Olga N. Mityaeva

This study reports HLA allele and haplotype frequencies across 14 Russian ethnic groups using whole genome sequencing data, highlighting differences in risk alleles for type 1 diabetes and improving HLA frequency coverage in eastern Europe and northern Asia.

The paper identifies novel non-reference processed pseudogenes by analyzing insertion artifacts in gnomAD data, improving variant interpretation.

The paper describes a method for culturing human retinal explants to study gene therapy effectiveness using viral vectors and various assays.