Nadav Ahituv, PhD

Professor
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
[email protected]
+1 415 476-1838
Research Description: 

The Ahituv lab is focused on understanding the role of regulatory sequences in human biology and disease. Through a combination of comparative genomic strategies, biochemical assays, regulatory element analysis, human patient samples, mouse and fish genetic engineering technologies, and massively parallel reporter assays they are working to elucidate mechanisms whereby genetic variation within these sequences lead to changes in human phenotypes.

Primary Thematic Area: 
Human Genetics
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Research Summary: 
Gene regulation and human disease

Websites

Publications: 

Co-option of the lineage-specific LAVA retrotransposon in the gibbon genome.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Okhovat M, Nevonen KA, Davis BA, Michener P, Ward S, Milhaven M, Harshman L, Sohota A, Fernandes JD, Salama SR, O'Neill RJ, Ahituv N, Veeramah KR, Carbone L

lentiMPRA and MPRAflow for high-throughput functional characterization of gene regulatory elements.

Nature protocols

Gordon MG, Inoue F, Martin B, Schubach M, Agarwal V, Whalen S, Feng S, Zhao J, Ashuach T, Ziffra R, Kreimer A, Georgakopoulous-Soares I, Yosef N, Ye CJ, Pollard KS, Shendure J, Kircher M, Ahituv N

Noncoding SNPs associated with increased GDF15 levels located in a metformin-activated enhancer region upstream of GDF15.

Pharmacogenomics

Linhares ND, Pereira DA, Conceição IM, Franco GR, Eckalbar WL, Ahituv N, Luizon MR

The cartilage matrisome in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Bone research

Wise CA, Sepich D, Ushiki A, Khanshour AM, Kidane YH, Makki N, Gurnett CA, Gray RS, Rios JJ, Ahituv N, Solnica-Krezel L

Characterization of functional transposable element enhancers in acute myeloid leukemia.

Science China. Life sciences

Zeng Y, Cao Y, Halevy RS, Nguyen P, Liu D, Zhang X, Ahituv N, Han JJ