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Research in our lab focuses on the inter-individual genomic diversity, and the impact of genomic variation.
Mobile DNA Element Biology
Mobile DNA elements account for at least 40%-50% of the content of mammalian genomes, including human…
Disease Gene Identification
Annotating function variants, assessing the likelihood a variant’s impact, and identifying candidate disease-causing genes…
Human Population
History
History
A good understanding of human evolution history can help us interpret the distributions of rare and common disease causing alleles…
Recent News
New Publication: Identifying embryo aneuploidy risk genes using whole-exome sequencing data
Our study on identifying embryo aneuploidy risk genes using whole-exome sequencing data is published in PNAS. Congrats to all co-authors!
New Grant: Disease gene discovery by Markovian gene network
In collaboration with Dr. Min Xu at the Department of Statistics, we are awarded a NIH grant from DMS/NIGMS . The project will focus on developing new methods to identify … Read More
Welcome new lab members
We are welcoming several new members for the fall. Jumaporn (Ying) Sonongbua is a visiting PhD student from Thailand under the Fulbright program. Lionel Sequeira and Nazir Qureshi are undergraduate … Read More