Mats Pettersson

Genetic Adaptation to Brackish Water and Spawning Season in European Cisco

Deng, Qiaoling; Goodall, Jake; Bergenius Nord, Mikaela; Bunikis, Ignas et al.

Part of Molecular Ecology, 2025

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Unraveling the Genetics of Shared Clinical and Serological Manifestations in Patients With Systemic Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases

Bianchi, Matteo; Kozyrev, Sergey V.; Notarnicola, Antonella; Sandling, Johanna K. et al.

Part of Arthritis & Rheumatology, p. 212-225, 2025

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Copy number variation and elevated genetic diversity at immune trait loci in Atlantic and Pacific herring

Mohamadnejad Sangdehi, Fahime; Jamsandekar, Minal S.; Enbody, Erik D.; Pettersson, Mats E. et al.

Part of BMC Genomics, 2024

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Conservation of Affinity Rather Than Sequence Underlies a Dynamic Evolution of the Motif-Mediated p53/MDM2 Interaction in Ray-Finned Fishes

Mihalič, Filip; Arcila, Dahiana; Pettersson, Mats; Farkhondehkish, Pouria et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2024

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How Fish Population Genomics Can Promote Sustainable Fisheries: A Road Map

Andersson, Leif; Bekkevold, Dorte; Berg, Florian; Farrell, Edward D. et al.

Part of Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, p. 1-20, 2024

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Genetic Adaptation to Brackish Water and Spawning Season in European Cisco

Deng, Qiaoling; Goodall, Jake; Bergenius Nord, Mikaela; Bunikis, Ignas et al.

Part of Molecular Ecology, 2025

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Unraveling the Genetics of Shared Clinical and Serological Manifestations in Patients With Systemic Inflammatory Autoimmune Diseases

Bianchi, Matteo; Kozyrev, Sergey V.; Notarnicola, Antonella; Sandling, Johanna K. et al.

Part of Arthritis & Rheumatology, p. 212-225, 2025

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Copy number variation and elevated genetic diversity at immune trait loci in Atlantic and Pacific herring

Mohamadnejad Sangdehi, Fahime; Jamsandekar, Minal S.; Enbody, Erik D.; Pettersson, Mats E. et al.

Part of BMC Genomics, 2024

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Conservation of Affinity Rather Than Sequence Underlies a Dynamic Evolution of the Motif-Mediated p53/MDM2 Interaction in Ray-Finned Fishes

Mihalič, Filip; Arcila, Dahiana; Pettersson, Mats; Farkhondehkish, Pouria et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2024

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Limited Parallelism in Genetic Adaptation to Brackish Water Bodies in European Sprat and Atlantic Herring

Pettersson, Mats; Quintela, Maria; Besnier, Francois; Deng, Qiaoling et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024

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Evolution of fast-growing piscivorous herring in the young Baltic Sea

Goodall, Jake; Pettersson, Mats E.; Bergström, Ulf; Cocco, Arianna et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2024

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Genetic Stock Identification Reveals Mismatches Between Management Areas and Population Genetic Structure in a Migratory Pelagic Fish

Seljestad, Gaute Wilhelmsen; Quintela, Maria; Bekkevold, Dorte; Pampoulie, Christophe et al.

Part of Evolutionary Applications, 2024

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The origin and maintenance of supergenes contributing to ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring

Jamsandekar, Minal; Ferreira, Mafalda S.; Pettersson, Mats; Farrell, Edward D. et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2024

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Contrasting segregation patterns among endogenous retroviruses across the koala population

Lillie, Mette; Pettersson, Mats; Jern, Patric

Part of Communications Biology, 2024

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Using evolutionary constraint to define novel candidate driver genes in medulloblastoma

Roy, Ananya; Sakthikumar, Sharadha; Kozyrev, Sergey V.; Nordin, Jessika et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023

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The genomic basis and environmental correlates of local adaptation in the Atlantic horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus)

Fuentes-Pardo, Angela P.; Farrell, Edward D.; Pettersson, Mats E.; Sprehn, C. Grace et al.

Part of Evolutionary Applications, p. 1201-1219, 2023

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A Long-Standing Hybrid Population Between Pacific and Atlantic Herring in a Subarctic Fjord of Norway

Pettersson, Mats; Fuentes Pardo, Angela P.; Rochus, Christina Marie; Enbody, Erik D. et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2023

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Mixed-stock analysis of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus): a tool for identifying management units and complex migration dynamics

Bekkevold, Dorte; Berg, Florian; Polte, Patrick; Bartolino, Valerio et al.

Part of ICES Journal of Marine Science, p. 173-184, 2023

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Rapid adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches depends on ancestral genetic modules

Rubin, Carl-Johan; Enbody, Erik D.; Dobreva, Mariya P.; Abzhanov, Arhat et al.

Part of Science Advances, 2022

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Spatiotemporal variations in retrovirus-host interactions among Darwin’s finches

Hill, Jason; Lillie, Mette; Pettersson, Mats; Rubin, Carl-Johan et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2022

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A baseline for the genetic stock identification of Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus, in ICES Divisions 6.a, 7.b-c

Farrell, Edward D. D.; Andersson, Leif; Bekkevold, Dorte; Campbell, Neil et al.

Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2022

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Expansion of a retrovirus lineage in the koala genome

Lillie, Mette; Hill, Jason; Pettersson, Mats; Jern, Patric

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022

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Association of Protective HLA-A With HLA-B∗27 Positive Ankylosing Spondylitis

Nordin, Jessika; Pettersson, Mats; Hultin Rosenberg, Lina; Mathioudaki, Argyri et al.

Part of Frontiers in Genetics, 2021

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The genetic consequences of dog breed formation-Accumulation of deleterious genetic variation and fixation of mutations associated with myxomatous mitral valve disease in cavalier King Charles spaniels

Axelsson, Erik; Ljungvall, Ingrid; Bhoumik, Priyasma; Conn, Laura Bas et al.

Part of PLOS Genetics, 2021

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ZBED6 binding motifs correlate with endogenous retroviruses and Syncytin genes

Pettersson, Mats E.; Jern, Patric

Part of Virus Evolution, 2021

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Functional differences between TSHR alleles associate with variation in spawning season in Atlantic herring

Chen, Junfeng; Bi, Huijuan; Pettersson, Mats; Sato, Daiki et al.

Part of Communications Biology, 2021

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Ecological adaptation in European eels is based on phenotypic plasticity

Enbody, Erik D.; Pettersson, Mats; Sprehn, Charlotte Grace; Palm, Stefan et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021

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Structure and Characterization of Phosphoglucomutase 5 from Atlantic and Baltic Herring: An Inactive Enzyme with Intact Substrate Binding

Gustafsson, Robert; Eckhard, Ulrich; Ye, Weihua; Enbody, Erik D. et al.

Part of Biomolecules, 2020

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Reconstruction of the birth of a male sex chromosome present in Atlantic herring

Rafati, Nima; Chen, Junfeng; Herpin, Amaury; Pettersson, Mats et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 24359-24368, 2020

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Ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring is associated with large shifts in allele frequencies at hundreds of loci

Han, Fan; Jamsandekar, Minal; Pettersson, Mats; Su, Leyi et al.

Part of eLIFE, 2020

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Whole-genome sequencing of glioblastoma reveals enrichment of non-coding constraint mutations in known and novel genes

Sakthikumar, Sharadha; Roy, Ananya; Haseeb, Lulu; Pettersson, Mats E. et al.

Part of Genome Biology, 2020

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Whole-Genome Analysis of Domestic Chicken Selection Lines Suggests Segregating Variation in ERV Makeups

Pettersson, Mats E.; Jern, Patric

Part of Genes, 2019

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Chromosomal genome assembly of the ethanol production strain CBS 11270 indicates a highly dynamic genome structure in the yeast species Brettanomyces bruxellensis

Tiukova, Ievgeniia A.; Pettersson, Mats; Höppner, Marc P.; Olsen, Remi-Andre et al.

Part of PLOS ONE, 2019

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Recurrent convergent evolution at amino acid residue 261 in fish rhodopsin

Hill, Jason; Enbody, Erik D.; Pettersson, Mats; Sprehn, Charlotte Grace et al.

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 18473-18478, 2019

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A chromosome-level assembly of the Atlantic herring: detection of a supergene and other signals of selection

Pettersson, Mats; Rochus, Christina Marie; Han, Fan; Chen, Junfeng et al.

Part of Genome Research, p. 1919-1928, 2019

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SETD2 Is Recurrently Mutated in Whole-Exome Sequenced Canine Osteosarcoma

Sakthikumar, Sharadha; Elvers, Ingegerd; Kim, Jaegil; Arendt, Maja Louise et al.

Part of Cancer Research, p. 3421-3431, 2018

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Whole-genome comparison of endogenous retrovirus segregation across wild and domestic host species populations

Rivas-Carrillo, Salvador Daniel; Pettersson, Mats; Rubin, Carl-Johan; Jern, Patric

Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 11012-11017, 2018

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Moderate nucleotide diversity in the Atlantic herring is associated with a low mutation rate

Feng, Chungang; Pettersson, Mats; Lamichhaney, Sangeet; Rubin, Carl-Johan et al.

Part of eLIFE, 2017

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The genetic basis for ecological adaptation of the Atlantic herring revealed by genome sequencing

Martínez Barrio, Álvaro; Lamichhaney, Sangeet; Fan, Guangyi; Rafati, Nima et al.

Part of eLIFE, 2016

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cgmisc: Enhanced Genome-wide Association Analyses and Visualisation

Kierczak, Marcin; Jablonska, Jagoda; Forsberg, S. K.; Bianchi, Matteo et al.

Part of Bioinformatics, p. 3830-3831, 2015

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The amplification model for adaptive mutation: simulations and analysis

Pettersson, Mats; Andersson, Dan; Roth, John; Berg, Otto

Part of Genetics, p. 1105-1115, 2005

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How Fish Population Genomics Can Promote Sustainable Fisheries: A Road Map

Andersson, Leif; Bekkevold, Dorte; Berg, Florian; Farrell, Edward D. et al.

Part of Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, p. 1-20, 2024

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Ecological adaptation in cod and herring and possible consequences of future climate change in the Baltic Sea

Andersson, Leif; André, Carl; Johannesson, Kerstin; Pettersson, Mats

Part of Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023

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The sex-stratified genetic architecture of ankylosing spondylitis

Mathioudaki, Argyri; Nordin, Jessika; Karlsson, Åsa; Murén, Eva et al.

Loss-of-affinity mutations and new interaction motifs underlie a dynamic evolution of the p53/MDM2 interaction in teleosts

Mihalic, Filip; Arcila, Dahiana; Pettersson, Mats; Farkhondehkish, Pouria et al.

Within-line segregation as contributors to long-term, single-trait selection-responses in the Virginia chicken lines

Rönneburg, Tilman; Ou, Jen-Hsiang; Pettersson, Mats; Honaker, C.F. et al.

Mapping and dissecting capacitating epistasis in a population subjected to long-term, directional selection

Rönneburg, Tilman; Pettersson, Mats; Honaker, C. F.; Siegel, P. B. et al.

Unheralded high MHC Class II polymorphism in the abundant Atlantic herring resolved by long-read sequencing

Jamsandekar, Minal; Mohamadnejad Sangdehi, Fahime; Berg, Florian; Criscitiello, Michael F. et al.

A copy number expansion of fish hatching enzyme genes in Atlantic herring played a prominent role for adaptation to the brackish Baltic Sea

Mohamadnejad Sangdehi, Fahime; Ma, Cheng; Pettersson, Mats; Wallberg, Andreas et al.