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Karen Tang

University of Minnesota

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Assay:metagenomics· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:rat· 1

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Ran BlekhmaniD· 3 shared Dan KnightsiD· 1 shared Elizabeth Archie· 1 shared Evan Tang· 1 shared George H. PerryiD· 1 shared Iyunoluwa J. Ademola‐PopoolaiD· 1 shared Jenny TungiD· 1 shared Joanna SandsiD· 1 shared

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Evolutionary Histories and Environments Shape Ugandan and Global Oral Microbiomes

Iyunoluwa J. Ademola‐Popoola, Kathleen E Grogen, Muslihudeen A. Abdul‐Aziz, K. Ta Christine, Karen Tang, Ran Blekhman, Luis Bruno Barreiro, George H. Perry, Laura S. Weyrich

This study compares oral microbiomes of Ugandan hunter-gatherers and farmers with global populations, finding that geography and industrialization shape microbial diversity and composition.

bioRxiv · May 22, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

HOMINID: A framework for identifying associations between host genetic variation and microbiome composition

Joshua K. Lynch, Karen Tang, Sambhawa Priya, Joanna Sands, Margaret Sands, Evan Tang, Sayan Mukherjee, Dan Knights, Ran Blekhman

HOMINID identifies host SNPs correlated with microbiome taxa abundances using Lasso regression, showing improved accuracy over existing methods and identifying 13 SNPs across body sites.

GigaScience · Nov 7, 2017Peer-reviewedGenomics

Common methods for fecal sample storage in field studies yield consistent signatures of individual identity in microbiome sequencing data

Ran Blekhman, Karen Tang, Elizabeth Archie, Luis Barreiro, Zachary Johnson, Mark Wilson, Jordan Kohn, Michael Yuan, Laurence Gesquiere, Laura Grieneisen, Jenny Tung

The paper compares fecal sample storage methods in rhesus macaques and finds that individual identity signatures are consistent across methods, suggesting stored samples are suitable for microbiome analysis.

bioRxiv · Feb 4, 2016Genomics