Javier Blanco Portillo

Hola 🌞

I'm a computational biologist who specializes in ancestry deconvolution analyses to answer historical questions. Under the supervision of Dr. Marcus Feldman, I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University.

Puerto Vallarta

Hawaii

Paths and timings of the peopling of Polynesia inferred from genomic networks

Co-first author, Nature 2021

California

Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

December 2018

Native American gene flow into Polynesia predating Easter Island settlement

Co-first author, Nature 2020

Local Ancestry Pipeline

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