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Sejal Patel

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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A haplotype-resolved, chromosome-scale genome assembly for the southern live oak, Quercus virginiana

Laramie M. Akozbek, Zachary Meharg, Jillian Abendroth-McGhee, Tosin Akinsipe, Rijan R. Dhakal, Nicholas S. Gladstone, Zahida Hassan Pervaiz, Sejal Patel, Giovani Rossi, Claudia Ann Rutland, Caroline Bendickson, Adam J. Kranz, Ellen O. Martinson, Scott P. Egan, Frank Alex Feltus, , Alex Harkess

The paper presents a chromosome-scale, haplotype-resolved genome assembly for Quercus virginiana, contributing to genomic resources for studying hybridization and structural genomic changes in oaks.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Feb 2, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics

Variation in subcortical anatomy: relating interspecies differences, heritability, and brain-behavior relationships

Nadia Blostein, Gabriel A. Devenyi, Sejal Patel, Raihaan Patel, Stéphanie Tullo, Eric Plitman, Manuela Costantino, Ross D. Markello, Olivier Parent, Saashi A. Bedford, Chet C. Sherwood, William Donald Hopkins, Jakob Seidlitz, Armin Raznahan, M. Mallar Chakravarty

The paper maps interspecies differences in subcortical anatomy between humans and chimpanzees, linking heritability, morphology, and behavioral correlates.

bioRxiv · Apr 11, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience

A pH-eQTL interaction at the RIT2-SYT4 Parkinson's disease risk locus in the substantia nigra

Sejal Patel, Derek Howard, Leon French

The paper investigates the interaction between pH and the rs12456492 variant in the RIT2-SYT4 locus in the substantia nigra, finding pH-dependent gene expression effects specific to this region.

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience · Jul 9, 2021Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Donor specific transcriptomic analysis of Alzheimer's disease associated hypometabolism highlights a unique donor, microglia, and ribosomal proteins

Sejal Patel, Derek Howard, Alana Man, Deborah H. Schwartz, Joelle Jee, Daniel Felsky, Zdenka Pausová, Tomáš Paus, Leon French

The paper identifies hypometabolic regions in Alzheimer's disease using PET data and links them to transcriptomic changes in a specific donor's brain, highlighting microglia and ribosomal proteins.

eNeuro · Nov 1, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Susceptibility to gingipains and transcriptomic response to P. gingivalis highlights the ribosome, hypothalamus, and cholinergic neurons

Sejal Patel, Derek Howard, Leon French

The paper identifies genes susceptible to P. gingivalis gingipains and links them to Alzheimer's disease through ribosomal genes, hypothalamus, and cholinergic neurons.

bioRxiv · Aug 9, 2020 · PreprintGenomics

Semi-Automated Identification of Ontological Labels in the Biomedical Literature with goldi

Christopher B. Cole, Sejal Patel, Leon French, Jo Knight

The paper introduces goldi, an R package for identifying ontological terms in text, using word matching and an acceptance function.

bioRxiv · Oct 18, 2016 · PreprintBioinformatics

Novel bioinformatics approach to investigate quantitative phenotype-genotype associations in neuroimaging studies

Sejal Patel, Min Tae M Park, Mallar M Chakravarty, Jo Knight

This paper introduces a method using Gene Ontology and stratified false discovery rate to prioritize genes for GWAS of hippocampal volume in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative data.

bioRxiv · Feb 10, 2015 · PreprintGenetics