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Yasmina Mekki

Vanderbilt University Medical CenterORCID 0000-0002-5733-9721Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetics· 1 Genomics· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 3 Organism:human· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Reyna L. GordoniD· 2 shared Aaron A. Petrakovitz· 1 shared Adam AutoniD· 1 shared Alan M. KwongiD· 1 shared Alejandro Hernandez· 1 shared Alexandra ReynosoiD· 1 shared Alyssa ScartozziiD· 1 shared Amaia Carrión-CastilloiD· 1 shared

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintMar 27, 2025

Polygenic Associations between Motor Behaviour, Neuromotor Traits, and Active Music Engagement in Four Cohorts

Tara Lynn Henechowicz, Peyton L. Coleman, Daniel E. Gustavson…·Reyna L. Gordon

The paper investigates polygenic associations between motor behaviour, neuromotor traits, and active music engagement across four cohorts, finding a link between walking pace polygenic scores and music engagement.

DOI 10.1101/2025.03.27.645667

humanGWAS summary statistics

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GenomicsNature Human BehaviourPeer-reviewedNov 21, 2024

The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm

Gökberk Alagöz, Else Eising, Yasmina Mekki…·Reyna L. Gordon

This study investigates the shared genetic architecture between rhythm and dyslexia using large-scale genome-wide association studies.

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humanGWAS summary statistics

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GeneticsNeuroImagePeer-reviewedDec 17, 2021

The genetic architecture of language functional connectivity

Yasmina Mekki, Vincent Guillemot, Hervé Lemaître…·Cathy Philippe

The paper performs a multivariate GWAS on resting-state functional connectivity in language-related brain regions, identifying 20 genomic loci associated with language functional connectivity.

31 citations

humanbulk RNA-seq

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