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Desislava Petkova

Centre for Human Genetics

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Organism:human· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Organism:Arabidopsis· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1

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Estimating recent migration and population size surfaces

Hussein Al-Asadi, Desislava Petkova, Matthew Stephens, John Novembre

The paper introduces a method to estimate time-varying migration rates and population sizes using genetic similarity data, applied to European populations to analyze recent demographic history.

PLoS Genetics · Jan 14, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Genome-wide genetic data on ~500,000 UK Biobank participants

Clare Bycroft, Colin Freeman, Desislava Petkova, Gavin Band, Lloyd T. Elliott, Kevin Sharp, Allan Motyer, Damjan Vukcevic, Olivier Delaneau, Jared O’Connell, Adrián Cortés, Samantha Welsh, Gil McVean, Stephen Leslie, Peter Donnelly, Jonathan Marchini

Quality-controlled genotypes for 488,377 UK Biobank participants at 805,426 markers, imputed to ~96 million variants, plus ancestry PCs, kinship (30.3% have close relatives enrolled) and HLA calls.

bioRxiv · Jul 20, 2017 · PreprintGenetics✦ In-depth digest

Visualizing spatial population structure with estimated effective migration surfaces

Desislava Petkova, John Novembre, Matthew Stephens

The paper introduces a method to visualize spatial population structure using effective migration surfaces, identifying gene flow barriers from genetic data.

Nature Genetics · Dec 7, 2015Peer-reviewedGenetics