Kateryna Makova

Director of the Center for Medical Genomics; Professor of Biology

Kateryna Makova

Research Summary

Molecular evolution, population genetics, evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics, and human genetics.

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IWTomics

Marzia A. Cremona, Alessia Pini, Fabio Cumbo, Kateryna D. Makova, Francesca Chiaromonte, Simone Vantini, 2018, Bioinformatics on p. 2289-2291

High levels of copy number variation of ampliconic genes across major human Y haplogroups

Danling Ye, Arslan A. Zaidi, Marta Tomaszkiewicz, Kate Anthony, Corey Liebowitz, Michael DeGiorgio, Mark D. Shriver, Kateryna D. Makova, 2018, Genome Biology and Evolution on p. 1333-1350

RecoverY

Samarth Rangavittal, Robert S. Harris, Monika Cechova, Marta Tomaszkiewicz, Rayan Chikhi, Kateryna D. Makova, Paul Medvedev, 2018, Bioinformatics on p. 1125-1131

Deep-coverage MPS analysis of heteroplasmic variants within the mtgenome allows for frequent differentiation of maternal relatives

Mitchell M. Holland, Kateryna D. Makova, Jennifer A. McElhoe, 2018, Genes

A population phylogenetic view of mitochondrial heteroplasmy

Peter R. Wilton, Arslan Zaidi, Kateryna Makova, Rasmus Nielsen, 2018, Genetics on p. 1261-1274

Elevated mitochondrial genome variation after 50 generations of radiation exposure in a wild rodent

Robert J. Baker, Benjamin Dickins, Jeffrey K. Wickliffe, Faisal A.A. Khan, Sergey Gaschak, Kateryna D. Makova, Caleb D. Phillips, 2017, Evolutionary Applications on p. 784-791

Artifactual mutations resulting from DNA lesions limit detection levels in ultrasensitive sequencing applications

Barbara Arbeithuber, Kateryna D. Makova, Irene Tiemann-Boege, 2016, DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes on p. 547-559

Reverse Transcription Errors and RNA-DNA Differences at Short Tandem Repeats

Arkarachai Fungtammasan, Marta Tomaszkiewicz, Rebeca Campos-Sánchez, Kristin A. Eckert, Michael Degiorgio, Kateryna D. Makova, 2016, Molecular Biology and Evolution on p. 2744-2758

Streamlined analysis of duplex sequencing data with Du Novo

Nicholas Stoler, Barbara Arbeithuber, Wilfried Guiblet, Kateryna D. Makova, Anton Nekrutenko, 2016, Genome Biology

Integration and Fixation Preferences of Human and Mouse Endogenous Retroviruses Uncovered with Functional Data Analysis

Rebeca Campos-Sánchez, Marzia A. Cremona, Alessia Pini, Francesca Chiaromonte, Kateryna D. Makova, 2016, PLoS Computational Biology

High-Impact Papers

Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa

Stephan C. Schuster, Webb Miller, Aakrosh Ratan, Lynn P. Tomsho, Belinda Giardine, Lindsay R. Kasson, Robert S. Harris, Desiree C. Petersen, Fangqing Zhao, Ji Qi, Can Alkan, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Yazhou Sun, Daniela I. Drautz, Pascal Bouffard, Donna M. Muzny, Jeffrey G. Reid, Lynne V. Nazareth, Qingyu Wang, Richard Burhans, Cathy Riemer, Nicola E. Wittekindt, Priya Moorjani, Elizabeth A. Tindall, Charles G. Danko, Wee Siang Teo, Anne M. Buboltz, Zhenhai Zhang, Qianyi Ma, Arno Oosthuysen, Abraham W. Steenkamp, Hermann Oostuisen, Philippus Venter, John Gajewski, Yu Zhang, B. Franklin Pugh, Kateryna D. Makova, Anton Nekrutenko, Elaine R. Mardis, Nick Patterson, Tom H. Pringle, Francesca Chiaromonte, James C. Mullikin, Evan E. Eichler, Ross C. Hardison, Richard A. Gibbs, Timothy T. Harkins, Vanessa M. Hayes, 2010, Nature on p. 943-947

The origin, evolution, and functional impact of short insertion-deletion variants identified in 179 human genomes

Stephen B. Montgomery, David L. Goode, Erika Kvikstad, Cornelis A. Albers, Zhengdong D. Zhang, Xinmeng Jasmine Mu, Guruprasad Ananda, Bryan Howie, Konrad J. Karczewski, Kevin S. Smith, Vanessa Anaya, Rhea Richardson, Joe Davis, Daniel G. MacArthur, Arend Sidow, Laurent Duret, Mark Gerstein, Kateryna D. Makova, Jonathan Marchini, Gil McVean, Gerton Lunter, 2013, Genome research on p. 749-761

Dynamics of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in three families investigated via a repeatable re-sequencing study

Hiroki Goto, Benjamin Dickins, Enis Afgan, Ian M. Paul, James Taylor, Kateryna D. Makova, Anton Nekrutenko, 2011, Genome Biology

What is a microsatellite

Yogeshwar D. Kelkar, Noelle Strubczewski, Suzanne E. Hile, Francesca Chiaromonte, Kristin A. Eckert, Kateryna D. Makova, 2010, Genome Biology and Evolution on p. 620-635

A genome-wide analysis of common fragile sites

Arkarachai Fungtammasan, Erin Walsh, Francesca Chiaromonte, Kristin A. Eckert, Kateryna D. Makova, 2012, Genome Research on p. 993-1005

Maternal age effect and severe germ-line bottleneck in the inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA

Boris Rebolledo-Jaramillo, Marcia Shu Wei Su, Nicholas Stoler, Jennifer A. McElhoe, Benjamin Dickins, Daniel Blankenberg, Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Francesca Chiaromonte, Rasmus Nielsen, Mitchell M. Holland, Ian M. Paul, Anton Nekrutenko, Kateryna D. Makova, 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 15474-15479

Evolution and survival on eutherian sex chromosomes

Melissa A. Wilson, Kateryna D. Makova, 2009, PLoS Genetics

Do variations in substitution rates and male mutation bias correlate with life-history traits? a study of 32 mammalian genomes

Melissa A Wilson Sayres, Chris Venditti, Mark Pagel, Kateryna D. Makova, 2011, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution on p. 2800-2815

Development and assessment of an optimized next-generation DNA sequencing approach for the mtgenome using the Illumina MiSeq

Jennifer A. McElhoe, Mitchell M. Holland, Kateryna D. Makova, Marcia Shu Wei Su, Ian M. Paul, Christine H. Baker, Seth A. Faith, Brian Young, 2014, Forensic Science International: Genetics on p. 20-29

A massively parallel sequencing approach uncovers ancient origins and high genetic variability of endangered Przewalski's horses

Hiroki Goto, Oliver A. Ryder, Allison R. Fisher, Bryant Schultz, Sergei L.Kosakovsky Pond, Anton Nekrutenko, Kateryna D. Makova, 2011, Genome biology and evolution on p. 1096-1106