Advances in our understanding of mammalian sex‐biased dispersal

LJ Lawson Handley, N Perrin - Molecular ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Sex‐biased dispersal is an almost ubiquitous feature of mammalian life history, but the
evolutionary causes behind these patterns still require much clarification. A quarter of a …

Inferring sex-biased dispersal from population genetic tools: a review

F Prugnolle, T De Meeˆus - Heredity, 2002 - nature.com
Sex-biased dispersal, where individuals of one sex stay or return to their natal site (or group)
to breed while individuals of the other sex are prone to disperse, is a wide-spread pattern in …

A multi-ethnic genome-wide association study identifies novel loci for non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate on 2p24. 2, 17q23 and 19q13

EJ Leslie, JC Carlson, JR Shaffer… - Human molecular …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Orofacial clefts (OFCs), which include non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate
(CL/P), are among the most common birth defects in humans, affecting approximately 1 in …

Inferring genetic ancestry: opportunities, challenges, and implications

CD Royal, J Novembre, SM Fullerton… - The American Journal of …, 2010 - cell.com
Increasing public interest in direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic ancestry testing has been
accompanied by growing concern about issues ranging from the personal and societal …

Reconstructing Native American migrations from whole-genome and whole-exome data

S Gravel, F Zakharia, A Moreno-Estrada… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
There is great scientific and popular interest in understanding the genetic history of
populations in the Americas. We wish to understand when different regions of the continent …

Genetics of population isolates

M Arcos‐Burgos, M Muenke - Clinical genetics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic isolates, as shown empirically by the Finnish, Old Order Amish, Hutterites, Sardinian
and Jewish communities among others, represent a most important and powerful tool in …

Hierarchical patterns of global human Y-chromosome diversity

MF Hammer, TM Karafet, AJ Redd… - Molecular Biology …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
We examined 43 biallelic polymorphisms on the nonrecombining portion of the Y
chromosome (NRY) in 50 human populations encompassing a total of 2,858 males to study …

Evolution and development of boys' social behavior

DC Geary, J Byrd-Craven, MK Hoard, J Vigil… - Developmental …, 2003 - Elsevier
An evolutionary analysis of the dynamics of one-on-one and coalitional male–male
competition provides a theoretical frame for conceptualizing the evolved functions and …

Strong Amerind/white sex bias and a possible Sephardic contribution among the founders of a population in northwest Colombia

LG Carvajal-Carmona, ID Soto, N Pineda… - The American Journal of …, 2000 - cell.com
Historical and genetic evidences suggest that the recently founded population of Antioquia
(Colombia) is potentially useful for the genetic mapping of complex traits. This population …

The African diaspora: mitochondrial DNA and the Atlantic slave trade

A Salas, M Richards, MV Lareu, R Scozzari… - The American Journal of …, 2004 - cell.com
Between the 15th and 19th centuries ad, the Atlantic slave trade resulted in the forced
movement of∼ 13 million people from Africa, mainly to the Americas. Only∼ 11 million …