Alon Keinan Assistant Professor Biological Statistics & Computational Biology Cornell University Full CV
News:
Three postdoctoral positions with Andrew Clark and Alon Keinan in human population genomics and resequencing-based genome-wide association studies
Where is Alon (2009)
Aug 10: relocating to Ithaca, NY
Oct 19 - Oct 24: Honolulu, HI (ASHG )
Nov 6 - Nov 8: New York, NY
Research Interests
My research focuses on how human genetic variation has arisen from evolutionary history,
with the goal of bringing this population genetics perspective to medical genetics.
My background in computer science and statistics allows me to develop theoretical tools and apply them to large-scale genomic data sets,
bridging theoretical population genetics and empirical studies.
A. Keinan , J. C. Mullikin, N. Patterson, and D. Reich.
Accelerated genetic drift on chromosome X during the human dispersal out of Africa.
Nature Genetics, 41, 66-70 (2009). (News and Views ; Supplementary information ; Data )
F. Yu, A. Keinan , H. Chen, R. J. Ferland, R. S. Hill, A. A. Mignault, C. A. Walsh, and D. Reich.
Detecting natural selection by empirical comparison to random regions of the genome.
Human Molecular Genetics, 18, 4853-67 (2009). (Supplemental Data )
A. Keinan , J. C. Mullikin, N. Patterson, and D.
Reich. Measurement
of the human allele frequency spectrum demonstrates greater genetic drift in
East Asians than in Europeans. Nature Genetics, 39, 1251-5 (2007). (Supplementary
information ; Data )
G. Ayodo, A. L. Price, A. Keinan , A. Ajwang, M. F. Otieno, A. S. S.
Orago, N. Patterson, and D. Reich. Combining evidence of
natural selection with association analysis increases power to detect
Malaria-resistance variants. American Journal of Human Genetics, 81,
234-242 (2007).
A. Keinan , B. Sandbank, C. C. Hilgetag, I. Meilijson, and E. Ruppin. Axiomatic scalable
neurocontroller analysis via the Shapley value. Artificial Life, 12(3),
333-352 (2006).
A. Kaufman*, A. Keinan *, I. Meilijson, M. Kupiec, and E. Ruppin. (*equal
contribution) Quantitative
analysis of genetic and neuronal multi-perturbation experiments. PLoS
Computational Biology, 1(6), 500-506 (2005).
A. Keinan , B. Sandbank, C. C. Hilgetag, I. Meilijson, and E. Ruppin. Fair attribution of
functional contribution in artificial and biological networks. Neural
Computation, 16(9), 1887-1915 (2004).
Contact Info
Alon KeinanIthaca , NY
14853 Tel: (607) 254-1328Fax: (607) 255-4698Email: ak735@cornell.edu
Last update: Nov 2009
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