Brenna M Henn

Biographic Data

ID175225
NAMEBrenna M Henn
GIVEN NAMESBrenna M
FAMILY NAMEHenn
SIGNATUREHENN B M
AFFILIATIONSStony Brook University
ORCID0000-0003-4998-287X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Making the Contemporary World

    Mark A Jobling, Mark Jobling et al.CHAPTERHuman Evolutionary Genetics2025

  • Strong effect of demographic changes on Tuberculosis susceptibility in South Africa

    Open AccessOshiomah P Oyageshio, Justin W Myrick et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    South Africa is among the world’s top eight tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, and despite a focus on HIV-TB co-infection, most of the population living with TB are not HIV co-infected. The disease is endemic across the country, with 80–90% exposure by adulthood. We investigated epidemiological risk factors for (TB) in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa: an understudied TB endemic region with extreme TB incidence (926/100,000). We leverage…

  • Persistence of Matrilocal Postmarital Residence Across Multiple Generations in Southern Africa

    Open AccessAustin W Reynolds, Mark N Grote et al.ARTICLEHuman Nature2023References: 67

    Factors such as subsistence turnover, warfare, or interaction between different groups can be major sources of cultural change in human populations. Global demographic shifts such as the transition to agriculture during the Neolithic and more recently the urbanization and globalization of the twentieth century have been major catalysts for cultural change. Here, we test whether cultural traits such as patri/matrilocality and postmarital migration…

  • Inferring archaic introgression from hominin genetic data

    Open AccessShyamalika Gopalan, Elizabeth G Atkinson et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2021

    Questions surrounding the timing, extent, and evolutionary consequences of archaic admixture into human populations have a long history in evolutionary anthropology. More recently, advances in human genetics, particularly in the field of ancient DNA, have shed new light on the question of whether or not Homo sapiens interbred with other hominin groups. By the late 1990s, published genetic work had largely concluded that archaic groups made no las…

  • The ethics and logistics of field-based genetic paternity studies

    Open AccessB A Scelza, Elizabeth G Atkinson et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2020Cited by: 2References: 10

  • The Simons Genome Diversity Project

    Open AccessSwapan Mallick, Heng Li et al.ARTICLENature2016

    Here we report the Simons Genome Diversity Project data set: high quality genomes from 300 individuals from 142 diverse populations. These genomes include at least 5.8 million base pairs that are not present in the human reference genome. Our analysis reveals key features of the landscape of human genome variation, including that the rate of accumulation of mutations has accelerated by about 5% in non-Africans compared to Africans since divergenc…

  • Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

    Open AccessIosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson et al.ARTICLENature2014

  • A Tale of Two Haplotypes

    Amanda M Casto, Brenna M Henn et al.ARTICLEHuman Biology2012References: 45

    Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with large allele frequency differences between human populations are relatively rare. The longest run of SNPs with an allele frequency difference of one between the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Han Chinese is found on the long arm of the X chromosome in the intergenic region separating the EDA2R and AR genes. It has been proposed that the unusual allele frequency distributions of these SNPs are the result of a…

  • Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans

    Open AccessBrenna M Henn, Christopher R Gignoux et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2011

    Africa is inferred to be the continent of origin for all modern human populations, but the details of human prehistory and evolution in Africa remain largely obscure owing to the complex histories of hundreds of distinct populations. We present data for more than 580,000 SNPs for several hunter-gatherer populations: the Hadza and Sandawe of Tanzania, and the ≠Khomani Bushmen of South Africa, including speakers of the nearly extinct N|u language. …