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Mathias Currat

Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva
Verified email at unige.ch
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The genetic history of Europeans

R Pinhasi, MG Thomas, M Hofreiter, M Currat… - Trends in Genetics, 2012 - cell.com
… Here we review the current knowledge on the evolutionary history of humans in Europe …
Consequently, the current European gene pool was interpreted as consisting mainly of genetic …

The hidden side of invasions: massive introgression by local genes

M Currat, M Ruedi, RJ Petit, L Excoffier - Evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… At any location of the lattice, the probability of a successful introgression event is thus defined
as A=γ (2N i N j )/(N i +N j ) 2 , where N i and N j are the current deme densities of the two …

Intra-deme molecular diversity in spatially expanding populations

N Ray, M Currat, L Excoffier - Molecular biology and evolution, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… at rate m, so that N t m emigrants are … the current density of the target deme, so that the same
proportion of migrants are sent to empty or occupied demes. The number of emigrants N t m

Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans

…, SJ Shennan, DG Bradley, M Currat… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and
later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes. …

The fate of mutations surfing on the wave of a range expansion

S Klopfstein, M Currat, L Excoffier - Molecular biology and …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… The various combinations of m and K we used allowed us to study a broad range of
migrations between neighboring demes (Nm varied between 1 and 200). These migration rates …

Evolution of lactase persistence: an example of human niche construction

…, Y Itan, A Powell, M Currat… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Niche construction is the process by which organisms construct important components of their
local environment in ways that introduce novel selection pressures. Lactase persistence is …

[HTML][HTML] Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians

…, M Currat, D Lordkipanidze, M Hofreiter… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
We extend the scope of European palaeogenomics by sequencing the genomes of Late
Upper Palaeolithic (13,300 years old, 1.4-fold coverage) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old, 15.4-…

[HTML][HTML] Harmonizing hybridization dissonance in conservation

CS Quilodrán, JI Montoya-Burgos, M Currat - Communications Biology, 2020 - nature.com
… Mice started to be resistant during the 1960s by acquiring a single gene from the Algerian
mouse (M. spretus) through hybridization 38 . These species were isolated until the …

Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent

…, R Bollongino, D Bobo, H Davoudi, O Munoz, M Currat… - Science, 2016 - science.org
We sequenced Early Neolithic genomes from the Zagros region of Iran (eastern Fertile
Crescent), where some of the earliest evidence for farming is found, and identify a previously …

[HTML][HTML] Modern humans did not admix with Neanderthals during their range expansion into Europe

M Currat, L Excoffier - PLoS biology, 2004 - journals.plos.org
… and if they left some traces in the current modern human gene pool. While this hypothesis
is … deme can send emigrants to the same population in neighboring demes at rate m. N ″ i …