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Yosuke Tanigawa is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Informatics program at Stanford University. His research interests are in various topics in population genomics, specifically focusing on analysis of large-scale datasets.

He is currently working with Dr. Manuel Rivas and Dr. Gill Bejerano.

Please check CV, Publications, and/or Google Scholar profile for list of publications and pre-prints.

Research interests

• Application of statistical genetics for human disease genetic studies. I am specifically interested in analysis of population biobanks.
  • Y. Tanigawa*, J. Li*, et al., Nat Commun. 10, 1–14 (2019).
  • G. McInnes, Y. Tanigawa, et al., Bioinformatics (2019).
• Statistical and computational method development for large-scale datasets in the context of human genomic studies.
  • J. Qian, W. Du, Y. Tanigawa, et al., bioRxiv, 630079 (2019).
  • J. Qian, Y. Tanigawa, et al., bioRxiv, 2020.05.30.125252 (2020).
• Functional analysis of non-coding regions in the human genome. I am specifically interested in analysis of transcription factors.
  • Y. Tanigawa*, E. S. Dyer*, G. Bejerano, bioRxiv, 730200 (2019).

News

• 2020/5/5: New Publication. “Rare protein-altering variants in ANGPTL7 lower intraocular pressure and protect against glaucoma” was published in PLOS Genetics.
• 2020/4/12: COVID-19 host genetics に関する研究と題した研究紹介記事を書きました。Yosuke also wrote a brief summary of this COVID-19 related research activities in Japanese.
• 2020/4/12: 日本語のプロフィールページを開設しました。(He created a Japanese version of the landing page.)
• 2020/4/9: New Publication. “Assessing Digital Phenotyping to Enhance Genetic Studies of Human Diseases” led by Christopher DeBoever was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. Yosuke contributed as the 2nd author. We have a share link that allows people to download the full text pdf file before June 26, 2020. Congratulations, Chris!!
• 2020/4/6: Yosuke migrated his website from his previous website.
• 2020/3/27: Our preprint on COVID-19 host genetic analysis was mentioned in a news article in Science.
• 2020/3/24: New Manuscript. Yosuke and Dr. Manuel Rivas posted a manuscript, titled “Initial Review and Analysis of COVID-19 Host Genetics and Associated Phenotypes”.
• 2020/3/17: New Resource. Yosuke and his colleagues in the Rivas Lab investigates the genetic basis of COVID-19 susceptibility and severity, as a part of COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative. We released GitHub repository for COVID-19 Host Genetics analysis.

Contact

Email is the best contact to reach out to me. If you don’t get reply within 2 days, please don’t hesitate to follow-up. Thank you very much for interested in my work.

• Email: yosuke <dot> tanigawa [at] stanford <dot> edu
• Social media accounts can be found on the left (for PC) or “Follow” button on the top (for smartphone).