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couple of notes on fixation prob. of beneficial allele

Posted on September 9, 2013 by cooplab

There was a conversation on twitter about Haldane’s 2s approximation to the fixation probability of an allele, and how it related to the diffusion approximation of the same quantity. This followed from a blog post by Adam Eyre-Walker. I thought … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on preprint citation policy

Posted on August 27, 2013 by cooplab

This post is cross posted from Haldane’s sieve. This guest post is by Graham Coop [@graham_coop] on the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution’s new preprint policy. We had an interesting discussion via twitter on the potential reasons for MBE’s policy … Continue reading →

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new ArXiv paper on the population genomics of a recently derived selfing species

Posted on August 6, 2013 by cooplab

There’s a couple of new Coop lab papers up on the ArXiv. One is from Yaniv’s work (Brandvain et al.) on a haplotype-based approach to examining the history of a recently derived selfing species (Capsella rubella). This grew out of … Continue reading →

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SMBE2013 Chicago

Posted on July 12, 2013 by cooplab

We (Kristin, Yaniv, Jeremy, and I) had a great time at SMBE. Our talks went well, we’ll likely post some slides shortly. It was great to catch up with so many folks and catch up with Chicago life. We hung … Continue reading →

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Coop lab at SMBE2013

Posted on July 5, 2013 by cooplab

Hope to see you at SMBE 2013 in Chicago. Yaniv, Jeremy, and I will be at the meeting and giving talks. Kristin Lee, the newest member of the Coop lab (starting Sept), will also be around. Talks from the Coop … Continue reading →

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Evolution meeting 2013 at Snowbird, UT

Posted on July 1, 2013 by cooplab

The whole lab went to the Evolution meeting at Snowbird, Utah. The talks from the lab went over well it seems (see e.g. Kim Gilbert’s writeup). We’ll hopefully post some pdfs of the talk slides shortly. There were some great … Continue reading →

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Evolution Meeting 2013

Posted on June 16, 2013 by cooplab

We are heading off shortly to the Evolution 2013 meeting, and taking a bit of a road trip to get up there (via camping in Great Basin National park, and a few other sights). Hope to see you there. Come … Continue reading →

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“Ask me anything” Reddit on our European ancestry paper

Posted on May 15, 2013 by cooplab

Peter Ralph and I are doing an “Ask me anything” on our paper about the Recent genetic genealogy of Europe over at the askScience reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1ee560/askscience_ama_we_are_the_authors_of_a_recent/ today [May 15th]. Feel free to pop by and ask us questions.

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Identification of genomic regions shared between distant relatives

Posted on May 10, 2013 by cooplab

We’ve been addressing some of the FAQs on topics arising from our paper on the geography of recent genetic genealogy in Europe (PLOS Biology). We wanted to write one on shared genetic material in personal genomics data but it got … Continue reading →

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Peter and I’s European genetic genealogy paper is out.

Posted on May 10, 2013 by cooplab

Peter Ralph and I’s article on the geography of recent genetic genealogy in Europe is out in PLOS Biology. We’ve written an FAQ on the paper, that we sent out with the press release. PLOS also has a synopsis of … Continue reading →

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