Elena Irene Zavala

This study evaluates kinship inference in sedimentary ancient DNA by simulating data and applying a heterozygosity-based test to identify multi-contributor samples.

The paper introduces sedimix, an open-source workflow for analyzing hominin nuclear DNA sequences from sediments, demonstrating high sensitivity and precision through simulations and comparisons to published studies.

py_ped_sim simulates pedigree structures and genomes for family analysis, accurately approximating kinship coefficients in diverse pedigrees.

This paper benchmarks genotyping and imputation methods for degraded DNA in forensic applications across diverse populations, finding that ATLAS outperforms conventional tools and that reference panel diversity improves accuracy.