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Undergraduate students

September 6 Human genetic diversity

DNA sequence from Cretaceous period bone fragments, Woodward et al., Science, 1994, 266:1229-1232 AND Technical comments, Science, 1995, 268: 1191-1194.

James Barnes_______________________________

September 13 Processes that shape genetic diversity

Rapid deployment of the five founding Amerind mtDNA haplogroups via coastal land riverine colonization, Fix, AJPA, 2005, 128:430-436.

Caroline Hovaner___________________________

Global patterns of human mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome structure are not influenced by higher migration rates of females versus males, Wilder et al., Nature Genetics, 2004, 36:1122-1125 AND Female migration rate might not be greater than male rate, Shriver, EJHG, 2005, 13:131-135

Joe Wilson_________________________________

September 20 Making inferences from diversity

“Are human brains still evolving?” AND Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in Homo sapiens, Mekel-Bobrov et al., Science, 2005, 309:1730-1722 AND 2006 Comment AND 2006 Response to comment AND 2007 Comment.

Kristina Ballard___________________________

September 27 Humans as apes

Implications of natural selection in shaping 99.4% nonsynonymous DNA identity between humans and chimpanzees: Enlarging genus Homo, Wildman et al., 2003, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 100:7181-7188

Dawit Woldu________________________________

October 4 Origins of modern humans

Global patterns of linkage disequilibrium at the CD4 locus and modern human origins, Tishkoff et al, Science, 1996, 271:1380-1387 AND Technical comment by Milford AND Response by Tishkoff et al.

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“The dawn of Stone Age genomes” AND Neanderthal genome sees first light” AND “No sex, please, we’re Neandertals” AND Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA, Green et al., Nature, 2006, 444:330.

Ben Valentine______________________________

October 11 Global distribution of diversity

Evidence for gradients of human genetic diversity within and among continents, Serre and Paabo, Genome Res, 2004, 14:1679-1685

Cory Blommel______________________________

October 18 Agricultural expansions

Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model, Chikhi et al., 2002, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 99:11008-11013.

Gordon Brown_____________________

October 25 Peopling of the Americas and the Pacific

Gene flow across linguistic boundaries in Native North American populations, Hunley and Long, PNAS, 2005, 102:1312-1317

David Rye________________________________

November 1 Admixture

Y chromosomes traveling south: The Cohen modal haplotype and the origins of the Lemba – the “Black Jews of southern Africa”, Thomas et al., AJHG, 2000, 66:674-686

Aida Miro___________________________________

November 15 Phenotypic variation/adaptation AND genetics of disease

Haplotype diversity and linkage disequilibrium at human G6PD: Recent origin of alleles that confer malarial resistance, Tishkoff et al., Science, 2001, 293:455-462

Gypsy Price_______________________________