SLC24A5 is very important, but we don’t know why
Gene Expression,
The golden of pigmentation genetics started in 2005 with SLC24A5, a putative cation exchanger, affects pigmentation in…
The golden of pigmentation genetics started in 2005 with SLC24A5, a putative cation exchanger, affects pigmentation in…
Food is a big deal for humans. Without it we die. Unlike some animals (here’s looking at you pandas) we’re omnivorous. We eat…
In Norman Davies’ the excellent The Isles: A History, he mentions offhand that unlike the Irish the British to a great extent…
Coevolution is defined as cases where two (or more) species RECIPROCALLY affect each other's evolutionary dynamics.
It's been a great year for population genetics and paleogenomics, and also for this blog. I churned out a lot of data in 2015…
Or yet another ancient European DNA study, with some quirks and, critically, the first ancient farmer sample from the Eastern…
Health and…
Eight thousand years of natural selection in…
A new preprint at bioRxiv reports on the first genome-wide scan for selection using ancient DNA, with a couple of unexpected…
The latest from the Reich lab at Harvard. The availability of ancient DNA allows for direct comparisons between ancestral and…
A new preprint on the bioRxiv studies the same data as the recent Haak et al. paper, but focuses on natural selection in Europe.