Highlights from this month’s #EPIC seminar series! Dinah Parker and @VizuetaJoel shared their fascinating work on #pathogenic #fungi 🍄and vision in #ants 🐜

So far we used the European #rabbit & #mountain #hare #assemblies.

Hi #popgen & #consgen we know #bimodal distribution in #sequencing data can happen but we see it in GC both pre- & post- #mapping in arctic #hares. We see the same trend when mapping to different reference genomes & in our own & published samples. Any insights are super welcome!

Alex Brown from the @TheKids_AU gave a great talk on indigenous genomics and how to address health inequality in these communities!.Thanks for joining us!

RT @EPICconference: Just a few more days left to sign up for the EPIC conference 2025! Join us in Aarhus this August 🥳.✍️Registration deadl….

This is a physical course but an online version will be available for those who can’t attend. We especially encourage students from African institutions to join online as this is offered as part of the African BioGenome Project Open Institute East&Central Africa Regional Workshop.

Combining these two populations could reduce the otherwise high realized genetic load and increase species viability.

We also found that the gradual decline caused extremely low genetic diversity and strong purging of genetic load.

We generate a de novo genome sequence for a male saola and sequenced 26 recently discovered and near-extinct saola samples. We found two highly differentiated populations that diverged and gradually declined over >5,000 years ago.

We sequenced and analyzed the world's rarest large mammal, the #saola. That turned into a cool paper substantially increasing what we know about this elusive animal, its evolutionary history, population structure, and long-term decline. Check it out here:

RT @EPICconference: Are you an evolutionary/population geneticist in Denmark? The EPIC conference is back and it will take place on 11-12 A….

Our population genetics PhD summer course 2025 @PopGenDK @Globe_UCPH is now open for registration! Featuring lectures & talks by Martin Sikora, @ShyamGlobe, @KBougiouri , Fernando Racimo, @idamoltke , @A_Albrechtsen. For more info:

Welcome back to our monthly #EPIC seminars! .We started today with our two speakers Evelyn Todd and @MartaCiucani talking about their research on #Scandinavian #wolves 🐺 and African forest #hogs 🐗 . Next seminar 🔜 May 21st.

PopGenDK is now of course also on Bluesky 🦋.

RT @NatureNV: Including under-represented groups in population genomics data could reduce inequalities in genetics-based clinical care and….

RT @Nature: Nature research paper: Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection. .

The study is the result of a long and close collaboration with Steno Diabetes Center Greenland, Centre for Public Health in Greenland, and the University of Copenhagen. Also read the @NatureNV news and views: and News 🧵6/6.

Increased proportion of common variants results in twice as many high impact associations in Greenland compared to Europe. Many of these are Arctic-specific. The impact is measured as variance explained; a combination of allele frequency and effect size. 🧵5/6

The variant distribution is different: Overall fewer variants in the Greenlandic population but a larger proportion of common variants. At the same time, the additive genetic burden is comparable between all populations. 🧵4/6

Representation of Greenlandic summary data drastically improves the expected outcome of clinical screenings and the predictive power of polygenic scores. 🧵3/6