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Timothy A Thornton

University of Washington

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Research Focus:batch correction / integration· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1

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The PAGE Study: How Genetic Diversity Improves Our Understanding of the Architecture of Complex Traits

Genevieve L. Wojcik, Mariaelisa Graff, Katherine K Nishimura, Ran Tao, Jeffrey Haessler, Christopher R. Gignoux, Heather M Highland, Yesha M Patel, Elena P. Sorokin, Christy L Avery, Gillian M Belbin, Stephanie A Bien, Iona C. Cheng, Sinead Cullina, Chani J Hodonsky, , Christopher S Carlson

The paper conducts a GWAS in non-European populations, identifies new genetic loci, and highlights the importance of diverse cohorts for understanding complex traits.

bioRxiv · Oct 17, 2018 · PreprintGenetics

Detecting Heterogeneity in Population Structure Across the Genome in Admixed Populations

Caitlin McHugh, Timothy A Thornton, Lisa Brown

The paper introduces a method to detect genome-wide population structure heterogeneity in admixed populations and applies it to Mexican American and African American samples.

bioRxiv · Nov 14, 2015Genetics

Robust Population Structure Inference and Correction in the Presence of Known or Cryptic Relatedness

Matthew P Conomos, Michael B Miller, Timothy A Thornton

This paper introduces PC-AiR, a method for robust population structure inference in genetic data with relatedness, showing improved performance over existing methods in simulations and real data.

bioRxiv · Aug 21, 2014Genetics