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Research Publications - Human Population Genetics

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Global impact of micronutrients in modern human evolution
29 Aug 2025 American Journal of Human Genetics
Rees J, Castellano S, Andrés AM

Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution
21 Jul 2025 Cell
Soto DC, Uribe-Salazar JM, Kaya G, Valdarrago R, Sekar A, Haghani NK, Hino K, La G, Mariano NAF, Ingamells C, Baraban A, Jamal Z, Turner TN, Green ED, Simó S, Quon G, Andrés AM, Dennis MY

The population genomic legacy of the second plague pandemic
1 Oct 2022 Current Biology
Gopalakrishnan S, Ebenesersdóttir SS, Lundstrøm IKC, Turner-Walker G, Moore KHS, Luisi P, Margaryan A, Martin MD, Ellegaard MR, Magnússon ÓÞ, Sigurðsson Á, Snorradóttir S, Magnúsdóttir DN, Laffoon JE, van Dorp L, Liu X, Moltke I, Ávila-Arcos MC, Schraiber JG, Rasmussen S, Juan D, Gelabert P, de-Dios T, Fotakis AK, Iraeta-Orbegozo M, Vågene ÅJ, Denham SD, Christophersen A, Stenøien HK, Vieira FG, Liu S, Günther T, Kivisild T, Moseng OG, Skar B, Cheung C, Sandoval-Velasco M, Wales N, Schroeder H, Campos PF, Guðmundsdóttir VB, Sicheritz-Ponten T, Petersen B, Halgunset J, Gilbert E, Cavalleri GL, Hovig E, Kockum I, Olsson T, Alfredsson L, Hansen TF, Werge T, Willerslev E, Balloux F, Marques-Bonet T, Lalueza-Fox C, Nielsen R, Stefánsson K, Helgason A, Gilbert MTP

Genome Reduction Is Associated with Bacterial Pathogenicity across Different Scales of Temporal and Ecological Divergence
Apr 2021 Molecular Biology and Evolution
Murray GGR, Charlesworth J, Miller EL, Casey MJ, Lloyd CT, Gottschalk M, Tucker AWD, Welch JJ, Weinert LA

 

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