We have a new paper -two years in the making – where we showed evidence for introgression from an African archaic hominin to the ancestors of modern humans. This is a relatively big and, I […]
New paper: Of archaic admixture in Africa, cherries, and serendipity Read More »
I wanted to write this post to discuss an interesting discussion going on with regards to evolutionary basis of human complex diseases. It stems from our paper that looked into the evolution of skin barrier related
A note on evolution and disease Read More »
We have helped Cemali Bekpen and the Max Planck Evolutionary Biology Group of Dr. Tautz in resolving a very complicated and variable gene duplication. Even though, some of the trends remain fuzzy, it is now
New paper: Of light, duplications and UV protection Read More »
We just published a paper in Genome Biology and Evolution – “Atopic Dermatitis Susceptibility Variants In Filaggrin Hitchhike Hornerin Selective Sweep“. It describes the unusual history of the genetic variation affecting the skin structural protein fillagrin.
Our paper (led by Erica – Yay), a close collaboration with the ever-wise Stefan Ruhl, on the complex evolution of the smaller one of the two salivary mucins, MUC7, is now published – It is
New Paper – Recent evolution of the salivary mucin MUC7 Read More »
Jelena Tica from Jan Korbel’s group led a rigorous method development effort. You can find the full, open access article here
New paper on BMC Genomics Read More »
Congratulations to Eaaswar. 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,
Lasker award for our paper in Human Biology Read More »
Hoover lab led a study that we contributed that is just published in the Journal Chemical Senses. Allelic variation at 4 loci in the human olfactory receptor gene OR7D4 is associated with perceptual variation in
New paper: Involves pigs, olfactory receptors and lots of genetic variation Read More »
Congratulations to Eaaswar. His paper, “Geographic Distribution And Adaptive Significance Of Genomic Structural Variants: An Anthropological Genetics Perspective” is out as preprint. It is a general review and a example data analysis of existing structural variation
New paper on structural variants and their anthropological relevance Read More »
We have our first paper from the Buffalo laboratory published at Molecular Biology and Evolution (link here, it is Open Access). The paper describes polymorphic human deletions that are shared with Neandertals or Denisovans. Most of these
Omer recently got a story published in the popular Turkish Science online magazine ‘Açık Bilim‘. It is mostly a popular retelling of this paper. If you read Turkish, enjoy. 🙂
Essay on parts of our genomes inherited from Neandertals [Turkish] Read More »
