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Jingwen Pei

University of ConnecticutORCID 0000-0002-7657-0144Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Yufeng WuiD· 2 shared Anna Merkoulovitch· 1 shared Chong ChuiD· 1 shared Christoph KleiniD· 1 shared Christopher S. ProbertiD· 1 shared Colm T. O’DushlaineiD· 1 shared Daphne KolleriD· 1 shared David AmariD· 1 shared

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EmbedGEM: A framework to evaluate the utility of embeddings for genetic discovery

Sumit Mukherjee, Zachary Ryan McCaw, Jingwen Pei, Anna Merkoulovitch, Tom Soare, Raghav Tandon, David Amar, Hari Somineni, Christoph Klein, Santhosh Satapati, David Lloyd, Christopher S. Probert, Daphne Koller, Colm T. O’Dushlaine, Theofanis Karaletsos

EmbedGEM evaluates embeddings for genetic discovery by assessing heritability and disease relevance using polygenic risk scores and genome-wide association statistics.

Bioinformatics Advances · Jan 1, 2024Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Inferring the ancestry of parents and grandparents from genetic data

Jingwen Pei, Yiming Zhang, Rasmus Nielsen, Yufeng Wu

This paper introduces a method to estimate ancestry proportions of an individual's parents and grandparents using genetic data, showing it can distinguish between different ancestry combinations in ancestors.

PLoS Computational Biology · Aug 14, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics

CircMarker: A Fast and Accurate Algorithm for Circular RNA Detection

Xin Li, Chong Chu, Jingwen Pei, Ion Măndoiu, Yufeng Wu

CircMarker detects circular RNA using k-mers instead of read mapping, achieving higher accuracy and efficiency than existing tools.

BMC Genomics · Aug 1, 2018Peer-reviewedBioinformatics