Richard Barfield

This study identifies and characterizes Rhesus CMV-encoded Fcγ-binding glycoproteins, showing they delay antibody-mediated immune control during primary infection.

The nonhuman primate model mirrors the epidemiology of human congenital CMV (cCMV) after primary infection and reveals its transmission bottlenecks.

The paper develops a new statistical test, DACT, to detect mediation effects in genome-wide epigenetic studies and applies it to identify DNA methylation sites mediating smoking's effect on lung function.

This study identifies 13 new genetic loci specific to proximal or distal colorectal cancer subtypes, revealing partly distinct genetic architectures for these tumor locations.

The paper identifies DNA methylation sites associated with daytime sleepiness in African Americans using epigenome-wide association analysis in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.