Mark Stoneking

This study uses ancient genomes to analyze adaptive evolution in East Asia, finding pre-Neolithic selection at key loci and a link between ADH1B*48His and wheat farming.

The paper shows that genetic diversity is inversely correlated with linguistic diversity, with isolation promoting linguistic diversification and contact promoting homogenization.

This study analyzes genetic data from Austronesian and Austroasiatic groups in Vietnam to determine whether language spread was due to demic or cultural diffusion, finding evidence of both.

The paper analyzes genome-wide data from populations in the Angolan Namib Desert to reveal unique Pre-Bantu ancestry in peripatetic groups.

This study analyzes genomic data from Taiwanese Austronesian groups to explore genetic structure and its implications for the Into and Out-of-Taiwan dispersal models.

The paper analyzes genome-wide variation in the Massim region of Papua New Guinea, finding genetic patterns linked to the Kula trading tradition and suggesting genetic similarity among Kula-practicing groups.

The paper analyzes ancient genomes from Wallacea to show multiple human dispersals, with southern islands showing earlier Asian contributions than previously thought.

This study uses genome-wide SNP data from 33 ethnolinguistic groups in Thailand and Laos to reconstruct the genetic history of Mainland Southeast Asia, revealing language-based genetic structure and admixture events.

The paper analyzes genetic variation in Hmong-Mien and Sino-Tibetan groups from Thailand, finding cultural practices like patrilocality and matrilocality influence mtDNA and MSY lineage frequencies.

This study analyzes mtDNA and Y chromosome sequences from Vietnamese populations to reveal genetic diversity patterns not correlated with geography or language, highlighting isolation and limited contact as major factors.

The paper examines mtDNA heteroplasmy sharing between human liver lobes, finding higher sharing in the control region and suggesting selection influences this pattern.

The paper analyzes paternal and maternal genetic histories of Thai and Lao populations, finding contrasting patterns of male and female genetic variation and demographic expansions.

This study analyzes the genetic structure of 177 individuals from the Andes, Amazonia, and Pacific Coast of South America, revealing complex ancestry patterns and recent gene flow across regions.

The paper analyzes Y chromosome and mtDNA variation in southwestern Angola to explore the impact of matrilineality on genetic diversity and population history.

The paper investigates the genetic history of southern African populations, finding an eastern African origin for Y-chromosome haplogroup E1b1b and significant sex-biased gene flow during the Bantu expansion.

The paper analyzes NRY and mtDNA data from Northwestern Amazonia to show how cultural practices like exogamy and residential rules influence genetic diversity patterns and demographic history.

The paper analyzes additional mtDNA sequences from Thailand and Laos to explore the genetic history of Tai-Kadai and Sino-Tibetan-speaking populations in Mainland Southeast Asia, finding evidence for both demic diffusion and admixture.

The paper analyzes maternal and paternal genetic variation in Thai hunter-gatherer groups, finding distinct haplogroup patterns and suggesting a recent origin for the Mlabri population.

The paper analyzes maternal genetic structure in Namib Desert populations to evaluate peopling hypotheses, finding strong Bantu influences and endogamous matriclanic systems.

The paper analyzes mitochondrial genomes from Thai and Lao populations to determine whether Tai-Kadai languages spread via demic or cultural diffusion, finding support for demic diffusion and genetic differentiation within ethnolinguistic groups.

This paper develops new methods to analyze complex admixture histories in Siberian populations and finds multiple recent admixture events and southern origins for most Siberian groups.

This study examines mtDNA copy number variation across tissues and age, finding age-related decreases in skeletal muscle and increases in liver, with heteroplasmic sites linked to mtCN changes in muscle.

This paper analyzes Y chromosome sequences from southern African populations to refine the human Y chromosome phylogeny, identifying new haplogroups and estimating older divergence dates.

This study estimates the timing of natural selection in the human genome over the past half-million years, identifying selection events related to brain evolution and Alzheimer's disease pathways.

The paper evaluates gene expression variation in the human placenta, finding 33.2% within-individual, 58.9% among-individual, and 7.8% among-human-group variation, with selection pressures influencing most genes.

This study analyzes mtDNA variation among Bantu-speakers in southern Africa to assess genetic differentiation between Eastern and Western Bantu branches and admixture with local populations.

The paper analyzes Y chromosome and mtDNA sequences from 623 males to study human paternal and maternal demographic histories, finding larger genetic differences for Y chromosomes, small ancestral population sizes, and a growing female-to-male effective population size ratio.