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Alain FROMENT

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The genetic structure and history of Africans and African Americans

…, FR Friedlaender, C Ehret, A Ranciaro, A Froment… - science, 2009 - science.org
Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of
relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 …

The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

…, M Caparrós, NJ Conard, C Draily, A Froment… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
The timing of Neanderthal disappearance and the extent to which they overlapped with the
earliest incoming anatomically modern humans (AMHs) in Eurasia are key questions in …

Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans

…, SL Hauser, S Williams, A Froment… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Quantifying patterns of population structure in Africans and African Americans illuminates the
history of human populations and is critical for undertaking medical genomic studies on a …

An economic, sustainability, and energetic model of biodiesel production from microalgae

…, L Cournac, A Roubaud, G Peltier, AK Froment - Bioresource …, 2012 - Elsevier
A new process evaluation methodology of microalgae biodiesel has been developed.
Based on four evaluation criteria, ie the net energy ratio (NER), biodiesel production costs, …

[PDF][PDF] Elevated rates of horizontal gene transfer in the industrialized human microbiome

…, M Noel, J Hooker, SM Gibbons, L Segurel, A Froment… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Industrialization has impacted the human gut ecosystem, resulting in altered microbiome
composition and diversity. Whether bacterial genomes may also adapt to the industrialization of …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary history and adaptation from high-coverage whole-genome sequences of diverse African hunter-gatherers

…, B Vernot, CC Elbers, B Ferwerda, A Froment… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
To reconstruct modern human evolutionary history and identify loci that have shaped hunter-gatherer
adaptation, we sequenced the whole genomes of five individuals in each of three …

[PDF][PDF] Origins and genetic diversity of pygmy hunter-gatherers from Western Central Africa

…, A Estoup, R Vitalis, M Georges, S Théry, A Froment… - Current Biology, 2009 - cell.com
Central Africa is currently peopled by numerous sedentary agriculturalist populations
neighboring the largest group of mobile hunter-gatherers, the Pygmies [1–3]. Although …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic origins of lactase persistence and the spread of pastoralism in Africa

…, MC Campbell, JB Hirbo, WY Ko, A Froment… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - cell.com
In humans, the ability to digest lactose, the sugar in milk, declines after weaning because of
decreasing levels of the enzyme lactase-phlorizin hydrolase, encoded by LCT. However, …

Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

…, H Quach, G Laval, GH Perry, LB Barreiro, A Froment… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Bantu languages are spoken by about 310 million Africans, yet the genetic history of Bantu-speaking
populations remains largely unexplored. We generated genomic data for 1318 …

[HTML][HTML] Development and evaluation of deep learning–based segmentation of histologic structures in the kidney cortex with multiple histologic stains

…, J LaVigne, V Derebail, K Gibson, A Froment… - Kidney international, 2021 - Elsevier
The application of deep learning for automated segmentation (delineation of boundaries) of
histologic primitives (structures) from whole slide images can facilitate the establishment of …