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Overview

Yali Xue is affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom and is active in research spanning materials science as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research contributions have been published across a variety of fields, demonstrating a blend of fundamental studies and applied sciences.

Their recent publications include notable papers such as:

  • Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes, 2020, Science
  • Population Structure, Stratification, and Introgression of Human Structural Variation, 2020, Cell
  • The landscape of autosomal-recessive pathogenic variants in European populations reveals phenotype-specific effects, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • The genomic history of the Middle East, 2021, Cell
  • A Genetic History of the Near East from an aDNA Time Course Sampling Eight Points in the Past 4,000 Years, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics

Yali Xue frequently collaborates with a number of researchers in their field. Their most common coauthors include:

  • Chris Tyler-Smith
  • Dan Zhao
  • Ruijuan Zhang
  • Shirui Zhang
  • Yujun Liang

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Ceramics International
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their work primarily addresses topics within materials chemistry and genetics. The main fields of study encompassing their research are:

  • Materials Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The subfields most represented in their publications include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Genetics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Molecular Biology
  • Archeology

Yali Xue's research topics span:

  • Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

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

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

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

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • Ancient DNA and the rewriting of human history: be sparing with Occam's razor.

    Marc Haber;Massimo Mezzavilla;Massimo Mezzavilla;Yali Xue;Chris Tyler-Smith

  • The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Heng Li;Mark Lipson;Iain Mathieson

  • A Systematic Survey of Loss-of-Function Variants in Human Protein-Coding Genes

    Daniel G. MacArthur;Daniel G. MacArthur;Suganthi Balasubramanian;Adam Frankish;Ni Huang

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

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

  • IFITM3 restricts the morbidity and mortality associated with influenza

    Aaron R. Everitt;Simon Clare;Thomas Charles Pertel;Sinu P. John

  • Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

    Aylwyn Scally;Julien Y. Dutheil;LaDeana W. Hillier;Gregory E. Jordan

  • 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

  • The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa

    Deepti Gurdasani;Tommy Carstensen;Tommy Carstensen;Fasil Tekola-Ayele;Luca Pagani

  • Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes.

    Anders Bergström;Anders Bergström;Shane A. McCarthy;Shane A. McCarthy;Ruoyun Hui;Ruoyun Hui;Mohamed A. Almarri

  • The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols

    Tatiana Zerjal;Yali Xue;Yali Xue;Giorgio Bertorelle;R. Spencer Wells

  • A systematic, large-scale resequencing screen of X-chromosome coding exons in mental retardation.

    Patrick S Tarpey;Raffaella Smith;Erin Pleasance;Annabel Whibley

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

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

  • A genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 22 loci associated with eight hematological parameters in the HaemGen consortium

    Nicole Soranzo;Nicole Soranzo;Tim D Spector;Massimo Mangino;Brigitte Kühnel

  • BCFtools/RoH: a hidden Markov model approach for detecting autozygosity from next-generation sequencing data

    Vagheesh Narasimhan;Petr Danecek;Aylwyn Scally;Yali Xue

  • 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

  • A recent bottleneck of Y chromosome diversity coincides with a global change in culture

    Monika Karmin;Monika Karmin;Lauri Saag;Lauri Saag;Mário Vicente;Melissa A. Wilson Sayres;Melissa A. Wilson Sayres

  • Mountain gorilla genomes reveal the impact of long-term population decline and inbreeding

    Yali Xue;Javier Prado-Martinez;Peter H. Sudmant;Vagheesh Narasimhan;Vagheesh Narasimhan

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Tyler-Smith
Chris Tyler-Smith Wellcome Sanger Institute
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge
Manjinder S. Sandhu
Manjinder S. Sandhu Imperial College London
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Matthew E. Hurles
Matthew E. Hurles Wellcome Sanger Institute
huanming yang
huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute
Nigel W. Rayner
Nigel W. Rayner University of Oxford
Daniel G. MacArthur
Daniel G. MacArthur Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Eleftheria Zeggini
Eleftheria Zeggini Technical University of Munich

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