Julie M. Granka

TL;DR: It is found that African hunter-gatherer populations today remain highly differentiated, encompassing major components of variation that are not found in other African populations, and tend to have the lowest levels of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium among 27 African populations.

TL;DR: In measuring LD and modeling demographic history under a composite-likelihood framework, it is found that two of five wild canid populations exhibit evidence of a historical population contraction and five domestic dog breeds display evidence for a minor population contraction during domestication and a more severe contraction during breed formation.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that skin pigmentation is highly heritable, but known pigmentation loci explain only a small fraction of the variance, and how the architecture of skin Pigmentation can vary across humans subject to different local evolutionary pressures is shown.

TL;DR: The results emphasize the parallel demographic histories of this obligate pathogen and its human host, and suggest that the dominant effect of selection on M.tb is removal of novel variants, with exceptions in an interesting group of genes involved in transportation and defense.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the true heritability of human longevity for birth cohorts across the 1800s and early 1900s was well below 10%, and that it has been generally overestimated due to the effect of assortative mating.