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Claude Bhérer

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Claude Bhérer

Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics

Email: claude.bherer@mcgill.ca
Phone: (514) 398-8364

740 Dr Penfield Ave, Room 7101
Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3A 0G4

Claude Bhérer is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Genetics at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill University. She leads a population genomics research group within a mission-oriented multidisciplinary Canada Excellence Research Chair program, the McGill CERC in Genomic Medicine, covering all facets of genomic medicine. She was previously a Postdoctoral Researcher within the McGill CERC in genomic medicine advised by Dr Vincent Mooser. Before that, she was a FRQS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in New York. She worked at the New York Genome Center with Joseph K. Pickrell (now at Gencove) and Tuuli Lappalainen, and also with Adam Auton (now at 23andMe) at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Université de Montréal, M.Sc. in Experimental Medicine (option Population Genetics) from Université Laval, and B.Sc. in Anthropology from Université de Montréal. Her research in the field of human population genetics addresses questions of broad interest in evolutionary biology, genomic medicine and biomedical sciences. Her expertise spans population scale computational analysis, data collection to methods development.

Research Interests

Claude Bhérer studies human evolution using statistical and computational tools applied to large-scale genomic data paired with other information, notably genealogical and phenotypic data. She is interested in understanding the genetic and evolutionary processes shaping genetic differences among us, and how these contribute to adaptation and disease. Her overreaching aim is to transform massive genomic data into improved knowledge of human biology and health.

Recent Publications

  • Zurel, H, Bhérer, C, Batten, R, MacMillan, ME, Demiriz, S, Mirhendi, S et al.. Characterization of Y chromosome diversity in newfoundland and labrador: evidence for a structured founding population. Eur J Hum Genet. 2025;33 (1):98-107. doi: 10.1038/s41431-024-01719-3. PubMed PMID:39472688 PubMed Central PMC11711158.
  • Bhérer, C, Eveleigh, R, Trajanoska, K, St-Cyr, J, Paccard, A, Nadukkalam Ravindran, P et al.. A cost-effective sequencing method for genetic studies combining high-depth whole exome and low-depth whole genome. NPJ Genom Med. 2024;9 (1):8. doi: 10.1038/s41525-024-00390-3. PubMed PMID:38326393 PubMed Central PMC10850497.
  • Trajanoska, K, Bhérer, C, Taliun, D, Zhou, S, Richards, JB, Mooser, V et al.. From target discovery to clinical drug development with human genetics. Nature. 2023;620 (7975):737-745. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06388-8. PubMed PMID:37612393 .
  • Robichaud, PP, Allain, EP, Belbraouet, S, Bhérer, C, Mamelona, J, Harquail, J et al.. Pathogenic variants carrier screening in New Brunswick: Acadians reveal high carrier frequency for multiple genetic disorders. BMC Med Genomics. 2022;15 (1):98. doi: 10.1186/s12920-022-01249-1. PubMed PMID:35488281 PubMed Central PMC9055701.
  • Lucotte, EA, Albiñana, C, Laurent, R, Bhérer, C, Genome of the Netherland Consortium, Bataillon, T et al.. Detection of sexually antagonistic transmission distortions in trio datasets. Evol Lett. 2022;6 (2):203-216. doi: 10.1002/evl3.271. PubMed PMID:35386833 PubMed Central PMC8966469.
  • Labrecque, M, Touma, L, Bhérer, C, Duquette, A, Tétreault, M. Estimated prevalence of Niemann-Pick type C disease in Quebec. Sci Rep. 2021;11 (1):22621. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-01966-0. PubMed PMID:34799641 PubMed Central PMC8604933.
  • Margaryan, A, Lawson, DJ, Sikora, M, Racimo, F, Rasmussen, S, Moltke, I et al.. Author Correction: Population genomics of the Viking world. Nature. 2021;591 (7851):E29. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03328-2. PubMed PMID:33707634 .
  • Margaryan, A, Lawson, DJ, Sikora, M, Racimo, F, Rasmussen, S, Moltke, I et al.. Population genomics of the Viking world. Nature. 2020;585 (7825):390-396. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2688-8. PubMed PMID:32939067 .
  • Bhérer, C, Campbell, CL, Auton, A. Refined genetic maps reveal sexual dimorphism in human meiotic recombination at multiple scales. Nat Commun. 2017;8 :14994. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14994. PubMed PMID:28440270 PubMed Central PMC5414043.
  • Campbell, CL, Bhérer, C, Morrow, BE, Boyko, AR, Auton, A. A Pedigree-Based Map of Recombination in the Domestic Dog Genome. G3 (Bethesda). 2016;6 (11):3517-3524. doi: 10.1534/g3.116.034678. PubMed PMID:27591755 PubMed Central PMC5100850.
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