^co-first author; *corresponding/senior author; Also available at Google Scholar and ORCID.

Major Work

2024
  1. Jian Zou, Zheqi Li, Neil Carleton, Steffi Oesterreich, Adrian V Lee, George C. Tseng*. Mutual information for detecting multi-class biomarkers when integrating multiple bulk or single-cell transcriptomic studies, Bioinformatics, 40(12), btae696.

  2. Qixuan Cao, Jie Fan, Jian Zou* , Wei Wang* (2024). Multi-omics analysis identifies BCAT2 as a potential pan-cancer biomarker for tumor progression and immune microenvironment modulation, Scientific Reports, 14, 23371.

  3. Jian Zou, Osama Shah, Yu-Chiao Chiu, Tianzhou Ma, Jennifer M Atkinson, Steffi Oesterreich*, Adrian V. Lee*, George C. Tseng* (2024). Systems approach for congruence and selection of cancer models towards precision medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, 20(1), e1011754. (online tool)

2022
  1. Steffi Oesterreich^, Azadeh Nasrazadani^, Jian Zou^, Neil Carleton, …, George Tseng, Adrian V. Lee, Nicole Williams*, Megan Kruse* (2022). Clinicopathological features and outcomes comparing patients with invasive ductal and lobular breast cancer, JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 114(11), 1511-1522.

  2. Jian Zou^, Yannick Düren^, Li-Xuan Qin* (2022). PRECISION.seq: An R package for benchmarking depth normalization in microRNA sequencing, Frontiers in Genetics, 12.

Collaborative Work

2024
  1. Peng Liu^, Yuchen Pan^, Rick Chang^, Yusi Fang, Xiangning Xue, Jian Zou, Jessica M. Toothaker, Oluwabunmi Olaloye, Eduardo Gonzalez Santiago, Vanessa Mitsialis, Pietro Prescicce, Suhas Kallapur, Scott Snapper, Jia-Jun Liu, George C. Tseng*, Liza Konnikova*, Silvia Liu*. (2024) Comprehensive evaluation and practical guideline of gating methods for high-dimensional cytometry data: manual gating, unsupervised clustering, and auto-gating, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 26(1), bbae633.

  2. Fangyuan Chen, Sayali Onkar, Jian Zou, Yujia Li, Haley Arbore, Sai Maley, George Tseng, Peter C Lucas, Tullia C Bruno, Dario AA Vignali, Julia Foldi, Marija Balic, Adrian V. Lee*, Steffi Oesterreich* (2024). Immune infiltration correlates with transcriptomic subtypes in primary estrogen receptor positive invasive lobular breast cancer, npj Precision Oncology, 8(1), 257.

  3. Neil Carleton, Thomas R. Radomski, Danyang Li, Jian Zou, …, Steffi Oesterreich, George Tseng, Adrian V. Lee, Priscilla F. McAuliffe* (2024). Electronic health record–based nudge intervention and axillary surgery in older women with breast cancer: a nonrandomized controlled trial, JAMA Surgery, Published online July 17, 2024.

2023
  1. George Tseng*, Tianzhou Ma, Jian Zou (2023). Of mouse models and humans, American Scientist, 111(4), 213-214. (An invited, non-peer-reviewed article)

  2. Sayali Onkar, Jian Cui, Jian Zou, Carly Cardello, Anthony R Cillo, Mostofa Rafid Uddin, April Sagan, Marion Joy, Hatice U Osmanbeyoglu, Katherine Pogue-Geile, Priscilla F. McAuliffe, Peter C. Lucas, George C. Tseng, Adrian V Lee, Tullia C Bruno, Steffi Oesterreich*, Dario A.A.Vignali* (2023). Immune landscape in invasive ductal and lobular breast cancer reveals a divergent macrophage-driven microenvironment, Nature Cancer, 1-19.

  3. Wei Zong, Tanbin Rahman, Li Zhu, Xiangrui Zeng, Yingjin Zhang, Jian Zou, Song Liu, Zhao Ren, Jingyi Jessica Li, Etienne Sibille, Adrian V. Lee, Steffi Oesterreich, Tianzhou Ma*, George C. Tseng* (2023). Transcriptomic congruence analysis for evaluating model organisms, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(6), e2202584120. (News: Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News)

2021
  1. Neil Carleton, Jian Zou, Yusi Fang, …, George C. Tseng, Oscar C. Marroquin, Adrian V. Lee*, Priscilla F. McAuliffe* (2021). Outcomes after sentinel lymph node biopsy and radiotherapy in older women with early-stage, estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer, JAMA Network Open, 4(4), e216322-e216322.

  2. Terrell E. Jones, Jian Zou, George C. Tseng, Somak Roy, Rohit Bhargava* (2021). The utility of next-generation sequencing in advanced breast and gynecologic cancers: experience of a large tertiary care women’s hospital, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 156(3), 455-460.

2020
  1. Li-Xuan Qin*, Jian Zou, Jiejun Shi, Ann Lee, Aleksandra Mihailovic, Thalia A. Farazi, Thomas Tuschl, Samuel Singer (2020). Statistical assessment of depth normalization for small RNA sequencing, JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 4, 567-582.

  2. Peng Liu†, Silvia Liu†, Yusi Fang, Xiangning Xue, Jian Zou, George C. Tseng*, Liza Konnikova* (2020). Recent advances in computer-assisted algorithms for cell subtype identification of cytometry data, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 8, 234.