Rosenberg lab at Stanford University

Noah A Rosenberg
+1 650 721 2599 (office phone)
+1 650 724 5122 (lab phone)
+1 650 724 5114 (fax)


Lab: 339 Herrin Labs
Office: 339A Herrin Labs

Mailing address
Department of Biology
Stanford University
371 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-5020 USA

Last modified 5-15-2013

Research

The research in the lab is in the general fields of evolutionary biology, human genetics, and population genetics. We utilize mathematical theory, computer simulation, and statistical methods to address problems in these fields. We also engage in the development and implementation of new statistical approaches and algorithms. [classification of articles by subtopic]

Mathematical models in population genetics [articles]
We are interested in mathematical population genetics and in understanding how the various forces in evolution can contribute to patterns of genetic variation. A particular interest is in population-genetic theory for species that have diverged sufficiently recently that they still share genetic polymorphism. Also, we are interested in how mathematical theory enables predictions to be made about what might be found in population-genetic data, and how it can therefore aid in the development of statistical methods for analyzing these data.

Gene trees and species trees [articles]
For closely related species, the evolutionary history of an individual gene need not reflect the history of species divergences. Partly because of this phenomenon of gene tree discordance, phylogenies of species reconstructed from different parts of a genome may suggest different relationships among the various species. We are developing theory that makes predictions about gene tree discordance, and we are also devising statistical methods for phylogenetic inference in closely related species.

Human variation and inference of human evolutionary history from genetic markers [articles]
The genomes of individuals in a species record many aspects of the history of the species. We are interested in understanding the geographic distribution of human genetic variation and in devising and applying statistical methods for learning about human evolutionary history from this genetic variation. We are more broadly interested in the properties of statistical methods for analyzing genetic variation and inferring genetic history, both on human data and on data from various other organisms.

The relationship of human population genetics to the search for disease-susceptibility genes [articles]
The pattern of variation of a genetic marker in diseased and non-diseased individuals can potentially be used to identify a disease association with the marker. However, the history of the human population can affect the strength of the signal of association between markers and disease, as well as the replicability of observed associations across studies. We are designing statistical methods for genetic mapping that take population-genetic factors into account, in order to increase the prospects for locating disease-susceptibility genes.

Mathematical models in population genetics

  • M Jakobsson, MD Edge, NA Rosenberg (2013) The relationship between FST and the frequency of the most frequent allele. Genetics 193: 515-528. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • M DeGiorgio, NA Rosenberg (2013) Geographic sampling scheme as a determinant of the major axis of genetic variation in principal components analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30: 480-488. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NM Kopelman, L Stone, O Gascuel, NA Rosenberg (2013) The behavior of admixed populations in neighbor-joining inference of population trees. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 18: 263-274. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg, T Stadler (2012) A characterization of the set of species trees that produce anomalous ranked gene trees. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 9: 1558-1568. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • EM Jewett*, M Zawistowski*, NA Rosenberg, S Zöllner (2012) A coalescent model for genotype imputation. Genetics 191: 1239-1255. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • D Bryant, R Bouckaert, J Felsenstein, NA Rosenberg, A RoyChoudhury (2012) Inferring species trees directly from biallelic genetic markers: bypassing gene trees in a full coalescent analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29: 1917-1932. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • LJ Helmkamp, EM Jewett, NA Rosenberg (2012) Improvements to a class of distance matrix methods for inferring species trees from gene trees. Journal of Computational Biology 19: 632-649. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • EM Jewett, NA Rosenberg (2012) iGLASS: an improvement to the GLASS method for estimating species trees from gene trees. Journal of Computational Biology 19: 293-315. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • SB Reddy, NA Rosenberg (2012) Refining the relationship between homozygosity and the frequency of the most frequent allele. Journal of Mathematical Biology 64: 87-108. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg, T Stadler (2012) The probability distribution of ranked gene trees on a species tree. Mathematical Biosciences 235: 45-55. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • P Verdu, NA Rosenberg (2011) A general mechanistic model for admixture histories of hybrid populations. Genetics 189: 1413-1426. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary Text] [Supplementary Figure 1] [Supplementary Table 1]

  • M DeGiorgio, JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg (2011) Coalescence-time distributions in a serial founder model of human evolutionary history. Genetics 189: 579-593. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • SM Boca, NA Rosenberg (2011) Mathematical properties of Fst between admixed populations and their parental source populations. Theoretical Population Biology 80: 208-216. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • ZA Szpiech, NA Rosenberg (2011) On the size distribution of private microsatellite alleles. Theoretical Population Biology 80: 100-113. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • EO Buzbas, P Joyce, NA Rosenberg (2011) Inference on the strength of balancing selection for epistatically interacting loci. Theoretical Population Biology 79: 102-113. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • CV Than, NA Rosenberg (2011) Consistency properties of species tree inference by minimizing deep coalescences. Journal of Computational Biology 18: 1-15. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • M DeGiorgio*, I Jankovic*, NA Rosenberg (2010) Unbiased estimation of gene diversity in samples containing related individuals: exact variance and arbitrary ploidy. Genetics 186: 1367-1387. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, JH Degnan (2010) Coalescent histories for discordant gene trees and species trees. Theoretical Population Biology 77: 145-151. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg (2009) Gene tree discordance, phylogenetic inference, and the multispecies coalescent. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 332-340. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • JH Degnan, M DeGiorgio, D Bryant, NA Rosenberg (2009) Properties of consensus methods for inferring species trees from gene trees. Systematic Biology 58: 35-54. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • S Ramachandran, NA Rosenberg, MW Feldman, J Wakeley (2008) Population differentiation and migration: coalescence times in a two-sex island model for autosomal and X-linked loci. Theoretical Population Biology 74: 291-301. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, M Jakobsson (2008) The relationship between homozygosity and the frequency of the most frequent allele. Genetics 179: 2027-2036. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JM VanLiere, NA Rosenberg (2008) Mathematical properties of the r2 measure of linkage disequilibrium. Theoretical Population Biology 74: 130-137. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JM Macpherson, J Gonzalez, DM Witten, JC Davis, NA Rosenberg, AE Hirsh, DA Petrov (2008) Nonadaptive explanations for signatures of partial selective sweeps in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25: 1025-1042. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, R Tao (2008) Discordance of species trees with their most likely gene trees: the case of five taxa. Systematic Biology 57: 131-140. [Abstract] [Full text at journal website] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • K Zhang, NA Rosenberg (2007) On the genealogy of a duplicated microsatellite. Genetics 177: 2109-2122. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • MGB Blum, NA Rosenberg (2007) Estimating the number of ancestral lineages using a maximum likelihood method based on rejection sampling. Genetics 176: 1741-1757. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, MGB Blum (2007) Sampling properties of homozygosity-based statistics for linkage disequilibrium. Mathematical Biosciences 208: 33-47. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • M Jakobsson, NA Rosenberg (2007) The probability distribution under a population divergence model of the number of genetic founding lineages of a population or species. Theoretical Population Biology 71: 502-523. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg (2007) Statistical tests for taxonomic distinctiveness from observations of monophyly. Evolution 61: 317-323. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg (2006) Discordance of species trees with their most likely gene trees. PLoS Genetics 2: 762-768. [Abstract] [Full-text at journal website] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg (2006) The mean and variance of the numbers of r-pronged nodes and r-caterpillars in Yule-generated genealogical trees. Annals of Combinatorics 10: 129-146. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg (2005) A sharp minimum on the mean number of steps taken in adaptive walks. Journal of Theoretical Biology 237: 17-22. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • H Innan, K Zhang, P Marjoram, S Tavaré, NA Rosenberg (2005) Statistical tests of the coalescent model based on the haplotype frequency distribution and the number of segregating sites. Genetics 169: 1763-1777. [Abstract] [PDF] [Software]

  • NA Rosenberg, PP Calabrese (2004) Polyploid and multilocus extensions of the Wahlund inequality. Theoretical Population Biology 66: 381-391. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • MM Tanaka, NA Rosenberg, PM Small (2004) The control of copy number of IS6110 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21: 2195-2201. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • S Ramachandran, NA Rosenberg, LA Zhivotovsky, MW Feldman (2004) Robustness of the inference of human population structure: a comparison of X-chromosomal and autosomal microsatellites. Human Genomics 1: 87-97. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, LM Li, R Ward, JK Pritchard (2003) Informativeness of genetic markers for inference of ancestry. American Journal of Human Genetics 73: 1402-1422. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement] [Microsatellite data] [SNP data] [SNP data readme] [Solution to Problem 11039 required in appendix of paper (American Mathematical Monthly 112: 572-573, 2005)] [Software]

  • NA Rosenberg, AE Hirsh (2003) On the use of star-shaped genealogies in inference of coalescence times. Genetics 164: 1677-1682. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg (2003) The shapes of neutral gene genealogies in two species: probabilities of monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly in a coalescent model. Evolution 57: 1465-1477. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, M Nordborg (2002) Genealogical trees, coalescent theory, and the analysis of genetic polymorphisms. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 380-390. [Abstract] [PDF] [article at NRG website (includes "bullet point" summary)]

  • NA Rosenberg (2002) The probability of topological concordance of gene trees and species trees. Theoretical Population Biology 61: 225-247. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, MW Feldman (2002) The relationship between coalescence times and population divergence times. Chapter 9 in M Slatkin and M Veuille, eds. Modern Developments in Theoretical Population Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 130-164. [Abstract] [PDF of final version]
Gene trees and species trees

  • JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg, T Stadler (2012) A characterization of the set of species trees that produce anomalous ranked gene trees. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 9: 1558-1568. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • EO Buzbas (2012) On the article titled "Estimating species trees using approximate Bayesian computation" (Fan and Kubatko, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59:354-363). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65: 1014-1016 (2012). [PDF]

  • D Bryant, R Bouckaert, J Felsenstein, NA Rosenberg, A RoyChoudhury (2012) Inferring species trees directly from biallelic genetic markers: bypassing gene trees in a full coalescent analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29: 1917-1932. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • LJ Helmkamp, EM Jewett, NA Rosenberg (2012) Improvements to a class of distance matrix methods for inferring species trees from gene trees. Journal of Computational Biology 19: 632-649. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • EM Jewett, NA Rosenberg (2012) iGLASS: an improvement to the GLASS method for estimating species trees from gene trees. Journal of Computational Biology 19: 293-315. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg, T Stadler (2012) The probability distribution of ranked gene trees on a species tree. Mathematical Biosciences 235: 45-55. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • CV Than, NA Rosenberg (2011) Consistency properties of species tree inference by minimizing deep coalescences. Journal of Computational Biology 18: 1-15. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, JH Degnan (2010) Coalescent histories for discordant gene trees and species trees. Theoretical Population Biology 77: 145-151. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • M DeGiorgio, JH Degnan (2010) Fast and consistent estimation of species trees using supermatrix rooted triples. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27: 552-569. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg (2009) Gene tree discordance, phylogenetic inference, and the multispecies coalescent. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 332-340. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • JH Degnan, M DeGiorgio, D Bryant, NA Rosenberg (2009) Properties of consensus methods for inferring species trees from gene trees. Systematic Biology 58: 35-54. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, R Tao (2008) Discordance of species trees with their most likely gene trees: the case of five taxa. Systematic Biology 57: 131-140. [Abstract] [Full text at journal website] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • NA Rosenberg (2007) Counting coalescent histories. Journal of Computational Biology 14: 360-377. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg (2006) Discordance of species trees with their most likely gene trees. PLoS Genetics 2: 762-768. [Abstract] [Full-text at journal website] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg (2003) The shapes of neutral gene genealogies in two species: probabilities of monophyly, paraphyly, and polyphyly in a coalescent model. Evolution 57: 1465-1477. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, M Nordborg (2002) Genealogical trees, coalescent theory, and the analysis of genetic polymorphisms. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 380-390. [Abstract] [PDF] [article at NRG website (includes "bullet point" summary)]

  • NA Rosenberg (2002) The probability of topological concordance of gene trees and species trees. Theoretical Population Biology 61: 225-247. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, MW Feldman (2002) The relationship between coalescence times and population divergence times. Chapter 9 in M Slatkin and M Veuille, eds. Modern Developments in Theoretical Population Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 130-164. [Abstract] [PDF of final version]
Human variation and inference of human evolutionary history from genetic markers

  • M Jakobsson, MD Edge, NA Rosenberg (2013) The relationship between FST and the frequency of the most frequent allele. Genetics 193: 515-528. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • M DeGiorgio, NA Rosenberg (2013) Geographic sampling scheme as a determinant of the major axis of genetic variation in principal components analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30: 480-488. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NM Kopelman, L Stone, O Gascuel, NA Rosenberg (2013) The behavior of admixed populations in neighbor-joining inference of population trees. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 18: 263-274. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • C Wang, KB Schroeder, NA Rosenberg (2012) A maximum-likelihood method to correct for allelic dropout in microsatellite data with no replicate genotypes. Genetics 192: 651-669. [Abstract] [Full-text at journal website] [PDF] [Supplement] [Software]

  • C Wang, S Zöllner, NA Rosenberg (2012) A quantitative comparison of the similarity between genes and geography in worldwide human populations. PLoS Genetics 8: e1002886. [Abstract] [Full-text at journal website] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • TJ Pemberton, F-Y Li, EK Hanson, NU Mehta, S Choi, J Ballantyne, JW Belmont, NA Rosenberg, C Tyler-Smith, PI Patel (2012) Impact of restricted marital practices on genetic variation in an endogamous Gujarati group. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149: 92-103. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement (.docx)] [Data]

  • TJ Pemberton, D Absher, MW Feldman, RM Myers, NA Rosenberg, JZ Li (2012) Genomic patterns of homozygosity in worldwide human populations. American Journal of Human Genetics 91: 275-292. [Abstract] [PDF] [Main Supplement] [Supplementary Table 2 (.zip)] [Supplementary Table 3 (.zip)] [Supplementary Table 4 (.zip)] [Supplementary Table 5 (.zip)]

  • FA San Lucas, NA Rosenberg, P Scheet (2012) Haploscope: a tool for the graphical display of haplotype structure in populations. Genetic Epidemiology 35: 17-21. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg (2011) A population-genetic perspective on the similarities and differences among worldwide human populations. Human Biology 83: 659-684. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • L Huang*, M Jakobsson*, TJ Pemberton, M Ibrahim, T Nyambo, S Omar, JK Pritchard, SA Tishkoff, NA Rosenberg (2011) Haplotype variation and genotype imputation in African populations. Genetic Epidemiology 35: 766-780. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • S Ramachandran, NA Rosenberg (2011) A test of the influence of continental axes of orientation on patterns of human gene flow. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 146: 515-529. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure 1] [Supplementary Figure 2] [Supplementary Tables]

  • M DeGiorgio, JH Degnan, NA Rosenberg (2011) Coalescence-time distributions in a serial founder model of human evolutionary history. Genetics 189: 579-593. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • SM Boca, NA Rosenberg (2011) Mathematical properties of Fst between admixed populations and their parental source populations. Theoretical Population Biology 80: 208-216. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • ZA Szpiech, NA Rosenberg (2011) On the size distribution of private microsatellite alleles. Theoretical Population Biology 80: 100-113. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • EO Buzbas, P Joyce, NA Rosenberg (2011) Inference on the strength of balancing selection for epistatically interacting loci. Theoretical Population Biology 79: 102-113. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • M DeGiorgio*, I Jankovic*, NA Rosenberg (2010) Unbiased estimation of gene diversity in samples containing related individuals: exact variance and arbitrary ploidy. Genetics 186: 1367-1387. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • TJ Pemberton, C Wang, JZ Li, NA Rosenberg (2010) Inference of unexpected genetic relatedness among individuals in HapMap Phase III. American Journal of Human Genetics 87: 457-464. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • E Borràs*, M Pineda*, I Blanco, EM Jewett, F Wang, A Teulé, T Caldés, M Urioste, C Martínez-Bouzas, J Brunet, J Balmaña, A Torres, T Ramón y Cajal, J Sanz, L Pérez-Cabornero, S Castellví-Bel, A Alonso, A Lanas, S González, V Moreno, SB Gruber, NA Rosenberg, B Mukherjee, C Lázaro, G Capellá (2010) MLH1 founder mutations with moderate penetrance in Spanish Lynch syndrome families. Cancer Research 70: 7379-7391. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure 1] [Supplementary Table 1] [Supplementary Table 2] [Supplementary Methods]

  • C Wang, ZA Szpiech, JH Degnan, M Jakobsson, TJ Pemberton, JA Hardy, AB Singleton, NA Rosenberg (2010) Comparing spatial maps of human population-genetic variation using Procrustes analysis. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 9: 13. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JT Mosher, TJ Pemberton, K Harter, C Wang, EO Buzbas, P Dvorak, C Simon, SJ Morrison, NA Rosenberg (2010) Lack of population diversity in commonly used human embryonic stem-cell lines. New England Journal of Medicine 362: 183-185. [PDF] [Supplement]

  • TJ Pemberton, CI Sandefur, M Jakobsson, NA Rosenberg (2009) Sequence determinants of human microsatellite variability. BMC Genomics 10: 612. [Abstract] [Full text at journal website] [PDF] [Supplementary table 1 (XLS)] [Supplementary table 2 (XLS)] [Supplementary tables 3-6 (PDF)] [Data]

  • NM Kopelman, L Stone, C Wang, D Gefel, MW Feldman, J Hillel, NA Rosenberg (2009) Genomic microsatellites identify shared Jewish ancestry intermediate between Middle Eastern and European populations. BMC Genetics 10: 80. [Abstract] [Full text at journal website] [PDF]

  • M DeGiorgio, M Jakobsson, NA Rosenberg (2009) Explaining worldwide patterns of human genetic variation using a coalescent-based serial founder model of migration outward from Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 16057-16062. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • KB Schroeder, M Jakobsson, MH Crawford, TG Schurr, SM Boca, DF Conrad, RY Tito, LP Osipova, LA Tarskaia, SI Zhadanov, JD Wall, JK Pritchard, RS Malhi, DG Smith, NA Rosenberg (2009) Haplotypic background of a private allele at high frequency in the Americas. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26: 995-1016. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • M DeGiorgio, NA Rosenberg (2009) An unbiased estimator of gene diversity in samples containing related individuals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 26: 501-512. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • S Ramachandran, NA Rosenberg, MW Feldman, J Wakeley (2008) Population differentiation and migration: coalescence times in a two-sex island model for autosomal and X-linked loci. Theoretical Population Biology 74: 291-301. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • ZA Szpiech, M Jakobsson, NA Rosenberg (2008) ADZE: a rarefaction approach for counting alleles private to combinations of populations. Bioinformatics 24: 2498-2504. [Abstract] [ Full text at journal website] [PDF] [Software]

  • O François, MGB Blum, M Jakobsson, NA Rosenberg (2008) Demographic history of European populations of Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genetics 4: e1000075. [Abstract] [Full text at journal website] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • M Jakobsson*, SW Scholz*, P Scheet*, JR Gibbs, JM VanLiere, H-C Fung, ZA Szpiech, JH Degnan, K Wang, R Guerreiro, JM Bras, JC Schymick, DG Hernandez, BJ Traynor, J Simon-Sanchez, M Matarin, A Britton, J van de Leemput, I Rafferty, M Bucan, HM Cann, JA Hardy, NA Rosenberg, AB Singleton (2008) Genotype, haplotype and copy-number variation in worldwide human populations. Nature 451: 998-1003. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • S Wang*, CM Lewis Jr*, M Jakobsson*, S Ramachandran, N Ray, G Bedoya, W Rojas, MV Parra, JA Molina, C Gallo, G Mazzotti, G Poletti, K Hill, AM Hurtado, D Labuda, W Klitz, R Barrantes, MC Bortolini, FM Salzano, ML Petzl-Erler, LT Tsuneto, E Llop, F Rothhammer, L Excoffier, MW Feldman, NA Rosenberg, A Ruiz-Linares (2007) Genetic variation and population structure in Native Americans. PLoS Genetics 3: 2049-2067. [Abstract] [Full text at journal website] [PDF] [Supplement] [Data] [Readme for datafile]

  • M Jakobsson, NA Rosenberg (2007) CLUMPP: a cluster matching and permutation program for dealing with label switching and multimodality in analysis of population structure. Bioinformatics 23: 1801-1806. [Abstract] [Full text at journal website] [PDF] [Software]

  • MGB Blum, NA Rosenberg (2007) Estimating the number of ancestral lineages using a maximum likelihood method based on rejection sampling. Genetics 176: 1741-1757. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • KB Schroeder, TG Schurr, JC Long, NA Rosenberg, MH Crawford, LA Tarskaia, LP Osipova, SI Zhadanov, DG Smith (2007). A private allele ubiquitous in the Americas. Biology Letters 3: 218-223. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • NA Rosenberg, S Mahajan, C Gonzalez-Quevedo, MGB Blum, L Nino-Rosales, V Ninis, P Das, M Hegde, L Molinari, G Zapata, JL Weber, JW Belmont, PI Patel (2006) Low levels of genetic divergence across geographically and linguistically diverse populations from India. PLoS Genetics 2: 2052-2061. [Abstract] [Full-text at journal website] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables 1-3 (DOC)] [Supplementary Tables 1-3 (PDF)]

  • DF Conrad*, M Jakobsson*, G Coop*, X Wen, JD Wall, NA Rosenberg, JK Pritchard (2006) A worldwide survey of haplotype variation and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome. Nature Genetics 38: 1251-1260. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement (methods, note, and figures] [Supplementary Table 1] [Data]

  • NA Rosenberg (2006) Standardized subsets of the HGDP-CEPH Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel, accounting for atypical and duplicated samples and pairs of close relatives. Annals of Human Genetics 70: 841-847. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement] [Data] [Spreadsheet with recommended subsets (txt format)] [Spreadsheet with recommended subsets (xls format)]

  • NA Rosenberg, S Mahajan, S Ramachandran, C Zhao, JK Pritchard, MW Feldman (2005) Clines, clusters, and the effect of study design on the inference of human population structure. PLoS Genetics 1: 660-671. [Abstract] [Full-text at journal website] [PDF] [Data]

  • NA Rosenberg (2005) Algorithms for selecting informative marker panels for population assignment. Journal of Computational Biology 12: 1183-1201. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • S Ramachandran, O Deshpande, CC Roseman, NA Rosenberg, MW Feldman, LL Cavalli-Sforza (2005) Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102: 15942-15947. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure 6] [Supplementary Table 2] [Supplementary text] [Data]

  • M Nordborg, TT Hu, Y Ishino, J Jhaveri, C Toomajian, H Zheng, E Bakker, P Calabrese, J Gladstone, R Goyal, M Jakobsson, S Kim, Y Morozov, B Padhukasahasram, V Plagnol, NA Rosenberg, C Shah, JD Wall, J Wang, K Zhao, T Kalbfleisch, V Schulz, M Kreitman, J Bergelson (2005) The pattern of polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Biology 3: 1289-1299. [Abstract] [Full-text at journal website] [PDF]

  • H Innan, K Zhang, P Marjoram, S Tavaré, NA Rosenberg (2005) Statistical tests of the coalescent model based on the haplotype frequency distribution and the number of segregating sites. Genetics 169: 1763-1777. [Abstract] [PDF] [Software]

  • NA Rosenberg, PP Calabrese (2004) Polyploid and multilocus extensions of the Wahlund inequality. Theoretical Population Biology 66: 381-391. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • S Ramachandran, NA Rosenberg, LA Zhivotovsky, MW Feldman (2004) Robustness of the inference of human population structure: a comparison of X-chromosomal and autosomal microsatellites. Human Genomics 1: 87-97. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg (2004) Distruct: a program for the graphical display of population structure. Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 137-138. [Abstract] [PDF] [Software]

  • NA Rosenberg, LM Li, R Ward, JK Pritchard (2003) Informativeness of genetic markers for inference of ancestry. American Journal of Human Genetics 73: 1402-1422. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement] [Microsatellite data] [SNP data] [SNP data readme] [Solution to Problem 11039 required in appendix of paper (American Mathematical Monthly 112: 572-573, 2005)] [Software]

  • NA Rosenberg, AE Hirsh (2003) On the use of star-shaped genealogies in inference of coalescence times. Genetics 164: 1677-1682. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, JK Pritchard, JL Weber, HM Cann, KK Kidd, LA Zhivotovsky, MW Feldman (2003) Response to comment on "Genetic structure of human populations." Science 300: 1877. [Abstract] [PDF] [Data]

  • LA Zhivotovsky, NA Rosenberg, MW Feldman (2003) Features of evolution and expansion of modern humans, inferred from genomewide microsatellite markers. American Journal of Human Genetics 72: 1171-1186. [Abstract] [PDF] [Data]

  • NA Rosenberg, JK Pritchard, JL Weber, HM Cann, KK Kidd, LA Zhivotovsky, MW Feldman (2002) Genetic structure of human populations. Science 298: 2381-2385. [Abstract] [Full Text at Science website] [PDF] [Supplement] [Data in Excel] [Data in structure and NEXUS formats] [Software for drawing figures] [Español]

  • NA Rosenberg, M Nordborg (2002) Genealogical trees, coalescent theory, and the analysis of genetic polymorphisms. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 380-390. [Abstract] [PDF] [article at NRG website (includes "bullet point" summary)]

  • NA Rosenberg, MW Feldman (2002) The relationship between coalescence times and population divergence times. Chapter 9 in M Slatkin and M Veuille, eds. Modern Developments in Theoretical Population Genetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 130-164. [Abstract] [PDF of final version]

  • NA Rosenberg, T Burke, K Elo, MW Feldman, P Friedlin, MAM Groenen, J Hillel, A Mäki-Tanila, M Tixier-Boichard, A Vignal, K Wimmers, S Weigend (2001) Empirical evaluation of genetic clustering methods using multilocus genotypes from 20 chicken breeds. Genetics 159: 699-713. [Abstract] [PDF] [Data] [Photo]

  • NA Rosenberg, E Woolf, JK Pritchard, T Schaap, D Gefel, I Shpirer, U Lavi, B Bonné-Tamir, J Hillel, MW Feldman (2001) Distinctive genetic signatures in the Libyan Jews. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98: 858-863. [Abstract] [PDF] [Data]

  • L Jin , ML Baskett, LL Cavalli-Sforza, LA Zhivotovsky, MW Feldman, NA Rosenberg (2000) Microsatellite evolution in modern humans: a comparison of two data sets from the same populations. Annals of Human Genetics 64: 117-134. [Abstract] [PDF] [Data]
The relationship of human population genetics to the search for disease-susceptibility genes

  • EM Jewett*, M Zawistowski*, NA Rosenberg, S Zöllner (2012) A coalescent model for genotype imputation. Genetics 191: 1239-1255. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • TJ Pemberton, D Absher, MW Feldman, RM Myers, NA Rosenberg, JZ Li (2012) Genomic patterns of homozygosity in worldwide human populations. American Journal of Human Genetics 91: 275-292. [Abstract] [PDF] [Main Supplement] [Supplementary Table 2 (.zip)] [Supplementary Table 3 (.zip)] [Supplementary Table 4 (.zip)] [Supplementary Table 5 (.zip)]

  • FA San Lucas, NA Rosenberg, P Scheet (2012) Haploscope: a tool for the graphical display of haplotype structure in populations. Genetic Epidemiology 35: 17-21. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • L Huang*, M Jakobsson*, TJ Pemberton, M Ibrahim, T Nyambo, S Omar, JK Pritchard, SA Tishkoff, NA Rosenberg (2011) Haplotype variation and genotype imputation in African populations. Genetic Epidemiology 35: 766-780. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • E Borràs*, M Pineda*, I Blanco, EM Jewett, F Wang, A Teulé, T Caldés, M Urioste, C Martínez-Bouzas, J Brunet, J Balmaña, A Torres, T Ramón y Cajal, J Sanz, L Pérez-Cabornero, S Castellví-Bel, A Alonso, A Lanas, S González, V Moreno, SB Gruber, NA Rosenberg, B Mukherjee, C Lázaro, G Capellá (2010) MLH1 founder mutations with moderate penetrance in Spanish Lynch syndrome families. Cancer Research 70: 7379-7391. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure 1] [Supplementary Table 1] [Supplementary Table 2] [Supplementary Methods]

  • NA Rosenberg, L Huang*, EM Jewett*, ZA Szpiech*, I Jankovic*, M Boehnke (2010) Genome-wide association studies in diverse populations. Nature Reviews Genetics 11: 356-366. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • L Huang, C Wang, NA Rosenberg (2009) The relationship between imputation error and statistical power in genetic association studies in diverse populations. American Journal of Human Genetics 85: 692-698. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • NA Rosenberg, JM VanLiere (2009) Replication of genetic associations as pseudoreplication due to shared genealogy. Genetic Epidemiology 33: 479-487. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • L Huang, Y Li, AB Singleton, JA Hardy, G Abecasis, NA Rosenberg, P Scheet (2009) Genotype-imputation accuracy across worldwide human populations. American Journal of Human Genetics 84: 235-250. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement]

  • TJ Pemberton*, M Jakobsson*, DF Conrad, G Coop, JD Wall, JK Pritchard, PI Patel, NA Rosenberg (2008) Using population mixtures to optimize the utility of genomic databases: linkage disequilibrium and association study design in India. Annals of Human Genetics 72: 535-546. [Abstract] [PDF] [Data]

  • M Jakobsson*, SW Scholz*, P Scheet*, JR Gibbs, JM VanLiere, H-C Fung, ZA Szpiech, JH Degnan, K Wang, R Guerreiro, JM Bras, JC Schymick, DG Hernandez, BJ Traynor, J Simon-Sanchez, M Matarin, A Britton, J van de Leemput, I Rafferty, M Bucan, HM Cann, JA Hardy, NA Rosenberg, AB Singleton (2008) Genotype, haplotype and copy-number variation in worldwide human populations. Nature 451: 998-1003. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • DF Conrad*, M Jakobsson*, G Coop*, X Wen, JD Wall, NA Rosenberg, JK Pritchard (2006) A worldwide survey of haplotype variation and linkage disequilibrium in the human genome. Nature Genetics 38: 1251-1260. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement (methods, note, and figures] [Supplementary Table 1] [Data]

  • NA Rosenberg, M Nordborg (2006) A general population-genetic model for the production by population structure of spurious genotype-phenotype associations in discrete, admixed or spatially distributed populations. Genetics 173: 1665-1678. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • NA Rosenberg, LM Li, R Ward, JK Pritchard (2003) Informativeness of genetic markers for inference of ancestry. American Journal of Human Genetics 73: 1402-1422. [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplement] [Microsatellite data] [SNP data] [SNP data readme] [Solution to Problem 11039 required in appendix of paper (American Mathematical Monthly 112: 572-573, 2005)] [Software]

  • NA Rosenberg, JK Pritchard, JL Weber, HM Cann, KK Kidd, LA Zhivotovsky, MW Feldman (2002) Genetic structure of human populations. Science 298: 2381-2385. [Abstract] [Full Text at Science website] [PDF] [Supplement] [Data in Excel] [Data in structure and NEXUS formats] [Software for drawing figures] [Español]

  • JK Pritchard, M Stephens, NA Rosenberg, P Donnelly (2000) Association mapping in structured populations. American Journal of Human Genetics 67: 170-181. [Abstract] [PDF]

  • JK Pritchard, NA Rosenberg (1999) Use of unlinked genetic markers to detect population stratification in association studies. American Journal of Human Genetics 65: 220-228. [Abstract] [PDF]