Faculty

Arun Durvasula

Arun Durvasula

Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Genetic Epidemiology
1845 N. Soto Street Health Sciences Campus Los Angeles

: ASHG Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research Semi-finalist, 2023

: Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award, 2021

: National Science Foundation Graduate Student Fellowship, 2018-2021

Accurate inference of population history in the presence of background selection bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 20. . View in PubMed

Pervasive correlations between causal disease effects of proximal SNPs vary with functional annotations and implicate stabilizing selection Res Sq. 2023 Dec 15. . View in PubMed

Pervasive correlations between causal disease effects of proximal SNPs vary with functional annotations and implicate stabilizing selection medRxiv. 2023 Dec 04. . View in PubMed

Age-dependent topic modeling of comorbidities in UK Biobank identifies disease subtypes with differential genetic risk Nat Genet. 2023 Nov; 55(11):1854-1865. . View in PubMed

Distinct explanations underlie gene-environment interactions in the UK Biobank medRxiv. 2023 Sep 23. . View in PubMed

The Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) Consortium ArXiv. 2023 Jul 24. . View in PubMed

The lingering effects of Neanderthal introgression on human complex traits Elife. 2023 03 20; 12. . View in PubMed

MaLAdapt Reveals Novel Targets of Adaptive Introgression From Neanderthals and Denisovans in Worldwide Human Populations Mol Biol Evol. 2023 01 04; 40(1). . View in PubMed

Advancing admixture graph estimation via maximum likelihood network orientation Bioinformatics. 2021 07 12; 37(Suppl_1):i142-i150. . View in PubMed

Ancient balancing selection maintains incompatible versions of the galactose pathway in yeast Science. 2021 01 22; 371(6527):415-419. . View in PubMed

Negative selection on complex traits limits phenotype prediction accuracy between populations Am J Hum Genet. 2021 04 01; 108(4):620-631. . View in PubMed

Recovering signals of ghost archaic introgression in African populations Sci Adv. 2020 02; 6(7):eaax5097. . View in PubMed

A community-maintained standard library of population genetic models Elife. 2020 06 23; 9. . View in PubMed

A statistical model for reference-free inference of archaic local ancestry PLoS Genet. 2019 05; 15(5):e1008175. . View in PubMed

Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes Science. 2018 May 11; 360(6389):656-660. . View in PubMed

Gene expression drives the evolution of dominance Nat Commun. 2018 07 16; 9(1):2750. . View in PubMed

Natural Selection and Origin of a Melanistic Allele in North American Gray Wolves Mol Biol Evol. 2018 05 01; 35(5):1190-1209. . View in PubMed

African genomes illuminate the early history and transition to selfing in Arabidopsis thaliana Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 05 16; 114(20):5213-5218. . View in PubMed

angsd-wrapper: utilities for analysing next-generation sequencing data Mol Ecol Resour. 2016 Nov; 16(6):1449-1454. . View in PubMed

Recent demography drives changes in linked selection across the maize genome Nat Plants. 2016 06 13; 2:16084. . View in PubMed

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