Kendra Scheer led this study, now out in Nature Communications. Working with Tom Brutsaert, Abigail Bigham and colleagues in Peru, we found that Indigenous Andean populations carry unusually high amylase gene copy numbers, and that […]
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Out in Molecular Biology and Evolution, led by Aguado and Pajic, with Charikleia Karageorgiou, Sarah Kassem and Stefan Ruhl among the authors. We traced the structural evolution of the proline-rich protein genes across primates and
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We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our collaborative research program at the intersection of lipid biology, cell death, and evolutionary genomics. The project, primarily led by the Atilla Laboratory, investigates
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The Alcobaça archaeological site, in which the skeletal remains of Brazil-12 (northeast Brazil) were unearthed. (Photo credit: Henry Lavalle, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and Ana Nascimento, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco)
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A recent study that is a collaboration between Naoki Masuda, Marie Saitou, and my lab is now online Molecular Biology and Evolution. It is a clever construct by Naoki to collectively analyze the allele frequency
Our paper on adaptive evolution of a very common, exonic deletion polymorphism is now published in Science Advances. https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abi4476 Our press office did an excellent job as usual – The press release is here: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2021/09/030.html
Michael Frachetti and I have written a review on some of the current discussion points in application of ancient genomics to archaeological questions. The main thesis, I think, is summarized as follows: “We argue that
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