George Perry
Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Bioinformatics and Genomics; Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology
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Anthropological genomics, paleogenomics, human body size evolution, parasite evolution, and evolutionary medicine.
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, Arizona State University
- M.A., Anthropology, Arizona State University
- B.A., Anthropology, Wake Forest University
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Publication Tags
Genes Extinction Genome Dna Madagascar Rainforest History Genomics Population Mitochondrial Dna Primates Agriculture Habitat Pan Troglodytes Feces Amino Acids Body Size Lemur Microsatellite Repeats Natural Selection Shellfish Convergent Evolution Human Behavior Hunters Mammals
Most Recent Papers
Genomic Evidence for Local Adaptation of Hunter-Gatherers to the African Rainforest
Marie Lopez, Jeremy Choin, Martin Sikora, Katherine Siddle, Christine Harmant, Helio A. Costa, Martin Silvert, Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda, Jean Marie Hombert, Alain Froment, Sylvie Le Bomin, George H. Perry, Luis B. Barreiro, Carlos D. Bustamante, Paul Verdu, Etienne Patin, Lluís Quintana-Murci, 2019, Current Biology on p. 2926-2935.e4
Impact of DNA degradation on massively parallel sequencing-based autosomal STR, iiSNP, and mitochondrial DNA typing systems
Elena I. Zavala, Swetha Rajagopal, George H. Perry, Ivana Kruzic, Željana Bašić, Thomas J. Parsons, Mitchell M. Holland, 2019, International Journal of Legal Medicine on p. 1369-1380
Natural selection contributed to immunological differences between hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists
Genelle F. Harrison, Joaquin Sanz, Jonathan Boulais, Michael J. Mina, Jean Christophe Grenier, Yumei Leng, Anne Dumaine, Vania Yotova, Christina M. Bergey, Samuel L. Nsobya, Stephen J. Elledge, Erwin Schurr, Lluis Quintana-Murci, George H. Perry, Luis B. Barreiro, 2019, Nature Ecology and Evolution on p. 1253-1264
Nitrogen isotope (δ <sup>15</sup> N) patterns for amino acids in lemur bones are inconsistent with aridity driving megafaunal extinction in south-western Madagascar
Sean W. Hixon, Emma A. Elliott Smith, Brooke E. Crowley, George H. Perry, Jeannot Randrianasy, Jean Freddy Ranaivoarisoa, Douglas J. Kennett, Seth D. Newsome, 2018, Journal of Quaternary Science on p. 958-968
Transposable elements are the primary source of novelty in primate gene regulation
Marco Trizzino, Yo Son Park, Marcia Holsbach-Beltrame, Katherine Aracena, Katelyn Mika, Minal Caliskan, George H. Perry, Vincent J. Lynch, Christopher D. Brown, 2017, Genome research on p. 1623-1633
Monkeys overharvest shellfish
George H. Perry, Brian F. Codding, 2017, eLife
A massively parallel strategy for STR marker development, capture, and genotyping
Logan Kistler, Stephen M. Johnson, Mitchell T. Irwin, Edward E. Louis, Aakrosh Ratan, George H. Perry, 2017, Nucleic acids research
Genomic perspectives on the history and evolutionary ecology of tropical rainforest occupation by humans
George H. Perry, Paul Verdu, 2017, Quaternary International on p. 150-157
Island-wide aridity did not trigger recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar
Brooke E. Crowley, Laurie R. Godfrey, Richard J. Bankoff, George H. Perry, Brendan James Culleton, Douglas James Kennett, Michael R. Sutherland, Karen E. Samonds, David A. Burney, 2017, Ecography on p. 901-912
Testing convergent evolution in auditory processing genes between echolocating mammals and the aye-aye, a percussive-foraging primate
Richard J. Bankoff, Michael Jerjos, Baily Hohman, M. Elise Lauterbur, Logan Kistler, George H. Perry, 2017, Genome biology and evolution on p. 1978-1989
Recent Most-Cited Papers
Comparative RNA sequencing reveals substantial genetic variation in endangered primates
George H. Perry, Páll Melsted, John C. Marioni, Ying Wang, Russell Bainer, Joseph K. Pickrell, Katelyn Michelini, Sarah Zehr, Anne D. Yoder, Matthew Stephens, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Yoav Gilad, 2012, Genome research on p. 602-610
Genomic-scale capture and sequencing of endogenous DNA from feces
George H. Perry, John C. Marioni, Páll Melsted, Yoav Gilad, 2010, Molecular ecology on p. 5332-5344
Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty
Douglas J. Kennett, Stephen Plog, Richard J. George, Brendan J. Culleton, Adam S. Watson, Pontus Skoglund, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Kristin Stewardson, Logan Kistler, Steven A. Leblanc, Peter M. Whiteley, David Reich, George H. Perry, 2017, Nature communications
Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America
Etienne Patin, Marie Lopez, Rebecca Grollemund, Paul Verdu, Christine Harmant, Hélène Quach, Guillaume Laval, George H. Perry, Luis B. Barreiro, Alain Froment, Evelyne Heyer, Achille Massougbodji, Cesar Fortes-Lima, Florence Migot-Nabias, Gil Bellis, Jean Michel Dugoujon, Joana B. Pereira, Verónica Fernandes, Luisa Pereira, Lolke Van Der Veen, Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda, Carlos D. Bustamante, Jean Marie Hombert, Lluís Quintana-Murci, 2017, Science on p. 543-546
The impact of agricultural emergence on the genetic history of African rainforest hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists
Etienne Patin, Katherine J. Siddle, Guillaume Laval, Hélène Quach, Christine Harmant, Noémie Becker, Alain Froment, Béatrice Régnault, Laure Lemée, Simon Gravel, Jean Marie Hombert, Lolke Van Der Veen, Nathaniel J. Dominy, George H. Perry, Luis B. Barreiro, Paul Verdu, Evelyne Heyer, Lluís Quintana-Murci, 2014, Nature communications
More reliable estimates of divergence times in pan using complete mtDNA sequences and accounting for population structure
Anne C. Stone, Fabia U. Battistuzzi, Laura S. Kubatko, George H. Perry, Evan Trudeau, Hsiuman Lin, Sudhir Kumar, 2010, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 3277-3288
Elephantid Genomes Reveal the Molecular Bases of Woolly Mammoth Adaptations to the Arctic
Vincent J. Lynch, Oscar C. Bedoya-Reina, Aakrosh Ratan, Michael Sulak, Daniela I. Drautz-Moses, George H. Perry, Webb Miller, Stephan C. Schuster, 2015, Cell Reports on p. 217-228
Adaptive, convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype in African rainforest hunter-gatherers
George H. Perry, Matthieu Foll, Jean Christophe Grenier, Etienne Patin, Yohann Nédélec, Alain Pacis, Maxime Barakatt, Simon Gravel, Xiang Zhou, Sam L. Nsobya, Laurent Excoffier, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Luis B. Barreiro, 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. E3596-E3603
Human behaviour as a long-term ecological driver of non-human evolution
Alexis P. Sullivan, Douglas Warren Bird, George H. Perry, 2017, Nature Ecology and Evolution
Comparative and population mitogenomic analyses of Madagascar's extinct, giant 'subfossil' lemurs
Logan Kistler, Aakrosh Ratan, Laurie R. Godfrey, Brooke E. Crowley, Cris E. Hughes, Runhua Lei, Yinqiu Cui, Mindy L. Wood, Kathleen M. Muldoon, Haingoson Andriamialison, John J. McGraw, Lynn P. Tomsho, Stephan C. Schuster, Webb Miller, Edward E. Louis, Anne D. Yoder, Ripan S. Malhi, George H. Perry, 2015, Journal of Human Evolution on p. 45-54