Population Genetics
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EDUCATION
Ph.D
1973-1981
Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
M.A
1970-1972
Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
B.Sc
1966-1970
Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
RESEARCH SUMMARY
Our laboratory has done genetic studies on sheep, cattle, cats, dogs, fish, and wild sheep and fish populations from domestic animals. More recently (since 2013), we have been interested in the comparative population genetics of human and sheep populations that lived in the Neolithic period.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Yurtman, E., Özer, O., Yüncü, E., ..., Somel, M., Togan, İ., Özer, F. (2021). Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication. Commun Biol 4, 1279. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02794-8
Yüncü, E., Açan, S. C., Onar, V., Karakulak, F. S., Gökoğlu, M., Alıçlı, T. Z., Chiriboga, F., Togan, İ., & Özer, F. (2021). Demography of swordfish (Xiphias gladius Linneus) populations from the coasts of Turkey, based on mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites. Journal of fish biology, 99(1), 37–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14696
Kılınç, G. M., Omrak, A., Özer, F., …, Togan, İ., Somel, M., Storå, J., Jakobsson, M., Götherström, A. (2016). The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia. Current biology: CB, 26(19), 2659–2666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.057
Demirci, S., Koban Baştanlar, E., Dağtaş, N. D., Pişkin, E., Engin, A., Ozer, F., Yüncü, E., Doğan, S. A., & Togan, I. (2013). Mitochondrial DNA diversity of modern, ancient and wild sheep(Ovis gmelinii anatolica) from Turkey: new insights on the evolutionary history of sheep. PloS one, 8(12), e81952. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081952
Berkman, C. C., Dinc, H., Sekeryapan, C., & Togan, I. (2008). Alu insertion polymorphisms and an assessment of the genetic contribution of Central Asia to Anatolia with respect to the Balkans. American journal of physical anthropology, 136(1), 11–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20772