society, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Research Interests: energy balance; obesity; cancer; esophageal adenocarcinoma; colorectal cancer
Special Issue:
Genetics and Epigenetics in Obesity Associated Cancers
Ramón Cacabelos

Department of Genomic Medicine, International Center of Neuroscience and Genomic Medicine, EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center, Bergondo, Spain.

Research Interests: pharmacogenomics; epigenomics; CNS drug development; neurodegenerative disorders; genomics of brain disorders; neurogenetics
Contributions:
Genomics of speech and language disorders

Neurogenic dysphagia: current pharmacogenomic perspectives

Pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics in human diseases
Special Issue:
Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics in Human Diseases

Genomics, Epigenomics and Pharmacogenomics of Brain Disorders
Andrea Cerase

Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Research Interests: epigenetics; gene expression and nuclear organization; X chromosome; X-linked neurodevelopmental disorders; long non-coding RNAs; brain development
Contributions:
Awakening the sleeping giant: methods for reactivating the inactive X chromosome as clinical treatment for X-linked disorders
Special Issue:
Reversing X Chromosome Inactivation as a New Therapeutic Treatment for X-linked Diseases
Wai-Yee Chan

School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: molecular genetics; inborn errors of copper and zinc metabolism; functional genomics and epigenomics; reproductive tumors; non-coding RNAs; human induced pluripotent stem cells
Brian Hon-Yin Chung

Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Research Interests: medical application of whole genome technologies; clinical genetics & genetic counselling; epigenetics & human diseases
Contributions:
Potentials and challenges of launching the pilot phase of Hong Kong Genome Project
Special Issue:
Genomics & Precision Health
Giulia De Falco

Nanchang Joint Programme, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Research Interests: viral-associated malignant transformation; b-cell lymphomagenesis; gene and microRNA expression
Jin-Tang Dong

Department of Human Cell Biology and Genetics, Southern University of Science and Technology School of Medicine, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: molecular pathogenesis; human cancer; prostate cancer
Andrea L. Gropman

Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Neurogenetics, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.

Research Interests: neuroimaging; inborn errors of metabolism; neurogenetics
Contributions:
Mitochondrial medicine: the future is now

Novel imaging technologies for genetic diagnoses in the inborn errors of metabolism
Special Issue:
Genetics, Diagnosis and Treatment of Rare Diseases

Diagnosis and Treatment of Mitochondrial Disease
Tao-Sheng Huang

Department of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Research Interests: clinical genetics; human genetics; metabolism; mitochondrial medicine; pathogenic mechanisms; translational research
Faoud Terrence Ishmael

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

Research Interests: allergy and immunology; internal medicine; post-transcriptional gene regulation; microRNAs; exosomes
Special Issue:
MicroRNAs in Allergic Diseases
Peng Jin

Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Research Interests: noncoding RNAs; epigenetic modulation; neural development; brain disorders
Simon W. Rabkin

Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Research Interests: hypertension; lipids; aortic aneurysm
Contributions:
Clinical genomics of the relationship between ADAMTS7 and coronary artery calcification and atherosclerosis
Special Issue:
Genetics in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases
Fredrick R. Schumacher

Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Research Interests: complex traits; complex phenotypes; prostate cancer; cancer susceptibility; germline genetics; inherited genetics
Frank A. Sinicrope

Department of Oncology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Comprehensive Cancer Center, Rochester, MN, USA.

Research Interests: colorectal cancer; young onset cancer; hereditary cancer syndromes; gastrointestinal cancers
C. Alexander Valencia

Division of Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Research Interests: proteomics; apoptosis; degradomics; next-generation sequencing; genetic testing; genomics; genetic diseases; systems biology; clinical laboratory services
Contributions:
CCEPAS: the creation and validation of a fast and sensitive clinical whole exome analysis pipeline based on gene and variant ranking

Gene dosage defects in primary immunodeficiencies and related disorders: a pilot study
Sooryanarayana Varambally

Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Research Interests: cancer molecular genetics; cancer biomarker; cancer biology; therapeutic targeting
Bernhard HF Weber

Institute of Human Genetics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Research Interests: genetics of hereditary and complex retinal degeneration; functional analysis of inherited genetic variation; induced pluripotent stem cells; mouse models of retinal disease; genome-wide association studies; age-related macular degeneration; common and rare genetic variants
Contributions:
Retinal organoid differentiation methods determine organoid cellular composition

In vitro modeling of the complex retinal condition age-related macular degeneration
Special Issue:
Translational Research into Retinal Diseases

Editorial Board Members

Angel Aledo-Serrano

Epilepsy Program, Department of Neurology, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain.

Research Interests: neurogenetics and complex epilepsies; genetic epilepsies; developmental and epileptic encephalopathies; multiple clinical trials for precision medicine in neurogenetic conditions
Contributions:
Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies after negative or inconclusive genetic testing: what is next?
Blaine Bartholomew

Department of Epigenetics and Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Smithville, TX, USA.

Research Interests: epigenetics; ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes
Bridget Bax

Molecular and Clinical Sciences, St. George’s University of London, London, UK.

Research Interests: rare diseases; mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy; biomarkers; cell therapies
Contributions:
Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy: approaches to diagnosis and treatment
Monica Borgatti

Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.

Research Interests: diagnosis of genetic diseases; drug research; β-thalassemia; cystic fibrosis; COPD diseases; the treatments of genetic rare diseases
Carlo V. Catapano

Institute of Oncology Research IOR, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Research Interests: molecular pharmacology; molecular- and gene-targeted therapeutics; clinical and translational studies; new cancer drugs
David N. Cooper

Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

Research Interests: cancer genetics; genomics; genome; mutation; mutational spectra; personalized medicine
Special Issue:
Genetics and Genomics of Cancer
Margaret DeAngelis

Department of Ophthalmology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.

Research Interests: neuroscience; genetics; ophthalmology; epidemiology; mendelian; complex blinding diseases
Gagan Deep

Department of Cancer Biology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC, USA.

Research Interests: non-toxic agents; cancer prevention/intervention
Contributions:
Role of extracellular vesicles secretion in paclitaxel resistance of prostate cancer cells
Special Issue:
Extracellular Vesicles in Neurogenerative Disorders: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapy
Hong-Wen Deng

Tulane Center of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Research Interests: multi-omics and trans-omics; biostatistics and bioinformatics; genetics of complex diseases; single cell sequencing; big data; machine learning; data analytics; osteoporosis; sarcopenia; obesity; other complex diseases
Massimiliano Filosto

Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.

Research Interests: neurology
Richard E. Frye

Department of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Research Interests: neurodevelopmental disorders; autism
Special Issue:
Genetic Basis and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
Shu-Feng Lei

Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Genomics, School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.

Research Interests: genetics; genomics; epigenomics; biomarker; epidemiology
Junxuan Lu

Department of Pharmacology, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

Research Interests: cancer chemopreventive; therapeutic agents; precision therapy of cancer
Antonio Orlacchio

Laboratory of Neurogenetics, European Center for Brain Research, CERC-IRCCS Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: neurogenetics
‪Coro Paisán Ruiz

Departments of Neurology, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Nueva York, NYC, USA.

Research Interests: neurology
Francesc Palau

Department of Genetic and Molecular Medicine, Sant Joan de Déu Children's Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

Research Interests: human and clinical genetics; neurogenetics; genetic counselling; rare diseases
Contributions:
Diagnostic strategies in patients with undiagnosed and rare diseases

Genetic approaches and pathogenic pathways in the clinical management of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Sheng-Ying Qin

Bio-X Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: personalized medicine system study; gene expression and regulation study; genomic polymorphism analysis
Contributions:
Personalized genomic medicine: a potential individualized clinical treatment in the future
Special Issue:
Personalized genomic medicine: challenges and opportunities for the diagnosis and the treatment of human disease
Gudrun A. Rappold

Department of Human Molecular Genetics, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.

Research Interests: neuronal/neuropsychiatric disorders
Sharanjot Saini

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.

Research Interests: urological malignancies; RNAs/microRNAs-mediated signaling pathways; exosome/extracellular vesicle; biomarkers; metastatic disease
Contributions:
MicroRNAs in treatment-induced neuroendocrine differentiation in prostate cancer
Special Issue:
RNA in Prostate Cancer and Renal Cell Carcinoma
Maurizio Simmaco

Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: pharmacogenomics and metabolomics; personalized/precision medicine
Shailesh Singh

Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Immunology, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Research Interests: prostate cancer; breast cancer; ovarian cancer
Jonathan C Strefford

Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Research Interests: genome; epigenome; mature B-cell tumours
Contributions:
The (epi)genomic landscape of splenic marginal zone lymphoma, biological implications, clinical utility, and future questions
Pasquale Striano

Paediatric Neurology and Muscular Diseases Unit, G Gaslini Institute, Genova, Italy.

Research Interests: neurology; pediatric neurology; microbiota; genetics; therapy
Contributions:
Precision medicine in early-onset epilepsy: the KCNQ2 paradigm

Personalized medicine in epilepsy patients
Special Issue:
Genetic Neurodevelopmental Diseases
Niels Tommerup

Wilhelm Johannsen Centre for Functional Genome Research, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research Interests: topological associating domains and diseases; novel genetic mechanisms; X-inactivation; COVID-19 host genetics
Zeynep Tümer

Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Research Interests: congenital developmental disorders; susceptibility genes; tourette syndrome; ADHD; OCD; autism
Andrea Urbani

Department of Basic Biotechnological Sciences, Intensivological and Perioperative Clinics, Università Cattolica, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: metabolomics; genomics; clinical biochemistry; clinical molecular biology
Jobin Varkey

Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Research Interests: neurodegenerative diseases
Sharad K. Verma

Department of Neurology, John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Research Interests: medicinal chemistry; drug design; tumor microenvironment
Angelo Veronese

Center for Advanced Studies and Technology (CAST), “G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy.

Research Interests: molecular biology; genetic; oncology
Margaret R. Wallace

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida and UF Genetics Institute, Gainesville, FL, USA.

Research Interests: human genetics; phenotype-genotype; mutation pathogenesis
Contributions:
Exome sequencing identifies FLNC and ADD3 variants in a family with cardiomyopathy
Jin-Hua Wang

Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Research Interests: cancer genomics; bioinformatics; precision medicine; medical informatics; machine learning & data mining
Special Issue:
Progresses on the Application of Single - Cell Sequencing in the Human Diseases Research
Gang Wu

Department of Urology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: prostate cancer; epigenetic; circRNA
Ya-Li Xue

The Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.

Research Interests: population genetics; sequencing technology
Wei Zhang

Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.

Research Interests: genetics; epigenetics; complex traits
Contributions:
Considerations before the application of 5-hydroxymethylation levels of long non-coding RNAs for non-invasive cancer diagnosis

Genome-wide analysis reflects novel 5-hydroxymethylcytosines implicated in diabetic nephropathy and the biomarker potential

Towards clinical implementation of circulating cell-free DNA in precision medicine
Special Issue:
Liquid Biopsies in Cancer Early Diagnosis

Genetics and Epigenetics of Complex Human Diseases
Xiaolin Zi

Department of Urology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.

Research Interests: molecular targets; xenograft models; tumor microenvironment; urological cancers
Contributions:
Kava root extracts hinder prostate cancer development and tumorigenesis by involvement of dual inhibition of MAO-A and LSD1

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