Publications

Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period

Rodriguez-Varela, Ricardo; Pochon, Zoe; Mas-Sandoval, Alex; Yaka, Reyhan et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2026

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Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes

Jakobsson, Mattias; Bernhardsson, Carolina; McKenna, James; Hollfelder, Nina et al.

Part of Nature, p. 156-163, 2026

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Revisiting the African mtDNA landscape through complete mitochondrial genomes

Lankheet, Imke; Chowdhury, Afifa; Tellgren-Roth, Christian; Jolly, Cécile et al.

Part of Communications Biology, 2026

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Genetic Origins of the Kiritimati Population from Central-Eastern Micronesia

Larena, Maximilian; Chowdhury, Afifa Enam; Kels, Ma Junaliah Tuazon; Tätte, Kai et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2025

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Niger-Congo archaeolinguistics, including Bantu

Bostoen, Koen; Coutros, Peter; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology and Language, p. 592-618, Oxford University Press, 2025

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Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Diallo, Mame Y.; Janousek, Vaclav; Cemy, Viktor et al.

Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 261-275, 2025

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The Early Bantu Expansion into Central Africa: New Data and Insights from Population Genetics

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A; Pacchiarotti, Sara; Maselli, Lorenzo; Bunza Yugia, Jean-Pierre Donzo et al.

Part of An Archaeology of the Bantu Expansion, p. 172-194, Routledge, 2025

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Wide-scale Geographical Analysis of Genetic Ancestry in the South African Coloured Population

Lankheet, Imke; Hammarén, Rickard; Alva Caballero, Lucia Ximena; Larena, Maximilian et al.

Part of BMC Biology, 2025

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BaTwa populations from Zambia retain ancestry of past hunter-gatherer groups

Breton, Gwenna; Barham, Lawrence; Mudenda, George; Soodyall, Himla et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2024

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The genetic legacy of the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples in Africa

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Burgarella, Concetta; Hammarén, Rickard; Eriksson, Anders et al.

Part of Nature, p. 540-547, 2024

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Zuurberg (Eastern Cape, South Africa) revisited: human remains, dating and archaeological findings

Steyn, Maryna; Jolly, Cecile; Schlebusch, Carina; Meyer, Anja

Part of Azania, p. 294-314, 2024

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African Farmers, Not Stone Age Foragers: Reassessment of Human Remains from the Mumbwa Caves, Zambia

Steyn, Maryna; Meyer, Anja; Peyroteo-Stjerna, Rita; Jolly, Cecile et al.

Part of African Archaeological Review, p. 53-72, 2023

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Eurasian back-migration into Northeast Africa was a complex and multifaceted process

Hammarén, Rickard; Goldstein, Steven T.; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of PLOS ONE, 2023

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Genetic structure and characteristics of Tibetan chickens

Li, Shijun; Zhang, Xiaojian; Dong, Xinyu; Guo, Ruiyang et al.

Part of Poultry Science, 2023

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Going local with ancient DNA: A review of human histories from regional perspectives

Avila-Arcos, Maria C.; Raghavan, Maanasa; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Science, p. 53-58, 2023

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Rickettsia felis DNA recovered from a child who lived in southern Africa 2000 years ago

Rifkin, Riaan F. F.; Vikram, Surendra; Alcorta, Jaime; Ramond, Jean-Baptiste et al.

Part of Communications Biology, 2023

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Ancient DNA Studies and African Population History

Vicente, Mário; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity, p. 236-256, Brill Nijhoff, 2022

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Demographic and Selection Histories of Populations Across the Sahel/Savannah Belt

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Triska, Petr; Cizkova, Martina; Podgorna, Eliska et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, 2022

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Engagement Cross-Disciplinary Research in Africa

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Mtetwa, Ezekia; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Africa, the Cradle of Human Diversity, p. 1-6, Brill Nijhoff, 2022

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Human adaptation to arsenic in Bolivians living in the Andes

De Loma, Jessica; Vicente, Mário; Tirado, Noemi; Ascui, Franz et al.

Part of Chemosphere, 2022

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The loss of biodiversity in Madagascar is contemporaneous with major demographic events

Alva, Omar; Leroy, Anais; Heiske, Margit; Pereda-Loth, Veronica et al.

Part of Current Biology, p. 4997-+, 2022

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A reassessment of archaeological human remains recovered from rock shelters in Cathkin Peak, South Africa

Meyer, Anja; Peyroteo-Stjerna, Rita; Jolly, Cecile; Schlebusch, Carina M. et al.

Part of Azania, p. 508-538, 2021

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Analysis of Population Structure

Sjödin, Per; Gattepaille, Lucie M.; Skoglund, Pontus; Schlebusch, Carina et al.

Part of Human Population Genomics, p. 47-68, Springer, 2021

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Bantu-speaker migration and admixture in southern Africa

Choudhury, Ananyo; Sengupta, Dhriti; Ramsay, Michele; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Human Molecular Genetics, 2021

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Comparison of sequencing data processing pipelines and application to underrepresented African human populations

Breton, Gwenna; Johansson, Anna C. V.; Sjödin, Per; Schlebusch, Carina et al.

Part of BMC Bioinformatics, 2021

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Genetic substructure and complex demographic history of South African Bantu speakers

Sengupta, Dhriti; Choudhury, Ananyo; Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Aron, Shaun et al.

Part of Nature Communications, 2021

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Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands?: Strong claims from weak evidence

Schlebusch, Carina; Loog, Liisa; Groucutt, Huw S.; King, Turi et al.

Part of Journal of Archaeological Science, 2021

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Later Stone Age human hair from Vaalkrans Shelter, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, reveals genetic affinity to Khoe groups

Coutinho, Alexandra; Malmström, Helena; Edlund, Hanna; Henshilwood, Christopher et al.

Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 701-713, 2021

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Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa

Vicente, Mário; Lankheet, Imke; Russell, Thembi; Hollfelder, Nina et al.

Part of BMC Biology, 2021

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Multiple migrations to the Philippines during the last 50,000 years

Larena, Maximilian; Sanchez-Quinto, Federico; Sjödin, Per; McKenna, James et al.

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

Larena, Maximilian; McKenna, James; Sanchez-Quinto, Federico; Bernhardsson, Carolina et al.

Part of Current Biology, p. 4219-4230, 2021

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Population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE urges reassessment of the Bantu Expansion

Seidensticker, Dirk; Hubau, Wannes; Verschuren, Dirk; Fortes-Lima, Cesar et al.

Part of Science Advances, 2021

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Revisiting the demographic history of Central African populations from a genetic perspective

Breton, Gwenna; Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Human Population Genetics and Genomics, p. 1-29, 2021

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The Genetic Variation of Lactase Persistence Alleles in Sudan and South Sudan

Hollfelder, Nina; Babiker, Hiba; Granehäll, Lena; Schlebusch, Carina M. et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, 2021

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The performance of common SNP arrays in assigning African mitochondrial haplogroups

Lankheet, Imke; Vicente, Mário; Barbieri, Chiara; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of BMC GENOMIC DATA, 2021

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African population history: an ancient DNA perspective.

Vicente, Mário; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, p. 8-15, 2020

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Along the Indian Ocean Coast: Genomic Variation in Mozambique Provides New Insights into the Bantu Expansion

Semo, Armando; Gaya-Vidal, Magdalena; Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Alard, Berenice et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 406-416, 2020

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Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens

Schlebusch, Carina; Sjödin, Per; Breton, Gwenna; Günther, Torsten et al.

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 2944-2954, 2020

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Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa

Hollfelder, Nina; Erasmus, Johannes Christoff; Hammarén, Rickard; Vicente, Mário et al.

Part of BMC Biology, 2020

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Sahelian pastoralism from the perspective of variants associated with lactase persistence.

Schlebusch, Carina

Part of American Journal of Physical Anthropology, p. 423-436, 2020

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Y-Chromosome Variation in Southern African Khoe-San Populations Based on Whole-Genome Sequences

Naidoo, Thijessen; Xu, Jingzi; Vicente, Mário; Malmström, Helena et al.

Part of Genome Biology and Evolution, p. 1031-1039, 2020

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Four Iron Age women from KwaZulu-Natal: biological anthropology, genetics and archaeological context

Steyn, Maryna; Whitelaw, Gavin; Botha, Deona; Vicente, Mário et al.

Part of Southern African Humanities, p. 23-56, 2019

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Genetic Affinities among Southern Africa Hunter-Gatherers and the Impact of Admixing Farmer and Herder Populations

Vicente, Mário; Jakobsson, Mattias; Ebbesen, Peter; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Molecular biology and evolution, p. 1849-1861, 2019

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Genetic data and radiocarbon dating question Plovers Lake as a Middle Stone Age hominin-bearing site

Lombard, Marlize; Malmström, Helena; Schlebusch, Carina; Svensson, Emma et al.

Part of Journal of Human Evolution, p. 203-209, 2019

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Population history and genetic adaptation of the Fulani nomads: inferences from genome-wide data and the lactase persistence trait

Vicente, Mário; Priehodova, Edita; Diallo, Issa; Podgorna, Eliska et al.

Part of BMC Genomics, 2019

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Population migration and adaptation during the African Holocene: A genetic perspective

Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Modern Human Origins and Dispersal, p. 261-283, Kerns Verlag, 2019

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Unraveling African diversity from a cross‐disciplinary perspective

Fortes-Lima, Cesar A.; Mtetwa, Ezekia; Schlebusch, Carina

Part of Evolutionary anthropology (Print), p. 288-292, 2019

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Patterns of variation in cis-regulatory regions: examining evidence of purifying selection

Naidoo, Thijessen; Sjödin, Per; Schlebusch, Carina; Jakobsson, Mattias

Part of BMC Genomics, 2018

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Tales of Human Migration, Admixture, and Selection in Africa

Schlebusch, Carina; Jakobsson, Mattias

Part of Annual review of genomics and human genetics (Print), p. 405-428, 2018

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Adaptation to infectious disease exposure in indigenous Southern African populations

Owers, Katharine A.; Sjödin, Per; Schlebusch, Carina M.; Skoglund, Pontus et al.

Part of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2017

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