Laura Carrel
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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Hershey Med Ctr
University Park, - luc3@psu.edu
Research Summary
Genetic, epigenetic, and genomic regulation of expression on the mammalian X chromosome.
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Most Recent Publications
Complete sequencing of ape genomes
D Yoo, A Rhie, P Hebbar, F Antonacci, G Logsdon, S Solar, D Antipov, B Pickett, Y Safonova, F Montinaro, Y Luo, J Malukiewicz, J Storer, J Lin, A Sequeira, R Mangan, G Hickey, G Monfort Anez, P Balachandran, A Bankevich, C Beck, A Biddanda, M Borchers, G Bouffard, E Brannan, S Brooks, L Carbone, Laura Carrel, A Chan, J Crawford, M Diekhans, E Engelbrecht, C Feschotte, G Formenti, G Garcia, L de Gennaro, D Gilbert, R Green, A Guarracino, I Gupta, D Haddad, J Han, R Harris, G Hartley, W Harvey, M Hiller, K Hoekzema, M Houck, H Jeong, K Kamali, M Kellis, B Kille, C Lee, Y Lee, W Lees, A Lewis, Q Li, M Loftus, Loh YHE, H Loucks, J Ma, Y Mao, Martinez JFI, P Masterson, R McCoy, B McGrath, S McKinney, B Meyer, K Miga, S Mohanty, K Munson, K Pal, M Pennell, P Pevzner, D Porubsky, T Potapova, F Ringeling, J Rocha, O Ryder, S Sacco, S Saha, T Sasaki, M Schatz, N Schork, C Shanks, L Smeds, D Son, C Steiner, A Sweeten, M Tassia, F Thibaud-Nissen, E Torres-González, M Trivedi, W Wei, J Wertz, M Yang, P Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, S Zhao, Y Zhu, E Jarvis, J Gerton, I Rivas-González, B Paten, Z Szpiech, C Huber, T Lenz, M Konkel, S Yi, S Canzar, C Watson, P Sudmant, E Molloy, E Garrison, C Lowe, M Ventura, R O'Neill, S Koren, K Makova, A Phillippy, E Eichler, 2025, Nature on p. 401-418
An atlas of single-cell eQTLs dissects autoimmune disease genes and identifies novel drug classes for treatment
Lida Wang, Havell Markus, Dieyi Chen, Siyuan Chen, Fang Zhang, Shuang Gao, Chachrit Khunsriraksakul, Fang Chen, Nancy Olsen, Galen Foulke, Bibo Jiang, Laura Carrel, Diajiang Liu, 2025, Cell Genomics
Patterns of X-linked inheritance: A new approach for the genome era
Sanjana Basava, Charles Billington, Jr, Laura Carrel, Leslie Biesecker, William Dobyns, 2025, Genetics in Medicine
Integrating electronic health records and GWAS summary statistics to predict the progression of autoimmune diseases from preclinical stages
Chen Wang, Havell Markus, Avantika R. Diwadkar, Chachrit Khunsriraksakul, Laura Carrel, Bingshan Li, Xue Zhong, Xingyan Wang, Xiaowei Zhan, Galen T. Foulke, Nancy Olsen, Dajiang Liu, Bibo Jiang, 2025, Nature Communications on p. 180
Dissecting heritability, environmental risk, and air pollution causal effects using > 50 million individuals in MarketScan
Daniel McGuire, Havell Markus, Lina Yang, Jingyu Xu, Austin Montgomery, Arthur Berg, Qunhua Li, Laura Carrel, Dajiang J. Liu, Bibo Jiang, 2024, Nature Communications
Integrating single cell expression quantitative trait loci summary statistics to understand complex trait risk genes
Lida Wang, Chachrit Khunsriraksakul, Havell Markus, Dieyi Chen, Fan Zhang, Fang Chen, Xiaowei Zhan, Laura Carrel, Dajiang J. Liu, Bibo Jiang, 2024, Nature Communications
The complete sequence and comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes
Kateryna D. Makova, Brandon Pickett, R Harris, Gabrielle Hartley, Monika Cechova, Karol Pal, Sergey Nurk, DongAhn Yoo, Qiuhui Li, Prajna Hebbar, B McGrath, Francesca Antonacci, Margaux Aubel, Arjun Biddanda, Matthew Borchers, Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Gerard Bouffard, Shelise Brooks, Lucia Carbone, Laura Carrel, Andrew Carroll, Pi-Chuan Chang, Chen-Shan Chin, Daniel Cook, S Craig, Luciana de Gennaro, Mark Diekhans, Amalia Dutra, Gage Garcia, Patrick Grady, Richard Green, Diana Haddad, Pille Hallast, William Harvey, Glenn Hickey, David Hillis, Savannah Hoyt, Hyeonsoo Jeong, Kaivan Kamali, Sergei Pond, Troy LaPolice, Charles Lee, Alexandra Lewis, Yong-Hwee Loh, Patrick Masterson, Kelly McGarvey, Rajiv McCoy, P Medvedev, Karen Miga, Katherine Munson, Evgenia Pak, Benedict Paten, Brendan Pinto, Tamara Potapova, Arang Rhie, Joana Rocha, Fedor Ryabov, Oliver Ryder, Samuel Sacco, Kishwar Shafin, Valery Shepelev, Viviane Slon, Steven Solar, Jessica Storer, Peter Sudmant, Sweetalana, Sweetalana, Alex Sweeten, Michael Tassia, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, Thibaud-Nissen, Fran\ccoise, Mario Ventura, Melissa Wilson, Alice Young, Huiqing Zeng, Xinru Zhang, Z Szpiech, Christian D. Huber, Jennifer Gerton, Soojin Yi, Michael Schatz, Ivan Alexandrov, Sergey Koren, Rachel J. O’Neill, Rachel O'Neill, Evan Eichler, Adam Phillippy, 2024, Nature on p. 410-411
Integrating summary statistics of expression quantitative trait loci from single cell RNASeq data to understand cell type specific effects for complex traits
Lida Wang, Chakrit Khunsriraksakul, Havell Markus, D Ms Chen, Xingyan Wang, C Fang, Fang Chen, X Zhan, Laura Carrel, Dajiang Liu, L Carrel, DJ Liu, Bibo Jiang, Bibo Jiang, 2024, Nature Communications
Multi-ancestry and multi-trait genome-wide association meta-analyses inform clinical risk prediction for systemic lupus erythematosus
C Khunsriraksakul, Q Li, H Markus, M Patrick, R Sauteraud, D McGuire, Xingyan Wang, C Wang, L Wang, S Chen, G Shenoy, B Li, X Zhong, Nancy J. Olsen, Laura Carrel, L Tsoi, Bibo Jiang, Dajiang J. Liu, 2023, Nature Communications on p. 668
Construction and Application of Polygenic Risk Scores in Autoimmune Diseases
C Khunsriraksakul, H Markus, Nancy J. Olsen, Laura Carrel, Bibo Jiang, Dajiang J. Liu, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology on p. 889296
Most-Cited Papers
When the lyon(Ized chromosome) roars: Ongoing expression from an inactive X chromosome
Laura Carrel, Carolyn Brown, 2017, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The complete sequence and comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes
Kateryna D. Makova, Brandon Pickett, R Harris, Gabrielle Hartley, Monika Cechova, Karol Pal, Sergey Nurk, DongAhn Yoo, Qiuhui Li, Prajna Hebbar, B McGrath, Francesca Antonacci, Margaux Aubel, Arjun Biddanda, Matthew Borchers, Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Gerard Bouffard, Shelise Brooks, Lucia Carbone, Laura Carrel, Andrew Carroll, Pi-Chuan Chang, Chen-Shan Chin, Daniel Cook, S Craig, Luciana de Gennaro, Mark Diekhans, Amalia Dutra, Gage Garcia, Patrick Grady, Richard Green, Diana Haddad, Pille Hallast, William Harvey, Glenn Hickey, David Hillis, Savannah Hoyt, Hyeonsoo Jeong, Kaivan Kamali, Sergei Pond, Troy LaPolice, Charles Lee, Alexandra Lewis, Yong-Hwee Loh, Patrick Masterson, Kelly McGarvey, Rajiv McCoy, P Medvedev, Karen Miga, Katherine Munson, Evgenia Pak, Benedict Paten, Brendan Pinto, Tamara Potapova, Arang Rhie, Joana Rocha, Fedor Ryabov, Oliver Ryder, Samuel Sacco, Kishwar Shafin, Valery Shepelev, Viviane Slon, Steven Solar, Jessica Storer, Peter Sudmant, Sweetalana, Sweetalana, Alex Sweeten, Michael Tassia, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, Thibaud-Nissen, Fran\ccoise, Mario Ventura, Melissa Wilson, Alice Young, Huiqing Zeng, Xinru Zhang, Z Szpiech, Christian D. Huber, Jennifer Gerton, Soojin Yi, Michael Schatz, Ivan Alexandrov, Sergey Koren, Rachel J. O’Neill, Rachel O'Neill, Evan Eichler, Adam Phillippy, 2024, Nature on p. 410-411
Integrating 3D genomic and epigenomic data to enhance target gene discovery and drug repurposing in transcriptome-wide association studies
C Khunsriraksakul, D McGuire, R Sauteraud, F Chen, L Yang, L Wang, J Hughey, S Eckert, J Dylan Weissenkampen, G Shenoy, O Marx, Laura Carrel, Bibo Jiang, Dajiang J. Liu, 2022, Nature Communications on p. 3258
Inferring genes that escape X-Chromosome inactivation reveals important contribution of variable escape genes to sex-biased diseases
Renan Sauteraud, Jill M. Stahl, Jesica James, Marisa Englebright, Fang Chen, Xiaowei Zhan, Laura Carrel, Dajiang J. Liu, 2021, Genome Research on p. 1629-1637
Multi-ancestry and multi-trait genome-wide association meta-analyses inform clinical risk prediction for systemic lupus erythematosus
C Khunsriraksakul, Q Li, H Markus, M Patrick, R Sauteraud, D McGuire, Xingyan Wang, C Wang, L Wang, S Chen, G Shenoy, B Li, X Zhong, Nancy J. Olsen, Laura Carrel, L Tsoi, Bibo Jiang, Dajiang J. Liu, 2023, Nature Communications on p. 668
Construction and Application of Polygenic Risk Scores in Autoimmune Diseases
C Khunsriraksakul, H Markus, Nancy J. Olsen, Laura Carrel, Bibo Jiang, Dajiang J. Liu, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology on p. 889296
Complete sequencing of ape genomes
D Yoo, A Rhie, P Hebbar, F Antonacci, G Logsdon, S Solar, D Antipov, B Pickett, Y Safonova, F Montinaro, Y Luo, J Malukiewicz, J Storer, J Lin, A Sequeira, R Mangan, G Hickey, G Monfort Anez, P Balachandran, A Bankevich, C Beck, A Biddanda, M Borchers, G Bouffard, E Brannan, S Brooks, L Carbone, Laura Carrel, A Chan, J Crawford, M Diekhans, E Engelbrecht, C Feschotte, G Formenti, G Garcia, L de Gennaro, D Gilbert, R Green, A Guarracino, I Gupta, D Haddad, J Han, R Harris, G Hartley, W Harvey, M Hiller, K Hoekzema, M Houck, H Jeong, K Kamali, M Kellis, B Kille, C Lee, Y Lee, W Lees, A Lewis, Q Li, M Loftus, Loh YHE, H Loucks, J Ma, Y Mao, Martinez JFI, P Masterson, R McCoy, B McGrath, S McKinney, B Meyer, K Miga, S Mohanty, K Munson, K Pal, M Pennell, P Pevzner, D Porubsky, T Potapova, F Ringeling, J Rocha, O Ryder, S Sacco, S Saha, T Sasaki, M Schatz, N Schork, C Shanks, L Smeds, D Son, C Steiner, A Sweeten, M Tassia, F Thibaud-Nissen, E Torres-González, M Trivedi, W Wei, J Wertz, M Yang, P Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, S Zhao, Y Zhu, E Jarvis, J Gerton, I Rivas-González, B Paten, Z Szpiech, C Huber, T Lenz, M Konkel, S Yi, S Canzar, C Watson, P Sudmant, E Molloy, E Garrison, C Lowe, M Ventura, R O'Neill, S Koren, K Makova, A Phillippy, E Eichler, 2025, Nature on p. 401-418
Integrating single cell expression quantitative trait loci summary statistics to understand complex trait risk genes
Lida Wang, Chachrit Khunsriraksakul, Havell Markus, Dieyi Chen, Fan Zhang, Fang Chen, Xiaowei Zhan, Laura Carrel, Dajiang J. Liu, Bibo Jiang, 2024, Nature Communications
Moderate X-chromosome inactivation skewing underlies factor VIII activity in symptomatic carriers from a family with mild haemophilia A
Peter Cygan, Laura Carrel, M. E. Eyster, 2016, Haemophilia on p. e559-e561
Dissecting heritability, environmental risk, and air pollution causal effects using > 50 million individuals in MarketScan
Daniel McGuire, Havell Markus, Lina Yang, Jingyu Xu, Austin Montgomery, Arthur Berg, Qunhua Li, Laura Carrel, Dajiang J. Liu, Bibo Jiang, 2024, Nature Communications
News Articles Featuring Laura Carrel
Apr 09, 2025
Complete genome sequences of six ape species unveiled
Differences among the DNA of seven ape species — including humans — are greater than originally thought, according to an international team led by researchers at Penn State, the National Human Genome Research Institute, and the University of Washington.
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Apr 09, 2025
Complete genome sequences of six ape species unveiled
Previously inaccessible regions reveal novel insights that may advance understanding of evolution and conservation genetics for endangered apes as well as human health.
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Jan 07, 2025
Predicting the progression of autoimmune disease with AI
A new artificial intelligence model more accurately predicts who — among those with preclinical symptoms of autoimmune disease — will proceed to advanced disease stage.
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Jul 30, 2024
Genes or environment? A new model for understanding disease risk factors
A new model more accurately predicts how genetics and air pollution levels causally influence disease development; may help better assess disease risk and intervention strategies.
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Jun 12, 2023
Penn State announces tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2023
The following is a list of academic promotions for tenured and tenure-line faculty members at Penn State, effective July 1, 2023.
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Jun 28, 2022
New machine learning technique shows how drugs can be repurposed
A new machine learning method to model gene expression levels might improve the identification of genes that cause human diseases, according to a new study by Penn State College of Medicine researchers.
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Sep 07, 2021
New tool reveals genetic influence of some sex-biased diseases, including lupus
Many human diseases can differ between males and females in their prevalence, manifestation, severity or age of onset. Examples include Lupus, where more than 80% of patients are females; Alzheimer’s disease, where females have higher incidence and tend to suffer quicker cognitive decline; and COVID-19 infections that are frequently more severe in males.
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