Alain Froment

The paper investigates how industrialization affects microbial and physiological traits in the human gut across diverse populations, finding homogenized microbiomes, reduced diversity, and impaired disease prediction accuracy in less industrialized groups.

The paper develops an epigenetic age predictor that accounts for DNA sequence variation in African populations, finding that genetic variants can influence epigenetic age and longevity.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing and machine learning to reconstruct demographic history and gene-flow patterns among African populations, finding that tree-like histories with gene-flow pulses better explain genetic diversity than continuous gene-flow.

The paper identifies genetic associations with body size traits in Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies using SNP data from a modest sample size.

The paper identifies age-related DNA methylation patterns in African hunter-gatherer populations and shows that genetic variation at meQTLs influences these associations.

This study examines the gut microbiota of rural African populations, finding strong correlations between microbiome composition, subsistence mode, and colonization by the parasite Entamoeba.