Press

Smithsonian Magazine covered Kendra Scheer’s Nature Communications paper on the rapid adaptive increase of amylase gene copy number in Indigenous Andeans — and what a starch-rich, potato-based diet did to the genome. Read the article

ScienceDaily wrote up our finding that amylase gene copy number rose quickly in Indigenous Andean populations, consistent with adaptation to a starch-heavy diet. Read the article. The work was also picked up by SciTechDaily and

The University at Buffalo news release on the Andean amylase work, led by Kendra Scheer with Tom Brutsaert, Abigail Bigham and colleagues in Peru. Read the release, or the UBNow version.