Publications
Incorporating European GWAS findings improve polygenic risk prediction accuracy of breast cancer among East Asians. Genet Epidemiol (2021). doi:10.1002/gepi.22382
Whole-transcriptome sequencing in blood provides a diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy with progressive myoclonic epilepsy. Hum Mutat 38, 611-614 (2017).
On the cross-population generalizability of gene expression prediction models. PLoS Genet 16, e1008927 (2020).
Improved methods for multi-trait fine mapping of pleiotropic risk loci. Bioinformatics 33, 248-255 (2017).
Evidence for secondary-variant genetic burden and non-random distribution across biological modules in a recessive ciliopathy. Nat Genet 52, 1145-1150 (2020).
VEXOR: an integrative environment for prioritization of functional variants in fine-mapping analysis. Bioinformatics 33, 1389-1391 (2017).
Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale. Nat Genet 52, 969-983 (2020).
Fast Lasso method for large-scale and ultrahigh-dimensional Cox model with applications to UK Biobank. Biostatistics (2020). doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxaa038
Survival Analysis on Rare Events Using Group-Regularized Multi-Response Cox Regression. Bioinformatics (2021). doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab095
A synthetic-diploid benchmark for accurate variant-calling evaluation. Nat Methods 15, 595-597 (2018).
Identifying causal variants and genes using functional genomics in specialized cell types and contexts. Hum Genet 139, 95-102 (2020).
Multiple phenotype association tests using summary statistics in genome-wide association studies. Biometrics 74, 165-175 (2018).
ACAT: A Fast and Powerful p Value Combination Method for Rare-Variant Analysis in Sequencing Studies. Am J Hum Genet 104, 410-421 (2019).
A Transcriptome-Wide Association Study Identifies Candidate Susceptibility Genes for Pancreatic Cancer Risk. Cancer Res 80, 4346-4354 (2020).
A multi-task convolutional deep neural network for variant calling in single molecule sequencing. Nat Commun 10, 998 (2019).
Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations. Am J Hum Genet 107, 788-789 (2020).
Human Demographic History Impacts Genetic Risk Prediction across Diverse Populations. Am J Hum Genet 100, 635-649 (2017).
Drug-Resistant Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: Misdiagnosis of Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy. Front Neurol 10, 946 (2019).
Current Challenges and New Opportunities for Gene-Environment Interaction Studies of Complex Diseases. Am J Epidemiol 186, 753-761 (2017).
Operating characteristics of the rank-based inverse normal transformation for quantitative trait analysis in genome-wide association studies. Biometrics 76, 1262-1272 (2020).
Global Biobank Engine: enabling genotype-phenotype browsing for biobank summary statistics. Bioinformatics 35, 2495-2497 (2019).
Efficient Estimation and Applications of Cross-Validated Genetic Predictions to Polygenic Risk Scores and Linear Mixed Models. J Comput Biol 27, 599-612 (2020).
Whole-exome sequencing in adult patients with developmental and epileptic encephalopathy: It is never too late. Clin Genet 98, 477-485 (2020).
Genome-Wide Analysis Reveals Mucociliary Remodeling of the Nasal Airway Epithelium Induced by Urban PM. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 63, 172-184 (2020).
RAFFI: Accurate and fast familial relationship inference in large scale biobank studies using RaPID. PLoS Genet 17, e1009315 (2021).
Extreme Polygenicity of Complex Traits Is Explained by Negative Selection. Am J Hum Genet 105, 456-476 (2019).
Race, socioeconomic deprivation, and hospitalization for COVID-19 in English participants of a national biobank. Int J Equity Health 19, 114 (2020).
A fast and scalable framework for large-scale and ultrahigh-dimensional sparse regression with application to the UK Biobank. PLoS Genet 16, e1009141 (2020).
Allelic Heterogeneity at the CRP Locus Identified by Whole-Genome Sequencing in Multi-ancestry Cohorts. Am J Hum Genet 106, 112-120 (2020).
Modeling epistasis in mice and yeast using the proportion of two or more distinct genetic backgrounds: Evidence for "polygenic epistasis". PLoS Genet 16, e1009165 (2020).
Functional equivalence of genome sequencing analysis pipelines enables harmonized variant calling across human genetics projects. Nat Commun 9, 4038 (2018).
Incorporation of Biological Knowledge Into the Study of Gene-Environment Interactions. Am J Epidemiol 186, 771-777 (2017).
Lessons Learned From Past Gene-Environment Interaction Successes. Am J Epidemiol 186, 778-786 (2017).
Genetic diagnoses in epilepsy: The impact of dynamic exome analysis in a pediatric cohort. Epilepsia 61, 249-258 (2020).
Differential NOVA2-Mediated Splicing in Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons Regulates Cortical Development and Cerebellar Function. Neuron 101, 707-720.e5 (2019).
Type 2 and interferon inflammation strongly regulate SARS-CoV-2 related gene expression in the airway epithelium. bioRxiv (2020). doi:10.1101/2020.04.09.034454
Type 2 and interferon inflammation regulate SARS-CoV-2 entry factor expression in the airway epithelium. Nat Commun 11, 5139 (2020).
A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes. Nat Genet 53, 1415-1424 (2021).
Quantification of frequency-dependent genetic architectures in 25 UK Biobank traits reveals action of negative selection. Nat Commun 10, 790 (2019).
Error-prone bypass of DNA lesions during lagging-strand replication is a common source of germline and cancer mutations. Nat Genet 51, 36-41 (2019).
Population sequencing data reveal a compendium of mutational processes in the human germ line. Science 373, 1030-1035 (2021).
GWAS of three molecular traits highlights core genes and pathways alongside a highly polygenic background. Elife 10, (2021).
Functional genomics of stromal cells in chronic inflammatory diseases. Curr Opin Rheumatol 30, 65-71 (2018).
Weighted pseudolikelihood for SNP set analysis with multiple secondary outcomes in case-control genetic association studies. Biometrics 73, 1210-1220 (2017).
Negative selection in humans and fruit flies involves synergistic epistasis. Science 356, 539-542 (2017).