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RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences Laboratory for Comprehensive Genomic Analysis

Team Leader: Yasushi Okazaki (M.D., Ph.D.)

Research Summary

Yasushi  Okazaki

This facility will implement and standardize next generation sequencing applications, with particular focus on analysis of transcriptome, gene regulation network, ncRNA. The platform will provide highly standardized technological and analytical services to the users, in order to minimize the time from sample to data and to deliver high quality data.

Main Research Fields

  • Medicine, Dentistry & Pharmacy

Related Research Fields

  • Informatics
  • Biology

Keywords

  • Mitochondrial Disease
  • Bioinformatics
  • Inherited Disease

Selected Publications

  • 1. Yuuri Yasuoka.
    "Tissue-specific expression of carbohydrate sulfotransferases drives keratan sulfate biosynthesis in the notochord and otic vesicles of Xenopus embryos."
    Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 11, 957805 (2023)
  • 2. Imai-Okazaki A, Nitta KR, Yatsuka Y, Sugiura A, Arao M, Shimura M, Ebihara T, Onuki T, Ichimoto K, Ohtake A, Murayama K, Okazaki Y.
    "Impact of measuring heteroplasmy of a pathogenic mitochondrial DNA variant at the single-cell level in individuals with mitochondrial disease."
    J Inherit Metab Dis 45, 1143-1150 (2022)
  • 3. Yip CW, Hon CC, Yasuzawa K, Sivaraman DM, Ramilowski JA, Shibayama Y, Agrawal S, Prabhu AV, Parr C, Severin J, Lan YJ, Dostie J, Petri A, Nishiyori-Sueki H, Tagami M, Itoh M, López-Redondo F, Kouno T, Chang JC, Luginbühl J, Kato M, Murata M, Yip WH, Shu X, Abugessaisa I, Hasegawa A, Suzuki H, Kauppinen S, Yagi K, Okazaki Y, Kasukawa T, de Hoon M, Carninci P, Shin JW.
    "Uncovering the mesendoderm gene regulatory network through multi-omic data integration."
    Cell Rep 38, 110364 (2022)
  • 4. de Hoon M, Bonetti A, Plessy C, Ando Y, Hon CC, Ishizu Y, Itoh M, Kato S, Lin D, Maekawa S, Murata M, Nishiyori H, Shin JW, Stolte J, Suzuki AM, Tagami M, Takahashi H, Thongjuea S, Forrest ARR, Hayashizaki Y, Kere J, Carninci P.
    "Deep sequencing of short capped RNAs reveals novel families of noncoding RNAs."
    Genome Res 32, 1727-35 (2022)
  • 5. Jansen C, Paraiso KD, Zhou JJ, Blitz IL, Fish MB, Charney RM, Cho JS, Yasuoka Y, Sudou N, Bright AR, Wlizla M, Veenstra GJC, Taira M, Zorn AM, Mortazavi A, Cho KWY.
    "Uncovering the mesendoderm gene regulatory network through multi-omic data" integration.
    Cell Rep 38, 110364 (2022)
  • 6. Kato T, Manabe RI, Igarashi H, Kametani F, Hirokawa S, Sekine Y, Fujita N, Saito S, Kawashima Y, Hatano Y, Ando S, Nozaki H, Sugai A, Uemura M, Fukunaga M, Sato T, Koyama A, Saito R, Sugie A, Toyoshima Y, Kawata H, Murayama S, Matsumoto M, Kakita A, Hasegawa M, Ihara M, Kanazawa M, Nishizawa M, Tsuji S, Onodera O.
    "Candesartan prevents arteriopathy progression in cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy model."
    J Clin Invest 131, e140555 (2021)
  • 7. Ozaki K, Irioka T, Uchihara T, Yamada A,Nakamura A,Majima T,Igarashi S, Shintaku H,Yakeishi M, Tsuura Y, Okazaki Y,Ishikawa K, Yokota T.
    "Neuropathology of SCA34 showing widespread oligodendroglial pathology with vacuolar white matter degeneration: a case study"
    Acta Neuropathol Commun. 9(1)172(2021)
  • 8. Inaba A, Arinaga A, Tanaka K, Endo T, Hayatsu N, Okazaki Y, Yamane T, Oishi Y, Imai H, Iwatsuki K.
    "Interleukin-4 Promotes Tuft Cell Differentiation and Acetylcholine Production in Intestinal Organoids of Non-Human Primate"
    Int J Mol Sci. 22(15)7921(2021)
  • 9. Hashimoto M, Saito Y, Nakagawa R, Ogahara I, Takagi S, Takata S, Amitani H, Endo M, Yuki H, Ramilowski JA, Severin J, Manabe RI, Watanabe T, Ozaki K, Kaneko A, Kajita H, Fujiki S, Sato K, Honma T, Uchida N, Fukami T, Okazaki Y, Ohara O, Shultz LD, Yamada M, Taniguchi S, Vyas P, de Hoon M, Momozawa Y, Ishikawa F.
    "Combined inhibition of XIAP and BCL2 drives maximal therapeutic efficacy in genetically diverse aggressive acute myeloid leukemia."
    Nat Cancer 2, 340-356 (2021)
  • 10. Kishita Y, Shimura M, Kohda M, Fushimi T, Nitta KR, Yatsuka Y, Hirose S, Ideguchi H, Ohtake A, Murayama K, Okazaki Y.
    "Genome sequencing and RNA-seq analyses of mitochondrial complex I deficiency revealed Alu insertion-mediated deletion in NDUFV2."
    Hum Mutat 42, 1422-1428 (2021)
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    Lab Members

    Principal investigator

    Yasushi Okazaki
    Team Leader

    Core members

    Kokoro Ozaki
    Deputy Team Leader
    Yuuri Yasuoka
    Research Scientist
    Norihito Hayatsu
    Research Scientist
    Tomoko Hirata
    Technical Scientist
    Yumiko Yamamoto
    Technical Scientist
    Ryota Teramoto
    Special Postdoctoral Researcher
    Michihira Tagami
    Expert Technician
    Shohei Noma
    Senior Technical Staff
    Chitose Takahashi
    Technical Staff I
    Yuki Yasuoka
    Technical Staff II

    Contact Information

    West Research Building 4F W403
    1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku,
    Yokohama, Kanagawa,
    230-0045, Japan
    Tel: +81-(0)45-503-9237
    Fax: +81-(0)45-503-9216
    Email: LSA-support [at] riken.jp

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