Karen Miga
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American genomics researcher
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Karen Miga's Degrees
- PhD Genomics University of California, Santa Cruz
- Masters Genomics University of California, Santa Cruz
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karen Elizabeth Hayden Miga is an American geneticist who co-leads the Telomere-to-Telomore consortium that released fully complete assembly of the human genome in March 2022. She is an assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Associate Director of Human Pangenomics at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. She was named as "One to Watch" in the 2020 Nature's 10 and one of Time 100’s most influential people of 2022.
Karen Miga's Published Works
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Published Works
- Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads (2017) (1276)
- The complete sequence of a human genome (2021) (622)
- Improved data analysis for the MinION nanopore sequencer (2015) (540)
- Telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome (2019) (450)
- HiCanu: accurate assembly of segmental duplications, satellites, and allelic variants from high-fidelity long reads (2020) (284)
- Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes (2020) (241)
- Centromere reference models for human chromosomes X and Y satellite arrays (2013) (202)
- Linear assembly of a human centromere on the Y chromosome (2018) (176)
- The structure, function and evolution of a complete human chromosome 8 (2020) (146)
- Genomic Characterization of Large Heterochromatic Gaps in the Human Genome Assembly (2014) (95)
- Complete genomic and epigenetic maps of human centromeres (2021) (90)
- Heterochromatin-Encoded Satellite RNAs Induce Breast Cancer. (2018) (83)
- The Human Pangenome Project: a global resource to map genomic diversity (2022) (76)
- Completing the human genome: the progress and challenge of satellite DNA assembly (2015) (75)
- A complete reference genome improves analysis of human genetic variation (2021) (68)
- Human Artificial Chromosomes that Bypass Centromeric DNA (2019) (65)
- Centromeric Satellite DNAs: Hidden Sequence Variation in the Human Population (2019) (61)
- Haplotype-aware variant calling with PEPPER-Margin-DeepVariant enables high accuracy in nanopore long-reads (2021) (61)
- Human chromosome‐specific aneuploidy is influenced by DNA‐dependent centromeric features (2019) (59)
- Segmental duplications and their variation in a complete human genome (2021) (57)
- From telomere to telomere: the transcriptional and epigenetic state of human repeat elements (2021) (56)
- Human centromeric CENP-A chromatin is a homotypic, octameric nucleosome at all cell cycle points (2017) (54)
- DNA replication acts as an error correction mechanism to maintain centromere identity by restricting CENP-A to centromeres (2019) (53)
- Epigenetic Patterns in a Complete Human Genome (2021) (52)
- Curated variation benchmarks for challenging medically-relevant autosomal genes (2021) (44)
- Efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes using PromethION sequencing and a novel nanopore toolkit (2019) (43)
- The Need for a Human Pangenome Reference Sequence. (2021) (41)
- Replication of alpha-satellite DNA arrays in endogenous human centromeric regions and in human artificial chromosome (2014) (39)
- Alpha-CENTAURI: assessing novel centromeric repeat sequence variation with long read sequencing (2016) (38)
- Haplotypes spanning centromeric regions reveal persistence of large blocks of archaic DNA (2018) (37)
- Semi-automated assembly of high-quality diploid human reference genomes (2022) (37)
- The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome (2022) (35)
- A Draft Human Pangenome Reference (2022) (33)
- Utilizing mapping targets of sequences underrepresented in the reference assembly to reduce false positive alignments (2015) (31)
- Chasing perfection: validation and polishing strategies for telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies (2021) (27)
- DiMeLo-seq: a long-read, single-molecule method for mapping protein-DNA interactions genome-wide (2021) (26)
- TandemTools: mapping long reads and assessing/improving assembly quality in extra-long tandem repeats (2020) (25)
- Centromere studies in the era of 'telomere-to-telomere' genomics. (2020) (22)
- Haplotype-aware variant calling enables high accuracy in nanopore long-reads using deep neural networks (2021) (22)
- Towards a Comprehensive Variation Benchmark for Challenging Medically-Relevant Autosomal Genes (2021) (20)
- Alpha-satellite RNA transcripts are repressed by centromere-nucleolus associations (2020) (19)
- Genome Graphs (2017) (18)
- Alpha-satellite RNA transcripts are repressed by centromere–nucleolus associations (2020) (18)
- Chromosome-Specific Centromere Sequences Provide an Estimate of the Ancestral Chromosome 2 Fusion Event in Hominin Genomes (2017) (15)
- The Promises and Challenges of Genomic Studies of Human Centromeres. (2017) (14)
- Variation and Evolution of Human Centromeres: A Field Guide and Perspective (2021) (14)
- TandemMapper and TandemQUAST: mapping long reads and assessing/improving assembly quality in extra-long tandem repeats (2019) (11)
- Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes (2020) (9)
- Linear Assembly of a Human Y Centromere using Nanopore Long Reads (2017) (9)
- PCR amplicons identify widespread copy number variation in human centromeric arrays and instability in cancer (2021) (8)
- DNA replication-mediated error correction of ectopic CENP-A deposition maintains centromere identity (2018) (7)
- Chromosomal rearrangements at hypomethylated Satellite 2 sequences are associated with impaired replication efficiency and increased fork stalling (2019) (5)
- Scalable Nanopore sequencing of human genomes provides a comprehensive view of haplotype-resolved variation and methylation (2023) (4)
- Title: A complete human reference genome improves variant calling for population and clinical genomics (2021) (4)
- Breaking through the unknowns of the human reference genome (2021) (3)
- Completing the human genome: the progress and challenge of satellite DNA assembly (2015) (2)
- Diverse haplotypes span human centromeres and include archaic lineages within and out of Africa (2018) (2)
- Satellite DNAs and human sex chromosome variation. (2022) (1)
- Expanding studies of chromosome structure and function in the era of T2T genomics. (2021) (1)
- Phased nanopore assembly with Shasta and modular graph phasing with GFAse (2023) (0)
- Comprehensive variant discovery in the era of complete human reference genomes (2023) (0)
- Variant calling and benchmarking in an era of complete human genome sequences. (2023) (0)
- Author response: Alpha-satellite RNA transcripts are repressed by centromere–nucleolus associations (2020) (0)
- Tigerfish designs oligonucleotide-based in situ hybridization probes targeting intervals of highly repetitive DNA at the scale of genomes (2023) (0)
- Human Artificial Chromosomes that Bypass Centromeric DNA Graphical Abstract (2019) (0)
- Telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome (2020) (0)
- Complete sequence representation across human X and Y centromeric regions (2013) (0)
- DNA replication acts as an error correction mechanism to maintain centromere identity by restricting CENP-A to centromeres (2019) (0)
- Cancer : From Genome Instability to Therapy (2019) (0)
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