Professor, Computer Science and Anesthesiology, University of California, Los Angeles.
Our lab has moved to UCLA. A new website will be available soon.
Research Areas
- Computational Biology
- Machine Learning
- Algorithms
- Population Genetics
- Statistical Genetics
The research in our lab involves the development of computational methods for the analysis of genetic data. Our goal is to improve the understanding of disease genetics through a rigorous search for the different genetic components of disease mechanisms and their interactions. For a more detailed story, you are welcome to visit our Lab.
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Curriculum Vitae (pdf)In the media
November, 2015 - Our paper on epigenetic differences between men and women was featured in Nature Reviews Genetics.
October, 2015 - Our PNAS paper finds that people choose their mates based on their genomes. NDTV, Daily Mail, Business Standard.
January, 2013 - Our Science paper came out in the first page of the printed version of Israeli newspaper Ha'haretz, two days before the national paralament elections... Ha'aretz paper version Ha'aretz first page
July, 2012 - Israeli business newspaper (The Marker): 40 under 40
The Marker paper version
The Marker online version
June, 2012 - Genetic GPS
Wired Magazine,
Haaretz Israeli News,
Haaretz (Hebrew version),
Times of Israel,
London Jewish Chronicle,
International Business Times (Italian)
May, 2011 - Profiles in Computer Science
Biomedical Computation Review
September, 2009 - From DNA Data to
Disease Diagnosis
Frontier
Economy,
Spanish version
August, 2009 - Researchers Claim
New Software Can Skirt Privacy Challenges of
GWAS Data-Sharing
GenomeWeb,
Innovation
report,
Physorg,
,
The Medical News (Sydney, Australia),
Jerusalem
Post,
ynet
(Israel),
Biopharma.
July, 2009 - Gene linked to
increasingly common type of blood cancer
EurekAlert
Contact:
eranhalperin (g-mail).Photos
Selected publications
"Sparse PCA corrects for cell type heterogeneity \
in epigenome-wide association studies"
Nature Methods , 2016
"A genetic and socioeconomic study of mate
choice in Latinos reveals novel assortment
patterns."
PNAS , 2015
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"Characterization of whole-genome
autosomal differences of DNA methylation
between men and women."
Epigenetics & Chromatin , 2015
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more
"Identifying personal genomes by surname inference"
Science , 2013
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"A model-based approach for analysis of spatial structure in genetic data"
Nature Genetics, 2012
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"Genome-wide association study of follicular lymphoma identifies a risk locus at 6p21.32"
Nature Genetics, 2010
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"Genomic Privacy and Limits of Individual
Detection in a Pool"
Nature Genetics, 2009.
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"SNP imputation in association studies"
Nature Biotechnology, 2009.
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"Maximizing power in association studies"
Nature Biotechnology, 2009.
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"Estimating Local Ancestry in Admixed Populations"
American Journal of Human Genetics, 2008
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more
"Whole-genome patterns of common DNA variation in three human
populations"
Science, 2005.
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more
"Haplotype reconstruction from genotype data using imperfect
phylogeny"
Bioinformatics,2004.
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more
"Asymmetric k-center is log* n-hard to approximate"
Journal of the ACM, 2005.
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more
"Improved approximation algorithms for the vertex cover problem
in graphs and hypergraphs"
SIAM Journal of Computing, 2002.
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