Fernando Racimo

This study analyzes whole genome sequencing data from the Faroe Islands to explore ancestry, genetic diversity, and signals of recent selection in a North Atlantic founder population.

The paper analyzes the relationship between spatiotemporal cultural variation and genomic data to determine how cultural affiliation influences burial practices.

This study evaluates the reliability of local ancestry inference methods for imputed ancient genomes across various demographic and sampling scenarios.

This study identifies fine-scale population structure within Madagascar using genome-wide data, revealing distinct subpopulations and historical migration patterns.

This study evaluates how ancient protein sequences can inform hominid evolution, showing they provide limited resolution compared to DNA data but can still offer insights when combined with better modeling.

demografr streamlines simulation-based inference in population genetics by integrating simulation, summary statistics, and inference into a single R package, reducing complexity and computational overhead.

This study imputes ancient dog and wolf genomes to analyze inbreeding history over 10,000 years, finding lower inbreeding in ancient populations and associations between low ROH regions and olfaction/immune genes.

This paper analyzes metadata reporting in 30 paleogenomic studies, finding inconsistent reporting of archaeological data and proposing a minimum information checklist for future studies.

This paper retrieves ancient enamel protein sequences from a 21-24 Ma rhinocerotid, providing new phylogenetic insights into Rhinocerotidae diversification during the middle Eocene-Oligocene.

The paper maps ancient pathogens in Eurasia, showing zoonotic diseases emerged with livestock domestication and spread with pastoralist migrations.

The paper introduces slendr, an R package for simulating spatio-temporal population genomic data, and demonstrates its features through example workflows.

PaleoProPhyler provides a reproducible pipeline for phylogenetic analysis of ancient protein sequences, enabling efficient processing of proteomic and genetic data.

The paper traces the evolutionary history of the CCR5delta32 deletion using ancient and modern genomes, finding it originated at least 7,000 years ago in Western Eurasia and underwent positive selection.

The paper analyzes genetic structure in Brittany and the Loire basin to understand Western Europe's demographic history, finding increased population differentiation linked to steppe and Neolithic ancestry.

This study evaluates the robustness of polygenic adaptation signals detected using GWAS summary statistics across different populations and cohorts.

Ohana detects selection in multiple populations by modeling ancestral admixture components, identifying loci with extreme genetic differentiation and new candidate regions in admixed populations.

This study analyzes ancient genomes from the Viking Age to understand genetic structure and migration patterns, finding significant foreign gene flow and population differentiation.

The paper identifies targets of selection in the FADS region in Europeans, showing allele frequency changes linked to lipid-related phenotypes and dietary adaptations.

The paper identifies regions of adaptive introgression in human populations by analyzing uniquely shared archaic alleles in the 1000 Genomes dataset.

This paper presents a method to estimate contamination, error, and demographic parameters in ancient human DNA, showing accurate recovery of these parameters even at high contamination rates.