Associate Professor
Laboratory of Genetics
Integrative Biology Laboratory
Zhou, J.L., Guruvayurappan, K., Toneyan, S., Chen, H.V., Chen, A.R., Koo, P., McVicker, G. Analysis of single-cell CRISPR perturbations indicates that enhancers predominantly act multiplicatively. (2024) Cell Genom.:100672 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100672
Arthur, T.D., Nguyen, J.P., D'Antonio-Chronowska, A., Jaureguy, J., Silva, N., Henson, B., , Panopoulos, A.D., Belmonte, J.C.I., D'Antonio, M., McVicker, G., Frazer, K.A. Multi-omic QTL mapping in early developmental tissues reveals phenotypic and temporal complexity of regulatory variants underlying GWAS loci. (2024) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.10.588874
Zhou, J.L., de Guglielmo, G., Ho, A.J., Kallupi, M., Pokhrel, N., Li, H.R., Chitre, A.S., Munro, D., Mohammadi, P., Carrette, L.L.G., George, O., Palmer, A.A., McVicker, G., Telese, F. Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in gene amygdala GABAergic inhibition. (2023) Nature Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/s41593-023-01452-y
Zhou, J., Guruvayurappan, K., Chen, H.V., Chen, A.R., McVicker, G. Genome-wide analysis of CRISPR perturbations indicates that enhancers act multiplicatively and without epistatic-like interactions. (2023) bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.26.538501
Chen, H.V., Lorenzini, M.H., Lavalle, S.N., Sajeev, K., Fonseca, A., Fiaux, P.C., Sen, A., Luthra, I., Ho, A.J., Chen, A.R., Guruvayurappan, K., O'Connor, C., McVicker, G. Deletion mapping of regulatory elements for GATA3 in T cells reveals a distal enhancer involved in allergic diseases. (2023) American Journal of Human Genetics. DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2023.03.008
Xu, Z., Lee, D.S., Chandran, S., Le, V.T., Bump, R., Yasis, J., Dallarda, S., Marcotte, S., Clock, B., Haghani, N., Cho, C.Y., Akdemir, K.C., Tyndale, S., Futreal, P.A., McVicker, G., Wahl, G.M., Dixon, J.R. Structural variants drive context-dependent oncogene activation in cancer. (2022) Nature. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05504-4
Chen, P.B., Fiaux, P.C., Zhang, K., Li, B., Kubo, N., Jiang, S., Hu, R., Rooholfada, E., Wu, S., Wang, M., Wang, W., McVicker, G., Mischel, P.S., Ren, B. Systematic discovery and functional dissection of enhancers needed for cancer cell fitness and proliferation. (2022) Cell Reports. 41(6):111630. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.111630
Sen, A., Huo, Y., Elster, J., Zage, P.E., McVicker, G. Allele-specific expression reveals genes with recurrent cis-regulatory alterations in high-risk neuroblastoma. (2022) Genome Biology. 23(1):71. DOI: 10.1186/s13059-022-02640-y
Sen, A., Prager, B.C., Zhong, C., Park, D., Zhu, Z., Gimple, R.C., Wu, Q., Bernatchez, J.A., Beck, S., Clark, A.E., Siqueira-Neto, J.L., Rich, J.N., McVicker, G. Leveraging Allele-Specific Expression for Therapeutic Response Gene Discovery in Glioblastoma. (2021) Cancer Research. DOI: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-21-0810
Massarat, A.R., Sen, A., Jaureguy, J., Tyndale, S.T., Fu, Y., Erikson, G., McVicker, G. Discovering single nucleotide variants and indels from bulk and single-cell ATAC-seq. (2021) Nucleic Acids Research. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab621
Fiaux, P.C., Chen, H.V., Chen, P.B., Chen, A.R., McVicker, G. Discovering functional sequences with RELICS, an analysis method for CRISPR screens. (2020) PLOS Computational Biology. 16(9):e1008194. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008194
Nott, A., Holtman, I.R., Coufal, N.G., Schlachetzki, J.C.M., Yu, M., Hu, R., Han, C.Z., Pena, M., Xiao, J., Wu, Y., Keulen, Z., Pasillas, M.P., O'Connor, C., Nickl, C.K., Schafer, S.T., Shen, Z., Rissman, R.A., Brewer, J.B., Gosselin, D., Gonda, D.D., Levy, M.L., Rosenfeld, M.G., McVicker, G., Gage, F.H., Ren, B., Glass, C.K. Brain cell type-specific enhancer-promoter interactome maps and disease risk association. (2019) Science. 366(6469):1134-1139. DOI: 10.1126/science.aay0793
Schmiedel, B.J., Singh, D., Madrigal, A., Valdovino-Gonzalez, A.G., White, B.M., Zapardiel-Gonzalo, J., Ha, B., Altay, G., Greenbaum, J.A., McVicker, G., Seumois, G., Rao, A., Kronenberg, M., Peters, B., Vijayanand, P. Impact of Genetic Polymorphisms on Human Immune Cell Gene Expression. (2018) Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.10.022
Martin, R.L., Maiorano, J., Beitel, G.J., Marko, J.F., McVicker, G., Fondufe-Mittendorf, Y.N. A comparison of nucleosome organization in Drosophila cell lines. (2017) PLOS One. 12(6):e0178590. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178590
Elyashiv, E., Sattath, S., Hu, T.T., Strutsovsky, A., McVicker, G., Andolfatto, P., Coop, G., Sella, G. A Genomic Map of the Effects of Linked Selection in Drosophila. (2016) PLOS Genetics. 12(8):e1006130. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006130
van de Geijn, B.*, McVicker, G.*, Gilad, Y., Pritchard, J.K. WASP: allele-specific software for robust molecular quantitative trait locus discovery. (2015) Nature Methods. 12(11):1061-1063. DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.3582
Banovich, N.E., Lan, X., McVicker, G., van de Geijn, B., Degner, J.F., Blischak, J.D., Roux, J., Pritchard, J.K., Gilad, Y. Methylation QTLs are associated with coordinated changes in transcription factor binding, histone modifications, and gene expression levels. (2014) PLOS Genetics. 10(9):e1004663. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004663
Nalabothula, N.*, McVicker, G.*, Maiorano, J., Martin, R., Pritchard, J.K., Fondufe-Mittendorf, Y.N. The chromatin architectural proteins HMGD1 and H1 bind reciprocally and have opposite effects on chromatin structure and gene regulation. (2014) BMC Genomics. 15:92. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-92
Raj, A., McVicker, G. The genome shows its sensitive side. (2014) Nature Methods. 11(1):39-40. DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2770
McVicker, G.*, van de Geijn, B.*, Degner, J.F., Cain, C.E., Banovich, N.E., Raj, A., Lewellen, N., Myrthil, M., Gilad, Y., Pritchard, J.K. Identification of genetic variants that affect histone modifications in human cells. (2013) Science. 342(6159):747-9. DOI: 10.1126/science.1242429
Gaffney, D.J.*, McVicker, G.*, Pai, A.A., Fondufe-Mittendorf, Y.N., Lewellen, N., Michelini, K., Widom, J., Gilad, Y., Pritchard, J.K. Controls of nucleosome positioning in the human genome. (2012) PLOS Genetics. 8(11):e1003036. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003036
George, R.D., McVicker, G., Diederich, R., Ng, S.B., MacKenzie, A.P., Swanson, W.J., Shendure, J., Thomas, J.H. Trans genomic capture and sequencing of primate exomes reveals new targets of positive selection. (2011) Genome Research. 21(10):1686-1694. DOI: 10.1101/gr.121327.111
D'Souza, C.A., Kronstad, J.W., Taylor, G., Warren, R., Yuen, M., Hu, G., Jung, W.H., Sham, A., Kidd, S.E., Tangen, K., Lee, N., Zeilmaker, T., Sawkins, J., McVicker, G., Shah, S., Gnerre, S., Griggs, A., Zeng, Q., Bartlett, K., Li, W., Wang, X., Heitman, J., Stajich, J.E., Fraser, J.A., Meyer, W., Carter, D., Schein, J., Krzywinski, M., Kwon-Chung, K.J., Varma, A., Wang, J., Brunham, R., Fyfe, M., Ouellette, B.F., Siddiqui, A., Marra, M., Jones, S., Holt, R., Birren, B.W., Galagan, J.E., Cuomo, C.A. Genome variation in Cryptococcus gattii, an emerging pathogen of immunocompetent hosts. (2011) MBio. 2(1):e00342-10. DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00342-10
McVicker, G., Green, P. Genomic signatures of germline gene expression. (2010) Genome Research. 20(11):1503-1511. DOI: 10.1101/gr.106666.110
McVicker, G., Gordon, D., Davis, C., Green, P. Widespread genomic signatures of natural selection in hominid evolution. (2009) PLOS Genetics. 5(5):e1000471. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000471
Hubbard, T., Andrews, D., Caccamo, M., Cameron, G., Chen, Y., Clamp, M., Clarke, L., Coates, G., Cox, T., Cunningham, F., Curwen, V., Cutts, T., Down, T., Durbin, R., Fernandez-Suarez, X.M., Gilbert, J., Hammond, M., Herrero, J., Hotz, H., Howe, K., Iyer, V., Jekosch, K., Kahari, A., Kasprzyk, A., Keefe, D., Keenan, S., Kokocinsci, F., London, D., Longden, I., McVicker, G., Melsopp, C., Meidl, P., Potter, S., Proctor, G., Rae, M., Rios, D., Schuster, M., Searle, S., Severin, J., Slater, G., Smedley, D., Smith, J., Spooner, W., Stabenau, A., Stalker, J., Storey, R., Trevanion, S., Ureta-Vidal, A., Vogel, J., White, S., Woodwark, C., Birney, E. Ensembl 2005. (2005) Nucleic Acids Research. 33(Database i):D447-D453. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki138
Stabenau, A., McVicker, G., Melsopp, C., Proctor, G., Clamp, M., Birney, E. The Ensembl core software libraries. (2004) Genome Research. 14(5):929-933. DOI: 10.1101/gr.1857204
Birney, E., Andrews, T.D., Bevan, P., Caccamo, M., Chen, Y., Clarke, L., Coates, G., Cuff, J., Curwen, V., Cutts, T., Down, T., Eyras, E., Fernandez-Suarez, X.M., Gane, P., Gibbins, B., Gilbert, J., Hammond, M., Hotz, H.R., Iyer, V., Jekosch, K., Kahari, A., Kasprzyk, A., Keefe, D., Keenan, S., Lehvaslaiho, H., McVicker, G., Melsopp, C., Meidl, P., Mongin, E., Pettett, R., Potter, S., Proctor, G., Rae, M., Searle, S., Slater, G., Smedley, D., Smith, J., Spooner, W., Stabenau, A., Stalker, J., Storey, R., Ureta-Vidal, A., Woodwark, K.C., Cameron, G., Durbin, R., Cox, A., Hubbard, T., Clamp, M. An overview of Ensembl. (2004) Genome Research. 14(5):925-8. DOI: 10.1101/gr.1860604
Birney, E., Andrews, D., Bevan, P., Caccamo, M., Cameron, G., Chen, Y., Clarke, L., Coates, G., Cox, T., Cuff, J., Curwen, V., Cutts, T., Down, T., Durbin, R., Eyras, E., Fernandez-Suarez, X.M., Gane, P., Gibbins, B., Gilbert, J., Hammond, M., Hotz, H., Iyer, V., Kahari, A., Jekosch, K., Kasprzyk, A., Keefe, D., Keenan, S., Lehvaslaiho, H., McVicker, G., Melsopp, C., Meidl, P., Mongin, E., Pettett, R., Potter, S., Proctor, G., Rae, M., Searle, S., Slater, G., Smedley, D., Smith, J., Spooner, W., Stabenau, A., Stalker, J., Storey, R., Ureta-Vidal, A., Woodwark, C., Clamp, M., Hubbard, T. Ensembl 2004. (2004) Nucleic Acids Research. 32(Database i):D468-D470. DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh038
Shah, S.P., McVicker, G.P., Mackworth, A.K., Rogic, S., Ouellette, B.F. GeneComber: combining outputs of gene prediction programs for improved results. (2003) Bioinformatics . 19(10):1296-1297.
BSc Computer Science, University of British Columbia
PhD, Genome Sciences, University of Washington
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University