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Doug Rains

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Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Determination of diagnostic cycle threshold (Ct) cut-offs for qPCR-based prevalence surveys of soil-transmitted helminth infections

Malathi Manuel, Nils Pilotte, Joseph W. S. Timothy, Sean R. Galagan, Gideon John Israel, Craig T. Connors, Victor Omballa, Monica Pechanec Voss, Ushashi Chand Dadwal, Andrew M. Gonzalez, Justine Ahlonsou, David Chaima, Zayina Zondervenni Manoharan, Doug Rains, Kristjana Ásbjörnsdóttir, , Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur

The paper establishes Ct cut-offs for qPCR to detect transmissible soil-transmitted helminth infections using data from 29,980 samples.

bioRxiv · Jan 5, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology

Diagnosing Bacterial Vaginosis with a Novel, Clinically-Actionable Molecular Diagnostic Tool

Joseph P. Jarvis, Doug Rains, Steven J. Kradel, James Elliott, Evan E. Diamond, Erik Avaniss-Aghajani, Farid Yasharpour, Jeffrey A. Shaman

This paper validates a molecular diagnostic algorithm for bacterial vaginosis using microbiome data, achieving high sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing symptomatic and asymptomatic cases.

bioRxiv · May 31, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology