Arslan Zaidi
Postdoctoral Scholar
Interests
Education
Biography
I am interested in studying both the proximal (developmental) and ultimate (evolutionary) causes of human genetic variation. I am currently examining the transmission of mitochondrial heteroplasmies in families to understand the biological processes governing mitochondrial DNA inheritance in humans. When I’m not science-ing, I’m drawing or re-reading The Lord of the Rings.
Publications
AA Zaidi, KD Makova.
Investigating mitonuclear interactions in human admixed populations.
NAT ECOL EVOL,
2019.
D Ye, AA Zaidi, M Tomaszkiewicz, K Anthony, C Liebowitz, M DeGiorgio, MD Shriver, KD Makova.
High Levels of Copy Number Variation of Ampliconic Genes across Major Human Y Haplogroups.
GENOME BIOL EVOL,
2018.
PR Wilton, AA Zaidi, KD Makova, R Nielsen.
A Population Phylogenetic View of Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy.
GENETICS,
2018.