Phrases with «population geneticist»

A "population geneticist" is a scientist who studies how different genes are distributed among groups of organisms and how they change over time within populations. They examine how factors like natural selection, migration, and genetic variation shape the genetic makeup of species. Full definition

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Advances in extracting DNA from a tiny ear bone called the petrous allowed a team led by Iosif Lazaridis and David Reich, population geneticists at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, to analyse the genomes of the 44 Middle Eastern individuals, who lived between 14,000 and 3,500 years ago. (scientificamerican.com)
Other researchers say that this new genome is important because «it is the first paper to document some degree of continuity among the first people to get to Europe and the people living there today,» says population geneticist David Reich of Harvard University, one of the authors on the triple migration model. (sciencemag.org)
The letter was spearheaded by five population geneticists who had informally discussed the book at conferences, says co-organizer Rasmus Nielsen of the University of California, Berkeley. (sciencemag.org)
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