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Julia A. Urban

Columbia University Irving Medical CenterORCID 0000-0002-6950-6435Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Julia Urban1 paper · University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

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Organism:human· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Identification of Sample Processing Errors in Microbiome Studies Using Host Genetic Profiles

Julia Urban, Aya Brown Kav, William F. Kindschuh, Heekuk Park, Raiyan Rashid Khan, Erin Watters, Itsik Pe’er, Anne‐Catrin Uhlemann, Tal Korem

The paper identifies sample processing errors in microbiome studies using host genetic profiles from metagenomic sequencing and experimental metadata.

bioRxiv · Sep 7, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics

Early prediction of preeclampsia using the first trimester vaginal microbiome

William F. Kindschuh, George I. Austin, Yoli Meydan, Heekuk Park, Julia A. Urban, Erin Watters, Susan V. Pollak, George Robert Saade, Judith M. Chung, Brian M. Mercer, William A. Grobman, David M. Haas, Robert M. Silver, Myrna G. Serrano, Gregory A. Buck, , Tal Korem

This study predicts preeclampsia using first trimester vaginal microbiome data with machine learning, achieving an auROC of 0.78 in the training set and 0.80 in an independent cohort.

bioRxiv · Dec 1, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology