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Shana Erin McCormack

Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaORCID 0000-0002-1143-4459Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Developmental Biology· 1 Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 1 Genetics· 1

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Organism:human· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Research Focus:trajectory inference· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 1

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Alessandra ChesiiD· 2 shared Hakon H. HakonarsoniD· 2 shared Struan F.A. GrantiD· 2 shared Ahmed ElhakeemiD· 1 shared Alina Yu· 1 shared Andrea True KellyiD· 1 shared Andrew D. WellsiD· 1 shared April E. HartleyiD· 1 shared

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintSep 18, 2026

Characterizing Individual and Population-Level Heterogeneity in Infant BMI Trajectories Using Flexible and Functional Modeling Approaches

Shunzhou Jiang, Alina Yu, Sani M. Roy…·Rui Xiao

The paper models infant BMI trajectories using flexible methods to identify individual and population-level patterns, finding sex differences and associations with maternal gestational diabetes.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.15.751845

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Genetic & Genomic MedicineGenome biologyPeer-reviewedJan 4, 2021

Genome-wide association study implicates novel loci and reveals candidate effector genes for longitudinal pediatric bone accrual through variant-to-gene mapping

Diana L. Cousminer, Yadav Wagley, James A. Pippin…·Struan F.A. Grant

The paper identifies 40 novel genetic loci associated with longitudinal pediatric bone accrual and identifies candidate effector genes through variant-to-gene mapping and functional validation.

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humanGWAS summary statistics

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GeneticsbioRxivPreprintDec 10, 2018

Clinical and Functional Characterization of Melanocortin 4 Receptor genetic variants in African American and/or Hispanic children with severe early onset obesity.

Maria Cristina De Rosa, Alessandra Chesi, Shana Erin McCormack…·Vidhu Thaker

The paper identifies MC4R mutations in African American and Hispanic children with severe early onset obesity, finding a 2.6% prevalence and three novel variants.

DOI 10.1101/491969

humanwhole-exome sequencing

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