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Rasmus Nielsen

Researcher at University of California, Berkeley

Publications -  594
Citations -  96106

Rasmus Nielsen is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Selection (genetic algorithm). The author has an hindex of 135, co-authored 556 publications receiving 84898 citations. Previous affiliations of Rasmus Nielsen include National Research University – Higher School of Economics & Griffith University.

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A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

TL;DR: The genomic data suggest that Neandertals mixed with modern human ancestors some 120,000 years ago, leaving traces of Ne andertal DNA in contemporary humans, suggesting that gene flow from Neand Bertals into the ancestors of non-Africans occurred before the divergence of Eurasian groups from each other.
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Bayesian inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology

TL;DR: Bayesian inference of phylogeny brings a new perspective to a number of outstanding issues in evolutionary biology, including the analysis of large phylogenetic trees and complex evolutionary models and the detection of the footprint of natural selection in DNA sequences.
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Codon-substitution models for heterogeneous selection pressure at amino acid sites.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed models that account for heterogeneous omega ratios among amino acid sites and applied them to phylogenetic analyses of protein-coding DNA sequences, which are useful for testing for adaptive molecular evolution and identifying amino acid points under diversifying selection.
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Codon-Substitution Models for Heterogeneous Selection Pressure at Amino Acid Sites

TL;DR: Development of models that account for heterogeneous omega ratios among amino acid sites and apply them to phylogenetic analyses of protein-coding DNA sequences are developed, useful for testing for adaptive molecular evolution and identifying amino Acid sites under diversifying selection.