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Barak Markus

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees using millions of relatives

Joanna Kaplanis, Assaf Gordon, Tal Shor, Omer Weissbrod, Dan Geiger, Mary E. Wahl, Michael Gershovits, Barak Markus, Mona A. Sheikh, Melissa Gymrek, Gaurav Bhatia, Daniel G. MacArthur, Alkes L. Price, Yaniv Erlich

The paper creates a population-scale family tree resource using crowd-sourced genealogy data to study genetic architecture and family dispersion.

Science · Mar 1, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics

Abundant contribution of short tandem repeats to gene expression variation in humans

Melissa Gymrek, Thomas Willems, Haoyang Zeng, Barak Markus, Mark J Daly, Alkes L Price, Jonathan Pritchard, Yaniv Erlich

The paper identifies 2,060 expression STRs (eSTRs) contributing 10%-15% of cis-heritability to gene expression, highlighting their role as regulatory variants.

Nature Genetics · Jan 1, 2016Peer-reviewedGenomics

OTX2 Dosage Sensitivity is Implicated in Hemifacial Microsomia

Dina Zielinski, Barak Markus, Mona Sheikh, Melissa Gymrek, Clement Chu, Marta Zaks, Balaji Srinivasan, Jodi D. Hoffman, Dror Aizenbud, Yaniv Erlich

The paper identifies a 1.3Mb duplication on chromosome 14q22.3 in HFM patients, implicating OTX2 dosage sensitivity in craniofacial development and linking it to medulloblastoma.

bioRxiv · Dec 3, 2013Genetics