Torsten Günther
Researcher at Department of Organismal Biology; Human Evolution
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 26 97
- E-mail:
- torsten.gunther@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- EBC - Norbyvägen 18 C
- Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 C
752 36 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent
- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-9460-390X
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Publications
Recent publications
Revised phylogeny of mouflon based on expanded sampling of mitogenomes
Part of PLOS ONE, 2025
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Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024
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READv2: advanced and user-friendly detection of biological relatedness in archaeogenomics
Part of Genome Biology, 2024
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Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for Ancient Sheep Genomes reveal four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea region
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Part of Ecology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for A Tale of Two Lakes: Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories of Two Daphnia Populations Experiencing Distinct Environments
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Revised phylogeny of mouflon based on expanded sampling of mitogenomes
Part of PLOS ONE, 2025
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Genomic ancestry and social dynamics of the last hunter-gatherers of Atlantic France
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024
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READv2: advanced and user-friendly detection of biological relatedness in archaeogenomics
Part of Genome Biology, 2024
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Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for Ancient Sheep Genomes reveal four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea region
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Part of Ecology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for A Tale of Two Lakes: Divergent Evolutionary Trajectories of Two Daphnia Populations Experiencing Distinct Environments
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The Population History of Domestic Sheep Revealed by Paleogenomes
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2024
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Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2024
- DOI for Sex estimation using long bones in the largest burial site of the Copper Age: Linear discriminant analysis and random forest
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Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024
- DOI for Population Genomic History of the Endangered Anatolian and Cyprian Mouflons in Relation to Worldwide Wild, Feral, and Domestic Sheep Lineages
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Demographic reconstruction of the Western sheep expansion from whole-genome sequences
Part of G3, 2023
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Genetic continuity, isolation, and gene flow in Stone Age Central and Eastern Europe
Part of Communications Biology, 2023
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Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant
Part of Nature, p. 550-556, 2023
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Part of PLOS Genetics, 2023
- DOI for Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK
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The population genomic legacy of the second plague pandemic
Part of Current Biology, p. 4743-4751000000, 2022
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Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2022
- DOI for Ancient DNA from a 2700-year-old goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) supports gazelle hunting in Iron Age Central Asia
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Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2022
- DOI for Multidisciplinary investigation reveals an individual of West African origin buried in a Portuguese Mesolithic shell midden four centuries ago
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Bioarchaeological evidence of one of the earliest Islamic burials in the Levant
Part of Communications Biology, 2022
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Part of Communications Biology, 2021
- DOI for Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication
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Disentangling adaptation from drift in bottlenecked and reintroduced populations of Alpine ibex
Part of Molecular Ecology Resources, p. 2350-2363, 2021
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Genome of Peştera Muierii skull shows high diversity and low mutational load in pre-glacial Europe
Part of Current Biology, p. 2973-U21, 2021
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Mobility patterns in inland southwestern Sweden during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
Part of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021
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Human population dynamics and Yersinia pestis in ancient northeast Asia
Part of Science Advances, 2021
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Variable kinship patterns in Neolithic Anatolia revealed by ancient genomes
Part of Current Biology, p. 2455-2.468e+21, 2021
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Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 2944-2954, 2020
- DOI for Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2020
- DOI for Robust genome-wide ancestry inference for heterogeneous datasets: illustrated using the 1,000 genome project with 3D facial images
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Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 638-649, 2020
- DOI for The Neolithic Pitted Ware culture foragers were culturally but not genetically influenced by the Battle Axe culture herders
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Part of BMC Biotechnology, 2019
- DOI for Copy number determination of the gene for the human pancreatic polypeptide receptor NPY4R using read depth analysis and droplet digital PCR.
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Part of PLOS Genetics, 2019
Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2019
- DOI for The genomic ancestry of the Scandinavian Battle Axe Culture people and their relation to the broader Corded Ware horizon
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Genetic data and radiocarbon dating question Plovers Lake as a Middle Stone Age hominin-bearing site
Part of Journal of Human Evolution, p. 203-209, 2019
Viking warrior women?: Reassessing Birka chamber grave Bj.581
Part of Antiquity, p. 181-198, 2019
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Part of PLoS biology, 2018
- DOI for Population genomics of Mesolithic Scandinavia: Investigating early postglacial migration routes and high-latitude adaptation
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Estimating genetic kin relationships in prehistoric populations
Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
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Genomic and Strontium Isotope Variation Reveal Immigration Patterns in a Viking Age Town
Part of Current Biology, p. 2730-27380000000000, 2018
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 3428-3433, 2018
Part of Current Biology, p. 3396-3402, 2017
- DOI for Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans
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Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago
Part of Science, p. 652-655, 2017
Part of PLOS Genetics, 2017
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A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics
Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 853-860, 2017
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017
Neolithic familial migration contrasts Bronze Age male migration inferred from ancient X chromosomes
Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 196-196, 2017
Ancient X chromosomes reveal contrasting sex bias in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian migrations
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 2657-2662, 2017
Inferring Past Effective Population Size from Distributions of Coalescent Times
Part of Genetics, p. 1191-1206, 2016
The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia
Part of Current Biology, p. 2659-2666, 2016
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Genomic Evidence Establishes Anatolia as the Source of the European Neolithic Gene Pool
Part of Current Biology, p. 270-275, 2016
Part of Scientific Reports, 2016
- DOI for The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa
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Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 3574-3592, 2016
Ancient genomes link early farmers from Atapuerca in Spain to modern-day Basques
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 11917-11922, 2015
Genomic Diversity and Admixture Differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian Foragers and Farmers
Part of Science, p. 747-750, 2014
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 561-8, 2013
Robust identification of local adaptation from allele frequencies.
Part of Genetics, p. 205-20, 2013
Islands and streams: clusters and gene flow in wild barley populations from the Levant.
Part of Molecular Ecology, p. 1115-29, 2012
phenosim--A software to simulate phenotypes for testing in genome-wide association studies.
Part of BMC Bioinformatics, p. 265, 2011
Part of Omics, p. 507-12, 2011
Part of BMC research notes, p. 232, 2011
Whole-genome sequencing of multiple Arabidopsis thaliana populations.
Part of Nature genetics, p. 956-63, 2011
Part of BMC Genomics, p. 188, 2010
Deleterious amino acid polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana and rice.
Part of Theoretical and Applied Genetics, p. 157-68, 2010
Articles, review/survey
Genes mirror migrations and cultures in prehistoric Europe - a population genomic perspective
Part of Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, p. 115-123, 2016