Molly Przeworski
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American evolutionary biologist and geneticist
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Molly Przeworski's Degrees
- PhD Genetics University of Chicago
- Bachelors Biology University of Warsaw
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Molly Fox Przeworski is an American population geneticist and professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Systems Biology, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Program for Mathematical Genomics. Her research focuses on identifying the effects of natural selection on genetic variation in human and non-human organisms.
Molly Przeworski's Published Works
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Published Works
- Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language (2002) (1358)
- Linkage disequilibrium in humans: models and data. (2001) (1236)
- PRDM9 Is a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans and Mice (2010) (874)
- The signature of positive selection at randomly chosen loci. (2002) (487)
- Revisiting an Old Riddle: What Determines Genetic Diversity Levels within Species? (2012) (470)
- Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates (2004) (442)
- THE SIGNATURE OF POSITIVE SELECTION ON STANDING GENETIC VARIATION (2005) (441)
- Classic Selective Sweeps Were Rare in Recent Human Evolution (2011) (432)
- How reliable are empirical genomic scans for selective sweeps? (2006) (377)
- Pervasive Natural Selection in the Drosophila Genome? (2009) (365)
- High-Resolution Mapping of Crossovers Reveals Extensive Variation in Fine-Scale Recombination Patterns Among Humans (2008) (349)
- A neutral explanation for the correlation of diversity with recombination rates in humans. (2003) (297)
- Fine-scale recombination patterns differ between chimpanzees and humans (2005) (288)
- Adjusting the focus on human variation. (2000) (286)
- An evolutionary view of human recombination (2007) (268)
- A Fine-Scale Chimpanzee Genetic Map from Population Sequencing (2012) (265)
- Determinants of mutation rate variation in the human germline. (2014) (262)
- A new approach to estimate parameters of speciation models with application to apes. (2007) (259)
- Multiple Instances of Ancient Balancing Selection Shared Between Humans and Chimpanzees (2013) (253)
- Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes (2018) (238)
- Stable recombination hotspots in birds (2015) (236)
- Natural Selection on Genes that Underlie Human Disease Susceptibility (2008) (221)
- Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group (2019) (217)
- Testing models of selection and demography in Drosophila simulans. (2002) (174)
- A genome-wide departure from the standard neutral model in natural populations of Drosophila. (2000) (164)
- Variation in the molecular clock of primates (2016) (162)
- Genetic Structure of Chimpanzee Populations (2007) (161)
- Variation in Rural African Gut Microbiota Is Strongly Correlated with Colonization by Entamoeba and Subsistence (2015) (156)
- Evidence for population growth in humans is confounded by fine-scale population structure. (2002) (150)
- The ABO blood group is a trans-species polymorphism in primates (2012) (132)
- Absence of the TAP2 Human Recombination Hotspot in Chimpanzees (2004) (132)
- Evidence for a complex demographic history of chimpanzees. (2004) (132)
- When did the human population size start increasing? (2000) (128)
- A genetic method for dating ancient genomes provides a direct estimate of human generation interval in the last 45,000 years (2016) (127)
- Learning about Modes of Speciation by Computational Approaches (2009) (118)
- Regions of lower crossing over harbor more rare variants in African populations of Drosophila melanogaster. (2001) (116)
- Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora: Toward genomic prediction of bleaching (2020) (115)
- Overlooked roles of DNA damage and maternal age in generating human germline mutations (2018) (111)
- The Timing of Selection at the Human FOXP2 Gene (2008) (110)
- Variation in Human Recombination Rates and Its Genetic Determinants (2011) (109)
- Deconstructing the sources of genotype-phenotype associations in humans (2019) (108)
- Interpreting the Dependence of Mutation Rates on Age and Time (2015) (106)
- Estimating the time since the fixation of a beneficial allele. (2003) (101)
- Broad-Scale Recombination Patterns Underlying Proper Disjunction in Humans (2009) (100)
- Evidence for positive selection and population structure at the human MAO-A gene (2002) (95)
- A Population Genetics-Phylogenetics Approach to Inferring Natural Selection in Coding Sequences (2011) (90)
- Non-crossover gene conversions show strong GC bias and unexpected clustering in humans (2014) (89)
- Repeated losses of PRDM9-directed recombination despite the conservation of PRDM9 across vertebrates (2016) (87)
- Why is there so little intragenic linkage disequilibrium in humans? (2001) (80)
- Large, three-generation human families reveal post-zygotic mosaicism and variability in germline mutation accumulation (2019) (79)
- Directional Positive Selection on an Allele of Arbitrary Dominance (2006) (78)
- The Case of the Fickle Fingers: How the PRDM9 Zinc Finger Protein Specifies Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans (2011) (75)
- Identifying genetic variants that affect viability in large cohorts (2016) (72)
- Shifts in the intensity of purifying selection: an analysis of genome-wide polymorphism data from two closely related yeast species. (2010) (70)
- Genealogies and weak purifying selection. (1999) (66)
- Footprints of ancient-balanced polymorphisms in genetic variation data from closely related species (2014) (65)
- An Estimate of the Average Number of Recessive Lethal Mutations Carried by Humans (2014) (61)
- Human Germline Mutation and the Erratic Evolutionary Clock (2016) (59)
- No effect of recombination on the efficacy of natural selection in primates. (2008) (57)
- Measuring intolerance to mutation in human genetics (2019) (52)
- Different selective pressures shape the evolution of Toll-like receptors in human and African great ape populations. (2013) (51)
- Recombination and the frequency spectrum in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans. (2001) (51)
- Evaluating the Evidence for Transmission Distortion in Human Pedigrees (2012) (42)
- Insights into recombination from patterns of linkage disequilibrium in humans. (2002) (42)
- The population genetics of human disease: The case of recessive, lethal mutations (2016) (40)
- A comparison of humans and baboons suggests germline mutation rates do not track cell divisions (2019) (39)
- The Rise and Fall of the Chemoattractant Receptor GPR33* (2005) (30)
- Ancestry runs deeper than blood: The evolutionary history of ABO points to cryptic variation of functional importance (2013) (29)
- Contrasting Determinants of Mutation Rates in Germline and Soma (2017) (29)
- Measuring intolerance to mutation in human genetics (2018) (27)
- Signatures of replication timing, recombination, and sex in the spectrum of rare variants on the human X chromosome and autosomes (2019) (26)
- The evolution of group differences in changing environments (2020) (22)
- Evolutionary history inferred from the de novo assembly of a nonmodel organism, the blue-eyed black lemur (2015) (22)
- Correction: Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates (2007) (21)
- Natural selection interacts with the local recombination rate to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes (2017) (19)
- Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora: Towards a genomic predictor of bleaching (2019) (19)
- Repeated losses of PRDM 9-directed recombination despite the conservation of PRDM 9 across vertebrates (2017) (16)
- Combining Sperm Typing and Linkage Disequilibrium Analyses Reveals Differences in Selective Pressures or Recombination Rates Across Human Populations (2007) (15)
- Large, three-generation CEPH families reveal post-zygotic mosaicism and variability in germline mutation accumulation (2019) (15)
- Insights Into Recombination From Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium in Humans (2004) (15)
- Mutation saturation for fitness effects at human CpG sites (2021) (13)
- Impact of essential workers in the context of social distancing for epidemic control (2020) (13)
- The Convergent Evolution of Blue Iris Pigmentation in Primates Took Distinct Molecular Paths (2013) (13)
- Consortium, G.P A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing. Nature 467, 1061-1073 (2010) (13)
- Signatures of replication timing, recombination and sex in the spectrum of rare variants on the human X chromosome and autosomes (2019) (12)
- An evaluation of a hierarchical branching process as a model for species diversification (1998) (11)
- Lottery, luck, or legacy. A review of “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA matters for social equality” (2022) (10)
- An evolutionary view of human (2007) (9)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Modeling linkage disequilibrium and identifying recombination hotspots using single-nucleotide polymorphism data. (2003) (9)
- PRDM9 losses in vertebrates are coupled to those of paralogs ZCWPW1 and ZCWPW2 (2021) (9)
- Variation in rural African gut microbiomes is strongly shaped by parasitism and diet (2015) (8)
- A paternal bias in germline mutation is widespread in amniotes and can arise independently of cell division numbers (2022) (7)
- Corrigendum: Fine-scale recombination patterns differ between chimpanzees and humans (2005) (7)
- Motivating Hotspots (2005) (5)
- The Golden Age of Human Population Genetics (2011) (4)
- Correction: The population genetics of human disease: The case of recessive, lethal mutations (2018) (3)
- Acropora millepora Genome Assembly (2018) (3)
- Relating pathogenic loss-of-function mutations in humans to their evolutionary fitness costs (2022) (2)
- TroX: a new method to learn about the genesis of aneuploidy from trisomic products of conception (2014) (2)
- The Rise and Fall of the Chemoattractant Receptor GPR 33 * (2005) (2)
- Timing and causes of the evolution of the germline mutation spectrum 1 in humans 2 (2022) (1)
- Luck, lottery, or legacy? The problem of confounding. A reply to Harden (2022) (1)
- species genome-wide polymorphism data from two closely related yeast Shifts in the intensity of purifying selection : An analysis of Material Supplemental (2010) (1)
- Meeting Report: The Allied Genetics Conference 2016 (2016) (1)
- Limited role of generation time changes in driving the evolution of the mutation spectrum in humans (2023) (1)
- Genetic signatures of natural selection (2004) (1)
- Functional genomics in the chimpanzee (2002) (1)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Evolutionary changes in cis and trans gene regulation. (2005) (1)
- Down the Penrose stairs: How selection for fewer recombination hotspots maintains their existence (2022) (1)
- “Combining sperm typing and LD analyses reveals differences in selective pressures or recombination rates across human populations” (2006) (0)
- Author response: Large, three-generation human families reveal post-zygotic mosaicism and variability in germline mutation accumulation (2019) (0)
- 17 The genetic basis of blue eyes in primates (2010) (0)
- , authors of a recent paper using large DNA databases to identify the ways human populations continue to evolve . AUA ! (2017) (0)
- Dating ancient human samples using the recombination clock (2015) (0)
- PRDM9 losses in vertebrates are coupled to the loss of at least three other meiotic genes (2021) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Recombination drives the evolution of GC-content in the human genome. (2004) (0)
- primates No effect of recombination on the efficacy of natural selection in data (2008) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Transitions to asexuality result in excess amino acid substitutions. (2006) (0)
- ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS. (2019) (0)
- Supplementary Materials for: Variable portability of polygenic scores within an ancestry group (2019) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Genetic analysis of cavefish reveals molecular convergence in the evolution of albinism. (2006) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa. (2005) (0)
- Genomes and evolution: From genomics and evolution to medicine (2006) (0)
- Amino acid alignment of PRDM9 SET domains (2017) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of The effects of artificial selection on the maize genome. (2005) (0)
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