Ken Yokoyama, Postdoctoral Fellow
Evolution of transcription regulation, regulatory sequence modeling.

PhD, August, 2009, Duke University. Advisor: Greg Wray

Yokoyama KD, Thorne JL, Wray GA. Genome Biol Evol. "Coordinated Genome-Wide Modifications within Proximal Promoter Cis-regulatory Elements during Vertebrate Evolution." 2011 Jan;3:66-74. Epub 2010 Nov 30. pubmed link.

Yokoyama KD, Ohler U, Wray GA, 2009, "Measuring spatial preferences at fine-scale resolution identifies known and novel cis-regulatory element candidates and functional motif-pair relationships," Nucleic Acids Res, Jun 2. [Epub ahead of print], pubmed link.

Haygood R, Fedrigo O, Hanson B, Yokoyama KD, Wray GA. Promoter regions of many neural- and nutrition-related genes have experienced positive selection during human evolution. Nat Genet. 2007 Sep;39(9):1140-4. pubmed link