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Outside Voices: National Center for Science Education Executive Director Ann Reid March 2019 ASHG: The teaching of evolution has a long history and is deeply rooted in America’s decentralized educational system, with most activity taking place in local school boards and state governing bodies. Can you give us an overview of the current landscape and the... Read More
This month on Inside AJHG: David Kingsley describes his new research on molecular changes contributing to human-specific traits. Read More
This month on Inside AJHG: David Page and Levi Teitz describe their recent paper on Y chromosome amplicons through human history. Read More
Embargoed for Release Wednesday, October 18, 2017 9:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time Media Contact: Nalini Padmanabhan ASHG Director of Communications and Marketing 301.634.7346 press@ashg.org Findings Reported at ASHG 2017 Annual Meeting BETHESDA, MD – Duplications of large segments of noncoding DNA in the human genome may have contributed to the emergence of differences between humans... Read More
Trainee Author: Tanya Phung PhD Student University of California, Los Angeles (Photo courtesy Ms. Phung) Tanya Phung et al. Determining the Effect of Natural Selection on Linked Neutral Divergence across Species. PLoS Genetics, 12(8): e1006199 (2016). This paper provides an interesting look at the effect of natural selection on neutral variation and how that could affect interpretations of... Read More