Peter D. Keightley FRS is

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of Evolutionary Genetics at the Institute of

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in School of Biological Sciences at the

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Education

Keightley was educated at the

where he was awarded a

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in 1989 for research on

genetic variation Genetic variation is the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations. The multiple sources of genetic variation include mutation and genetic recombination. Mutations are the ultimate sources of genetic variation, ...

supervised by

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. During his doctoral work he collaborated with

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on a highly cited paper on

genetic dominance In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome. The first variant is termed dominant and t ...

Research

Keightley leads a laboratory which works on evolutionary genetics and the evolutionary impact of new mutations on molecular genetic and quantitative trait variation and fitness. His research investigates genetic variation and adaptation through the analysis of nucleotide variation within natural populations and between different species. Keightley's research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).UK Government research grants awarded to Peter Keightley
, via Research Councils UK

Awards and honours

Keightley was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2014. His nomination reads:

References

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