Yoav Gilad
Research Summary / Selected Publications
My research focuses on inter-primate comparisons at the sequence and expression levels with the long-term goals of identifying genomic regions of functional importance, understanding human gene regulatory processes and elucidating the genetic architecture of human-specific traits. I currently focus on two areas: the genetics of olfaction and comparisons of gene expression profiles. Both lie at the interface of evolutionary genetics and the genetics of health and disease.
Gilad, Y., Rifkin, A. S., Bertone, P., Gerstein, M. and White, P. K. Multi-species microarrays reveal the effect of sequence divergence on gene expression profiles. Genome Research. 2005, 15:674-680
Gilad, Y., Man, O. and Glusman. G. A comparison of the human and chimpanzee olfactory receptor gene repertoires. Genome Research. 2005, 15: 224-230.
Gilad, Y., Man O., P bo, S, and Lancet D. Human specific loss of olfactory receptor genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2003, 100(6): 3324-3327.
Gilad, Y., Bustamante, C.D., Lancet, D. and P bo, S. Natural selection on the olfactory receptor gene family in humans and chimpanzees. Am. J. Hum. Gen. 2003, 73(3):489-501