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Rick M. Tankard

Murdoch UniversityORCID 0000-0002-8847-9401Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 1

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:polygenic risk· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintJan 17, 2020

Common variants in Alzheimer's disease: Novel association of six genetic variants with AD and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

Itziar de Rojas, Sonia Moreno–Grau, Niccoló Tesi…·Agustı́n Ruiz

This paper reports six novel genetic variants associated with Alzheimer's disease risk and demonstrates the utility of polygenic risk scores for risk stratification and age at onset prediction.

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humanGWAS summary statistics

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BioinformaticsThe American Journal of Human GeneticsPeer-reviewedNov 29, 2018

Detecting tandem repeat expansions in cohorts sequenced with short-read sequencing data

Rick M. Tankard, Mark F. Bennett, Peter Degorski…·Melanie Bahlo

The paper introduces exSTRa, a method to detect repeat expansions in WES and WGS data, showing superior performance for WES compared to existing methods.

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whole-exome sequencingwhole-genome sequencing

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