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Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published five papers during Sept. 9-22, 2018.

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SAFE-clustering: Single-cell Aggregated (From Ensemble) Clustering for Single-cell RNA-seq Data.

Yang Y, Huh R, Culpepper HW, Lin Y, Love MI, Li Y.

Bioinformatics. 2018 Sep 8. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty793. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 30202935

Impact of vitamin D depletion during development on mouse sperm DNA methylation.

Xue J, Gharaibeh RZ, Pietryk EW, Brouwer C, Tarantino LM, Valdar W, Ideraabdullah FY.

Epigenetics. 2018 Sep 21. doi: 10.1080/15592294.2018.1526027. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 30239288

Factors influencing NCGENES research participants’ requests for non-medically actionable secondary findings.

Roche MI, Griesemer I, Khan CM, Moore E, Lin FC, O’Daniel JM, Foreman AKM, Lee K, Powell BC, Berg JS, Evans JP, Henderson GE, Rini C.

Genet Med. 2018 Sep 21. doi: 10.1038/s41436-018-0294-z. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 30237575

Genetic influences on eight psychiatric disorders based on family data of 4 408 646 full and half-siblings, and genetic data of 333 748 cases and controls.

Pettersson E, Lichtenstein P, Larsson H, Song J; Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Working Group of the iPSYCH-Broad-PGC Consortium, Autism Spectrum Disorder Working Group of the iPSYCH-Broad-PGC Consortium, Bipolar Disorder Working Group of the PGC, Eating Disorder Working Group of the PGC, Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the PGC, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and Tourette Syndrome Working Group of the PGC, Schizophrenia CLOZUK, Substance Use Disorder Working Group of the PGC, Agrawal A, Børglum AD, Bulik CM, Daly MJ, Davis LK, Demontis D, Edenberg HJ, Grove J, Gelernter J, Neale BM, Pardiñas AF, Stahl E, Walters JTR, Walters R, Sullivan PF, Posthuma D, Polderman TJC.

Psychol Med. 2018 Sep 17:1-8. doi: 10.1017/S0033291718002039. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 30221610

Schwann cell-derived periostin promotes autoimmune peripheral polyneuropathy via macrophage recruitment.

Allard DE, Wang Y, Li JJ, Conley B, Xu EW, Sailer D, Kimpston C, Notini R, Smith CJ, Koseoglu E, Starmer J, Zeng XL, Howard JF Jr, Hoke A, Scherer SS, Su MA.

J Clin Invest. 2018 Sep 17. pii: 99308. doi: 10.1172/JCI99308. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 30222134