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Rasmus Nielsen

Professor of Computational Biology, Department of Integrative Biology and the Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley

Personal website

Interests

Genetics
Molecular evolution
Applied statistics

Education

Ph.D.,

University of California at Berkeley
M.S.,

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Biography

Rasmus focuses on the development and application of statistical and computational methods for analyzing genomic data in the context of evolutionary genetics, population genetics, and medical genetics.

Publications

A Barrett, B Arbeithuber, A Zaidi, P Wilton, IM Paul, R Nielsen, KD Makova. Pronounced somatic bottleneck in mitochondrial DNA of human hair. PHILOS T R SOC B, 2019.

Code Mitochondrial Paper Link

A Zaidi, P Wilton, MS-W Su, IM Paul, B Arbeithuber, K Anthony, A Nekrutenko, R Nielsen, KD Makova. Bottleneck and selection in the germline and maternal age influence transmission of mitochondrial DNA in human pedigrees. P NATL ACAD SCI USA, 2019.

Mitochondrial Paper Link

PR Wilton, AA Zaidi, KD Makova, R Nielsen. A Population Phylogenetic View of Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy. GENETICS, 2018.

Mitochondrial Paper Link

B Rebolledo-Jaramillo, MS-W Su, N Stoler, JA McElhoe, B Dickins, D Blankenberg, TS Korneliussen, F Chiaromonte, R Nielsen, MM Holland, IM Paul, A Nekrutenko, KD Makova. Maternal age effect and severe germ-line bottleneck in the inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA. P NATL ACAD SCI USA, 2014.

Mitochondrial Paper Link

RA Gibbs, J Rogers, MG Katze, R Bumgarner, GM Weinstock, ER Mardis, KA Remington, RL Strausberg, JC Venter, RK Wilson, MA Batzer, CD Bustamante, EE Eichler, MW Hahn, RC Hardison, KD Makova, W Miller, A Milosavljevic, RE Palermo, A Siepel, JM Sikela, T Attaway, S Bell, KE Bernard, CJ Buhay, MN Chandrabose, M Dao, C Davis, KD Delehaunty, Y Ding, HH Dinh, S Dugan-Rocha, LA Fulton, RA Gabisi, TT Garner, J Godfrey, AC Hawes, J Hernandez, S Hines, M Holder, J Hume, SN Jhangiani, V Joshi, ZM Khan, EF Kirkness, A Cree, RG Fowler, S Lee, LR Lewis, Z Li, Y-S Liu, SM Moore, DM Muzny, LV Nazareth, DN Ngo, GO Okwuonu, G Pai, D Parker, HA Paul, CM Pfannkoch, CS Pohl, Y-H Rogers, SJ Ruiz, A Sabo, J Santibanez, BW Schneider, SM Smith, EJ Sodergren, AF Svatek, TR Utterback, S Vattathil, W Warren, CS White, AT Chinwalla, Y Feng, AL Halpern, LW Hillier, X Huang, P Minx, JO Nelson, KH Pepin, X Qin, GG Sutton, E Venter, BP Walenz, JW Wallis, KC Worley, S-P Yang, SM Jones, MA Marra, M Rocchi, JE Schein, R Baertsch, L Clarke, M Csürös, J Glasscock, RA Harris, PH Havlak, AR Jackson, H Jiang, Y Liu, DN Messina, Y Shen, HX-Z Song, T Wylie, L Zhang, E Birney, K Han, MK Konkel, J Lee, AFA Smit, B Ullmer, H Wang, J Xing, RC Burhans, Z Cheng, JE Karro, J Ma, B Raney, X She, MJ Cox, JP Demuth, LJ Dumas, S-G Han, J Hopkins, A Karimpour-Fard, YH Kim, JR Pollack, T Vinar, C Addo-Quaye, J Degenhardt, A Denby, MJ Hubisz, A Indap, C Kosiol, BT Lahn, HA Lawson, A Marklein, R Nielsen, EJ Vallender, AG Clark, B Ferguson, RD Hernandez, K Hirani, H Kehrer-Sawatzki, J Kolb, S Patil, L-L Pu, Y Ren, DG Smith, DA Wheeler, I Schenck, EV Ball, R Chen, DN Cooper, B Giardine, F Hsu, WJ Kent, A Lesk, DL Nelson, WE O’Brien, K Prüfer, PD Stenson, JC Wallace, H Ke, X-M Liu, P Wang, AP Xiang, F Yang, GP Barber, D Haussler, D Karolchik, AD Kern, RM Kuhn, KE Smith, AS Zwieg. Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from the Rhesus Macaque Genome. SCIENCE, 2007.

Sex chromosome Paper Link