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Rama Kandasamy

The University of SydneyORCID 0000-0002-3111-5586Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 1 Genomics· 1

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Andrew John PollardiD· 2 shared Abdullah W. Brooks· 1 shared Alejandra C. CorsoiD· 1 shared Alexander Davydov· 1 shared Alison J. Maguire· 1 shared Anmol M KiraniD· 1 shared Anna SkoczyńskaiD· 1 shared Anne von GottbergiD· 1 shared

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2021-2026 · peak 1/yr

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Genome-wide association study of susceptibility to pneumococcal carriage amongst children

Rama Kandasamy, Meeru Gurung, Sonu Shrestha, Sagida Bibi, Stephen Thorson, Michael James Carter, Daniel O’Connor, David R. Murdoch, Dominic F. Kelly, Shrijana Shrestha, Michael Levin, Andrew John Pollard

This study identifies genetic loci associated with pneumococcal carriage in children through a genome-wide association analysis.

medRxiv · Jul 16, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

The role of interspecies recombinations in the evolution of antibiotic resistant pneumococci

Joshua C D'Aeth, Mark PG van der Linden, Lesley McGee, Herminia de LENCASTRE, Paul Turner, Jae-Hoon Song, Stephanie W. Lo, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Raquel Sá‐Leão, Kwan Soo Ko, William Paul Hanage, Robert F. Breiman, Bernard Beall, Stephen D. Bentley, Nicholas J. Croucher, , David William Cleary

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary histories of antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal lineages PMEN3 and PMEN9, showing how interspecies recombination contributes to antibiotic resistance and serotype switching.

eLife · Jul 14, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics