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Morgan L. Sturgeon

Integrated DNA Technologies (United States)ORCID 0000-0003-4814-1446Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 2 Immunology· 1 Molecular Biology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:CRISPR screen· 1

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Ashley M. JacobiiD· 4 shared Garrett R. RettigiD· 4 shared Gavin KurganiD· 4 shared Rolf TurkiD· 4 shared Andrea Sánchez PeñaiD· 3 shared Christian M. Brommel· 2 shared Ellen SchmaljohniD· 2 shared Kyle J. KinneyiD· 2 shared

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2021-2026 · peak 3/yr

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Molecular BiologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedAug 11, 2026

UNCOVERseq Enables Sensitive and Controlled Gene Editing Off-Target Nomination Across CRISPR-Cas Modalities and Systems

Kyle J. Kinney, Kun Jia, He Zhang…·Gavin Kurgan

UNCOVERseq is a workflow for sensitive off-target nomination in CRISPR-Cas editing, demonstrating superior performance across multiple modalities and systems.

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humanCRISPR screen

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintJul 28, 2026

Sensitive Chromosomal Translocation Quantitation from Amplicon Sequencing Using Primer-Anchored Statistical Translocation Analysis (PASTA)

Ellen Schmaljohn, Olalekan H. Usman, Christian M. Brommel…·Gavin Kurgan

PASTA quantifies chromosomal translocations from amplicon sequencing with high accuracy and sensitivity, outperforming existing methods in detecting rare rearrangements.

1 citation

whole-genome sequencingstatistical model

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ImmunologyMolecular Therapy AdvancesPeer-reviewedApr 9, 2026

Clinical development of gene edited tacrolimus-resistant Treg (FKBP12KO-Treg) to enable simultaneous immunosuppression and support of immune regulation

Ghazaleh Zarrinrad, Lisa-Marie Burkhardt, C. Beltran-Mestres…·Leila Amini

This paper develops gene-edited tacrolimus-resistant Treg cells (FKBP12KO-Treg) for clinical use in transplant recipients, showing they maintain immunoregulatory function while resisting tacrolimus.

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humanflow cytometry

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BioinformaticsMolecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical DevelopmentPeer-reviewedApr 2, 2021

CRISPAltRations: a validated cloud-based approach for interrogation of double-strand break repair mediated by CRISPR genome editing

Gavin Kurgan, Rolf Turk, Heng Li…·Matthew McNeill

CRISPAltRations is a cloud-based tool that improves the analysis of CRISPR-induced DNA repair events by outperforming existing software in annotating indels and HDR events.

30 citations

DNA methylationwhole-genome sequencing

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