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Masanori Imamura

Kanazawa University

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Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Organism:non-human primate· 1

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An iPSC-based experimental framework for investigating phenotypic variation associated with Jomon ancestry in the present-day Japanese population

Yuka Nakamura, Yusuke Watanabe, Hideyuki Tanabe, Asei Hirai, Koichi Higashi, Ken Kurokawa, Atsushi Toyoda, Tomoaki Kato, Masayoshi Tsukahara, Kae Koganebuchi, Yusuke Hamazaki, Takanori Takebe, Masanori Imamura, Takafumi Ishida, Jun Ohashi, Hiroki Oota

The paper develops a hiPSC-based framework to study ancestry-related phenotypic variation in the Japanese population, finding no hepatic triglyceride differences despite genetic associations.

bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2026 · PreprintGenomics

Geometric inference of cross-species transcriptome correspondence using Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport

Yuya Tokuta, Tomonori Nakamura, Kohei Fujiwara, Masanori Imamura, Masahiro Nagano, Mitinori Saitou, Yusuke Imoto, Yasuaki Hiraoka

Species-OT uses Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport to compare transcriptome geometries across species, identifying gene correspondences and transcriptomic discrepancies.

Cell Reports Methods · Oct 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics