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Harvard Medical School: Boston, MA, US

Senior Staff Scientist
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Ali Akbari

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University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, US

2013 to 2018 | PhD
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Ali Akbari

Sharif University of Technology: Tehran, IR

2008 to 2013 | BSc
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Ali Akbari

Works (12)

Pervasive findings of directional selection realize the promise of ancient DNA to elucidate human adaptation

2024-09-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.14.613021
Contributors: Ali Akbari; Alison R. Barton; Steven Gazal; Zheng Li; Mohammadreza Kariminejad; Annabel Perry; Yating Zeng; Alissa Mittnik; Nick Patterson; Matthew Mah et al.
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The genetic legacy of African Americans from Catoctin Furnace

Science
2023-08-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.ade4995
Contributors: Éadaoin Harney; Steven Micheletti; Karin S. Bruwelheide; William A. Freyman; Katarzyna Bryc; Ali Akbari; Ethan Jewett; Elizabeth Comer; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Linda Heywood et al.
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ancIBD - Screening for identity by descent segments in human ancient DNA

2023-03-09 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.08.531671
Contributors: Harald Ringbauer; Yilei Huang; Ali Akbari; Swapan Mallick; Nick Patterson; David Reich
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A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes

Science
2022-02-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.abi8264
Contributors: Anthony Wilder Wohns; Yan Wong; Ben Jeffery; Ali Akbari; Swapan Mallick; Ron Pinhasi; Nick Patterson; David Reich; Jerome Kelleher; Gil McVean
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A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes

2021-02-17 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.16.431497
Contributors: Anthony Wilder Wohns; Yan Wong; Ben Jeffery; Ali Akbari; Swapan Mallick; Ron Pinhasi; Nick Patterson; David Reich; Jerome Kelleher; Gil McVean
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No statistical evidence for an effect of CCR5-∆32 on lifespan in the UK Biobank cohort

Nature Medicine
2020-02-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-019-0710-1
Contributors: Robert Maier; Ali Akbari; Xinzhu Wei; Nick Patterson; Rasmus Nielsen; David Reich
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No statistical evidence for an effect of CCR5-∆32 on lifespan in the UK Biobank cohort

2019-10-02 | Other
DOI: 10.1101/787986
Contributors: Robert Maier; Ali Akbari; Xinzhu Wei; Nick Patterson; Rasmus Nielsen; David Reich
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Identifying the favored mutation in a positive selective sweep

Nature Methods
2018-04-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.4606
Contributors: Ali Akbari; Joseph J Vitti; Arya Iranmehr; Mehrdad Bakhtiari; Pardis C Sabeti; Siavash Mirarab; Vineet Bafna
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Clear: Composition of Likelihoods for Evolve and Resequence Experiments

Genetics
2017-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.197566
Contributors: Arya Iranmehr; Ali Akbari; Christian Schlötterer; Vineet Bafna
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Fine-mapping the Favored Mutation in a Positive Selective Sweep

2017-06-02 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/139055
Contributors: Ali Akbari; Joseph J. Vitti; Arya Iranmehr; Mehrdad Bakhtiari; Pardis C. Sabeti; Siavash Mirarab; Vineet Bafna
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Clear: Composition of Likelihoods for Evolve And Resequence Experiments

2016-10-10 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/080085
Contributors: Arya Iranmehr; Ali Akbari; Christian Schlötterer; Vineet Bafna
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Predicting Carriers of Ongoing Selective Sweeps Without Knowledge of the Favored Allele

2015-04-10 | Report
DOI: 10.1101/017871
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