RESEARCH
We study how gene regulation has shaped human evolution, phenotypes and diseases
RESEARCH
Exploring the genetic changes that made us human
SELECTED PAPERS
Mishol N, Herzlinger G, Rak Y, Smilanksy U, Carmel L*, Gokhman D*. Candidate Denisovan fossils identified through gene regulatory phenotyping. bioRxiv (2024). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.18.590145.
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Gokhman D*, Harris KD, Carmi S, Greenbaum G*. Predicting the direction of phenotypic difference. bioRxiv (2024). https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.22.581566v1.
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Starr AL, Gokhman D, Fraser HB*. Accounting for cis-regulatory constraint prioritizes genes likely to affect species-specific traits, Genome Biol (2023).
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Gokhman D*, Mishol N, de Manuel M, de Juan D, Shuqrun J, Meshorer E, Marques-Bonet T, Rak Y, Carmel L*. Reconstructing Denisovan Anatomy Using DNA Methylation Maps. Cell (2019). 2nd place for “Breakthrough of the Year” by Science Magazine editors, 1st place by Science Magazine readers.
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Gokhman D, Kelman G, Amartely A, Gershon G, Tsur S, Carmel L*. Gene ORGANizer: linking genes to the organs they affect. Nucleic Acids Research (2017).
Selected as one of the Top Tools of 2017 by LabWorm.
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Gokhman D, Malul A, Carmel L*. Inferring Past Environments from Ancient Epigenomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution (2017).
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Racimo F, Gokhman D, Fumagalli M, Hansen T, Moltke I, Albrechtsen A, Carmel L, Huerta-Sanchez E, Nielsen R*. Archaic adaptive introgression in TBX15/WARS2. Molecular Biology and Evolution (2016).
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Gokhman D, Meshorer E, Carmel L*. Epigenetics: it’s getting old. Past meets future in paleoepigenetics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution (2016).
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Gokhman D, Lavi E, Prüfer K, Fraga MF, Riancho JA, Kelso J, Pääbo S, Meshorer E*, and Carmel L*. Reconstructing the DNA methylation maps of the Neandertal and the Denisovan. Science (2014). "Breakthrough of the Year" by Archaeology magazine.
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* corresponding author