Patents, Publications, Software

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• Regional Distribution of HLA Frequencies in the USA: Implications for TCR-Based Therapies Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (April 2025)
  Christian K. Roy, Tomasz Sewastianik, Ileana Saenz, Gregory J. Opiteck, Sean Stagg, Martin Maiers, Dirk Nagorsen

• CensusHLA: R Package in support of Roy 2025 JITC
  Available from: Zenodo and GitHub

• Allele-Specific HLA LOH Impacts Survival of Colorectal and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients (submitted)
  Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (~2025)
  Tomasz Sewastianik, Christian Roy, Michael Gormally, Meagan Montesion, Patrick Halvey, Aastha Jindal, Hubert Lam, Adam Schoenfeld, Christopher Klebanoff, Gregory Opiteck, Dirk Nagorsen

• Human NLRC4 Expression Promotes Cancer Survival and Associates with Type I Interferon Signaling and Immune Infiltration
  Journal of Clinical Investigation (2024)
  Charlotte Domblides, Steven Crampton, Hong Liu, Juliet M. Bartleson, Annie Nguyen, Claudia Champagne, Emily E. Landy, et al. 

• Widespread Haploid-Biased Gene Expression Enables Sperm-Level Natural Selection
  Science (March 2021)
  Kunal Bhutani, Katherine Stansifer, Simina Ticau, Lazar Bojic, Chloe Villani, Joanna Slisz, Claudia Cremers, Christian Roy, Jerry Donovan, Brian Fiske, Robin Friedman

• Subsets of Mononuclear Phagocytes Are Enriched in the Inflamed Colons of Patients with IBD
  BMC Immunology (November 2019)
  Hong Liu, Suryasarathi Dasgupta, Yu Fu, Brandi Bailey, Christian Roy, Eric Lightcap, Benjamin Faustin

• Assessing Long-Distance RNA Sequence Connectivity via RNA-Templated DNA-DNA Ligation
  eLife (April 2015)
  Christian K. Roy, Sarah Olson, Brenton R. Graveley, Phillip D. Zamore, Melissa J. Moore

• Deducing Exon Connectivity by RNA-Templated DNA Ligation/Sequencing
  Patent US8975019 B2 (March 2015)
  Phillip D. Zamore, Melissa J. Moore, Christian K. Roy

• Putting the Pieces Together: Exons and piRNAs
  UMMS Dissertation (May 2014)
  Christian K. Roy
  Available on Github

• An Ancient Transcription Factor Initiates the Burst of piRNA Production during Early Meiosis in Mouse Testes
  Molecular Cell (April 2013)
  X.Z. Li*, Christian K. Roy*, X. Dong, E. Bolcun-Filas, J. Wang, B.W. Han, J. Xu, Melissa J. Moore, J.C. Schimenti, Z. Weng, Phillip D. Zamore (*Equal contribution)

• Defining piRNA Primary Transcripts
  Cell Cycle (May 2013)
  X.Z. Li, Christian K. Roy, Melissa J. Moore, Phillip D. Zamore

• UPF1 Is Crucial for the Infectivity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Progeny Virions
  Journal of Virology (August 2013)
  A.K.P. Serquiña, R.D. Suman, E. Popova, O.A. Ojelabi, Christian K. Roy, H.G. Göttlinger