A roadmap to increase diversity in genomic studies

S Fatumo, T Chikowore, A Choudhury, M Ayub… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Two decades ago, the sequence of the first human genome was published. Since then,
advances in genome technologies have resulted in whole-genome sequencing and …

Pan-genomics in the human genome era

RM Sherman, SL Salzberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Since the early days of the genome era, the scientific community has relied on a single
'reference'genome for each species, which is used as the basis for a wide range of genetic …

High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health

A Choudhury, S Aron, LR Botigué, D Sengupta… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The African continent is regarded as the cradle of modern humans and African genomes
contain more genetic variation than those from any other continent, yet only a fraction of the …

Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation

S Fan, JP Spence, Y Feng, MEB Hansen, J Terhorst… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
We conduct high coverage (> 30×) whole-genome sequencing of 180 individuals from 12
indigenous African populations. We identify millions of unreported variants, many predicted …

African genetic diversity and adaptation inform a precision medicine agenda

L Pereira, L Mutesa, P Tindana, M Ramsay - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The deep evolutionary history of African populations, since the emergence of modern
humans more than 300,000 years ago, has resulted in high genetic diversity and …

Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers

D Sengupta, A Choudhury, C Fortes-Lima… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract South Eastern Bantu-speaking (SEB) groups constitute more than 80% of the
population in South Africa. Despite clear linguistic and geographic diversity, the genetic …

A pan-African pathogen genomics data sharing platform to support disease outbreaks

A Christoffels, G Mboowa, P van Heusden… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
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Diversity in immunogenomics: the value and the challenge

K Peng, Y Safonova, M Shugay, AB Popejoy… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunogenomics studies have been largely limited to individuals of European ancestry,
restricting the ability to identify variation in human adaptive immune responses across …

Tales of human migration, admixture, and selection in Africa

CM Schlebusch, M Jakobsson - Annual Review of Genomics …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In the last three decades, genetic studies have played an increasingly important role in
exploring human history. They have helped to conclusively establish that anatomically …

Characterization of CYP2D6 Pharmacogenetic Variation in Sub‐Saharan African Populations

D Twesigomwe, BI Drögemöller… - Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) is a key enzyme in drug response owing to its
involvement in the metabolism of~ 25% of clinically prescribed medications. The encoding …