Masahiro Kanai (金井 仁弘)
I am a Research Fellow at Dr. Ramnik Xavier Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital & Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Prior to joining the lab, I completed Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics at Harvard University, co-advised by Drs. Mark Daly and Hilary Finucane, the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit. I received fellowships from the Nakajima Foundation and the Masason Foundation.
As a statistical geneticist, my research focuses on cross-population analysis of complex diseases and traits to better understand their genetic architecture and diversity across multiple populations. In my thesis project, I created a comprehensive atlas of putative causal variants from multiple large-scale biobanks to gain insights from complex trait fine-mapping across diverse populations. Prior to joining ATGU, I completed B.S. degree in Japan, where I worked closely with Dr. Yukinori Okada to study genetics of complex traits in the Japanese population using the BioBank Japan data.
My curriculum vitae can be found
News
Mar 18, 2024 | The Pan-UKBB flagship manuscript (*Karczewski, KJ., *Gupta, R., *Kanai, M., et al.) is now available at medRxiv! |
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Sep 6, 2023 | Kanai, M., The COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative. (2023) is now published in Nature! |
Nov 5, 2022 | Kanai, M. et al. (2022) is now published in Cell Genomics! |
Apr 7, 2022 | *Weissbrod, O., *Kanai, M., *Shi, H. et al. (2022) is now published in Nature Genetics! |
Sep 30, 2021 | Added *Sakaue, S & *Kanai, M. et al. (2021). |
Selected Publications and Preprints [full list]
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* denotes equal contribution
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Nature Genetics 50, 390–400 (2018)