Menghan Zhang

CHORD: a framework for cross-species single-cell integration across gene, cell and cell-type levels

CHORD integrates cross-species single-cell transcriptomic data to learn gene, cell, and cell-type representations, enabling cell-type annotation and cross-species comparison of developmental and phenotypic patterns.

Disentangling complex language contact and admixture in the broad Gansu-Qinghai region

The paper analyzes language contact and admixture in the Gansu-Qinghai region using a hybrid dataset and a new statistical method to identify linguistic influences from Sinitic, Tibetan, Mongolic, and Turkic languages.

Triangulation fails when neither linguistic, genetic, nor archaeological data support the Transeurasian narrative

Reanalysis of Robbeets et al.'s linguistic, genetic and archaeological datasets finds that none supports a Transeurasian language family or its spread with West Liao River Neolithic millet farmers.

Robust Reference Powered Association Test of genome-wide association studies

This paper introduces a new statistical method for GWAS that improves power and reduces false positives by using large public databases as references.

Using composite phenotypes to reveal hidden physiological heterogeneity and model oxygen saturation variation of high altitude acclimatization in a Chinese Han longitudinal cohort