Tag: population genetics
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New PhD project by Mariam Omar Gómez
Mariam has recently started her PhD studentship with the project “Histories of Southeast Asia through time” under Mattias Jakobsson’s and Max Larena’s (Human Evolution Program, UU) supervision. The project is based on a range of research work involving ancient DNA and uniparental markers using population genetics analysis. Congrats and good luck, Mariam!Go to Mariam’s profile…
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Adaptation to infectious disease exposure in indigenous Southern African populations
We published new results on the selection pressure on loci affected by introduced diseases in two indigenous South African populations. We found that the ‡Khomani population showed stronger signals of selection on immune genes most likely caused by its more frequent contact with immigrant groups. Abstract Genetic analyses can provide information about human evolutionary history that cannot always be gleaned…
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Early farmers of Anatolia
A new publication (Kilinç et al. 2016. The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia) sheds light into the demographic history of early farmers in Anatolia. The paper appeared in Current Biology.
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Investigation of population size changes rests on validating the demographic model
Our review-paper Lucie Gattepaile et al. 2013. Inferring population size changes with sequence and SNP data: lessons from human bottlenecks was published by Heredity. Abstract Reconstructing historical variation of population size from sequence and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data is valuable for understanding the evolutionary history of species. Changes in the population size of humans have…
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Paper on adaptation and complex African history published in Science
Carina Schlebusch is the first author of the paper “Genomic variation in seven Khoe-San groups reveals adaptation and complex African history”, published in Science. The paper received ample attention by scientific and popular media, e.g.: CBS News, Science News, Nature, Science daily, Spiegel, AAAS, Swedish public television (SVT), Kwela (Afrikaans – television), Swedish radio (SR1, SR2), UNT, DN, Business Day, Diamond Fields Advertiser, Die Burger, Die…