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Jack Kosmicki

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Statistical geneticist @ Regeneron | PhD @broadinstitute & @harvardmed | tweets are my own | he/him/his

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🤯 The black death killed 30-60% of Europe so it's reasonable to think it affected the allele frequency spectrum. Absolutely incredible nature paper using ancient DNA pre-post the black death to show positive selection of immune genes due to the plague (Fig2d-g).

🤯 The black death killed 30-60% of Europe so it's reasonable to think it affected the allele frequency spectrum. Absolutely incredible <a href="/Nature/">nature</a> paper using ancient DNA pre-post the black death to show positive selection of immune genes due to the plague (Fig2d-g).