A worldwide correlation of lactase persistence phenotype and genotypes (2010)
Itan, Yuval, Jones, Bryony L, Ingram, Catherine JE, Swallow, Dallas M, Thomas, Mark G
Abstract Background The ability of adult humans to digest the milk sugar lactose - lactase persistence - is a dominant Mendelian trait that has been a subject of extensive genetic, medical and...
Bolland, Mark J, Grey, Andrew, Horne, Anne M, Thomas, Mark G
Abstract Introduction People infected with human immunodeficiency virus are frequently treated with medications that can induce or inhibit cytochrome P450 enzymes. Case presentation A 59 year old man...
Valdiosera, Cristina E., García-Garitagoitia, José Luis, Garcia, Nuria, Doadrio, Ignacio, Thomas, Mark G., Hänni, Catherine, ...
Bowden, Georgina R., Balaresque, Patricia, King, Turi E., Hansen, Ziff, Lee, Andrew C., Pergl-Wilson, Giles, ...
The genetic structures of past human populations are obscured by recent migrations and expansions and have been observed only indirectly by inference from modern samples. However, the unique link...
Molecular and morphological evidence on the phylogeny of the Elephantidae (2007)
Mark G. Thomas, Erika Hagelberg, Hywel B. Jones, Ziheng Yang, Adrian M. Lister
The African and Asian elephants and the mammoth diverged ca. 4^6 million years ago and their phylogenetic relationship has been controversial. Morphological studies have suggested a mammoth^Asian...
Bowden, Georgina R., Balaresque, Patricia L., King, Turi E., Hansen, Ziff, Lee, Andrew C., Pergl-Wilson, Giles, ...
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted...
Valdiosera, Cristina E., García, Nuria, Anderung, Cecilia, Dalén, Love, Crégut-Bonnoure, Evelyne, Kahlke, Ralf-Dietrich, ...
A new time-scale for ray-finned fish evolution., Proc Biol Sci 274 (2007)
Imogen A. Hurley, Rachel Lockridge Mueller, Katherine A. Dunn, Eric J. Schmidt, Matt Friedman, Robert K. Ho, ...
The Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) is the largest and most diverse vertebrate group, but little is agreed about the timing of its early evolution. Estimates using mitochondrial genomic data...
Bortolini,Maria Cátira, Thomas,Mark G., Chikhi,Lourdes, Aguilar,Juan A., Castro-De-Guerra,Dinorah, Salzano,Francisco M., ...
Four biallelic and six multiallelic Y-chromosome polymorphisms were investigated in 59 Gran Canarian, 60 North African Berber and 46 Spanish subjects. These new data were merged with equivalent...
Y Chromosome Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Mass Migration (2002)
Weale, Michael E., Weiss, Deborah A., Jager, Rolf F., Bradman, Neil, Thomas, Mark G.
British history contains several periods of major cultural change. It remains controversial as to how much these periods coincided with substantial immigration from continental Europe, even for those...
Population genetic structure of variable drug response (2001)
James F. Wilson, Michael E. Weale, Alice C. Smith, Fiona Gratrix, Benjamin Fletcher, Mark G. Thomas, ...
A method for avoiding mis-priming when sequencing with Dynabeads (1994)
Thomas, Mark G., Miller, Kevin W.P., Cook, Charles E., Hagelberg, Erika
Sequencing of cDNA using anchored oligo dT primers (1993)
Thomas, Mark G., Hesse, Sarah A., McKie, Andrew T., Farzaneh, Farzin
Thomas, Mark G., Lang, Selwyn D. R.
The in-vitro activity of coumermycin was compared with that of vancomycin, rifampicin, fusidic acid, trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole, norfloxacin and cefamandole against seven isolates of...
Wilson, James F., Weiss, Deborah A., Richards, Martin, Thomas, Mark G., Bradman, Neil, Goldstein, David B.
Human history is punctuated by periods of rapid cultural change. Although archeologists have developed a range of models to describe cultural transitions, in most real examples we do not know whether...
Thomas, Mark G., Parfitt, Tudor, Weiss, Deborah A., Skorecki, Karl, Wilson, James F., Le Roux, Magdel, ...
The Lemba are a traditionally endogamous group speaking a variety of Bantu languages who live in a number of locations in southern Africa. They claim descent from Jews who came to Africa from...
Rare deep-rooting Y chromosome lineages in humans: lessons for phylogeography.
Weale, Michael E, Shah, Tina, Jones, Abigail L, Greenhalgh, John, Wilson, James F, Nymadawa, Pagbajabyn, ...
There has been considerable debate on the geographic origin of the human Y chromosome Alu polymorphism (YAP). Here we report a new, very rare deep-rooting haplogroup within the YAP clade, together...
Wilson, James F., Weiss, Deborah A., Richards, Martin, Thomas, Mark G., Bradman, Neil, Goldstein, David B.
Human history is punctuated by periods of rapid cultural change. Although archeologists have developed a range of models to describe cultural transitions, in most real examples we do not know whether...
Thomas, Mark G., Weale, Michael E., Jones, Abigail L., Richards, Martin, Smith, Alice, Redhead, Nicola, ...
We have analyzed the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA from each of nine geographically separated Jewish groups, eight non-Jewish host populations, and an Israeli Arab/Palestinian population,...
Behar, Doron M., Thomas, Mark G., Skorecki, Karl, Hammer, Michael F., Bulygina, Ekaterina, Rosengarten, Dror, ...
Previous Y chromosome studies have shown that the Cohanim, a paternally inherited Jewish priestly caste, predominantly share a recent common ancestry irrespective of the geographically defined...
Y-Chromosome Evidence for Differing Ancient Demographic Histories in the Americas
Bortolini, Maria-Catira, Salzano, Francisco M., Thomas, Mark G., Stuart, Steven, Nasanen, Selja P. K., Bau, Claiton H. D., ...
To scrutinize the male ancestry of extant Native American populations, we examined eight biallelic and six microsatellite polymorphisms from the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome, in 438...
Mulcare, Charlotte A., Weale, Michael E., Jones, Abigail L., Connell, Bruce, Zeitlyn, David, Tarekegn, Ayele, ...
The ability to digest the milk sugar lactose as an adult (lactase persistence) is a variable genetic trait in human populations. The lactase-persistence phenotype is found at low frequencies in the...
Thomas, Mark G., Parfitt, Tudor, Weiss, Deborah A., Skorecki, Karl, Wilson, James F., Le Roux, Magdel, ...
The Lemba are a traditionally endogamous group speaking a variety of Bantu languages who live in a number of locations in southern Africa. They claim descent from Jews who came to Africa from...
Rare deep-rooting Y chromosome lineages in humans: lessons for phylogeography.
Weale, Michael E, Shah, Tina, Jones, Abigail L, Greenhalgh, John, Wilson, James F, Nymadawa, Pagbajabyn, ...
There has been considerable debate on the geographic origin of the human Y chromosome Alu polymorphism (YAP). Here we report a new, very rare deep-rooting haplogroup within the YAP clade, together...
Evaluating bacterial pathogen DNA preservation in museum osteological collections
Reports of bacterial pathogen DNA sequences obtained from archaeological bone specimens raise the possibility of greatly improving our understanding of the history of infectious diseases. However,...
Evidence for an apartheid-like social structure in early Anglo-Saxon England
Thomas, Mark G, Stumpf, Michael P.H, Härke, Heinrich
The role of migration in the Anglo-Saxon transition in England remains controversial. Archaeological and historical evidence is inconclusive, but current estimates of the contribution of migrants to...
A new time-scale for ray-finned fish evolution
Hurley, Imogen A, Mueller, Rachel Lockridge, Dunn, Katherine A, Schmidt, Eric J, Friedman, Matt, Ho, Robert K, ...
The Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) is the largest and most diverse vertebrate group, but little is agreed about the timing of its early evolution. Estimates using mitochondrial genomic data...
Edwards, Ceiridwen J, Bollongino, Ruth, Scheu, Amelie, Chamberlain, Andrew, Tresset, Anne, Vigne, Jean-Denis, ...
The extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius primigenius) was a large type of cattle that ranged over almost the whole Eurasian continent. The aurochs is the wild progenitor of modern cattle, but it is...
Surprising migration and population size dynamics in ancient Iberian brown bears (Ursus arctos)
Valdiosera, Cristina E., García-Garitagoitia, José Luis, Garcia, Nuria, Doadrio, Ignacio, Thomas, Mark G., Hänni, Catherine, ...
The endangered brown bear populations (Ursus arctos) in Iberia have been suggested to be the last fragments of the brown bear population that served as recolonization stock for large parts of Europe...
The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe
Itan, Yuval, Powell, Adam, Beaumont, Mark A., Burger, Joachim, Thomas, Mark G.
Lactase persistence (LP) is common among people of European ancestry, but with the exception of some African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian groups, is rare or absent elsewhere in the world....