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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

John Novembre is a researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Genetics.

The scientist's research spans several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Archeology. Their scholarly output addresses a variety of topics such as:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Race, Genetics, and Society
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

John Novembre has contributed to multiple highly cited papers, including:

  • "Parental relatedness through time revealed by runs of homozygosity in ancient DNA" (2021) in Nature Communications
  • "Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society" (2022) in Science
  • "Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia" (2020) in Nature Communications
  • "Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors" (2022) in Nature Communications
  • "Mexican Biobank advances population and medical genomics of diverse ancestries" (2023) in Nature

Frequent co-authors working with John Novembre include Arjun Biddanda, Mashaal Sohail, Daniel P. Rice, Harald Ringbauer, and Matthias Steinrücken.

The body of work has been published across several venues, notably including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genetics
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • PLoS Genetics

John Novembre has received recognition as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2015 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals

    David H. Alexander;John Novembre;Kenneth Lange

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

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

  • Genes mirror geography within Europe.

    John Novembre;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Katarzyna Bryc;Zoltán Kutalik

  • Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication

    Bridgett M. Vonholdt;John P. Pollinger;Kirk E. Lohmueller;Eunjung Han

  • An Abundance of Rare Functional Variants in 202 Drug Target Genes Sequenced in 14,002 People

    Matthew R. Nelson;Daniel Wegmann;Margaret G. Ehm;Darren Kessner

  • Interpreting principal component analyses of spatial population genetic variation.

    John Novembre;Matthew Stephens

  • Genome Sequencing Highlights the Dynamic Early History of Dogs

    Adam H. Freedman;Ilan Gronau;Rena Schweizer;Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo

  • A Simple Genetic Architecture Underlies Morphological Variation in Dogs

    Adam R. Boyko;Pascale Quignon;Lin Li;Jeffrey J. Schoenebeck

  • Visualizing spatial population structure with estimated effective migration surfaces.

    Desislava Petkova;John Novembre;Matthew Stephens

  • The role of geography in human adaptation.

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

  • The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

    Peter de Barros Damgaard;Rui Martiniano;Rui Martiniano;Jack Kamm;J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar

  • Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European

    Inigo Olalde;Morten Erik Allentoft;Federico Sanchez-Quinto;Gabriel Santpere

  • A genome-wide perspective on the evolutionary history of enigmatic wolf-like canids

    Bridgett M. vonHoldt;John P. Pollinger;Dent A. Earl;James C. Knowles

  • Circuit-theory applications to connectivity science and conservation.

    Brett G. Dickson;Christine M. Albano;Ranjan Anantharaman;Paul Beier

  • Overexpression of the Cytokine BAFF and Autoimmunity Risk

    Maristella Steri;Valeria Orrù;M. Laura Idda;Maristella Pitzalis

  • Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos

    Marc de Manuel;Martin Kuhlwilm;Peter Frandsen;Peter Frandsen;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa

  • The Geographic Spread of the CCR5 Δ32 HIV-Resistance Allele

    John Novembre;Alison P Galvani;Montgomery Slatkin

  • Accounting for Background Nucleotide Composition When Measuring Codon Usage Bias

    John A. Novembre

  • Genome sequencing elucidates Sardinian genetic architecture and augments association analyses for lipid and blood inflammatory markers

    Carlo Sidore;Fabio Busonero;Andrea Maschio;Eleonora Porcu

  • The Population Reference Sample, POPRES: a resource for population, disease, and pharmacological genetics research.

    Matthew R. Nelson;Katarzyna Bryc;Karen S. King;Amit Indap

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Stephens
Matthew Stephens University of Chicago
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Robert K. Wayne
Robert K. Wayne University of California, Los Angeles
Francesco Cucca
Francesco Cucca University of Sassari
Tomas Marques-Bonet
Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University
David Schlessinger
David Schlessinger National Institutes of Health
Matthew R. Nelson
Matthew R. Nelson GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Anna Di Rienzo
Anna Di Rienzo University of Chicago
Gonçalo R. Abecasis
Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Elaine A. Ostrander
Elaine A. Ostrander National Institutes of Health

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