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Adam Auton

Researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Publications -  109
Citations -  65100

Adam Auton is an academic researcher from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 94 publications receiving 51799 citations. Previous affiliations of Adam Auton include Broad Institute & Cornell University.

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Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences

TL;DR: A calibrated phylogenetic tree is constructed on the basis of binary single-nucleotide variants and the more complex variants onto it, estimating the number of mutations for each class and shows bursts of extreme expansion in male numbers that have occurred independently among the five continental superpopulations examined.
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Recombination rate estimation in the presence of hotspots

TL;DR: The method is used to reanalyze genetic variation data from the HLA and MS32 regions of the human genome and demonstrates that it is able to provide accurate rate estimates and simultaneously detect hotspots, a substantial improvement over a commonly used method.
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A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease.

Douglas P Wightman, +89 more
- 01 Sep 2021 - 
TL;DR: This paper identified microglia, immune cells and protein catabolism as relevant genes for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, while identifying and prioritizing previously unidentified genes of potential interest.
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Genetic recombination is targeted towards gene promoter regions in dogs.

TL;DR: A fine-scale genetic map is constructed from patterns of linkage disequilibrium assessed using high-throughput sequence data from 51 free-ranging dogs to show that biased gene conversion is a plausible mechanism by which the high CpG content of the dog genome could have occurred.