Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the functional gastrointestinal disorders characterized by chronic and/or recurrent symptoms of abdominal pain and irregular defecation. Changed gut microbiota has been proposed to mediate IBS; however, contradictory results exist, and IBS-specific microbi...
Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that exploit the host metabolic machineries to meet their extraordinary biosynthetic demands. Integrative transcriptomic and lipidomic profiling confirmed that Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection reprograms the host lipid met...
This project aims to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in two anatomically different upper gastrointestinal (UGI) cancer sites in two populations with distinctly different disease rates and genetic profiles. One population has very high rates for both esophageal squamous cel...
