Publications
A unified framework for joint-tissue transcriptome-wide association and Mendelian randomization analysis. Nat Genet 52, 1239-1246 (2020).
Electronic health record phenotypes associated with genetically regulated expression of CFTR and application to cystic fibrosis. Genet Med 22, 1191-1200 (2020).
The Effects of Migration and Assortative Mating on Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium. Genetics 205, 375-383 (2017).
De novo pattern discovery enables robust assessment of functional consequences of non-coding variants. Bioinformatics 35, 1453-1460 (2019).
Genome sequencing analysis identifies Epstein-Barr virus subtypes associated with high risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Nat Genet 51, 1131-1136 (2019).
Imputation-Aware Tag SNP Selection To Improve Power for Large-Scale, Multi-ethnic Association Studies. G3 (Bethesda) 8, 3255-3267 (2018).
Fine-mapping and functional studies highlight potential causal variants for rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. Nat Genet 50, 1366-1374 (2018).
Whole-Genome and RNA Sequencing Reveal Variation and Transcriptomic Coordination in the Developing Human Prefrontal Cortex. Cell Rep 31, 107489 (2020).
Rapid response to the alpha-1 adrenergic agent phenylephrine in the perioperative period is impacted by genomics and ancestry. Pharmacogenomics J 21, 174-189 (2021).
Methods for the Analysis and Interpretation for Rare Variants Associated with Complex Traits. Curr Protoc Hum Genet 101, e83 (2019).
Applicability of the Mutation-Selection Balance Model to Population Genetics of Heterozygous Protein-Truncating Variants in Humans. Mol Biol Evol 36, 1701-1710 (2019).
A Bayesian framework that integrates multi-omics data and gene networks predicts risk genes from schizophrenia GWAS data. Nat Neurosci 22, 691-699 (2019).
Association between Smoking History and Tumor Mutation Burden in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Cancer Res 81, 2566-2573 (2021).
A common variant in PNPLA3 is associated with age at diagnosis of NAFLD in patients from a multi-ethnic biobank. J Hepatol 72, 1070-1081 (2020).
Opportunities and challenges for transcriptome-wide association studies. Nat Genet 51, 592-599 (2019).
Detection of widespread horizontal pleiotropy in causal relationships inferred from Mendelian randomization between complex traits and diseases. Nat Genet 50, 693-698 (2018).
FasTag: Automatic text classification of unstructured medical narratives. PLoS One 15, e0234647 (2020).
An evolutionary compass for detecting signals of polygenic selection and mutational bias. Evol Lett 3, 69-79 (2019).
Synaptic processes and immune-related pathways implicated in Tourette syndrome. Transl Psychiatry 11, 56 (2021).
A phenome-wide association study of 26 mendelian genes reveals phenotypic expressivity of common and rare variants within the general population. PLoS Genet 16, e1008802 (2020).
Components of genetic associations across 2,138 phenotypes in the UK Biobank highlight adipocyte biology. Nat Commun 10, 4064 (2019).
Rare protein-altering variants in ANGPTL7 lower intraocular pressure and protect against glaucoma. PLoS Genet 16, e1008682 (2020).
Integration of multiomic annotation data to prioritize and characterize inflammation and immune-related risk variants in squamous cell lung cancer. Genet Epidemiol 45, 99-114 (2021).
Testing for gene-environment interaction under exposure misspecification. Biometrics 74, 653-662 (2018).
Disentangling selection on genetically correlated polygenic traits via whole-genome genealogies. Am J Hum Genet 108, 219-239 (2021).
Neurophysiological and Genetic Findings in Patients With Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy. Front Integr Neurosci 14, 45 (2020).
Quantifying the Polygenic Contribution to Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Risk. J Invest Dermatol 138, 1507-1510 (2018).
Negative selection in humans and fruit flies involves synergistic epistasis. Science 356, 539-542 (2017).
Polygenic adaptation on height is overestimated due to uncorrected stratification in genome-wide association studies. Elife 8, (2019).
Weighted pseudolikelihood for SNP set analysis with multiple secondary outcomes in case-control genetic association studies. Biometrics 73, 1210-1220 (2017).
Functional genomics of stromal cells in chronic inflammatory diseases. Curr Opin Rheumatol 30, 65-71 (2018).
GWAS of three molecular traits highlights core genes and pathways alongside a highly polygenic background. Elife 10, (2021).
Population sequencing data reveal a compendium of mutational processes in the human germ line. Science 373, 1030-1035 (2021).
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).
Quantification of frequency-dependent genetic architectures in 25 UK Biobank traits reveals action of negative selection. Nat Commun 10, 790 (2019).
A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes. Nat Genet 53, 1415-1424 (2021).
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).
Genetic diagnoses in epilepsy: The impact of dynamic exome analysis in a pediatric cohort. Epilepsia 61, 249-258 (2020).
Lessons Learned From Past Gene-Environment Interaction Successes. Am J Epidemiol 186, 778-786 (2017).
Incorporation of Biological Knowledge Into the Study of Gene-Environment Interactions. Am J Epidemiol 186, 771-777 (2017).
Functional equivalence of genome sequencing analysis pipelines enables harmonized variant calling across human genetics projects. Nat Commun 9, 4038 (2018).
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).
Allelic Heterogeneity at the CRP Locus Identified by Whole-Genome Sequencing in Multi-ancestry Cohorts. Am J Hum Genet 106, 112-120 (2020).