GenSCAPE (aka Raghavan) Lab 🧬
@GenSCAPE_Lab
Genomic Studies of Contemporary & Ancient Populations and their Evolution Lab @ University of Chicago 🌎🌍🌏 (Tweets by @MaanasaRaghavan + Raghavan Lab members)
My poster presentation, thanks to the photographers team #SMBE2025
See you in Copenhagen next year, #SMBE2026 🚴🏽♀️🧜🏼♀️🇩🇰🎉
Outstanding PhD candidate @BarjonCar presenting her work on the #MexicanBiobank at #SMBE2025 in China! 🇨🇳 Stay tuned for more popgen and biomedical results on the MX biobank soon!
The #DocEmmys Award for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary goes to Hunt for the Oldest DNA | NOVA (@PBS).
1/ In two articles published today, we used ancient genomes to better understand Neolithic Anatolian societies. The first study investigates Neolithization in the Aegean: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
I’m happy to share that our new study is out today in @ScienceMagazine! We analyzed over 100 ancient genomes to explore kinship patterns, mobility, and social organization at Çatalhöyük. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Full cycle of talks on Human Genetics and Paleogenomics is available on YouTube @ColegioNal_mx @fundacionunam @UniversidadesX (some in English and some in Spanish) @SarahTishkoff @jnovembre @FSanchezQuinto @maricugh @vagheesh @MaanasaRaghavan and others! youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Quantitative graduate students should start by studying this. Would save them endless frustrations.
Incredible! Dragon man is a Denisovan. Major congratulations Qiaomei Fu cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Jennifer Blanc and @JeremyJBerg use theory and simulations to study the process of testing for an association between polygenic scores and axes of ancestry variation when confounding factors are present. Read more in the June issue of #GENETICS: buff.ly/Lk0696y
#MetagenomicsMonday New aDNA study tracks how Borrelia recurrentis, the bacterium behind louse-borne relapsing fever, evolved from a tick-borne ancestor, offering rare insight into how pathogens adapt to new vectors over time. doi.org/10.1126/scienc…
The paper is out in @AJHGNews!!! “Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples”. Read it here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…
I am stoked to announce that my first first-author preprint is out!! 🎉 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… I started this work as an undergrad student in @dortega_delv lab in collaboration with @mashaals and @emiliahsc. Summary ⬇️
Glad to see whole genomes coming from Srilanka! This paper systematically reveals different layers of ancestral components that appeared in the island at different time intervals. Congratulations @GenSCAPE_Lab @NirajRai3 and the entire team!
Delighted to share that this project has been published today in Current Biology. In this paper, we look into the genetic population structure and demographic histories of two populations in Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese and Adivasi [1/n]. cell.com/current-biolog…
📣New from Añorve-Garibay et al! 📄Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples cell.com/ajhg/abstract/…
Check out the latest release from @GenSCAPE_Lab.
Delighted to share that this project has been published today in Current Biology. In this paper, we look into the genetic population structure and demographic histories of two populations in Sri Lanka: the Sinhalese and Adivasi [1/n]. cell.com/current-biolog…
Our paper is out! Happy to have collaborated with @mashaals , @emiliahsc and @valenomics on this project. Here we analyzed how stabilizing and directional selection cause problems to predict traits in ancient samples.
The paper is out in @AJHGNews!!! “Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples”. Read it here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…
Our work is out in AJHG "Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples." Great collaboration with @dortega_delv & @emiliahsc, led by talented @lcgejunam undergrad @valenomics, now a PhD student at @BrownCCMB.
The paper is out in @AJHGNews!!! “Natural selection acting on complex traits hampers the predictive accuracy of polygenic scores in ancient samples”. Read it here: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…
Happy to share our new research article on demographic and migratory history of Sri Lanka. This is one of the detailed genetic studies ever done on Sri Lankan population. @MaanasaRaghavan @CurrentBiology cell.com/current-biolog…