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Axel Visel's talk on "The regulatory genome in human-specific evolution"

Today I attended Axel Visel’s talk about his work in identifying enhancers specific to humans at the Primate Biology Group. It was a really awesome talk, and that’s because I’m reall… more »

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Axel Visel's talk on "The regulatory genome in human-specific evolution" — 1 comment

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 4 months ago: Today I attended Axel Visel’s talk about his work in identifying enhancers specific to humans … more »

Tags: Physical Anthropology, Blog, Human Evolution, Genetics, axel visel, Enhancers

A Comparative Genomics approach to finding new Human genes

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 8 months ago: Adam Siepel, Brona Brejova and colleagues at several other institutions will report in an upcoming i … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, bioinformatics, Gene, Genetics

Neandertals have the same mutations in FOXP2, the language gene, as modern humans — 15 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 9 months ago: FOXP2 is thought to be a language gene. It is highly conserved in most mammals but in humans there a … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, FOXP2, Genetics, human, Human Evolution, language, language evolution, Linguistic Anthropology

Whoa, Neandertals were in Uzbekistan and Siberia — 2 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 9 months ago: Thanks to the very helpful readers who have sent me a copy of the latest from Pääbo and crew, “N … more »

Tags: Blog, Physical Anthropology, altai, Central Asia, Human Evolution, migration, mtDNA, neandertal, okladnikov

Cis-regs and Functional Noncoding Variation — 1 comment

dkoboldt wrote 2 months ago: On Tuesday I attended a very interesting thesis defense by Scott Doniger, a student in Justin Fay … more »

Tags: Evolution, functional SNPs, noncoding


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