Sarah Cody

The paper introduces GBZ-base and GAF-base, indexed pangenome file formats for efficient subgraph and alignment extraction.

460 haplotypes from 230 genomes, selected to maximize common-variant coverage, capture 99.43% of All of Us common small variants and halve structurally unreliable regions and base errors versus HPRC1.

The paper analyzes chromosome 22q11.2 haplotypes to show how structural variations in specific regions correlate with microdeletion and inversion risks across populations.

The paper uses long-read sequencing to identify pathogenic variants in autism cases, finding three pathogenic mutations and nine candidate structural variants missed by short-read sequencing.

The paper introduces Minigraph-Cactus, a pangenome pipeline that constructs pangenome graphs directly from whole-genome alignments, demonstrating improved performance in mapping and variant calling across human and Drosophila data.

The paper presents a draft human pangenome reference that improves variant discovery and structural variant detection compared to existing references.

The paper shows recombination between heterologous human acrocentric chromosomes using pangenome data, revealing pseudo-homologous regions linked to Robertsonian translocations.

The paper evaluates sequencing and assembly methods to create high-quality diploid human genome assemblies, finding that long reads and haplotype sorting improve accuracy and completeness.