Department of Genetics Publications for March 2nd – 29th, 2025

April 20, 2025

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 30 papers during March 2nd – 29th 2025.

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Searching for the genetic origins of a debilitating skin disease

April 11, 2025

Chris Sayed, a dermatologist at the UNC School of Medicine, has spent much of his career focused on what he calls “the worst and most common disease you’ve never heard of.”

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Dr. Yun Li and Team Publish New Model (endoPRS) in AJHG

April 8, 2025

Yun Li, PhD (Professor, Genetics) together with first author Elena Kharitonova (PhD Student, Biostatistics) have published a new paper in the American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG) titled “EndoPRS: Incorporating endophenotype information to improve polygenic risk scores for clinical endpoints – a study in asthma”. 

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Dr. Yun Li and Collaborators Publish Review in AJHG

April 4, 2025

Yun Li, PhD (Professor, Genetics and Biostatistics) is a co-corresponding author together with Quan Sun (Biostatistics doctoral candidate) on a new review paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, titled “Opportunities and challenges of local ancestry in genetic association analysis”.

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Dr. Virginia Miller Named AAAS Fellow

April 1, 2025

Virginia Miller, PhD (Professor, Genetics and Microbiology & Immunology, Retired) has been named a 2024 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the most distinguished honors in the scientific community.

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Laura Raffield Awarded New Subcontract from UTSW Medical Center

March 20, 2025

Dr. Laura Raffield (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has received a new subcontract from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

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Hyejung Won Awarded New Seed Grant from the ALS Association

March 20, 2025

Dr. Hyejung Won (Associate Professor, Genetics) was awarded a seed grant from the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association for her project titled “Deciphering higher-order chromatin mechanisms for C9orf72-mediated ALS”.

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Chuck Perou Awarded New DoD Grant

March 20, 2025

Dr. Chuck Perou (Distinguished Professor, Genetics and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) received a new grant from the Department of Defense for his project titled “The Breast Cancer Cellular Atlas”.

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Alexander Rubinsteyn Receives New Grant from Jaime Leandro Foundation

March 20, 2025

Dr. Alex Rubinsteyn (Associate Professor, Genetics) was awarded a new grant from the Jaime Leandro Foundation for his project titled “Optimization of personalized cancer immunotherapeutic approaches”. 

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Michael Love Awarded R01 Renewal from NHGRI

March 20, 2025

Dr. Michael Love (Associate Professor, Genetics and Biostatistics) had a successful competitive renewal of his R01 grant titled “A modular framework for accurate, interpretable, and reproducible analysis of long read RNA-seq data” from NHGRI.

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