Dr Fernando L Mendez

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Arizona

CURRENT STATUS AND INTERESTS

My current appointment is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Bustamante Lab at Stanford University.

My major interests are theoretical, statistical and methodological aspects of population genetics, especially as applied to humans. My main topic of interest is population admixture, with particular interest in archaic admixture and adaptation following admixture. I am also interested in the effects of natural selection in assessments of global genetic variation.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Mendez, F.L., Veeramah, K.R., Thomas, M.G., Karafet, T.M., Hammer, M.F. Reply to 'The 'extremely ancient' chromosome that isn't by Elhaik et al' . (2014) EJHG in press. Preliminary version, supp.mat(1), supp.mat(2), supp.mat(3)

Carbone, L., Harris, R.A., Gnerre, S., et al. Gibbon genome and the fast karyotype evolution of small apes. (2014) Nature 513:195-201.

Karafet, T.M., Mendez, F.L., Sudoyo, H., Lansing, J.S., Hammer, M.F. Improved phylogenetic resolution and rapid diversification of Y-chromosome haplogroup K-M526 in Southeast Asia. (2014) EJHG - advance online publication.

Mendez, F.L., , Krahn, T., Schrack, B., Krahn, A.-M., Veeramah, K.R., Woerner, A.E., Forka Leypey Mathew Fomine, Bradman, N., Thomas, M.G., Karafet, T.M., Hammer, M.F. An African American paternal lineage adds and extremely ancient root to the human Y chromosome phylogenetic tree . (2013) AJHG 92:454-459.

Mendez, F.L., Watkins, J.C., Hammer, M.F. Neandertal origin of genetic variation at the cluster of OAS immunity genes . (2013) Mol Biol Evol 30(4):798-801.

Mendez, F.L., Watkins, J.C., Hammer, M.F. A haplotype at STAT2 introgressed from Neandertals and serves as a candidate of positive selection in Papua New Guinea . (2012) AJHG 91:265-274.

Mendez, F.L., Watkins, J.C., Hammer, M.F. Global genetic variation at OAS1 provides evidence of archaic admixture in Melanesian populations . (2012) Mol Biol Evol 29(6):1513-1520. Supp.Mat.

Veeramah, K.R, Wegmann, D, Woerner, A, Mendez, F.L., Watkins, J, Destro-Bisol, G, Soodyall, H, Louie, L, Hammer, M.F. An early divergence of KhoeSan ancestors from those of other modern humans is supported by an ABC-based analysis of autosomal re-sequencing data. (2012) Mol Biol Evol 29(2):617-30 .

Hammer, M.F. Woerner, A.E., Mendez, F.L., Watkins, J.C., Wall, J.D. Genetic evidence for archaic admixture in Africa. (2011) PNAS 108(37):15123-7

Mendez, F.L. Karafet, T.K., Krahn, T., Ostrer, H., Soodyall, H., Hammer, M.F. Increased resolution of Y chromosome haplogroup T defines relationships among populations of the Near East, Europe, and Africa. (2011) Hum Biol.83(1):39-53 Supp. Mat.

Hammer, M.F., Woerner, A.E., Mendez, F.L., Watkins, J.C., Cox, M.P., Wall, J.D. The ratio of human X chromosome to autosome diversity is positively correlated with genetic distance from genes. (2010) Nat Genet 42(10):830-1

Hammer. M,F., Behar, D.M., Karafet, T.M., Mendez, F.L., Hallmark, B., Erez, T., Zhivotovsky, L.A., Rosset, S., Skorecki, K. Extended Y chromosome haplotypes resolve multiple and unique lineages of the Jewish priesthood. (2009) Hum Genet 126(5):707-17

Hammer, M.F., Mendez, F.L., Cox, M.P., Woerner, A.E., Wall, J.D. Sex-biased evolutionary forces shape genomic patterns of human diversity. (2008) PLoS Genet 4(9):e1000202

Wall, J.D., Cox, M.P., Mendez, F.L., Woerner, A., Severson, T., Hammer, M.F.A novel DNA sequence database for analyzing human demographic history. (2008) Genome Res 18(8):1354-61

Karafet, T.M., Mendez, F.L., Meilerman, M.B., Underhill, P.A., Zegura, S.L., Hammer, M.F. New binary polymorphisms reshape and increase resolution of the human Y chromosomal haplogroup tree. (2008) Genome Res 18(5):830-8

Cox, M.P., Mendez, F.L., Karafet, T.M., Pilkington, M.M., Kingan, S.B., Destro-Bisol, G., Strassmann, B.I., Hammer, M.F. Testing for archaic hominin admixture on the X chromosome: model likelihoods for the modern human RRM2P4 region from summaries of genealogical topology under the structured coalescent. (2008) Genetics 178(1):427-37

Pilkington, M.M., Wilder, J.A., Mendez, F.L., Cox, M.P., Woerner, A., Angui, T., Kingan, S., Mobasher, Z., Batini, C., Destro-Bisol, G., Soodyall, H., Strassmann, B.I., Hammer, M.F. Contrasting signatures of population growth for mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomes among human populations in Africa. (2008) Mol Biol Evol 25(3):517-25.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

TALKS

2^nd Cornell Probability Summer School, "Linear tests of the site frequency spectrum", Cornell, Ithaca, NY, June 2006

Young Investigators in Population Genetics , "Identifying the timing and strength of selection to test specific hypotheses in human evolution", University of Arizona (2008)