Dietary adaptation of FADS genes in Europe  varied across time and geography

(Implemented in a direct-to-consumer product by Insitome and Helix; a related blog post; a related podcast, starting at 11:30)

(Cornell Chronicle, EurekAlert, Nutrition Insight, The Sydney Morning Herald, Phys.org, MedicalResearch.com, The Archaeology News Network, Gene Expression)

Clustered mutations in hominid genome evolution are consistent with APOBEC3G enzymatic activity

(Science, Cornell Chronicle, genomeweb, EurekAlert, MedicalXpress, ScienceDaily, Phys.org, (e) Science News, HNGN, Silicon Republic, Heritage Daily, Scicasts, Archaeology News Network, Tech Times, NIGMS)

Positive selection on a regulatory insertion-deletion polymorphism in FADS2 influences apparent endogenous synthesis of arachidonic acid 

(MBE press release, Cornell Chronicle, Motherboard, The Washington Post, ScienceDaily, ResearchGate, Discovery, The Metro, The Independent, Wired UK, National Post, redorbit, The Hindu, DNA India, Nutrition Wonk, Star Tribune, This Week in Science, genomeweb, The Denver Post, Health News Review, KQED Science, Food Insight, Le Monde in French, wochit News, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, The Cornell Daily Sun, BIOTECH PRESS, TECH Insider, CBS News)

The Genetics of Bene Israel from India Reveals Both Substantial Jewish and Indian Ancestry

(Newsgram, genomeweb, Ha'aretz cover story in Hebrew and in English, ScienceDaily, The New York Jewish Week)

Extensive pathogenicity of mitochondrial heteroplasmy in healthy human individuals

(AJHG, CornellChronicle, LA times, PNAS,)

Coverage of ASHG 2014 session on X-chromosome chaired by Alon Keinan & Melissa Wilson-Syres

(@genestogenomes.org & in Meeting report by Novembre et al. published Genome Biology )

Neutral genomic regions refine models of recent rapid human population growth 

(GenomeWeb -Free registration required)

Population Growth Inflates the Per-Individual Number of Deleterious Mutations and Reduces Their Mean Effect 

(Cornell Chronicle)

Genome-wide inference of natural selection on human transcription factor binding sites 

(Nature Genetics; 3CPG, Cornell Chronicle, ScienceDaily,)

Recent explosive human population growth has resulted in an excess of rare genetic variants 

(Nature; ScienceNews; AJHG; Cornell Chronicle; Discover Magazine 100 top stories of 2012;GenomeWeb; arstechnica; )

Contrasting patterns of human genetic variation between chromsome X and the autosomes: 2011 edition

(Science Magazine; Discover Magazine)

Contrasting patterns of human genetic variation between chromsome X and the autosomes

(Nature Genetics News and Views, ScienceDaily, Current Biology, Discover Magazine, New Scientist, TheScientist)

HapMap3

(NIH News; ScienceDaily; Broad Institute; Sanger Institute; GenomeWeb,)

Ellison Medical Foundation Award

(Ellison Foundation)

Cornell plays key role in developing most detailed map of human DNA variation 

(Cornell Chronicle)

General Research

"The Scientist: Alon Keinan" (Cornell Daily Sun)

Sloan Research Fellowship  (Cornell Chronicle)