Dr. Xiaojian Shao

Dr. Shao
Dr. Xiaojian Shao
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
Research Officer, Digital Technologies Research Center, National Research Council of Canada


Room
NRC Montreal Road Campus, 1200 Montreal Road, Building M50, Room 363A

Alternate Email: [email protected]

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Ariane Lismer*, Xiaojian Shao*, Marie-Charlotte Dumargne* et al. (2024) The Association between Long-Term DDT or DDE Exposures and an Altered Sperm Epigenomea Cross-Sectional Study of Greenlandic Inuit and South African VhaVenda Men. Environmental Health Perspectives, 132, 017008.
  • Xiaojian Shao#, Sangeetha Vishweswaraiah, Miroslava Čuperlović-Culf et al. Dementia with Lewy bodies post-mortem brains reveal differentially methylated CpG sites with biomarker potential. Communications Biology, 2022.
  • Xiaojian Shao#, Catherine Le Stunff, Warren Cheung, Tony Kwan, Mark Lathrop, Tomi Pastinen, Pierre Bougnères. Differentially methylated CpGs in response to growth hormone administration in children with idiopathic short stature. Clinical Epigenetics 2022, 14(1):1-12.
  • Mingju Cao*, Xiaojian Shao*, et al. High-resolution analyses of human sperm dynamic methylome reveals thousands of novel age-related epigenetic alterations. Clinical Epigenetics 2020, 12(1):1-16.
  • Donovan Chan*, Xiaojian Shao*, et al. Customized MethylC-Capture Sequencing to Evaluate Variation in the Human Sperm DNA Methylome Representative of Altered Folate Metabolism. Environmental Health Perspectives 2019. 127 (8), 087002.
  • Xiaojian Shao, Marie Hudson, et al. Rheumatoid arthritis-relevant DNA methylation changes identified in ACPA-positive asymptomatic individuals using methylome capture sequencing. Clinical Epigenetics 2019, 11 (1), 110.
  • Warren Cheung*, Xiaojian Shao*, Andréanne Morin* et al. Functional variation in allelic methylomes underscores a strong genetic contribution and reveals novel epigenetic alterations in the human epigenome. Genome Biology 2017, 18:50.
  • Stephan Busche*, Xiaojian Shao*, et al. Population whole-genome bisulfite sequencing across two tissues highlights environment as principal source of human methylome variation. Genome Biology 2015, 16:290.
  • Fiona Allum*, Xiaojian Shao*, et al. Characterization of functional methylome by next-generation capture sequencing identifies novel disease associated variants. Nature Communications 2015, 6:7211.

Research interests

  • Bioinformatics | Computational Biology
  • Epigenomics | Single Cell Genomics
  • Cell and Gene Therapy
  • Machine Learning and Optimization | Data Science