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Author: David Reich
- ORCiD: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7037-5292
- Most recently observed institution: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School
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The Genomic Formation of South and Central Asia
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Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe
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Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe
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The genetic structure of the world's first farmers
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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
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The Genomic History Of Southeastern Europe
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The Beaker Phenomenon And The Genomic Transformation Of Northwest Europe
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The Genetic History of Northern Europe
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Population Replacement in Early Neolithic Britain
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The genetic ancestry of African, Latino, and European Americans across the United States.
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The genetic prehistory of the Greater Caucasus
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Paleolithic DNA from the Caucasus reveals core of West Eurasian ancestry
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Towards a new history and geography of human genes informed by ancient DNA
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Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes
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Genes Affecting Vocal and Facial Anatomy Went Through Extensive Regulatory Divergence in Modern Humans
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Parallel paleogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers
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The promise of disease gene discovery in South Asia
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The Arrival of Steppe and Iranian Related Ancestry in the Islands of the Western Mediterranean
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Characterizing the genetic history of admixture across inner Eurasia
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Reconstructing Austronesian population history in Island Southeast Asia
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A genomic view of the peopling of the Americas
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Paleo-Eskimo genetic legacy across North America
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Signals of polygenic adaptation on height have been overestimated due to uncorrected population structure in genome-wide association studies
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Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory
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Population Turnover in Remote Oceania Shortly After Initial Settlement
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No evidence for unknown archaic ancestry in South Asia
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Population history from the Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia: An ancient DNA perspective
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Differences in the rare variant spectrum among human populations
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Calibrating the Human Mutation Rate via Ancestral Recombination Density in Diploid Genomes
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Interpreting short tandem repeat variations in humans using mutational constraint
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Failure to Replicate a Genetic Signal for Sex Bias in the Steppe Migration into Central Europe
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Response to a population bottleneck can be used to infer recessive selection
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Non-crossover gene conversions show strong GC bias and unexpected clustering in humans
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Dating ancient human samples using the recombination clock
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No statistical evidence for an effect of CCR5-∆32 on lifespan in the UK Biobank cohort
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Interactions between earliest Linearbandkeramik farmers and central European hunter gatherers at the dawn of European Neolithization
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Late Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the Central Mediterranean: new archaeological and genetic data from the Late Epigravettian burial Oriente C (Favignana, Sicily)
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No evidence that natural selection has been less effective at removing deleterious mutations in Europeans than in West Africans
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Human Auditory Ossicles as an Alternative Optimal Source of Ancient DNA
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