Hairy Bittercress Conquers Japan’s Temperature Gradient With Four Genetic Clusters
A genomic study of the invasive plant Cardamine hirsuta in eastern Japan reveals four genetic clusters with distinct climatic associations, ...
Tag: population genetics
Genomic Maps and Landscape Models Aim to Sharpen Africa’s Tsetse Eradication Campaigns
A new review outlines how population genomics, species distribution modeling, and landscape genetics can be integrated to design area-wide tsetse ...
Ancient Polynesian Voyaging Left Its Mark in the Genomes of Island Populations
A new Science study of 1,050 Polynesian genomes shows that nested founder effects from ancient ocean voyaging shaped the genetic ...
Gut Microbes That Traveled the World With Ancient Humans Are Vanishing
Deep genomic sequencing of the Tsimane and Hadza peoples reveals that hundreds of gut bacterial species co-migrated with humans across ...
Ancient Chromosomal Inversions Shape Sexual Traits in Wild Guppies
A study of Trinidadian guppies finds that ancient chromosomal inversions, some millions of years old, are maintained by female preference ...
New AI Model Learns the Hidden Architecture of Human Genetic Variation
Researchers have unveiled Genetic Probabilistic Circuits, a deep generative model that captures long-range genetic correlations, improves genotype imputation for underrepresented ...
Tsunami-Forced Fish Hybrids Purge Foreign Genes in Just a Decade, Revealing Speciation in Action
Nine years of genomic monitoring of a tsunami-created hybrid stickleback population in Japan reveals that foreign marine alleles were purged ...
New Matrix Method Captures Selection at Genes With Many Alleles
Researchers have developed a matrix-based framework that models and estimates selection at multiallelic loci, capturing regimes such as heterozygote advantage ...
City Squirrels Show Genetic Split From Urban Life, Yet Their Survival Stays Untouched
A four-year study of Eurasian red squirrels across Berlin's urban-rural gradient reveals subtle genetic differentiation driven by city infrastructure, yet ...
DNA Fingerprinting Gets a Local Upgrade: 24 STR Markers Profiled in India’s Santhal Community
A new study of 210 Santhal individuals in Bihar, India, shows that 24 autosomal STR markers deliver near-certain identification power ...
Mosquito ancestry shapes chikungunya and dengue risk across the Mediterranean
A new study shows that the chaotic colonization history and genetic ancestry of Aedes albopictus populations in the Mediterranean significantly ...
AI Learns to Phase Genomes Without Any Reference Panel
A new transformer-based deep learning framework called RefFree-Phaser achieves genotype phasing accuracies above 91 percent without the large reference panels ...
New Scoring Method Pinpoints the Rare Genetic Variants That Matter Most for Common Diseases
A new heritability-optimized scoring method called RovHer identifies the rare missense variants that explain the most genetic variation in complex ...
New Algorithm Simulates Gene Frequency Histories Exactly, Even as Populations Change Size
Researchers have unveiled EWF 2.0, an exact simulation algorithm that generates statistically perfect allele frequency trajectories under the Wright–Fisher diffusion ...
Ancient African Genomes Reveal Human Evolution
A groundbreaking genetic study has unveiled unprecedented insights into the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens by analyzing ancient southern African ...
Polygenic Risk Scores Vary Across Populations in Diabetes
In a groundbreaking study published recently in Nature Communications, researchers have unveiled compelling evidence about the complex and context-dependent nature ...
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