James Kijas

The paper identifies a 10 bp deletion in PRICKLE1 causing skeletal dysplasia in Cheviot sheep and develops a DNA test to eliminate the mutation.

The paper identifies POLYCERATE alleles in sheep and goats linked to defective HOXD1 function, showing haploinsufficiency causes horn bud splitting and highlights HOXD1's role in headgear patterning in Bovidae.

The paper identifies regulators of sexual maturation in Atlantic salmon by integrating transcriptome, methylome, and chromatin accessibility data from a time course experiment.

The paper develops a computational method to predict regulatory regions in mammals using human genomics data, and applies it to cattle to prioritize variants and identify genome editing targets.

The paper introduces FAASG, an initiative to study salmonid genomes to understand phenotypic variation and improve aquaculture and conservation.