Publications

Nathan Nakatsuka, Drew Adler, Longda Jiang, Austin Hartman, Evan Cheng, Eric Klann, and Rahul Satija. 2025. “Improving Reproducibility of Differentially Expressed Genes in Single-Cell Transcriptomic Studies of Neurodegenerative Diseases through Meta-Analysis”. Nature Communications, 16, 7436

2025. “The Accuracy of Polygenic Score Models for BMI and Type II Diabetes in the Native Hawaiian Population”. Communications Biology, 8, 651

Bryan Dinh, Echo Tang, Kekoa Taparra, Nathan Nakatsuka, Fei Chen, and Charleston Chiang. 2024. “Recombination Map Tailored to Native Hawaiians May Improve Robustness of Genomic Scans for Positive Selection”. Human Genetics, 143, 1, Pp. 85-99

Adam Smith, Lara Wahlster, Soyoung Jeon, Linda Kachuri, Susan Black, Jalen Langie, Liam Cato, Nathan Nakatsuka, Tsz-Fung Chan, Guangze Xia, Soumyaa Mazumder, Wenjian Yang, Steven Gazal, Celeste Eng, Donglei Hu, Esteban G. Burchard, Elad Ziv, Catherine Metayer, Nicholas Mancuso, Jun Yang, Xiaomei Ma, Joseph Wiemels, Fulong Yu, Charleston Chiang, and Vijay Sankaran. 2024. “A Noncoding Regulatory Variant in IKZF1 Increases Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Risk in Hispanic Latino Children ”. Cell Genomics

Nathan Nakatsuka, Vihang Nakhate, Daniel Harrison, Kristin Galetta, and Abby Olsen. 2024. “The Case of an 85-Year Old Woman With Subacute Onset of Bilateral Chorea.”. Interactive Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 39

Nathan Nakatsuka, Brian Holguin, Jakob Sedig, Paul E. Langenwalter II, John Carpenter, Brendan J. Culleton, Cristina García-Moreno, Thomas K. Harper, Debra Martin, Júpiter Martínez-Ramírez, Antonio Porcayo-Michelini, Vera Tiesler, M. Elisa Villapando-Canchola, Alejandro Valdes Herrera, Kim Callan, Elizabeth Curtis, Aisling Kearns, Lora Iliev, Ann Marie Lawson, Matthew Mah, Swapan Mallick, Adam Micco, Megan Michel, J. Noah Workman, Jonas Oppenheimer, Lijun Qiu, Fatma Zalzala, Nadin Rohland, Jose Luis Punzo Diaz, John R. Johnson, and David Reich. 2023. “Genetic Continuity and Change Among the Indigenous Peoples of California”. Nature

V. Tiesler, J. Sedig, N. Nakatsuka, S. Mallick, I. Lazaridis, R. Bernardos, N. Broomandkhoshbacht, J. Oppenheimer, A. M. Lawson, K. Stewardson, N. Rohland, D. Kennett, T. D. Price, and D. Reich. 2022. “Life and Death in Early Colonial Campeche: New Insights from Ancient DNA”. Antiquity, 96, 388, Pp. 937-54

D. Popovic, M. Molak, M. Ziolkowski, A. Vranich, M. Sobczyk, D. Vidaurre, G. Agresti, M. Skrzypczak, K. Ginalski, T. Lamnidis, N. Nakatsuka, S. Mallick, and M. Baca. 2021. “Ancient Genomes Reveal Long Range Influence of the Site and Culture of Tiwanaku”. Science Advances, 7, 39

S. Alpaslan-Roodenberg, authors), N. Nakatsuka, authors), and M. Zahir. 2021. “Ethics of DNA Research on Human Remains: Five Globally Applicable Guidelines”. Nature, 599, 7883, Pp. 41-46

Nathan Nakatsuka, Iosif Lazaridis, Chiara Barbieri, Pontus Skoglund, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Cosimo Posth, Kelly Harkins-Kinkaid, Matthew Ferry, Éadaoin Harney, Megan Michel, Kristin Stewardson, Jannine Novak-Forst, José Capriles, Marta Alfonso Durruty, Karina Aranda Álvarez, David Beresford-Jones, Richard Burger, Lauren Cadwallader, Ricardo Fujita, Johny Isla, George Lau, Carlos Lémuz Aguirre, Steven LeBlanc, Sergio Calla Maldonado, Frank Meddens, Pablo Messineo, Brendan Culleton, Thomas Harper, Jeffrey Quilter, Gustavo Politis, Kurt Rademaker, Markus Reindel, Mario Rivera, Lucy Salazar, José Sandoval, Calogero Santoro, Nahuel Scheifler, Vivien Standen, Maria Ines Barreto, Isabel Flores Espinoza, Elsa Tomasto-Cagigao, Guido Valverde, Douglas Kennett, Alan Cooper, Johannes Krause, Wolfgang Haak, Bastien Llamas, David Reich, and Lars Fehren-Schmitz. 2020. “A Paleogenomic Reconstruction of the Deep Population History of the Andes”. Cell, 181, 5, Pp. 1131-45

Jacob Bongers, Nathan Nakatsuka, Colleen O’Shea, Thomas Harper, Henry Tantaleán, Charles Stanish, and Lars Fehren-Schmitz. 2020. “Integration of Ancient DNA With Transdisciplinary Dataset Finds Strong Support for Inca Resettlement in the South Peruvian Coast”. PNAS, 117, 31, Pp. 18359-68

Nathan Nakatsuka*, Pierre Luisi*, Josefina Motti, Mónica Salemme, Fernando Santiago, Manuel D’Angelo Del Campo, Rodrigo Vecchi, Yolanda Espinosa-Parrilla, Alfredo Prieto, Nicole Adamski, Ann Marie Lawson, Thomas Harper, Brendan Culleton, Douglas Kennett, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Ricardo Guichón, Graciela Cabana, Rodrigo Nores, and David Reich. 2020. “Ancient Genomes in South Patagonia Reveal Population Movements Associated With Technological Shifts and Geography”. Nature Communications, 11, 1, Pp. 3868