Walfred Ma Published a Paper in Nature Genetics

CBB Ph.D. student Walfred Ma (left) from Dr. Mark Chaisson's group (right) published a paper in Nature Genetics titled “Genotyping sequence-resolved copy number variation using pangenomes reveals paralog-specific global diversity and expression divergence of duplicated genes”. The study describes a new approach, ctyper, which links short read sequencing data in biobanks to complex variation resolved in human pangenome assemblies. This method improves genotyping for biomedically relevant genes and provides new insight to the functional roles and evolutionary history of copy-number variable genes. Please read the paper here.