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Sam Jones

Lehigh UniversityPrimary ORCID profile (0000-0002-5539-9229 · 1 paper)Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Sam JonesiD1 paper · Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Genetics· 1 Microbiology· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Aaron McDaid· 1 shared Andrew Wood· 1 shared Anna MurrayiD· 1 shared Antonio Di MaioiD· 1 shared Apoorva D. SrivastavaiD· 1 shared Archie CampbelliD· 1 shared Benjamin SchumanniD· 1 shared Caroline HaywardiD· 1 shared

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Autophagy induction mitigates FUS aggregate formation and early synaptic dysfunction at the NMJ in the FUS-ALS model

Tulika Malik, Sam Jones, Olivia Ma, Sahana Mohan, R. Michael Burger, Daniel T. Babcock

This study shows that inducing autophagy reduces FUS aggregate formation and synaptic dysfunction in an ALS model.

Cell Death Discovery · Aug 14, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Mutations in severe human H5N1 cases facilitate evasion from human mucus and antivirals

Ksenia Sukhova, Jiayun Yang, Antonio Di Maio, Yu Jin, Maria Regina Fernandes de Oliveira, Hannah Hens, Jean-Rémy Sadeyen, Sareeta Bagri, Sam Jones, Jack A. Hassard, Joëlle Mettier, Jie Zhou, Apoorva D. Srivastava, Naina Mathur, Benjamin Schumann, , Hannah Klim

This study examines mutations in H5N1 influenza virus HA that affect receptor binding and antiviral susceptibility, finding reduced sialic acid binding correlates with mucus evasion and antiviral resistance.

bioRxiv · Jul 28, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology

Quantifying the extent to which index event biases influence large genetic association studies

Hanieh Yaghootkar, Michael Bancks, Sam Jones, Aaron McDaid, Robin Beaumont, Louise Donnelly, Andrew Wood, Archie Campbell, Jessica Tyrrell, Lynne Hocking, Marcus Tuke, Katherine Ruth, Ewan Pearson, Anna Murray, Rachel Freathy, , Zoltan Kutalik

This study quantifies index event bias in large genetic association studies and finds it can explain some associations between disease risk alleles and BMI.

bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2016Genetics