Publications

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*indicates equal contributions

Preprints

Goldberg A. (2025) Rare variation in malaria parasites biases population-genetic inference. bioRxiv, doi: 10.64898/2026.01.09.698000.

Published

2026

Corl A, Guzman A, Bi K, Vazquez JM, Smith LL, Blaimont P, Spranger R, Cooper RD, Miles D, Goldberg A, Gao J, Xiang X, Zhou Y, Li Q, Zhang G, Sudmant PH, Bowie RCK, McGuire JA, Sinervo B, Nielsen R. The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game. Science. 2026 391(6780), 69-74.

Aliaga‐Samanez G, Gestich C, Ayala‐Burbano PA, Javarotti NB, McVay K, Kierulff MCM, Ana Cazerta Farro P, Bahadian Moreira S, Alcides Pissinatti, Goldberg A, Galetti Jr. PM & Domingues de Freitas P. To be or Not to be Hybrids? A Case‐Study in an Allochthonous Population Involving Illegal Introductions of the Endangered Golden‐Headed and Golden Lion Tamarins. American Journal of Primatology, 88(1), e70112.

2025

Massey DJ, Szpiech ZA, Goldberg A. (2025) Differentiating mechanism from outcome for ancestry-assortative mating in admixed human populations.  Genetics, 229(4), iyaf022. Also available at bioRxiv.

McVay K, Goldberg A. Trade-offs and human adaptation at the extremes. Science, 389(6766), 1191-1192.

Günther T, Goldberg A, Schraiber JG. Estimating allele frequencies, ancestry proportions and genotype likelihoods in the presence of mapping bias. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, jkaf172. Also available at bioRxiv.

Gardellin JV, Gestich CC, Galetti Jr. PM, Portela L, Guimarães VY, Rodrigues de Melo F, Goldberg A, Domingues de Freitas P. Genetic diversity and structure of red-handed howler monkeys (Alouatta, Atelidae, Primates) assessed by mitochondrial and genotyping by sequencing analyses. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 23418.

Gestich CC, Machado CB, Domingues de Freitas P, Goldberg A, Saranholi BH, Galetti Jr PM. Learning about the role of rivers and ancient climatic oscillations on the distribution of genetic diversity of a Neotropical primate species. Journal of Biogeography, 53(1), e70133.

2023

Hamid I, Korunes KL, Schrider DR, Goldberg A. (2023) Localizing post-admixture adaptive variants with object detection on ancestry-painted chromosomes. Molecular Biology & Evolution, 40(4), msad074. Available at bioRxiv. 

2022

Voinson M, Nunn CL, Goldberg A. (2022) Primate malarias as a model for cross-species parasite transmission. eLife 11:e69628. Available at EcoEvoRxiv.

Gopalan S, Smith SP, Korunes K, Hamid I, Ramachandran S*, Goldberg A*. (2022) Human genetic admixture through the lens of population genomics. Phil Trans B, 377, 20200410.

Korunes K, Soares-Souza GB, Bobrek K, Tang H, Araújo II, Goldberg A*, Beleza S*. (2022) Sex-biased admixture and assortative mating shape genetic variation and influence demographic inference in admixed Cabo Verdeans. G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, jkac183.  Available at bioRxiv.

2021

 Hamid I, Korunes K, Beleza S, Goldberg A. (2021) Rapid adaptation to malaria facilitated by admixture in the human population of Cabo Verde. eLife 10:e63177. Available at bioRxiv. [data]

Korunes K, Goldberg A. (2021) Human genetic admixture. PLoS Genetics, 17(3): e1009374.

Kim J, Edge MD, Goldberg A, Rosenberg NA. (2021) Skin deep: The decoupling of genetic admixture levels from phenotypes that differed between source populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175(2), 175, 406-421. Available at biorxiv.

Ai H, Zhang M, Yang B, Goldberg A, Li W, Ma J, Brandt D, Zhang Z, Nielsen R, Huang L. (2021) Human-mediated admixture and selection shape the diversity on the modern swine (Sus scrofa) Y chromosomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(11), 5051–5065.

2020

Agusto F*, Goldberg A*, Ortega O*, Ponce J*, Zaytseva S*, Sindi S, Blower S. (2020) How do interventions impact malaria dynamics between neighboring countries? A case study with Botswana and Zimbabwe. Springer Special Volume on Women in Mathematical Biology. Available at medRxiv. (*listed alphabetically, as is convention in mathematics)

Kemp ME, Mychajliw AM, Wadman J, Goldberg A. (2020) 7,000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287, 20200447. Available at bioRxiv. 

Goldberg A, Rastogi A, Rosenberg NA. (2020) Assortative mating by population of origin in a mechanistic model of admixture. Theoretical Population Biology, 134, 129-146. Available at biorxiv. 

2019

Alcala N, Goldberg A, Ramakrishnan U, Rosenberg NA. (2019) Coalescent theory of migration on networks. Molecular Biology & Evolution, 36(10), 2358-74. Available at biorxiv.

2018

Goldberg A, Uricchio L, Rosenberg NA. (2018) Natural selection in human populations. In Oxford Bibliographies in Evolutionary Biology. Ed. Karin Pfennig. New York: Oxford University Press.

de Barros Damgaard P, [7 authors]…Goldberg A, …[50 authors]…Willerslev E. (2018) Population genomic history of the Eurasian steppe. Nature, 557, 369–374.

2017

Goldberg A, Günther T, Rosenberg NA, Jakobsson M. (2017) Ancient X chromosomes reveal contrasting sex bias in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian migrations. PNAS 114(10), 2657-62. Available at biorxiv.

Goldberg A, Günther T, Rosenberg NA, Jakobsson M (2017) Reply to Lazaridis and Reich: Robust model-based inference of male-biased admixture during Bronze Age migration from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe. PNAS 114, E3875-77. Available at biorxiv.

2016

Kang JTL, Goldberg A, Edge MD, Rosenberg NA. (2016) Consanguinity rates predict long runs of homozygosity in Jewish populations. Human Heredity 82, 87-102.

Goldberg A*, Mychajliw AM*, and Hadly EA. (2016) Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America. Nature 532, 232-5. [data]

Algee‐Hewitt BF* and Goldberg A*. (2016) Better together: Thinking anthropologically about genetics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 160(4), 557-560. 

2015

Goldberg A and Rosenberg NA. (2015) Beyond 2/3 and 1/3: the complex signatures of sex-biased admixture on the X chromosome. Genetics 201(1), 263-79. Available at biorxiv.

2014

Goldberg A, Verdu P, Rosenberg NA. (2014) Autosomal Admixture Levels Are Informative About Sex Bias in Admixed Populations. Genetics 198(3), 1209-29. Available at biorxiv.