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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Yoav Gilad is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily spans Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Cancer Research, with additional work in Rheumatology and Plant Science.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including:

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Yoav Gilad has published research in a variety of venues, with a concentration in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Genome Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Trends in Genetics

Some recent notable papers include:

  • Where Are the Disease-Associated eQTLs?, 2020, Trends in Genetics
  • A comparison of gene expression and DNA methylation patterns across tissues and species, 2020, Genome Research
  • Systematic Comparison of High-throughput Single-Cell and Single-Nucleus Transcriptomes during Cardiomyocyte Differentiation, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Characterizing and inferring quantitative cell cycle phase in single-cell RNA-seq data analysis, 2020, Genome Research
  • Single-cell sequencing reveals lineage-specific dynamic genetic regulation of gene expression during human cardiomyocyte differentiation, 2022, PLoS Genetics

Frequent collaborators with Yoav Gilad include:

  • Kenneth Barr
  • Katherine Rhodes
  • Claudia Cuevas
  • Alexis Battle
  • Joshua M Popp

Among the awards received, Yoav Gilad was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007.

Best Publications

  • RNA-seq: An assessment of technical reproducibility and comparison with gene expression arrays

    John C. Marioni;Christopher E. Mason;Shrikant M. Mane;Matthew Stephens

  • Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome

    Tarjei S. Mikkelsen;LaDeana W. Hillier

  • Understanding mechanisms underlying human gene expression variation with RNA sequencing

    Joseph K. Pickrell;John C. Marioni;Athma A. Pai;Jacob F. Degner

  • DNA methylation patterns associate with genetic and gene expression variation in HapMap cell lines.

    Jordana T Bell;Jordana T Bell;Athma A Pai;Joseph K Pickrell;Daniel J Gaffney;Daniel J Gaffney

  • Sex-specific genetic architecture of human disease

    Carole Ober;Dagan A. Loisel;Yoav Gilad

  • DNase I sensitivity QTLs are a major determinant of human expression variation

    Jacob F. Degner;Athma A. Pai;Roger Pique-Regi;Jean Baptiste Veyrieras

  • High-resolution mapping of expression-QTLs yields insight into human gene regulation.

    Jean-Baptiste Veyrieras;Sridhar Kudaravalli;Su Yeon Kim;Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis

  • RNA splicing is a primary link between genetic variation and disease

    Yang I. Li;Bryce van de Geijn;Anil Raj;David A. Knowles

  • Accurate inference of transcription factor binding from DNA sequence and chromatin accessibility data.

    Roger Pique-Regi;Jacob F. Degner;Athma A. Pai;Daniel J. Gaffney

  • Revealing the architecture of gene regulation: the promise of eQTL studies

    Yoav Gilad;Scott A. Rifkin;Jonathan K. Pritchard

  • Effect of read-mapping biases on detecting allele-specific expression from RNA-sequencing data

    Jacob F. Degner;John C. Marioni;Athma A. Pai;Joseph K. Pickrell

  • WASP: allele-specific software for robust molecular quantitative trait locus discovery

    Bryce van de Geijn;Graham McVicker;Yoav Gilad;Jonathan K Pritchard;Jonathan K Pritchard

  • Comparative studies of gene expression and the evolution of gene regulation.

    Irene Gallego Romero;Ilya Ruvinsky;Yoav Gilad

  • Identification of Genetic Variants That Affect Histone Modifications in Human Cells

    Graham McVicker;Graham McVicker;Bryce van de Geijn;Jacob F. Degner;Carolyn E. Cain

  • Impact of regulatory variation from RNA to protein

    Alexis Battle;Alexis Battle;Zia Khan;Sidney H. Wang;Amy Mitrano

  • Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates

    Yoav Gilad;Victor Wiebe;Molly Przeworski;Doron Lancet

  • RNA-seq: impact of RNA degradation on transcript quantification

    Irene Gallego Romero;Athma A Pai;Athma A Pai;Jenny Tung;Jenny Tung;Yoav Gilad

  • Expression profiling in primates reveals a rapid evolution of human transcription factors

    Yoav Gilad;Yoav Gilad;Alicia Oshlack;Gordon K. Smyth;Terence P. Speed;Terence P. Speed

  • Taxonomic classification of bacterial 16S rRNA genes using short sequencing reads: evaluation of effective study designs.

    Orna Mizrahi-Man;Emily R. Davenport;Yoav Gilad

  • Human specific loss of olfactory receptor genes

    Yoav Gilad;Orna Man;Svante Pääbo;Doron Lancet

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan K. Pritchard
Jonathan K. Pritchard Stanford University
Matthew Stephens
Matthew Stephens University of Chicago
Carole Ober
Carole Ober University of Chicago
Daniel J. Gaffney
Daniel J. Gaffney Wellcome Sanger Institute
Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science
Luis B. Barreiro
Luis B. Barreiro University of Chicago
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
Marsha Rich Rosner
Marsha Rich Rosner University of Chicago
Tomas Marques-Bonet
Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University

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