Zexi Cai

MetaMAG Explorer improves microbial classification by augmenting reference databases with newly assembled MAGs, increasing Kraken2 classification rates and revealing previously undetected taxa.

The paper presents CattleGTEx, a resource characterizing regulatory effects in cattle, resolving GWAS signals and providing insights into adaptive evolution and selection.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing to show that captive black soldier fly populations have reduced genetic diversity and inbreeding due to human-mediated dispersal and uncoordinated breeding.

The paper introduces the RUMIGEN EpiChip, a DNA methylation array for cattle, demonstrating its utility in studying phenotypic variation and age prediction through methylation analysis.

The paper constructs a cattle cell-type-specific regulatory variant atlas by integrating bulk and single-cell RNA-seq data, identifying eQTL and linking them to GWAS loci for breeding insights.

The paper performs a multi-breed meta-GWAS in pigs to identify genomic regions associated with complex traits and integrates with PigGTEx to prioritize variant-gene-tissue-trait circuits.

The paper presents PigGTEx, a resource linking genetic variants to transcriptomic phenotypes in pigs, showing pigs' similarity to humans in gene regulation and complex traits.

The paper estimates the functional effects of KEGG pathways on bovine stature using SNP summary statistics from GWAS and mixed linear models.