Genetic evidence for natural selection in humans in the contemporary United States

Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment

(2016) Aysu Okbay et al.   NATURE

Assortative mating and differential fertility by phenotype and genotype across the 20th century

(2016) Dalton Conley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

(2015) Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

IQ and Schizophrenia in a Swedish National Sample: Their Causal Relationship and the Interaction of IQ With Genetic Risk

(2015) Kenneth S. Kendler et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

(2015) Iain Mathieson et al.   NATURE

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

(2015) Adam E. Locke et al.   NATURE

Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies

(2015) Tinca J C Polderman et al.   NATURE GENETICS

An atlas of genetic correlations across human diseases and traits

(2015) Brendan Bulik-Sullivan et al.   NATURE GENETICS

LD Score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies

(2015) Brendan K Bulik-Sullivan et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Malaria continues to select for sickle cell trait in Central Africa

(2015) Eric Elguero et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Does natural selection favour taller stature among the tallest people on earth?

(2015) G. Stulp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Human Fertility, Molecular Genetics, and Natural Selection in Modern Societies

(2015) Felix C. Tropf et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation

(2014) Gert Stulp et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Cohort Profile: the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

(2014) A. Sonnega et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche

(2014) John R. B. Perry et al.   NATURE

Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

(2014)   NATURE

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

(2014) Andrew R Wood et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Perfect genetic correlation between number of offspring and grandoffspring in an industrialized human population

(2014) B. P. Zietsch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Statistical Power to Detect Genetic (Co)Variance of Complex Traits Using SNP Data in Unrelated Samples

(2014) Peter M. Visscher et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Demographic Transition Influences Variance in Fitness and Selection on Height and BMI in Rural Gambia

(2013) Alexandre Courtiol et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The marginal valuation of fertility

(2013) James Holland Jones et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Pitfalls of predicting complex traits from SNPs

(2013) Naomi R. Wray et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Estimation of pleiotropy between complex diseases using single-nucleotide polymorphism-derived genomic relationships and restricted maximum likelihood

(2012) S.H. Lee et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION ALTERED THE STRENGTH OF SELECTION FOR FITNESS AND AGE-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL AND FERTILITY IN A 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN POPULATION

(2012) Jacob A. Moorad   EVOLUTION

Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs

(2012) Michael C Turchin et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways

(2012) Robert A Scott et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Natural and sexual selection in a monogamous historical human population

(2012) A. Courtiol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parental investment and the optimization of human family size

(2011) D. W. Lawson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population

(2011) E. Milot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Socioeconomic status, education, and reproduction in modern women: An evolutionary perspective

(2010) Susanne Huber et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

The danger of applying the breeder's equation in observational studies of natural populations

(2010) M. B. MORRISSEY et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids

(2010) Tanya M. Teslovich et al.   NATURE

In brief

(2010)   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude

(2010) X. Yi et al.   SCIENCE

Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

(2009) J. K. Pickrell et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Natural selection in a contemporary human population

(2009) S. G. Byars et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA