Helena Jankovic Malmström
Researcher at Department of Organismal Biology; Human Evolution
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 26 00
- E-mail:
- Helena.Malmstrom@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- EBC - Norbyvägen 18 C
- Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 C
752 36 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-6456-8055

Publications
Recent publications
Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers
Part of Nature, p. 114-121, 2024
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The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa
Part of Nature, p. 540-547, 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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Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Part of Nature Communications, 2023
- DOI for Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age
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Articles in journal
Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers
Part of Nature, p. 114-121, 2024
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The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa
Part of Nature, p. 540-547, 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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Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Part of Nature Communications, 2023
- DOI for Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age
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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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Part of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2023
- DOI for Interdisciplinary analyses of the remains from three gallery graves at Kinnekulle: tracing Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age societies in inland Southwestern Sweden
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Maternal genetic origin of the late and final Neolithic human populations from present-day Poland
Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 223-236, 2021
Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 701-713, 2021
- DOI for Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups
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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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Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021
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Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world
Part of Current Biology, p. 4219-4230, 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 American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 176-188, 2020
Y-Chromosome Variation in Southern African Khoe-San Populations Based on Whole-Genome Sequences
Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, p. 1031-1039, 2020
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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 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
Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 9469-9474, 2019
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Mitochondrial genomes reveal an east to west cline of steppe ancestry in Corded Ware populations
Part of Scientific Reports, 2018
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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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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 3428-3433, 2018
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 BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2017
- DOI for Late Danubian mitochondrial genomes shed light into the Neolithisation of Central Europe in the 5th millennium BC
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Part of Forensic Science International, p. 30-39, 2017
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 7485-7490, 2016
- DOI for Long-term genetic stability and a high-altitude East Asian origin for the peoples of the high valleys of the Himalayan arc
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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 Fornvännen, p. 27-40, 2016
Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 185-185, 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
Part of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, p. 20130373, 2015
Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans
Part of Science, 2015
The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic
Part of Science, p. 1020, 2014
Genomic Diversity and Admixture Differs for Stone-Age Scandinavian Foragers and Farmers
Part of Science, p. 747-750, 2014
Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 6184-6189, 2014
Ancient DNA Reveals Matrilineal Continuity in Present-Day Poland over the Last Two Millennia
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Origins and Genetic Legacy of Neolithic Farmers and Hunter-Gatherers in Europe
Part of Science, p. 466-469, 2012
Part of Annals of Anatomy, p. 138-145, 2012
High frequency of lactose intolerance in a prehistoric hunter-gatherer population in northern Europe
Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, p. 89, 2010
Part of Current Biology, p. 1758-1762, 2009
Barking up the wrong tree: Modern northern European dogs fail to explain their origin
Part of BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008
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Cryptic Contamination and Phylogenetic Nonsense
Part of PloS one, 2008
Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 998-1004, 2007
Tracing genetic change over time using nuclear SNPs in ancient and modern cattle
Part of Animal Genetics, p. 378-383, 2007
Extensive human DNA contamination in extracts from ancient dog bones and teeth.
Part of Mol Biol Evol, p. 2040-7, 2005
Chapters in book
DNA-analys av arkeologiska material
Part of Arkeologi på Gotland 2, p. 43-52, Uppsala universitet, 2017