Very happy that the new paper on imputation and selection in ancient Japan, from myself, Shigeki Nakagome and our collaborators has finally been published in iScience iScience journal : cell.com/iscience/fullt… Here’s a thread of the highlights:

Do you use Local Ancestry Inference (LAI)? Wanna know how much error to expect given source divergence or time since admixture? Wanna apply LAI to your aDNA study but have only one high-coverage ancient individual that could represent a specific ancestry? Check out our new paper:

Casi 20 generaciones de la LCG UNAM presentes en #SMBE2024! Un honor ser parte de esta gran iniciativa que transformado y sigue transformado la ciencia en México y el mundo

The first Neanderthal DNA sequence was published #OnThisDay in 1997. It suggested Neanderthals did not interbreed with modern humans (later shown false, by the same team). It was retrieved from the humerus of the *original* Neanderthal specimen discovered in 1856.

This is a big deal--a second high quality Denisovan genome has been sequenced, and it's old! The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced—and it’s a Denisovan’s | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Congratulations to Ali Akbari Ali Akbari on his amazing new work on selection in Western Eurasia that is finally released as a preprint after years of painstaking work. Accompanying it is a selection browser (beta) reich-ages.rc.hms.harvard.edu biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

PCA and F-statistics are routinely used in population genetic studies. We provide a statistical framework to combine them into a joint analysis, and show that this addresses some of the limitations of estimating them independently. Check out our preprint: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

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Out today in Science Magazine, we've journeyed into our shared history with Neandertals by analyzing over 300 present-day and ancient modern humans, including 59 individuals who lived between 2,000 and 45,000 years ago. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Today is a very big day for our research group, with two of my students, @arevsumer and Leonardo N. M. Iasi publishing papers on the same day! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… nature.com/articles/s4158… #Neanderthals #Geneflow