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Daniel Taliun

ResearcherHuman GeneticsMcGill University

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Daniel Taliun

Researcher

Human Genetics

Health Sciences

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
12 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2024.

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Research

Data Sharing Genome-Wide Association Study (Gwas)Phenome-Wide Association Study (Phewas)Sex By Genotype Interaction Sex-Biased Genetic Effects Tool Development Base Editing Screen Crispr

Latest papers

Author Correction: HLA allele-calling using multi-ancestry whole-exome sequencing from the UK Biobank identifies 129 novel associations in 11 autoimmune diseases.
Communications biology · 2026 · senior author
Phenome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Identifying Circulating Proteins for Cardiovascular Traits in Populations of African Ancestry.
Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine · 2026
A multi-ancestry genetic reference for the Quebec population.
Nature communications · 2026

All 12 publications

Latest funding

Investigating the HLA-disease association landscape in Canadian and international biobanks.
CIHR · 2024 · Supervisor
$120,000
CRISPR-BE Screen Design Server: a free web-based service for designing accurate sgRNA libraries for CRISPR base editing screens.
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$300,000
PheWeb-2.0: an interactive tool for generating and testing hypotheses on sex-biased genetic variant-trait associations in large-scale population-based studies
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$451,352

All 4 grants and awards

12 publications.

Author Correction: HLA allele-calling using multi-ancestry whole-exome sequencing from the UK Biobank identifies 129 novel associations in 11 autoimmune diseases.

Butler-Laporte G, Farjoun J, Nakanishi T, Lu T, Abner E, Chen Y, Hultström M, Metspalu A, Milani L, Mägi R, Nelis M, Hudjashov G, Estonian Biobank Research Team, Yoshiji S, Ilboudo Y, Liang KYH, Su CY, Willett JDS, Esko T, Zhou S, Forgetta V, Taliun D, Richards JB

Communications biology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s42003-026-09877-4 PMID: 41927953

Phenome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Identifying Circulating Proteins for Cardiovascular Traits in Populations of African Ancestry.

Selber-Hnatiw S, Trajanoska K, Pelletier J, Su CY, McClelland P, Taliun D, Yoshiji S, Mooser V, Bhérer C, Zhou S

Circulation. Genomic and precision medicine2026

DOI: 10.1161/circgen.125.005159 PMID: 41657222

A multi-ancestry genetic reference for the Quebec population.

McClelland P, Femerling G, Laflamme R, Mejia-Garcia A, Sayahian Dehkordi M, Xiao H, Diaz-Papkovich A, Pelletier J, Grenier JC, Lo KS, Anderson-Trocmé L, Bellavance J, Chapdelaine V, Gagnon G, De Mori A, Martinez G, Mohler K, de Malliard T, Labbé C, Labrecque M, Montpetit A, Spiegelman D, Rouleau GA, Théroux JF, Zhou H, Girard SL, Hussin JG, Laberge AM, Bhérer C, Tetreault M, Gagliano Taliun SA, Taliun D, Gravel S, Lettre G

Nature communications2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-68820-7 PMID: 41634041

Exploring and visualizing stratified GWAS results with PheWeb2

Bellavance J, Xiao H, Chang L, Kazemi M, Wickramasinghe S, Mayhew AJ, Raina P, VandeHaar P, Taliun D, Gagliano Taliun SA

Nature Genetics20266 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02469-8

Using the ancestral recombination graph to study the history of rare variants in founder populations.

Mejia-Garcia A, Diaz-Papkovich A, Sillon G, D'Agostino D, Chong AL, Chong G, Lo KS, Baret L, Hamel N, Chapdelaine V, Foulkes WD, Taliun D, Shapiro AJ, Lettre G, Gravel S

American journal of human genetics2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2025.10.005 PMID: 41172993

Frequency enrichment of coding variants in a French-Canadian founder population and its implication for inflammatory bowel diseases.

Bhérer C, Grenier JC, Pelletier J, Boucher G, Gagnon G, Goyette P, Ashton-Beaucage D, Stevens C, Battat R, Bitton A, Campeau PM, Laprise C, NIDDK IBD Genetics Consortium, Quebec IBD Genetics Consortium, iGenoMed Consortium, Huang H, Daly M, Taliun D, Hussin JG, Mooser V, Rioux JD

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.11.25331388 PMID: 40791678

CRISPR-BEasy: a free web-based service for designing sgRNA tiling libraries for CRISPR-dependent base editing screens.

Chapdelaine-Trépanier V, Shenoy S, Masud W, Minju-Op A, Bérubé MA, Schönherr S, Forer L, Fradet-Turcotte A, Taliun D, Cuella-Martin R

Nucleic acids research2025

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaf382 PMID: 40377102

A multi-ancestry genetic reference for the Quebec population.

McClelland P, Femerling G, Laflamme R, Mejia-Garcia A, Dehkordi MS, Xiao H, Diaz-Papkovich A, Pelletier J, Grenier JC, Lo KS, Anderson-Trocmé L, Bellavance J, Chapdelaine V, Gagnon G, Mori A, Martinez G, Mohler K, de Malliard T, Labbé C, Labrecque M, Montpetit A, Spiegelman D, Rouleau GA, Théroux JF, Zhou H, Girard SL, Hussin JG, Laberge AM, Bhérer C, Tetreault M, Gagliano Taliun SA, Taliun D, Gravel S, Lettre G

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2025

DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.14.25327536 PMID: 40463523

Imputation Server PGS: an automated approach to calculate polygenic risk scores on imputation servers.

Forer L, Taliun D, LeFaive J, Smith AV, Boughton AP, Coassin S, Lamina C, Kronenberg F, Fuchsberger C, Schönherr S

Nucleic acids research2024

DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae331 PMID: 38709879

A cost-effective sequencing method for genetic studies combining high-depth whole exome and low-depth whole genome.

Bhérer C, Eveleigh R, Trajanoska K, St-Cyr J, Paccard A, Nadukkalam Ravindran P, Caron E, Bader Asbah N, McClelland P, Wei C, Baumgartner I, Schindewolf M, Döring Y, Perley D, Lefebvre F, Lepage P, Bourgey M, Bourque G, Ragoussis J, Mooser V, Taliun D

NPJ genomic medicine2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41525-024-00390-3 PMID: 38326393

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Daniel Taliun

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Author Correction: HLA allele-calling using multi-ancestry whole-exome sequencing from the UK Biobank identifies 129 novel associations in 11 autoimmune diseases.

Phenome-Wide Mendelian Randomization Identifying Circulating Proteins for Cardiovascular Traits in Populations of African Ancestry.

A multi-ancestry genetic reference for the Quebec population.

Exploring and visualizing stratified GWAS results with PheWeb2

Using the ancestral recombination graph to study the history of rare variants in founder populations.

Frequency enrichment of coding variants in a French-Canadian founder population and its implication for inflammatory bowel diseases.

CRISPR-BEasy: a free web-based service for designing sgRNA tiling libraries for CRISPR-dependent base editing screens.

A multi-ancestry genetic reference for the Quebec population.

Imputation Server PGS: an automated approach to calculate polygenic risk scores on imputation servers.

A cost-effective sequencing method for genetic studies combining high-depth whole exome and low-depth whole genome.

Investigating the HLA-disease association landscape in Canadian and international biobanks.

CRISPR-BE Screen Design Server: a free web-based service for designing accurate sgRNA libraries for CRISPR base editing screens.

PheWeb-2.0: an interactive tool for generating and testing hypotheses on sex-biased genetic variant-trait associations in large-scale population-based studies

The Pan-Canadian Genome Library (PCGL)

Frequent collaborators

Daniel Taliun

Vincent Mooser

Sirui Zhou

Satoshi Yoshiji

Simon Gravel

Guillaume Lettre

Guillaume Butler-Laporte

Anne-Marie Laberge

Guillaume Bourque

Alain Bitton

Parminder Raina

Raquel Cuella Martin