Going global by adapting local: A review of recent human adaptation

Model-based analyses of whole-genome data reveal a complex evolutionary history involving archaic introgression in Central African Pygmies

(2016) PingHsun Hsieh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A thrifty variant in CREBRF strongly influences body mass index in Samoans

(2016) Ryan L Minster et al.   NATURE GENETICS

S/HIC: Robust Identification of Soft and Hard Sweeps Using Machine Learning

(2016) Daniel R. Schrider et al.   PLoS Genetics

Adaptive potential of genomic structural variation in human and mammalian evolution

(2015) David W. Radke et al.   Briefings in Functional Genomics

A Coalescent Model for a Sweep of a Unique Standing Variant

(2015) Jeremy J. Berg et al.   GENETICS

Soft Shoulders Ahead: Spurious Signatures of Soft and Partial Selective Sweeps Result from Linked Hard Sweeps

(2015) D. R. Schrider et al.   GENETICS

Human Adaptation to Arsenic-Rich Environments

(2015) Carina M. Schlebusch et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

(2015) Iain Mathieson et al.   NATURE

A global reference for human genetic variation

(2015) Richard A. Gibbs et al.   NATURE

Assembly and diploid architecture of an individual human genome via single-molecule technologies

(2015) Matthew Pendleton et al.   NATURE METHODS

Evidence for archaic adaptive introgression in humans

(2015) Fernando Racimo et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Strength in small numbers

(2015) S. Tishkoff   SCIENCE

Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation

(2015) M. Fumagalli et al.   SCIENCE

A Coalescent Model for a Sweep of a Unique Standing Variant

(2015) Jeremy J. Berg et al.   GENETICS

Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa

(2014) Alessia Ranciaro et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Human high-altitude adaptation: forward genetics meets the HIF pathway

(2014) Abigail W. Bigham et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Soft Selective Sweeps in Complex Demographic Scenarios

(2014) B. A. Wilson et al.   GENETICS

Genome-wide signals of positive selection in human evolution

(2014) D. Enard et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

(2014) Emilia Huerta-Sánchez et al.   NATURE

Adaptive, convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype in African rainforest hunter-gatherers

(2014) G. H. Perry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Toward a new history and geography of human genes informed by ancient DNA

(2014) Joseph K. Pickrell et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

On the unfounded enthusiasm for soft selective sweeps

(2014) Jeffrey D Jensen   Nature Communications

A Population Genetic Signal of Polygenic Adaptation

(2014) Jeremy J. Berg et al.   PLoS Genetics

Identifying Darwinian Selection Acting on Different Human APOL1 Variants among Diverse African Populations

(2013) Wen-Ya Ko et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Population Genomics of Human Adaptation

(2013) Joseph Lachance et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Evolutionary Perspectives on the Obesity Epidemic: Adaptive, Maladaptive, and Neutral Viewpoints

(2013) John R. Speakman   Annual Review of Nutrition

Modeling Recent Human Evolution in Mice by Expression of a Selected EDAR Variant

(2013) Yana G. Kamberov et al.   CELL

Population genomics of rapid adaptation by soft selective sweeps

(2013) Philipp W. Messer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Genetic Architecture of Skin and Eye Color in an African-European Admixed Population

(2013) Sandra Beleza et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequences of Diverse African Hunter-Gatherers

(2012) Joseph Lachance et al.   CELL

Low prevalence of lactase persistence in Neolithic South-West Europe

(2012) Theo S Plantinga et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

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

(2012) Michael C Turchin et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Patterns of Ancestry, Signatures of Natural Selection, and Genetic Association with Stature in Western African Pygmies

(2012) Joseph P. Jarvis et al.   PLoS Genetics

Human pigmentation genes under environmental selection

(2012) Richard A Sturm et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Classic Selective Sweeps Were Rare in Recent Human Evolution

(2011) R. D. Hernandez et al.   SCIENCE

Signatures of Environmental Genetic Adaptation Pinpoint Pathogens as the Main Selective Pressure through Human Evolution

(2011) Matteo Fumagalli et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation

(2010) Jonathan K. Pritchard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

(2010) Hana Lango Allen et al.   NATURE

Human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation

(2010) N. G. Jablonski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Composite of Multiple Signals Distinguishes Causal Variants in Regions of Positive Selection

(2010) S. R. Grossman et al.   SCIENCE

Association of Trypanolytic ApoL1 Variants with Kidney Disease in African Americans

(2010) G. Genovese et al.   SCIENCE

Identifying Signatures of Natural Selection in Tibetan and Andean Populations Using Dense Genome Scan Data

(2010) Abigail Bigham et al.   PLoS Genetics

Constructing genomic maps of positive selection in humans: Where do we go from here?

(2009) J. M. Akey   GENOME RESEARCH

Evolution of the human pygmy phenotype

(2009) George H. Perry et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Independent Introduction of Two Lactase-Persistence Alleles into Human Populations Reflects Different History of Adaptation to Milk Culture

(2008) Nabil Sabri Enattah et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS