Insights from genomes into the evolutionary importance and prevalence of hybridization in nature

SA Taylor, EL Larson - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Hybridization is an evolutionary phenomenon that has fascinated biologists for centuries.
Prior to the advent of whole-genome sequencing, it was clear that hybridization had played …

Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense

J Cheng, G Novati, J Pan, C Bycroft, A Žemgulytė… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The vast majority of missense variants observed in the human genome are of unknown
clinical significance. We present AlphaMissense, an adaptation of AlphaFold fine-tuned on …

Epigenetic patterns in a complete human genome

A Gershman, MEG Sauria, X Guitart, MR Vollger… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The completion of a telomere-to-telomere human reference genome, T2T-CHM13, has
resolved complex regions of the genome, including repetitive and homologous regions …

A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species

LFK Kuderna, H Gao, MC Janiak, M Kuhlwilm, JD Orkin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The rich diversity of morphology and behavior displayed across primate species provides an
informative context in which to study the impact of genomic diversity on fundamental …

fastsimcoal2: demographic inference under complex evolutionary scenarios

L Excoffier, N Marchi, DA Marques… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation fastsimcoal2 extends fastsimcoal, a continuous time coalescent-based genetic
simulation program, by enabling the estimation of demographic parameters under very …

The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates

H Gao, T Hamp, J Ede, JG Schraiber, J McRae… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Personalized genome sequencing has revealed millions of genetic differences between
individuals, but our understanding of their clinical relevance remains largely incomplete. To …

The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

V Slon, F Mafessoni, B Vernot, C De Filippo, S Grote… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Neanderthals and Denisovans are extinct groups of hominins that separated from each
other more than 390,000 years ago,. Here we present the genome of 'Denisova 11', a bone …

Genomic insights into population history and biological adaptation in Oceania

J Choin, J Mendoza-Revilla, LR Arauna… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The Pacific region is of major importance for addressing questions regarding human
dispersals, interactions with archaic hominins and natural selection processes. However, the …

Conservation of biodiversity in the genomics era

MA Supple, B Shapiro - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
Abstract “Conservation genomics” encompasses the idea that genome-scale data will
improve the capacity of resource managers to protect species. Although genetic approaches …