Turns out “discarded” reads from biobank-scale WGS aren’t so useless after all…we use them to study persistent EBV DNA and its links to host genetics+health outcomes. Grateful to Caleb, Sherry, Ryan, Slave, and all the team for letting me be part of this fun one. Caleb’s thread has all the details👏

Re-analysis of human population-scale whole genome seq data elucidates genetic architecture of EBV DNA persistence, a framework for the broader human virome @nature.com @caleblareau.bsky.social @sherrynyeo.bsky.social @erinmayc.bsky.social @ryandhindsa.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new preprint on Epstein-Barr virus DNA in public sequencing data 🧬🦠. Grateful to be part of this detective work in the world’s overlooked reads!