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Fernando Luis Mendez

Stanford MedicineORCID 0000-0002-0879-3813Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 4 Approach:statistical model· 4 Assay:DNA methylation· 3 Research Focus:variant calling· 3 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 2 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 2 Research Focus:deconvolution· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Slave Trade and Colonial Expansion Resulted in Strong Sex-Biased Admixture in South Africa

Haiko Schurz, Austin W. Reynolds, Gillian L. Meeks, Simon Gravel, Justin W. Myrick, Fernando Luis Mendez, Cedric J. Werely, Paul D. van Helden, Eileen Garner Hoal, G. David Poznik, Min-Ju Kim, Caitlin Uren, Peter A. Underhill, Marlo Möller, Brenna M. Henn

The paper uses genetic data to show sex-biased admixture patterns in South Africa due to colonial migration, with European males and Khoe-San females contributing disproportionately to different regions.

bioRxiv · Sep 6, 2023 · PreprintGenetics

A catalog of homoplasmic and heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA variants in humans

Alexandre Bolze, Fernando Luis Mendez, Simon White, Francisco Tanudjaja, Magnus Isaksson, Ruomu Jiang, Andrew Dei Rossi, Elizabeth T. Cirulli, Misha D. Rashkin, William J. Metcalf, Joseph J. Grzymski, William Lee, James T. Lu, Nicole L. Washington

Allele frequencies for homoplasmic and heteroplasmic mitochondrial variants across 195,983 sequenced genomes leave 47% of the mitochondrial genome invariant and put 42% of reported LHON variants in doubt.

bioRxiv · Jun 26, 2020 · PreprintGenetics

SNAPPY: Single Nucleotide Assignment of Phylogenetic Parameters on the Y chromosome

Alissa L. Severson, Jonathan Shortt, Fernando Luis Mendez, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Carlos D. Bustamante, Christopher R. Gignoux

SNAPPY assigns Y-chromosome haplogroups using genotype data by evaluating haplotypes in a database and considering phylogenetic support and parsimony.

bioRxiv · Oct 29, 2018 · PreprintBioinformatics

Ancient genomes from North Africa evidence prehistoric migrations to the Maghreb from both the Levant and Europe

Rosa Fregel, Fernando Luis Mendez, Youssef Bokbot, Dimas Martín Socas, María Dolores Cámalich Massieu, Jonathan Santana, Jacob Morales, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Peter A. Underhill, Beth Shapiro, Genevieve L. Wojcik, Morten Arendt Rasmussen, André E. R. Soares, Joshua D. Kapp, Alexandra Sockell, , Carlos D. Bustamante

This paper analyzes ancient genomes from North Africa to show prehistoric migrations brought genetic influences from both the Levant and Europe to the Maghreb.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · Jun 12, 2018Peer-reviewedGenetics