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    Archaic Hominin Admixture Facilitated Adaptation to Out-of-Africa Environments by Gittelman, Rachel M., Schraiber, Joshua G., Vernot, Benjamin, Mikacenic, Carmen, Wurfel, Mark M., Akey, Joshua M.

    Published in Current biology (19-12-2016)
    “…As modern humans dispersed from Africa throughout the world, they encountered and interbred with archaic hominins, including Neanderthals and Denisovans [1,…”
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    Impact of HLA type, age and chronic viral infection on peripheral T-cell receptor sharing between unrelated individuals by Johnson, Sarah A, Seale, Spencer L, Gittelman, Rachel M, Rytlewski, Julie A, Robins, Harlan S, Fields, Paul A

    Published in PloS one (30-08-2021)
    “…The human adaptive immune system must generate extraordinary diversity to be able to respond to all possible pathogens. The T-cell repertoire derives this high…”
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    Characteristics of Neutral and Deleterious Protein-Coding Variation among Individuals and Populations by Fu, Wenqing, Gittelman, Rachel M., Bamshad, Michael J., Akey, Joshua M.

    Published in American journal of human genetics (02-10-2014)
    “…Whole-genome and exome data sets continue to be produced at a frenetic pace, resulting in massively large catalogs of human genomic variation. However, a clear…”
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    Comprehensive identification and analysis of human accelerated regulatory DNA by Gittelman, Rachel M, Hun, Enna, Ay, Ferhat, Madeoy, Jennifer, Pennacchio, Len, Noble, William S, Hawkins, R David, Akey, Joshua M

    Published in Genome research (01-09-2015)
    “…It has long been hypothesized that changes in gene regulation have played an important role in human evolution, but regulatory DNA has been much more difficult…”
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    Evolution of DNAase I Hypersensitive Sites in MHC Regulatory Regions of Primates by Jin, Yabin, Gittelman, Rachel M, Lu, Yueer, Liu, Xiaohui, Li, Ming D, Ling, Fei, Akey, Joshua M

    Published in Genetics (Austin) (01-06-2018)
    “…It has been challenging to determine the disease-causing variant(s) for most major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-associated diseases. However, it is…”
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    Detecting Sources of Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Large-Scale RNA-Seq Data Sets by Searle, Brian C, Gittelman, Rachel M, Manor, Ohad, Akey, Joshua M

    Published in Genetics (Austin) (01-12-2016)
    “…Gene expression levels are dynamic molecular phenotypes that respond to biological, environmental, and technical perturbations. Here we use a novel…”
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    Exploring signatures of positive selection in pigmentation candidate genes in populations of East Asian ancestry by Hider, Jessica L, Gittelman, Rachel M, Shah, Tapan, Edwards, Melissa, Rosenbloom, Arnold, Akey, Joshua M, Parra, Esteban J

    Published in BMC evolutionary biology (12-07-2013)
    “…Currently, there is very limited knowledge about the genes involved in normal pigmentation variation in East Asian populations. We carried out a genome-wide…”
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