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New preprint on large-effect protein-coding repeat polymorphisms

We are excited to share a new preprint, " Protein-coding repeat polymorphisms strongly shape diverse human phenotypes" (Mukamel*, Handsaker* et al.), which finds that some of the largest effects of common genetic variants on human phenotypes arise from variable-number-of-tandem-repeat (VNTR)...

ASD mosaic CNV paper published in Nature Neuroscience

Maxwell Sherman's paper on mosaic CNVs in autism ( Sherman et al. 2020 Nat Neurosci) is now published -- congratulations, Max! This work, a collaboration with Chris Walsh and Peter Park, implicated large mosaic copy number variants (CNVs) arising early in embryonic development as a likely...