 
Zhongxia (Joe) Qi, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor; Director of the Cytogenetics Laboratory
      
              
            Laboratory Medicine
      
              
              
  Specialty Areas
          Cytogenetics
              UCSF
Laboratory Medicine, Box 0134
185 Berry Street, Suite 290
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States
Hospital Affiliations
          UCSF Parnassus Heights
              Research and Clinical Interests
              Genomic and epigenetic analysis of chromosome changes in cancer and other genetic disorders.
Selected Publications
              - Na, B, Huang, Z, Wang, Q, Qi, Z, Tian, Y, Lu, CC, Yu, J, Hanes, M, Kakar, S, Huang, E, Ou, J, Liu, L, and Yen, B. Transgenic expression of entire hepatitis B virus in mice induce hepatocarcinogenesis independent of chronic liver injury. PLoS ONE. 6: e26240, 2011.
- Lu, CM, Zhou, L, Feng, S, Kohn, PH, Qi, Z, and Yu, J. Presence of complex t(6;9;22;15) four-way chromosome rearrangements plus a rare t(1;6) translocation does not affect the response to imatinib therapy in chronic myelogenous leukemia. Leukemia and Lymphoma. 52: 2182-4, 2011.
- Zhang, J, Yu, Y, Nakamura, K, Koike, T, Waqar, AB, Zhang, X, Liu, E, Nishijima, K, Kitajima, S, Shiomi, M, Qi, Z, Yu, J, Graham, MJ, Crooke, RM, Ishida, T, Hirata, K, Hurt-Camejo, E, Chen, YE, and Fan J. Endothelial lipase mediates HDL levels in normal and hyperlipidemic rabbits. Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis. 19: 213-26, 2012.
- Huang, V, Place, R, Wang, J, Qi, Z, Jia, Z, Yu, A, Shuman, M, Yu, J, and Li, LC. Upregulation of Cyclin B1 by miRNA and its implications in cancer. Nucleic Acids Research. 40:1695-707, 2012.
- Qin H, Blaschke K, Wei G, Ohi Y, Blouin L, Qi Z, Yu J, Yeh RF, Hebrok M, and Ramalho-Santos M. Transcriptional Analysis of Pluripotency Reveals the Hippo Pathway as a Barrier to Reprogramming. Human Molecular Genetics. 21:2054-67, 2012.