Vamsee Pillalamarri

This study examines common and rare variant genetic contributions to autism in African Americans, highlighting differences in genetic effects and polygenic score transferability between European and African ancestries.

This study identifies that heteroplasmic mitochondrial mutations increase mortality risk and are linked to cancer incidence and outcomes, particularly leukemia.

The paper identifies basal contamination in GTEx data, showing that highly expressed tissue-specific genes contaminate samples, affecting eQTL assignments and analysis accuracy.