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Robert C. Kurtz

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterORCID 0009-0002-6493-3136Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:Bayesian inference· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Alison P. KleiniD· 2 shared Harvey A. RischiD· 2 shared Kari G. RabeiD· 2 shared Mengmeng DuiD· 2 shared Michael GogginsiD· 2 shared Paige M. BracciiD· 2 shared Paul BrennaniD· 2 shared Rachel Ε. NealeiD· 2 shared

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Novel Genetic Risk Loci for Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Identified in a Genome-wide Study of African Ancestry Individuals

Candelaria Vergara, Zhanmo Ni, Jun Zhong, David F. McKean, Katelyn E. Connelly, Samuel O. Antwi, Alan A. Arslan, Paige M. Bracci, Mengmeng Du, Steve Gallinger, Jeanine M. Genkinger, Christopher A. Haiman, Manal Hassan, Rayjean J. Hung, Chad Huff, , Alison P. Klein

This study identifies novel genetic risk loci for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in African ancestry individuals through admixture mapping and GWAS.

medRxiv · Apr 22, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Bayesian copy number detection and association in large-scale studies

Stephen Cristiano, David M. McKean, Jacob Carey, Paige M. Bracci, Paul Brennan, Michael Chou, Mengmeng Du, Steve Gallinger, Michael Goggins, Manal M. Hassan, Rayjean J. Hung, Robert C. Kurtz, Donghui Li, Lingeng Lu, Rachel Ε. Neale, , Robert B. Scharpf

This paper develops a Bayesian method to detect copy number variants and assess their association with disease in large-scale studies, finding deletions near MYC and TUSC3 linked to pancreatic cancer.

BMC Cancer · Sep 7, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics