His paper, “Geographic Distribution And Adaptive Significance Of Genomic Structural Variants: An Anthropological Genetics Perspective” was chosen for the Annual Gabriel W. Lasker Award for the best original scientific article published in the journal, Human Biology. From the editors’ words: “The award was created to recognize Professor Lasker’s more than 40 years of service as Editor in Chief and consulting editor of Human Biology. The Award… is presented to the author(s) of the article published during the previous year that contributes the most to the field of anthropological genetics in its broadest sense.”
X’s lab led this study on extensive long-read sequencing of multiple bird genomes and follow-up comparative/functional analysis to find interesting overlap between structural variation hotspots…
My dissertation is recently available through the Penn Library System and ProQuest ABSTRACT This study investigates the genetic diversity and ethnohistory of four Central Anatolian…