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Department of Genetics Publications for March 12th – 25th, 2023

March 27, 2023

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 8 papers during March 12th – 25th, 2023. Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations.  Liu D, Meyer D, Fennessy B, Feng C, Cheng E, Johnson JS, Park YJ, Rieder MK, Ascolillo S, de Pins A, Dobbyn A, Lebovitch D, Moya … Read more

Jeremy Wang, PhD Awarded Genetics Faculty Research Support “Pivot” Grant

September 26, 2022

Dr. Jeremy Wang (Assistant Professor) was awarded a Faculty Research Support “Pivot” Grant from the Department of Genetics for his project focused on demonstrating efficient whole-genome Nanopore sequencing and assembly of Monkeypox virus (MPXV) genomes from clinical samples testing positive at UNC Medical Center’s Clinical Molecular Microbiology Lab (directed by Dr. Melissa Miller). 

The Power of Partnership

September 9, 2021

A collaboration among Carolina clinicians and researchers is leading the way in how we think about tracking viral variants.

Department of Genetics Publications August 22nd – September 4th 2021

September 7, 2021

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 9 papers during August 22nd – September 4th 2021.   SnapHiC: a computational pipeline to identify chromatin loops from single-cell Hi-C data.  Yu M, Abnousi A, Zhang Y, Li G, Lee L, Chen Z, Fang R, Lagler TM, Yang Y, Wen J, Sun Q, Li Y, … Read more