Voight Lab

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We have created extensive scholarship around method development and analysis of genetic data in humans, the central focus of my lab.

My roots began in population genetics, aiming to understand how the genome reveals details of our evolutionary history. Today, we are very are active in the development of methods in population genomics, which include characterization of mutation rates and studies of natural selection in human populations.

We are actively interested in the genetic dissection of complex traits. The statistical pipelines that we have developed and applied over my career have resulting in discovery of thousands of loci for complex traits, focused on type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and liver disease. This also include mapping of genetic variation associated with molecular phenotypes (eQTLs, sQTLs, caQTLs, etc.) using bulk tissue, cell model, and even single-cell resources in tissues relevant to these endpoints (e.g., pancreas).

We also have an active interest in the application of Mendelian randomization (MR) to evaluate causal hypotheses between biomarkers and cardiometabolic endpoints, including most famously rejecting a protective role for HDL Cholesterol in heart disease.

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Patterns of shared signatures of recent positive selection across human populations
Patterns of shared signatures of recent positive selection across human populations
Kelsey Elizabeth Johnson, Benjamin F. Voight
Nature Ecology & Evolution   ·   19 Feb 2018   ·   doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0478-6

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Detecting Long-Term Balancing Selection Using Allele Frequency Correlation
Detecting Long-Term Balancing Selection Using Allele Frequency Correlation
Katherine M. Siewert, Benjamin F. Voight
Molecular Biology and Evolution   ·   21 Jul 2017   ·   doi:10.1093/molbev/msx209
Detecting Long-term Balancing Selection using Allele Frequency Correlation
Detecting Long-term Balancing Selection using Allele Frequency Correlation
Katherine M. Siewert, Benjamin F. Voight
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory   ·   01 Mar 2017   ·   doi:10.1101/112870
Patterns of shared signatures of recent positive selection across human populations
Patterns of shared signatures of recent positive selection across human populations
Kelsey Elizabeth Johnson, Benjamin F. Voight
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory   ·   17 Feb 2017   ·   doi:10.1101/109371

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From Mouse to Human: Evolutionary Genomics Analysis of Human Orthologs of Essential Genes
From Mouse to Human: Evolutionary Genomics Analysis of Human Orthologs of Essential Genes
Benjamin Georgi, Benjamin F. Voight, Maja Bućan
PLoS Genetics   ·   09 May 2013   ·   doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003484

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Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe
Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe
Sarah A Tishkoff, Floyd A Reed, Alessia Ranciaro, Benjamin F Voight, Courtney C Babbitt, ..., Jilur Ghori, Suzannah Bumpstead, Jonathan K Pritchard, Gregory A Wray, Panos Deloukas
Nature Genetics   ·   10 Dec 2006   ·   doi:10.1038/ng1946
A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome
A Map of Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome
Benjamin F Voight, Sridhar Kudaravalli, Xiaoquan Wen, Jonathan K Pritchard
PLoS Biology   ·   07 Mar 2006   ·   doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040072

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