All posts tagged with HGDP

How widespread is Denisovan ancestry today?

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Last month, David Reich and colleagues Reich:Denisova:2011 reported on estimates of Denisovan ancestry for island and mainland Asian populations. Their most ...

Spatial variation and near-fixed selected alleles

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I couple of people have asked me about a new paper in PLoS Genetics by Graham Coop and colleagues, titled, “The role of geography in human adaptation.” The p...

Overstating the obvious

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I’m reading this interesting paper by Joseph Pickrell and colleagues, titled, “Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human population...