Human immune diversity: from evolution to modernity

A Liston, S Humblet-Baron, D Duffy, A Goris - Nature immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The extreme diversity of the human immune system, forged and maintained throughout
evolutionary history, provides a potent defense against opportunistic pathogens. At the same …

Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

Allele frequency net database (AFND) 2020 update: gold-standard data classification, open access genotype data and new query tools

FF Gonzalez-Galarza, A McCabe… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Allele Frequency Net Database (AFND, www. allelefrequencies. net) provides
the scientific community with a freely available repository for the storage of frequency data …

A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals

H Zeberg, S Pääbo - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
It was recently shown that the major genetic risk factor associated with becoming severely ill
with COVID-19 when infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics

R Nielsen, JM Akey, M Jakobsson, JK Pritchard… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Advances in the sequencing and the analysis of the genomes of both modern and ancient
peoples have facilitated a number of breakthroughs in our understanding of human …

Reintroduction of the archaic variant of NOVA1 in cortical organoids alters neurodevelopment

CA Trujillo, ES Rice, NK Schaefer, IA Chaim… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Current views of human evolution, as supported by the fossil record,
indicate that many hominin lineage branches arose, but only one survived to the present …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of human sequence data reveals two pulses of archaic Denisovan admixture

SR Browning, BL Browning, Y Zhou, S Tucci, JM Akey - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Anatomically modern humans interbred with Neanderthals and with a related archaic
population known as Denisovans. Genomes of several Neanderthals and one Denisovan …

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

K Prüfer, F Racimo, N Patterson, F Jay… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
We present a high-quality genome sequence of a Neanderthal woman from Siberia. We
show that her parents were related at the level of half-siblings and that mating among close …

Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

E Huerta-Sánchez, X **, Asan, Z Bianba, BM Peter… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
As modern humans migrated out of Africa, they encountered many new environmental
conditions, including greater temperature extremes, different pathogens and higher …

Allele frequency net 2015 update: new features for HLA epitopes, KIR and disease and HLA adverse drug reaction associations

FF González-Galarza, LYC Takeshita… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
It has been 12 years since the Allele Frequency Net Database (AFND; http://www.
allelefrequencies. net) was first launched, providing the scientific community with an online …