Xinjun Zhang
Assistant Professor of Human Genetics
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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Xinjun Zhang
Assistant Professor
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      Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
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    • Journal Article
      MaLAdapt Reveals Novel Targets of Adaptive Introgression From Neanderthals and Denisovans in Worldwide Human Populations
      Zhang X, Kim B, Singh A, Sankararaman S, Durvasula A, Lohmueller KE. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023 Jan 1; 40 (1): DOI:10.1093/molbev/msad001
    • Journal Article
      Denisovans and Homo sapiens on the Tibetan Plateau: dispersals and adaptations
      Zhang P, Zhang X, Zhang X, Gao X, Huerta-Sanchez E, Zwyns N. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Mar 1; 37 (3): 257 - 267. DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2021.11.004
    • Journal Article
      Apportioning archaic variants among modern populations
      Witt KE, Villanea F, Loughran E, Zhang X, Huerta-Sanchez E. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022 Jan 1; 377 (1852): DOI:10.1098/rstb.2020.0411
    • Journal Article
      A signature of Neanderthal introgression on molecular mechanisms of environmental responses
      Findley AS, Zhang X, Boye C, Lin YL, Kalita CA, Barreiro L, Lohmueller KE, Pique-Regi R, Luca F. PLoS Genetics, 2021 Sep 27; 17 (9): DOI:10.1371/JOURNAL.PGEN.1009493
    • Journal Article
      The history and evolution of the Denisovan-EPAS1 haplotype in Tibetans
      Zhang X, Witt KE, Bañuelos MM, Ko A, Yuan K, Xu S, Nielsen R, Huerta-Sanchez E. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Jun 1; 118 (22): DOI:10.1073/pnas.2020803118
    • Journal Article
      The impact of recessive deleterious variation on signals of adaptive introgression in human populations
      Zhang X, Kim B, Lohmueller KE, Huerta-Sánchez E. Genetics, 2020 Jul 1; 215 (3): 799 - 812. DOI:10.1534/genetics.120.303081
    • Journal Article
      Reduced signal for polygenic adaptation of height in UK biobank
      Berg JJ, Harpak A, Sinnott-Armstrong N, Joergensen AM, Mostafavi H, Field Y, Boyle EA, Zhang X, Racimo F, Pritchard JK, Coop G. eLife, 2019 Mar 1; 8: DOI:10.7554/eLife.39725
    • Journal Article
      Genetic characterization of a captive colony of pigtailed Macaques (Macaca nemestrina)
      Zhang X, Kanthaswamy S, Trask JS, Ng J, Oldt RF, Mankowski JL, Adams RJ, Smith DG. Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, 2017 Jul 1; 56 (4): 390 - 395.