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Rebecca Danning

Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 2 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Approach:matrix factorization· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Trajectory-informed gene feature selection in single-cell analysis with SEEK-VFI

Rebecca Danning, Zheng Tracy Ke, Xihong Lin, Rong Ma

The paper introduces SEEK-VFI, a method for selecting trajectory-relevant genes in single-cell analysis, which improves trajectory inference and downstream analyses.

Cell Reports Methods · Jul 27, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

SEEK-VEC: Augmenting topic modeling with spectral ensemble learning

Rebecca Danning, Zheng Tracy Ke, Rong Ma, Xihong Lin

SEEK-VEC improves topic modeling by combining multiple models through spectral ensembling, enhancing performance in identifying vocabulary and relationships, especially with weak signals.

bioRxiv · Jul 21, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

Genomic and proteomic evidence for hormonal and metabolic foundations of polycystic ovary syndrome

Loes M E Moolhuijsen, Jia Zhu, Benjamin H. Mullin, Natàlia Pujol‐Gualdo, Ky’Era V. Actkins, Jasmine A. Mack, Hridya Rao, Bhavi Trivedi, Katherine A. Kentistou, Yajie Zhao, David Westergard, Jaakko S. Tyrmi, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Yanfei Zhang, Laura B. L. Wittemans, , Felix R. Day

This study identifies 31 plasma proteins and expands genetic loci associated with PCOS, highlighting metabolic and hormonal influences and polygenic risk effects on cardio-metabolic outcomes.

medRxiv · Apr 18, 2024 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

A Saturated Map of Common Genetic Variants Associated with Human Height from 5.4 Million Individuals of Diverse Ancestries

Loïc Yengo, Sailaja Vedantam, Eirini Marouli, Julia Sidorenko, Eric Bartell, Saori Sakaue, Marielisa Graff, Anders Ulrik Eliasen, Yunxuan Jiang, Sridharan Raghavan, Jenkai Miao, Joshua D. Arias, Ronen E. Mukamel, Cassandra Nichole Spracklen, Xianyong Yin, , Thomas Folkmann Hansen

This study identifies 12,111 SNPs associated with height from 5.4 million individuals, explaining most common SNP-based heritability and showing ancestry-specific prediction accuracy.

bioRxiv · Jan 7, 2022 · PreprintGenetics