AJHG

Posted By: Kylee L. Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KLS: What motivated you to start working on this project? EAS: Over the past 14 years conducting research in Africa, I’ve heard the same frustrations from African colleagues about insufficient funding for research, a lack of lab resources and infrastructure, and limited opportunities for advanced training.... Read More

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? AP: I‘ve had an interest in structural variants (SVs) ever since working on microdeletions identified in array data from the Autism Genomes Project. Now that large clinical genome sequencing datasets are available via the 100k Genomes Project,... Read More

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? YL and QS: Genotype imputation is a standard practice but not all variants can be well imputed. State-of-the-art approaches perform poorly for low frequency variants (LFVs) and rare variants (RVs), either removing well-imputed variants or failing to... Read More

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? KC: We were intrigued by the promise of single-cell DNA methylation data for a number of reasons, including the ability to more directly examine allele-specific methylation associated with germline or somatic variants. Single-cell approaches for DNA methylation... Read More

Posted By: Kylee Spencer, PhD, Assistant Editor, AJHG KS: What motivated you to start working on this project? HW: We know from eQTL studies that trans-acting loci tend to have smaller effect sizes than cis-acting loci. By aggregating cis-acting effects into one predicted expression level, as is done in the TWAS method PrediXcan, we had... Read More