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  • 2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey D. Wall is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research. Other subfields include Ecology and Social Psychology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics including Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetic diversity and population structure, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Primate Behavior and Ecology, and Genomics and Rare Diseases.

Frequent publication venues for Jeffrey D. Wall include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Current Biology, Genome Biology and Evolution, and the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Among recent scientific contributions, several papers stand out:

  • Genetic profiles of 103,106 individuals in the Taiwan Biobank provide insights into the health and history of Han Chinese (2021, npj Genomic Medicine)
  • A comparison of humans and baboons suggests germline mutation rates do not track cell divisions (2020, PLoS Biology)
  • Selection against admixture and gene regulatory divergence in a long-term primate field study (2022, Science)
  • Genome-wide diversity in the California condor tracks its prehistoric abundance and decline (2021, Current Biology)
  • Genomic signatures of high-altitude adaptation and chromosomal polymorphism in geladas (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wall include Jacqueline A. Robinson, Laura A. Cox, Pui-Yan Kwok, Rauri C. K. Bowie, and Alexander Ioannidis.

Wall received recognition as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • The pattern of polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Magnus Nordborg;Tina T Hu;Yoko Ishino;Jinal Jhaveri

  • Great ape genetic diversity and population history

    Javier Prado-Martinez;Peter H. Sudmant;Jeffrey M. Kidd;Jeffrey M. Kidd;Heng Li

  • VISIBILITY OF SINGLE ATOMS.

    A. V. Crewe;J. Wall;J. Langmore

  • Haplotype blocks and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome

    Jeffrey D. Wall;Jeffrey D. Wall;Jonathan K. Pritchard

  • A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

    Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Michael C. Westaway;Craig Muller;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa

  • Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Maanasa Raghavan;Matthias Steinrücken;Matthias Steinrücken;Kelley Harris;Stephan Schiffels

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

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

  • Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

    Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani;Daniel John Lawson;Evelyn Jagoda;Evelyn Jagoda;Alexander Mörseburg

  • THE SIGNATURE OF POSITIVE SELECTION ON STANDING GENETIC VARIATION

    Molly Przeworski;Graham Coop;Jeffrey D. Wall

  • Fast and flexible simulation of DNA sequence data

    Gary K. Chen;Paul Marjoram;Jeffrey D. Wall

  • The GenomeAsia 100K Project enables genetic discoveries across Asia

    Jeffrey D. Wall;Eric W. Stawiski;Aakrosh Ratan;Hie Lim Kim

  • Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

    Andaine Seguin-Orlando;Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Martin Sikora;Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas

  • Genetic evidence for archaic admixture in Africa

    Michael F. Hammer;August E. Woerner;Fernando L. Mendez;Joseph C. Watkins

  • Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes

    Lucia Carbone;R. Alan Harris;Sante Gnerre;Krishna R. Veeramah;Krishna R. Veeramah

  • Multiple Instances of Ancient Balancing Selection Shared Between Humans and Chimpanzees

    Ellen M. Leffler;Ziyue Gao;Susanne Pfeifer;Laure Ségurel;Laure Ségurel

  • Gene Conversion and Different Population Histories May Explain the Contrast between Polymorphism and Linkage Disequilibrium Levels

    L. Frisse;R.R. Hudson;A. Bartoszewicz;J.D. Wall

  • Possible Ancestral Structure in Human Populations

    Vincent Plagnol;Jeffrey D Wall

  • Higher levels of neanderthal ancestry in East Asians than in Europeans.

    Jeffrey D. Wall;Melinda A. Yang;Flora Jay;Sung K. Kim

  • Fast "coalescent" simulation.

    Paul Marjoram;Jeff D Wall

  • Rapid and simultaneous typing of hemoglobin S, hemoglobin C, and seven Mediterranean beta-thalassemia mutations by covalent reverse dot-blot analysis: application to prenatal diagnosis in Sicily.

    A Maggio;A Giambona;SP Cai;J Wall

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Hammer
Michael F. Hammer University of Arizona
Pui-Yan Kwok
Pui-Yan Kwok University of California, San Francisco
Molly Przeworski
Molly Przeworski Columbia University
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Jeffrey M. Kidd
Jeffrey M. Kidd University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Rasmus Nielsen
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley
Murray P. Cox
Murray P. Cox Massey University
Mattias Jakobsson
Mattias Jakobsson Uppsala University
Sarah A. Tishkoff
Sarah A. Tishkoff University of Pennsylvania

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