Francesco Montinaro

Human evolutionary geneticist @ Tartu university. Interested in admixture and demographic history of populations. Always fighting against python, R and BASH.

[Ivan Kuznetsov @ia_kuznetsov]

Previous work suggested that the role of genes in educational attainment was higher in contemporary Estonia than during the Soviet era. With a tenfold larger dataset, our new preprint finds limited evidence to support this.

[Ivan Kuznetsov @ia_kuznetsov]

Remember the famous UKB migration paper? We found that internal migration also shapes population structure in Estonia. Key patterns replicate within families.
Paper link in the last tweet.

[CBU @CBUuniTo]

New pre-print out! 🎉 With Mathilde + team we traced spatio-temporal shifts in genetically regulated #transcription across 10,000 years of Western Eurasia, fine-mapping regulatory features targeted by #selection! 👉 https://t.co/ihS4OoBats ! #popgen #genomics

[Andrea ganna @andganna]

Matteo Ferro, a doctoral candidate in my team has a new blog on health data science where he is collecting the most interesting papers, each month.

Check it out!

https://t.co/gjmaiZCLn8

[Iosif Lazaridis @iosif_lazaridis]

New paper on Punic people ancient DNA led by @HaraldRingbauer

https://t.co/Et7aj10NHg

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly continues to bias emerging results. But we are starting to have statistical tools to sniff it out. A 🧵:

[EichlerLab @EichlerLab]

Our new Nature Genetics paper on human segmental duplications (SDs) provides a pangenome perspective of SDs, new potential protein-coding genes, and greater complexity in human variation with implications for disease and evolution. https://t.co/CYCI8xQEiH

[Francesco Montinaro @FranceCardil]

https://t.co/z6x0xLMB4e

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time.

So, MIT researchers built Undermind, an AI-powered search engine.

It can generate well-researched overviews on any topic and is 10-50 times better than Google Scholar.

Here's how to use it:

[Burak Yelmen @yelmen_burak]

Another chapter on generating in silico artificial genomes led by Antoine Szatkownik with @florajay_ , @emiliahsc and many others I couldn’t locate here. This time using diffusion models and with a utility perspective:
https://t.co/GRxzY8HjAm

[Linda Ongaro @Linda_Ongaro]

Excited to share our review article on Denisovans, now out in @NatureGenet🥳I am very grateful to @emiliahsc for making this possible! Check it out 🔎🧬

https://t.co/aTZ8fNRHwZ

[Iosif Lazaridis @iosif_lazaridis]

https://t.co/UxOFlaVEhX

[Eugenia D'Atanasio 🧬🦴 @euglenadat]

🚨Our latest preprint on ancient Italy is out with a new Republican sample!🚨

Is the Roman Empire ancestry shift towards the Near East really an Imperial thing?
⏲️We show that it probably began from the Republican period 200 years before the Empire.

1/n

https://t.co/ZignrCIgxL

[Human Technopole @humantechnopole]

🧬 A new study co-authored by our @davidebolo93 @Raveancic & @nicolesoranzo reveals that human amylase genes, crucial for starch digestion, underwent multiple duplication and deletion events throughout evolution.

📰 Published in @nature
https://t.co/F53uukuNXn

[Stefania Sasso @StefaniaSasso5]

Do you want to study ancient DNA? 🧬 have a look at 👇🏻
#JobAlert

[BonesLab @BonesLabUnibo]

We're hiring 5 postdoctoral researchers for the ERC Synergy Last Neanderthals. Deadline: August 27th. Positions available in Ancient DNA, Biocultural Modeling, Excavation & Documentation, Histomorphometric & Isotopic Analysis, and Zooarchaeology
https://t.co/jHSRwNTxVI

[Maarten Larmuseau @MHDLarmuseau]

Finally our ancient DNA study on Merovingian Flanders is out @PNASNews!
Discover our surprising capture of a fusion of 2 genetic ancestries on coastal Koksijde (Belgium) in 675-750 AD #EarlyMiddelAges
Our paper 👉 https://t.co/tFaVzCmEjx
🧵1/9 @KU_Leuven @CHG_CME
(Photo: @vioe)

[cedric boeckx @cedricboeckx]

“A molecular and cellular perspective on human brain evolution and tempo”; A must-read @Nature Perspective by @feline_lindhout @fennamk K. Pollard and @mad_lancaster
🧠🧬
https://t.co/nEelXKEb8P

[Michael Dannemann @MichaDannemann]

Happy to see that our paper on archaic admixture and its phenotypic impact in Papua New Guinean populations is out now in @PNASNews! Thanks to all co-authors for this fun collaboration @genomicstartu https://t.co/2qxm5yB1sy

[Pontus Skoglund @pontus_skoglund]

Excited to co-organise this with @idamoltke @MaanasaRaghavan and Johannes Krause.

Abstract deadline on Tuesday!