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PLoS Biology

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Stable recombination hotspots in birds

Sonal Singhal, Ellen M. Leffler, Keerthi Sannareddy, +10

Science

Breeding BehaviorGeneticsGenomic MechanismGenomicsZebra Finch +15

Multiple Instances of Ancient Balancing Selection Shared Between Humans and Chimpanzees

Ellen M. Leffler, Ziyue Gao, Susanne P. Pfeifer, +10

Science

PrimatologyGeneticsAncestral PolymorphismNatural SelectionGenomics +22

A Fine-Scale Chimpanzee Genetic Map from Population Sequencing

Adam Auton, Adi Fledel-Alon, Susanne P. Pfeifer, +20

Science

BiologyMolecular EcologyBase CompositionMedicineGenetics +12

Resistance to malaria through structural variation of red blood cell invasion receptors

Ellen M. Leffler, Gavin Band, George Busby, +37

Science

Variation in Human Recombination Rates and Its Genetic Determinants

Adi Fledel-Alon, Ellen M. Leffler, Yongtao Guan, +3

PLoS ONE

Human candidate gene polymorphisms and risk of severe malaria in children in Kilifi, Kenya: a case-control association study

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The Lancet Haematology

Malaria protection due to sickle haemoglobin depends on parasite genotype

Gavin Band, Ellen M. Leffler, Muminatou Jallow, +25

Nature

Inferring adaptive gene-flow in recent African history

George Busby, Ryan Christ, Gavin Band, +5

GeneticsGenetic EpidemiologyGenomicsGenome-wide Association StudyMolecular Ecology +16

Stable recombination hotspots in birds

Sonal Singhal, Ellen M. Leffler, Keerthi Sannareddy, +10

Breeding BehaviorGeneticsGenomic MechanismMolecular GeneticsGenomics +18