Kevin L. Gunderson

TL;DR: The Phase II HapMap is described, which characterizes over 3.1 million human single nucleotide polymorphisms genotyped in 270 individuals from four geographically diverse populations and includes 25–35% of common SNP variation in the populations surveyed, and increased differentiation at non-synonymous, compared to synonymous, SNPs is demonstrated.

TL;DR: ‘Long-range haplotype’ methods, which were developed to identify alleles segregating in a population that have undergone recent selection, and new methods that are based on cross-population comparisons to discover alleles that have swept to near-fixation within a population are developed.

TL;DR: The ability to determine genome-wide methylation patterns will rapidly advance methylation research.

TL;DR: Combinatorial cellular indexing, a strategy for multiplex barcoding of thousands of single cells per experiment, was successfully used to investigate the genome-wide chromatin accessibility landscape in each of over 15,000 single cells, avoiding the need for compartmentalization of individual cells.

TL;DR: An integrated SNP genotyping system that combines a highly multiplexed assay with an accurate readout technology based on random arrays of DNA-coated beads is developed that helps enable genome-wide association studies and other large-scale genetic analysis projects.