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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

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

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