This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $193,608 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, to develop novel statistical methods for characterizing archaic ancestry in modern humans. The 5-year project (Aug 2024 - Jul 2029) aims to (1) characterize the evolutionary history and legacy of archaic ancestry in diverse non-African populations, (2) build a method to analyze archaic ancestry in Africans, and (3) leverage archaic ancestry to study changes in human germline mutation rates. The research will generate the largest catalog of archaic ancestry segments and help understand how archaic introgression has shaped complex traits and evolutionary processes in modern humans. Software and data from the project will be made publicly available.
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