Three ancestral populations for Europeans (Nature 2014)
2016
10/03/16
Paper published in Nature
“Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific”
9/22/16
Paper published in Nature
“The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations”
8/07/16
Paper published in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
“A genomic view of the peopling of the Americas”
7/25/16
Paper published in Nature
“Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East”
5/02/16
Paper published in Nature
“The genetic history of Ice Age Europe”
5/02/2016
Paper published in PNAS
“A genetic method for dating ancient genomes provides a direct estimate of human generation interval in the last 45,000 years”
4/02/16
Paper published in Science Advances
“Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas”
3/28/16
Paper published in Current Biology
“The combined landscape of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans”
1/22/16
Job opening: post-doctoral fellow position - "Learning about history using genetic data”
1/22/16
Job opening: post-doctoral fellow position - "Ancient DNA”
2015
12/25/15
David Reich highlighted in Nature as one of ten scientists who made a difference in 2015
11/23/15
Paper published in Nature
“Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians”
11/16/15
Paper published in Nature Genetics
“The contribution of rare variation to prostate cancer heritability”
11/12/15
Paper published in PLoS Genetics
“Calibrating the Human Mutation Rate via Ancestral Recombination Density in Diploid Genomes”
10/05/15
“Population structure and eigenanalysis” included in “The PLoS Genetics Tenth Anniversary Collection” of the ten most downloaded articles in PLoS Genetics.
9/11/15
Paper published in Science
“Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation”
7/21/2015
David Reich becomes a member of the Systems Biology program.
7/21/15
Paper published in Nature
“Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas”
6/22/15
Paper published in Nature
“An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor”
05/22/15
Paper published in Current Biology
“Ancient Wolf Genome Reveals an Early Divergence of Domestic Dog Ancestors and Admixture into High-Latitude Breeds”
05/18/15
Paper published in Current Biology
“Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth”
05/06/15
Paper published in Bioinformatics
“BFC: correcting Illumina sequencing error”
03/25/15
Paper published in eLife
“Non-crossover gene conversions show strong GC bias and unexpected clustering in humans”
03/02/15
Paper published in Nature
“Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe”
01/12/15
Paper published in Nature Genetics
“No evidence that selection has been less effective at removing deleterious mutations in Europeans than in Africans”
01/08/15
Paper published in AJHG
“The genetic ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States”
2014
12/08/14
Paper published in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B
“Partial uracil-DNA-glycosylase treatment for screening of ancient DNA”
10/23/14
Paper published in Nature
“Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia”
10/19/14
We have released 263 new complete genomes sequences - the Simons Genome Diversity Project
10/02/14
Paper published in AJHG
“Genome-wide scan of 29,141 African Americans finds no evidence of directional selection since admixture”
09/30/14
Nathan Nakatsuka joins the lab as a Ph.D. student
09/17/14
Paper published in Nature
“Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans”
08/26/14
Paper published in Trends in Genetics
“Toward a new history and geography of human genes informed by ancient DNA”
08/19/14
Paper published in Nature Communications
“Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia”
02/05/14
Paper published in PNAS
“Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa”
01/29/14
Paper published in Nature
“The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans”
01/15/14
Paper published in Nature
“Sequence variants in SLC16A11 are a common risk factor for type 2 diabetes in Mexico”
2013
12/19/13
Paper published in Nature
“The complete genome of a sequence of a Neandertal from the Altai Mountains”
08/12/13
Paper published in Genetics
“A novel approach to estimating heterozygosity from low-coverage genome sequence”
08/09/13
Paper published in AJHG
“Genetic Evidence for Recent Population Mixture in India”
07/15/13
Paper published in Molecular Biology and Evolution
“Efficient moment-based inference of admixture parameters and sources of gene flow”
05/09/13
David Reich is selected as an HHMI investigator.
04/01/13
Paper published in Genetics
“Inferring admixture histories of human populations using linkage disequilibrium”
03/16/13
Paper published in PLoS One
“Reconstructing Roma history from genome-wide data”
2012
12/13/12
Discover Magazine and Biotechniques profiles of David Reich.
12/13/12
MixMapper 1.0 software package may now be downloaded from the Software page.
11/19/12
“Denisova admixture and the first modern human dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania” highlighted as one of the 9 best articles in the American Journal of Human Genetics in 2011 and 2012”
11/15/12
Paper published in the American Journal of Epidemiology
“African ancestry and genetic risk for uterine leiomyomata”
11/01/12
ALDER 1.0 software package may now be downloaded from the Software page.
10/16/12
Paper published in Nature Communications
“The genetic prehistory of southern Africa”
10/05/12
Paper published in PLoS Genetics
“The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans”
9/17/12
HAPI-UR software for phasing large datasets now available from the Software page.
9/7/12
Paper published in Genetics
“Ancient admixture in human history”
9/7/12
ADMIXTOOLS software package may now be downloaded from the Software page.
9/1/12
Paper published in Science
“A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual”
8/23/12
Paper published in Nature Genetics
“A direct characterization of human mutation based on microsatellites”
8/10/12
Paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics
“Phasing of many thousands of genotyped samples”
7/11/12
Paper published in Nature
“Reconstructing Native American Population History”
5/21/12
Paper published in Nature Genetics
“Extremely low-coverage sequencing and imputation increases power for genome-wide association studies”
4/23/12
Paper published in PLoS One
“Amerind Ancestry, Socioeconomic Status and the Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes in a Colombian Population”
3/26/12
Paper published in PLoS One
“African ancestry and its correlation to Type 2 Diabetes in African Americans: a genetic admixture analysis in three U.S. population cohorts”
3/18/12
Congratulations to Heng Li, who has won the 2012 Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences.
3/18/12
Paper published in Science
Comment on ‘Widespread DNA and RNA sequence differences in the human transcriptome’
2/1/12
Book chapter published in Springer Protocols
“Ancient DNA Methods and Protocols”
1/20/12
Paper published in Genome Research
“Cost-effective high-throughput DNA sequencing libraries for multiplexed target capture”
2011
10/07/11
Paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics
“Denisova admixture and the first modern human dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania”
9/08/11
Paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics
“Genome-wide Comparison of African-Ancestry Populations from CARe and Other Cohorts Reveals Signals of Natural Selection”
7/20/11
Paper published in Nature
“The landscape of recombination in African Americans”
7/14/11
Paper published in Nature
“Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences”
7/07/11
Paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics
“Recent Admixture in an Indian Population of African Ancestry”
6/22/11
Congratulations to David Reich for receiving tenure at Harvard Medical School.
4/21/11
Paper published in PLoS Genetics
“The History of African Gene Flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines, and Jews”
3/14/11
HAPMIX 1.2 is released.
2/11/11
The Neandertal Genome Sequencing Consortium receives the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the best paper in Science in 2010.
1/20/11
Nature calls Rohland et al (2010) “most viewed paper in science” in January 20th issue.
2010
12/24/10
Paper published in Genetic Epidemiology
“Ancestry informative marker panels for African Americans based on subsets of commercially available SNP arrays”
12/22/10
Paper published in Nature
“Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia”
12/21/10
Paper published in PLoS Biology
“Genomic DNA sequences from mastodon and woolly mammoth reveal deep speciation of
forest and savanna elephants”
The landscape of human genome diversity (Nature 2016)
Medical & Population Genetics
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