Neanderthal study published in Science!

We are very pleased that our analysis of the clinical effects of Neanderthal DNA that remains in modern humans using more than 28,000 individuals from Vanderbilt’s BioVU database and the eMERGE Network has been published in Science:

The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals

The article has been getting some great press from: NPR, The Atlantic, Wall St. Journal, and many more.

Welcome David Rinker!

We are very excited to welcome David Rinker to the group as a Postdoctoral Scholar! David joins us after a very successful PhD using genomic approaches to study mosquito olfaction. He will be funded by our recent R01 and studying the dynamics of epigenetic modifications and gene expression over cellular development.

We’ve received pilot funding from the Vanderbilt CQS!

We are very grateful to the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences for funding our pilot project. Working together with Bennett Landman’s group, we will build a pipeline for integrating phenotypes extracted from medical images and genetic information from Vanderbilt’s BioVU database. This will enable us to test the effects of many evolutionarily and clinically relevant mutations on a wide range of human phenotypes.