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New paper on structural variants and their anthropological relevance

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 datasets within an anthropological context. It also made the cover. 🙂 - We hope that it would be helpful to … Continue reading New paper on structural variants and their anthropological relevance

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First paper from our lab – Ancient deletions strike again and mysterious ways of adaptive forces

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 deletions are not introgressed from ancient hominins, but rather have been lingering around since before Human/Neandertal/Denisovan ancestor. As expected majority … Continue reading First paper from our lab – Ancient deletions strike again and mysterious ways of adaptive forces

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Our group is now affiliated with Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology

We are now officially affiliated with Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, which involve multidisciplinary research and many outstanding colleagues. This is a pretty nice framework for students that want to undertake anthropological fieldwork and archaeogenetics research. Also, very interesting and high-profile international seminar series is a plus.

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New Paper in PNAS: Primate genome architecture influences structural variation mechanisms and functional consequences

Our efforts to resequence and analyze primate genomes with a focus on genomic structural variation has now been published. Here is the link for the paper and here is the link for the curated datasets. The study, I think, is a major step forward to understand evolution of primate genomes. Now that several papers from Eichler … Continue reading New Paper in PNAS: Primate genome architecture influences structural variation mechanisms and functional consequences

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New paper in PLoS Genetics – Balancing Selection shaping the distribution of a common deletion variant

Finally, our manuscript entitled "Balancing selection on a Regulatory Region Exhibiting Ancient Variation That Predates Human–Neandertal Divergence" was published in PLoS Genetics. You can find it here... It is Open Access. Also, link to the post regarding the manuscript in Dienekes' Anthropology Blog. Note the several interesting points that commentators were raising. Another recent blog post … Continue reading New paper in PLoS Genetics – Balancing Selection shaping the distribution of a common deletion variant

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Bilim kazanında günün kepçesi oldum

Bilim kazanı için İlker ve Aysu ile uzunca bir muhabbet ettik. Tatlı dillerinden ayrılıp da eve dönmem gece yarısı 1'i buldu. Ama galiba ayırdığımız 5 saate değdi. İnsanı insan yapan nedir diye sorduk - Dinlemek için basın buraya. Bu arada iyice yaşlandığımı tasdikleyecek ama, FatBoy Slim'in şu klibini hatırlamadım değil... 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8