Genetic adaptation to pathogens and increased risk of inflammatory disorders in post-Neolithic Europe

G Kerner, AL Neehus, Q Philippot, J Bohlen, D Rinchai… - Cell genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Ancient genomics can directly detect human genetic adaptation to environmental cues.
However, it remains unclear how pathogens have exerted selective pressures on human …

High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry

K Wang, K Prüfer, B Krause-Kyora, A Childebayeva… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The Tyrolean Iceman is known as one of the oldest human glacier mummies,
directly dated to 3350–3120 calibrated BCE. A previously published low-coverage genome …

Population differentiation of polygenic score predictions under stabilizing selection

S Yair, G Coop - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Given the many small-effect loci uncovered by genome-wide association studies (GWAS),
polygenic scores have become central to genomic medicine, and have found application in …

Medieval social landscape through the genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death

R Hui, CL Scheib, E D'Atanasio, SA Inskip, C Cessford… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The extent of the devastation of the Black Death pandemic (1346-53) on European
populations is known from documentary sources and its bacterial source illuminated by …

[HTML][HTML] Testing for differences in polygenic scores in the presence of confounding

J Blanc, JJ Berg - BioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Polygenic scores have become an important tool in human genetics, enabling the prediction
of individuals' phenotypes from their genotypes. Understanding how the pattern of …

The effect of long-range linkage disequilibrium on allele-frequency dynamics under stabilizing selection

S Negm, C Veller - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Stabilizing selection on a polygenic trait reduces the trait's genetic variance by (i) generating
correlations (linkage disequilibria) between opposite-effect alleles throughout the genome …

[图书][B] Selection and Introgression in Humans and Other Animals

S Yair - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Many longstanding questions in evolution concern the major forces that shape genetic
variation in natural populations: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation, gene flow, and …