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Aakrosh Ratan

Aakrosh Ratan

Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences

Primary Location
MSB-6131F; West Complex, 1300 JPA
Department of Genome Sciences
Charlottesville, VA 22908
Primary Phone Number
Fax Number
434.982.1815

Bio & Overview

1. Detection of genomic variation: I have developed several methods to identify and map variants (SNPs, indels, and large-scale rearrangements) from large-scale sequencing datasets. This includes identification and genotyping of variants in species with a haploid representation (reference genome), species with multiple representations (pangenome), as well as species where we lack a reference genome. Several of these methods utilize graphs as a framework to represent genome variation and sequence uncertainty. a. Sirén J, Monlong J, Chang X, Novak AM, Eizenga JM, Markello C, Sibbesen JA, Hickey G, Chang P, Carroll A, Gupta N, Gabriel S, Blackwell, TW, Ratan A, Taylor KD, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Haussler D, Garrison E, Paten B. Pangenomics enables genotyping of known structural variants in 5202 diverse genomes. Science. 2022, 374(6574), p. abg8871. DOI: 10.1126/science.abg8871. b. Kathuria K, Ratan A. SVXplorer: Three-tier approach to identification of structural variants via sequential recombination of discordant cluster signatures. PLoS Comput Biol. 2020 Mar;16(3):e1007737. PubMed PMID: 32182236; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7100977. c. Kedzierska KZ, Gerber L, Cagnazzi D, Krützen M, Ratan A*, Kistler L*. SONiCS: PCR stutter noise correction in genome-scale microsatellites. Bioinformatics. 2018 Dec 1;34(23):4115-4117. PubMed PMID: 29931218; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6454461. d. Kistler L, Johnson SM, Irwin MT, Louis EE, Ratan A*, Perry GH*. A massively parallel strategy for STR marker development, capture, and genotyping. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Sep 6;45(15):e142. PubMed PMID: 28666376; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5587753. 2. Large-scale analyses of cancer genomic datasets: Tumor sequencing experiments can provide insight into the changes driving tumorigenesis and identify covariates that can affect clinical prognosis. I have developed several methods to analyze large cancer genomic datasets accounting for the observed heterogeneity and clinical covariates. I have also led or co-led several studies that have analyzed large-scale datasets to dissect the role of genomic variation in cancer. For example, in collaboration with Dr. Anindya Dutta at the University of Alabama, we published two studies and a review on the role of germline variation in the clinical outcome of cancer patients. a. Sienkiewicz K, Chen J, Chatrath A, Lawson J, Sheffield N, Zhang L, Ratan A. Detecting molecular subtypes from multi-omics datasets using SUMO. Cell Reports Methods. 2022, 2(1):100152. DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2021.100152 b. Chatrath A, Ratan A, Dutta. Germline variants predictive of tumor mutational burden and immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy. iScience. 2021 24(3). PubMed PMID: 33786423; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7988326. c. Sienkiewicz K, Ratan A. Protocol for integrative subtyping of lower-grade gliomas using the SUMO pipeline. STAR Protocols. 2022;3(1):101110. DOI: 10.1016/j.xpro.2021.101110 d. Chatrath A, Przanowska R, Kiran S, Su Z, Saha S, Wilson B, Tsunematsu T, Ahn JH, Lee KY, Paulsen T, Sobierajska E, Kiran M, Tang X, Li T, Kumar P, Ratan A, Dutta A. The pan-cancer landscape of prognostic germline variants in 10,582 patients. Genome Med. 2020 Feb 17;12(1):15. PubMed PMID: 32066500; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7027124. 3. Genomics of LGL Leukemia: Large Granular Lymphocyte (LGL) Leukemia is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of CD8+ T or natural cell (NK) lineage. I lead the bioinformatics in a collaborative effort with Dr. Thomas Loughran at the UVA Cancer Center and Dr. Ross Hardison at Pennsylvania State University to assemble and analyze some of the largest cohorts of this rare disease. We recently published a manuscript focused on the mutational landscape of NK-LGL, and another manuscript that analyzed a large cohort of T-LGL patients is in press. I am also leading the integrative analysis of the various genetic and epigenetic datasets collected from LGL patients and those corresponding to the TEMRA cells, which are considered the normal counterparts of the leukemic LGL cells. a. Cheon H, Xing JC, Moosic KB, Ung J, Chan V, Chung DS, Toro MF, Eighawy O, Wang JS, Hamele CE, Hardison RC, Olson TL, Tan S, Feith D, Ratan A, Loughran TP. Genomic Landscape of TCR Alpha-Beta and TCR Gamma-Delta T-Large Granular Lymphocyte Leukemia. Blood. 2022. DOI: 10.1182/blood.2021013164. b. Olson TL, Cheon H, Xing JC, Olson KC, Paila U, Hamele CE, Neelamraju Y, Shemo BC, Schmachtenberg MW, Sundararaman SK, Toro MF, Keller CA, Farber EA, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Garrett-Bakelman FE, Hardison RC, Feith D, Ratan A, Loughran TP. Frequent somatic TET2 mutations in chronic NK-LGL leukemia with distinct patterns of cytopenias. Blood. 2021 Mar; PubMed PMID: 33786584 c. Moosic KB, Paila U, Olson KC, Dziewulska K, Wang TT, Xing JC, Ratan A, Feith DJ, Loughran TP, Olson TL. Genomics of LGL leukemia and select other rare leukemia/lymphomas. Best practice & research Clinical haematology. 2019 Sep;32(3):196–206. PubMed PMID: 31585620 d. Wang TT, Yang J, Dighe S, Schmachtenberg MW, Leigh NT, Farber E, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Feith DJ, Ratan A, Loughran TP, Olson TL. Whole Genome Sequencing of Spontaneously Occurring Rat Natural Killer Large Granular Lymphocyte Leukemia Identifies JAK1 Somatic Activating Mutation. Cancers 2020 12(1). PubMed PMID: 31947841; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7017127. 4. Studies of genetic diversity: Genome-wide assessments of genetic diversity provide a powerful analytical tool that informs of the similarities, differences, origins, and evolutionary history of a species. I have applied both methods I have developed over the years and methods developed elsewhere to identify variants among and between members of several species. Using the observed allele frequencies, we have calculated metrics of population differentiation, such as the fixation index, and correlated them with phenotypes to identify adaptations and detect the causative mutations for a genetic trait or disease. a. Wall JD, Ratan A, Stawiski E. Identification of African-Specific Admixture between Modern and Archaic Humans. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Dec 5;105(6):1254-1261. PubMed PMID: 31809748; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6904834. b. Wall JD*, Stawiski EW*, Ratan A*, Kim HL*, Kim C*, Gupta R*, Suryamohan K, Gusareva ES, Purbojati RW, Bhangale T, Stepanov V, Kharkov V, Schröder MS, Ramprasad V, Tom J, Durinck S, Bei Q, Li J, Guillory J, Phalke S, Basu A, Stinson J, Nair S, Malaichamy S, Biswas NK, Chambers JC, Cheng KC, George JT, Khor SS, Kim J, Cho B, Menon R, Sattibabu T, Bassi A, Deshmukh M, Verma A, Gopalan V, Shin J, Pratapneni M, Santhosh S, Tokunaga K, Md-Zain BM, Chan KG, Parani M, Natarajan P, Hauser M, Allingham RR, Santiago-Turla C, Ghosh A, Gadde SGK, Fuchsberger C, Forer L, Schoenherr S, Sudoyo H, Lansing JS, Friedlaender J, Koki G, Cox MP, Hammer M, Karafet T, Ang KC, Mehdi SQ, Radha V, Mohan V, Majumder PP*, Seshagiri S*, Seo J*, Schuster SC*, Peterson AS*. The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia. Nature. 2019 Dec;576(7785):106-111. PubMed PMID: 31802016; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7054211. c. Kitchen SA*, Ratan A*, Bedoya-Reina OC, Burhans R, Fogarty ND, Miller W, Baums IB. Genomic Variants Among Threatened Acropora Corals. G3 (Bethesda). 2019 May 7;9(5):1633-1646. PubMed PMID: 30914426; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6505131. d. Fry E, Kim SK, Chigurapti S, Mika KM, Ratan A, Dammermann A, Mitchell BJ, Miller W, Lynch VJ. Functional Architecture of Deleterious Genetic Variants in the Genome of a Wrangel Island Mammoth. Genome Biol Evol. 2020 Mar 1;12(3):48-58. PubMed PMID: 32031213; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7094797.

Academic Information

Department
Public Health Sciences
Academic Title
Associate Professor

Primary Education

  • BTech, Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 2003
  • SM, Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 2004
  • PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2010

Other Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

Other Affiliations

  • Cancer Center
  • Center for Public Health Genomics
  • BIMS
  • Genomic Sciences

Research Interests

Genomics, Molecular Evolution, Algorithm Design and Analysis

Research Disciplines

  • Bioinformatics and Genomics
  • Cancer Biology
  • Computational Biology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology

Research Opportunities

  • Bioinformatics & Genomics
  • Cancer Biology
  • Computational Biology
  • Genetics
  • Molecular Biology

PhD Programs

  • Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics
  • Computational Biology

Selected Publications

2024

Murray, C. S., Karram, M., Bass, D. J., Doceti, M., Becker, D., Nunez, J. C. B., . . . Bergland, A. O. (2024). Balancing selection and the functional effects of shared polymorphism in cryptic Daphnia species.. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2024.04.16.589693

Santen, R. J., Karaguzel, G., Livaoglu, M., Yue, W., Cline, J. M., Ratan, A., & Sasano, H. (2024). Role of ERα and Aromatase in Juvenile Gigantomastia. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM, 109(7), 1765-1772. doi:10.1210/clinem/dgae019

2023

Eljilany, I., Saghand, P. G., Chen, J., Ratan, A., McCarter, M., Carpten, J., . . . Tarhini, A. A. (2023). The T Cell Immunoscore as a Reference for Biomarker Development Utilizing Real-World Data from Patients with Advanced Malignancies Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. CANCERS, 15(20). doi:10.3390/cancers15204913

Yang, C., Wierbilowicz, K., Dworak, N. M., Bae, S. Y., Tengse, S. B., Abianeh, N., . . . Paschal, B. M. (2023). Induction of PARP7 Creates a Vulnerability for Growth Inhibition by RBN2397 in Prostate Cancer Cells. CANCER RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS, 3(4), 592-606. doi:10.1158/2767-9764.CRC-23-0086

Kim, H. L., Li, T., Kalsi, N., Nguyen, H. T. T., Shaw, T. A. A., Ang, K. C. C., . . . Horton, B. P. P. (2023). Prehistoric human migration between Sundaland and South Asia was driven by sea-level rise. COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY, 6(1). doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04510-0

Jun, G., English, A. C., Metcalf, G. A., Yang, J., Chaisson, M. J., Pankratz, N., . . . Sedlazeck, F. J. (2023). Structural variation across 138,134 samples in the TOPMed consortium.. Res Sq. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-2515453/v1

Jun, G., English, A. C., Metcalf, G. A., Yang, J., Chaisson, M. J., Pankratz, N., . . . Sedlazeck, F. J. (2023). Structural variation across 138,134 samples in the TOPMed consortium.. bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2023.01.25.525428

2022

Wheeler, M. M., Stilp, A. M., Rao, S., Halldorsson, B. V., Beyter, D., Wen, J., . . . Reiner, A. P. (2022). Whole genome sequencing identifies structural variants contributing to hematologic traits in the NHLBI TOPMed program. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 13(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35354-7

Barnard-Kubow, K. B., Becker, D., Murray, C. S., Porter, R., Gutierrez, G., Erickson, P., . . . Bergland, A. O. (2022). Genetic Variation in Reproductive Investment Across an Ephemerality Gradient in Daphnia pulex. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 39(6). doi:10.1093/molbev/msac121

Cheon, H., Xing, J. C., Moosic, K. B., Ung, J., Chan, V. W., Chung, D. S., . . . Loughran Jr, T. P. (2022). Genomic landscape of TCRαβ and TCRγδ T-large granular lymphocyte leukemia. BLOOD, 139(20), 3058-3072. doi:10.1182/blood.2021013164

Baer, C., Kimura, S., Rana, M. S., Kleist, A. B., Flerlage, T., Feith, D. J., . . . Mullighan, C. G. (2022). CCL22 mutations drive natural killer cell lymphoproliferative disease by deregulating microenvironmental crosstalk. NATURE GENETICS, 54(5), 637-+. doi:10.1038/s41588-022-01059-2

Sahu, D., Chatrath, A., Ratan, A., & Dutta, A. (2022). Integrated bioinformatic pipeline using whole-exome and RNAseq data to identify germline variants correlated with cancer. STAR PROTOCOLS, 3(2). doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2022.101273

Torn, C., Liu, X., Onengut-Gumuscu, S., Counts, K. M., Moreno, J. L., Remedios, C. L., . . . Parikh, H. M. (2022). Telomere length is not a main factor for the development of islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes in the TEDDY study. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-022-08058-7

Sienkiewicz, K., & Ratan, A. (2022). Protocol for integrative subtyping of lower-grade gliomas using the SUMO pipeline. STAR PROTOCOLS, 3(1). doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2021.101110

Sienkiewicz, K., Chen, J., Chatrath, A., Lawson, J. T., Sheffield, N. C., Zhang, L., & Ratan, A. (2022). Detecting molecular subtypes from multi-omics datasets using SUMO. CELL REPORTS METHODS, 2(1). doi:10.1016/j.crmeth.2021.100152

2021

Sienkiewicz, K., Yang, C., Paschal, B. M., & Ratan, A. (2022). Genomic analyses of the metastasis-derived prostate cancer cell lines LNCaP, VCaP, and PC3-AR. PROSTATE, 82(4), 442-451. doi:10.1002/pros.24290

Siren, J., Monlong, J., Chang, X., Novak, A. M., Eizenga, J. M., Markello, C., . . . Paten, B. (2021). Pangenomics enables genotyping of known structural variants in 5202 diverse genomes. SCIENCE, 374(6574), 1461-+. doi:10.1126/science.abg8871

Suryamohan, K., Diwanji, D., Stawiski, E. W., Gupta, R., Miersch, S., Liu, J., . . . Seshagiri, S. (2021). Human ACE2 receptor polymorphisms and altered susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. COMMUNICATIONS BIOLOGY, 4(1). doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02030-3

Natarajan, P., Pampana, A., Graham, S. E., Ruotsalainen, S. E., Perry, J. A., de Vries, P. S., . . . Kuopio, T. (2021). Chromosome Xq23 is associated with lower atherogenic lipid concentrations and favorable cardiometabolic indices. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22339-1

Olson, T. L., Cheon, H., Xing, J. C., Olson, K. C., Paila, U., Hamele, C. E., . . . Loughran, T. P. J. (2021). Frequent somatic TET2 mutations in chronic NK-LGL leukemia with distinct patterns of cytopenias. BLOOD, 138(8), 662-673. doi:10.1182/blood.2020005831

Chatrath, A., Ratan, A., & Dutta, A. (2021). Germline variants predictive of tumor mutational burden and immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy. ISCIENCE, 24(3). doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102248

2020

Chatrath, A., Ratan, A., & Dutta, A. (2021). Germline Variants That Affect Tumor Progression. TRENDS IN GENETICS, 37(5), 433-443. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2020.10.005

Onengut-Gumuscu, S., Paila, U., Chen, W. -M., Ratan, A., Zhu, Z., Steck, A. K., . . . Rich, S. S. (2020). Novel genetic risk factors influence progression of islet autoimmunity to type 1 diabetes. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-75690-6

Bick, A. G., Weinstock, J. S., Nandakumar, S. K., Fulco, C. P., Bao, E. L., Zekavat, S. M., . . . Natarajan, P. (2021). Inherited causes of clonal haematopoiesis in 97,691 whole genomes (vol 586, pg 763, 2020). NATURE, 591(7849), E27. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03280-1

Fang, C., Wang, Z., Han, C., Safgren, S. L., Helmin, K. A., Adelman, E. R., . . . Zang, C. (2020). Cancer-specific CTCF binding facilitates oncogenic transcriptional dysregulation. GENOME BIOLOGY, 21(1). doi:10.1186/s13059-020-02152-7

Li, X., Li, Z., Zhou, H., Gaynor, S. M., Liu, Y., Chen, H., . . . Lin, X. (2020). Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale. NATURE GENETICS, 52(9), 969-+. doi:10.1038/s41588-020-0676-4

Grabski, D. F., Ratan, A., Gray, L. R., Bekiranov, S., Rekosh, D., Hammarskjold, M. -L., & Rasmussen, S. K. (2021). Upregulation of human endogenous retrovirus-K (HML-2) mRNAs in hepatoblastoma: Identification of potential new immunotherapeutic targets and biomarkers. JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC SURGERY, 56(2), 286-292. doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2020.05.022

Kathuria, K., & Ratan, A. (2020). SVXplorer: Three-tier approach to identification of structural variants via sequential recombination of discordant cluster signatures. PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 16(3). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007737

Chatrath, A., Przanowska, R., Kiran, S., Su, Z., Saha, S., Wilson, B., . . . Dutta, A. (2020). The pan-cancer landscape of prognostic germline variants in 10,582 patients. GENOME MEDICINE, 12(1). doi:10.1186/s13073-020-0718-7

Fry, E., Kim, S. K., Chigurapti, S., Mika, K. M., Ratan, A., Dammermann, A., . . . Lynch, V. J. (2020). Functional Architecture of Deleterious Genetic Variants in the Genome of a Wrangel Island Mammoth. GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 12(3), 48-58. doi:10.1093/gbe/evz279

Wang, T. T., Yang, J., Dighe, S., Schmachtenberg, M. W., Leigh, N. T., Farber, E., . . . Olson, T. L. (2020). Whole Genome Sequencing of Spontaneously Occurring Rat Natural Killer Large Granular Lymphocyte Leukemia Identifies JAK1 Somatic Activating Mutation. CANCERS, 12(1). doi:10.3390/cancers12010126

Sienkiewicz, K., Chen, J., Chatrath, A., Lawson, J., Sheffield, N., Zhang, L., & Ratan, A. (2020). Data Integration with SUMO Detects Latent Relationships Between Patients in Lower-Grade Gliomas. doi:10.1101/2020.08.10.244343

Suryamohan, K., Krishnankutty, S. P., Guillory, J., Jevit, M., Schroeder, M. S., Wu, M., . . . Seshagiri, S. (2020). The Indian cobra reference genome and transcriptome enables comprehensive identification of venom toxins. NATURE GENETICS, 52(1), 106-+. doi:10.1038/s41588-019-0559-8

Kathuria, K., Ratan, A., McConnell, M., & Bekiranov, S. (2020). Implementation of a Hamming distance-like genomic quantum classifier using inner products on ibmqx2 and ibmq_16_melbourne. QUANTUM MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, 2(1). doi:10.1007/s42484-020-00017-7

2019

Wall, J. D., Ratan, A., & Stawiski, E. (2019). Identification of African-Specific Admixture between Modern and Archaic Humans. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, 105(6), 1254-1261. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.11.005

Wall, J. D., Stawiski, E. W., Ratan, A., Kim, H. L., Kim, C., Gupta, R., . . . Peterson, A. S. (2019). The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia. NATURE, 576(7785), 106-+. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1793-z

Kachroo, P., Hecker, J., Chawes, B. L., Ahluwalia, T. S., Cho, M. H., Qiao, D., . . . Zoellner, S. (2019). Whole Genome Sequencing Identifies CRISPLD2 as a Lung Function Gene in Children With Asthma. CHEST, 156(6), 1068-1079. doi:10.1016/j.chest.2019.08.2202

Moosic, K. B., Paila, U., Olson, K. C., Dziewulska, K., Wang, T. T., Xing, J. C., . . . Olson, T. L. (2019). Genomics of LGL leukemia and select other rare leukemia/lymphomas. BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGY, 32(3), 196-206. doi:10.1016/j.beha.2019.06.003

Feng, J., Ratan, A., & Sheffield, N. C. (2019). Augmented Interval List: a novel data structure for efficient genomic interval search. BIOINFORMATICS, 35(23), 4907-4911. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz407

Kitchen, S. A., Ratan, A., Bedoya-Reina, O. C., Burhans, R., Fogarty, N. D., Miller, W., & Baums, I. B. (2019). Genomic Variants Among Threatened Acropora Corals. G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS, 9(5), 1633-1646. doi:10.1534/g3.119.400125

Chatrath, A., Kiran, M., Kumar, P., Ratan, A., & Dutta, A. (2019). The Germline Variants rs61757955 and rs34988193 Are Predictive of Survival in Lower Grade Glioma Patients. MOLECULAR CANCER RESEARCH, 17(5), 1075-1086. doi:10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-18-0996

Chatrath, A., Przanowska, R., Kiran, S., Su, Z., Saha, S., Wilson, B., . . . Dutta, A. (2019). The Pan-Cancer Landscape of Prognostic Germline Variants in 10,582 Patients. doi:10.1101/19010264

2018

Chatrath, A., Kiran, M., Kumar, P., Ratan, A., & Dutta, A. (2018). The Germline Variants rs61757955 and rs34988193 are Predictive of Survival in Low Grade Glioma Patients. doi:10.1101/497354

Jividen, K., Kedzierska, K. Z., Yang, C. -S., Szlachta, K., Ratan, A., & Paschal, B. M. (2018). Genomic analysis of DNA repair genes and androgen signaling in prostate cancer. BMC CANCER, 18. doi:10.1186/s12885-018-4848-x

Burbulis, I. E., Wierman, M. B., Wolpert, M., Haakenson, M., Lopes, M. -B., Schiff, D., . . . McConnell, M. J. (2018). Improved molecular karyotyping in glioblastoma. MUTATION RESEARCH-FUNDAMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF MUTAGENESIS, 811, 16-26. doi:10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2018.06.002

Kedzierska, K. Z., Gerber, L., Cagnazzi, D., Krutzen, M., Ratan, A., & Kistler, L. (2018). SONiCS: PCR stutter noise correction in genome-scale microsatellites. BIOINFORMATICS, 34(23), 4115-4117. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty485

Kathuria, K., & Ratan, A. (2018). SVXplorer: Identification of structural variants through overlap of discordant clusters. doi:10.1101/469981

2017

Junqueira, A. C. M., Ratan, A., Acerbi, E., Drautz-Moses, D. I., Premkrishnan, B. N. V., Costea, P. I., . . . Schuster, S. C. (2017). The microbiomes of blowflies and houseflies as bacterial transmission reservoirs. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 7. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16353-x

Kistler, L., Johnson, S. M., Irwin, M. T., Louis, E. E., Ratan, A., & Perry, G. H. (2017). A massively parallel strategy for STR marker development, capture, and genotyping. NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH, 45(15). doi:10.1093/nar/gkx574

Fry, E., Kim, S., Chigurapti, S., Mika, K., Ratan, A., Dammermann, A., . . . Lynch, V. (2017). Functional architecture of deleterious genetic variants in the Wrangel Island mammoth genome. doi:10.1101/137455

2016

Agaba, M., Ishengoma, E., Miller, W. C., McGrath, B. C., Hudson, C. N., Reina, O. C. B., . . . Cavener, D. R. (2016). Giraffe genome sequence reveals clues to its unique morphology and physiology. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 7. doi:10.1038/ncomms11519

Carpi, G., Kitchen, A., Kim, H. L., Ratan, A., Drautz-Moses, D. I., McGraw, J. J., . . . Schuster, S. C. (2016). Mitogenomes reveal diversity of the European Lyme borreliosis vector Ixodes ricinus in Italy. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 101, 194-202. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.009

Welch, A. J., Collins, K., Ratan, A., Drautz-Moses, D. I., Schuster, S. C., & Lindqvist, C. (2016). Data characterizing the chloroplast genomes of extinct and endangered Hawaiian endemic mints (Lamiaceae) and their close relatives. DATA IN BRIEF, 7, 900-922. doi:10.1016/j.dib.2016.03.037

Welch, A. J., Collins, K., Ratan, A., Drautz-Moses, D. I., Schuster, S. C., & Lindqvist, C. (2016). The quest to resolve recent radiations: Plastid phylogenomics of extinct and endangered Hawaiian endemic mints (Lamiaceae). MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 99, 16-33. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.02.024

Junqueira, A. C. M., Azeredo-Espin, A. M. L., Paulo, D. F., Marinho, M. A. T., Tomsho, L. P., Drautz-Moses, D. I., . . . Schuster, S. C. (2016). Large-scale mitogenomics enables insights into Schizophora (Diptera) radiation and population diversity. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 6. doi:10.1038/srep21762

Lan, T., Cheng, J., Ratan, A., Miller, W., Schuster, S., Farley, S., . . . Lindqvist, C. (2016). Genome-wide evidence for a hybrid origin of modern polar bears. doi:10.1101/047498

2015

Fuller, Z. L., Niño, E. L., Patch, H. M., Bedoya-Reina, O. C., Baumgarten, T., Muli, E., . . . Miller, W. (2015). Genome-wide analysis of signatures of selection in populations of African honey bees (Apis mellifera) using new web-based tools.. BMC genomics, 16, 518. doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1712-0

Lynch, V. J., Bedoya-Reina, O. C., Ratan, A., Sulak, M., Drautz-Moses, D. I., Perry, G. H., . . . Schuster, S. C. (2015). Elephantid Genomes Reveal the Molecular Bases of Woolly Mammoth Adaptations to the Arctic.. Cell reports, 12(2), 217-228. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2015.06.027

Ratan, A., Olson, T. L., Loughran, T. P. J., & Miller, W. (2015). Identification of indels in next-generation sequencing data. BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 16. doi:10.1186/s12859-015-0483-6

2014

Kistler, L., Ratan, A., Godfrey, L. R., Crowley, B. E., Hughes, C. E., Lei, R., . . . Perry, G. H. (2015). Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant 'subfossil' lemurs.. Journal of human evolution, 79, 45-54. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.016

Kim, H. L., Ratan, A., Perry, G. H., Montenegro, A., Miller, W., & Schuster, S. C. (2014). Khoisan hunter-gatherers have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human demographic history. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 5. doi:10.1038/ncomms6692

2013

Bedoya-Reina, O. C., Ratan, A., Burhans, R., Kim, H. L., Giardine, B., Riemer, C., . . . Miller, W. (2013). Galaxy tools to study genome diversity. GIGASCIENCE, 2. doi:10.1186/2047-217X-2-17

Perry, G. H., Louis, E. E., Ratan, A., Bedoya-Reina, O. C., Burhans, R. C., Lei, R., . . . Miller, W. (2013). Aye-aye population genomic analyses highlight an important center of endemism in northern Madagascar.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(15), 5823-5828. doi:10.1073/pnas.1211990110

Ratan, A., Miller, W., Guillory, J., Stinson, J., Seshagiri, S., & Schuster, S. C. (2013). Comparison of sequencing platforms for single nucleotide variant calls in a human sample.. PloS one, 8(2), e55089. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055089

2012

Giardine, B. M., Riemer, C., Burhans, R., Ratan, A., & Miller, W. (2012). Some phenotype association tools in Galaxy: looking for disease SNPs in a full genome.. Current protocols in bioinformatics, Chapter 15, 15.2.1-15.2.27. doi:10.1002/0471250953.bi1502s39

Gupta, R., Ratan, A., Rajesh, C., Chen, R., Kim, H. L., Burhans, R., . . . Thomas, G. (2012). Sequencing and analysis of a South Asian-Indian personal genome.. BMC genomics, 13, 440. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-13-440

Miller, W., Schuster, S. C., Welch, A. J., Ratan, A., Bedoya-Reina, O. C., Zhao, F., . . . Lindqvist, C. (2012). Polar and brown bear genomes reveal ancient admixture and demographic footprints of past climate change.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(36), E2382-E2390. doi:10.1073/pnas.1210506109

Perry, G. H., Reeves, D., Melsted, P., Ratan, A., Miller, W., Michelini, K., . . . Gilad, Y. (2012). A genome sequence resource for the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a nocturnal lemur from Madagascar.. Genome biology and evolution, 4(2), 126-135. doi:10.1093/gbe/evr132

2011

Miller, W., Hayes, V. M., Ratan, A., Petersen, D. C., Wittekindt, N. E., Miller, J., . . . Schuster, S. C. (2011). Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered marsupial Sarcophilus harrisii (Tasmanian devil).. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(30), 12348-12353. doi:10.1073/pnas.1102838108

Locke, D. P., Hillier, L. W., Warren, W. C., Worley, K. C., Nazareth, L. V., Muzny, D. M., . . . Wilson, R. K. (2011). Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes.. Nature, 469(7331), 529-533. doi:10.1038/nature09687

2010

Ratan, A., Zhang, Y., Hayes, V. M., Schuster, S. C., & Miller, W. (2010). Calling SNPs without a reference sequence.. BMC bioinformatics, 11, 130. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-130

Lindqvist, C., Schuster, S. C., Sun, Y., Talbot, S. L., Qi, J., Ratan, A., . . . Wiig, O. (2010). Complete mitochondrial genome of a Pleistocene jawbone unveils the origin of polar bear.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(11), 5053-5057. doi:10.1073/pnas.0914266107

Schuster, S. C., Miller, W., Ratan, A., Tomsho, L. P., Giardine, B., Kasson, L. R., . . . Hayes, V. M. (2010). Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa.. Nature, 463(7283), 943-947. doi:10.1038/nature08795