Spencer Wells

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Spencer Wells is affiliated with the following schools: University of Texas at Austin, University of Oxford, Stanford University, Harvard University

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Spencer Wells

Anthropology

#594

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#823

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#319

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Spencer Wells

Biology

#1041

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#1796

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#546

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Genetics

#137

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#175

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#84

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Evolutionary Biology

#207

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#228

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#70

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Spencer Wells's Degrees

Bachelors Biological Anthropology University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Spencer Wells is an American geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. He co-hosts The Insight podcast with Razib Khan. Wells led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and is the founder and executive director of personal genomics nonprofit The Insitome Institute.

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Spencer Wells's Published Works

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Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations (2000) (976)
The Eurasian Heartland: A continental perspective on Y-chromosome diversity (2001) (478)
The genetic legacy of the Mongols. (2003) (463)
The dawn of human matrilineal diversity. (2008) (433)
Where west meets east: the complex mtDNA landscape of the southwest and Central Asian corridor. (2004) (411)
Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas (2016) (271)
Paternal population history of East Asia: sources, patterns, and microevolutionary processes. (2001) (237)
African Origin of Modern Humans in East Asia: A Tale of 12,000 Y Chromosomes (2001) (229)
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (2002) (196)
Early human dispersals within the Americas (2018) (195)
A genetic landscape reshaped by recent events: Y-chromosomal insights into central Asia. (2002) (170)
Admixture, migrations, and dispersals in Central Asia: evidence from maternal DNA lineages (2004) (164)
Parallel evolution of genes and languages in the Caucasus region. (2011) (154)
Y chromosome evidence of earliest modern human settlement in East Asia and multiple origins of Tibetan and Japanese populations (2008) (141)
The Genographic Project Public Participation Mitochondrial DNA Database (2007) (140)
Identifying genetic traces of historical expansions: Phoenician footprints in the Mediterranean. (2008) (139)
Corrigendum: Geographic population structure analysis of worldwide human populations infers their biogeographical origins (2016) (126)
Geographic population structure analysis of worldwide human populations infers their biogeographical origins (2014) (126)
Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Lebanon Is Structured by Recent Historical Events (2008) (123)
A novel Y-chromosome variant puts an upper limit on the timing of first entry into the Americas. (2003) (100)
Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture (2013) (87)
Natural inactivation of a common HLA allele (A*2402) has occurred on at least three separate occasions. (1997) (78)
Geographical Structure of the Y‐chromosomal Genetic Landscape of the Levant: A coastal‐inland contrast (2009) (54)
Y-Chromosome and mtDNA Genetics Reveal Significant Contrasts in Affinities of Modern Middle Eastern Populations with European and African Populations (2013) (53)
Ancient and recent admixture layers in Sicily and Southern Italy trace multiple migration routes along the Mediterranean (2017) (49)
Influences of history, geography, and religion on genetic structure: the Maronites in Lebanon (2011) (47)
Afghanistan's Ethnic Groups Share a Y-Chromosomal Heritage Structured by Historical Events (2012) (45)
A major histocompatibility complex class I allele shared by two species of chimpanzee (1998) (45)
Population Differentiation of Southern Indian Male Lineages Correlates with Agricultural Expansions Predating the Caste System (2012) (42)
Genetic Heterogeneity of Beta Thalassemia in Lebanon Reflects Historic and Recent Population Migration (2005) (41)
Aboriginal Australian mitochondrial genome variation – an increased understanding of population antiquity and diversity (2017) (36)
Chad Genetic Diversity Reveals an African History Marked by Multiple Holocene Eurasian Migrations (2016) (33)
Genome-wide signatures of male-mediated migration shaping the Indian gene pool (2015) (26)
Population histories of the United States revealed through fine-scale migration and haplotype analysis (2019) (25)
A CD45 polymorphism associated with abnormal splicing is absent in African populations (2002) (24)
Overcoming the dichotomy between open and isolated populations using genomic data from a large European dataset (2017) (16)
Nucleotide variation at the Gpdh locus in the genus Drosophila. (1996) (16)
The human homologue of unc-93 maps to chromosome 6q27 – characterisation and analysis in sporadic epithelial ovarian cancer (2002) (15)
Peptides bound endogenously by HLA-Cw*0304 expressed in LCL 721.221 cells include a peptide derived from HLA-E. (1996) (14)
Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Site-Specific Mutation Rates in Human Mitochondrial DNA From Partial Phylogenetic Classification (2008) (12)
High-throughput class I HLA genotyping using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) probes and sequence-specific primer-polymerase chain reaction (SSP-PCR). (1999) (12)
A novel 154‐bp deletion in the human mitochondrial DNA control region in healthy individuals (2008) (10)
Analysis of variation in the human beta-globin gene cluster using a novel DHPLC technique. (2002) (8)
Correction: The Genographic Project Public Participation Mitochondrial DNA Database (2007) (7)
A novel recombinant HLA-B*39 allele (B*3910) in a South African Zulu. (1996) (7)
Excessive homoplasy in an evolutionarily constrained protein (1996) (7)
Cw*1701 defines a divergent African HLA-C allelic lineage (1997) (7)
Tracing the genetic history of the ‘Cañaris’ from Ecuador and Peru using uniparental DNA markers (2020) (3)
Ancient and recent admixture layers in Sicily and Southern Italy trace multiple migration routes along the Mediterranean (2017) (2)
Genetic patterning in Central Eurasia: population history and pigmentation (2018) (1)
Correction: Population Differentiation of Southern Indian Male Lineages Correlates with Agricultural Expansions Predating the Caste System (2013) (1)
A novel Mhc-B-related processed pseudogene in two species of New World primates (2000) (1)
Overcoming the dichotomy: new insights into the genomic diversity of open and isolated European populations (2016) (0)
Ward Boundary Mass Extinction Sudden Productivity Collapse Associated with the Triassic-Jurassic (2011) (0)
Y-chromosomal DNA variation and human population history (2003) (0)
O695 - The molecular evolution of divergent HLA-B and -C lineages (1996) (0)
Population comparisons using a range of genetic markers (2002) (0)
Assignment of six enzyme loci to multipoint linkage groups in Fishes of the genusPoeciliopsis (Poeciliidae): Designation of linkage groups III–V (2004) (0)
THE EMERGING COMPLEXITY OF GENOMIC ARCHITECTURE IN HUMAN POPULATION ISOLATES (2015) (0)
Genetic markers and local history: A study in Orkney (2002) (0)
Genome from Early Holocene Remains from Patagonia Suggest Demographic Shift, Supporting the Material Culture Transition (2016) (0)
Genomic insights into early maritime adaptations in Western Patagonia (2018) (0)
LA polymorphism in genetic strucure analysis of the aboriginal populations of Northern Russia (2002) (0)
Tale of 12 , 000 Y Chromosomes African Origin of Modern Humans in East Asia : A (2007) (0)
Correction to: Origins, admixture and founder lineages in European Roma (2021) (0)

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