Sarah J. C. Craig

The paper produces gapless assemblies of ape sex chromosomes for five great apes and a lesser ape, revealing divergence in Y chromosomes and evolutionary dynamics.

The paper links methylation profiles at birth to early childhood obesity by analyzing 48 infants and identifying 23 and 10 genes in cord blood and placenta associated with weight outcomes.

The paper introduces PDAL-Seq, a method to detect DNA secondary structures in vivo, and provides a standardized analysis pipeline.

This paper develops a polygenic risk score for childhood obesity using longitudinal weight gain data and shows it predicts obesity risk better than adult GWAS-based scores.

The paper links infant weight gain trajectories to oral microbiome composition and shows associations with gut microbiome and diet.