Connie J. Mulligan
University of Florida
107 Papers
307 Citations
Connie J. Mulligan is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Biology. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 99 publications.
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Papers
Beringian standstill and spread of Native American founders.
Erika Tamm,Toomas Kivisild,Toomas Kivisild,Maere Reidla,Mait Metspalu,David Glenn Smith,Connie J. Mulligan,Claudio M. Bravi,Olga Rickards,Cristina Martínez-Labarga,E. K. Khusnutdinova,S. A. Fedorova,S. A. Fedorova,M. V. Golubenko,M. V. Golubenko,Vadim Stepanov,Marina Gubina,Marina Gubina,Sergey I. Zhadanov,Sergey I. Zhadanov,Sergey I. Zhadanov,Ludmila P. Ossipova,Larisa Damba,Larisa Damba,Mikhail Voevoda,José E. Dipierri,Richard Villems,Ripan S. Malhi +27 more
TL;DR: The newly resolved phylogenetic structure suggests that ancestors of Native Americans paused when they reached Beringia, during which time New World founder lineages differentiated from their Asian sister-clades, and a swift migration southward that distributed the founder types all the way to South America.
Methylation changes at NR3C1 in newborns associate with maternal prenatal stress exposure and newborn birth weight
TL;DR: A significant correlation is shown between culturally relevant measures of maternal prenatal stress, newborn birth weight and newborn methylation in the promoter of the glucocorticoid receptor NR3C1, which may constrain plasticity in subsequent gene expression and restrict the range of stress adaptation responses possible in affected individuals, thus increasing their risk for adult-onset diseases.
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Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East
TL;DR: A relaxed linguistic clock is implemented to date language divergences and epigraphic evidence for the sampling dates of extinct Semitic languages to calibrate the rate of language evolution and statistical tests of alternative Semitic histories support an initial divergence of Akkadian from ancestral Semitic over competing hypotheses.
Prenatal Maternal Stress Predicts Methylation of Genes Regulating the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical System in Mothers and Newborns in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Darlene A. Kertes,Hayley S. Kamin,David A. Hughes,Nicole C Rodney,Samarth Bhatt,Connie J. Mulligan +5 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest that prenatal stress exposure impacts development via epigenetic changes in HPA axis genes through methylation in CRH, CRHBP, NR3C1, and FKBP5 genes.
Ancient DNA from Nubian and Somali wild ass provides insights into donkey ancestry and domestication
Birgitta Kimura,Fiona Marshall,Shanyuan Chen,Sónia Rosenbom,Patricia D. Moehlman,Noreen Tuross,Richard Sabin,Joris Peters,Barbara E. Barich,Hagos Yohannes,Fanuel Kebede,Redae Teclai,Albano Beja-Pereira,Connie J. Mulligan +13 more
TL;DR: These findings resolve the long-standing issue of the role of the Nubian wild ass in the domestication of the donkey, but raise new questions regarding the second ancestor for the donkey.