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Páll Melsted - Professor

Páll Melsted

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School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Páll Melsted

Professor

Location
Gróska / Gr-322
Phone
525 - 4633 8521024
Email
pmelsted [at] hi.is

Unit
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
Website
http://notendur.hi.is/pmelsted/

Published works

2024

Correction toNature
Gene-based burden tests of rare germline variants identify six cancer susceptibility genesNature Genetics
Sequence variants influencing the regulation of serum IgG subclass levelsNature Communications
kallisto, bustools and kb-python for quantifying bulk, single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seqNature Protocols
Homozygosity for a stop-gain variant in CCDC201 causes primary ovarian insufficiencyNature Genetics
Start codon variant in LAG3 is associated with decreased LAG-3 expression and increased risk of autoimmune thyroid diseaseNature Communications

2023

Erratum to Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19 (Nature, (2021), 600, 7889, (472-477), 10.1038/s41586-021-03767-x)Nature
Large-scale plasma proteomics comparisons through genetics and disease associationsNature
BUSZBioinformatics
Data from Loss-of-Function Variants in the Tumor-Suppressor Gene <i>PTPN14</i> Confer Increased Cancer Risk
Supplementary Material from Loss-of-Function Variants in the Tumor-Suppressor Gene <i>PTPN14</i> Confer Increased Cancer Risk
Genetics and epidemiology of mutational barcode-defined clonal hematopoiesisNature Genetics
Publisher Correction: Deficit of homozygosity among 1.52 million individuals and genetic causes of recessive lethalityNature Communications
Sequence variant affects GCSAML splicing, mast cell specific proteins, and risk of urticariaCommunications Biology
Deficit of homozygosity among 1.52 million individuals and genetic causes of recessive lethalityNature Communications
A chromosome-level genome assembly for the Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Rare variants with large effects provide functional insights into the pathology of migraine subtypes, with and without auraNature Genetics

2022

Multiomics analysis of rheumatoid arthritis yields sequence variants that have large effects on risk of the seropositive subsetAnnals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Multiomics study of nonalcoholic fatty liver diseaseNature Genetics
The sequences of 150,119 genomes in the UK BiobankNature
HLA alleles, disease severity, and age associate with T-cell responses following infection with SARS-CoV-2Communications Biology
Multiomics analysis of rheumatoid arthritis yields sequence variants that have large effects on risk of the seropositive subsetAnnals of the rheumatic diseases.
Effect of booster vaccination against Delta and Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants in IcelandNature Communications
Reconstruction of a large-scale outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Iceland informs vaccination strategiesClinical Microbiology and Infection

2021

Genetic variants associated with platelet count are predictive of human disease and physiological markersCommunications Biology
Loss-of-function variants in the tumor-suppressor gene PTPN14 confer increased cancer riskCancer Research
Modular, efficient and constant-memory single-cell RNA-seq preprocessingNature Biotechnology
Using symptom-based case predictions to identify host genetic factors that contribute to COVID-19 susceptibilityPLoS ONE
Genetic variants associated with platelet count are predictive of human disease and physiological markers.Communications Biology
The genetic architecture of age-related hearing impairment revealed by genome-wide association analysisCommunications Biology
Large-scale integration of the plasma proteome with genetics and diseaseNature Genetics
Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19Nature
Lifelong Reduction in LDL (Low-Density Lipoprotein) Cholesterol due to a Gain-of-Function Mutation in LDLRCirculation: Genomic and Precision Medicine
Molecular benchmarks of a SARS-CoV-2 epidemicNature Communications

2020

Bifrost: highly parallel construction and indexing of colored and compacted de Bruijn graphsGenome Biology
Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the Icelandic populationNew England Journal of Medicine
Algorithm 1005ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
Genome-wide association identifies seven loci for pelvic organ prolapse in Iceland and the UK Biobank.Communications Biology
FLT3 stop mutation increases FLT3 ligand level and risk of autoimmune thyroid diseaseNature
Genome-wide association identifies seven loci for pelvic organ prolapse in Iceland and the UK BiobankCommunications Biology
Humoral immune response to SARS-COV-2 in IcelandNew England Journal of Medicine

2019

A discriminative learning approach to differential expression analysis for single-cell RNA-seqNature Methods
A PRPH splice-donor variant associates with reduced sural nerve amplitude and risk of peripheral neuropathyNature Communications
GraphTyper2 enables population-scale genotyping of structural variation using pangenome graphsNature Communications
The barcode, UMI, set format and BUStoolsBioinformatics

2018

Insights into imprinting from parent-of-origin phased methylomes and transcriptomesNature Genetics
Coding variants in RPL3L and MYZAP increase risk of atrial fibrillationCommunications Biology
Coding variants in and increase risk of atrial fibrillation.Communications Biology
Coding variants in RPL3L and MYZAP increase risk of atrial fibrillationCommunications Biology

2017

Graphtyper enables population-scale genotyping using pangenome graphsNature Genetics
Diversity in non-repetitive human sequences not found in the reference genomeNature Genetics
Differential analysis of RNA-seq incorporating quantification uncertaintyNature Methods
Pseudoalignment for metagenomic read assignmentBioinformatics

2016

The Lair: a resource for exploratory analysis of published RNA-Seq dataBMC Bioinformatics
Near-optimal probabilistic RNA-seq quantificationNature Biotechnology
MashGenome Biology
ChopBAIBioinformatics
Looking into the past - The reaction of three grouse species to climate change over the last million years using whole genome sequencesMolecular Ecology
BamHashBioinformatics
PopInsBioinformatics

2014

KmerStreamBioinformatics

2012

A genome sequence resource for the aye-aye (daubentonia madagascariensis), a nocturnal lemur from madagascarGenome Biology and Evolution
Maximum matchings in random bipartite graphs and the space utilization of Cuckoo Hash tablesRandom Structures and Algorithms
Comparative RNA sequencing reveals substantial genetic variation in endangered primatesGenome Research

2011

An analysis of random-walk cuckoo hashingSIAM Journal on Computing
Randomly coloring simple hypergraphsInformation Processing Letters
Efficient counting of k-mers in DNA sequences using a bloom filterBMC Bioinformatics

2010

Genomic-scale capture and sequencing of endogenous DNA from fecesMolecular Ecology
Finding a maximum matching in a sparse random graph in O(n) expected timeJournal of the ACM

2009

An analysis of random-walk cuckoo hashing
Average-case analyses of Vickrey costs

2008

Finding a maximum matching in a sparse random graph in O(n) expected time
PageRank and the Random Surfer Model

Keywords for Specialisation:

Theoretical computer science

probabilistic combinatorics