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Genetic differences between human populations: more drift than selection?
T. Hofer, N. Ray, D. Wegmann, L. Excoffier (2009). Large allele frequency differences between human continental groups are more likely to have occurred by drift during range expansions than by...
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The genetic history of Iceland
Razib has an excellent discussion of a brand new paper in PLoS Genetics, which uses DNA samples from medieval Icelandic skeletons to explore the genetic history of the Icelandic population. This...
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Nonsense in the human genome
Just a quick pointer to a new paper in American Journal of Human Genetics with my office-mate Bryndis Yngvadottir as lead author, which I see has already received some well-deserved coverage from...
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Signals of selection in the human genome: important new paper
I’ll hopefully have more time to write about this tomorrow, but for now I’ll simply suggest that you go and read the free full text PDF of this advance online manuscript in Genome Research. This is the...
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Genetic signatures of recent human evolution, continued
Pickrell, J., Coop, G., Novembre, J., Kudaravalli, S., Li, J., Absher, D., Srinivasan, B., Barsh, G., Myers, R., Feldman, M., & Pritchard, J. (2009). Signals of recent positive selection in a...
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Massive study of African genetic diversity
This is a profoundly impressive paper – a study of the patterns of genetic variation in 2,400 individuals from 113 African populations, by far the most comprehensive analysis of African genetic...
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Genetic complexity
Razib from Gene Expression has a frankly heroic post up dissecting a recent paper on genetic variation around the FUT2 gene, which encodes a cell surface protein involved in the pathway that produces...
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