Scholars@Duke

• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Quantifying the genetic diversity of human regulatory element activity awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2023
  • Identifying Pathogenic Non-Coding Mutations in Rare Mendelian Disease awarded by National Institutes of Health 2019 - 2021
  • The function and regulation of the novel pregnancy-specific hexokinase HKDC1 2017 - 2020
  • Decoding and Reprogramming the Corticosteroid Transcriptional Regulatory Network awarded by National Institutes of Health 2015 - 2018
  • Genetics and Genomics of Maternal Glycemia During Pregnancy awarded by Northwestern University 2013 - 2018
  • Genetics and Evolution of Fetal Human Fat Accretion During Development awarded by Northwestern University 2013 - 2018
  • University of Utah awarded by University of Utah 2017 - 2018
  • EAGER: Graph-based Genome Annotation and Analyses for Plant Genomes awarded by University of Utah 2016 - 2017
  • Modeling the structure & evolution of regulatory regions in eukaryotic genomes awarded by National Institutes of Health 2007 - 2013
  • Function of alpha herpesvirus microRNAs awarded by National Institutes of Health 2010 - 2011
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Gussow, Ayal B., Brett R. Copeland, Ryan S. Dhindsa, Quanli Wang, Slavé Petrovski, William H. Majoros, Andrew S. Allen, and David B. Goldstein. “Orion: Detecting regions of the human non-coding genome that are intolerant to variation using population genetics..” Plos One 12, no. 8 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181604.
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    • Majoros, William H., and Uwe Ohler. “Modeling the evolution of regulatory elements by simultaneous detection and alignment with phylogenetic pair HMMs..” Plos Comput Biol 6, no. 12 (December 16, 2010). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001037.
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    • Majoros, William H., and Uwe Ohler. “Complexity reduction in context-dependent DNA substitution models..” Bioinformatics 25, no. 2 (January 15, 2009): 175–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btn598.
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    • Majoros, William H., and Uwe Ohler. “Spatial preferences of microRNA targets in 3' untranslated regions..” Bmc Genomics 8 (June 7, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-8-152.
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