news — CAAPA

Regeneron and Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine Announce New Human Genetics Research Collaboration
CU Anschutz today news: Researchers find genetic clues to high rates of asthma in those of african-ancestry.
Sun X, Gao J, Jin P, Eng C, Burchard EG, Beaty TH, Ruczinski I, Mathias RA, Barnes KC, Wang F, Qin Z, CAAPA Consortium. Optimized distributed systems achieve significant performance improvements on sorted merging of massive VCF files. Gigascience 2018 May 11.Doi:10.1093/gigascience/giy052[Epub ahead of print].

Daya etal Genome-wide association study of asthma in individuals of African ancestry reveals novel asthma susceptibility loci. bioRxiv 112953; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/112953.

Johnston etal Identifying tagging SNPs for African specific genetic variation from the African Diaspora Genome. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/112235

Shringarpure etal Using genotype array data to compare multi- and single-sample variant calls and improve variant call sets from deep coverage whole- genome sequencing data. Bioinformatics, 2017 [PMC Journal https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28035032]

Kessler etal Challenges and disparities in the application of personalized genomic medicine to populations with African ancestry. Nat Comm, 2016; 7:12521.[PMCID:5062569]
CAAPA flagship paper published: Mathias etal Barnes KC. A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome. Nat Comm, 2016; 7:12522. [PMCID:5062574]