Sydney Keaton Muchnik

The paper identifies mammalian-specific gene regulatory elements and their role in neocortical neuron subtype diversity and connectivity, linking them to neurodevelopmental disorders.

The paper identifies Hominini-specific regulation of CBLN2 that drives increased synaptogenesis in the human prefrontal cortex, linking it to neuropsychiatric disorder risk.

The paper introduces a statistical framework for cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association analysis, improving gene-trait association detection and identifying novel genes related to late-onset Alzheimer's disease.