Summary: This quarter will give an overview of how we can use modern and ancient DNA to learn about human origins and history. We will focus on detecting ancient admixture between archaic hominins, evidence for selection on these archaic haplotypes, and what they may reveal regarding human origins.
Coordinator this quarter: Elizabeth Blue (em27@uw.edu)
Website: http://courses.washington.edu/b581/ (link to “current schedule” and also read the “how to” guide).
January 9: Organizational meeting.
January 16: Overview of human origins
Nielsen, R, et al. (2017) Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics. Nature, 541:302-10. PMID: 28102248
Kayleigh Ervin and Anna Mikhaylova with Liz Blue
January 23: SNPchips and coalescent-based population genetics.
Wall JD, Lohmueller KE, Plagnol V. (2009) Detecting ancient admixture and estimating demographic parameters in multiple human populations. Mol Biol Evol, 26(8):1823-7. PMID: 19420049
Joe Zhou with Liz Blue
January 30: Archaic sequences: nature of the data, popgen, divergence (Liz absent)
Castellano S et al. (2014) Patterns of coding variation in the complete exomes of three Neandertals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 111(18):6666-71. PMID: 24753607
Aaron Baraff and Alex Paynter with Sharon Browning
February 6: Overview of methods, focused on sequence data
Racimo, F, Sankararaman, S, Nielsen, R, Huerta-Sánchez, E. (2015). Evidence for archaic adaptive introgression in humans. Nat Rev Genet, 16(6):359-71 PMID: 25963373
Xiaowen Tian and Edward Zhao with Liz Blue
February 13: Evaluating some of these sequence-based methods (Liz absent)
Rogers AR and Bohlender RJ (2015) Bias in estimators of archaic admixture. Theor Popul Biol, 100C:63-78. PMID: 25575941
Kelsey Grinde and Amarise Little with Sharon Browning
February 20: Application and adaptation
Huerta-Sánchez E., et al. (2014). Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA. Nature, 512(7513):194-7. PMID: 25043035
Will Gordon and Zora Yezi with Ellen Wijsman
February 27: Admixture and fitness/selection
Vernot B, Akey JM (2014) Resurrecting surviving Neandertal lineages from modern human genomes. Science, 343(6174):1017-21. PMID: 24476670
David Clausen and Bowen Wang with Tim Thornton
March 6: Summary model of human origins
Lipson M, Reich D. (2017) A Working Model of the Deep Relationships of Diverse Modern Human Genetic Lineages Outside of Africa. Mol Biol Evol, 34(4):889-902. PMID: 28074030
Rafael Nafikov with Liz Blue