Yuet Wai Kan, M.D.

Affiliations: 
Departments of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 
Area:
Hematology
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Kan was the first to establish that a single DNA mutation could lead to a human disease, and the first to diagnose a human disease by using DNA.

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Feng D, Kan YW. (2005) The binding of the ubiquitous transcription factor Sp1 at the locus control region represses the expression of beta-like globin genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102: 9896-900
Chang JC, Lu R, Lin C, et al. (1998) Transgenic knockout mice exclusively expressing human hemoglobin S after transfer of a 240-kb betas-globin yeast artificial chromosome: A mouse model of sickle cell anemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 95: 14886-90
Gaensler KM, Kitamura M, Kan YW. (1993) Germ-line transmission and developmental regulation of a 150-kb yeast artificial chromosome containing the human beta-globin locus in transgenic mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 90: 11381-5
Liu D, Chang JC, Moi P, et al. (1992) Dissection of the enhancer activity of beta-globin 5' DNase I-hypersensitive site 2 in transgenic mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 89: 3899-903
Chang JC, Liu D, Kan YW. (1992) A 36-base-pair core sequence of locus control region enhances retrovirally transferred human beta-globin gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 89: 3107-10
Curtin PT, Liu DP, Liu W, et al. (1989) Human beta-globin gene expression in transgenic mice is enhanced by a distant DNase I hypersensitive site. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 86: 7082-6
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