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Gene duplications:
7. Thornton, K.R. (2007) The neutral
coalescent process for recent gene duplications and
copy-number variants. Genetics 177: 987-1000
6. Gary M. Wilson, Stephane Flibotte, Perseus I. Missirlis,
Marco A. Marra, Steven Jones, Kevin
Thornton, Andrew G. Clark, and Robert A. Holt
(2006) Identification by full-coverage array CGH of human
DNA copy number increases relative to chimpanzee and
gorilla. Genome Research 16: 173-181
5. Thornton, K. and M. Long (2005) Excess
of amino acid substitutions relative to polymorphism
between X-linked duplications in Drosophila
melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution
22:273-284
4. Long, M., E. Betran, K. Thornton, and
W. Wang (2003) The origin of new genes: glimpses from the
youg and old. Nature Reviews Genetics 4:865-875
3. Betran, E., K. Thornton, and M. Long
(2002) Retroposed new genes out of the X in
Drosophila. Genome Research 12: 1854-1859.
2. Thornton, K. and M. Long (2002) Rapid
Divergence of Gene Duplicates on the Drosophila
melanogaster X chromosome. Molecular Biology and
Evolution 19:918-925.
1. Long, M. and K. Thornton. (2001)
Techincal Comment: Gene Duplication and Evolution. Science
2001 August 31; 293: 1551a.
Drosophila population
genetics:
5. Thornton, K.R. and P. Andolfatto (2006)
Approximate Bayesian Inference reveals evidence for a
recent, severe, bottleneck in a Netherlands population of
Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 172:
1607-1619
4. Bachtrog, D., K. Thornton, A. Clark,
and P. Andolfatto (2006) Extensive introgression of
mitochondrial DNA relative to nuclear genes in the
Drosophila yakuba species group.
Evolution 60: 292-302
3. Haddrill, P., K.R. Thornton, B.
Charlesworth, and P. Andolfatto. (2005) Multilocus patterns
of nucleotide variability and the demographic and selection
history of Drosophila melanogaster
populations. Genome Research 15: 790-799
2. Wang, W., K. Thornton, J.J. Emerson, M.
Long (2004) Nucleotide variation and recombination along
the fourth chromosome in Drosophila
simulans. Genetics 166: 1783-1794 (Wang and
Thornton contributed equally to this work)
1. Wang, W., K. Thornton, A. Berry and M.
Long (2002) Nucleotide variation along the
Drosophila melanogaster fourth
chromosome. Science 295: 134-137.
Human population genetics:
1. Tang, K., K. R. Thornton, and M.
Stoneking (2007) A new approach for using genome scans to
detect recent positive selection in the human genome. PLoS
Biology, 5: e171
General population genetics:
4. Jensen, J. D., K. R. Thornton, C. D.
Bustamante, and C. F. Aquadro (2007). On the utility of
linkage disequilibrium as a statistic for identifying
targets of positive selection in non-equilibrium
populations. Genetics 176: 2371-2379.
3. Thornton, K. R., J. D. Jensen, C.
Becquet, and P. Andolfatto (2007) Progress and prospects in
mapping recent selection in the genome. Heredity 98:
340-348
2. Thornton, K. R. and J. D. Jensen (2007)
Controlling the false positive rate in multilocus genome
scans for selection. Genetics 175: 737-750.
1. Thornton, K. (2005) Recombination and
the properties of Tajima's D in the context of approximate
likelihood calculation. Genetics 171: 2143-2148
Comparative genomics of
Drosophila:
2. Thornton, K., D. Bachtrog, and P.
Andolfatto (2006) X chromosomes and autosomes evolve at
similar rates in Drosophila: No evidence for
faster-X protein evolution. Genome Research 16: 498-504.
1. Richards, S., Y. Liu, B. R. Bettencourt., P. Hradecky,
S. Letovsky, R. Nielsen., K. Thornton, and
43 coauthors. (2005) Comparative genome sequencing of
Drosophila pseudoobscura: Chromosomal,
gene, and cis-elelement evolution. Genome Research 15:1-18
Software development:
1. Thornton, K. (2003) libsequence: a C++ class
library for evolutionary genetic analysis.
Bioinformatics 19(17): 2325-2327