Tomás Norambuena

This study uses genomic data to analyze the recent population history of the Mapuche, finding shared ancestry with Southern Patagonia and Central Chile populations, a population bottleneck around 1650 AD, and post-admixture adaptation in Chileans.

This study conducts GWAS on BMI and related traits in admixed Chilean children, identifying genetic variants associated with BMI and age at adiposity rebound, and highlighting differences by Native American ancestry.

This study assesses reproducibility in microbiome analysis by evaluating sampling, storage, and laboratory processing variations, finding that subject identity is the largest determinant of variation.