Publications

2018

• Evidence that RNA viruses drove adaptive introgression between Neanderthals and modern humans. David Enard and Dmitri Petrov. Accepted at Cell, scheduled for October 4^th issue.

2017

• High rate of adaptation of mammalian proteins that interact with Plasmodium and related parasites. Ebel ER, Telis N, Venkataram S, Petrov DA, Enard D. PLoS Genetics.

2016

• Comorbid Analysis of Genes Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders Reveals Differential Evolutionary Constraints. David MM, Enard D, Ozturk A, Daniels J, Jung JY, Diaz-Beltran L, Wall DP. PLoS One.
•  An Intrinsically Disordered Region of the DNA Repair Protein Nbs1 Is a Species-Specific Barrier to Herpes Simplex Virus 1 in Primates. Lou DI, Kim ET, Meyerson NR, Pancholi NJ, Mohni KN, Enard D, Petrov DA, Weller SK, Weitzman MD, Sawyer SL. Cell Host Microbe.
• Viruses are a dominant driver of protein adaptation in mammals. Enard D, Cai L, Gwennap C, Petrov DA. Elife.

2014

• Exploring the occurrence of classic selective sweeps in humans using whole-genome sequencing data sets. Fagny M, Patin E, Enard D, Barreiro LB, Quintana-Murci L, Laval G. Mol Biol Evol.
• Genome-wide signals of positive selection in human evolution. Enard D, Messer PW, Petrov DA. Genome Research.