Melissa Gymrek

Title(s)Assistant Professor, Medicine
SchoolVc-health Sciences-schools
Address9500 Gilman Drive #
La Jolla CA 92093
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    Genetic & Social Determinants of Health: Center for Admixture Science and Technology
    NIH RM1HG011558Sep 22, 2021 - Jun 30, 2026
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Characterization of Tandem Repeat and Structural Variants Contributing to Addictive Behaviors in Mice and Rats
    NIH U01DA051234May 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2026
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Systematic characterization of tandem repeat variants contributing to complex traits
    NIH R01HG010885Sep 17, 2020 - Jul 31, 2024
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Refining Mendelian disease analysis via detection of clinically relevant repeat variants
    NIH R01HG010149Sep 14, 2018 - Jun 30, 2022
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Interrogating regulatory variants by multiplexed genome editing
    NIH R21HG010070Aug 9, 2018 - Jul 31, 2020
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Systematic identification and interpretation of repetitive variants underlying schizophrenia
    NIH DP5OD024577Sep 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2022
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Missing heritability may be hiding in repeats. Science. 2021 09 24; 373(6562):1440-1441. Gymrek M, Goren A. PMID: 34554784.
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    2. Mechanisms underlying divergent responses of genetically distinct macrophages to IL-4. Sci Adv. 2021 Jun; 7(25). Hoeksema MA, Shen Z, Holtman IR, Zheng A, Spann NJ, Cobo I, Gymrek M, Glass CK. PMID: 34134993.
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    3. TRTools: a toolkit for genome-wide analysis of tandem repeats. Bioinformatics. 2021 05 05; 37(5):731-733. Mousavi N, Margoliash J, Pusarla N, Saini S, Yanicky R, Gymrek M. PMID: 32805020.
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    4. A flexible ChIP-sequencing simulation toolkit. BMC Bioinformatics. 2021 Apr 20; 22(1):201. Zheng A, Lamkin M, Qiu Y, Ren K, Goren A, Gymrek M. PMID: 33879052.
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    5. Analysis of Brugada syndrome loci reveals that fine-mapping clustered GWAS hits enhances the annotation of disease-relevant variants. Cell Rep Med. 2021 Apr 20; 2(4):100250. Pinsach-Abuin ML, Del Olmo B, Pérez-Agustin A, Mates J, Allegue C, Iglesias A, Ma Q, Merkurjev D, Konovalov S, Zhang J, Sheikh F, Telenti A, Brugada J, Brugada R, Gymrek M, di Iulio J, Garcia-Bassets I, Pagans S. PMID: 33948580.
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    6. Variable number tandem repeats mediate the expression of proximal genes. Nat Commun. 2021 04 06; 12(1):2075. Bakhtiari M, Park J, Ding YC, Shleizer-Burko S, Neuhausen SL, Halldórsson BV, Stefánsson K, Gymrek M, Bafna V. PMID: 33824302.
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    7. Deep neural networks identify sequence context features predictive of transcription factor binding. Nat Mach Intell. 2021 Feb; 3(2):172-180. Zheng A, Lamkin M, Zhao H, Wu C, Su H, Gymrek M. PMID: 33796819.
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    8. Patterns of de novo tandem repeat mutations and their role in autism. Nature. 2021 01; 589(7841):246-250. Mitra I, Huang B, Mousavi N, Ma N, Lamkin M, Yanicky R, Shleizer-Burko S, Lohmueller KE, Gymrek M. PMID: 33442040.
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    9. Autism risk in offspring can be assessed through quantification of male sperm mosaicism. Nat Med. 2020 01; 26(1):143-150. Breuss MW, Antaki D, George RD, Kleiber M, James KN, Ball LL, Hong O, Mitra I, Yang X, Wirth SA, Gu J, Garcia CAB, Gujral M, Brandler WM, Musaev D, Nguyen A, McEvoy-Venneri J, Knox R, Sticca E, Botello MCC, Uribe Fenner J, Pérez MC, Arranz M, Moffitt AB, Wang Z, Hervás A, Devinsky O, Gymrek M, Sebat J, Gleeson JG. PMID: 31873310.
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    10. The impact of short tandem repeat variation on gene expression. Nat Genet. 2019 11; 51(11):1652-1659. Fotsing SF, Margoliash J, Wang C, Saini S, Yanicky R, Shleizer-Burko S, Goren A, Gymrek M. PMID: 31676866.
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    11. Cooperation of cancer drivers with regulatory germline variants shapes clinical outcomes. Nat Commun. 2019 09 11; 10(1):4128. Musa J, Cidre-Aranaz F, Aynaud MM, Orth MF, Knott MML, Mirabeau O, Mazor G, Varon M, Hölting TLB, Grossetête S, Gartlgruber M, Surdez D, Gerke JS, Ohmura S, Marchetto A, Dallmayer M, Baldauf MC, Stein S, Sannino G, Li J, Romero-Pérez L, Westermann F, Hartmann W, Dirksen U, Gymrek M, Anderson ND, Shlien A, Rotblat B, Kirchner T, Delattre O, Grünewald TGP. PMID: 31511524.
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    12. Profiling the genome-wide landscape of tandem repeat expansions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 09 05; 47(15):e90. Mousavi N, Shleizer-Burko S, Yanicky R, Gymrek M. PMID: 31194863.
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    13. Targeted genotyping of variable number tandem repeats with adVNTR. Genome Res. 2018 11; 28(11):1709-1719. Bakhtiari M, Shleizer-Burko S, Gymrek M, Bansal V, Bafna V. PMID: 30352806.
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    14. A reference haplotype panel for genome-wide imputation of short tandem repeats. Nat Commun. 2018 10 23; 9(1):4397. Saini S, Mitra I, Mousavi N, Fotsing SF, Gymrek M. PMID: 30353011.
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    15. Quantitative analysis of population-scale family trees with millions of relatives. Science. 2018 04 13; 360(6385):171-175. Kaplanis J, Gordon A, Shor T, Weissbrod O, Geiger D, Wahl M, Gershovits M, Markus B, Sheikh M, Gymrek M, Bhatia G, MacArthur DG, Price AL, Erlich Y. PMID: 29496957.
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    16. Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review. PeerJ Prepr. 2018; 4:e147. Smith AM, Niemeyer KE, Katz DS, Barba LA, Githinji G, Gymrek M, Huff KD, Madan CR, Mayes AC, Moerman KM, Prins P, Ram K, Rokem A, Teal TK, Guimera RV, Vanderplas JT. PMID: 32704456.
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    17. Interpreting short tandem repeat variations in humans using mutational constraint. Nat Genet. 2017 Oct; 49(10):1495-1501. Gymrek M, Willems T, Reich D, Erlich Y. PMID: 28892063.
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    18. Type 2 Diabetes Variants Disrupt Function of SLC16A11 through Two Distinct Mechanisms. Cell. 2017 Jun 29; 170(1):199-212.e20. Rusu V, Hoch E, Mercader JM, Tenen DE, Gymrek M, Hartigan CR, DeRan M, von Grotthuss M, Fontanillas P, Spooner A, Guzman G, Deik AA, Pierce KA, Dennis C, Clish CB, Carr SA, Wagner BK, Schenone M, Ng MCY, Chen BH, MEDIA Consortium , SIGMA T2D Consortium , Centeno-Cruz F, Zerrweck C, Orozco L, Altshuler DM, Schreiber SL, Florez JC, Jacobs SBR, Lander ES. PMID: 28666119.
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    19. Genome-wide profiling of heritable and de novo STR variations. Nat Methods. 2017 Jun; 14(6):590-592. Willems T, Zielinski D, Yuan J, Gordon A, Gymrek M, Erlich Y. PMID: 28436466.
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    20. A genomic view of short tandem repeats. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2017 Jun; 44:9-16. Gymrek M. PMID: 28213161.
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    21. The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations. Nature. 2016 Oct 13; 538(7624):201-206. Mallick S, Li H, Lipson M, Mathieson I, Gymrek M, Racimo F, Zhao M, Chennagiri N, Nordenfelt S, Tandon A, Skoglund P, Lazaridis I, Sankararaman S, Fu Q, Rohland N, Renaud G, Erlich Y, Willems T, Gallo C, Spence JP, Song YS, Poletti G, Balloux F, van Driem G, de Knijff P, Romero IG, Jha AR, Behar DM, Bravi CM, Capelli C, Hervig T, Moreno-Estrada A, Posukh OL, Balanovska E, Balanovsky O, Karachanak-Yankova S, Sahakyan H, Toncheva D, Yepiskoposyan L, Tyler-Smith C, Xue Y, Abdullah MS, Ruiz-Linares A, Beall CM, Di Rienzo A, Jeong C, Starikovskaya EB, Metspalu E, Parik J, Villems R, Henn BM, Hodoglugil U, Mahley R, Sajantila A, Stamatoyannopoulos G, Wee JT, Khusainova R, Khusnutdinova E, Litvinov S, Ayodo G, Comas D, Hammer MF, Kivisild T, Klitz W, Winkler CA, Labuda D, Bamshad M, Jorde LB, Tishkoff SA, Watkins WS, Metspalu M, Dryomov S, Sukernik R, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Pääbo S, Kelso J, Patterson N, Reich D. PMID: 27654912.
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    22. Recommendations for open data science. Gigascience. 2016; 5:22. Gymrek M, Farjoun Y. PMID: 27195107.
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    23. Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences. Nat Genet. 2016 06; 48(6):593-9. Poznik GD, Xue Y, Mendez FL, Willems TF, Massaia A, Wilson Sayres MA, Ayub Q, McCarthy SA, Narechania A, Kashin S, Chen Y, Banerjee R, Rodriguez-Flores JL, Cerezo M, Shao H, Gymrek M, Malhotra A, Louzada S, Desalle R, Ritchie GR, Cerveira E, Fitzgerald TW, Garrison E, Marcketta A, Mittelman D, Romanovitch M, Zhang C, Zheng-Bradley X, Abecasis GR, McCarroll SA, Flicek P, Underhill PA, Coin L, Zerbino DR, Yang F, Lee C, Clarke L, Auton A, Erlich Y, Handsaker RE, 1000 Genomes Project Consortium , Bustamante CD, Tyler-Smith C. PMID: 27111036.
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    24. Population-Scale Sequencing Data Enable Precise Estimates of Y-STR Mutation Rates. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 05 05; 98(5):919-933. Willems T, Gymrek M, Poznik GD, Tyler-Smith C, 1000 Genomes Project Chromosome Y Group , Erlich Y. PMID: 27126583.
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    25. Polymorphic tandem repeats within gene promoters act as modifiers of gene expression and DNA methylation in humans. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016 05 05; 44(8):3750-62. Quilez J, Guilmatre A, Garg P, Highnam G, Gymrek M, Erlich Y, Joshi RS, Mittelman D, Sharp AJ. PMID: 27060133.
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    26. Abundant contribution of short tandem repeats to gene expression variation in humans. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan; 48(1):22-9. Gymrek M, Willems T, Guilmatre A, Zeng H, Markus B, Georgiev S, Daly MJ, Price AL, Pritchard JK, Sharp AJ, Erlich Y. PMID: 26642241.
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    27. EWS-FLI1 utilizes divergent chromatin remodeling mechanisms to directly activate or repress enhancer elements in Ewing sarcoma. Cancer Cell. 2014 Nov 10; 26(5):668-681. Riggi N, Knoechel B, Gillespie SM, Rheinbay E, Boulay G, Suvà ML, Rossetti NE, Boonseng WE, Oksuz O, Cook EB, Formey A, Patel A, Gymrek M, Thapar V, Deshpande V, Ting DT, Hornicek FJ, Nielsen GP, Stamenkovic I, Aryee MJ, Bernstein BE, Rivera MN. PMID: 25453903.
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    28. PyBamView: a browser-based application for viewing short read alignments. Bioinformatics. 2014 Dec 01; 30(23):3405-7. Gymrek M. PMID: 25147359.
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    29. The landscape of human STR variation. Genome Res. 2014 Nov; 24(11):1894-904. Willems T, Gymrek M, Highnam G, 1000 Genomes Project Consortium , Mittelman D, Erlich Y. PMID: 25135957.
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    30. OTX2 duplication is implicated in hemifacial microsomia. PLoS One. 2014; 9(5):e96788. Zielinski D, Markus B, Sheikh M, Gymrek M, Chu C, Zaks M, Srinivasan B, Hoffman JD, Aizenbud D, Erlich Y. PMID: 24816892.
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    31. LoQAtE--Localization and Quantitation ATlas of the yeast proteomE. A new tool for multiparametric dissection of single-protein behavior in response to biological perturbations in yeast. Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Jan; 42(Database issue):D726-30. Breker M, Gymrek M, Moldavski O, Schuldiner M. PMID: 24150937.
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    32. A novel single-cell screening platform reveals proteome plasticity during yeast stress responses. J Cell Biol. 2013 Mar 18; 200(6):839-50. Breker M, Gymrek M, Schuldiner M. PMID: 23509072.
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    33. Identifying personal genomes by surname inference. Science. 2013 Jan 18; 339(6117):321-4. Gymrek M, McGuire AL, Golan D, Halperin E, Erlich Y. PMID: 23329047.
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    34. Profiling short tandem repeats from short reads. Methods Mol Biol. 2013; 1038:113-35. Gymrek M, Erlich Y. PMID: 23872972.
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    35. Back to the family: a renewed approach to rare variant studies. Genome Med. 2012; 4(12):97. Zielinski D, Gymrek M, Erlich Y. PMID: 23253160.
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    36. The histone deacetylase SIRT6 is a tumor suppressor that controls cancer metabolism. Cell. 2012 Dec 07; 151(6):1185-99. Sebastián C, Zwaans BM, Silberman DM, Gymrek M, Goren A, Zhong L, Ram O, Truelove J, Guimaraes AR, Toiber D, Cosentino C, Greenson JK, MacDonald AI, McGlynn L, Maxwell F, Edwards J, Giacosa S, Guccione E, Weissleder R, Bernstein BE, Regev A, Shiels PG, Lombard DB, Mostoslavsky R. PMID: 23217706.
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    37. Interactions of subunit CCT3 in the yeast chaperonin CCT/TRiC with Q/N-rich proteins revealed by high-throughput microscopy analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Nov 13; 109(46):18833-8. Nadler-Holly M, Breker M, Gruber R, Azia A, Gymrek M, Eisenstein M, Willison KR, Schuldiner M, Horovitz A. PMID: 23112166.
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    38. lobSTR: A short tandem repeat profiler for personal genomes. Genome Res. 2012 Jun; 22(6):1154-62. Gymrek M, Golan D, Rosset S, Erlich Y. PMID: 22522390.
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    39. Combinatorial patterning of chromatin regulators uncovered by genome-wide location analysis in human cells. Cell. 2011 Dec 23; 147(7):1628-39. Ram O, Goren A, Amit I, Shoresh N, Yosef N, Ernst J, Kellis M, Gymrek M, Issner R, Coyne M, Durham T, Zhang X, Donaghey J, Epstein CB, Regev A, Bernstein BE. PMID: 22196736.
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    40. Using DNA sequencers as stethoscopes. Genome Med. 2011 Nov 21; 3(11):73. Gymrek M, Erlich Y. PMID: 22103962.
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    41. PTMScout, a Web resource for analysis of high throughput post-translational proteomics studies. Mol Cell Proteomics. 2010 Nov; 9(11):2558-70. Naegle KM, Gymrek M, Joughin BA, Wagner JP, Welsch RE, Yaffe MB, Lauffenburger DA, White FM. PMID: 20631208.
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    42. Digital transcriptome profiling from attomole-level RNA samples. Genome Res. 2010 Apr; 20(4):519-25. Ozsolak F, Goren A, Gymrek M, Guttman M, Regev A, Bernstein BE, Milos PM. PMID: 20133332.
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    43. Chromatin profiling by directly sequencing small quantities of immunoprecipitated DNA. Nat Methods. 2010 Jan; 7(1):47-9. Goren A, Ozsolak F, Shoresh N, Ku M, Adli M, Hart C, Gymrek M, Zuk O, Regev A, Milos PM, Bernstein BE. PMID: 19946276.
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