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John B. Pluta

University of PennsylvaniaORCID 0000-0002-8941-6242Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 1 Genomics· 1 Neuroscience· 1

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Organism:human· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:fine-mapping· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintOct 15, 2026

Melanoma germline genetics: immune, cancer driver, and Wnt signaling genes

G J M Shanika R Jayasinghe, Jianxin Shi, Rohit Thakur…·Nhan Do

This paper identifies 116 risk loci for melanoma through GWAS, links susceptibility to immunity and Wnt signaling, and develops a PRS improving risk prediction.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.14.26365068

humanGWAS summary statistics

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintNov 21, 2025

Characterization of hippocampal subfields using histology-based annotated postmortem MRI: Lessons for in vivo segmentation II

HL Tucker, Bradley G. Karat, AT De Ruiter…·LEM Wisse

The paper characterizes hippocampal subfield border variability using postmortem MRI and histology, finding consistent subfield appearance/disappearance orders and no clear diagnosis-related differences.

1 citation

humanimaging

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintSep 8, 2022

HRDex: a tool for deriving homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) scores from whole exome sequencing data

John B. Pluta, Ryan M. Hausler, Brad Wubbenhorst…·Kara N. Maxwell

HRDex calculates HRD scores from whole exome sequencing data to identify BRCA-deficient tumors, showing high accuracy in breast cancer and moderate in ovarian cancer.

3 citations

humanwhole-exome sequencing

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