Mikita Suyama

The paper shows that repressive SAM biosynthesis in Drosophila germline inhibits HeT-A retrotransposon transcription via 6mA methylation.

The paper identifies a nonsense mutation in the Lcn2 gene in a rat model of T2D but finds it does not significantly associate with T2D onset.

The paper benchmarks difficult-to-sequence regions in the human exome using machine learning and real-world NGS data from gnomAD to improve clinical sequencing accuracy.

The paper introduces a method to identify promoter usage QTL (puQTL) using RNA-seq data, revealing novel variant-gene associations and linking them to complex traits.

The paper identifies LOH events in a CEPH/Utah family cohort using whole-genome sequencing and finds their frequency, distribution, and association with chromosome spatial positioning.

The paper identifies functional variants in hematopoietic transcription factor footprints associated with immune system disease risk using integrated GWAS and QTL datasets.