Shahana Majid
University of California, San Francisco
131 Papers
867 Citations
Shahana Majid is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prostate cancer & microRNA. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 128 publications. Previous affiliations of Shahana Majid include Veterans Health Administration & San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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Papers
Polymorphisms of DNA repair genes are risk factors for prostate cancer
Hiroshi Hirata,Yuji Hinoda,Yuichiro Tanaka,Naoko Okayama,Yutaka Suehiro,Ken Kawamoto,Nobuyuki Kikuno,Nobuyuki Kikuno,Shahana Majid,Kaveh Vejdani,Rajvir Dahiya +10 more
TL;DR: The present data suggest that XPC Lys939Gln and the T-A haplotype of XRCC1 Arg194Trp and Arg399Gln may be risk factors for PC in Japanese.
The complex roles of Wnt antagonists in RCC.
TL;DR: It has been postulated—and supported by experimental evidence—that the functional loss of Wnt antagonists can contribute to constitutive activation of the Wnt pathway, resulting in carcinogenesis through dysregulation of cell proliferation and differentiation.
Regulation of minichromosome maintenance gene family by microRNA-1296 and genistein in prostate cancer.
Shahana Majid,Altaf A. Dar,Sharanjot Saini,Yi Chen,Varahram Shahryari,Jan Liu,Mohd Saif Zaman,Hiroshi Hirata,Soichiro Yamamura,Koji Ueno,Yuichiro Tanaka,Rajvir Dahiya +11 more
TL;DR: This is the first report showing anti-MCM effect by miR-1296, genistein, and TSA, which may contribute to novel therapeutic approaches in the treatment of prostate cancer.
miRNA Expression Analyses in Prostate Cancer Clinical Tissues.
Nathan Bucay,Varahram Shahryari,Shahana Majid,Soichiro Yamamura,Yozo Mitsui,Z. Laura Tabatabai,Kirsten L. Greene,Guoren Deng,Rajvir Dahiya,Yuichiro Tanaka,Sharanjot Saini +10 more
TL;DR: A simplified workflow for miRNA analyses in archived FFPE or fresh frozen prostate cancer clinical specimens using a combination of quantitative real-time PCR (RT-PCR) and in situ hybridization (ISH) is described.
Oncogenic Functions of Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 2 in Human Renal Cancer
Soichiro Yamamura,Kazumori Kawakami,Hiroshi Hirata,Koji Ueno,Sharanjot Saini,Shahana Majid,Rajvir Dahiya +6 more
TL;DR: This is the first report documenting that sFRP2 activates the canonical Wnt pathway and promotes cell growth by evoking diverse signaling cascades in renal cancer cells.