Kimberley J. Billingsley

Cell-type-resolved somatic variant discovery from bulk long-read sequencing

APOE-stratified genome-wide association analyses provide insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimers's disease.

Understanding of the genetic architecture of AD in the context of its main genetic driver is improved, and APOE-stratified insights may help understand and overcome side effects, inform clinical trial enrollment strategies, and create the scientific basis for targeted, mechanism-driven therapies in neurodegenerative di...

SALRR: Scalable Analysis of Long-Read RNA-Seq Enables Comprehensive Transcriptome Profiling in Human Brain

Isoform-resolved transcriptomics is fundamental to decoding the molecular complexity of the human brain, yet population-scale long-read RNA sequencing has remained inaccessible due to labor-intensive library preparation, sensitivity to RNA degradation in postmortem tissue, and the absence of integrated, reproducible an...

CNV-Finder: streamlining copy number variation discovery

Abstract Motivation Copy Number Variations (CNVs) play pivotal roles in complex disease etiology, often requiring large sample sizes to analyze disease associations. While genotyping arrays offer a cost-effective approach for CNV detection using Log R Ratio (LRR) and B Allele Frequency (BAF) signals, existing independe...