Many thanks to @jennytung.bsky.social, @afogel29.bsky.social, Jordan Anderson, and all the other members of the @amboselibaboonrp.bsky.social who made this work possible!

Together, our results suggest that the genetic architecture of DNA methylation is conserved between closely related species. Cis-genetic effects on gene regulation may remain stable for over a million years, which has implications for how we understand modern and archaic human variants.

We also show that ancestry effects within Amboseli recapitulates differences between the parent species. These results support a genetic basis for many interspecific methylation differences, despite environmental variation when individuals are sampled from distinct populations.

By changing the allele frequency, admixture introduces new regulatory variation - including at sites that would be otherwise fixed in the population!

Local genetic ancestry frequently predicts DNA methylation levels, and these differences can be predicted using the allele frequency at cis-acting genetic variants (meQTL).

Thank you!

There's some nice work on how the power of selection scans differs based on the time of selection. I can't remember where that figure was published though

Wahoo!!

Thanks Jun, I couldn't agree more!

Thank you!

Finally, I am immensely grateful to my mentors over the years (particularly @jennytung.bsky.social and Luis Barreiro), as well as all of the collaborators, lab members, and friends who have helped along this journey!

I will be recruiting students, postdocs, and technicians -- if you're interested in this work, please reach out to me!

My lab will study how genetic varation among primates shapes the response to environmental stimuli, focusing on the immune system. Ultimately, I hope to connect genetic variation to immune phenotypes and identify the ecological and evolutionary drivers of immune variation.