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James Yang

Stanford UniversityORCID 0000-0002-0015-7812Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:fine-mapping· 1 Research Focus:polygenic risk· 1

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Trevor J. HastieiD· 2 shared Alexander G. IoannidisiD· 1 shared Benjamin B. ChuiD· 1 shared Chiara SabattiiD· 1 shared David BonetiD· 1 shared Emmanuel J. CandèsiD· 1 shared Hua TangiD· 1 shared Iuliana Ionita‐LazaiD· 1 shared

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintMar 16, 2026

Biobank-Scale Polygenic Prediction in Admixed Populations Using Local Ancestry via the Group Lasso

David Bonet, James Yang, Trevor J. Hastie, Alexander G. Ioannidis

This paper introduces Combine, a framework for polygenic prediction in admixed populations using local ancestry and group lasso, showing improved performance over existing methods.

DOI 10.64898/2026.03.14.711808

humanGWAS summary statistics

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintFeb 28, 2024

Beyond guilty by association at scale: searching for causal variants on the basis of genome-wide summary statistics

Zihuai He, Benjamin B. Chu, James Yang…·Chiara Sabatti

This paper introduces a method to identify causal variants from genome-wide summary statistics, outperforming existing methods and discovering additional loci for complex traits.

5 citations

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