Publications

The following are list of CAAPA related publications

Association study in African-admixed populations across the Americas recapitulates asthma risk loci in non-African populations

Optimized distributed systems achieve significant performance improvement on sorted merging of massive VCF files.

A continuum of admixture in the Western Hemisphere revealed by the African Diaspora genome

Identifying tagging SNPs for African specific genetic variation from the African Diaspora Genome

Challenges and disparities in the application of personalized genomic medicine to populations with African ancestry

Using genotype array data to compare multi- and single-sample variant calls and improve variant call sets from deep coverage whole-genome sequencing data.

Genome-wide association study of asthma in individuals of African ancestry reveals novel asthma susceptibility loci

Perceived discrimination associated with asthma and related outcomes in minority youth: The GALA II and SAGE II studies

Genetics of allergic diseases.

Stress and Bronchodilator Response in Children with Asthma.

Genome-wide association study and admixture mapping reveal new loci associated with total IgE levels in Latinos

Human genomic regions with exceptionally high levels of population differentiation identified from 911 whole-genome sequences

Genome-wide interaction studies reveal sex-specific asthma risk alleles.

A global reference for human genetic variation.

Integrating sequence and array data to create an improved 1000 Genomes Project haplotype reference panel.

Posters

Michelle Daya et.al: Test of association for asthma among >10000 individuals of mixed African ancestry. Poster presented at American Society of Human Genetic (ASHG 2016) in Vancouver, Canada.

Sameer Chavan et.al: Improving the resolution of GWAS in populations of African descent. Poster presented at American Society of Human Genetic (ASHG 2016) in Vancouver, Canada.