I'm thrilled to see the first paper from our lab, the main paper of my graduate work, published today and featured on the cover at Cell Cell! cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Are the most divergent regions in the human genome caused by locally high mutation rates in functionless DNA or the result of positive selection? Turns out, it’s both! Lowe Lab at Duke Debby Silver Reddy Lab (lead author: Riley Mangan) 🧵