List of works by David Comas

A family carrying a homozygous LACC1 truncated mutation expands the clinical phenotype of this disease beyond systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

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A genomic analysis identifies a novel component in the genetic structure of sub-Saharan African populations ⬇️

scientific article published on August 25, 2010

A global perspective on genetic variation at the ADH genes reveals unusual patterns of linkage disequilibrium and diversity

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A tale of agriculturalists and hunter-gatherers: Exploring the thrifty genotype hypothesis in native South Americans

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Adaptive evolution of loci covarying with the human African Pygmy phenotype

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Admixture and sexual bias in the population settlement of La Réunion Island (Indian Ocean).

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Admixture, migrations, and dispersals in Central Asia: evidence from maternal DNA lineages

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Afghanistan's ethnic groups share a Y-chromosomal heritage structured by historical events

scientific article published in 2012

Allele Frequencies for 20 Microsatellites in a Worldwide Population Survey

Alu insertion polymorphisms in NW Africa and the Iberian Peninsula: evidence for a strong genetic boundary through the Gibraltar Straits

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Alu insertion polymorphisms in the Balkans and the origins of the Aromuns

scientific article (publication date: March 2004)

An evaluation of the genetic-matched pair study design using genome-wide SNP data from the European population

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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

Association of the CTLA4 promoter region (-1661G allele) with type 1 diabetes in the South Moroccan population

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Association study between Alzheimer's disease and genes involved in Abeta biosynthesis, aggregation and degradation: suggestive results with BACE1.

scientific article published in August 2003

Baseline brain perfusion and the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism.

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

Biallelic loss-of-function LACC1/FAMIN Mutations Presenting as Rheumatoid Factor-Negative Polyarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Brief communication: mtDNA variation in North Cameroon: lack of Asian lineages and implications for back migration from Asia to sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on November 2005

Comparative analysis of Alu insertion sequences in the APP 5' flanking region in humans and other primates

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Complement factor 5 (C5) p.A252T mutation is prevalent in, but not restricted to, sub-Saharan Africa: implications for the susceptibility to meningococcal disease

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Contemporary paternal genetic landscape of Polish and German populations: from early medieval Slavic expansion to post-World War II resettlements

scientific article (publication date: 12 September 2012)

Correlation between genetic and geographic structure in Europe

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Decay of linkage disequilibrium within genes across HGDP-CEPH human samples: most population isolates do not show increased LD.

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Demographic History of the Genus Pan Inferred from Whole Mitochondrial Genome Reconstructions

scientific article published on 26 June 2016

Determination of haploid DNA sequences in humans: application to the glucocerebrosidase pseudogene

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Dissecting human North African gene-flow into its western coastal surroundings

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Distribution of local ancestry and evidence of adaptation in admixed populations

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

European Roma groups show complex West Eurasian admixture footprints and a common South Asian genetic origin

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Evidence of pre-Roman tribal genetic structure in Basques from uniparentally inherited markers

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Evidence of still-ongoing convergence evolution of the lactase persistence T-13910 alleles in humans

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Evolutionary pattern in the OXT-OXTR system in primates: coevolution and positive selection footprints

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Extreme individual marker FST values do not imply population-specific selection in humans: the NRG1 example

Extreme population differences across Neuregulin 1 gene, with implications for association studies.

scientific article published on January 2006

Extreme population differences in the human zinc transporter ZIP4 (SLC39A4) are explained by positive selection in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Family-based association study of neuregulin-1 gene and psychosis in a Spanish sample

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GHEP-ISFG proficiency test 2011: Paper challenge on evaluation of mitochondrial DNA results.

scientific article published on 19 May 2012

Gene flow from North Africa contributes to differential human genetic diversity in southern Europe

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Genetic Heterogeneity in Algerian Human Populations

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Genetic and demographic implications of the Bantu expansion: insights from human paternal lineages

scientific article (publication date: July 2009)

Genetic evidence for an origin of the Armenians from Bronze Age mixing of multiple populations

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Genetic origin, admixture, and asymmetry in maternal and paternal human lineages in Cuba

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Genetic signature of natural selection in first Americans

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Genetics and the Reconstruction of African Population History

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Genome-wide and paternal diversity reveal a recent origin of human populations in North Africa

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Genome-wide diversity in the levant reveals recent structuring by culture

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Genomic analysis of Andamanese provides insights into ancient human migration into Asia and adaptation

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa migrations

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Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

scientific article (publication date: 25 August 2016)

Genomic regulation of CTLA4 and multiple sclerosis

article published in 2008

Geographic population structure analysis of worldwide human populations infers their biogeographical origins

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Geographic variation in human mitochondrial DNA control region sequence: the population history of Turkey and its relationship to the European populations

scientific article published on October 1996

Georgian and kurd mtDNA sequence analysis shows a lack of correlation between languages and female genetic lineages

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

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Glucocerebrosidase pseudogene variation and Gaucher disease: Recognizing pseudogene tracts in GBA alleles

scientific article published in March 2001

Great ape genetic diversity and population history

scientific article published on 03 July 2013

HLA class I and class II DNA typing and the origin of Basques

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HLA evidence for the lack of genetic heterogeneity in Basques

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HSP70-2 (HSPA1B) is associated with noncognitive symptoms in late-onset Alzheimer's disease.

scientific article published in September 2003

Haplotype tagging efficiency in worldwide populations in CTLA4 gene

scientific article published on December 2005

Heteroplasmy in the control region of human mitochondrial DNA

scientific article published on 01 August 1995

High-resolution analysis of human Y-chromosome variation shows a sharp discontinuity and limited gene flow between northwestern Africa and the Iberian Peninsula

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Human mitochondrial DNA variation and the origin of Basques.

scientific article published in January 1995

Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans

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Identifying genetic traces of historical expansions: Phoenician footprints in the Mediterranean

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Implications of population history of European Romani on genetic susceptibility to disease

scientific article published in January 2013

Independent introduction of two lactase-persistence alleles into human populations reflects different history of adaptation to milk culture

scientific article published in January 2008

Insights into the demographic history of African Pygmies from complete mitochondrial genomes

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Insights into the western Bantu dispersal: mtDNA lineage analysis in Angola

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Joining the pillars of Hercules: mtDNA sequences show multidirectional gene flow in the western Mediterranean

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Joint analysis of candidate genes related to Alzheimer's disease in a Spanish population

scientific article published on June 2003

Linguistic and maternal genetic diversity are not correlated in Native Mexicans

scientific article published on 04 June 2009

Maternal traces of deep common ancestry and asymmetric gene flow between Pygmy hunter-gatherers and Bantu-speaking farmers

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Mitochondrial DNA heterogeneity in Tunisian Berbers

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Mitochondrial DNA structure in North Africa reveals a genetic discontinuity in the Nile Valley

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Mitochondrial DNA variation and the origin of the Europeans

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Multiplex single-nucleotide polymorphism typing of the human Y chromosome using TaqMan probes

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Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans

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North African populations carry the signature of admixture with Neandertals

scientific article published in 2012

Northwest Siberian Khanty and Mansi in the junction of West and East Eurasian gene pools as revealed by uniparental markers

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Novel Mutations Causing C5 Deficiency in Three North-African Families.

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Novel polymorphic AluYb8 insertion in the WNK1 gene is associated with blood pressure variation in Europeans

scientific article published on 10 May 2011

Origins, admixture and founder lineages in European Roma

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Paternal and maternal lineages in the Balkans show a homogeneous landscape over linguistic barriers, except for the isolated Aromuns

scientific article (publication date: July 2006)

Patterns of genetic structure and adaptive positive selection in the Lithuanian population from high-density SNP data.

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

Phylogeography of the human mitochondrial L1c haplogroup: Genetic signatures of the prehistory of Central Africa

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Population genetics of Y-chromosome short tandem repeats in humans

scientific article published in September 1997

Population structure in copy number variation and SNPs in the CCL4L chemokine gene

scientific article published on 27 March 2008

Possible increased risk for Alzheimer's disease associated with neprilysin gene

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Reassessing the Evolutionary History of the 17q21 Inversion Polymorphism

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Recent Radiation of R-M269 and High Y-STR Haplotype Resemblance Confirmed

Recombination gives a new insight in the effective population size and the history of the old world human populations

scientific article published in September 2011

Recombination networks as genetic markers in a human variation study of the Old World

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Reconstructing the Indian origin and dispersal of the European Roma: a maternal genetic perspective

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Reconstructing the population history of European Romani from genome-wide data

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Results of the GEP-ISFG collaborative study on an X-STR Decaplex

SNP analysis to results (SNPator): a web-based environment oriented to statistical genomics analyses upon SNP data

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SNPlexing the human Y-chromosome: A single-assay system for major haplogroup screening

Sex-specific migration patterns in Central Asian populations, revealed by analysis of Y-chromosome short tandem repeats and mtDNA.

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Signatures of the preagricultural peopling processes in sub-Saharan Africa as revealed by the phylogeography of early Y chromosome lineages

scientific article (publication date: September 2011)

Similarity in recombination rate and linkage disequilibrium at CYP2C and CYP2D cytochrome P450 gene regions among Europeans indicates signs of selection and no advantage of using tagSNPs in population isolates

scientific article published in December 2012

Similarity in recombination rate estimates highly correlates with genetic differentiation in humans

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Spatially explicit analysis reveals complex human genetic gradients in the Iberian Peninsula.

scientific article published on 24 May 2019

Structure of linkage disequilibrium in humans: genome factors and population stratification

scientific article published in January 2003

Tandem repeat variation in human and great ape populations and its impact on gene expression divergence

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

The AQP1 del601G mutation in different European Romani (Gypsy) populations

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

The Bantu expansion revisited: a new analysis of Y chromosome variation in Central Western Africa

scientific article (publication date: July 2011)

The Basque paradigm: genetic evidence of a maternal continuity in the Franco-Cantabrian region since pre-Neolithic times

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The Genographic Project public participation mitochondrial DNA database

scientific article published in June 2007

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

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The Tyrosinase Gene in Gorillas and the Albinism of 'Snowflake'

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The dawn of human matrilineal diversity

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The genetics of East African populations: a Nilo-Saharan component in the African genetic landscape

scientific article (publication date: 28 May 2015)

The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

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The influence of habitats on female mobility in Central and Western Africa inferred from human mitochondrial variation

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The portability of tagSNPs across populations: a worldwide survey

scientific article published on 8 February 2006

The shaping of immunological responses through natural selection after the Roma Diaspora

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Toward male individualization with rapidly mutating y-chromosomal short tandem repeats

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Trading genes along the silk road: mtDNA sequences and the origin of central Asian populations

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Uniparental markers in Italy reveal a sex-biased genetic structure and different historical strata

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Variation in short tandem repeats is deeply structured by genetic background on the human Y chromosome

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Vitellogenin of Blattella germanica (L.) (Dictyoptera, blattellidae): nucleotide sequence of the cDNA and analysis of the protein primary structure

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Whole-exome analysis in Tunisian Imazighen and Arabs shows the impact of demography in functional variation

scientific article published on 26 October 2021

Whole-genome sequence analysis of a Pan African set of samples reveals archaic gene flow from an extinct basal population of modern humans into sub-Saharan populations

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Why names

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Worldwide genetic variation in dopamine and serotonin pathway genes: implications for association studies

scientific article published on October 2008

Y chromosome STR haplotypes in four populations from northwest Africa

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Y-chromosomal diversity in Lebanon is structured by recent historical events

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Y-chromosome analysis in individuals bearing the Basarab name of the first dynasty of Wallachian kings

scientific article published in 2012

Y-chromosome diversity in Catalan surname samples: insights into surname origin and frequency

scientific article (publication date: 18 February 2015)

Y-chromosome diversity in Native Mexicans reveals continental transition of genetic structure in the Americas

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mtDNA analysis of the Galician population: a genetic edge of European variation

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