Mark G. Loftus

The paper presents a population-scale Y chromosome reference panel with 142 assemblies, revealing structural and epigenetic variation across 180,000 years of evolution.

The paper assembles and characterizes 2,110 human centromeres, revealing novel haplotypes, mobile element insertions, and mutation rate variation across chromosomes.

The paper develops a minimally invasive workflow to recover biological signatures from Renaissance-era artifacts, revealing microbial biomes and Y-chromosome markers linked to historical handling and conservation.

Hybrid HiFi/ultra-long ONT assemblies of 65 diverse humans yield 130 haplotypes, 1,246 complete centromeres, and a pangenome panel enabling short-read genome inference at median QV 45.

The paper presents haplotype-resolved genomes of six ape species with high accuracy and provides comparative analyses to study evolutionary diversity and gene family evolution.

The paper presents long-read assemblies of 43 diverse human Y chromosomes, revealing extensive structural complexity and variation across 180,000 years of evolution.