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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mark A. Batzer is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields within biology, especially focusing on genetics and molecular biology, agricultural and biological sciences, and psychology. Their contributions cover molecular biology, plant science, social psychology, genetics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics of their work include genomics and phylogenetic studies, chromosomal and genetic variations, primate behavior and ecology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, genome rearrangement algorithms, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Frequent coauthors during their career include Jerilyn A. Walker, Jessica M. Storer, Christian Roos, Jeffrey Rogers, and Wesley C. Warren. Batzer has published extensively in journals such as Genes, Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Among recent publications are these papers:

  • Sequence diversity analyses of an improved rhesus macaque genome enhance its biomedical utility (2020, Science)
  • A high-quality bonobo genome refines the analysis of hominid evolution (2021, Nature)
  • Genome-wide coancestry reveals details of ancient and recent male-driven reticulation in baboons (2023, Science)
  • Single-haplotype comparative genomics provides insights into lineage-specific structural variation during cat evolution (2023, Nature Genetics)
  • Recently Integrated Alu Elements in Capuchin Monkeys: A Resource for Cebus/Sapajus Genomics (2022, Genes)

Mark A. Batzer was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007.

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes

    Peter H. Sudmant;Tobias Rausch;Eugene J. Gardner;Robert E. Handsaker;Robert E. Handsaker

  • Alu repeats and human genomic diversity

    Mark A. Batzer;Prescott L. L. Deininger

  • The impact of retrotransposons on human genome evolution.

    Richard Cordaux;Mark A. Batzer

  • Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genome

    Richard A. Gibbs;Jeffrey Rogers

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

    Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

  • Repetitive Elements May Comprise Over Two-Thirds of the Human Genome

    A. P. Jason de Koning;Wanjun Gu;Todd A. Castoe;Mark A. Batzer

  • Alu repeats and human disease.

    Prescott L. Deininger;Mark A. Batzer

  • A new bacteriophage P1-derived vector for the propagation of large human DNA fragments

    Panayiotis A. loannou;Panayiotis A. loannou;Chris T. Amemiya;Chris T. Amemiya;Jeffrey Garnes;Peter M. Kroisel

  • The genome of a songbird

    Wesley C. Warren;David F. Clayton;Hans Ellegren;Arthur P. Arnold

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Estimating African American admixture proportions by use of population-specific alleles.

    Esteban J. Parra;Amy Marcini;Joshua Akey;Jeremy Martinson

  • Genome of the marsupial Monodelphis domestica reveals innovation in non-coding sequences

    Tarjei S. Mikkelsen;Tarjei S. Mikkelsen;Matthew J. Wakefield;Bronwen Aken;Chris T. Amemiya

  • Genetic traces of ancient demography

    Henry C. Harpending;Mark A. Batzer;Michael Gurven;Lynn B. Jorde

  • Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution

    Wesley C. Warren;La Deana W. Hillier;Jennifer A. Marshall Graves;Ewan Birney

  • Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes.

    Devin P. Locke;LaDeana W. Hillier;Wesley C. Warren;Kim C. Worley

  • The Distribution of Human Genetic Diversity: A Comparison of Mitochondrial, Autosomal, and Y-Chromosome Data

    Lynn B. Jorde;W. S. Watkins;M. J. Bamshad;M. E. Dixon

  • Mobile elements and mammalian genome evolution

    Prescott L Deininger;John V Moran;Mark A Batzer;Haig H Kazazian

  • Tumour invasion and metastasis initiated by microRNA-10b in breast cancer (Nature (2007) 449, (682-688))

    Li Ma;Julie Teruya-Feldstein;Robert A. Weinberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Prescott L. Deininger
Prescott L. Deininger Tulane University
Jinchuan Xing
Jinchuan Xing Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Lynn B. Jorde
Lynn B. Jorde University of Utah
Dale J. Hedges
Dale J. Hedges University of Miami
David A. Ray
David A. Ray Texas Tech University
Mark Stoneking
Mark Stoneking Max Planck Society
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington
Stephen T. Sherry
Stephen T. Sherry National Institutes of Health
Richard Cordaux
Richard Cordaux University of Poitiers
Thomas J. Meyer
Thomas J. Meyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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