Shaili Mathur
shaili-mathur.bsky.social
Shaili Mathur
@shaili-mathur.bsky.social
Biology PhD student @ Stanford w. Dmitri Petrov and Jonas Cremer
Reposted by Shaili Mathur
One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Massively parallel interrogation of the fitness of natural variants in ancient signaling pathways reveals pervasive local adaptation
The nature of standing genetic variation remains a central debate in population genetics, with differing perspectives on whether common variants are almost always neutral as suggested by neutral and n...
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October 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM