PUBLICATIONS

References and Links to Papers

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Sohail, M and Moreno-Estrada, Andres. The Mexican Biobank Project promotes genetic discovery, inclusive science and local capacity building. Dis Model Mech (2024) 17 (1): dmm050522.

Sohail, M., Palma-Martínez, M.J., Chong, A.Y. et al. Mexican Biobank advances population and medical genomics of diverse ancestries. Nature (2023). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06560-0]

Kun, E., Javan, E.M., Smith, O., Gulamali, F., de la Fuente, J., Flynn, B.I., Vajrala, K., Trutner, Z., Jayakumar, P., Tucker-Drob, E.M., Sohail, M., Singh, T., Narasimhan, V.M.. (2023). The genetic architecture and evolution of the human skeletal form. Science. 381(6655):8009-8009. [doi:10.1126/science.adf8009]

Anna C. F. Lewis, Santiago J. Molina, Paul S. Appelbaum, Bege Dauda, Agustin Fuentes, Stephanie M. Fullerton, Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Nayanika Ghosh, Robert C. Green, Evelynn M. Hammonds, Janina M. Jeff, David S. Jones, Eimear E. Kenny, Peter Kraft, Madelyn Mauro, Anil P. S. Ori, Aaron Panofsky, Mashaal Sohail, Benjamin M. Neale, and Danielle S. Allen. An ethical framework for research using genetic ancestry. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (2023).

Bege Dauda, Santiago J. Molina, Danielle S. Allen, Agustin Fuentes, Nayanika Ghosh, Madelyn Mauro, Benjamin M. Neale, Aaron Panofsky, Mashaal Sohail, Sarah R. Zhang and Anna C. F. Lewis. Ancestry: How researchers use it and what they mean by it. Frontiers in Genetics (2023).

Anna C. F. Lewis, Santiago J. Molina, Paul S Appelbaum, Bege Dauda, Anna Di Rienzo, Agustin Fuentes, Stephanie M. Fullerton, Nanibaa' A. Garrison, Nayanika Ghosh, Evelynn M. Hammonds, David S. Jones, Eimear E. Kenny, Peter Kraft, Sandra S.-J. Lee, Madelyn Mauro, John Novembre, Aaron Panofsky, Mashaal Sohail, Benjamin M. Neale, Danielle S. Allen. Getting Genetic Ancestry Right for Science and Society. Science (2022). Preprint here.

Mashaal Sohail, Amanda Y. Chong, Maria Jose Palma, Consuelo Dayzu Quinto-Cortes, Aaron Ragsdale, Santiago Gerardo Medina, Andres Jimenez-Kaufmann, Carmina Barberena, Paulina Nunez, Guadalupe Delgado-Sánchez, Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Hortensia Moreno-Macías, Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas, Adrian Cortes, Selene L. Fernandez Valverde, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Genevieve Wojcik, Christopher R. Gignoux, Carlos D. Bustamante, Adrian Hill, Maria Teresa Tusie Luna, Alexander J. Mentzer, John Novembre, Lourdes García-García, Andrés Moreno-Estrada. Nation-wide biobank in Mexico unravels demographic history and complex trait architecture from 6,000 genomes. BioRxiv (2022).

Mashaal Sohail. Investigating relative contributions to psychiatric disease architecture from sequence elements originating across multiple evolutionary time-scales. BioRxiv (2022)

Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo, Jeremy Berg and Mashaal Sohail. Editorial: Genetic Architecture and Evolution of Complex Traits and Diseases in Diverse Human Populations. Frontiers in Genetics (2022)

Mashaal Sohail*, Alan Izarras-Gomez and Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo*. Populations, traits, and their spatial structure in humans. Genome Biology and Evolution (2021) *co-corresponding

Andrés Jiménez-Kaufmann, Amanda Y. Chong, Adrián Cortés, Selene Fernandez-Valverde, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Mashaal Sohail, Consuelo D. Quinto-Cortés, Alexander J. Mentzer, Adrian V.S. Hill, Alan M. Torres, Hie Lim Kim, Stephan C. Schuster, Diego Ortega Del-Vecchyo, Lourdes García-García, Andrés Moreno-Estrada. Imputation performance in Latin Americans: improving accuracy in rare variants with the inclusion of Native American genomes. Frontiers in Genetics (2021)

Mashaal Sohail*, Robert M. Maier*, Andrea Ganna, Alex Bloemendal, Alicia R. Martin, Michael C. Turchin, Charleston W. K.Chiang, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Mark J. Daly, Nick Patterson, Benjamin M. Neale, Iain Mathieson, David Reich, Shamil R. Sunyaev. Signals of polygenic adaptation on height have been overestimated due to uncorrected population structure in genome-wide association studies. eLife (2019) *equal contribution

Brian Arnold, Mashaal Sohail, Crista Wadsworth, Jukka Corander, William P. Hanage, Shamil Sunyaev, Yonatan H. Grad. Fine-scale haplotype structure reveals strong signatures of positive selection in a recombining bacterial pathogen. Molecular Biology and Evolution (2019)

Mashaal Sohail, Olga A Vakhrusheva, Jae Hoon Sul, Sara Pulit, Laurent Francioli, GoNL Consortium, Alzheimers Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Leonard H van den Berg, Jan H Veldink, Paul de Bakker, Georgii A Bazykin, Alexey S Kondrashov, Shamil Sunyaev. Negative selection in humans and fruit flies involves synergistic epistasis. Science (2017)

Virginia Savova*, Sung Chun*, Mashaal Sohail*, Ruth B. McCole, Robert Witwicki, Lisa Gai, Tobias L. Lenz, C.-ting Wu, Shamil R. Sunyaev, Alexander A. Gimelbrant. Genes with monoallelic expression contribute disproportionately to genetic diversity in humans. Nature Genetics (2016) *equal contribution

The Genome of the Netherlands Consortium (including Mashaal Sohail). Whole-genome sequence variation, population structure and demographic history of the Dutch population. Nature Genetics (2014)

James J. Moon, Heikyung Suh, Anna Bershteyn, Matthias T. Stephan, Haipeng Liu, Bonnie Huang, Mashaal Sohail, Samantha Luo, Soong Ho Um, Htet Khant, Jessica T. Goodwin, Jenelyn Ramos, Wah Chiu, Darrell J. Irvine. Interbilayer-crosslinked multilamellar vesicles as synthetic vaccines for potent humoral and cellular immune responses. Nature Materials (2011)

CONSORTIUM PUBLICATIONS

Laurent C. Francioli, Mircea Cretu-Stancu, Kiran V. Garimella, Menachem Fromer, Wigard P. Kloosterman, Genome of the Netherlands consortium (including Mashaal Sohail), Kaitlin E. Samocha, et al. “A Framework for the Detection of de Novo Mutations in Family-Based Sequencing Data.” European Journal of Human Genetics (2017)

Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen, Alexandros Kanterakis, Patrick Deelen, Mathijs V. Kattenberg, Genome of the Netherlands Consortium (including Mashaal Sohail), P. Eline Slagboom, Paul I. W. de Bakker, et al. “Population-Specific Genotype Imputations Using Minimac or IMPUTE2.” Nature Protocols (2015)

Van Leuuwen, EM., Karssen, LC., Deelen J., Isaacs, A., Medina-Gomez C., Mbarek, H., Kanterakis, A., Trompet, S., Postmus, I., Verweii, N., can Enckevort, DJ, Huffman, JE, White, CC, Feitosa, MF, Bartz, TM, Manichaikul, A., Joshi, PK, Peloso, GM, Deelen, P., can Dijk, F., Willemsen, G., de Geus EJ, Milaneschi, Y., Penninx, BW., Francioli, LC, Menelaou, A., Pulit, SL, Rivadeneira, F., Hofman, A. Oostra BA, Franco OH, Meteo, L., Beekman, M., de Craen, AJ, Uh HW, Trochet H, Hocking LJ, Porteous, DJ, Sattar, N., Packard, CJ, Buckley, BM, Brody, JA, Bis, JC, Rotter JI, Mychaeleckvi, JC, Campbell, H., Duan, Q., Lange, LA, Wilson, JF, Hayward, C., Polasek, O., Vitart, V., Rudan, I., Wright, AF, Rich, SS, Psaty, BM, Borecki, IB, Kearney, PM, Stott, DJ, Adrienne, Cupples L., Genome of the Netherlands Consortium (including Mashaal Sohail), Jukema, JW, van de Harst, P, Sijbrands, EJ, Hottenga, JJ, Uitterlinden, AG, Swertz, MA, van Ommen GJ, de Bakker PI, Eline Slagboom, P. Bommsma, DI, Wijmeng, C., van Duijn, CM. “Genome of The Netherlands Population-Specific Imputations Identify an ABCA6 Variant Associated with Cholesterol Levels.” Nature Communications (2015)

Deelna, P., Menelaou, A., van Leeuwen, EM, Kanterakis, A, van Dijk, F, Medina-Gomez, C, Francioli, LC, Hottenga JJ, Karssen LC, Estrada, K, Kreiner-Moller, E, Rivadeneira, F, van Setten J, Gutierrez-Achurty J, Westra HJ, Franke L, van Enckevort D, Dijkstra M, Byelas H, van Duij CM, Genome of the Netherlands Consortium (including Mashaal Sohail), de Bakker PI, Wijmenga C, Swertz MA. “Improved Imputation Quality of Low-Frequency and Rare Variants in European Samples Using the ‘Genome of The Netherlands.’” European Journal of Human Genetics (2014)

ACCESIBILITY

Pdfs of our manuscripts can be found here: https://unam.academia.edu/MashaalSohail

PRESS

Our work and opinions have been featured by several outlets in the press such as Canal 22, Gaceta UNAM, UNAM Global, Crónica, Science Magazine, Inside Precision Medicine, Science Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, El Economista, Crónica, Science Daily, Columbia News, UT News, Undark, Stat News, Gaceta UNAM, Communications Biology, eLife Insights, Harvard Gazette, Futurism, Phys.org, Quanta Magazine, and Wired.