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Fernando A Villanea

University of Colorado Boulder
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Diet and the evolution of human amylase gene copy number variation

…, AS Lee, H Fiegler, R Redon, J Werner, FA Villanea… - Nature …, 2007 - nature.com
Starch consumption is a prominent characteristic of agricultural societies and hunter-gatherers
in arid environments. In contrast, rainforest and circum-arctic hunter-gatherers and some …

Multiple episodes of interbreeding between Neanderthal and modern humans

FA Villanea, JG Schraiber - Nature ecology & evolution, 2019 - nature.com
Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans overlapped geographically for a period of
over 30,000 years following human migration out of Africa. During this period, Neanderthals …

[PDF][PDF] Community partnerships are fundamental to ethical ancient DNA research

…, L Russell, S Ulm, F Vergara-Silva, FA Villanea… - Human Genetics and …, 2023 - cell.com
The ethics of the scientific study of Ancestors has long been debated by archaeologists,
bioanthropologists, and, more recently, ancient DNA (aDNA) researchers. This article responds …

Demographic history and genetic structure in pre-Hispanic Central Mexico

…, G Zepeda García Moreno, FA Villanea… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Aridoamerica and Mesoamerica are two distinct cultural areas in northern and central Mexico,
respectively, that hosted numerous pre-Hispanic civilizations between 2500 BCE and …

Our tangled family tree: new genomic methods offer insight into the legacy of archaic admixture

…, A Funk, J Lai, S Rong, FA Villanea… - Genome biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The archaic ancestry present in the human genome has captured the imagination of both
scientists and the wider public in recent years. This excitement is the result of new studies …

Brief communication: Evolution of a specific O allele (O1vG542A) supports unique ancestry of Native Americans

FA Villanea, DA Bolnick, C Monroe… - American journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we explore the geographic and temporal distribution of a unique variant of the
O blood group allele called O1v G542A , which has been shown to be shared among Native …

Reviving Galápagos snails: Ancient DNA extraction and amplification from shells of probably extinct endemic land snails

FA Villanea, CE Parent, BM Kemp - Journal of Molluscan …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Snail shells represent an abundant source of information about the organisms that build
them, which is particularly vital and relevant for species that are locally or globally extinct. …

[HTML][HTML] A general model of negative frequency dependent selection explains global patterns of human ABO polymorphism

FA Villanea, KN Safi, JW Busch - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The ABO locus in humans is characterized by elevated heterozygosity and very similar
allele frequencies among populations scattered across the globe. Using knowledge of ABO …

[HTML][HTML] Underrepresented populations at the archaic introgression frontier

FA Villanea, KE Witt - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Recent advancements in the recovery of ancient genomes have yielded high-coverage
sequences for two archaic human species: Neanderthals and Denisovans. Perhaps more …

ABO genetic variation in Neanderthals and Denisovans

FA Villanea, E Huerta-Sanchez… - Molecular biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Variation at the ABO locus was one of the earliest sources of data in the study of human
population identity and history, and to this day remains widely genotyped due to its importance …