Selected publications

J. Carlson and K. Harris. "The apportionment of citations: a scientometric analysis of Lewontin 1972." Phil. Trans Royal Soc. B 377 (1852), 20200409 (2022).

T.A. Sasani, D.G. Ashbrook, A.C. Beichman, L. Lu, A.A. Palmer, R.W. Williams, J.K. Pritchard, and K. Harris. "A natural mutator allele shapes mutation spectrum variation in mice." Nature 605, 497--502 (2022).

M.E. Goldberg and K. Harris. "Mutational signatures of replication timing and epigenetic modification persists through the global divergence of mutation spectra across the great ape phylogeny." Genome Biology and Evolution 14 (1), evab104 (2022).

P. Jiang, A.R. Ollodart, V. Sudhesh, A.J. Herr, M.J. Dunham, and K. Harris. "A modified fluctuation assay reveals a natural mutator phenotype that drives mutation spectrum variation within Saccharomyces cerevisiae." eLife 10, e68285 (2021).

W.S. DeWitt, K.D. Harris, A.P. Ragsdale, and K. Harris. "Joint nonparametric coalescent inference of mutation spectrum history and demography." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118 (21), e2013798118 (2021).

J. Carlson and K. Harris. "Quantifying and contextualizing the impact of bioRxiv preprints through social media audience segmentation." PLoS Biology 18(9): e3000860 (2020).

N. Telis, R. Aguilar, and K. Harris. "Selection against archaic DNA in human regulatory regions." Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01284-0 (2020).

J. Carlson, W.S. DeWitt, and K. Harris. "Inferring evoltuionary dynamics of mutation rates through the lens of mutation spectrum variation." Current Opinion in Genetics and Development" 62 50-57 (2020).

K. Harris. "From a database of genomes to a forest of evolutionary trees." Nature genetics 51 (2019).

K. Harris, Yulin Zhang, and Rasmus Nielsen. "Genetic rescue and the maintenance of native ancestry." Conservation Genetics 1-6 (2019).

K. Harris. "Neutral Evolution: The randomness that shapes our DNA." eLife e41491 (2018).

J.A. Cahill, P.D. Heintzman, K. Harris, M.D. Teasdale, J. Kapp, A.E.R. Soares, I. Stirling, D. Bradley, C.J. Edwards, K. Graim, A.A. Kisleika, A.V. Malev, N. Monaghan, R.E. Green, and B. Shapiro. "Genomic evidence of widespread admixture from polar bears into brown bears during the last ice age." Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (2018).

K. Harris. "Reading the genome like a history book." Science 358 (2017).

Winning essay of the Genomics and Proteomics category, AAAS/SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists

K. Harris and Rasmus Nielsen. "Q&A: Where did the Neanderthals go?" BMC Biology 17 (2017).

K. Harris and Jonathan K. Pritchard. "Rapid evolution of the human mutation spectrum." eLife 6 (2017).

Featured in eLife Magazine by Aylwyn Scally

K. Harris and Rasmus Nielsen. "The genetic cost of Neanderthal introgression." Genetics 203 (2016).

Winner of a 2016 GENETICS Editors' Choice Award

Co-featured by the New York Times along with "The strength of selection against Neanderthal introgression"

Blogged by Jennifer Raff, 23andme, and Christy Gelling of GSA

M. Raghavan,* M. Steinruecken,* K. Harris,* S. Schiffels,* S. Rasmussen,* M. DeGiorgio,* A. Albrechtsen,* C. Valdiosera,* M.C. Avila-Arcos,* A.-S. Malaspinas,* A. Eriksson, I. Moltke, M. Metspalu, J.R. Homburger, J. Wall, O.E. Cornejo, J.V. Moreno-Mayar, T.S. Korneliussen, T. Pierre, M. Rasmussen, P.F. Campos, P. de Barros Damgaard, M.E. Allentoft, J. Lindo, E. Metspalu, R. Rodriguez-Varela, J. Mansilla, C. Henrickson, A. Seguin-Orlando, H. Malmstrom, T. Stafford Jr., S.S. Shringarpure, A. Moreno-Estrada, M. Karmin, K. Rambets, A. Bergstrom, Y. Xue, V. Warmuth, A.D. Friend, J. Singarayer, P. Valdes, F. Balloux, I. Leboreiro, J.L. Vera, H. Ranger-Villalobos, D. Pettener, D. Luiselli, L.G. avis, E. Heyer, C.P.E. Zollikofer, M.S. Ponce de Leon, C.I. Smith, V. Grimes, K.-A. Pike, M. Deal, B.T. Fuller, V. Arriaza, V. Standen, M.F. Luz, F. Ricaut, N. Guidon, L. Osipova, M.I. Voevoda, O.L. Posukh, O. Balanovsky, M. Lavryashina, Y. Bogunov, E. Khusnutdinova, M. Gubina, E. Balanovska, S. Fedorova, S. Litvinov, B. Malyarchuk, M. Derenko, M.J Mosher, D. Archer, J. Cybulski, B. Petzelt, J. Mitchell, R. Worl, P.J. Norman, P. Parham, B.M. Kemp, T. Kivisild, C. Tyler-Smith, M.S. Sandhu, M. Crawford, R. Villems, D.G. Smith, M.R. Waters, T. Goebel, J.R. Johnson, R.S. Malhi, M. Jakobsson, D.J. Meltzer, A. Manica, R. Durbin, C.D. Bustamante, Y.S. Song, R. Nielsen, E. Willerslev. "Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans." Science 349 (2015). *equal contribution

Featured by The New York Times, Time, NPR, and others

K. Harris. "Evidence for recent, population-specific evolution of the human mutation rate." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112 (2015).

Blogged by The Molecular Ecologist and featured by phys.org

M.A. Yang, K. Harris, and M. Slatkin. "The projection of a test genome onto a reference population and applications to humans and archaic hominins." Genetics 198 (2014).

K. Harris and R. Nielsen. "Error-prone polymerase activity causes multinucleotide mutations in humans." Genome Research 24 (2014).

S. Liu,* E.D. Lorenzen,* M. Fumagalli,* B. Li,* K. Harris, Z. Xiong, L. Zhou, T.S. Korneliussen, M. Somel, C. Babbitt, G. Wray, J. Li, W. He, Z. Wang, W. Fu, X. Xiang, C.C. Morgan, A. Doherty, M.J. O'Connell, J.O. McInerney, E.W. Born, L. Dalen, R. Dietz, L. Orlando, C. Sonne, G. Zhang, R. Nielsen, E. Willerslev and J. Wang. "Population genomics reveal recent speciation and rapid evolutionary adaptation in polar bears." Cell 157 (2014). *equal contribution

Featured by The New York Times, The New Yorker, ABC Science, and others

K. Harris, S. Sheehan, J.A. Kamm, and Y.S. Song. "Decoding coalescent hidden Markov models in linear time." Research in Computational Molecular Biology (2014).

S. Sheehan,* K. Harris,* and Y.S. Song. "Estimating variable effective population sizes from multiple genomes: a sequentially Markov conditional sampling distribution approach." Genetics 194 (2013). *equal contribution

K. Harris and R. Nielsen. "Inferring demographic history from a spectrum of shared haplotype lengths." PLoS Genetics (2013).

Blogged by Dienekes

K. Harris and I.A. Chen. "Mathematical models of prebiotic replication of informational molecules." Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (2012).

K. Harris. "On the classification of integers n that divide phi(n)+sigma(n)." Journal of Number Theory 129 (2009).