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Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani

Broad InstituteORCID 0000-0002-3659-0765Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:polygenic risk· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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Luke Jen O’ConnoriD· 2 shared Alex Bloemendal· 1 shared Anthony Wilder WohnsiD· 1 shared Benjamin M. NealeiD· 1 shared Eric S. LanderiD· 1 shared Haoyang Hu· 1 shared Heng LiiD· 1 shared Jenna L. Ballard· 1 shared

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Defining and cataloging variants in pangenome graphs

Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani, Shenghan Zhang, Haoyang Hu, Heng Li, Luke Jen O’Connor

The paper defines pangenome variants and introduces pantree to identify them, finding 29.6 million variants in the Minigraph-Cactus human pangenome graph.

Cell Genomics · Aug 17, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics

Extremely sparse models of linkage disequilibrium in ancestrally diverse association studies

Pouria Salehi Nowbandegani, Anthony Wilder Wohns, Jenna L. Ballard, Eric S. Lander, Alex Bloemendal, Benjamin M. Neale, Luke Jen O’Connor

The paper introduces LD graphical models (LDGMs) for efficient linkage disequilibrium representation in diverse ancestry studies, showing significant runtime improvements and better polygenic prediction.

Nature Genetics · Aug 28, 2023Peer-reviewedGenetics