Exploring the relationships between autozygosity, educational attainment, and cognitive ability in a contemporary, trans-ancestral American sample

SMC Colbert, MC Keller, A Agrawal, EC Johnson - Behavior genetics, 2022 - Springer
Previous studies have found significant associations between estimated autozygosity-the
proportion of an individual's genome contained in homozygous segments due to distant …

Runs of homozygosity are associated with staging of periodontitis in isolated populations

M Mezzavilla, CO Navarra, R Di Lenarda… - Human Molecular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Periodontitis is a common inflammatory disease characterized by a complex etiology, which
is the result of a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Genetic variants linked to …

Marriage in the Melting Pot: An Evolutionary Approach to European Ancestry, Homogamy, and Fertility in the United States

A Schahbasi, S Huber, M Fieder - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
To understand marriage patterns, homogamy, and fertility of women of European ancestry in
the United States from an evolutionary perspective, we investigated if a prevalence of …

Long tracks of homozygosity predict the severity of alcohol use disorders in an American Indian population

Q Peng, CL Ehlers - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Runs of homozygosity (ROH) arise when an individual inherits two copies of the same
haplotype segment. While ROH are ubiquitous across human populations, Native …

Ancestry-related distribution of Runs of homozygosity and functional variants in Qatari population

M Mezzavilla, M Cocca, P Maisano Delser, R Badii… - BMC Genomic …, 2022 - Springer
Background Describing how genetic history shapes the pattern of medically relevant
variants could improve the understanding of how specific loci interact with each other and …

Genetic characterization of two North Italian villages: A story of isolation, ancient admixture, and genetic drift

M Mezzavilla, M Cocca… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Population isolates represent a focus of interest because of their particular
genetic history and the possibility of mapping peculiar deleterious variants. Here we …

British surname origins, population structure and health outcomes—an observational study of hospital admissions

J Petersen, J Kandt, PA Longley - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Population structure is a confounder on pathways linking genotypes to health outcomes.
This study examines whether the historical, geographical origins of British surnames are …

The impact of identity-by-descent on fitness and disease in natural and domesticated Canid populations

JA Mooney, A Yohannes, KE Lohmueller - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Domestic dogs have experienced population bottlenecks, recent inbreeding, and strong
artificial selection. These processes have simplified the genetic architecture of complex …

The evolutionary biology of religious behavior

M Fieder, S Huber - … Journal for Religion and Transformation in …, 2021 - brill.com
In the following review article, we aim to summarize the current research progress in the field
of evolutionary and behavior genetics studies on human religiousness and religious …

A genome-wide association study of COVID-19 related hospitalization in Spain reveals genetic disparities among sexes

Á Carracedo… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
We describe the results of the Spanish Coalition to Unlock Research on Host Genetics on
COVID-19 (SCOURGE). In sex-disaggregated genome-wide studies of COVID-19 …