Carina Schlebusch
Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Human Evolution
- Mobile phone:
- +46 76 306 33 41
- E-mail:
- carina.schlebusch@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- EBC - Norbyvägen 18 C
- Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 C
752 36 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-8160-9621
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RESEARCH
In my research I use genetics as a tool to investigate human history. My special interest and expertise in the population history of Africa allow me the opportunity to investigate both recent population movements, associated with farming, as well as deep human history, which is rooted in Africa. My research group is positioned in the Human Evolution Program, at the Department of Organismal Biology, UU. Read more about my research group and our research interests HERE.
Biography
Education:
- PhD in Human Genetics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
- Docent in Human Evolution and Genetics, Uppsala University, Sweden
Roles at Department:
- Director of PhD studies at the Department of Organismal Biology
Research Affiliations:
- Co-Principal Investigator, Center for the Human Past
- Palaeo-Research, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Publications
Selection of publications
- The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa (2024)
- Going local with ancient DNA (2023)
- Demographic and Selection Histories of Populations Across the Sahel/Savannah Belt (2022)
- Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago (2017)
- Human Adaptation to Arsenic-Rich Environments (2015)
- Genomic Variation in Seven Khoe-San Groups Reveals Adaptation and Complex African History (2012)
Recent publications
- BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups (2024)
- The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa (2024)
- Zuurberg (Eastern Cape, South Africa) revisited (2024)
- Going local with ancient DNA (2023)
- Eurasian back-migration into Northeast Africa was a complex and multifaceted process (2023)
All publications
Articles
- BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups (2024)
- The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa (2024)
- Zuurberg (Eastern Cape, South Africa) revisited (2024)
- Going local with ancient DNA (2023)
- Eurasian back-migration into Northeast Africa was a complex and multifaceted process (2023)
- Genetic structure and characteristics of Tibetan chickens (2023)
- Rickettsia felis DNA recovered from a child who lived in southern Africa 2000 years ago (2023)
- African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers (2023)
- The loss of biodiversity in Madagascar is contemporaneous with major demographic events (2022)
- Human adaptation to arsenic in Bolivians living in the Andes (2022)
- Demographic and Selection Histories of Populations Across the Sahel/Savannah Belt (2022)
- Genomics (2022)
- Comparison of sequencing data processing pipelines and application to underrepresented African human populations (2021)
- Bantu-speaker migration and admixture in southern Africa (2021)
- Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups (2021)
- Closing the Gaps in Genomic Research (2021)
- The Genetic Variation of Lactase Persistence Alleles in Sudan and South Sudan (2021)
- The performance of common SNP arrays in assigning African mitochondrial haplogroups (2021)
- Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world (2021)
- Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years (2021)
- A reassessment of archaeological human remains recovered from rock shelters in Cathkin Peak, South Africa (2021)
- Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands? (2021)
- Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion (2021)
- Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers (2021)
- Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa (2021)
- Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa (2020)
- Y-Chromosome Variation in Southern African Khoe-San Populations Based on Whole-Genome Sequences (2020)
- Sahelian pastoralism from the perspective of variants associated with lactase persistence. (2020)
- Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens (2020)
- Along the Indian Ocean Coast (2020)
- African population history (2020)
- Unraveling African diversity from a cross‐disciplinary perspective (2019)
- Genetic data and radiocarbon dating question Plovers Lake as a Middle Stone Age hominin-bearing site (2019)
- Four Iron Age women from KwaZulu-Natal (2019)
- Genetic Affinities among Southern Africa Hunter-Gatherers and the Impact of Admixing Farmer and Herder Populations (2019)
- Population history and genetic adaptation of the Fulani nomads (2019)
- Ancient human DNA (2018)
- Patterns of variation in cis-regulatory regions (2018)
- Tales of Human Migration, Admixture, and Selection in Africa (2018)
- Northeast African genomic variation shaped by the continuity of indigenous groups and Eurasian migrations (2017)
- Adaptation to infectious disease exposure in indigenous Southern African populations (2017)
- Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago (2017)
- Genetic variation of southern Africa hunter-gatherers and the impact of admixture with farming and pastoralist populations (2017)
- The disappearing San of southeastern Africa and their genetic affinities (2016)
- Selenium metabolism to the trimethylselenonium ion (TMSe) varies markedly because of polymorphisms in the indolethylamine N-methyltransferase gene (2015)
- Human Adaptation to Arsenic-Rich Environments (2015)
- Lactase Persistence Alleles Reveal Partial East African Ancestry of Southern African Khoe Pastoralists (2014)
- Genetic variation reveals large-scale population expansion and migration during the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples (2014)
- Bridging disciplines to better elucidate the evolution of early Homo sapiens in southern Africa (2013)
- Possible positive selection for an arsenic-protective haplotype in humans (2013)
- MtDNA control region variation affirms diversity and deep sub-structure in populations from southern Africa (2013)
- Stronger signal of recent selection for lactase persistence in Maasai than in Europeans (2013)
- Genomic Variation in Seven Khoe-San Groups Reveals Adaptation and Complex African History (2012)
- Extensive Population Structure in San, Khoe, and Mixed Ancestry Populations from Southern Africa Revealed by 44 Short 5-SNP Haplotypes (2012)
- Genetic variation of 15 autosomal STR loci in various populations from southern Africa (2012)
- Genetic variation and population structure of Sudanese populations as indicated by 15 Identifiler sequence-tagged repeat (STR) loci. (2011)
- Issues raised by use of ethnic-group names in genome study (2010)
- Comparison of sequencing data processing pipelines and application to underrepresented human populations
- Deciphering early human history using Approximate Bayesian Computation and 74 whole genomes from Central and Southern Africa
- The Evolution of Adaptive traits in Indigenous human populations in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Population structure and admixture during the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples across sub-Saharan Africa
- Ancestry contributions within geographically dispersed South African Coloured groups
- Eurasian back-migrations into Northeast Africa was a complex and multifaceted process
- Loss-of-function variants among Khoe and San individuals
- Selective sweeps among transcribed pseudogenes underline their utility in the human genome
- Full genomic Y chromosomal variation in southern African Khoe-San populations
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