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We are excited to share a new preprint, " Repeat polymorphisms in non-coding DNA underlie top genetic risk loci for glaucoma and colorectal cancer" (Mukamel*, Handsaker* et al.), which identifies variable-number-of-tandem-repeat (VNTR) polymorphisms that appear to generate the strongest known...

Margaux Hujoel's paper on haplotype-informed CNV detection (HI-CNV; Hujoel et al. 2022 Cell) is now published -- congratulations, Margaux! This work explores the phenotypic impact of rare copy number variation in the human genome, discovering many new ways in which genetic variation shapes human...

Alison Barton has graduated from the Harvard Medical School Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) PhD program and will be moving on to a postdoc in population genetics with David Reich. Congratulations, Alison!

Maxwell Sherman has completed MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) PhD program and is moving on to Serinus Biosciences, which he co-founded earlier this year. Congratulations, Max!