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Eran Halperin is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a substantial body of work also related to Medicine.

Their main subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Cancer Research. Halperin's work covers a variety of scientific topics, prominently including Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Retinal Diseases and Treatments, Gut microbiota and health, Retinal Imaging and Analysis, as well as Retinal and Optic Conditions.

Halperin has contributed to a significant number of papers, frequently publishing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, and PLoS Computational Biology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Accurate estimation of cell composition in bulk expression through robust integration of single-cell information, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Stochasticity constrained by deterministic effects of diet and age drive rumen microbiome assembly dynamics, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Context-aware dimensionality reduction deconvolutes gut microbial community dynamics, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Enhancing droplet-based single-nucleus RNA-seq resolution using the semi-supervised machine learning classifier DIEM, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A machine learning algorithm to increase COVID-19 inpatient diagnostic capacity, 2020, PLoS ONE

Halperin collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Brunilda Balliu, Sriram Sankararaman, Noah Zaitlen, Elior Rahmani, and Jeffrey N. Chiang, with whom there have been multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

    Heribert Schunkert;Inke R. König;Sekar Kathiresan;Muredach P. Reilly

  • Whole-Genome Patterns of Common DNA Variation in Three Human Populations

    David A. Hinds;David A. Hinds;Laura L. Stuve;Laura L. Stuve;Geoffrey B. Nilsen;Geoffrey B. Nilsen;Eran Halperin;Eran Halperin

  • Identifying personal genomes by surname inference.

    Melissa Gymrek;Amy L. McGuire;David Golan;Eran Halperin;Eran Halperin

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Reachability and Distance Queries via 2-Hop Labels

    Edith Cohen;Eran Halperin;Haim Kaplan;Uri Zwick

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • An international effort towards developing standards for best practices in analysis, interpretation and reporting of clinical genome sequencing results in the CLARITY Challenge.

    Catherine A. Brownstein;Alan H. Beggs;Nils Homer;Barry Merriman

  • Improved Approximation Algorithms for the Vertex Cover Problem in Graphs and Hypergraphs

    Eran Halperin

  • A heritable subset of the core rumen microbiome dictates dairy cow productivity and emissions

    R. John Wallace;Goor Sasson;Philip C. Garnsworthy;Ilma Tapio

  • FEAST: fast expectation-maximization for microbial source tracking.

    Liat Shenhav;Mike Thompson;Tyler A Joseph;Leah Briscoe

  • A comparison of phasing algorithms for trios and unrelated individuals.

    Jonathan Marchini;David Cutler;Nick Patterson;Matthew Stephens

  • Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations

    Sriram Sankararaman;Srinath Sridhar;Gad Kimmel;Eran Halperin

  • Accurate estimation of cell composition in bulk expression through robust integration of single-cell information.

    Brandon Jew;Marcus Alvarez;Elior Rahmani;Zong Miao

  • Large-Scale Gene-Centric Analysis Identifies Novel Variants for Coronary Artery Disease

    Adam S. Butterworth;Peter S. Braund;Martin Farrall;Robert J. Hardwick

  • Haplotype reconstruction from genotype data using Imperfect Phylogeny

    Eran Halperin;Eleazar Eskin

  • Polylogarithmic inapproximability

    Eran Halperin;Robert Krauthgamer

  • Genomic privacy and limits of individual detection in a pool

    Sriram Sankararaman;Guillaume Obozinski;Michael I Jordan;Eran Halperin;Eran Halperin

  • Genotype Is a Stronger Determinant than Sex of the Mouse Gut Microbiota

    Amir Kovacs;Noa Ben-Jacob;Hanna Tayem;Eran Halperin

  • Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies From the CHARGE Consortium Identifies Common Variants Associated With Carotid Intima Media Thickness and Plaque

    Joshua C. Bis;Maryam Kavousi;Nora Franceschini;Aaron Isaacs

Frequent Co-Authors

Eleazar Eskin
Eleazar Eskin University of California, Los Angeles
Dietrich A. Stephan
Dietrich A. Stephan NeuBase Therapeutics
Noah Zaitlen
Noah Zaitlen University of California, Los Angeles
Saharon Rosset
Saharon Rosset Tel Aviv University
Bogdan Pasaniuc
Bogdan Pasaniuc University of California, Los Angeles
Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco
Richard M. Karp
Richard M. Karp University of California, Berkeley
Paige M. Bracci
Paige M. Bracci University of California, San Francisco
Uri Zwick
Uri Zwick Tel Aviv University
Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University

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