Xiaofei Song, PhD

Dr. Song’s research interests focus on advancing the understanding of cancer pathogenesis through translational cancer genomics and development of novel computational methods, primarily in the areas of single-cell sequencing and multi-omics data analysis

Associations

• Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
• Immuno-Oncology Program

Dr. Song’s research interests focus on advancing the understanding of cancer pathogenesis through translational cancer genomics and development of novel computational methods, primarily in the areas of single-cell sequencing and multi-omics data analysis

• Anselmino N, Labanca E, Shepherd PDA, Dong J, Yang J, Song X, Nandakumar S, Kundra R, Lee CJ, Schultz N, Zhang J, Araujo JC, Aparicio AM, Subudhi SK, Corn PG, Pisters LL, Ward JF, Davis JW, Vazquez ES, Gueron G, Logothetis CJ, Futreal A, Troncoso P, Chen Y, Navone NM. Integrative molecular analyses of the MD Anderson prostate cancer patient-derived xenograft (MDA PCa PDX) series. Clin Cancer Res. 2024 Mar. Pubmedid: 38488813.
• Serey-Gaut M, Cortes M, Makrythanasis P, Suri M, Taylor AMR, Sullivan JA, Asleh AN, Mitra J, Dar MA, McNamara A, Shashi V, Dugan S, Song X, Rosenfeld JA, Cabrol C, Iwaszkiewicz J, Zoete V, Pehlivan D, Akdemir ZC, Roeder ER, Littlejohn RO, Dibra HK, Byrd PJ, Stewart GS, Geckinli BB, Posey J, Westman R, Jungbluth C, Eason J, Sachdev R, Evans CA, Lemire G, VanNoy GE, O'Donnell-Luria A, Mau-Them FT, Juven A, Piard J, Nixon CY, Zhu Y, Ha T, Buckley MF, Thauvin C, Essien Umanah GK, Van Maldergem L, Lupski JR, Roscioli T, Dawson VL, Dawson TM, Antonarakis SE. Bi-allelic TTI1 variants cause an autosomal-recessive neurodevelopmental disorder with microcephaly. Am J Hum Genet. 2023 Mar.110(3):499-515. Pubmedid: 36724785. Pmcid: PMC10027477.
• Song X, Chang S, Seminario-Vidal L, de Mingo Pulido A, Tordesillas L, Song X, Reed RA, Harkins A, Whiddon S, Nguyen JV, Moran Segura C, Zhang C, Yoder S, Sayegh Z, Zhao Y, Messina JL, Harro CM, Zhang X, Conejo-Garcia JR, Berglund AE, Sokol L, Zhang J, Rodriguez PC, Mule JJ, Futreal AP, Tsai KY, Chen PL. Genomic and Single-Cell Landscape Reveals Novel Drivers and Therapeutic Vulnerabilities of Transformed Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma. Cancer Discov. 2022 May.12(5):1294-1313. Pubmedid: 35247891. Pmcid: PMC9148441.
• Kanikarla Marie P, Haymaker C, Parra ER, Kim YU, Lazcano R, Gite S, Lorenzini D, Wistuba II, Tidwell RSS, Song X, Foo WC, Maru DM, Chun YS, Futreal A, Kee B, Menter D, Solis L, Tzeng CW, Parseghian C, Raghav K, Morris V, Chang CC, Jenq R, Tam A, Bernatchez C, Kopetz S, Vauthey JN, Overman MJ. Pilot Clinical Trial of Perioperative Durvalumab and Tremelimumab in the Treatment of Resectable Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Jun.27(11):3039-3049. Pubmedid: 33811152. Pmcid: PMC8172528.
• Robak LA, Du R, Yuan B, Gu S, Alfradique-Dunham I, Kondapalli V, Hinojosa E, Stillwell A, Young E, Zhang C, Song X, Du H, Gambin T, Jhangiani SN, Coban Akdemir Z, Muzny DM, Tejomurtula A, Ross OA, Shaw C, Jankovic J, Bi W, Posey JE, Lupski JR, Shulman JM. Integrated sequencing and array comparative genomic hybridization in familial Parkinson disease. Neurol Genet. 2020 Oct.6(5):e498. Pubmedid: 32802956. Pmcid: PMC7413630.
• Hijazi H, Coelho FS, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Bernardini L, Mar SS, Manning MA, Hanson-Kahn A, Naidu S, Srivastava S, Lee JA, Jones JR, Friez MJ, Alberico T, Torres B, Fang P, Cheung SW, Song X, Davis-Williams A, Jornlin C, Wight PA, Patyal P, Taube J, Poretti A, Inoue K, Zhang F, Pehlivan D, Carvalho CMB, Hobson GM, Lupski JR. Xq22 deletions and correlation with distinct neurological disease traits in females: Further evidence for a contiguous gene syndrome. Hum Mutat. 2020 Jan.41(1):150-168. Pubmedid: 31448840. Pmcid: PMC6953250.
• Assia Batzir N, Posey JE, Song X, Akdemir ZC, Rosenfeld JA, Brown CW, Chen E, Holtrop SG, Mizerik E, Nieto Moreno M, Payne K, Raas-Rothschild A, Scott R, Vernon HJ, Zadeh N, Lupski JR, Sutton VR. Phenotypic expansion of POGZ-related intellectual disability syndrome (White-Sutton syndrome). Am J Med Genet A. 2020 Jan.182(1):38-52. Pubmedid: 31782611. Pmcid: PMC7713511.
• Lin M, Liu Z, Liu G, Zhao S, Li C, Chen W, Coban Akdemir Z, Lin J, Song X, Wang S, Xu Q, Zhao Y, Wang L, Zhang Y, Yan Z, Liu S, Liu J, Chen Y, Zuo Y, Yang X, Sun T, Yang XZ, Niu Y, Li X, You W, Qiu B, Ding C, Liu P, Zhang S, Carvalho CMB, Posey JE, Qiu G, Lupski JR, Wu Z, Zhang J, Wu N. Genetic and molecular mechanism for distinct clinical phenotypes conveyed by allelic truncating mutations implicated in FBN1. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2020 Jan.8(1):e1023. Pubmedid: 31774634. Pmcid: PMC6978264.
• Chen W, Lin J, Wang L, Li X, Zhao S, Liu J, Akdemir ZC, Zhao Y, Du R, Ye Y, Song X, Zhang Y, Yan Z, Yang X, Lin M, Shen J, Wang S, Gao N, Yang Y, Liu Y, Li W, Liu J, Zhang N, Yang X, Xu Y, Zhang J, Delgado MR, Posey JE, Qiu G, Rios JJ, Liu P, Wise CA, Zhang F, Wu Z, Lupski JR, Wu N. TBX6 missense variants expand the mutational spectrum in a non-Mendelian inheritance disease. Hum Mutat. 2020 Jan.41(1):182-195. Pubmedid: 31471994. Pmcid: PMC7061259.
• Beck CR, Carvalho CMB, Akdemir ZC, Sedlazeck FJ, Song X, Meng Q, Hu J, Doddapaneni H, Chong Z, Chen ES, Thornton PC, Liu P, Yuan B, Withers M, Jhangiani SN, Kalra D, Walker K, English AC, Han Y, Chen K, Muzny DM, Ira G, Shaw CA, Gibbs RA, Hastings PJ, Lupski JR. Megabase Length Hypermutation Accompanies Human Structural Variation at 17p11.2. Cell. 2019 Mar.176(6):1310-1324.e10. Pubmedid: 30827684. Pmcid: PMC6438178.
• Yuan B, Neira J, Pehlivan D, Santiago-Sim T, Song X, Rosenfeld J, Posey JE, Patel V, Jin W, Adam MP, Baple EL, Dean J, Fong CT, Hickey SE, Hudgins L, Leon E, Madan-Khetarpal S, Rawlins L, Rustad CF, Stray-Pedersen A, Tveten K, Wenger O, Diaz J, Jenkins L, Martin L, McGuire M, Pietryga M, Ramsdell L, Slattery L, Abid F, Bertuch AA, Grange D, Immken L, Schaaf CP, Van Esch H, Bi W, Cheung SW, Breman AM, Smith JL, Shaw C, Crosby AH, Eng C, Yang Y, Lupski JR, Xiao R, Liu P. Clinical exome sequencing reveals locus heterogeneity and phenotypic variability of cohesinopathies. Genet Med. 2019 Mar.21(3):663-675. Pubmedid: 30158690. Pmcid: PMC6395558.
• Cogné B, Ehresmann S, Beauregard-Lacroix E, Rousseau J, Besnard T, Garcia T, Petrovski S, Avni S, McWalter K, Blackburn PR, Sanders SJ, Uguen K, Harris J, Cohen JS, Blyth M, Lehman A, Berg J, Li MH, Kini U, Joss S, von der Lippe C, Gordon CT, Humberson JB, Robak L, Scott DA, Sutton VR, Skraban CM, Johnston JJ, Poduri A, Nordenskjöld M, Shashi V, Gerkes EH, Bongers EMHF, Gilissen C, Zarate YA, Kvarnung M, Lally KP, Kulch PA, Daniels B, Hernandez-Garcia A, Stong N, McGaughran J, Retterer K, Tveten K, Sullivan J, Geisheker MR, Stray-Pedersen A, Tarpinian JM, Klee EW, Sapp JC, Zyskind J, Holla ØL, Bedoukian E, Filippini F, Guimier A, Picard A, Busk ØL, Punetha J, Pfundt R, Lindstrand A, Nordgren A, Kalb F, Desai M, Ebanks AH, Jhangiani SN, Dewan T, Coban Akdemir ZH, Telegrafi A, Zackai EH, Begtrup A, Song X, Toutain A, Wentzensen IM, Odent S, Bonneau D, Latypova X, Deb W, Redon S, Bilan F, Legendre M, Troyer C, Whitlock K, Caluseriu O, Murphree MI, Pichurin PN, Agre K, Gavrilova R, Rinne T, Park M, Shain C, Heinzen EL, Xiao R, Amiel J, Lyonnet S, Isidor B, Biesecker LG, Lowenstein D, Posey JE, Denommé-Pichon AS, Férec C, Yang XJ, Rosenfeld JA, Gilbert-Dussardier B, Audebert-Bellanger S, Redon R, Stessman HAF, Nellaker C, Yang Y, Lupski JR, Goldstein DB, Eichler EE, Bolduc F, Bézieau S, Küry S, Campeau PM. Missense Variants in the Histone Acetyltransferase Complex Component Gene TRRAP Cause Autism and Syndromic Intellectual Disability. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Mar.104(3):530-541. ...
• Liu P, Meng L, Normand EA, Xia F, Song X, Ghazi A, Rosenfeld J, Magoulas PL, Braxton A, Ward P, Dai H, Yuan B, Bi W, Xiao R, Wang X, Chiang T, Vetrini F, He W, Cheng H, Dong J, Gijavanekar C, Benke PJ, Bernstein JA, Eble T, Eroglu Y, Erwin D, Escobar L, Gibson JB, Gripp K, Kleppe S, Koenig MK, Lewis AM, Natowicz M, Mancias P, Minor L, Scaglia F, Schaaf CP, Streff H, Vernon H, Uhles CL, Zackai EH, Wu N, Sutton VR, Beaudet AL, Muzny D, Gibbs RA, Posey JE, Lalani S, Shaw C, Eng CM, Lupski JR, Yang Y. Reanalysis of Clinical Exome Sequencing Data. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jun.380(25):2478-2480. Pubmedid: 31216405. Pmcid: PMC6934160.
• Liu J, Wu N, Yang N, Takeda K, Chen W, Li W, Du R, Liu S, Zhou Y, Zhang L, Liu Z, Zuo Y, Zhao S, Blank R, Pehlivan D, Dong S, Zhang J, Shen J, Si N, Wang Y, Liu G, Li S, Zhao Y, Zhao H, Chen Y, Zhao Y, Song X, Hu J, Lin M, Tian Y, Yuan B, Yu K, Niu Y, Yu B, Li X, Chen J, Yan Z, Zhu Q, Meng X, Chen X, Su J, Zhao X, Wang X, Ming Y, Li X, Raggio CL, Zhang B, Weng X, Zhang S, Zhang X, Watanabe K, Matsumoto M, Jin L, Shen Y, Sobreira NL, Posey JE, Giampietro PF, Valle D, Liu P, Wu Z, Ikegawa S, Lupski JR, Zhang F, Qiu G. TBX6-associated congenital scoliosis (TACS) as a clinically distinguishable subtype of congenital scoliosis: further evidence supporting the compound inheritance and TBX6 gene dosage model. Genet Med. 2019 Jul.21(7):1548-1558. Pubmedid: 30636772. Pmcid: PMC6659397.
• Szafranski P, Liu Q, Karolak JA, Song X, de Leeuw N, Faas B, Gerychova R, Janku P, Jezova M, Valaskova I, Gibbs KA, Surrey LF, Poisson V, Bérubé D, Oligny LL, Michaud JL, Popek E, Stankiewicz P. Association of rare non-coding SNVs in the lung-specific FOXF1 enhancer with a mitigation of the lethal ACDMPV phenotype. Hum Genet. 2019 Dec.138(11-12):1301-1311. Pubmedid: 31686214. Pmcid: PMC6874894.
• Bahrambeigi V, Song X, Sperle K, Beck CR, Hijazi H, Grochowski CM, Gu S, Seeman P, Woodward KJ, Carvalho CMB, Hobson GM, Lupski JR. Distinct patterns of complex rearrangements and a mutational signature of microhomeology are frequently observed in PLP1 copy number gain structural variants. Genome Med. 2019 Dec.11(1):80. Pubmedid: 31818324. Pmcid: PMC6902434.
• Lumaka A, Race V, Peeters H, Corveleyn A, Coban-Akdemir Z, Jhangiani SN, Song X, Mubungu G, Posey J, Lupski JR, Vermeesch JR, Lukusa P, Devriendt K. A comprehensive clinical and genetic study in 127 patients with ID in Kinshasa, DR Congo. Am J Med Genet A. 2018 Sep.176(9):1897-1909. Pubmedid: 30088852. Pmcid: PMC6325645.
• Du R, Dinckan N, Song X, Coban-Akdemir Z, Jhangiani SN, Guven Y, Aktoren O, Kayserili H, Petty LE, Muzny DM, Below JE, Boerwinkle E, Wu N, Gibbs RA, Posey JE, Lupski JR, Letra A, Uyguner ZO. Identification of likely pathogenic and known variants in TSPEAR, LAMB3, BCOR, and WNT10A in four Turkish families with tooth agenesis. Hum Genet. 2018 Sep.137(9):689-703. Pubmedid: 30046887. Pmcid: PMC6165673.
• Wang K, Zhao S, Liu B, Zhang Q, Li Y, Liu J, Shen Y, Ding X, Lin J, Wu Y, Yan Z, Chen J, Li X, Song X, Niu Y, Liu J, Chen W, Ming Y, Du R, Chen C, Long B, Zhang Y, Tong X, Zhang S, Posey JE, Zhang B, Wu Z, Wythe JD, Liu P, Lupski JR, Yang X, Wu N. Perturbations of BMP/TGF-β and VEGF/VEGFR signalling pathways in non-syndromic sporadic brain arteriovenous malformations (BAVM). J Med Genet. 2018 Oct.55(10):675-684. Pubmedid: 30120215. Pmcid: PMC6161649.
• Morimoto M, Waller-Evans H, Ammous Z, Song X, Strauss KA, Pehlivan D, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Puffenberger EG, Holst CR, Karaca E, Brigatti KW, Maguire E, Coban-Akdemir ZH, Amagata A, Lau CC, Chepa-Lotrea X, Macnamara E, Tos T, Isikay S, Nehrebecky M, Overton JD, Klein M, Markello TC, Posey JE, Adams DR, Lloyd-Evans E, Lupski JR, Gahl WA, Malicdan MCV. Bi-allelic CCDC47 Variants Cause a Disorder Characterized by Woolly Hair, Liver Dysfunction, Dysmorphic Features, and Global Developmental Delay. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Nov.103(5):794-807. Pubmedid: 30401460. Pmcid: PMC6218603.
• Wang K, Zhao S, Zhang Q, Yuan J, Liu J, Ding X, Song X, Lin J, Du R, Zhou Y, Sugimoto M, Chen W, Yuan B, Liu J, Yan Z, Liu B, Zhang Y, Li X, Niu Y, Long B, Shen Y, Zhang S, Abe K, Su J, Wu Z, Wu N, Liu P, Yang X. Whole-exome sequencing reveals known and novel variants in a cohort of intracranial vertebral-basilar artery dissection (IVAD). J Hum Genet. 2018 Nov.63(11):1119-1128. Pubmedid: 30115950.
• Liu J, Zhou Y, Liu S, Song X, Yang XZ, Fan Y, Chen W, Akdemir ZC, Yan Z, Zuo Y, Du R, Liu Z, Yuan B, Zhao S, Liu G, Chen Y, Zhao Y, Lin M, Zhu Q, Niu Y, Liu P, Ikegawa S, Song YQ, Posey JE, Qiu G, Zhang F, Wu Z, Lupski JR, Wu N. The coexistence of copy number variations (CNVs) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at a locus can result in distorted calculations of the significance in associating SNPs to disease. Hum Genet. 2018 Jul.137(6-7):553-567. Pubmedid: 30019117. Pmcid: PMC6200315.
• Karaca E, Posey JE, Coban Akdemir Z, Pehlivan D, Harel T, Jhangiani SN, Bayram Y, Song X, Bahrambeigi V, Yuregir OO, Bozdogan S, Yesil G, Isikay S, Muzny D, Gibbs RA, Lupski JR. Phenotypic expansion illuminates multilocus pathogenic variation. Genet Med. 2018 Dec.20(12):1528-1537. Pubmedid: 29790871. Pmcid: PMC6450542.
• Coban-Akdemir Z, White JJ, Song X, Jhangiani SN, Fatih JM, Gambin T, Bayram Y, Chinn IK, Karaca E, Punetha J, Poli C, Boerwinkle E, Shaw CA, Orange JS, Gibbs RA, Lappalainen T, Lupski JR, Carvalho CMB. Identifying Genes Whose Mutant Transcripts Cause Dominant Disease Traits by Potential Gain-of-Function Alleles. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Aug.103(2):171-187. Pubmedid: 30032986. Pmcid: PMC6081281.
• Song X, Beck CR, Du R, Campbell IM, Coban-Akdemir Z, Gu S, Breman AM, Stankiewicz P, Ira G, Shaw CA, Lupski JR. Predicting human genes susceptible to genomic instability associated with Alu/Alu-mediated rearrangements. Genome Res. 2018 Aug.28(8):1228-1242. Pubmedid: 29907612. Pmcid: PMC6071635.

• Title: Effects of hypoxia in tumor immune microenvironment in tobacco-related head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
  Sponsor: Florida Biomedical Research Program (FBRP)
  PI: Chung, C., CO-PI: Song, X.