Sanyang Liu

The paper establishes high-confidence structural variant calls in an Asian individual using long-read sequencing technologies and validates them through PCR and Sanger sequencing.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing of Triticum and Aegilops populations to show that introgression from wild relatives contributed 13-36% of the bread wheat genome, enhancing genetic diversity and enabling adaptation, while convergent adaptation to human selection was enriched despite ploidy and environmental differences.

The paper constructs a high-confidence Asian variant benchmark using multiple sequencing methods and identifies novel variants in challenging regions.