Understanding the importance and functional impact of transposon insertions in human genomes and diseases; translating scientific discoveries into therapeutics.
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Boxun Zhao 赵博洵 retweeted
Feb 7
Excited to introduce BayesMonSTR, a probabilistic framework to accurately detect genome-wide mosaic STR mutations from scDNA, scATAC and bulk sequencing data. Mosaic STR mutations in mitotic neurons are intriguing. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… #mosaic #microsatellite #AD #aging #STR
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Boxun Zhao 赵博洵 retweeted
Feb 7
Another preprint! Excited to introduce PhyloSOLID, built to be inherently robust to sparsity & noise in single-cell data. Featuring an interactive web interface. Decipher cell fate & evolution with confidence. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #singlecell #lineage
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Boxun Zhao 赵博洵 retweeted
Feb 10
Excited to present #SpaceTracer! We now enable accurate somatic mutation detection directly from spatial data—unlocking perturbation-free, spatiotemporal lineage tracing. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #spatialomics #cancerresearch #bioinformatics #SomaticMosaicism
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Boxun Zhao 赵博洵 retweeted
3 Jul 2025
🧬 The SMaHT marker paper is now live in @Nature
This landmark study characterizes somatic variation across 19 tissue types from 150 nondiseased donors, laying the groundwork for future discoveries in health, aging, and disease.
Read the full paper: nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Boxun Zhao 赵博洵 retweeted
10 May 2024
Join us for the inaugural Keystone Meeting on somatic mosaicism as leading experts gather to discuss the latest advances shaping the future of human genetics/genomics.
Scholarship & Abstract Deadline: Nov. 14, 2024 | Early Registration: Dec. 23, 2024
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A true curiosity-driven journey, fulfilling one of my childhood dreams! The tail loss marks a pivotal evolutionary step towards humans and apes. But how did it happen? rdcu.be/dzTba @ItaiYanai @JefBoeke
28 Feb 2024
How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @BoXia7
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6 Oct 2023
Published online at AJHG! 🎉 Our work on the "Contribution and therapeutic implications of retroelement insertions in ataxia telangiectasia". Thanks for the support and guidance from my wonderful co-mentors Drs. E. Alice Lee @EAliceLee2 and Timothy W. Yu @timyu !
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6 Oct 2023
In summary, our study underscores the importance of retroelement insertions as an underexplored source of genetic variants and therapeutic targets for genetic diseases. Congrats to all co-authors Minh A. Nguyen, Sijae woo @SijaeW and Jinkuk Kim @jinkukkim !
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6 Oct 2023
Finally, we thank the affected individuals and their families for their participation. Special thanks to the support from the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research @MantonCenter !
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Published online today. Congratulations to lead authors @jinkukkim, Sijae Woo, Claudio de Gusmao, and @zhaoboxun, and all of our collaborators. A brief 🧵:
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24 Mar 2022
I'm thrilled to receive the Award! Big thanks to @timyu & Alice Lee for mentoring, and all
participating patients & families. Hope our works from diagnosis to the development of individualized medicines help us envision a better
future for the treatment of rare diseases.
Boxun Zhao, PhD @BostonChildrens is the 2022 recipient of the #ACMGFoundation David L. Rimoin Inspiring Excellence Award. #ACMGMtg22 @ZhaoBoxun bit.ly/36kk1h1
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A thread re: work from our group published last week in @GIMJournal, wrapping up a rare disease diagnostic odyssey 5 yrs in the making: rdcu.be/cf8i7 (1/n)
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15 Feb 2021
R.I.P. Mila🕯️ Your story inspired us today's impossibilities are tomorrow's miracles. Your N-of-1 case has gathered scientists, doctors, regulators, patient families, and charitarians to envision a better future to treat rare diseases. Thank you!
12 Feb 2021
Yesterday, Mila’s spirit left her body. A day so trying that it will forever change me.
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Early days, & much to do to establish best practices for managing investigational efforts wisely & fairly. But this marks the start of important conversations re: using platform-based treatments to extend the reach of our system for those w/unmet needs, especially in rare disease
4 Jan 2021
Today, FDA is taking steps to bringing clarity to individualized drug development with a new draft guidance on investigational new drug (IND) submissions for individualized antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) drug products: go.usa.gov/xAXCk
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Boxun Zhao 赵博洵 retweeted
19 Aug 2020
Yes, it took almost a year, and comes out in the middle of vacation, but @junhokimkr ‘s incisive critique of the claim of somatic amplification of the APP locus in AD is finally out!
19 Aug 2020
Great to see this study from our lab published. @junhokimkr et al show the importance of vector contamination for the study of structural variants in NGS, with implications to a previous finding regarding APP recombination in Alzheimer's Disease
www-nature-com.ezp-prod1.hul…
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19 Aug 2020
Reanalysis of the original data revealed evidence that APP gencDNA originates mainly from exogenous contamination by APP recombinant vectors, nested PCR products, and human and mouse mRNA. Clean your bench before constructing library. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
30 Jul 2020
I am thrilled to receive the 2020 @MantonCenter Rare Disease Research Fellowship and excited to join this extraordinary group of fellows. A big thanks to co-mentors E. Alice Lee and @timyu for mentoring and supporting my researches on transposon and ASO. childrenshospital.org/resear…
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