Cesar Augusto Fortes-Lima, PhD

Primary Academic Title

Instructor in Genetic Medicine

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cesar-fortes-lima-43330945/

Contact for Research Inquiries

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Department of Genetic Medicine and McKusick-Nathans Institute

Miller Research Building

733 North Broadway Street

JHU MRB Office 423

Baltimore, MD 21205 USA

Tel Office: +1(410)-955-5765

Email: cfortes2@jh.edu 

Research Interests

Genomics, Population Genetics, and Evolutionary Biology.

Google Scholar - Publications

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PubMed - Publications

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https://pure.johnshopkins.edu/en/persons/cesar-fortes-lima/publications

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Selected Publications

• Fortes-Lima C, et al. Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel. Am J Hum Genet. 2025 Feb;112(2):261-275. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.12.015. PMID: 39919708 
• Fortes-Lima C, et al. The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa. Nature. 2024 Jan;625(7995):540-547. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06770-6. PMID: 38030719.
• Fortes-Lima C, et al. Demographic and Selection Histories of Populations Across the Sahel/Savannah Belt. Mol Biol Evol. 2022 Oct 7;39(10):msac209. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msac209. PMID: 36173804.
• Fortes-Lima C, et al. Complex genetic admixture histories reconstructed with Approximate Bayesian Computation. Mol Ecol Resour. 2021 May;21(4):1098-1117. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13325. PMID: 33452723.
• Fortes-Lima C, et al. Genome-wide Ancestry and Demographic History of African-Descendant Maroon Communities from French Guiana and Suriname. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 Nov 2;101(5):725-736. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.09.021. PMID: 29100086.

Memberships

• African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG)
• American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
• American Association of Biological Anthropology (AABA)
• American Association of Anthropological Genetics (AAAG)
• Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)