Robert E. Handsaker

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• Human and bacterial genetic variation shape oral microbiomes and health

  Nature · 2026-01-28 · 10 citations

• Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants

  Nature · 2026-01-07 · 8 citations

• A shared DNA-repeat toxicity threshold, reached somatically at cell-type-specific rates, unites cortical and striatal neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-12-11 · 1 citations

• Whole-genome sequence-based association analysis of African American individuals with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia

  Human Genetics and Genomics Advances · 2025-08-30 · 1 citations

• Human and bacterial genetic variation shape oral microbiomes and healthPreprint

  medRxiv · 2025-04-01 · 5 citations

• Antisense oligonucleotide–mediated MSH3 suppression reduces somatic CAG repeat expansion in Huntington’s disease iPSC–derived striatal neurons

  Science Translational Medicine · 2025-02-12 · 33 citations

• Long somatic DNA-repeat expansion drives neurodegeneration in Huntington’s disease

  Cell · 2025-01-16 · 166 citations

• Whole genome sequence-based association analysis of African American individuals with bipolar disorder and schizophreniaPreprint

  medRxiv · 2024-12-29

• Insights into the causes and consequences of DNA repeat expansions from 700,000 biobank participantsPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024-11-26 · 7 citations

• Common α-globin variants modify hematologic and other clinical phenotypes in sickle cell trait and disease

  UNC Libraries · 2024-08-24