Chris Lau, PhD

Publications
  1. Kido, T, Kong H, Lau Y-FC. The X-Linked Tumor Suppressor TSPX Regulates Genes Involved in the EGFR Signaling Pathway and Cell Viability to Suppress Lung Adenocarcinoma The X-Linked Tumor Suppressor TSPX Regulates Genes Involved in the EGFR Signaling Pathway and Cell Viability to Suppress Lung Adenocarcinoma 2025. PMID:


  2. Vogt PH, Besikoglu B, Bettendorf M, Frank-Herrmann P, Zimmer J, Bender U, Knauer-Fischer S, Choukair D, Sinn P, Doerr HG, Woelfle J, Heidemann PH, Lau YC, Strowitzki T. Sex chromosome DSD individuals with mosaic 45,X0 and aberrant Y chromosomes in 46,XY cells: distinct gender phenotypes and germ cell tumour risks§. Systems biology in reproductive medicine 2022. PMID: 35481403


  3. Lau YC. The 2020 Ming K. Jeang awards for excellence in Cell & Bioscience. Abdominal radiology (New York) 2021. PMID: 34906230


  4. Lau YC. Y chromosome in health and diseases. 2020. PMID: 32817785


  5. Kido T, Tabatabai ZL, Chen X, Lau YC. Potential dual functional roles of the Y-linked RBMY in hepatocarcinogenesis. 2020. PMID: 32473614


  6. Vogt PH, Besikoglu B, Bettendorf M, Frank-Herrmann P, Zimmer J, Bender U, Knauer-Fischer S, Choukair D, Sinn P, Lau YC, Heidemann PH, Strowitzki T. Gonadoblastoma Y locus genes expressed in germ cells of individuals with dysgenetic gonads and a Y chromosome in their karyotypes include DDX3Y and TSPY. 2019. PMID: 30753444


  7. Fukuhara S, Chang I, Mitsui Y, Chiyomaru T, Yamamura S, Majid S, Saini S, Deng G, Gill A, Wong DK, Shiina H, Nonomura N, Lau YF, Dahiya R, Tanaka Y. Functional role of DNA mismatch repair gene PMS2 in prostate cancer cells. 2015. PMID: 26036629


  8. Kido T, Lau YF. Roles of the Y chromosome genes in human cancers. 2015. PMID: 25814157


  9. Kido T, Lau YF. The Y-located gonadoblastoma gene TSPY amplifies its own expression through a positive feedback loop in prostate cancer cells. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2014. PMID: 24583132


  10. Kido T, Schubert S, Hatakeyama S, Ohyama C, Schmidtke J, Lau YF. Expression of a Y-located human proto-oncogene TSPY in a transgenic mouse model of prostate cancer. 2014. PMID: 24528896


  11. Kido T, Hatakeyama S, Ohyama C, Lau YF. Expression of the Y-Encoded TSPY is Associated with Progression of Prostate Cancer. 2010. PMID: 24710046


  12. Lee TL, Li Y, Cheung HH, Claus J, Singh S, Sastry C, Rennert OM, Lau YF, Chan WY. GonadSAGE: a comprehensive SAGE database for transcript discovery on male embryonic gonad development. 2009. PMID: 20028690


  13. Peng H, Ivanov AV, Oh HJ, Lau YF, Rauscher FJ. Epigenetic gene silencing by the SRY protein is mediated by a KRAB-O protein that recruits the KAP1 co-repressor machinery. The Journal of biological chemistry 2009. PMID: 19850934


  14. Wu JB, Chen K, Li Y, Lau YF, Shih JC. Regulation of monoamine oxidase A by the SRY gene on the Y chromosome. 2009. PMID: 19661285


  15. Lee TL, Li Y, Alba D, Vong QP, Wu SM, Baxendale V, Rennert OM, Lau YF, Chan WY. Developmental staging of male murine embryonic gonad by SAGE analysis. 2009. PMID: 19376482


  16. Lau YF, Li Y, Kido T. Gonadoblastoma locus and the TSPY gene on the human Y chromosome. 2009. PMID: 19306348


  17. Li Y, Kido T, Luo J, Fukuda M, Dobrinski I, Lau YF. Intratubular transplantation as a strategy for establishing animal models of testicular germ cell tumours. 2008. PMID: 18808526


  18. Oh HJ, Kido T, Lau YF. PIAS1 interacts with and represses SOX9 transactivation activity. 2007. PMID: 17440973


  19. de Jong J, Stoop H, Gillis AJ, van Gurp RJ, van Drunen E, Beverloo HB, Lau YF, Schneider DT, Sherlock JK, Baeten J, Hatakeyama S, Ohyama C, Oosterhuis JW, Looijenga LH. JKT-1 is not a human seminoma cell line. 2007. PMID: 17705808


  20. Cools M, Boter M, van Gurp R, Stoop H, Poddighe P, Lau YF, Drop SL, Wolffenbuttel KP, Looijenga LH. Impact of the Y-containing cell line on histological differentiation patterns in dysgenetic gonads. 2007. PMID: 17547684


  21. Li Y, Tabatabai ZL, Lee TL, Hatakeyama S, Ohyama C, Chan WY, Looijenga LH, Lau YF. The Y-encoded TSPY protein: a significant marker potentially plays a role in the pathogenesis of testicular germ cell tumors. 2007. PMID: 17521702


  22. Kido T, Lau YF. The rat Tspy is preferentially expressed in elongated spermatids and interacts with the core histones. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2006. PMID: 16996029


  23. Vong QP, Li Y, Lau YF, Dym M, Rennert OM, Chan WY. Structural characterization and expression studies of Dby and its homologs in the mouse. Journal of andrology 2006. PMID: 16728723


  24. Hoei-Hansen CE, Sehested A, Juhler M, Lau YF, Skakkebaek NE, Laursen H, Rajpert-de Meyts E. New evidence for the origin of intracranial germ cell tumours from primordial germ cells: expression of pluripotency and cell differentiation markers. 2006. PMID: 16456896


  25. Honecker F, Stoop H, Mayer F, Bokemeyer C, Castrillon DH, Lau YF, Looijenga LH, Oosterhuis JW. Germ cell lineage differentiation in non-seminomatous germ cell tumours. 2006. PMID: 16273510


  26. Oh HJ, Lau YF. KRAB: a partner for SRY action on chromatin. 2006. PMID: 16414182


  27. Cools M, Honecker F, Stoop H, Veltman JD, de Krijger RR, Steyerberg E, Wolffenbuttel KP, Bokemeyer C, Lau YF, Drop SL, Looijenga LH. Maturation delay of germ cells in fetuses with trisomy 21 results in increased risk for the development of testicular germ cell tumors. 2006. PMID: 16360422


  28. Taketo T, Lee CH, Zhang J, Li Y, Lee CY, Lau YF. Expression of SRY proteins in both normal and sex-reversed XY fetal mouse gonads. Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists 2005. PMID: 15789443


  29. Ganapathy K. Telemedicine in neurology. Neurology India 2005. PMID: 16010075


  30. Williams K, Fernandez S, Stien X, Ishii K, Love HD, Lau YF, Roberts RL, Hayward SW. Unopposed c-MYC expression in benign prostatic epithelium causes a cancer phenotype. 2005. PMID: 15937962


  31. Kersemaekers AM, Honecker F, Stoop H, Cools M, Molier M, Wolffenbuttel K, Bokemeyer C, Li Y, Lau YF, Oosterhuis JW, Looijenga LH. Identification of germ cells at risk for neoplastic transformation in gonadoblastoma: an immunohistochemical study for OCT3/4 and TSPY. 2005. PMID: 15948118


  32. Kren V, Qi N, Krenova D, Zidek V, Sladká M, Jáchymová M, Míková B, Horky K, Bonne A, Van Lith HA, Van Zutphen BF, Lau YF, Pravenec M, St Lezin E. Y-chromosome transfer induces changes in blood pressure and blood lipids in SHR. 2001. PMID: 11304517


  33. Xian M, Honbo N, Zhang J, Liew CC, Karliner JS, Lau YF. The green fluorescent protein is an efficient biological marker for cardiac myocytes. 1999. PMID: 10640443


  34. Liou JD, Ma YY, Gibson LH, Su H, Charest N, Lau YF, Yang-Feng TL. Cytogenetic and molecular studies of a familial paracentric inversion of Y chromosome present in a patient with ambiguous genitalia. American journal of medical genetics 1997. PMID: 9128931


  35. Vogt PH, Affara N, Davey P, Hammer M, Jobling MA, Lau YF, Mitchell M, Schempp W, Tyler-Smith C, Williams G, Yen P, Rappold GA. Report of the Third International Workshop on Y Chromosome Mapping 1997. Heidelberg, Germany, April 13-16, 1997. 1997. PMID: 9533010


  36. Diatchenko L, Lau YF, Campbell AP, Chenchik A, Moqadam F, Huang B, Lukyanov S, Lukyanov K, Gurskaya N, Sverdlov ED, Siebert PD. Suppression subtractive hybridization: a method for generating differentially regulated or tissue-specific cDNA probes and libraries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1996. PMID: 8650213


  37. Affara N, Bishop C, Brown W, Cooke H, Davey P, Ellis N, Graves JM, Jones M, Mitchell M, Rappold G, Tyler-Smith C, Yen P, Lau YF. Report of the Second International Workshop on Y Chromosome Mapping 1995. 1996. PMID: 8646888


  38. Coward P, Nagai K, Chen D, Thomas HD, Nagamine CM, Lau YF. Polymorphism of a CAG trinucleotide repeat within Sry correlates with B6.YDom sex reversal. 1994. PMID: 8012385


  39. Affara NA, Lau YF, Briggs H, Davey P, Jones MH, Khwaja O, Mitchell M, Sargent C. Report and abstracts of the First International Workshop on Y Chromosome Mapping 1994. Cambridge, England, April 2-5, 1994. 1994. PMID: 7924456


  40. Zhang JS, Yang-Feng TL, Muller U, Mohandas TK, de Jong PJ, Lau YF. Molecular isolation and characterization of an expressed gene from the human Y chromosome. 1992. PMID: 1284595


  41. Nagamine CM, Nishioka Y, Moriwaki K, Boursot P, Bonhomme F, Lau YF. The musculus-type Y chromosome of the laboratory mouse is of Asian origin. 1992. PMID: 1352158


  42. Jen J, Deschepper CF, Shackleford GM, Lee CY, Lau YF. Stage-specific expression of the lactate dehydrogenase-X gene in adult and developing mouse testes. 1990. PMID: 2393579


  43. Lau YF, Chan KM, Sparkes R. Male-enhanced antigen gene is phylogenetically conserved and expressed at late stages of spermatogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1989. PMID: 2813404


  44. Nagamine CM, Chan K, Lau YF. A PCR artifact: generation of heteroduplexes. 1989. PMID: 2631699


  45. Poole SJ, Law ML, Kao FT, Lau YF. Isolation and chromosomal localization of the human En-2 gene. 1989. PMID: 2565873


  46. Nagamine CM, Chan KM, Kozak CA, Lau YF. Chromosome mapping and expression of a putative testis-determining gene in mouse. 1989. PMID: 2563174


  47. Gross MS, Sefiani A, de Tand MF, Lau YF, Saidi-Mehtar N, Hors-Cayla MC, Frezal J, Van Cong N. The anonymous PAS45 probe detects RFLPs in 13q31. 1989. PMID: 2569289


  48. Kim YK, Wells S, Lau YF, Lee AS. Sequences contained within the promoter of the human thymidine kinase gene can direct cell-cycle regulation of heterologous fusion genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1988. PMID: 3413063


  49. Tagawa M, Ito T, Kanno M, Okitsu A, Sakamoto T, Imai K, Kuwabara I, Koseki H, Matsubara H, Lau YF. Method of genomic DNA cloning by the combination of cosmid shuttle vector and monoclonal antibody. 1988. PMID: 3231129


  50. Bray PF, Rosa JP, Johnston GI, Shiu DT, Cook RG, Lau C, Kan YW, McEver RP, Shuman MA. Platelet glycoprotein IIb. Chromosomal localization and tissue expression. The Journal of clinical investigation 1987. PMID: 3479442


  51. Boer PH, Adra CN, Lau YF, McBurney MW. The testis-specific phosphoglycerate kinase gene pgk-2 is a recruited retroposon. 1987. PMID: 2823118


  52. Wu KC, Chan K, Lee CY, Lau YF. Molecular isolation and sequence determination of the cDNA for the mouse sperm-specific lactate dehydrogenase-X gene. Biochemical and biophysical research communications 1987. PMID: 3619944


  53. Manavathu EK, Suryanarayana K, Hasnain SE, Leung M, Lau YF, Leung WC. Expression of herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene in aquatic filamentous fungus Achlya ambisexualis. 1987. PMID: 2828182


  54. Reardon CA, Lau YF, Paik YK, Weisgraber KH, Mahley RW, Taylor JM. Expression of the human apolipoprotein E gene in cultured mammalian cells. The Journal of biological chemistry 1986. PMID: 3733697


  55. Reardon CA, Paik YK, Chang DJ, Davies GE, Mahley RW, Lau YF, Taylor JM. Cloning and expression of the human apolipoprotein E gene. 1986. PMID: 3014273


  56. Lebo RV, Anderson LA, Lau YF, Flandermeyer R, Kan YW. Flow-sorting analysis of normal and abnormal human genomes. 1986. PMID: 3472713


  57. Lau YF, Huang JC, Dozy AM, Kan YW. A rapid screening test for antenatal sex determination. Lancet (London, England) 1984. PMID: 6140342


  58. Lau YF, Kan YW. Direct isolation of the functional human thymidine kinase gene with a cosmid shuttle vector. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1984. PMID: 6320187


  59. Lau YF, Kan YW. Versatile cosmid vectors for the isolation, expression, and rescue of gene sequences: studies with the human alpha-globin gene cluster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1983. PMID: 6310566


  60. Lau YF, Lin CC, Kan YW. Amplification of the human alpha-globin gene enhances its expression. 1983. PMID: 6679967


  61. Arrighi FE, Lau YF, Spallone A. Nucleolar activity in differentiated cells after stimulation. 1980. PMID: 6156056


  62. Lau YF, Pfeiffer RA, Arrighi FE, Hsu TC. Combination of silver and fluorescent staining for metaphase chromosomes. 1978. PMID: 74950


  63. Lau YF, Hsu TC. Variable modes of Robertsonian fusions. 1977. PMID: 74307