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Shannon L. Ballard

National Institutes of Health

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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The Global Landscape of Genetic Variation in Parkinson's disease: Multi-Ancestry Insights into Established Disease Genes and their Translational Relevance

Lara Mariah Lange, Zih‐Hua Fang, Mary B. Makarious, Nicole Kuznetsov, Kajsa Atterling Brolin, Shannon L. Ballard, Soraya Bardien, Maria Leila M. Doquenia, Peter Heutink, Henry Houlden, Hirotaka Iwaki, Simona Jasaityte, Lietsel Jones, Johanna Junker, Rauan B. Kaiyrzhanov, , the Global Parkinson’s Genetic Program (GP2)

This paper analyzes genetic variation in Parkinson's disease across multiple ancestries, revealing ancestry-specific patterns and highlighting the importance of diverse populations in genetic research.

medRxiv · Jul 8, 2025 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

An α-1,3-fucosyltransferase influences thermal nocifensive escape behaviors in Drosophila larvae

Shannon L. Ballard, Lauren Holt, Elizabeth Stant, A. Moore, Luisa Zavala, Troy R. Shirangi

This study identifies a mutation in the FucTA gene affecting thermal nocifensive escape behaviors in Drosophila larvae.

bioRxiv · Jun 2, 2025 · PreprintGenetics

A reference induced pluripotent stem cell line for large-scale collaborative studies

Caroline B. Pantazis, Andrian Yang, Erika Lara, Justin A. McDonough, Cornelis Blauwendraat, Lirong Peng, Hideyuki Oguro, Jitendra Kumar Kanaujiya, Jizhong Zou, David P. Sebesta, Gretchen Pratt, Erin Cross, Jeffrey Blockwick, Philip Buxton, Lauren Kinner-Bibeau, , Florian T. Merkle

The paper identifies and characterizes a reference iPSC line, KOLF2.1J, for standardized use in collaborative studies across multiple differentiation protocols and assays.

Cell stem cell · Dec 1, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience