Thank you!!

The Supreme Court’s ruling that “conversion therapy” cannot be banned does not change the fact that the literature overwhelmingly shows that sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts cause serious, lasting harm to individuals exposed to such efforts.

Thank you to everyone who supported this work, particularly the amazing members of the Capra Lab, as the Reviewers, whose feedback greatly improved our manuscript ✨. So excited to share this work in MBE! Maps are publicly available (and lifted over to hg38/T2T) here: github.com/yaenchen/Nea... (3/3)

However, we also observed differences in amounts of introgression observed in desert regions, agreement between maps at the individual-level (particularly for genomes from Africa), and downstream phenotypic enrichments. (2/3)

Our paper is out! We compared introgression maps, both across populations and at the individual level. Some consistencies were observed across maps: A core set of genomic regions, lower background selection in introgressed regions, and some phenotypes were enriched across multiple maps. (1/3)

Portrait of Brenna Henn next to an open freezer of samples.

Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings.

insanity.

Evaluating the effects of archaic protein-altering variants in living human adults Promise and pitfalls of using large biobanks to study impacts of archaic protein-coding variants in living humans.

How did DNA changes that alter protein structures impact evolution on the branch that led to modern humans? As we demonstrate today in Science Advances, biobanking initiatives offer ways to directly assess biological effects of rare archaic variants in living people, & (re)evaluate their roles. 🧬🧪

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Hi Bluesky! I’m excited to connect with everyone 🤗. Yesterday, I gave a talk at the Bay Area Population Genomics conference at Stanford, and it was great to connect with the popgen community here. So thankful for these opportunities to share my work!