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Detecting positive natural selection from genetic data
As humans expanded out of Africa into the rest of the world, they adapted to a whole host of new habitats, pathogens, and food sources. In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in...
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Identifying targets of natural selection in human and dog evolution
Over the course of the past year or so, I’ve been working (with Jonathan Pritchard) on a statistical method for learning about the history of a set of populations from genetic data. Much of this work...
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Looking closer at natural selection in inflammatory bowel disease
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we recently published a large study into the genetics of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which included a number of analyses digging into the biology and evolutionary...
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