Tauras P. Vilgalys

The paper examines how admixture affects DNA methylation genetic architecture in a wild primate hybrid zone, finding that admixture increases methylation variance and alters enhancer activity.

The paper addresses statistical concerns about detecting natural selection during the Black Death using ancient genomic data, reaffirming findings related to immune loci and the ERAP2 variant.

This paper presents a de novo genome assembly of the olive baboon using long-read and Hi-C data, significantly improving contig size and chromosome scaffolding compared to the previous reference genome.

The paper introduces IMAGE, a statistical method for mQTL mapping that improves detection of genetic effects on DNA methylation by accounting for bisulfite sequencing data and allele-specific patterns.

The paper profiles DNA methylation in Papio baboons to study evolutionary changes and finds that methylation divergence mirrors genetic structure and is influenced by selection in functionally relevant regions.

The paper evaluates factors affecting differential methylation detection in bisulfite sequencing data and provides tools for power analysis.