Publications

Genetic architecture of MRI-derived cervical spinal cord morphology reveals sensory-motor axis and systemic disease associations

Spinal cord
GWAS
Imaging-genetics
Sep 16, 2026
Zhuopin Sun#, Jiru Han#, Zachary F. Gerring, Victoria E. Jackson, Oneil G. Bhalala, Gustavo M. Jarola, Ian H. Harding, Thiago J. R. Rezende, Melanie Bahlo

Understanding Plasmodium vivax recurrent infections using an amplicon deep sequencing assay, identity-by-descent and model-based classification

Plasmodium
Amplicon sequencing
Population Genetics
Apr 18, 2026
Jason Rosado, Jiru Han, Thomas Obadia, Jacob Munro, Zeinabou Traore, Kael Schoffer, Jessica Brewster, Caitlin Bourke, Joseph M. Vinetz, Aimee R. Taylor, Michael White, Melanie Bahlo, Dionicia Gamboa, Ivo Mueller, Shazia Ruybal-Pesántez

The E3-ome gene-centric compendium reveals the human E3 ligase landscape

E3 ubiquitin ligase
Biobank
Gene/variant-phenotype associations
Apr 2, 2026
Ngee Kiat Chua, Tania J González-Robles, Cameron J Reddington, Jane Dudley-Fraser, Richard W Birkinshaw, Jiru Han, Ashleigh Solano, Soon Wei Wong, Tomasz Kochańczyk, Joshua J Peter, Mark A Nakasone, Florian Aust, Jacob Munro, Yeh Huei Tong, Julie Iskander, Waruni Abeysekera, Alex Garnham, Hannah Huckstep, Matthew E Ritchie, Ingrid Wertz, Sarah Hymowitz, Sharad Kumar, Ron C Conaway, Gilbert G Privé, Alex N Bullock, Jeffrey J Babon, Rachel E Klevit, Sonja Lorenz, Alessio Ciulli, Eric S Fischer, Nicolas H Thomä, Radosław P Nowak, Brenda A Schulman, Michael Rapé, Katrin Rittinger, Julia K Pagan, Melanie Bahlo, Joel P Mackay, Peter D Mace, Christopher D Lima, Ronald T Hay, David Komander, Bernhard C Lechtenberg, Claudio A P Joazeiro, Michele Pagano, Kay Hofmann, Rebecca Feltham

HTRA1/lncRNA HTRA1-AS1 dominates in age-related macular degeneration reticular pseudodrusen genetic risk with no complement involvement

Age-related macular degeneration
GWAS
Dec 8, 2025
Samaneh Farashi, Carla J. Abbott, Brendan R. E. Ansell, Zhichao Wu, Lebriz Altay, Ella Arnon, Louis Arnould, Yelena Bagdasarova, Konstantinos Balaskas, Fred K. Chen, Emily Chew, Itay Chowers, Steven Clarke, Catherine Cukras, Cécile Delcourt, Marie-Noëlle Delyfer, Anneke I. den Hollander, Sascha Fauser, Robert P. Finger, Pierre-Henry Gabrielle, Jiru Han, Lauren A. B. Hodgson, Ruth Hogg, Frank G. Holz, Carel Hoyng, Himeesh Kumar, Eleonora M. Lad, Aaron Lee, Ulrich F. O. Luhmann, Matthias M. Mauschitz, Amy J. McKnight, Samuel McLenachan, Aniket Mishra, Ismail Moghul, Luz D. Orozco, Danuta M. Sampson, Liam W. Scott, Vasilena Sitnilska, Scott Song, Amy Stockwell, Anand Swaroop, Jan H. Terheyden, Liran Tiosano, Adnan Tufail, Brian L. Yaspan, MACUSTAR consortium, NICOLA consortium, Alice Pébay, Erica L. Fletcher, Robyn H. Guymer, Melanie Bahlo, On behalf of the Reticular Pseudodrusen Consortium

Identification of novel vertebral development factors through UK Biobank candidate gene search and body imaging analysis

Imaging-genetics
UK Biobank
Nov 19, 2025
Zhuopin Sun#, Jiru Han#, Liam G Fearnley, Edwina McGlinn, Melanie Bahlo

AmpSeqR an R package for amplicon deep sequencing data analysis

R package
Oct 17, 2025
Jiru Han, Jacob E. Munro, Melanie Bahlo

GeneSetPheno a web application for the integration, summary, and visualization of gene and variant–phenotype associations across gene sets

Graphical interface application
Gene/variant-phenotype associations
Biobank
Apr 17, 2025
Jiru Han, Zachary F Gerring, Longfei Wang, Melanie Bahlo

PhageGE an interactive web platform for exploratory analysis and visualization of bacteriophage genomes

Graphical interface application
Sep 25, 2024
Jinxin Zhao, Jiru Han, Yu-Wei Lin, Yan Zhu, Michael Aichem, Dimitar Garkov, Phillip J Bergen, Sue C Nang, Jian-Zhong Ye, Tieli Zhou, Tony Velkov, Jiangning Song, Falk Schreiber, Jian Li

Haemoglobin thresholds to define anaemia from age 6 months to 65 years estimates from international data sources

Haemoglobin thresholds
WHO
Population Genetics
Feb 29, 2024
Sabine Braat, Katherine L Fielding, Jiru Han, Victoria E Jackson, Sophie Zaloumis, Jessica Xu Hui Xu, Gemma Moir-Meyer, Sophia M Blaauwendraad, Vincent W V Jaddoe, Romy Gaillard, Patricia C Parkin, Cornelia M Borkhoff, Charles D G Keown-Stoneman, Catherine S Birken, Jonathon L Maguire, Genes & Health Research Team, Melanie Bahlo, Eliza M Davidson, Sant-Rayn Pasricha

Peripheral immune cell abundance differences link blood mitochondrial DNA copy number and Parkinson’s disease

Parkinson’s disease
Mitochondrial DNA copy number
UK Biobank
Nov 14, 2022
Longfei Wang, Jiru Han, Liam G. Fearnley, Michael Milton, Haloom Rafehi, Joshua Reid, Zachary F. Gerring, Shashank Masaldan, Tali Lang, Terence P. Speed, Melanie Bahlo

Polymyxin dose tunes the evolutionary dynamics of resistance in multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

Antibiotic resistance
Mar 10, 2022
Jinxin Zhao, Yan Zhu, Yu-Wei Lin, Heidi Yu, Hasini Wickremasinghe, Jiru Han, Tony Velkov, Jian Li

Population-level genome-wide STR discovery and validation for population structure and genetic diversity assessment of Plasmodium species

Plasmodium
Short Tandem Repeats
Population Genetics
Jan 10, 2022
Jiru Han, Jacob E. Munro, Anthony Kocoski, Alyssa E. Barry, Melanie Bahlo
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