Interests
- Development of novel machine learning models to study how natural selection shapes the distribution of human genomic variation and the architectures of genetic diseases
Education
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Ph.D. in Bioinformatics,
McMaster University, Canada
Biography
Yifei is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department and the Huck Institutes at the Pennsylvania State University. He is interested in developing novel machine learning models to study how natural selection shapes the distribution of human genomic variation and the architectures of genetic diseases.
Publications
WM Guiblet, MA Cremona, RS Harris, D Chen, KA Eckert, F Chiaromonte, Y Huang, KD Makova.
Non-B DNA: A major contributor to small- and large-scale variation in nucleotide substitution frequencies across the genome.
NUCLEIC ACIDS RES,
2021.