Search Results - "Kermany, Amir"

Clustering of 770,000 genomes reveals post-colonial population structure of North America by Han, Eunjung, Carbonetto, Peter, Curtis, Ross E., Wang, Yong, Granka, Julie M., Byrnes, Jake, Noto, Keith, Kermany, Amir R., Myres, Natalie M., Barber, Mathew J., Rand, Kristin A., Song, Shiya, Roman, Theodore, Battat, Erin, Elyashiv, Eyal, Guturu, Harendra, Hong, Eurie L., Chahine, Kenneth G., Ball, Catherine A.

“…Despite strides in characterizing human history from genetic polymorphism data, progress in identifying genetic signatures of recent demography has been…”
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Evolutionary history inferred from the de novo assembly of a nonmodel organism, the blue‐eyed black lemur by Meyer, Wynn K, Venkat, Aarti, Kermany, Amir R, de Geijn, Bryce, Zhang, Sidi, Przeworski, Molly

“…Lemurs, the living primates most distantly related to humans, demonstrate incredible diversity in behaviour, life history patterns and adaptive traits…”
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Fixation probability in a two-locus model by the ancestral recombination-selection graph by Lessard, Sabin, Kermany, Amir R

“…We use the ancestral influence graph (AIG) for a two-locus, two-allele selection model in the limit of a large population size to obtain an analytic…”
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TroX: a new method to learn about the genesis of aneuploidy from trisomic products of conception by Kermany, Amir R, Segurel, Laure, Oliver, Tiffany R, Przeworski, Molly

“…An estimated 10-30% of clinically recognized conceptions are aneuploid, leading to spontaneous miscarriages, in vitro fertilization failures and, when viable,…”
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A Prospective Analysis of Genetic Variants Associated with Human Lifespan by Wright, Kevin M, Rand, Kristin A, Kermany, Amir, Noto, Keith, Curtis, Don, Garrigan, Daniel, Slinkov, Dmitri, Dorfman, Ilya, Granka, Julie M, Byrnes, Jake, Myres, Natalie, Ball, Catherine A, Ruby, J Graham

“…We present a massive investigation into the genetic basis of human lifespan. Beginning with a genome-wide association (GWA) study using a de-identified…”
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Effect of epistasis and linkage on fixation probability in three-locus models: An ancestral recombination–selection graph approach by Kermany, Amir R., Lessard, Sabin

“…We study the probability of ultimate fixation of a single new mutant arising in an individual chosen at random at a locus linked to two other loci carrying…”
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Joint stationary moments of a two-island diffusion model of population subdivision by Kermany, Amir R.R., Zhou, Xiaowen, Hickey, Donal A.

“…An expression for joint stationary moments of a diffusion approximation to a generalized Wright–Fisher model, corresponding to two finite populations of equal…”
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Finite Populations, Finite Resources, and the Evolutionary Maintenance of Genetic Recombination by Ackerman, Sol, Kermany, Amir R, Hickey, Donal A

“…Most previous models for the evolution of sex implicitly assume infinite population sizes and limitless resources. However, because favorable mutations are…”
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Estimates of the Heritability of Human Longevity Are Substantially Inflated due to Assortative Mating by Ruby, J Graham, Wright, Kevin M, Rand, Kristin A, Kermany, Amir, Noto, Keith, Curtis, Don, Varner, Neal, Garrigan, Daniel, Slinkov, Dmitri, Dorfman, Ilya, Granka, Julie M, Byrnes, Jake, Myres, Natalie, Ball, Catherine

“…Human life span is a phenotype that integrates many aspects of health and environment into a single ultimate quantity: the elapsed time between birth and…”
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Modeling change of haplotype distributions in random mating populations using random sets by Raji-Kermany, A., Charalambous, C.D., Hickey, D.

“…Several mathematical models have been developed to describe the genetic structure of populations. Most of these models focus on only one, or few genetic loci…”
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