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Ricky Magner

Broad Institute

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Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 4 Organism:human· 3 Research Focus:variant calling· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:imputation· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1

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Eric BanksiD· 3 shared Niall J. LennoniD· 3 shared Megan ShandiD· 2 shared Stacey GabrieliD· 2 shared Aaron HatcheriD· 1 shared Andrew Bernier· 1 shared April Jung· 1 shared Arthur KoiD· 1 shared

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A 515,579-Genome Reference Panel Improves Rare-Variant Imputation Across Multiple Underrepresented Populations

Franjo Ivankovic, Arthur Ko, Mary Morgan Taylor, Mary K. Balaconis, Eric Banks, Matthew Bemis, Kristian Cibulskis, Kylee Degatano, Laura Doyle Gauthier, George Grant, Aaron Hatcher, C. Kachulis, Konrad J. Karczewski, Sofia Labrecque, Jonathan Lawson, , Lee Lichtenstein

The paper presents a large reference panel of 515,579 genomes to improve rare-variant imputation across underrepresented populations, enhancing accuracy for variants with frequencies as low as 0.002%.

medRxiv · Aug 31, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Blended Length Genome Sequencing (blend-seq): Combining Short Reads with Low-Coverage Long Reads to Maximize Variant Discovery

Ricky Magner, Fabio Cunial, Sumit Basu, Ron Paulsen, Scott Saponas, Megan Shand, Niall J. Lennon, Eric Banks

blend-seq improves variant discovery by combining short and low-coverage long reads, enhancing SNP detection and structural variant recall while maintaining precision.

bioRxiv · Nov 1, 2024 · PreprintGenomics

Secure Discovery of Genetic Relatives across Large-Scale and Distributed Genomic Datasets

Matthew M. Hong, David Froelicher, Ricky Magner, Victoria Popic, Bonnie Berger, Hyunghoon Cho

SF-Relate identifies genetic relatives across distributed genomic datasets using a privacy-preserving federated approach with high accuracy and efficiency.

Genome Research · Sep 1, 2024Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Cost-efficient whole genome-sequencing using novel mostly natural sequencing-by-synthesis chemistry and open fluidics platform

Gilad Almogy, Mark Pratt, Florian C. Oberstrass, Linda Lee, Dan Mazur, Nate Beckett, Omer Barad, Ilya Soifer, Eddie Perelman, Yoav Etzioni, Martin Sosa, April Jung, Tyson A. Clark, Eliane H. Trepagnier, Gila Lithwick‐Yanai, , Doron Lipson

Open flow cell on a circular wafer with mostly natural nucleotides and no reversible terminators: about 300 bp reads at $1/Gb, 99.6% SNP accuracy on reference human genomes.

bioRxiv · May 29, 2022 · PreprintGenomics