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Priya Moorjani

TitlePost Doctoral Scholar
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
DepartmentHuman Genetics
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    1. Kerdoncuff E, Skov L, Patterson N, Banerjee J, Khobragade P, Chakrabarti SS, Chakrawarty A, Chatterjee P, Dhar M, Gupta M, John JP, Koul PA, Lehl SS, Mohanty RR, Padmaja M, Perianayagam A, Rajguru C, Sankhe L, Talukdar A, Varghese M, Yadati SR, Zhao W, Leung YY, Schellenberg GD, Wang YZ, Smith JA, Dey S, Ganna A, Dey AB, Kardia SLR, Lee J, Moorjani P. 50,000 years of evolutionary history of India: Impact on health and disease variation. Cell. 2025 Jun 26; 188(13):3389-3404.e6. PMID: 40578318; PMCID: PMC12376946.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    2. Abu-Amara H, Zhao W, Li Z, Leung YY, Schellenberg GD, Wang LS, Moorjani P, Dey AB, Dey S, Zhou X, Gross AL, Lee J, Kardia SLR, Smith JA. Region-Based Analysis with Functional Annotation Identifies Genes Associated with Cognitive Function in South Asians from India. Genes (Basel). 2025 May 27; 16(6). PMID: 40565532; PMCID: PMC12192162.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    3. Villanea FA, Peede D, Kaufman EJ, Añorve-Garibay V, Chevy ET, Villa-Islas V, Witt KE, Zeloni R, Marnetto D, Moorjani P, Jay F, Valdmanis PN, Ávila-Arcos MC, Huerta-Sánchez E. The MUC19 Gene: An Evolutionary History of Recurrent Introgression and Natural Selection. bioRxiv. 2025 May 24. PMID: 37808839; PMCID: PMC10557577.
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    4. Abu-Amara H, Zhao W, Li Z, Leung YY, Schellenberg GD, Wang LS, Moorjani P, Dey AB, Dey S, Zhou X, Gross AL, Lee J, Kardia SLR, Smith JA. Region-based analysis with functional annotation identifies genes associated with cognitive function in South Asians from India. Res Sq. 2024 Aug 10. PMID: 39149469; PMCID: PMC11326367.
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    5. Wang YZ, Zhao W, Moorjani P, Gross AL, Zhou X, Dey AB, Lee J, Smith JA, Kardia SLR. Effect of apolipoprotein E e4 and its modification by sociodemographic characteristics on cognitive measures in South Asians from LASI-DAD. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 07; 20(7):4854-4867. PMID: 38889280; PMCID: PMC11247697.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    6. Kerdoncuff E, Skov L, Patterson N, Zhao W, Lueng YY, Schellenberg GD, Smith JA, Dey S, Ganna A, Dey AB, Kardia SLR, Lee J, Moorjani P. 50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ~2,700 Whole Genome Sequences. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 17. PMID: 38405782; PMCID: PMC10888882.
      Citations: 4     
    7. Abu-Amara H, Zhao W, Li Z, Leung YY, Schellenberg GD, Wang LS, Moorjani P, Dey AB, Dey S, Zhou X, Gross AL, Lee J, Kardia SLR, Smith JA. Region-based analysis with functional annotation identifies genes associated with cognitive function in South Asians from India. medRxiv. 2024 Jan 18. PMID: 38293024; PMCID: PMC10827235.
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    8. Zhao W, Smith JA, Wang YZ, Chintalapati M, Ammous F, Yu M, Moorjani P, Ganna A, Gross A, Dey S, Benerjee J, Chatterjee P, Dey AB, Lee J, Kardia SLR. Polygenic Risk Scores for Alzheimer's Disease and General Cognitive Function Are Associated With Measures of Cognition in Older South Asians. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2023 05 11; 78(5):743-752. PMID: 36782352; PMCID: PMC10172981.
      Citations: 6     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    9. Chintalapati M, Patterson N, Moorjani P. The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene. Elife. 2022 05 30; 11. PMID: 35635751; PMCID: PMC9293011.
      Citations: 53     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    10. Bergeron LA, Besenbacher S, Turner T, Versoza CJ, Wang RJ, Price AL, Armstrong E, Riera M, Carlson J, Chen HY, Hahn MW, Harris K, Kleppe AS, López-Nandam EH, Moorjani P, Pfeifer SP, Tiley GP, Yoder AD, Zhang G, Schierup MH. The Mutationathon highlights the importance of reaching standardization in estimates of pedigree-based germline mutation rates. Elife. 2022 01 12; 11. PMID: 35018888; PMCID: PMC8830884.
      Citations: 36     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    11. Kim YA, Leiserson MDM, Moorjani P, Sharan R, Wojtowicz D, Przytycka TM. Mutational Signatures: From Methods to Mechanisms. Annu Rev Biomed Data Sci. 2021 07 20; 4:189-206. PMID: 34465178; PMCID: PMC12232997.
      Citations: 13     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    12. Wu FL, Strand AI, Cox LA, Ober C, Wall JD, Moorjani P, Przeworski M. A comparison of humans and baboons suggests germline mutation rates do not track cell divisions. PLoS Biol. 2020 08; 18(8):e3000838. PMID: 32804933; PMCID: PMC7467331.
      Citations: 53     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    13. Smith JA, Zhao W, Yu M, Rumfelt KE, Moorjani P, Ganna A, Dey AB, Lee J, Kardia SLR. Association Between Episodic Memory and Genetic Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease in South Asians from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India-Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (LASI-DAD). J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 08; 68 Suppl 3:S45-S53. PMID: 32815605; PMCID: PMC7507858.
      Citations: 10     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    14. Narasimhan VM, Patterson N, Moorjani P, Rohland N, Bernardos R, Mallick S, Lazaridis I, Nakatsuka N, Lipson M, Kim AM, Olivieri LM, Coppa A, Vidale M, Mallory J, Moiseyev V, Kitov E, Monge J, Adamski N, Alex N, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Candilio F, Callan K, Cheronet O, Culleton BJ, Ferry M, Fernandes D, Freilich S, Gamarra B, Gaudio D, Hajdinjak M, Harper TK, Keating D, Lawson AM, Mah M, Mandl K, Michel M, Novak M, Oppenheimer J, Rai N, Sirak K, Slon V, Stewardson K, Zalzala F, Zhang Z, Akhatov G, Bagashev AN, Bagnera A, Baitanayev B, Bendezu-Sarmiento J, Bissembaev AA, Bonora GL, Chargynov TT, Chikisheva T, Dashkovskiy PK, Derevianko A, Douka K, Dubova N, Duisengali MN, Enshin D, Epimakhov A, Fribus AV, Fuller D, Goryachev A, Gromov A, Grushin SP, Hanks B, Judd M, Kazizov E, Khokhlov A, Krygin AP, Kupriyanova E, Kuznetsov P, Luiselli D, Maksudov F, Mamedov AM, Mamirov TB, Meiklejohn C, Merrett DC, Micheli R, Mochalov O, Mustafokulov S, Nayak A, Pettener D, Potts R, Razhev D, Rykun M, Sarno S, Savenkova TM, Sikhymbaeva K, Slepchenko SM, Soltobaev OA, Stepanova N, Svyatko S, Tabaldiev K, Teschler-Nicola M, Tishkin AA, Tkachev VV, Vasilyev S, Voyakin D, Yermolayeva A, Zahir M, Zubkov VS, Zubova A, Shinde VS, Lalueza-Fox C, Meyer M, Anthony D, Boivin N, Thangaraj K, Kennett DJ, Frachetti M, Pinhasi R, Reich D, Olalde I, Harney É, Dobeš M, Velemínský P. The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia. Science. 2019 09 06; 365(6457). PMID: 31488661; PMCID: PMC6822619.
      Citations: 262     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    15. Gao Z, Moorjani P, Sasani TA, Pedersen BS, Quinlan AR, Jorde LB, Amster G, Przeworski M. Overlooked roles of DNA damage and maternal age in generating human germline mutations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 05 07; 116(19):9491-9500. PMID: 31019089; PMCID: PMC6511033.
      Citations: 113     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    16. Nakatsuka N, Moorjani P, Rai N, Sarkar B, Tandon A, Patterson N, Bhavani GS, Girisha KM, Mustak MS, Srinivasan S, Kaushik A, Vahab SA, Jagadeesh SM, Satyamoorthy K, Singh L, Reich D, Thangaraj K. The promise of discovering population-specific disease-associated genes in South Asia. Nat Genet. 2017 Sep; 49(9):1403-1407. PMID: 28714977; PMCID: PMC5675555.
      Citations: 90     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    17. Moorjani P, Amorim CE, Arndt PF, Przeworski M. Variation in the molecular clock of primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 09 20; 113(38):10607-12. PMID: 27601674; PMCID: PMC5035889.
      Citations: 101     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    18. Moorjani P, Sankararaman S, Fu Q, Przeworski M, Patterson N, Reich D. A genetic method for dating ancient genomes provides a direct estimate of human generation interval in the last 45,000 years. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 May 17; 113(20):5652-7. PMID: 27140627; PMCID: PMC4878468.
      Citations: 85     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    19. Yu D, Mathews CA, Scharf JM, Neale BM, Davis LK, Gamazon ER, Derks EM, Evans P, Edlund CK, Crane J, Fagerness JA, Osiecki L, Gallagher P, Gerber G, Haddad S, Illmann C, McGrath LM, Mayerfeld C, Arepalli S, Barlassina C, Barr CL, Bellodi L, Benarroch F, Bienvenu OJ, Black DW, Bloch MH, Brentani H, Bruun RD, Budman CL, Camarena B, Campbell DD, Cappi C, Silgado JC, Cavallini MC, Chavira DA, Chouinard S, Cook EH, Cookson MR, Coric V, Cullen B, Cusi D, Delorme R, Denys D, Dion Y, Eapen V, Egberts K, Falkai P, Fernandez T, Fournier E, Garrido H, Geller D, Gilbert DL, Girard SL, Grabe HJ, Grados MA, Greenberg BD, Gross-Tsur V, Hardy J, Heiman GA, Hemmings SM, Herrera LD, Hezel DM, Hoekstra PJ, Jankovic J, Kennedy JL, King RA, Konkashbaev AI, Kremeyer B, Kurlan R, Lanzagorta N, Leboyer M, Leckman JF, Lennertz L, Liu C, Lochner C, Lowe TL, Lupoli S, Macciardi F, Maier W, Manunta P, Marconi M, McCracken JT, Mesa Restrepo SC, Moessner R, Moorjani P, Morgan J, Muller H, Murphy DL, Naarden AL, Nurmi E, Ochoa WC, Ophoff RA, Pakstis AJ, Pato MT, Pato CN, Piacentini J, Pittenger C, Pollak Y, Rauch SL, Renner T, Reus VI, Richter MA, Riddle MA, Robertson MM, Romero R, Rosenberg D, Ruhrmann S, Sabatti C, Salvi E, Sampaio AS, Samuels J, Sandor P, Service SK, Sheppard B, Singer HS, Smit JH, Stein DJ, Strengman E, Tischfield JA, Turiel M, Valencia Duarte AV, Vallada H, Veenstra-VanderWeele J, Walitza S, Wang Y, Weale M, Weiss R, Wendland JR, Westenberg HG, Shugart YY, Hounie AG, Miguel EC, Nicolini H, Wagner M, Ruiz-Linares A, Cath DC, McMahon W, Posthuma D, Oostra BA, Nestadt G, Rouleau GA, Purcell S, Jenike MA, Heutink P, Hanna GL, Conti DV, Arnold PD, Freimer NB, Stewart SE, Knowles JA, Cox NJ, Pauls DL, Berrió GB, Grünblatt E, Rosário MC. Cross-disorder genome-wide analyses suggest a complex genetic relationship between Tourette's syndrome and OCD. Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Jan; 172(1):82-93. PMID: 25158072; PMCID: PMC4282594.
      Citations: 59     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    20. Fu Q, Li H, Moorjani P, Jay F, Slepchenko SM, Bondarev AA, Johnson PL, Aximu-Petri A, de Filippo C, Meyer M, Zwyns N, Kuzmin YV, Keates SG, Kosintsev PA, Razhev DI, Richards MP, Peristov NV, Lachmann M, Douka K, Higham TF, Slatkin M, Hublin JJ, Reich D, Kelso J, Viola TB, Prüfer K, Salazar-García DC, Pääbo S. Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia. Nature. 2014 Oct 23; 514(7523):445-9. PMID: 25341783; PMCID: PMC4753769.
      Citations: 398     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    21. Lipson M, Loh PR, Patterson N, Moorjani P, Ko YC, Stoneking M, Berger B, Reich D. Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia. Nat Commun. 2014 Aug 19; 5:4689. PMID: 25137359; PMCID: PMC4143916.
      Citations: 81     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    22. Prüfer K, Racimo F, Patterson N, Jay F, Sankararaman S, Sawyer S, Heinze A, Renaud G, Sudmant PH, de Filippo C, Li H, Mallick S, Dannemann M, Fu Q, Kircher M, Kuhlwilm M, Lachmann M, Meyer M, Ongyerth M, Siebauer M, Theunert C, Tandon A, Moorjani P, Pickrell J, Mullikin JC, Vohr SH, Green RE, Hellmann I, Johnson PL, Blanche H, Cann H, Kitzman JO, Shendure J, Eichler EE, Lein ES, Bakken TE, Golovanova LV, Doronichev VB, Shunkov MV, Derevianko AP, Viola B, Slatkin M, Reich D, Kelso J, Pääbo S. The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains. Nature. 2014 Jan 02; 505(7481):43-9. PMID: 24352235; PMCID: PMC4031459.
      Citations: 830     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    23. Moorjani P, Thangaraj K, Patterson N, Lipson M, Loh PR, Govindaraj P, Berger B, Reich D, Singh L. Genetic evidence for recent population mixture in India. Am J Hum Genet. 2013 Sep 05; 93(3):422-38. PMID: 23932107; PMCID: PMC3769933.
      Citations: 133     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    24. Moorjani P, Patterson N, Loh PR, Lipson M, Melegh BI, Bonin M, Berger B, Reich D, Kisfali P, Kádaši L, Rieß O, Melegh B. Reconstructing Roma history from genome-wide data. PLoS One. 2013; 8(3):e58633. PMID: 23516520; PMCID: PMC3596272.
      Citations: 37     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    25. Loh PR, Lipson M, Patterson N, Moorjani P, Pickrell JK, Reich D, Berger B. Inferring admixture histories of human populations using linkage disequilibrium. Genetics. 2013 Apr; 193(4):1233-54. PMID: 23410830; PMCID: PMC3606100.
      Citations: 276     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    26. Patterson N, Moorjani P, Luo Y, Mallick S, Rohland N, Zhan Y, Genschoreck T, Webster T, Reich D. Ancient admixture in human history. Genetics. 2012 Nov; 192(3):1065-93. PMID: 22960212; PMCID: PMC3522152.
      Citations: 1378     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    27. Moorjani P, Patterson N, Hirschhorn JN, Keinan A, Hao L, Atzmon G, Burns E, Ostrer H, Price AL, Reich D. The history of African gene flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines, and Jews. PLoS Genet. 2011 Apr; 7(4):e1001373. PMID: 21533020; PMCID: PMC3080861.
      Citations: 146     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    28. Amstadter AB, Nugent NR, Yang BZ, Miller A, Siburian R, Moorjani P, Haddad S, Basu A, Fagerness J, Saxe G, Smoller JW, Koenen KC. Corticotrophin-releasing hormone type 1 receptor gene (CRHR1) variants predict posttraumatic stress disorder onset and course in pediatric injury patients. Dis Markers. 2011; 30(2-3):89-99. PMID: 21508513; PMCID: PMC3722863.
      Citations: 45     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    29. Salum GA, Moorjani P, Seganfredo AC, Heldt E, Leistner-Segal S, Smoller JW, Manfro GG, Blaya C. Panic disorder and serotonergic genes (SLC6A4, HTR1A and HTR2A): Association and interaction with childhood trauma and parenting. Neurosci Lett. 2010 Nov 12; 485(1):11-5. PMID: 20817074.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    30. Moorjani P, Weiss LA, Leistner-Segal S, Manfro GG, Smoller JW, Blaya C, Salum GA, Gonçalves L. Preliminary evidence of association between EFHC2, a gene implicated in fear recognition, and harm avoidance. Neurosci Lett. 2009 Mar 06; 452(1):84-6. PMID: 19429002.
      Citations: 7     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    31. Perlis RH, Moorjani P, Fagerness J, Purcell S, Trivedi MH, Fava M, Rush AJ, Smoller JW. Pharmacogenetic analysis of genes implicated in rodent models of antidepressant response: association of TREK1 and treatment resistance in the STAR(*)D study. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2008 Nov; 33(12):2810-9. PMID: 18288090; PMCID: PMC10034848.
      Citations: 47     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
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