Wei-Hsien Yang

TL;DR: Binary polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome (NRY) preserve the paternal genetic legacy of the authors' species that has persisted to the present, permitting inference of human evolution, population affinity and demographic history.

TL;DR: The construction of a biallelic genetic map in A. thaliana with a resolution of 3.5 cM is reported and its use in mapping Eds16, a gene involved in the defence response to the fungal pathogen Erysiphe orontii is mapped.

TL;DR: Analysis of the frequencies of derived alleles for all four genes showed that they more closely fit the expectation of a Luria-Delbrück distribution than a distribution expected under a constant population size model, providing evidence for exponential population growth.

TL;DR: The discrepancy in Tajima's D statistic between 22 autosomal genes and random STSs suggests that, in the absence of significant mutation rate heterogeneity, the more negative values for genes are a consequence of directional selection rather than population growth.