Mehrdad Bakhtiari, Jonghun Park, Yuan-Chun Ding, Sharona Shleizer-Burko, Susan L. Neuhausen, Bjarni V. Halldorsson, Kari Stefansson, Melissa Gymrek, Vineet Bafna. "Variable Number Tandem Repeats mediate the expression of proximal genes.", Nature Communications, (2021) [bioRxiv preprint].

Mehrdad Bakhtiari, Vineet Bafna. "A read classification method to improve identification of tandem repeat variations in human genome.", ICML WCB, (2019).

Viraj Deshpande, Jens Luebeck, Nam-Phuong Nguyen, Mehrdad Bakhtiari, Kristen Turner, Richard Schwab , Hannah Carter, Paul Mischel, Vineet Bafna. " Exploring the landscape of focal amplifications in cancer using AmpliconArchitect.", Nature Communications, (2019). [bioRxiv preprint].

Mehrdad Bakhtiari, Sharona Shleizer-Burko, Melissa Gymrek, Vikas Bansal, Vineet Bafna. "Targeted Genotyping of Variable Number Tandem Repeats with adVNTR.", Genome Research, (2018). [bioRxiv preprint]. Presented at RECOMB 2018.

Ali Akbari, Joseph J. Vitti, Arya Iranmehr, Mehrdad Bakhtiari, Pardis C Sabeti, Siavash Mirarab, Vineet Bafna. "Identifying the favored mutation in a positive selective sweep.", Nature Methods, (2018). [bioRxiv preprint].