List of works by Sarah Tishkoff

A High-Density Admixture Map for Disease Gene Discovery in African Americans

scientific article

A Locus at 5q33.3 Confers Resistance to Tuberculosis in Highly Susceptible Individuals.

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A founder mutation in LEPRE1 carried by 1.5% of West Africans and 0.4% of African Americans causes lethal recessive osteogenesis imperfecta

scientific article published on 26 January 2012

A polymorphic residue that attenuates the antiviral potential of interferon lambda 4 in hominid lineages

scientific article published on 11 October 2018

A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

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African evolutionary history inferred from whole genome sequence data of 44 indigenous African populations

African genetic diversity: implications for human demographic history, modern human origins, and complex disease mapping

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

African human diversity, origins and migrations

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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

Apparent variation in Neanderthal admixture among African populations is consistent with gene flow from Non-African populations

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Biased gene conversion skews allele frequencies in human populations, increasing the disease burden of recessive alleles

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Characterization of genetic variation and natural selection at the arylamine N-acetyltransferase genes in global human populations

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Colloquium paper: working toward a synthesis of archaeological, linguistic, and genetic data for inferring African population history

scientific article (publication date: 11 May 2010)

Comparison between southern blots and qPCR analysis of leukocyte telomere length in the health ABC study

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Consent: Data-sharing for indigenous peoples.

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Contrasting histories of G6PD molecular evolution and malarial resistance in humans and chimpanzees

scientific article published on 2 June 2006

Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe

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Correction to: African evolutionary history inferred from whole genome sequence data of 44 indigenous African populations

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Corrigendum: Model-based analyses of whole-genome data reveal a complex evolutionary history involving archaic introgression in Central African Pygmies

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DCAF4, a novel gene associated with leucocyte telomere length

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Detection of DNA sequence variation via deliberate heteroduplex formation from genomic DNAs amplified en masse in "population tubes".

scientific article published in February 1994

Divergent Patterns of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Ancestry Are Associated with the Risk for Preterm Birth

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Divergent haplotypes and human history as revealed in a worldwide survey of X-linked DNA sequence variation

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Editorial overview: Evolutionary genomics - from molecular mechanisms to phenotypes to populations

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Effects of natural selection and gene conversion on the evolution of human glycophorins coding for MNS blood polymorphisms in malaria-endemic African populations

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Elevated male European and female African contributions to the genomes of African American individuals

scientific article published on 28 September 2006

Estimating European admixture in African Americans by using microsatellites and a microsatellite haplotype (CD4/Alu).

scientific article published in February 1999

Evidence for balancing selection from nucleotide sequence analyses of human G6PD

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Evidence from Cameroon reveals differences in the genetic structure and histories of chimpanzee populations

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Evolution of functionally diverse alleles associated with PTC bitter taste sensitivity in Africa

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Evolutionary history and adaptation from high-coverage whole-genome sequences of diverse African hunter-gatherers

scientific article (publication date: 3 August 2012)

Exploring genomic studies in Africa.

scientific article published on 8 July 2011

GENETICS. Strength in small numbers

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Genetic adaptation to high altitude in the Ethiopian highlands

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Genetic analysis of African populations: human evolution and complex disease

scientific article (publication date: August 2002)

Genetic hitchhiking and population bottlenecks contribute to prostate cancer disparities in men of African descent

scientific article published on 8 February 2018

Genetic origins of lactase persistence and the spread of pastoralism in Africa

scientific article (publication date: 3 April 2014)

Genetic signatures of gene flow and malaria-driven natural selection in sub-Saharan populations of the "endemic Burkitt Lymphoma belt"

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Genetic structure in African populations: implications for human demographic history

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Genetic structure of the ancestral population of modern humans

scientific article published in August 1998

Genetic studies of African populations: an overview on disease susceptibility and response to vaccines and therapeutics

scientific article published on 30 May 2008

Genetic studies of African populations: an overview on disease susceptibility and response to vaccines and therapeutics

Genetic variation and adaptation in Africa: implications for human evolution and disease

scientific article (publication date: July 2014)

Genetics and Geography of Leukocyte Telomere Length in Sub-Saharan Africans

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Genetics of cognitive trajectory in Brazilians: 15 years of follow-up from the Bambuí-Epigen Cohort Study of Aging

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Genome-wide meta-analysis points to CTC1 and ZNF676 as genes regulating telomere homeostasis in humans

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Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans

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Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

scientific article (publication date: 13 October 2016)

Genomic evidence for shared common ancestry of East African hunting-gathering populations and insights into local adaptation

scientific article published on 19 February 2019

Genomic variation and adaptation in Africa: implications for human evolutionary history and disease.

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Global distribution of a novel trinucleotide microsatellite polymorphism (ATA)n in intron 8 of the SLC11A1 gene and susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation

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Global patterns of linkage disequilibrium at the CD4 locus and modern human origins

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Global population-specific variation in miRNA associated with cancer risk and clinical biomarkers

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Global variation in gene expression and the value of diverse sampling.

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Going global by adapting local: A review of recent human adaptation

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Great ape genetic diversity and population history

scientific article published on 03 July 2013

Haplotype diversity and linkage disequilibrium at human G6PD: recent origin of alleles that confer malarial resistance

scientific article (publication date: 20 July 2001)

Haplotype variation and genotype imputation in African populations.

scientific article published on December 2011

Higher frequency of genetic variants conferring increased risk for ADRs for commonly used drugs treating cancer, AIDS and tuberculosis in persons of African descent

scientific article

History of click-speaking populations of Africa inferred from mtDNA and Y chromosome genetic variation

scientific article (publication date: October 2007)

Human evolutionary genomics: ethical and interpretive issues

scientific article published on 20 January 2012

Identifying Darwinian Selection Acting on Different Human APOL1 Variants among Diverse African Populations

scientific article published in July 2013

Identifying Darwinian selection acting on different human APOL1 variants among diverse African populations.

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Implications of biogeography of human populations for 'race' and medicine

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Inferences of African evolutionary history from genomic data

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Interaction between host genes and Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage can affect tuberculosis severity: Evidence for coevolution?

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

Interview with Sarah Tishkoff: perspectives for genetic research in African populations. Interview by Giovanni Destro-Bisol

scientific article published in October 2011

Large-scale SNP analysis reveals clustered and continuous patterns of human genetic variation

scientific article

Lifestyle and the presence of helminths is associated with gut microbiome composition in Cameroonians

scientific article published on 25 May 2020

Limited evidence for adaptive evolution and functional effect of allelic variation at rs702424 in the promoter of the TAS2R16 bitter taste receptor gene in Africa

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Living the high life: high-altitude adaptation

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Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations.

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Meta-analysis of GWA studies provides new insights on the genetic architecture of skin pigmentation in recently admixed populations

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Model-based analyses of whole-genome data reveal a complex evolutionary history involving archaic introgression in Central African Pygmies

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Molecular characterization of G6PD deficiency in Cyprus

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NIH must confront the use of race in science

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Nuclear DNA diversity in worldwide distributed human populations

scientific article published on December 1997

Ongoing adaptive evolution of ASPM, a brain size determinant in Homo sapiens.

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Origin and differential selection of allelic variation at TAS2R16 associated with salicin bitter taste sensitivity in Africa

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Origins, admixture dynamics and homogenization of the African gene pool in the Americas

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Patterns of Human Genetic Diversity: Implications for Human Evolutionary History and Disease ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Patterns of ancestry, signatures of natural selection, and genetic association with stature in Western African pygmies

scientific article

Patterns of nucleotide and haplotype diversity at ICAM-1 across global human populations with varying levels of malaria exposure

scientific article published on 23 April 2013

Phylogeny Estimation by Integration over Isolation with Migration Models

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Population Genomics of Human Adaptation

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Population structure of human gut bacteria in a diverse cohort from rural Tanzania and Botswana

scholarly article by Matthew E B Hansen et al published 22 January 2019 in Genome Biology

Positive selection can create false hotspots of recombination

scientific article published on 30 December 2005

Recent human adaptation: genomic approaches, interpretation and insights

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Reply to Winters: The origins of the Fulani remain unknown

scientific article published on 3 August 2010

Role of evolutionary history on haplotype block structure in the human genome: implications for disease mapping

scientific article published on December 2003

Sequence diversity of Pan troglodytes subspecies and the impact of WFDC6 selective constraints in reproductive immunity

scientific article published on January 2013

Shorter telomere length in Europeans than in Africans due to polygenetic adaptation

scientific article published on 02 March 2016

Signatures of selection and gene conversion associated with human color vision variation

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Specific inactivation of two immunomodulatory SIGLEC genes during human evolution

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Structural diversity and African origin of the 17q21.31 inversion polymorphism

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Taking race out of human genetics

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Telomere Length and the Cancer-Atherosclerosis Trade-Off

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Ten years of genetics and genomics: what have we achieved and where are we heading?

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The Missing Diversity in Human Genetic Studies

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

The Missing Diversity in Human Genetic Studies

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

The Plight of Muntaser Ibrahim

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

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The evolution of human genetic and phenotypic variation in Africa

scientific article (publication date: 23 February 2010)

The genetic prehistory of southern Africa

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The genetic structure and history of Africans and African Americans

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The importance of including ethnically diverse populations in studies of quantitative trait evolution

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

The molecular epidemiology of Huntington disease is related to intermediate allele frequency and haplotype in the general population

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

The peopling of the African continent and the diaspora into the new world

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The road ahead in genetics and genomics

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics

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Utilizing nanopore sequencing technology for the rapid and comprehensive characterization of eleven HLA loci; addressing the need for deceased donor expedited HLA typing

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Whole genome computational comparative genomics: A fruitful approach for ascertaining Alu insertion polymorphisms

scientific article published on 10 January 2006

Whole-genome sequence analyses of Western Central African Pygmy hunter-gatherers reveal a complex demographic history and identify candidate genes under positive natural selection

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Whole-mtDNA Genome Sequence Analysis of Ancient African Lineages

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Y-chromosomal evidence of a pastoralist migration through Tanzania to southern Africa

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