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Sarah L. Kerns

Medical College of WisconsinORCID 0000-0002-6503-0011Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintApr 27, 2026

LANTERN: Leveraging Local Ancestry Tracts to Enhance Rare-Variant Aggregate Association Testing

Yu Wang, Bjoernar Tuftin, Laura M. Raffield…·Paul Livermore Auer

LANTERN improves rare-variant association testing in admixed populations by incorporating local ancestry information, identifying ancestry-specific associations in a cohort of African Americans.

DOI 10.64898/2026.04.24.26351693

humanwhole-genome sequencing