publications
Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of publications from members of the group.
Fine-scale population structure and widespread conservation of genetic effect sizes between human groups across traits
Metastable epialleles in humans
Charting a landmark-driven path forward for population genetics and ancient DNA research in Africa
Methods for Assessing Population Relationships and History Using Genomic Data
Dense sampling of ethnic groups within African countries reveals fine-scale genetic structure and extensive historical admixture
Nancy Bird, Louise Ormond, Paschal Awah, Elizabeth F Caldwell, Bruce Connell, Mohamed Elamin, Faisal M Fadlelmola, Forka Leypey Matthew Fomine, Saioa López, Scott MacEachern, Yves Moñino, Sam Morris, Pieta Näsänen-Gilmore, Nana Kobina Nketsia V, Krishna Veeramah, Michael E Weale, David Zeitlyn, Mark G Thomas, Neil Bradman, Garrett Hellenthal
Evidence of the interplay of genetics and culture in Ethiopia
Saioa López, Ayele Tarekegn, Gavin Band, Lucy van Dorp, Nancy Bird, Sam Morris, Tamiru Oljira, Ephrem Mekonnen, Endashaw Bekele, Roger Blench, Mark G. Thomas, Neil Bradman & Garrett Hellenthal Nature Communications (2021)
Tissue and ethnicity independent hypervariable DNA methylation states show evidence of establishment in the early human embryo
Maria Derakhshan, Noah J Kessler, Miho Ishida, Charalambos Demetriou, Nicolas Brucato, Gudrun E Moore, Caroline H D Fall, Giriraj R Chandak, Francois-Xavier Ricaut, Andrew M Prentice, Garrett Hellenthal, Matt J Silver Nucleic Acids Research (2022)
An efficient method to identify, date, and describe admixture events using haplotype information
Pongsakorn Wangkumhang, Matthew Greenfield and Garrett Hellenthal Genome Research (2022)
Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans
Javier Mendoza-Revilla, J. Camilo Chacón-Duque, Macarena Fuentes-Guajardo, Louise Ormond, Ke Wang, Malena Hurtado, Valeria Villegas, Vanessa Granja, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Claudia Jaramillo, William Arias, Rodrigo Barquera, Jorge Gómez-Valdés, Hugo Villamil-Ramírez, Caio C. Silva de Cerqueira, Keyla M. Badillo Rivera, Maria A. Nieves-Colón, Christopher R. Gignoux, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Tábita Hünemeier, Virginia Ramallo, Lavinia Schuler-Faccini, Rolando Gonzalez-José, Maria-Cátira Bortolini, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Carla Gallo, Giovanni Poletti, Gabriel Bedoya, Francisco Rothhammer, David Balding, Matteo Fumagalli, Kaustubh Adhikari, Andrés Ruiz-Linares, Garrett Hellenthal Molecular Biology and Evolution (2022)
Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans
Javier Mendoza-Revilla, J. Camilo Chacón-Duque, Macarena Fuentes-Guajardo, Louise Ormond, Ke Wang, Malena Hurtado, Valeria Villegas, Vanessa Granja, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Claudia Jaramillo, William Arias, Rodrigo Barquera, Jorge Gómez-Valdés, Hugo Villamil-Ramírez, Caio C. Silva de Cerqueira, Keyla M. Badillo Rivera, Maria A. Nieves-Colón, Christopher R. Gignoux, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Andrés Moreno-Estrada, Tábita Hünemeier, Virginia Ramallo, Lavinia Schuler-Faccini, Rolando Gonzalez-José, Maria-Cátira Bortolini, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Carla Gallo, Giovanni Poletti, Gabriel Bedoya, Francisco Rothhammer, David Balding, Matteo Fumagalli, Kaustubh Adhikari, Andrés Ruiz-Linares, Garrett Hellenthal Nature (2020)
Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history
Mark Lipson, Isabelle Ribot, Swapan Mallick, Nadin Rohland, Iñigo Olalde, Nicole Adamski, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Ann Marie Lawson, Saioa López, Jonas Oppenheimer, Kristin Stewardson, Raymond Neba’ane Asombang, Hervé Bocherens, Neil Bradman, Brendan J Culleton, Els Cornelissen, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Pierre de Maret, Forka Leypey Mathew Fomine, Philippe Lavachery, Christophe Mbida Mindzie, Rosine Orban, Elizabeth Sawchuk, Patrick Semal, Mark G Thomas, Wim Van Neer, Krishna R Veeramah, Douglas J Kennett, Nick Patterson, Garrett Hellenthal, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Scott MacEachern, Mary E Prendergast, David Reich Nature (2020)
The Genomic Impact of European Colonization of the Americas
Linda Ongaro, Marilia O Scliar, Rodrigo Flores, Alessandro Raveane, Davide Marnetto, Stefania Sarno, Guido A Gnecchi-Ruscone, Marta E Alarcón-Riquelme, Etienne Patin, Pongsakorn Wangkumhang, Garrett Hellenthal, Miguel Gonzalez-Santos, Roy J King, Anastasia Kouvatsi, Oleg Balanovsky, Elena Balanovska, Lubov Atramentova, Shahlo Turdikulova, Sarabjit Mastana, Damir Marjanovic, Lejla Mulahasanovic, Andreja Leskovac, Maria F Lima-Costa, Alexandre C Pereira, Mauricio L Barreto, Bernardo L Horta, Nédio Mabunda, Celia A May, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Alessandro Achilli, Anna Olivieri, Ornella Semino, Kristiina Tambets, Toomas Kivisild, Donata Luiselli, Antonio Torroni, Cristian Capelli, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos, Mait Metspalu, Luca Pagani, Francesco Montinaro Current Biology (2020)
A genomic atlas of systemic interindividual epigenetic variation in humans
Chathura J. Gunasekara, C. Anthony Scott, Eleonora Laritsky, Maria S. Baker, Harry MacKay, Jack D. Duryea, Noah J. Kessler, Garrett Hellenthal, Alexis C. Wood, Kelly R. Hodges, Manisha Gandhi, Amy B. Hair, Matt J. Silver, Sophie E. Moore, Andrew M. Prentice, Yumei Li, Rui Chen, Cristian Coarfa & Robert A. Waterland Genome Biology (2020)
Garrett Hellenthal, Louise Ormond, Pongsakorn Wangkumhang European Journal of Human Genetics (2019)
Population structure of modern-day Italians reveals patterns of ancient and archaic ancestries in Southern Europe
Alessandro Raveane, Serena Aneli, Francesco Montinaro, Georgios Athanasiadis, Simona Barlera, Giovanni Birolo, Giorgio Boncoraglio, Anna Maria Di Blasio, Cornelia Di Gaetano, Luca Pagani, Silvia Parolo, Peristera Paschou, Alberto Piazza, George Stamatoyannopoulos, Andrea Angius, Nicolas Brucato, Francesco Cucca, Garrett Hellenthal, Antonella Mulas, Marine Peyret-Guzzon, Madzia Zoledziewska, Abdellatif Baali, Clare Bycroft, Mohammed Cherkaoui, J Chiaroni, J Di Cristofaro, C Dina, JM Dugoujon, Pilar Galan, J Giemza, T Kivisild, S Mazieres, M Melhaoui, M Metspalu, S Myers, L Pereira, FX Ricaut, F Brisighelli, I Cardinali, V Grugni, H Lancioni, VL Pascali, A Torroni, O Semino, G Matullo, A Achilli, A Olivieri, C Capelli Science Advances (2019)
Dissecting human North African gene-flow into its western coastal surroundings
Lara R Arauna, Garrett Hellenthal, David Comas Proceedings of the Royal Society B (2019)
Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lucy van Dorp, Sara Lowes, Jonathan L. Weigel, Naser Ansari-Pour, Saioa López, Javier Mendoza-Revilla, James A. Robinson, Joseph Henrich, Mark G. Thomas, Nathan Nunn, and Garrett Hellenthal PNAS (2018)
Evidence for a common origin of Blacksmiths and Cultivators in the Ethiopian Ari within the last 4500 years: Lessons for clustering-based inference
Lucy van Dorp, David Balding, Simon Myers, Luca Pagani, Chris Tyler-Smith, Endashaw Bekele, Ayele Tarekegn, Mark G. Thomas, Neil Bradman, Garrett Hellenthal PLoS ONE (2015)
The Role of Recent Admixture in Forming the Contemporary West Eurasian Genomic Landscape
George B.J. Busby, Garrett Hellenthal, Francesco Montinaro, Sergio Tofanelli, Kazima Bulayeva, Igor Rudan, Tatijana Zemunik, Caroline Hayward, Draga Toncheva, Sena Karachanak-Yankova, Desislava Nesheva, Paolo Anagnostou, Francesco Cali, Francesca Brisighelli, Valentino Romano, Gerard Lefranc, Catherine Buresi, Jemni Ben Chibani, Amel Haj-Khelil, Sabri Denden, Rafal Ploski, Pawel Krajewski, Tor Hervig, Torolf Moen, Rene J. Herrera, James F. Wilson, Simon Myers, Cristian Capelli Cell (2015)
Evidence for negative selection of gene variants that increase dependence on dietary choline in a Gambian cohort : Matt J. Silver, Karen D. Corbin, Garrett Hellenthal, Kerry-Ann da Costa, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Sophie E. Moore, Jennifer Owen, Andrew M. Prentice, Branwen J. Hennig, and Steven H. Zeisel FASEB 2015
The fine-scale genetic structure of the British population
Stephen Leslie, Bruce Winney, Garrett Hellenthal, Dan Davison, Abdelhamid Boumertit, Tammy Day, Katarzyna Hutnik, Ellen C. Royrvik, Barry Cunliffe, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2, International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium, Daniel J. Lawson, Daniel Falush, Colin Freeman, Matti Pirinen, Simon Myers, Mark Robinson, Peter Donnelly & Walter Bodmer Nature 2015
The genomic and phenotypic diversity of Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Daniel C Jeffares, Charalampos Rallis, Adrien Rieux, Doug Speed, Martin Převorovský, Tobias Mourier, Francesc X Marsellach, Zamin Iqbal, Winston Lau, Tammy M K Cheng, Rodrigo Pracana, Michael Mülleder, Jonathan L D Lawson, Anatole Chessel, Sendu Bala, Garrett Hellenthal, Brendan O'Fallon, Thomas Keane, Jared T Simpson, Leanne Bischof, Bartlomiej Tomiczek, Danny A Bitton, Theodora Sideri, Sandra Codlin, Josephine E E U Hellberg, Laurent van Trigt, Linda Jeffery, Juan-Juan Li, Sophie Atkinson, Malte Thodberg, Melanie Febrer, Kirsten McLay, Nizar Drou, William Brown, Jacqueline Hayles, Rafael E Carazo Salas, Markus Ralser, Nikolas Maniatis, David J Balding, Francois Balloux, Richard Durbin & Jürg Bähler Nature Genetics 2015
A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History
Garrett Hellenthal, George B. J. Busby, Gavin Band, James F. Wilson, Cristian Capelli, Daniel Falush, Simon Myers Science 2014
Inference of population structure using dense haplotype data
Daniel John Lawson, Garrett Hellenthal, Simon Myers, Daniel Falush PLoS Genetics 2012
Genomic tools for evolution and conservation in the chimpanzee: Pan troglodytes ellioti is a genetically distinct population
Rory Bowden, Tammie S. MacFie, Simon Myers, Garrett Hellenthal, Eric Nerrienet, Ronald E.Bontrop, Colin Freeman, Peter Donnelly, Nicholas I. Mundy PLoS Genetics 2012
Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis
International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2; Stephen Sawcer, Garrett Hellenthal, Matti Pirinen, ... ,Gil McVean, Peter Donnelly, Alastair Compston Nature 2011
A two-stage meta-analysis identifies several new loci for Parkinson's disease
International Parkinson's Disease Genomics Consortium (IPDGC) and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2 (WTCCC2) PLoS Genetics 2011
The major histocompatibility complex and multiple sclerosis: a smoking gun?
Stephen Sawcer & Garrett Hellenthal Brain 2011
Inferring Human Colonization History Using a Copying Model
Garrett Hellenthal, Adam Auton & Daniel Falush PLoS Genetics 2008
msHOT: modifying Hudson's ms simulator to incorporate crossover and gene conversion hotspots
Garrett Hellenthal & Matthew Stephens Bioinformatics 2007
Insights into recombination from population genetic variation
Garrett Hellenthal & Matthew Stephens Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 2007
The Effects of Genotype-Dependent Recombination, and Transmission Asymmetry, on Linkage Disequilibrium
Garrett Hellenthal, Jonathan Pritchard, Matthew Stephens Genetics 2006
Evidence for substantial fine-scale variation in recombination rates across the human genome
Dana C Crawford, Tushar Bhangale, Na Li, Garrett Hellenthal, Mark J Rieder, Deborah A Nickerson, Matthew Stephens Nature Genetics 2004