Australian mathematician/statistician living in Leipzig, but working in ancient DNA research at the MPI-EVA.
It's always beer o'clock somewhere.
Personal homepage: https://ben-rohrlach.owlstown.net/
Adam "Ben" Rohrlach
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Are you screening your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? Or looking for a new way to call genetic sex? Regardless of sequencing data type?
Our Bayesian method (implemented in R as RChASM) has now been published in Bioinformatics: doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
What does ancient DNA reveal about biological kinships?
Read this exciting study in #GENETICS that used Exponential Random Graph models for correlates of relatedness, identifying evidence for female exogamy and the existence of an elite class in ancient Avar. buff.ly/aSPLOTg
@brohrlach.bsky.social
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📣 Registration now open for three events during Jul & Aug 2026 at the University of Nottingham.
🙏 Supported by the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
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I want to contribute to science through peer review, and I regularly do. But having just received a request to review a very technical paper, from a reputable journal, but with a 10-day due date, I had to refuse.
Nobody with a full-time job can properly review a paper in that time frame.
Are you interested in doing a PhD in ancient human genetics, focusing on the Y and MT haplogroups of Finland? Working with Dr Ronan O'Sullivan, Prof. Päivi Onkamo and me, which is a team I'm looking forward to working in. Based in Turku, Finland.
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As a statistician, publishing in @significancemag.bsky.social is a career highlight, and I still got to write about ancient DNA. See our article on using network regression to explore relatedness and kinship in ancient cemeteries!
doi.org/10.1093/jrss...
I cannot wait to vote out any Australian politician who gets us involved in helping the US in this war.
No big speech. I just hope other Australians will agree.
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Want to check your ancient DNA study for chromosomal aneuploidies? RChASM is now available for R, to screen for autosomal and sex chromosomal aneuploidies, such as Down syndrome on data from 0.0014X coverage.
We also wrote a step-by-step tutorial with examples:
jonotuke.github.io/RChASM/artic...
Adam "Ben" Rohrlach
Excited to share our study in GENETICS on exploring biological kinship in ancient DNA data sets (doi.org/10.1093/gene...).
Using ERGMs to find variables that correlate with relatedness, and applied to 6th-9th century Avar, we find evidence for female exogamy and the existence of an elite class.
