Adam A. Szpiro

This study identifies placental transcriptome genes and modules mediating the effect of prenatal phthalate exposure on placental efficiency and fetal growth.

RNAseqCovarImpute improves differential expression analysis by handling missing covariate data through multiple imputation, outperforming complete case and single imputation methods.

The paper addresses variance stratification in pooled whole genome sequencing data, showing how study-specific phenotypic variances affect analysis and introducing a method to improve statistical power and reduce false positives.