Paper published in PNAS, “Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa”
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Paper published in Nature, “Sequence variants in SLC16A11 are a common risk factor for type 2 diabetes in Mexico”
Paper published in Nature, “The complete genome of a sequence of a Neandertal from the Altai Mountains”
Paper published in Genetics, “A novel approach to estimating heterozygosity from low-coverage genome sequence”
Paper published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, “Efficient moment-based inference of admixture parameters and sources of gene flow”
Paper published in Genetics, “Inferring admixture histories of human populations using linkage disequilibrium”
“Denisova admixture and the first modern human dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania” highlighted as one of the 9 best articles in the American Journal of Human Genetics in 2011 and 2012
Paper published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, “African ancestry and genetic risk for uterine leiomyomata”
Paper published in Nature Genetics, “A direct characterization of human mutation based on microsatellites”
Paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, “Phasing of many thousands of genotyped samples”
Paper published in Nature Genetics, “Extremely low-coverage sequencing and imputation increases power for genome-wide association studies”
Paper published in PLoS One, “Amerind Ancestry, Socioeconomic Status and the Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes in a Colombian Population”
Paper published in PLoS One, “African ancestry and its correlation to Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans: a genetic admixture analysis in three U.S. population cohorts”
Paper published in Science, Comment on ‘Widespread DNA and RNA sequence differences in the human transcriptome’
Congratulations to Heng Li, who has won the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences.
Paper published in Genome Research, “Cost-effective high-throughput DNA sequencing libraries for multiplexed target capture”
Paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, “Denisova admixture and the first modern human dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania”
Paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, “Genome-wide Comparison of African-Ancestry Populations from CARe and Other Cohorts Reveals Signals of Natural Selection”
Paper published in Nature, “Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences”
Paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, “Recent Admixture in an Indian Population of African Ancestry”
Congratulations to David Reich for receiving tenure at Harvard Medical School.
Paper published in PLoS Genetics, “The History of African Gene Flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines, and Jews”
The Neandertal Genome Sequencing Consortium receives the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the best paper in Science in 2010.
Paper published in Genetic Epidemiology, “Ancestry informative marker panels for African Americans based on subsets of commercially available SNP arrays”
Paper published in Nature, “Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia”
Paper published in PLoS Biology, “Genomic DNA sequences from mastodon and woolly mammoth reveal deep speciation of forest and savanna elephants”