Category Archives: new paper

Paper FAQ for Attacks on genetic privacy via uploads to genealogical databases

Posted on October 22, 2019 by cooplab

An FAQ written by Doc (Michael) Edge and Graham Coop on their paper about genetic genealogy & privacy (pdf link here). The preprint is scheduled to appear on Oct 22nd and should be available at this link. What is this … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on our polygenic selection paper.

Posted on August 7, 2014 by cooplab

Our paper on a general method to detect divergent selection among populations on quantitative traits was published today in PLOS Genetics (Berg and Coop 2014, code, the paper was previously up on the bioRxiv and Haldane’s sieve). Our method uses … Continue reading →

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The blossoming of Capsella rubella.

Posted on September 27, 2013 by cooplab

Yaniv’s Capsella article is the cover image of PLOS genetics Image Credit: Kim Steige Flowers of the selfing plant species, C. rubella. In this issue, Brandvain et al. identify blocks of ancestry inherited from the founders of this recently derived … Continue reading →

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Post on The Population Genetic Signature of Polygenic Local Adaptation

Posted on September 17, 2013 by cooplab

We (Jeremy and Graham) have a new arXived paper: “The Population Genetic Signature of Polygenic Local Adaptation” (arXived here). This us a cross post from Haldane’s sieve. Comments are welcome there. The field of population genetics has devoted a lot … 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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Disentangling the effects of geographic and ecological isolation on genetic differentiation

Posted on February 22, 2013 by cooplab

We’ve been a bit quiet on the coop lab blog, as I’ve been devoting a bunch of my spare energy to Haldane’s Sieve, see our about page. Gideon Bradburd, Peter Ralph, and I have just submitted our latest paper on … Continue reading →

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Distant Genetic relatives in Europe

Posted on October 22, 2012 by cooplab

You can read more about Peter and I’s paper [arXived here] in the guest post we wrote over at Haldane’s Sieve. There’s a nice discussion on some of the technical details in the comments there.

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arXiving our papers

Posted on July 22, 2012 by cooplab

We’ve just submitted our latest paper to the preprint arXiv (you can read more on the arXiv and its history here). We have done this for every paper we’ve submitted so far as a group; a list of our papers … Continue reading →

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Partial sweeps paper out.

Posted on June 22, 2012 by cooplab

Peter Ralph and I’s new paper generalizing the model of recurrent hitchhiking was just accepted to Genetics, and appears as a preprint there (it’s also posted on the ArXiv). My slides on this topic provide an overview on this work. … Continue reading →

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Scambling eggs toasts meiotic drive out in Genetics

Posted on February 18, 2012 by cooplab

Yaniv and I’s paper on meiotic drive and the evolution of female recombination rates has just appeared in the latest Genetics. You can read more about the paper in our blog post here.

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