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  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Graham Coop is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their primary field of study is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Endocrinology.

Their research covers various key topics including genetic diversity and population structure, evolution and genetic dynamics, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic associations and epidemiology, plant and animal studies, as well as forensic and genetic research.

Graham Coop has published frequently in several scientific venues. Some of the main publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Evolution, PLoS Genetics, and eLife.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Graham Coop include:

  • Estimating the genome-wide contribution of selection to temporal allele frequency change (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Selective sorting of ancestral introgression in maize and teosinte along an elevational cline (2021), PLoS Genetics
  • Selection and hybridization shaped the rapid spread of African honey bee ancestry in the Americas (2020), PLoS Genetics
  • Population differentiation of polygenic score predictions under stabilizing selection (2022), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Interpreting population- and family-based genome-wide association studies in the presence of confounding (2024), PLoS Biology

Frequent collaborators include Matthew M. Osmond, Jeffrey S. Groh, Carl Veller, Molly Przeworski, and Erin Calfee.

Graham Coop was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

    Joseph K. Pickrell;Graham Coop;John Novembre;Sridhar Kudaravalli

  • PRDM9 Is a Major Determinant of Meiotic Recombination Hotspots in Humans and Mice

    F. Baudat;J. Buard;C. Grey;A. Fledel-Alon

  • The genetics of human adaptation: hard sweeps, soft sweeps, and polygenic adaptation.

    Jonathan K. Pritchard;Joseph K. Pickrell;Graham Coop

  • Sequencing and analysis of Neanderthal genomic DNA

    James P. Noonan;James P. Noonan;Graham Coop;Sridhar Kudaravalli;Doug Smith

  • Using Environmental Correlations to Identify Loci Underlying Local Adaptation

    Graham Coop;David Witonsky;Anna Di Rienzo;Jonathan K Pritchard

  • Robust Identification of Local Adaptation from Allele Frequencies

    Torsten Günther;Graham Coop

  • A worldwide survey of haplotype variation and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome

    Donald F Conrad;Mattias Jakobsson;Graham Coop;Xiaoquan Wen

  • How reliable are empirical genomic scans for selective sweeps

    Kosuke M. Teshima;Graham Coop;Molly Przeworski

  • A Population Genetic Signal of Polygenic Adaptation

    Jeremy J. Berg;Graham Coop

  • The Capsella rubella genome and the genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution

    Tanja Slotte;Tanja Slotte;Khaled M. Hazzouri;Khaled M. Hazzouri;J. Arvid Ågren;Daniel Koenig

  • The role of geography in human adaptation.

    Graham Coop;Joseph K. Pickrell;John Novembre;Sridhar Kudaravalli

  • THE SIGNATURE OF POSITIVE SELECTION ON STANDING GENETIC VARIATION

    Molly Przeworski;Graham Coop;Jeffrey D. Wall

  • High-resolution mapping of crossovers reveals extensive variation in fine-scale recombination patterns among humans.

    Graham Coop;Xiaoquan Wen;Carole Ober;Jonathan K. Pritchard

  • Adaptations to Climate-Mediated Selective Pressures in Humans

    Angela M. Hancock;David B. Witonsky;Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu;Cynthia M. Beall

  • Reduced signal for polygenic adaptation of height in UK Biobank.

    Jeremy J Berg;Arbel Harpak;Arbel Harpak;Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong;Anja Moltke Joergensen

  • The Geography of Recent Genetic Ancestry across Europe

    Peter Ralph;Graham Coop

  • An evolutionary view of human recombination

    Graham Coop;Molly Przeworski

  • Adaptations to Climate in Candidate Genes for Common Metabolic Disorders

    Angela M Hancock;David B Witonsky;Adam S Gordon;Gidon Eshel

  • Colloquium Paper: Human adaptations to diet, subsistence, and ecoregion are due to subtle shifts in allele frequency

    Angela M. Hancock;David B. Witonsky;Edvard Ehler;Edvard Ehler;Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu

  • Disentangling the effects of geographic and ecological isolation on genetic differentiation.

    Gideon S. Bradburd;Peter L. Ralph;Graham M. Coop

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan K. Pritchard
Jonathan K. Pritchard Stanford University
Molly Przeworski
Molly Przeworski Columbia University
Anna Di Rienzo
Anna Di Rienzo University of Chicago
John Novembre
John Novembre University of Chicago
Reed Bowman
Reed Bowman Archbold Biological Station
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
Matthew Stephens
Matthew Stephens University of Chicago
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Carole Ober
Carole Ober University of Chicago
Edward M. Rubin
Edward M. Rubin Joint Genome Institute

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