Graham Coop

The paper quantifies anthropogenic effects on maize genetic diversity in the Americas using genotyping, human genomic data, and linguistic maps, finding weak genome-wide effects but localized language-associated loci.

The paper quantifies the genome-wide effects of polygenic selection over a single generation using UK Biobank data and shows selection contributes a small but significant portion to allele frequency change.

The paper identifies a polymorphic transcription factor, SDMYB, responsible for daily sex alternation in avocado and related species, showing balancing selection over millions of years.

The paper extends Brownian motion models to ancestral recombination graphs for spatial inference but finds biases in dispersal rate and ancestor location estimates due to discrepancies at recombination events.

The paper analyzes replicate flower color hybrid zones in Antirrhinum to identify loci associated with gene flow barriers using haplotagging, FST scans, and genealogical methods.

The paper argues that highly deleterious variants are similarly distributed across human ancestry groups and shows that loss of function alleles at constrained genes conform to mutation-drift-selection balance predictions.

This paper identifies distinct inheritance mechanisms controlling heterodichogamy in two Juglandaceae genera, showing allelic dominance reversal and cis-regulatory divergence at the GFAFL gene.

This paper shows that family-based GWAS estimates are not generally unbiased for average causal effects but can provide insights into Mendelian segregation's contribution to population-level trait variance.

This paper analyzes confounding in population and family-based GWASs, showing family-based estimates can be biased by genetic confounding and interactions.

The paper develops a method to infer dispersal parameters and effective population density in spatially heterogeneous populations using shared haplotype segments.

This paper identifies two ancient structural variants in walnut and hickory species that control heterodichogamy, a mating system with distinct genetic mechanisms in each genus.

This paper demonstrates how uploading genomes to genealogical databases can reveal private genetic information through IBS matching attacks.

The paper analyzes the success probability of long-range forensic familial searching using theoretical calculations and discusses its implications for the Golden State Killer case.

The paper infers recent population demography using isolation by distance of long shared sequence blocks, showing that diffusion models can explain observed patterns in Eastern European data.

The paper reexamines whether linked selection explains the narrow range of genetic diversity across species and finds weak support for this conclusion.