Population-specific common SNPs reflect demographic histories and highlight regions of genomic plasticity with functional relevance

A Choudhury, S Hazelhurst, A Meintjes… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Population differentiation is the result of demographic and evolutionary forces.
Whole genome datasets from the 1000 Genomes Project (October 2012) provide an …

Whole-genome sequence analyses of Western Central African Pygmy hunter-gatherers reveal a complex demographic history and identify candidate genes under …

PH Hsieh, KR Veeramah, J Lachance… - Genome …, 2016 - genome.cshlp.org
African Pygmies practicing a mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyle are phenotypically and
genetically diverged from other anatomically modern humans, and they likely experienced …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous distribution of SNPs in the human genome: microsatellites as predictors of nucleotide diversity and divergence

MA Varela, W Amos - Genomics, 2010 - Elsevier
Understanding the forces that govern the distribution of single nucleotide polymorphisms is
vital for many of their applications. Here we conducted a systematic search to quantify how …

Phenotypic differentiation of Streptococcus pyogenes populations is induced by recombination-driven gene-specific sweeps

YJ Bao, BJ Shapiro, SW Lee, VA Ploplis… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Genomic recombination plays an important role in driving adaptive evolution and population
differentiation in bacteria. However, controversy exists as to the effects of recombination on …

Molecular adaptation in flowering and symbiotic recognition pathways: insights from patterns of polymorphism in the legume Medicago truncatula

S De Mita, N Chantret, K Loridon, J Ronfort… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2011 - Springer
Background We studied patterns of molecular adaptation in the wild Mediterranean legume
Medicago truncatula. We focused on two phenotypic traits that are not functionally linked …

Experiments with the site frequency spectrum

R Sainudiin, K Thornton, J Harlow, J Booth… - Bulletin of mathematical …, 2011 - Springer
Evaluating the likelihood function of parameters in highly-structured population genetic
models from extant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences is computationally prohibitive …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular epigenetics, chromatin, and NeuroAIDS/HIV: translational implications

P Shapshak, F Chiappelli, D Commins, E Singer… - …, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We describe current research that applies epigenetics to a novel understanding of the
immuno-neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 viral infection and NeuroAIDS. We propose the …

Dependency between protein–protein interactions and protein variability and evolutionary rates in vertebrates: Observed relationships and stochastic modeling

X Wang, S Branciamore, G Gogoshin… - Journal of Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Recent developments in sequencing and growth of bioinformatics resources provide us with
vast depositories of protein network and single nucleotide polymorphism data. It allows us to …

Scale invariant correlations between genes and SNPs on human chromosome 1 reveal potential evolutionary mechanisms

WS Kendal - Journal of theoretical biology, 2007 - Elsevier
The local density of gene structures and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) along
human chromosomes appears inhomogeneous. In chromosome 1, the density patterns from …

Statistical inference and modelling for nosocomial infections and the incorporation of whole genome sequence data

CJ Worby - 2013 - eprints.nottingham.ac.uk
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) remain a problem worldwide, and can cause
severe illness and death. The increasing level of antibiotic resistance among bacteria that …