Folks at RSG-Turkey invited me to give a talk about Evolutionary/Population Genomics – I talked about recent work in our laboratory – of course with a focus on structural variants. 🙂 Also – the new […]
Webinar (and a new logo): A new era in human evolutionary history research Read More »
We have reported a computational method to detect the haplotypes harboring polymorphic gene duplications in the human genome variation dataset. This study is now published in Genome Biology and Evolution. The maestro (is it maestra?),
New Paper: A new method to investigate the haplotype context of duplicated genes Read More »
Stefan (Ruhl) and I recently published a comprehensive survey of the amylase gene copy number and salivary enzyme activity among mammalian species eLife. Petar (Pajic) was the driving force for the sample collection and analysis.
New paper: Independent amylase gene duplications Read More »
Onta (Yen Lung Lin) led the charge in this careful characterization of regions in the genome where that lead to the recurrent formation of structural variation. The paper “Fine-scale characterization of genomic structural variation in
New paper: Hotspots of structural variation Read More »
A whole gene deletion sounds awful! You lose one entire gene and hence the protein that this gene is coding. However, there exist several gene deletions which have been maintained polymorphically among human populations. In
New Paper: An incomplete sweep of a metabolizing gene Read More »
An evolutionary transcriptomics approach links CD36 to membrane remodeling in replicative senescence Press release by Charlotte Hsu Academic minute podcast by our collaborator Ekin Atilla The evolution of cellular senescence is a remarkable question. It
New paper: Evolutionary biology of cellular aging (We got the cover) Read More »
The editors of American Anthropologist kindly invited me to write a review article to highlight (and dare I say integrate) the discoveries in anthropological genetics in 2017. It was a gratifying project as it allowed
New paper: A look at the works of 2017 Read More »
Our lab has been excited by genomic structural variation because we believe that they underlie a considerable and underappreciated part of the phenotypic variation in primates. It is just that they are challenging to study
New paper: Structural variants are awesome – And they affect detoxification genes Read More »
I am pleased to announce that the online version of the Special Issue in Human Biology which I edited has now come out. It represents, in my opinion, the best examples of the new and
Special Issue: A new generation of anthropological genetics Read More »
Ozgur, after a pretty painful year of hard work, has now compiled a very nice set of derived Neanderthal haplotypes that were introgressed in Western Asia. It is a very nice extension of the excellent
New paper: Neanderthals in Western Asia Read More »
Erica (Duo Xu) has spearheaded an effort to compile all the small, different methods that we developed for analyzing population genomics data to construct locus-specific phylogenies into a streamlined pipeline. Yousef Jaber, a bright undergrad
New Paper: VCF2TREE – A phylogenetic tool Read More »
