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...
View ArticleDetecting 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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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