Genetics and Genomics

Genetics and Genomics

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    Deficiency of IQCH causes male infertility in humans and mice

    Tiechao Ruan, Ruixi Zhou ... Ying Shen
    IQCH is required for acrosome and axoneme development during spermatogenesis in humans and mice.
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    Tradeoffs in Modeling Context Dependency in Complex Trait Genetics

    Eric Weine, Samuel Pattillo Smith ... Arbel Harpak
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    Discovery of runs-of-homozygosity diplotype clusters and their associations with diseases in UK Biobank

    Ardalan Naseri, Degui Zhi, Shaojie Zhang
    ROH-DICE is an efficient method for detecting ROH clusters in biobank data, enabling the study of population history of large cohorts, and providing a new genome-wide association analysis approach for finding disease-causing loci with multi-marker recessive effects.

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    The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
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    University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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    Pennsylvania State University, United States
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