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Evolutionary genetics of skin pigmentation in African populations by Feng, Yuanqing, McQuillan, Michael A, Tishkoff, Sarah A

“…Abstract Skin color is a highly heritable human trait, and global variation in skin pigmentation has been shaped by natural selection, migration and admixture…”
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Maladaptive learning and memory in hybrids as a reproductive isolating barrier by Rice, Amber M., McQuillan, Michael A.

“…Selection against hybrid offspring, or postzygotic reproductive isolation, maintains species boundaries in the face of gene flow from hybridization. In this…”
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The importance of including ethnically diverse populations in studies of quantitative trait evolution by McQuillan, Michael A, Zhang, Chao, Tishkoff, Sarah A, Platt, Alexander

“…For many traits, human variation is less a matter of categorical differences than quantitative variation, such as height, where individuals fall along a…”
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Hybrid chickadees are deficient in learning and memory by McQuillan, Michael A., Roth, Timothy C., Huynh, Alex V., Rice, Amber M.

“…Identifying the phenotypes underlying postzygotic reproductive isolation is crucial for fully understanding the evolution and maintenance of species. One…”
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Signatures of Convergent Evolution and Natural Selection at the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Region are Correlated with Agriculture in Ethnically Diverse Africans by McQuillan, Michael A, Ranciaro, Alessia, Hansen, Matthew E B, Fan, Shaohua, Beggs, William, Belay, Gurja, Woldemeskel, Dawit, Tishkoff, Sarah A

“…The alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) family of genes encodes enzymes that catalyze the metabolism of ethanol into acetaldehyde. Nucleotide variation in ADH genes…”
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Diverse African genomes reveal selection on ancient modern human introgressions in Neanderthals by Harris, Daniel N, Platt, Alexander, Hansen, Matthew E B, Fan, Shaohua, McQuillan, Michael A, Nyambo, Thomas, Mpoloka, Sununguko Wata, Mokone, Gaonyadiwe George, Belay, Gurja, Fokunang, Charles, Njamnshi, Alfred K, Tishkoff, Sarah A

“…Comparisons of Neanderthal genomes to anatomically modern human (AMH) genomes show a history of Neanderthal-to-AMH introgression stemming from interbreeding…”
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Differential effects of climate and species interactions on range limits at a hybrid zone: potential direct and indirect impacts of climate change by McQuillan, Michael A., Rice, Amber M.

“…The relative contributions of climate versus interspecific interactions in shaping species distributions have important implications for closely related…”
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Association between telomere length and Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity in sub-Saharan Africans by McQuillan, Michael A., Verhulst, Simon, Hansen, Matthew E.B., Beggs, William, Meskel, Dawit Wolde, Belay, Gurja, Nyambo, Thomas, Mpoloka, Sununguko Wata, Mokone, Gaonyadiwe George, Fokunang, Charles, Njamnshi, Alfred K., Chanock, Stephen J., Aviv, Abraham, Tishkoff, Sarah A.

“…Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) varies significantly across human populations, with individuals of African ancestry having longer LTL than non-Africans…”
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Genetics and geography of leukocyte telomere length in sub-Saharan Africans by Hunt, Steven C, Hansen, Matthew E B, Verhulst, Simon, McQuillan, Michael A, Beggs, William, Lai, Tsung-Po, Mokone, Gaonyadiwe G, Mpoloka, Sununguko Wata, Meskel, Dawit Wolde, Belay, Gurja, Nyambo, Thomas B, Abnet, Christian C, Yeager, Meredith, Chanock, Stephen J, Province, Michael A, Williams, Scott M, Aviv, Abraham, Tishkoff, Sarah A

“…Abstract Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) might be causal in cardiovascular disease and major cancers. To elucidate the roles of genetics and geography in LTL…”
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Population differentiation at a regional scale in spadefoot toads： contributions of distance and divergent selective environments by Rice, Amber M., McQuillan, Michael A., Seears, Heidi A., Warren, Joanna A.

“…The causes of population differentiation can provide insight into the origins of early barriers to gene flow. Two key drivers of population differentiation are…”
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Very functorial, very fast, and very easy resolution of singularities by McQuillan, Michael

“…The main proposition, Theorem 1.2, is the existence for excellent Deligne–Mumford champ of characteristic zero of a resolution functor independent of the…”
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Formal groupoids by McQuillan, Michael

“…We provide foundations for a characteristic free study of foliated varieties in terms of infinitesimal actions of formal groupoids. The ultimate goal is the…”
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Orbifold transversality by McQuillan, Michael

“…We prove a best possible transversality theorem for maps from manifolds to orbifolds, and, more generally arbitrary differentiable Deligne–Mumford classifying…”
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Baby Geography and Mordellicity of Surfaces by McQuillan, Michael

“…We prove strong Mordell for surfaces of general type and non-negative index over characteristic zero function fields by way of a, probably, more interesting…”
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Curves on surfaces of mixed characteristic by McQuillan, Michael

“…The classification of foliated surfaces (McQuillan in Pure Appl Math Q 4(3):877–1012, 2008 ) is applied to the study of curves on surfaces with big co-tangent…”
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Maladaptive learning and memory in hybrids as a reproductive isolating barrier by Rice, Amber M., McQuillan, Michael A.

“…Selection against hybrid offspring, or postzygotic reproductive isolation, maintains species boundaries in the face of gene flow from hybridization. In this…”
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1284-P: Genetic and Lifestyle Associations with Cardiometabolic Traits and Diabetes Risk Factors in Ethnically Diverse Africans by HUI, DANIEL, HARRIS, DANIEL, MCQUILLAN, MICHAEL, HANSEN, MATTHEW, RANCIARO, ALESSIA, BEGGS, WILLIAM, MPOLOKA, SUNUNGUKO W., WOLDEMESKEL, DAWIT, NJAMNSHI, ALFRED K.K., NYAMBO, THOMAS B., CHANOCK, STEPHEN, TISHKOFF, SARAH A.

“…African ancestry populations are underrepresented in human genetic studies, which leaves a knowledge gap about genetic and environmental risk factors for…”
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Thurston Vanishing by McQuillan, Michael

“…We show how to extend Epstein's algebraic transversality principles for rational maps $f$ of ${\mathbb P}^1_{\mathbb C}$ to infinite forward invariant subsets…”
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Hybrid chickadees are deficient in learning and memory: BRIEF COMMUNICATION by McQuillan, Michael A., Roth, Timothy C., Huynh, Alex V., Rice, Amber M.

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Ecological Causes and Evolutionary Consequences of Natural Hybridization in Chickadees by McQuillan, Michael A

“…Natural hybridization—when distinct species mate and produce offspring of mixed ancestry—is common in nature and provides a window into the process of species…”
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