August E. Woerner

Involvement of Mitophagy in Endothelin-1 Mediated Neurodegeneration in Rodent Models of Glaucoma

This study investigates how endothelin-1 affects mitophagy in retinal ganglion cells and optic nerve in glaucoma models, finding differential responses in these regions.

StrPhaser constructs tandem repeat alleles from VCF data

StrPhaser constructs tandem repeat alleles from VCF data, achieving 91% average allele accuracy and better recovery of longer STR alleles than existing methods.

vcferr: Development, Validation, and Application of a SNP Genotyping Error Simulation Framework

vcferr simulates SNP genotyping errors in VCF files to assess their impact on kinship analysis.

skater: An R package for SNP-based Kinship Analysis, Testing, and Evaluation

The paper introduces the skater R package for SNP-based kinship analysis, testing, and evaluation, providing tools for pedigree data handling and relationship degree inference.