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Vahid Nikoonejad Fard

Northern Arizona UniversityORCID 0000-0002-2761-9650Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

Biology Disciplines

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Marc TollisiD· 2 shared Aaron McKennaiD· 1 shared Bernard Y. KimiD· 1 shared Branden R. NelsoniD· 1 shared Danny E. MilleriD· 1 shared Daryl M. OkamuraiD· 1 shared David R. BeieriD· 1 shared Elizabeth Dong NguyeniD· 1 shared

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintAug 30, 2025

Recent Non-LTR Retrotransposon Activity Predicts Cancer Prevalence in Mammals

Vahid Nikoonejad Fard, Marc Tollis

The paper examines the relationship between recent non-LTR retrotransposon activity and cancer prevalence across mammals, finding associations between L1 and SINE activity with neoplasia and malignancy.

1 citation

multiple speciesstatistical model

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GenomicsG3 Genes Genomes GeneticsPeer-reviewedAug 8, 2023

Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the African spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus)

Elizabeth Dong Nguyen, Vahid Nikoonejad Fard, Bernard Y. Kim…·Danny E. Miller

The paper presents an improved chromosome-scale genome assembly for the African spiny mouse using long Nanopore reads and validates it with RNA-seq data.

10 citations

mousewhole-genome sequencing

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