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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Molly Przeworski is a researcher affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their work spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Genetics. The subfields they contribute to include Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Cancer Research, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The research topics frequently addressed by Przeworski include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, DNA Repair Mechanisms, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure.

The scientist has published several recent papers, demonstrating involvement in key genetic and evolutionary biology questions. Notable publications include:

  • Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group, 2020, eLife
  • Population genetics of the coral Acropora millepora: Toward genomic prediction of bleaching, 2020, Science
  • A comparison of humans and baboons suggests germline mutation rates do not track cell divisions, 2020, PLoS Biology
  • A paternal bias in germline mutation is widespread in amniotes and can arise independently of cell division numbers, 2022, eLife
  • Relating pathogenic loss-of-function mutations in humans to their evolutionary fitness costs, 2023, eLife

Przeworski frequently collaborates with several co-authors, with repeated partnerships including:

  • Marc de Manuel
  • Ipsita Agarwal
  • Zachary L. Fuller
  • Guy Sella
  • Graham Coop

The primary venues for publishing their research include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where they have 14 publications, followed by eLife with 5 publications, PLoS Biology with 3, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 3, and Science with 2 publications.

Molly Przeworski has been recognized by their peers through several honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in the same year. Earlier in their career, they received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

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

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language

    Wolfgang Enard;Molly Przeworski;Simon E. Fisher;Cecilia S. L. Lai

  • Linkage Disequilibrium in Humans: Models and Data

    Jonathan K. Pritchard;Molly Przeworski

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

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

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

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

  • Revisiting an Old Riddle: What Determines Genetic Diversity Levels within Species?

    Ellen M. Leffler;Kevin Bullaughey;Daniel R. Matute;Wynn K. Meyer

  • A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

    Richard M. Durbin;David L. Altshuler;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David R. Bentley

  • How reliable are empirical genomic scans for selective sweeps

    Kosuke M. Teshima;Graham Coop;Molly Przeworski

  • The signature of positive selection at randomly chosen loci.

    Molly Przeworski

  • Pervasive natural selection in the Drosophila genome

    Guy Sella;Dmitri A. Petrov;Molly Przeworski;Peter Andolfatto

  • Classic Selective Sweeps Were Rare in Recent Human Evolution

    Ryan D. Hernandez;Joanna L. Kelley;Eyal Elyashiv;S. Cord Melton

  • Loss of Olfactory Receptor Genes Coincides with the Acquisition of Full Trichromatic Vision in Primates

    Yoav Gilad;Victor Wiebe;Molly Przeworski;Doron Lancet

  • Variable prediction accuracy of polygenic scores within an ancestry group.

    Hakhamanesh Mostafavi;Arbel Harpak;Ipsita Agarwal;Dalton Conley

  • Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes

    Molly Schumer;Chenling Xu;Daniel L. Powell;Arun Durvasula

  • 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

  • Stable recombination hotspots in birds

    Sonal Singhal;Ellen M. Leffler;Keerthi Sannareddy;Isaac Turner

  • Adjusting the focus on human variation

    Molly Przeworski;Richard R. Hudson;Anna Di Rienzo

  • Determinants of Mutation Rate Variation in the Human Germline

    Laure Ségurel;Minyoung J. Wyman;Molly Przeworski

  • Fine-scale recombination patterns differ between chimpanzees and humans

    Susan E Ptak;David A Hinds;Kathrin Koehler;Birgit Nickel

Frequent Co-Authors

Graham Coop
Graham Coop University of California, Davis
Peter Andolfatto
Peter Andolfatto Columbia University
Gil G. Rosenthal
Gil G. Rosenthal University of Padua
Jeffrey D. Wall
Jeffrey D. Wall University of California, San Francisco
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Carole Ober
Carole Ober University of Chicago
Jonathan K. Pritchard
Jonathan K. Pritchard Stanford University
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University

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