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Ancient DNA Provides New Insights into Ashkenazi Jewish History: Analysis reveals medieval genetic diversity, illuminates founder event

December 1, 2022

The largest study to date of ancient DNA from Jewish individuals reveals unexpected genetic subgroups in medieval German Ashkenazi Jews and sheds light on the “founder event” in which a small population gave rise to most present-day Ashkenazi Jews.

 

The findings, spearheaded by geneticists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard Medical School, were published Nov. 30 in Cell.

About half of Jewish people around the world today identify as Ashkenazi, meaning that...

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2021 Aug 03

Evelyn Jagoda Dissertation Defense: "Investigations into the Adaptive Value and Biological Consequences of Positively-Selected Neanderthal Introgressed Genetic Variation in Modern Humans"

9:00am to 10:00am

Location: 

Virtual - RSVP to mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu for zoom link!

"Investigations into the Adaptive Value and Biological Consequences of Positively-Selected Neanderthal Introgressed Genetic Variation in Modern Humans"

Evelyn Jagoda, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

Tuesday, August 3, 9:00-10:00 am EST

Please RSVP to Mallory McCoy for the zoom link & password (mmccoy@fas.harvard.edu). 

 

Abstract: 

The sequencing of ancient genomes has revealed that...

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2019 Nov 14

HEB Colloquium: "Innovations in Primate Brain Cells & Circuits"

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Speaker: Dr. Fenna Krienen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Abstract: 

The expansion of the neocortex in primates has led to the emergence of brain regions that have specialized functions and connectivity, are important for cognition, and are compromised in brain disorders. What are the genetic and cellular bases for the reorganization and increased capability of the neocortex in primates? I will share the results of work to understand the neocortex across multiple scales - from...

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