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Jacek Majewski

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Jacek Majewski

Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics

Email: jacek.majewski@mcgill.ca
Phone: (514) 398-3311 x00891

740 Dr Penfield Ave, Room 7210
Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3A 0G1

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Professor Jacek Majewski received a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Wesleyan University (1999), a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1991) and a Bachelor in Physics, also from Stanford (1990). He is Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and holds the Canada Research Chair in Statistical Genetics. Prof. Majewski’s research is based on genomics and bioinformatics analysis of high throughput data. The recent revolution in massively parallel DNA sequencing has opened new venues into numerous biomedical problems.

My group specializes in the analysis of high throughput genomics data, with specific applications to human hereditary disease and cancer. My diverse background combining quantitative sciences and biology has become a strong asset in the era of big data in biology. I have a long history of leading projects both as a PI and collaborations in large teams. My participation in collaborative teams resulted in over 200 publications utilizing high throughput sequencing approaches in genetics of disease, cancer, and basic biology My current interests focus on the role of epigenetic dysregulation in cancer. In order to better understand disease states, we have also ventured into exploring the balance of chromatin modification during normally progressing development. As the next frontier, we are also working on integrating classical epigenetic approaches with chromatin conformation data and developing methods to visualize and analyzed chromatin in a three dimensional framework.

Recent Publications

  • Liang, M, Suresh, B, Bareke, E, Choufani, S, Jagadeesh, S, Weksberg, R et al.. A homozygous stop codon in HORMAD2 in a patient with recurrent digynic triploid miscarriage. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2024;12 (2):e2402. doi: 10.1002/mgg3.2402. PubMed PMID:38400599 PubMed Central PMC10891434.
  • Leszczynska, KB, Freitas-Huhtamäki, A, Jayaprakash, C, Dzwigonska, M, Vitorino, FNL, Horth, C et al.. H2A.Z histone variants facilitate HDACi-dependent removal of H3.3K27M mutant protein in pediatric high-grade glioma cells. Cell Rep. 2024;43 (2):113707. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113707. PubMed PMID:38306270 .
  • Yalcin, Z, Liang, M, Abdelrazek, IM, Friedrich, C, Bareke, E, Nabil, A et al.. A report of two homozygous TERB1 protein-truncating variants in two unrelated women with primary infertility. J Assist Reprod Genet. 2024; :. doi: 10.1007/s10815-024-03031-x. PubMed PMID:38277113 .
  • Aguilar-Mahecha, A, Alirezaie, N, Lafleur, J, Bareke, E, Przybytkowski, E, Lan, C et al.. The Mutational Spectrum of Pre- and Post-Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Triple-Negative Breast Cancers. Genes (Basel). 2023;15 (1):. doi: 10.3390/genes15010027. PubMed PMID:38254917 PubMed Central PMC10815241.
  • Hautakangas, MR, Widgren, P, Korpelainen, P, Kangas, SM, Komulainen, T, Vieira, P et al.. Infantile onset encephalomyopathy, retinopathy, optic atrophy, and mitochondrial DNA depletion associated with a novel pathogenic DHX16 variant. Clin Genet. 2023;104 (6):686-693. doi: 10.1111/cge.14416. PubMed PMID:37574199 .
  • Kumar, S, Alam, SS, Bareke, E, Beauchamp, MC, Dong, Y, Chan, W et al.. Sf3b4 regulates chromatin remodeler splicing and Hox expression. Differentiation. 2023;131 :59-73. doi: 10.1016/j.diff.2023.04.004. PubMed PMID:37167859 .
  • Zwaig, M, Baguette, A, Hu, B, Johnston, M, Lakkis, H, Nakada, EM et al.. Detection and genomic analysis of BRAF fusions in Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma through the combination and integration of multi-omic data. BMC Cancer. 2022;22 (1):1297. doi: 10.1186/s12885-022-10359-z. PubMed PMID:36503484 PubMed Central PMC9743522.
  • Li, Y, Goldberg, EM, Chen, X, Xu, X, McGuire, JT, Leuzzi, G et al.. Histone methylation antagonism drives tumor immune evasion in squamous cell carcinomas. Mol Cell. 2022;82 (20):3901-3918.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2022.09.007. PubMed PMID:36206767 PubMed Central PMC9588679.
  • Langouët, M, Jolicoeur, C, Javed, A, Mattar, P, Gearhart, MD, Daiger, SP et al.. Mutations in BCOR, a co-repressor of CRX/OTX2, are associated with early-onset retinal degeneration. Sci Adv. 2022;8 (36):eabh2868. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abh2868. PubMed PMID:36070393 PubMed Central PMC9451151.
  • Chen, OJ, Castellsagué, E, Moustafa-Kamal, M, Nadaf, J, Rivera, B, Fahiminiya, S et al.. Germline Missense Variants in CDC20 Result in Aberrant Mitotic Progression and Familial Cancer. Cancer Res. 2022;82 (19):3499-3515. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-3956. PubMed PMID:35913887 .
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