Seth Weaver

The paper identifies 1,596 Consensus HAQERs by aligning T2T assemblies, showing they are rapidly evolved regions with mutation signatures, regulatory functions, and disease associations.

The paper identifies segmental duplications as a major mechanism for forming regulatory element families in human embryonic stem cells and finds that these duplications often lead to human-specific rewiring of regulatory connections.

The paper identifies HAQERs in human cortical development, showing their role in gene regulation through CpG gains and links them to neurological disorders.

The paper presents a high-quality marine Threespine Stickleback genome assembly from Rabbit Slough, which includes regions deleted in freshwater populations and provides a better reference for evolutionary studies.