George Perry
Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Bioinformatics and Genomics; Associate Professor of Anthropology and Biology

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513 Carpenter
University Park, PA 16802 - He/Him
- ghp3@psu.edu
Research Summary
Anthropological genomics, paleogenomics, human body size evolution, parasite evolution, and evolutionary medicine.
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Genes Genome Madagascar Rainforest Dna Extinction History Population Agriculture Body Size Primates Habitat Subfossil Bone Sampling Hunters Human Behavior Natural Selection Mitochondrial Dna Amino Acids Lemur Farmers Predation Genetic Variation Single Nucleotide PolymorphismMost Recent Papers
Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar
David A. Burney, Haingoson Andriamialison, Radosoa A. Andrianaivoarivelo, Steven Bourne, Brooke E. Crowley, Erik J. De Boer, Laurie R. Godfrey, Steven M. Goodman, Christine Griffiths, Owen Griffiths, Julian P. Hume, Walter G. Joyce, William L. Jungers, Stephanie Marciniak, Gregory J. Middleton, Kathleen M. Muldoon, Eliette Noromalala, Ventura R. Pérez, George H. Perry, Roger Randalana, Henry T. Wright, 2020, Quaternary Research on p. 187-203
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
Horse Paleogenomes and Human-Animal Interactions in Prehistory.
George Perry, C Makarewicz, 2019, Trends in genetics : TIG on p. 473-475
Polygenic adaptation and convergent evolution on growth and cardiac genetic pathways in African and Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers
Christina M. Bergey, Marie Lopez, Genelle F. Harrison, Etienne Patin, Jacob A. Cohen, Lluís Quintana-Murci, Luis B. Barreiro, George H. Perry, 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. E11256-E11263
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
An environmental DNA sampling method for aye-ayes from their feeding traces
Megan L. Aylward, Alexis P. Sullivan, George H. Perry, Steig E. Johnson, Edward E. Louis, 2018, Ecology and Evolution on p. 9229-9240
The demographic history and mutational load of African hunter-gatherers and farmers
M Lopez, A Kousathanas, H Quach, C Harmant, P Mouguiama-Daouda, J Hombert, A Froment, George Perry, L Barreiro, P Verdu, E Patin, L Quintana-Murci, 2018, Nature – Ecology and Evolution on p. 721-730
Harnessing ancient genomes to study the history of human adaptation
Stephanie Marciniak, George Perry, 2017, Nature Reviews Genetics
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
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
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
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
Elephantid Genomes Reveal the Molecular Bases of Woolly Mammoth Adaptations to the Arctic.
V Lynch, O Bedoya-Reina, Aakrosh Ratan, M Sulak, D Drautz-Moses, George Perry, Webb Miller, Stephan Schuster, 2015, Cell Reports on p. 217-228
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
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
Gourds and squashes (Cucurbita spp.) adapted to megafaunal extinction and ecological anachronism through domestication
Logan Kistlera, Lee A. Newsoma, Timothy M. Ryana, Andrew C. Clarke, Bruce D. Smith, George H. Perry, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 15107-15112
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
News Articles Featuring George Perry
Aug 05, 2019
New Bioinformatics and Genomics Chair Looks To Capitalize on Program's Strengths
New chair George Perry is considering opportunities for expanded partnerships that will build on the solid foundations already in place in the BG program.
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May 07, 2019
Institutes of Energy and the Environment announces seed grant recipients
Several Huck researchers are among the recipients of 2018-19 IEE seed grants.
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